The levels of stupid here are weapons-grade. (Also, I've always thought George Washington would have had something like a British accent, but definitely not a Movie Announcer Guy accent.)

The man's name was Joseph Barnes. Here's the request for a copy of his freedom papers from the St. Mary's County, Maryland, Register of Wills, 1806-1852, which the amazing Maryland State Archives has digitized and made available online. #slaveryarchive

TIL that Sylvester Stallone and Paul Stanley have the same plastic surgeon, and that since childhood, he's had a crush on Morticia Addams

It is both deeply ironic and profoundly funny that all these overconfident maga chud dudebros are convinced they'll be at the top of a meritocratic system, when in reality they're actually the ones who've benefited most from what they themselves characterize as non-meritocratic factors.

Truly delusional justifications for murder at the hands of the state. We’re only one click away from this logic getting turned to domestic relations.

Who has made this 🤣

Prediction: The continuing feminization of higher ed will lead to continued declining "public" support for higher ed

It takes years of working your way through the immigration system to get to this point. The thought of arriving at your naturalization ceremony, thinking that work is over, & having the rug pulled from under you based on where you were born makes me sick to my stomach. www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

Important PSA from incoming NYC mayor.

Schmitt is a former state attorney general. Of course he knows about this case.

“The Daily Nebraskan found in the leaked spreadsheet that every program eliminated appeared to be profitable…every program that the chancellor proposed eliminating generated more money from tuition dollars than the department costs to run”

“Landlords may say ‘smart home’ devices are a tenant convenience. But the reality is, these AI-enabled systems can track patterns of tenant behavior, identify when people are home, and provide landlords with personal information that could be used to push out tenants perceived as too costly.”

There has apparently been a coup in Benin. Thinking of Beninois friends. Scary times.

In the era of slavery, free black people had to carry their "free papers" with them so they could prove to the authorities that they were free, or else they would be thrown in jail and sold.

One of the most chilling things I ever came across in the archives was a request from a free man of color in Maryland for a new certificate of freedom because his old one had been in the pocket of a pair of pants that had been stolen.

New York City had free college tuition at all CUNY schools for 130 years

"I have never seen the line this long at this food bank, This is 4x the size of every previous year...the line wraps around the building a second time..Everyone is freezing and an older lady in line had to be taken inside because she looked like she was about to pass out from being too cold..."

On January 1, Illinois begins to regulate employer use of AI, making it a civil rights violation to use AI tools that result in discrimination based on protected characteristics in hiring, promotion, discipline, termination, or other employment terms and requiring notice of AI use. #AIBillofRights

“Traumatized, humiliated, degraded.” The nurse, a US citizen, 4’11”, 85 lbs, says she was following orders when she was dragged out of her car by masked immigration agents in Florida. It was the 3rd time she had been stopped and told to produce ID. Free link ⤵️ www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

You can hear Jose scream in excruciating pain as an ICE vehicle runs over his foot while he's being detained. His family says Jose is a good man, with no criminal record, who works in roofing. He needs to be released from detention to receive appropriate medical care.

"The backlash to ICE around the country — ICE and CBP — has been so intense, I’ve never seen anything like it,” says @joesudbay.bsky.social. “It is not coming from any organized entity in DC. This is coming from people in those communities.”

ICE ran over an immigrant’s legs with their SUV while attempting to detain him. His family can’t locate him. This is eerily reminiscent of the LA car wash raids where a man broke his leg and then disappeared for over a month. ICE had him chained to a hospital bed under an assumed name

An acquaintance of mine was recently detained by ICE. He's lived in the US since he was six. His DACA status lapsed and due to a DUI charge he has not been able to apply for citizenship. He could be deported to his birth place, Namibia. He doesn't know the language. www.gofundme.com/f/support-do...

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In remarks already sparking MAGA backlash, Pope Leo XIV called anti-Muslim panic a political weapon against immigration — and a betrayal of the Gospel. His message directly challenges Elon Musk and MAGA leaders who frame Christian empathy as weakness.

Christmas "sounds like fun", says plump, succulent turkey

Counterpoint: The Supreme Court lacks the authority to change the text of the Constitution. So either it affirms the text or (further, and more completely) nukes its authority as Constitutional arbiter. There’s no third option. Art III (courts) can’t just usurp Art V (amendments).

This is what I'm hearing in my head. Go Letitia James!

A participation trophy for the very good boy who sits atop a movement comprised of Americans who resent how the libs have supposedly created a world in which children are rendered weak by all of the participation trophies they receive.

@npr it’s not a principle. It is a constitutional guarantee.

Rep. Grijalva says she was pepper-sprayed by ICE

If so, it is quite possible that the suspect reached this belief by consuming media produced by the current Director and Deputy Director of the FBI.

nothing less than a racial terror and ethnic cleansing campaign

More racist, anti-Black drivel.

This makes me happy on some level. I want AI companies, fueled by the greed that theft isn't cheap enough, will begin charging and inconviencing their users, driving them to worse AI platforms, causing them to get caught/fail, and slowly killing this cancerous fad. I hope.

Every novel is a game the reader and the writer agree to play together, but some novels require more agreement than others. INVISIBLE CITIES really asks you to buy in. How to describe it? I could tell you, I suppose, that it's a dreamy travelogue of invented cities—

The U.S. does not subject itself to accountability, so we're using the avenues we have before us," Kovalik said Wednesday. "We believe that a decision in our favor, combined with public pressure, can get us that compensation and also can end the killings in the Caribbean

this really isn’t an exaggeration

This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves

My interview with @npr.org www.npr.org/2025/12/03/n...

"This record-breaking donation shows how dependent our political parties have become on a super-rich few," says Transparency International bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...

This year, universities are giving $228 million to football coaches who failed at coaching football so that they won't coach football anymore.

i'm actually struck by how pete hegseth isn't just a cowardly man but a capital-c Coward. a guy who gets off on abusing and hurting people he thinks are weaker than him and then tries to run and hide when there might be consequences

For some reason Democratic leaders seem to prefer telling voters what they won’t be able to do, rather than what they’d like to do. If Hegseth ordered a war crime and lied about it, shouldn’t Ds try for impeachment? Put Rs on the spot. They might get a few defections. www.axios.com/2025/12/01/j...

Too close

How cool is this?

if you ate a costco hotdog, you may be entitled to compensation

Reminds me of northern states throwing sand in the gears of the Fugitive Slave Law.

How many of the countries on the map has the U.S. invaded or supported an anti-democratic or despotic govt there? More than one, yes? We wreck their countries and then (illegally)* spurn their people fleeing from the ensuing terror, violence, and economic damage? *Seeking asylum is a human right.