I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.

Assume all the yes and no votes from Dem senators are strategic and not sincere votes. The party caucus made a decision. No way to know how many were in favor. Then the caucus decided who would vote yes and no based on what would protect each of them politically the most. That’s how this works.

Draw yourself from memory

I’m a sewage system. I also have a great personality.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Martin Scorsese drew these storyboards when he was 11 years old. They are for a Roman epic entitled THE ETERNAL CITY.

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

FSA Administrator: You got those photos documenting the lives of sharecroppers in the south and migratory agricultural workers in the midwestern and western states? Dorothea Lange: Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy, just like you asked. FSA Administrator: What

I've been very lucky that the folks at @51st.news have let me start reporting again, but this small-yet-mighty outlet has big ambitions: including hiring me full-time. We'd love it if you'd help support independent local journalism in D.C.! (And thank you a million billion times. Really.)

Having Martin Austermuhle as a full-time reporter for @51st.news would be so great for DC!

OH THANK MITHRAS It's a Murderbot Eve Miracle!!!!!!

the American government is effectively ending its space program.

The Supreme Court’s “shadow docket” has cast very different shadows depending on which party holds the White House. When lower courts blocked Trump admin policies, SCOTUS intervened on an emergency basis to lift those orders in 77% of cases. For the Biden administration, that number was 0%.

It’s Calvin & Hobbes cartoonist Bill Watterson’s birthday today. When I was a kid I was so obsessed with Calvin & Hobbes that I carried around a stuffed bear and called it Hobbes. There’s no official merch (which I love), so my grandma painstakingly crafted this for me. Pic of him from my mom today

the republican party is a modern day Slave Power and the only way forward for this country is to sweep it into the ash heap of history

A lot of what is happening now is the Rs pushing the final vote until the wee hours of the morning so that the American people won't be watching the final debate.

More seriously: if someone is a deranged lunatic sex criminal for an entire generation and instead of stopping him or charging him with crimes contemporaneously you wait 20 years then put together some ludicrous Rube Goldberg construct trying to reach back and capture all the crimes…./1

Do not call a law that will kill millions of people "Big Beautiful." Do not call a concentration camp "Alligator Alcatraz." Stop promoting the propaganda and euphemisms of a fascist regime.

The left better start figuring out how to weaponize today's decision rather than just (rightfully) criticizing it. - Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders. - Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.

we’re about to find out if loving SimCity makes you a better mayor Mamdani was asked in 2002 by NY Mag what he wanted for Christmas and said SimCity 3000

The path for Democrats is very clear: have good ideas, believe in them, state them clearly, stick to them, act decisively in support of these ideas, speak to the young half of the electorate, support other democrats who do these things. Follow Mamdani and Lander's example or fade into nothingness.

I dunno. At this point, I don't even trust any Democrat that the Democratic Party doesn't try to kneecap.

Hello dear souls! I'm sorry, I need help. If you could please reshare, comment, like and so on it would mean so much. I wish I had done this sooner as the next 2 days are expected to be 95f/35c but this summer is supposed to be a scorcher. Thank you so much! #MutualAid #HelpSky #Disabled 💸💕

Judge: And so given all those factual findings, I'm going to exercise the discretion I have to ORDER THE RELEASE of Mahmoud Khalil

Okay, "I've seen enough." On her second full year on the bench, my new favorite Supreme Court justice is, officially, Ketanji Brown Jackson. Footnote 12 has put her over the top. Congratulations to all who participated.

will never not be just completely bonkers to me that we literally finally found a whole ass way to prevent a cancer and a bunch of people were like ewww gross it’s the v word. (PSA again: they’ve been steadily raising the eligibility age for all genders so you might be eligible if weren’t before)

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

this is going to be an unpopular take but this is 1000000000% bait, this is 1000000000% vance intentionally driving far right traffic to this website, this is 1000000000% implicit brigading (surely to Musk's great joy), and therefore you should 1000000000% not take the aforementioned incoming bait

This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.

Sally Ride became the first US woman in space #OTD in 1983. She was one of three mission specialists aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger for STS-7. At age 32 she was also the youngest US astronaut. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬 Image: NASA

This is a fascinating approach to the problem of how to interpret LLM "speech": It's just literal gibberish, and the "meaning" we find in it is meaning we put into it as readers.

I need someone in D.C. to print a ton of this photo as giant posters and have a parade bigger than Trump's parade, with a sea of people carrying this photo. Surround the White House with this photo.

do not perform collective death magic on main keep that shit in your group chat where it's managable

they're doing this because the Insurrection Act sounds cool and edgy but they can't actually justify using the Insurrection Act. it's a silly action by an insecure administration desperately to seem manly and powerful. it should be criticized relentlessly, but it should also be laughed at.

Trump wanted to feel powerful so 2k National Guard members have been federalized in order to hand ICE water bottles

My god god have mercy on our souls ICE went at full speed ramming the crowd

*sitting in a government reeducation camp talking about how much this fucking sucks* some random asshole: and you’re SURPRISED?

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

That’s not the rule and you know it.

We're breaking down "Grow D.C." – or, as progressive advocates might put it – "the inequality agenda." Bowser unveiled her 2026 budget this week, which focuses on revenue gains and social service cuts. Read up on it. 51st.news/whats-in-the...

open chart, keep scrolling down www.gelliottmorris.com/p/republican...

"I'd crusade if the new Pope asked me to" wow, cool. What if he asked you to love and protect immigrants

I got stoned last night and made this and then forgot to post it anyway I stand by it

Justice Jackson nails where we are right now: “Your argument turns our justice system into a catch me if you can kind of regime from the standpoint of the Executive where everybody has to have a lawyer and file a lawsuit in order for the government to stop violating people’s rights.” 🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯

In response to Trump's executive orders, RAINN, the nation's largest anti-sexual-violence organization, has barred its crisis hotline staff from sharing resources specific to LGBTQ people, immigrants and other marginalized groups.

Senior Trump officials attempted to seize control of the Library of Congress yesterday. I analyzed the constitutional and statutory issues arising from Trump's effort to name an alt-Librarian of Congress. firstbranchforecast.substack.com/p/a-constitu...

An expert on the Library of Congress tells Rolling Stone that Trump’s takeover attempt is “dangerous,” given that the Library’s sub-agencies provide confidential legal advice to members of Congress and help police misconduct by lawmakers. Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...