If Pete Hegseth succeeds in punishing Mark Kelly, it could significantly expand the Pentagon’s legal powers over military retirees—and curb the First Amendment rights of some of the very people who have fought to defend such freedoms, Missy Ryan reports.

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Through solidarity, we can fight for a city that is more affordable for ordinary people! Learn more about the movement we’re building together here! ⬇️

It's a war on creativity, which can be made formulaic, commodified, deployed for propaganda, used for evil ends, but ultimately contains within it an unpredictability, a core of unriggability, that fascism hates and capitalism seeks to subdue.

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

Morning.

War Medicine is a supernatural western tale of revenge that goes from the plains to antebellum New Orleans to Liberia. Three issues available on Hoopla, Libby & all digital booksellers. www.hannibaltabu.com/ht-wunderman...

Dang. You gonna let them talk about you like that? (TBH, I haven’t been a fan of Jay-Z since Original Flavor when he was hanging out with Big Jaz)

The “white” in front of American citizens is really silent but it’s there

A perfect mom-and-pop affordable housing provider 🤗 story in 3 images

NEW: lawmakers in new york rolled out a proposed data center moratorium bill today, making NY at least the sixth state to introduce legislation pausing data center development in the past few *weeks*:

there is no ethical use of ai

This is all I’ll say about today’s AI discourse: I’m bad at a lot of things other people are good at, because they spent time learning and practicing those things, and I did not. No matter how broke I am, no one owes me skill-mastery on command - esp not when it come at the expense of others.

Chandler Patey is 29. He rents an apartment near the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in South Portland. He allows protesters to use the bathroom and wash off pepper spray. DHS has now singled him out as the possible "leader of Antifa"

The fact that they’re running the full Kilmer Abrego Garcia playbook on a fucking five year old in a bunny hat…it was outrageous when they did it to Abrego Garcia. It’s monstrous here

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically. The Sun & Moon shared rank evenly & they received prayers separately from the creators, spirits & Gods, as

Sam must be protected at all costs.

I would screen record the holy crap out of that.

in any case I hope this is an eye opener for any folks who think having a lot of followers on social media (of any platform) must have it made. about 0.28% of my followers have bought and read my latest comic haha. sm is not NOTHING but it's also not that meaningful in the grand scheme of things

Anti-trans bigots lie, all the time, about everything.

Important thread.

This is an important point. Empathy—in and of itself—is anti-fascist. The arts—and the project of higher education as a whole—teach empathy, enabling you to put yourself in other people’s shoes. So to a fascist, they must be destroyed.

Mr. Jameson, with AI you can bring YOURSELF pictures of Spider-Man... and some of them can be, shall we say, quite risqué?

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically. Long ago during the conflicts against conquistadors coming to take them as slaves, a warrior was desperately

imagine not listening to Superman and Wonder Woman and Batman and still thinking you’re the good guys

#Blacksky Quote this with a song about Blackness you love. m.youtube.com/watch?v=VW_U...

Reached a very noteworthy milestone today: got a mailer to start planning my funeral 🥹

The Muppet Show is literally joyous. I kept smiling while it was going. It’s simply for fun! I forgot how this could be. Fantastic! Rowlf is Black. On that I will take no questions.

I saw that post about china curing diabetes. Looked at the link. It was T2. But Im happy to find theyre also having success with t1???

How did we get to the point where police body cams are deemed “best practice” when the # of civilians whom police have killed has only *increased each year* since the widespread adoption of the equipment? Tamar Sarai explains the body cam propaganda & who stands to benefit from “reform narratives”⤵️

I’ll be talking about @blackskyweb.xyz with the folktechnology.org community on February 18th. Pop out

And yet every single time I point this out, some yahoo comes into my mentions to explain to me that it's just people being "lazy" because one time they met* an unhoused person "chose" to be. *I would bet you they didn't, they just say that to justify their shit opinion.

We are in the midst of another racial reckoning. This one purging all the gains of the former and then some.

Mackenzie Scott will not save the Washington Post. It's done. A billionaire murdered it and billionaires will not save us. Support local and independent news, friends. Here are some starter packs. go.bsky.app/FzSc9z

love to see it

ER DOC: what’s the problem LITTLE BO PEEP: i lost my sheep ER DOC: take her to the i see ewe

Westboro Baptist Church tried to make an Anti-Luigi Mangione poster but it just looks like Luigi is threatening billionaires and goes unironically hard af

Diabolical! Via @ryanthomasriddle.com.

My daughter said she passed her World War 1 history exam because I explained it like the countries were characters from Gossip Girl. Fun fact: totally forgot I did that. Long as it works!

This is why prevention should always pre-empt treatment. No need to treat what doesn't occur and people don't have to suffer while we search for solutions that may not exist!

So grateful the entertainment alumni group at my alma mater (USC, the LA one) chose to spotlight my writing, including a sample of my production and voiceover work to boot! www.instagram.com/p/DUL8iabkow...

WATCH: “I DON’T BELIEVE THAT’S HAPPENING.” TennCare itself tells Republican Rep. Bryan Terry undocumented immigrants are NOT on Tennessee’s Medicaid rolls— despite fearmongering from Republicans, as Speaker Sexton claims otherwise to push his Stephen Miller slate of hate

the past tense of "cast" is "cast" as in "this actor was cast in a movie" the past tense of "cost" is "cost"

i will never forgive the techbros for ruining computer computer was the only thing i liked

Simply couldn’t imagine being enough of a loser to go to the official “wasn’t slavery neat?” dinner

Oh. Oh no.

1) this is totally true about the overall dumbing down of media and 2) you really won't believe what prompted this reflection

Read the room, Phil: nobody wants six more weeks of winter! www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...