Ethical billionaires are a myth poor people tell ourselves so we don't have to look critically at the things we support/spend money on. Every single person who is a billionaire is unethical and got there by cheating the system and stepping on those below them. End of argument.

shutting down a major artery into the city during a holiday weekend while the world cup is in town and there’s a historic heat wave that’s lead to energy rationing just so you can have a wedding is a real radicalizing eat the rich moment

This is the secret main essential true 250th anniversary event: the brave voice of democracy and justice; the brutal forces of silencing; it's all here.

The policies being enacted look far more like Nazi efforts to push Jews and LGBT people out of Germany, as noncitizens of the Reich, than previous government efforts to keep certain classes of people “in their place” as second-class citizens. trib.al/RG9afqU

I will have very few TS takes bc let people enjoy things/prioritize energy/coalition building etc but here they are: 1) the energy at Jeff Bezos shutting down Venice should also apply to Taylor (and Dua, frankly)

and I just think Leo went “yeah no fuck this, they had their chances, there’s no compromising with these people,” and I think the reason this is all so satisfying even to non-Catholics is that we all want to see people like this actually removed from their access to power but it happens so rarely

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For shade, workers need enough shade for the entire body to be shaded while in a position of rest. This shade needs to be somewhere workers are able to eat, drink & otherwise take normal rest breaks. There should be a large enough shade for all workers taking a break at once. 3/

Workers need to know signs of heat illness, because once it’s severe it may be too late. Every supervisor is responsible. It’s their duty to make sure workers aren’t killed by heat at work. Call 911 for serious symptoms in yourself or a coworker, no matter what the boss says. 8/

This week marks the one-year anniversary of a sad event: the passage of Donald Trump's Big Ugly Bill, which took food from families, sent insurance premiums into orbit, forced three medical clinics in the Shenandoah Valley to close, and will cause 350,000 Virginians to lose their healthcare.

sometimes i’m just out & about enjoying myself & i think, this is what they’re trying to take from us. this beautiful moment, having a traditional ethiopian coffee service at a tiny restaurant in a strip mall in a little appalachian town, this is what those reactionary freaks want to take from us!!

Mamdani: "Those who led through exclusion & isolation have tried to win power & enrich themselves by turning us against one another ... today, too many of our leaders do not believe in a vision of this nation as an asylum for the persecuted, but rather as one that persecutes those seeking asylum"

People like to say that this World Cup has highlighted the sharp gap between good Americans and their bad government… but, and I don’t know how anyone is really reconciling this, but a majority of Americans very pointedly voted for visitors and migrants to be treated this way. How do we square that?

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

Mamdani: "As we mark 250 years ... we see the wealthiest country -- one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more ... we see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans"

Been trying for years now to highlight that part of data centers' water footprint comes from producing the electricity they use, so it's good to see more mainstream coverage of it. (Again, yes we should reform agriculture, golf corses Should also be destroyed, & more than one thing can be bad)

Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them

I don’t want this point to be lost in the discourse. Going digital-only means inequity for people who cannot afford internet or constantly purchasing new games. Libraries provide opportunities for people to experience games they otherwise wouldn’t be able to afford, and that will be lost.

It's actually something many of us have said for....months? Over a year? That the whole thing was hijacked. That's how the propaganda trucks were made! They stole money from taxpayers for the "IMLS" propaganda.

Man, it's a hot one. It feels like we're seven inches from the midday sun ☀️ A heat dome has hit Central Virginia, bringing high temperatures around 100 degrees Fahrenheit and heat indexes as high as the low 110s to the region for the next few days. Here are local cooling centers+ways to stay cool:

AI data centers are buying up memory chips, forcing up the price of virtually all our consumer electronics. It was great to have @papapishu.bsky.social back on the show to understand why this is happening, how’s benefiting, and what people are doing in response.

it is hot out, people aren't sleeping well, brains are not functioning like normal due to the high humidity, and it feels good to just acknowledge those sub-optimal conditions with another person before doing the necessary work

NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

One of the things the Dutch do well is hide knowledge about their transgressions by ensuring that translations happen decades later. Roofstaat by Ewald Vanvught (not translated, even though it has been picked up and discussed by English journals) We Slaves of Suriname by Anton De Kom

They allow the US and Israel to compete 🤷‍♂️

If you want to stand up against book banning and support our libraries, this page from @everylibrary.bsky.social is a great place to start—it makes taking action easy.

Besides this being BS, maybe focus on making college free/affordable for everyone rather than scapegoating a minority. Then an athletic scholarship wouldn't be their only chance of college and everyone wins

The language of ethnic cleansing sounds shocking but it is a simple and honest description of MAGA goals. The administration is very open about this.

On the sports cases, and I'm sure this nuance will be lost, but the ruling doesn't apply to "male or co-ed sports teams." It is explicitly transmisogyny.

It’s cool that a lot of Democrats would rather put trans kids in danger and throw them under the bus and constantly say “I don’t know, this really doesn’t poll well” rather than just start constantly pushing back with “why are you so fucking obsessed with kids’ genitals? What’s wrong with you?”

“There is not a racism problem in South [] Africa” is an extremely bold statement to make.

They want to convince their followers that we are un-American, in the wrong country. But it’s them. THEY are in the wrong country. Their goals, plans, ideology are no less than an insurrection against the Second Founding - the constitutional framework for our country created after the Civil War.

We should all quit posting, because this wins the Internet.

167 - librarypunk live: Critical AI research too hot for ALA Our second live show! Only Justin could make it to ALA but we’ve got THREE great guests plus very good audience questions. We talk about discourse analysis, refusal, STS, and more.

People like Sean Davis and Matt Walsh are both the saddest fucking losers on earth and also harbingers of genocide. And the only solution is to destroy the societal flaws that allow them to build profitable businesses and have listeners and readers, and force them out of their holes into the light.

the egg price thing under biden was all fake lol

The amount of time these full-grown, adult perverts think about and talk about WHAT'S IN A CHILD'S UNDERPANTS is *weird*. It is *not normal*. All of the distraction about "inappropriate" books so they can continue to whack it to CHILDREN.

GOP took away foods for kids, school for kids, books for kids, and so much more, all in service of being able to permit themselves more direct access to looking at and touching children's genitalia without repercussions.

This is the right read. These justices are not jurists or textualists or faithful to the Constitution. They are activists and racists and part of a captured court. The Supreme Court is a vote away from catastrophe in the birthright citizenship case | Vox https://share.google/2htICPFfxMKQQZY8r

Guaranteed: 1) Black girls will be harassed and demanded to be tested over and over again regardless of how competitive they are. 2) Winners from public schools will be relentlessly hounded by the parents and coaches of losers at private schools, with the goal of making them quit the sport.

Over the last three weeks at Book Riot, I've put together what I think is one of the most important series of posts for those working in and using public libraries (& those who love them, period). It's an exploration of youth privacy and the policies regarding youth card registration & access.

If you made the same film (if you were even permitted to try) but the targets of the vigilante were venture capitalists and tech bros you would be placed on a terrorism watch list and I am dead serious

As bad as this is, it really is a pretty standard fare example off what goes on in evangelical vacation bible schools since forever. "I'm in the lord's army" is an extremely common song and a lot of lessons focus on putting on "the full armor of god"

the world's richest man is posting shit right out of the book that inspired the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in US history. he's inciting violence worldwide. in my experience, people who talk like this want to see the world burn. he's in the unique position of being able to strike the match.

But it's not even Friday yet