Journalist Rachel Swarns Urges Engagement With Georgetown 272 Descendants Upon Anniversary of the historic 1838 sale of 272 people the U held in bondage to pay its debts thehoya.com/news/journal...

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

The right thinks the left will fight to protect Bill Clinton. The actual left thinks the middle will fight to protect Bill Clinton. But I want to believe — tonight as winter creeps closer, and even the tiniest glimmer of hope is impossibly precious — that nobody would protect Bill Clinton.

The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.

bring these back TODAY

Monticello, 1983 https://botfrens.com/collections/27/contents/5243

America giving more value and money to masked gestapo who kidnap people off the streets in broad daylight than… heroic firefighters

I recently became acquainted with "Osanaetoki Bankokubanashi" 童絵解万国噺, a Japanese illustrated history of America from 1861. The retelling of the revolutionary era is quite something. Here, for instance, is John Adams wielding a sword in mortal combat with a gigantic serpent.

THE GOOD THINGS CAN HAPPEN CAUCUS IS BACK, MOTHERFUCKERS

this is so silly. people know the deal with bond. the writers should just embrace the metatextual aspects of the franchise

This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months" China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.

“Democrats are uncomfortable exercising power and because they lack a coherent or compelling vision for their party or how it would run the country.”

Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.

congrats to everyone for thinking this through before signing very big contracts to put it on every student’s device at the school or university you run

OVER A MILLION USERS DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT EVERY *WEEK* what the fuck are we DOING here

A friend recently texted me the same thing. “Do you really not use ChatGPT?!” It was a sign of where we are culturally on this. People are compelled to use it but also starting to question the normalcy?

get in bitch we're destroying the west

Starving children and families to score political points is beyond cruel. It's vile and vindictive. The lives of 42 million Americans should not be used as bargaining chips. We will not stay silent while our students, families, and neighbors go hungry.

what's there to say, really?

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

Quite a headline.

Not now, carnivorous death ball

The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond

SNAP surveys SNAP users. Already half of them are saying they are skipping meals.

If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing

I am 100% convinced that sandwich guy chose his weapon keenly aware of the literary, punny, metaphorical joke possibilities that it would produce. And the people have responded.

You might expect me to joke about this but I am genuinely happy and emotional about a jury of ordinary citizens finding sandwich guy not guilty and standing up to the obscene and absurd abuse of police and prosecutorial power by this lawless administration. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

"Jurors found Sean Dunn not guilty of one misdemeanor assault charge on Thursday in federal court in D.C." I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/d...

Hero jury saves hoagie hurler from legal grinder www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...

somehow and somewhere

Chicago tonight

“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion” futurism.com/artificial-i...

Across the country, demand for electricity is on the rise — and so is the price of electric power. n.pr/485sLnd

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

oh my god they actually did it lmao

If you ever feel like you're bad at your job, just remember that the password to access the Louvre's video surveillance system was "Louvre"

i closed out my column this week with this preemptive jab at basically every commentator currently looking for ways to say that last night didn’t count

No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong, it is right. No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness, it is a strength. No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited, it is unlimited.

Never let them say you can’t be a mensch AND a hater

Major in Africana Studies or any humanities course like English Literature! You could be mayor of New York City. You could do anything.

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

Every new post tonight is like Dems have flipped the Mehaden town sewer authority, long dominated by conservatives, by a +38 margin

What an excellent, inspiring speech from Mamdani. I haven’t felt chills like this… ever?

one thing that other candidates need to learn from mamdani is how to deliver the most cold blooded attacks on an opponent with a smile on your face

Brad Lander is at the victory party and, folks, he has the custom one-of-one “GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE” shirt.

Was also watching this pretty closely lmao

Savor this moment, friends. They couldn’t buy their way to a win. They couldn’t racist their way to a win. There are more of us than them, and we fucking beat them. And we can keep beating them.