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Vincent van Gogh, Dutch, 1853–1890. Vase with Pink Roses, 1890. Oil on canvas. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

That’s the spirit. A real American standing up for our freedom and the sacred right of free speech.

All travelers from ESTA countries (yes the ones on visa waiver programs) will have to disclose 5 years of social media + huge amounts of personal data to enter the US now. All US academic associations should now meet outside the US if we want to meet our international colleagues.

“The withdrawal reflects something even more unsettling: hospitals choosing to abide by political pressure from the Trump administration rather than the laws they are bound to obey.” sfstandard.com/2025/12/09/s...

"Taking everything for granted" is the main source of our collapsing culture. There is little understanding that we live in a frangible meringue of a moment that we will not be able to protect if we can't look deeply backward and hopefully forward. The illusion of normalcy is destroying the world.

Adrift #photography

The Last Autumn of the Tree #photography

Just something else to worry about. You’re welcome. stzl.ink/j1y509

I think way too often about that software engineer who said that Google LaMDA was sentient

Hence the portrayal of those who are/were estranged from their parents (hi) as "dramatic, selfish, fashionable." As Brooke puts it: "If children can walk away from dysfunctional families, they can walk away from dysfunctional governments, churches, and leaders, too."

The only link between babies and ChatGPT is that they both produce an enormous amount of shit.

Unsurprising that Trump would try to ban fact checking. He already demands a promise that no fact checking will happen if he does an interview. There's very little Trump hates more than an insistence on truth and facts because it interferes with the lies he constantly tells.

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It is absolutely wild that the guy who won’t stop yelling about law and order is now personally stepping in to keep January 6 documents hidden from the police officers who were attacked that day. He knows exactly what’s in those files and he is terrified the country will see it.

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It's great that the media, Congress is going all Watergate on one of Trump's many crimes, the 'double-tap' murder of 2 Caribbean sailors But the reality is that Trump's death cult has killed hundreds of thousands, mostly through senseless USAID cuts My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

not breaking ground, just breaking wind

jfc No, you can't believe your own eyes. Yes, AI fake videos will damage America. No, social media won't be able to police them. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/t...

PIERS: “You’re not gay?” FUENTES: “No. But women are very difficult to be around.” P: “Should they vote?” F: “No.” PIERS: “They should stay home?” FUENTES: “Yeah.” PIERS: “So you’re just a misogynistic dinosaur. Have you ever had sex?” FUENTES: “No.” PIERS: “Wow. Says the guy who never got laid.”

This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.

Love to see the Sedgwick County Zoo putting out a good explainer on why GenAI slop videos of animals are a problem & how to identify them! It’s succinct, easy to read, and doesn’t shame people for not knowing better. A+ useful link to share with family and friends. scz.org/blog/the-rea...

perfect example of what goes around, comes around.

We can debate each word he said, but I will leave you with this joke currently trending in Europe: “In war between Russia and Ukraine, United States surrendered first.”

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I taught Genetics again this year. We need to include discussion of the problematic history of our field, especially as the claims of eugenics are once again centered in our political discourse. Last year I wrote this piece, explaining my reasoning and approach 🧪 1/n www.cell.com/trends/genet...

Fair Share America strongly supports Rep. Dan Goldman's efforts to force the ultra-wealthy to pay their fair share 👇 Read Rep. Goldman's press release here: bit.ly/48XvjUT Read more in Bloomberg here: bit.ly/3XBjrT1 #TaxBillionaires

Because the vaccine prevents chronic hepatitis B for which there is no cure and the lifelong treatment costs more than a single birth dose of the vaccine. Insurance companies recognize this is a no brainer. Brought to you by prevention beats treatment any day. www.cnn.com/2025/12/07/h...

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Everything is awful! *But it would be worse if I relapsed.* This is my thought for the day, you can have it as yours for FREE if that's helpful to you.

BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: ICEBlock App developer Joshua Aaron is SUING DHS, ICE, DOJ, White House officials for violating his 1st Amendment rights when they pressured Apple to remove the app from the App Store. www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...

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Trump-branded industrial parks... Built on federal lands... And owned by the federal government? Yikes. www.wsj.com/tech/trump-s...

Democratic education is possible. Media literacy and critical thinking is essential part of it. But the approach must be multifaceted, experiential, and integrated throughout the curriculum. We need better research & emancipatory vision, from Finland and others scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmborj/vol29...

If you think I'm just starting shit, you'd be right.

Our students are raising money to keep their magazines going after the University of Alabama suspended them for foregrounding the voices of women and African Americans. If you've got the means, please support them. givebutter.com/F0LNOA

I’m surprised more people aren’t talking about Don Jr receiving a massive loan for his startup from the Pentagon. I guess when there’s so much corruption some things fly under the radar?

Trump says Lisa Cook is unfit to be a Fed governor because she claimed two different properties as her primary residence on her mortgage applications. (Cook denies this.) Trump did the exact same thing on mortgage applications submitted a mere 7 weeks apart. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Even ignoring Dr. Høeg's antivaccine views and obvious bias, she has no qualifications for the job. She does not know regulations, she does not know drug approvals, and she has no expertise in any relevant scientific area. No wonder people are resigning. www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-tra...

Godfrey Wade came to the US from Jamaica when he was 15 years old. He served in the Army for 8 years and won multiple awards including a wartime veteran award and a US Army Commendation Medal ICE grabbed him for failing to use a turn signal, and he’s been held for 70 days.

If you’re celebrating the mass deportations of distraught, exhausted human beings seeking refuge, you probably shouldn’t be singing sweet songs about a baby with “no crib for a bed.” johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/christian-...

Detroiters if you haven’t been: Tocororo. Best food/chill dive bar vibes. Right in Eastern Market.

Missed this from a few days ago

They’re not hiding the brutality anymore. They want you to see it. They want you to get used to it.👇 www.jackhopkinsnow.com

"The danger is once you compile all this information, then hackers only have to go to one place instead of going to all 50-plus jurisdictions that run elections... It’s a hacker’s dream to have all of this private, sensitive information collected somewhere..." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Terrifying & well-researched piece about how Epstein’s sick world-view funded & helped elevate the TechBros “cocktail party” (already underway) agenda for eugenics, genetic manipulation, institutionalized misogyny, mass death & a fascist aristocracy of Broligarchs to rule us all. This is real.

This is a great explainer about the legality of the boat strikes. Or illegality, as it were. www.justsecurity.org/126156/exper...