Excellent pitch here. Nobody has anything to lose by stomping on Spencer Pratt. Not even Spencer Pratt, a career punching bag.

"Claude has gone offline" implies Claude decided he'd had enough artbarf for the week and went fishing, Claude chose wisely.

I was fighting fascism with the power of love and kindness and just really getting my ass handed to me. proteanmag.com/2025/11/01/w...

"All the agents who had been to Minnesota told me they never wanted to go back, for any reason."

Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.

When your best friend texts you “wake up, new encyclical dropped.

Someone should do an exposé on the huge tracts of land being sold in the Black Belt of Alabama for data centers. It's BAD. Y'all have no idea. You are welcome.

/26 But I digress. This gets worse and worse. And even when we get a different administration, DoJ will be permanently crippled by this. You can’t get that trust back. There need to be severe consequences. Personally I think a lot of this is less truth-and-reconciliation and more pock-marked wall.

The Montmorency sour cherry tree would like to announce that soon there will be PIE. Lots of PIE. 🌱

VAN HOLLEN: An individual who was pardoned by Trump went on to molest 2 children, & he tried to buy their silence by saying he would give them funds from your slush fund. Can you commit to not making that person eligible for a payout? BLANCHE: You're obviously lying V: I am reporting what he said

The stories & photos from today’s voting rights marches in Alabama deserve to be seen by people who weren’t able to stand there in person. If this piece moves you, please share it widely & help make sure these voices aren’t lost in the noise of a crowded news cycle. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Democrats in Georgia are adding tens of thousands of votes to their turnout lead today. Let's see where the day ends. And whether it will it be enough on Tuesday for the day's big prize, the two supreme court races; the fact that the races are nonpartisan on the ballot adds a lot of uncertainty.

This article is an absolute masterclass in how to write an article debunking misinformation without platforming the misinformation one iota

Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it. www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...

Headlines saying this Supreme Court decision "curtails the use of race" in voting are going to make me have a stroke. It empowers white supremacy. It does not curtail the use of race.

Bring out your bug for #inverteFest The seven-spot tiger beetle is a stunner (and I always think it's a piece of foil litter on first glance)

Who Remembers the Armenians? I remember them and I ride the nightmare bus with them each night and my coffee, this morning I'm drinking it with them You, murderer - Who remembers you? ― Najwan Darwish, Nothing More to Lose

Reading up on the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union and by golly by gosh the STFU had it going on. We need more STFU. "The landlord is always betwixt us, beatin’ us, starvin’ us and makin’ us fight each other. . we need to get together and stay together.” Isaac Shaw, sharecropper, 1934

not to be dramatic but working for social security I personally treated it like I was a fishermen of men’s souls. working with people especially on that intimate of a level, you literally take an oath to do your best. you have to be able to care for someones soul or GTFO. every call was an excercise

Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

Great to know that Pearl Fryar's lifetime of art will live on.

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

yes you fucking morons free preschool for everyone or it becomes just "free preschool for the poors" and then you call them leeches and ask for tax breaks when really we want free preschool for everyone because we want smart well adjusted kids why is this so hard? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/n...

I'm not trying to downplay the seriousness of the ruling. But it is limited to one lady in Colorado who may get a preliminary injunction allowing her to perform conversion talk therapy. It's a narrow ruling. The merits are still live. We gotta live in that narrowness. ADF wants us to despair.

The NYT says today’s #NoKings protests had “no shortage of skeptics,” and then quoted exactly one of those skeptics: The chairman of the Ole Miss College Republicans (as of 2025.) But of course, the Times doesn’t ID him as such. He’s just a Concerned Youth.

If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today. That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right

going to the largest mass protests in *our nation's entire history* is one of those life experiences i absolutely want to have in my short time on this planet. clear eyes, full hearts, no kings

this is the line to try to get off the platform at Arlington Cemetery it, uh, was NOT this crowded last time and here I was, worried that people would have gotten exhausted by the third go around

Y’all…. Read this www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u...

Volunteer Opportunity: acaciajustice.org/witness-for-... - "By joining Witness for Justice, you help expose what’s happening inside immigration courts, especially as families and children disappear into a system with little public oversight."

41 years old, evacuated here legally, asylum case pending, kidnapped while driving his six children (one a US citizen) to school. Dead within 24 hours. Betrayed and murdered by the United States government. 42nd confirmed and reported death in ICE custody under Trump.

I know it's a government supported channel from an authoritarian government but the Turkish English language YouTube news channel TRT World is covering the US-Israeli War on Iran with outstanding coverage, reporting, and analysis as far as I can tell. www.youtube.com/live/ABfFhWz...

Quick reax to SCOTUS ruling Trump's tariffs illegal.

Public pushback matters... and reveals levers of power. www.statnews.com/2026/02/18/f...

ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, monthslong expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

saw another video recommended in replies, but @bennjordan.bsky.social has also done several good works on the use of and defence against LRADs before. would recommend. youtu.be/3sqIvak-4Ek

I keep thinking about some meme from a while ago that said (paraphrasing) "The average Dem congressperson is saying 'we must work across the aisle with Republicans to find a solution' while normie lib Linda from Accounting is all 'I'm ready to meet God, are you officer?'"

Ready, set, SNOW

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

Yesterday, I drove refugees that had been shipped off to Texas all the way back home to St. Paul Seeing them reunite with their families reminded me this is their home. So keep sending them to Texas. I’ll keep driving ‘em back and introducing them to Bucc-ee’s and KC barbecue along the way.

US envoy Witkoff to meet Putin on Thursday, the Kremlin confirms, as signing of $800bn Ukraine deal is put on hold.

Every city they have terrorized has fought back in its own way. LA had protests and cell videos. DC had annoyed feds and grand-jury no-bills. Chicago had priests. Charlotte had angry grandma scaring feds off her lawn. The Twin Cities are showing sheer, dedicated, relentless presence.

Acting Field Director David Easterwood. Acting Field Director David Easterwood. That pastor? His name is Acting Field Director David Easterwood.

We went down a rabbit hole yesterday, finding all the episodes we have recorded on @nationaltrust.org.uk 'always open' land. There are more than we thought. Here's a link to them as well as the brilliant Open Data map where you can explore locations for yourself.

I just submitted to present at #ATmosphereConf The greatest threat to platforms are users (and those who would exploit them). Time for a business model that makes Living INCOME (not wage) its product, and employees and their families its customer base. #StandardDistributionInc

Sadly my invites keep getting lost in the mail.

There's actually a more recent historical framework for this exact argument than Roman law. But Vermeule chose not to cite the "Subjects and Citizens" chapter of Hitler's Mein Kampf for some reason!

Christmas Eve hike, as is traditional, in our new winter coat. Bonus, it's been snowing for 24 hours now.