when we're all unable to connect to use the internet, send emails, pay our bills, use our toasters, and god knows what else if AWS goes down, i want you to know now that i blame our lack of antitrust laws far more than i'll blame a foreign missile

Pope Bob is just laying it out for us Americans, I guess

And once again DJT says "Happy Good Friday." Wishing everyone a Happy Good When a Political Lackey Tortured and Executed an Innocent Man as a Traitor on Behalf of an Authoritarian Imperial Ruler Day. Seems like something that would, indeed, make Trump happy.

“Oh boo hoo where is the Royal Navy? Where is the Grande Armée? Where is the Wehrmacht? Why don’t Warsaw and Istanbul have independent nuclear deterrents?” Because we spent the American Century very carefully putting all that toothpaste back its respective tubes on purpose, dummy.

We'll see y'all TONIGHT at Binski's for the meat raffle for abortion access! Each ticket is just $1 & raffles will be called every 20 minutes 🍴🤤

This was the best thing I read this week. www.thedriftmag.com/fraud-with-b...

Idaho State Capitol building bathroom ban protest ongoing Arrests imminent, have not started yet Source: www.instagram.com/boiseblackbi...

For those too young to know this is not really “chaos”, how ‘war’ works is the other side also shoots at your planes (pew-pew-pew) & you plan to respond to that It’s a catastrophe but it’s not chaotic it’s happening just as anyone would have told you to expect

Hilarious idea & elected Republicans could achieve it tomorrow simply by following their oath to uphold the constitution. The regime change isn’t just nonviolent, it’s legal & arguably a duty of the Americans who could do it! They just…don’t.

"Some of the banks have agreed to spend tens of millions on the chatbot, and they have already started integrating Grok into their I.T. systems, three of the people said." I guess this explains why my ATM just offered me a horse in exchange for a handjob.

this is “kiss my grits” erasure & an example of the anti-Southern bias pervading Bluesky

"go jump in a lake", "take a long walk off a short pier", "put an egg in your shoe and beat it", "go peddle your papers" these are just some of the violent, actionable threats journalists and academics face every two to three months on bluesky, or as some call it The Murder Website.

We’re holding a bake sale to keep BART running meanwhile in Japan Wakanda is real

i have to agree entirely with femi here: for me, *long-form* reading--not an essay i can crank through in 10-15 and go rush to poast about--but a book that forces me into the perspective of another for an extended period, forces me to see that thought developed, is an immensely valuable discipline

should these rich people check out books for free from the library just like poor people, we investigate

I heard someone say that we should be registering voters at gas stations.

if the republic has any luck, those around Trump who come to this realization will include House Republicans, who could still come to work on any given Monday and do their sworn duties toward the Constitution & their fellow Americans

Tired: Does the AG have to be a lawyer Wired: Is there anything that specifically says the AG can’t be a 193-year-old giant tortoise

“The last night I was a pediatric resident, a child came in with Hib and promptly died by the next day. I didn’t work for 50 years to have everything destroyed by one man.” -Dr. Kathryn Edwards, Vanderbilt University This is what RFK Jr. and the anti-vaxxers have wrought.

@kathrynajoyce.bsky.social between this, what about people trafficked into the US & the 'foundlings' I am hoping you can work something up on how ACB & John Roberts, adoptive parents of children born abroad, seemed to approach the case, because it will be smarter than what I can do this week 👀

One indication of congressional atrophy is that people turn to SCOTUS for the thing we should but don't get from Congress: an actual public debate on an important policy issue. Which of course isn't supposed to be a legislative debate, but we've stopped having any actual legislative debates.

Liberal Currents has quietly become one of the few outlets taking male supremacy seriously, either as a foundation of Trumpist fascism or as a system of oppression in its own right.

this cat answers to her name, big if true

When Highlights for Children gets Goofus & Gallant switched

let's hope none of these astronauts had a part time lecturing gig at another university 10 years ago, or this is going to be beyond even NASA's ability to untangle

Forever the GOAT.

A personal favorite:

One of my favorite Tweets of all time.

How do you prepare to argue this case in front of a court that has an Indian law weirdo AND 2 adoptive parents of foreign born children and not be ready for the last 15 minutes, Sauer is utterly incompetent too

Justice Barrett just asked Sauer whether he understands that under his theory her adopted children aren’t citizens, let’s see where he goes with it!

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.

Part of my job as a researcher has been to make lists of things. Mostly geolocating infrastructure. But the most significant moments of my career have been when clients have asked me to make a list of things I know shouldn't be put on a list, and I had to find the courage to tell them no.

Is he also issuing an order stating that the moon is made of cheese because both are equally within his powers

Airport just announced an unattended bag at a charging station after I had to remove my toiletries for inspection In any country with real security concerns that bag would be under a metal dome getting vaporized by now that’s how you know the armed goon squads are solving a different “problem”

This is the freedom of speech rightwingers have been fighting for. With aid and comfort from the Harper's letter writers.

This is exactly the problem with “AI can do your job”. If there is a metric to measure whether the task is completed to spec, of course a calculator is going to do it better. Calculators calculate accurately. When is a 10K word article about a complex topic “right”? is not a mathematical output.

x is populated by people who failed 11th-grade english, drove three startups into the ground, make mid-six-figures, and own two cybertrucks. bluesky is full of folks who hold two phds, have won prestigious awards in their field, can't quite consolidate their hold on fulltime work, and ride a bicycle

The US dropped more ordnance on the Mekong Delta than it used on Germany during WWII. Today Vietnam, Cambodia & Laos are all Communist-run nations with populations that endured horror from the skies, then predictably created horrors on the ground. Making the same mistake 2x is nothing to brag about.

i’m glad the Supreme Court said what we’ve all been thinking: lawyers should be in charge of medicine

sam alito looking at the voting rights act

States have been telling doctors to lie to every patient who asks them for an abortion since 1994. This forced speech requires the licensed clinician to tell her patients things that aren't true. States claim this is regulating the practice of medicine. How is conversion therapy different? seems /1

"ICE agents will be stationed outside graduation events for the nation’s newest Marines to identify whether any of their family members are undocumented, according to the Marine Corps."

There was a good book a few years ago where the authors did a large number of semi-structured interviews with rural residents. One recurring theme was "there's no future for my kids in this town and I hate it."

"litmus test" is just consultant speak for "having beliefs"

for real @umnlawschool.bsky.social your 2Ls & 3Ls should be mocking Wurman so hard it's the lead story. Framing his "scholarship" on the 14th Amendment accurately is not hard to do; it's bad. Make him famous for the possibility he believes what he's saying, which is clown-shoe stuff. This is praxis.

Yes, TrackAIPAC uses unadulterated antisemitism to further GOP goals, so I think it's safe to say that's the purpose of the operation: to leverage lies to make it easier for Republicans to win. This isn't complicated, sadly.