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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.

Fuck ICE and all who cooperate with them.

"I never want to see third and fourth graders have to run away from our own government."

Starfleet has Horta members, who can neither run, walk, nor climb, and who require a Teflon spray coating to exist in an oxygen atmosphere, If you can accept that a Horta would be able to serve in starfleet, but not someone who uses a wheelchair, that's a staggering failure of your imagination.

INBOX: Rep. Thomas Massie, who has enraged Trump for his insistence on blocking tariffs and releasing the Epstein files according to the law, just issued what is widely known among Chinese dissidents as "a declaration of no suicidal intent" (不自殺聲明), a sign of extreme distress.

What's that you say? Two new Pathfinder classes being playtested live?? Say hello to the new daredevil and slayer classes for Pathfinder 😈 Join us on Twitch RIGHT NOW! Watch the stream: buff.ly/kbNt4wm

This is what Jeri’s hacked account DM’d me. If I had said yes, they’d send a link and they’d steal your login info from the link. BE WARY Y’ALL IF YOUR FRIENDS ARE SUDDENLY ASKING YOU TO PLAYTEST SOMETHING WITH THIS LANGUAGE / SCRIPT

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Why the fuck are we talking about the 2028 presidential primary?* Please just go win all winnable local 2026 elections. And a few you don’t think are winnable. *I know why

Dude on Reddit doing God's work www.reddit.com/r/Epstein/co...

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.

STFU www.cbsnews.com/news/amazon-...

What the last two centuries have taught us is that capitalism is a system which exists to create and maintain oligarchy, with an oligarch defined as one who steals/hoards resources on a grand scale while blatantly transgressing social norms in the most disgusting ways imaginable to prove their power

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.

Even James Van Der Beek Couldn't Afford Cancer Care www.wonkette.com/p/even-james... By Robyn Pennacchia @robynelyse.bsky.social

We should get back to that practice in journalism where, if someone makes a claim about their product, it should be up to them to prove it, rather than everyone assuming it‘s true until it’s proved wrong. And the wilder the claim, the less it should be believed without proof. This is not hard.

so many families are in awful positions because ICE’s bullshit has collapsed the already fragile social safety net. this family is living in their van in minnesota in winter. they’ve applied for help at over a dozen orgs and are still unhoused. with babies.

I teach a lot of working class first generation students at Nicholls in South Louisiana. I will never give up my conviction that my students deserve Homer and Sappho and Sophocles and Ovid and Dante too. It's not too good for them.

Shelving of one part of their dystopian stack.

Our 2026 Pledge Drive continues and so here's more of our work, now un-paywalled as a gift from our subscribers. For history week last year, we interviewed Peter Adkison about what it was like to be at the centre of one of the most dramatic events in RPG history.

This this a thousand times this. The foundation of almost every problem we have is a wealth inequality problem (which also ties into this country’s particular history of racism and white supremacy).

There seems to be a lot of discussion about Gavin Newsom today. I wanted to re-share this piece that I wrote, because I have a lot of center-to-left Dems that follow me that want to understand. There are very good reasons transgender people do not like Gavin Newsom.

All of these companies are doing whatever they want, they're barely regulated under the regime to begin with, and what they want is to pollute everywhere, starting with every Black community in the southeast US. ALL of them. This is why we're cussing you out and blocking you for your slop "joy."

In incredible news, the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women." Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration. It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. Our latest.

The Epstein files are shedding a light on many evil acts. Don't lose sight of the fact that the rich elite have been waging a class war against the rest of us for decades, centuries even. And, we haven't done enough to fight back.

"The abolition of gender studies is a way of further guaranteeing impunity to the elite men whose contempt for and exploitation of women and girls apparently knew no bounds" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“The proliferation of chatbots where people are inputting sensitive legal information…has created ‘a discovery nightmare.’”

I'd like at add a few things to this. (1) humanists have not been able to convince any political party that curiosity-driven humanities research is a public good that should be funded using tax dollars. Republicans don't believe this, but neither do Democrats.

I’m with you. Fuck winnability and consultants. Give me someone genuine with fire and no fucks to give who will tear it all down and build something better, to fight for and with. If we’re going to lose, I’d rather feel good about leaving it all on the field, than play it safe and lose anyway.

The Border Patrol agents lied. They always lie. And they lie to destroy other people's lives for fun. www.huffpost.com/entry/border...

By the power invested in me, I hearby proclaim this woman, "White Woman of Next Month!" (sorry, you cant have February.) Not all heroes wear blue jeans

If you choose to wear any wearable surveillance tech around me without my explicit consent, I will cut you out of my life forever. Devices like Meta’s glasses are invasive and make you creepy. Don’t be a creep.

So female associates of Epstein in the files are resigning or in jail like Maxwell, but men are going to keep their jobs. This what happens when rape culture is policy

Suburban wine moms will really be like "you believe in voting? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, firebombing a concentration camp" and then very effectively firebomb a concentration camp

Dudes have been fantasizing about a computer friend in their glasses for a long time. This is 1959! www.wired.com/story/secret...

NEW: A federal tool meant to find noncitizens on voter rolls is consistently marking citizens as noncitizens, especially if they were born outside the U.S., causing chaos as election clerks try not to disenfranchise voters, @zachdespart.bsky.social and I found. 🧵 www.propublica.org/article/save...

Worth remembering that widespread portable facial recognition will inevitably include people using these tools as a way to “identify” trans folks and racialized “others” far beyond what is already being done. We can have a free society or we can have these technologies. We can’t have both.

Citizen's United was an intentional decision by all branches of our government to consolidate power among the richest. Examples like those in this article remind us why we must get money out of politics and why our elected officials will never agree to it.

I'm still SHOCKED by the obscene rise in billionaire election spending since Citizens United in the NYT piece, despite already knowing that election corruption w/ $ was profound. (Recall that BCRA fought dangerous campaign $ in *2002*) The article data didn't have a graph, so I made one to show it.

there are no shortage of places were one can wax dreamily on about LLMs if you're so inclined; we don't have to force the predominant Bluesky currents to conform

civil society and right groups orgs that often keep a tab on and organise campaigns against these evil corporations are overstretched and underfunded. this internal memo from Meta is insidious and sickening

end qualified immunity and make cops carry personal liability insurance

I keep bringing up Googleglass because it’s a reminder that widespread opprobrium is still a useful tool. If your friend says he plans on buying them, tell him they are for creeps. If someone shows up to your party with them, ask them to leave. Brand these as a product for losers and pervs.

Disaster capitalism. “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns…”

I know people who saw abductions this morning, people who are valiantly trying to free people from Whipple through the legal system yesterday and today, absolutely nothing feels different just fyi to people outside MN.

So many freelancers will have to rebuild on another platform 😭

They could build a wall around Vought’s home out of the bones of all the children killed from cutting USAID

This is the third time Ring has backed off of some Orwellian practice because of public outcry; in the two previous cases it went right back to the evil as soon as the uproar died down. There is no reason to suspect this will be any different.