Your regular reminder that when the right talks about "free speech" what they mean is "the ability to be racist without consequences."

Time to get out the pitchforks and guillotines, folks (if you haven’t already). arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

A great in-depth article on what we can look forward to at the inaugural Pan-African Architecture Biennale in Nairobi next year!

🌍 Today is #EarthOvershootDay, 8 days earlier than last year. 😱 This means that we have already used up 1 year's worth of resources, and the rest of the year will be tapping into future resources. 💪 We need climate action now.

I still can’t stop thinking about the fantastic design of this library by ALA Architects. Helsinki is one of those cities that really stands out to me as a magical place for public space.

Can’t wait for this!

This is incredibly exciting news! The biennale is scheduled for Sept 2026. Before ever dreaming about becoming an architect, experiencing the architecture in Senegal was a pivotal moment in my life. Can’t wait to see what designers from across the continent are working on!

Your subjective sense of things going slowly, and then speeding up, is real, Arthur C. Brooks writes. But you can also control it:

“On Tuesday afternoon, ChatGPT encouraged me to cut my wrists.” Lila Shroff reports on how the chatbot was easily prompted to offer instructions for murder, self-mutilation, and devil worship:

Today we forced Trump to release $1.3 billion for more than 10,000 summer & afterschool programs helping 1.4 million students. It's not enough. He's still illegally withholding $5.5 billion more from schools. Congress passed it. The president signed it. Trump must release it.

Thank you for speaking up, this is a win! After growing bipartisan pressure, the Trump administration has agreed to release $1.3 billion in previously frozen federal funding for after-school programs across the country.

For many local public radio stations, rescission is an existential threat. The federal funding received by nearly 500 stations throughout the U.S. directly supports the local services they provide and communities they serve. Tell your Senator to #SavePublicRadio and oppose rescission at goACPR.org

Is it fascism yet?

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17 million people’s health insurance is not waste. If you’re looking for frauds, look at all the Republicans who promised not to cut Medicaid but did it anyways.

While Republicans celebrate the passage of the largest Medicaid cut in history, the Curtis Medical Center in Nebraska announced it will shut down as a result of these horrific cuts — the first of many hospitals to close. This is a dark day for rural America and for our country.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

A real tweet from Wisconsin Republican Rep. @derrickvanorden Today’s GOP in a nutshell 🥜

REP. @brotherjones.bsky.social: “A shameful day in the history of our nation, on the day before 4th of July. What are people supposed to celebrate? The lack of liberty and justice in this land? The funding of secret police and concentration camps? A sad day.” 🇺🇸

This JD Vance op-ed did not age well

This is BEFORE #TrumpsTrillionsTransfer When is enough enough, @MarshaBlackburn @SenatorHagerty ?

A win! A federal judge has ordered the government to restore hundreds of NIH grants slashed by the Trump administration, ruling the cuts were discriminatory against minorities and LGBTQ individuals. The judge said he’d have to be “blind” not to see the discrimination and declared the cuts illegal.

Veterans gave it all for this country, but Trump and Musk just fired nearly 6,000 of them. And where are the House Republicans? . . . Selling out our Veterans to billionaires!!!

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Amy Gleason is the acting administrator of the DOGE. Please don’t be distracted by this—it was only done because federal judges were questioning who was actually running the operation. Gleason is completely controlled by Musk, and he is doing this to avoid testifying.

Seems like everyone has kinda memory-holed this one. thehill.com/homenews/new...

Massive encroachment by Bezos into The Washington Post’s opinion section - makes clear dissenting views will not be published I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side, but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know

In the wealthiest nation on earth, 25% of seniors should not be living on $15,000 a year or less. We should EXPAND Social Security, not cut it. I will soon be introducing legislation to significantly raise Social Security benefits and extend the solvency of the program.

There's a union out there called AFSCME and they're busting their balls for you doing a lot of shit work you take for granted

It’s time to remind our representatives who they work for. During this week’s congressional recess, we’re hosting events across the nation (including Tesla dealerships). Find an event near you: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/... Everything you need to know is in our toolkit: indivisible.org/muskorus

worth saying again these these unilateral cuts are illegal. neither trump nor musk has the authority to unilaterally slash appropriated funds.

Our Tax Dollars at Work, America.

Judge John D. Bates of the D.C. Federal District Court has ordered the CDC to temporarily restore pages removed from its website to comply with Trump’s executive order barring references to race, gender identity, or sexual orientation.

Just got off the phone with Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.), who said Elon Musk's DOGE team is "actively dismantling" federal Department of Education programs today. "They are in the building, on the 6th floor, canceling grants and contracts."

Every Republican in the Senate just voted to confirm Russell Vought. We’re going to hold them accountable for every piece of the Project 2025 agenda he implements and all the harm it causes to the families they’re supposed to represent.

this is the "merit" two-step. first, you strongly imply or state outright that the presence of anyone who isn't a straight, able-bodied white man is unfair "DEI," then you argue that just because an institution is all-male and lily-white doesn't mean there is discrimination. that's just merit!

the other thing is that the right isn't going after corporate trainings, they are going after the entire edifice of civil rights law. do bhaskar and faiz thing the civil rights act of 1964 is a distraction from class solidarity?

Get the new booster while you still can!

Old enough to remember when a single library deciding not to carry a Dr Seuss book was a grave threat to liberty

U.S. businesses that sold goods and services to USAID are in limbo, including American farms dealing in rice, wheat and soybeans purchased as food aid.

Yup.

Hey. I'm a journalist in Atlanta. I write for The Guardian and Rolling Stone. If you work for the federal government, and want to connect in person to discuss the illegal and unconstitutional activities you are seeing inside your agency, send me a note via Signal. They can't kill us all.

USAID.gov is down. Why is this concerning? Trump has no legal authority to eliminate a congressionally funded independent agency. The work of USAID is vital, and if this can happen to them, it can happen to any of us.

At OPM, Musk’s staffers won’t leave—they work around the clock and have even installed sofa beds in the office. Our access to data systems has been restricted, raising serious concerns about cybersecurity and a complete lack of oversight. We are keeping our heads down and documenting everything.

It’s official: Elon Musk’s staffers have now illegally obtained classified information from the USAID office. Here’s a recap of what’s happening:

Welp, there you have it. The "sin of empathy."

How does terrorizing farm workers, school kids and hard working immigrants make America great, especially when you release and pardon violent insurrectionists? White Nationalism is Nazism.

The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH** * Currently paused by Executive Order ** Grant reviews now all canceled www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...

one reason democrats should cut the “we just want to work together” shit is that you lose the opportunity to do things like, for instance, hold a loud press conference on the fact that trumps ICE thugs arrested a veteran www.newarknj.gov/news/mayor-r...