This is the actual truth of Independence The willingness to stand up to tyranny and say “I am willing to sacrifice what I have” Start thinking about what that might look like for you

"Using 'AI' to take [creators] jobs, their livelihood, their creative expression away is exactly why using 'AI' to create an image is so enjoyable by right wingers: It’s a vulgar display of power."

This is a failure of our civilians and our politicians that it came to this.

By speaking out, this Major has likely relinquished his right to millions of dollars of future benefits and entitlements of his service. Health insurance, pension, etc. When Hegseth was threatening Mark Kelly an other veteran members of Congress, that’s what he was after. Not a small show of courage

People who spiral out overusing LLM chatbots are really just experiencing the kind of brain-damaging stream of unconditional validation that’s always been the norm for the hyper-wealthy, which explains a lot.

If you watch the full video she’s pretty clearly talking about the need to end privatising profits and subsidising costs. Don’t know how this got twisted into “she wants to charge individuals for air”

A lot of "non-denominational" churches are really New Apostolic Reformation churches. The NAR has been infiltrating and taking over denominational churches for over 3 decades.

The apps keep trying to set me up with men in Walnut Creek. There is no level of hot that I am driving to Walnut Creek for

The best part of my humanities education was discovering this grand conversation happening throughout time that didn’t depend on me or even involve me *at all*. I think eliminating that is a reason why society trashes the humanities constantly

looks like: 1. totenberg had pre-written an alito retirement post (normal); 2. had been told off the record alito was gonna retire (not unheard-of given her well-documented inappropriate relationship w/ justices); 3. just assumed that's what the announcements were; 4. ran it w/o confirming.

Literally the Supreme Court upheld sodomy bans in 1986 and said homosexuality was worse than rape and nobody even talks about it

NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

Google basically say: it's all worth it. But is it? Google now has to burn 1.5x as much energy to make the same $1m in revenue. Compared to 2021, are you getting 2x the value out of Google's services, to justify 2x the climate disasters they'll cause? Is this a good trade-off, to you?

It’s also the anniversary of the 1st Minnesota’s charge at Gettysburg, suffering the worst casualty rate of any unit in US history

See also more widely:"we're a massive software company. We've been a software company for 40 years. That's why we're firing all our developers. We're going to be so stinking rich"

I'm in a completely tenuous role that is slowly driving me insane bc of how bad a match it is for me (think: someone mildly dyslexic white knuckling through a copy editing job, it's that kind of thing) but at this point, my only chance of jumping ship is with AI companies and ooof

A second wave of Costco plant shipments has been found carrying evidence of an invasive insect that can spread a fatal grapevine disease, widening concern among California agriculture officials already trying to track down thousands of potentially infested grapevines sold this spring.

By itself, this is both impeachable and cause for radical reform. The GOP Supreme Court does not even bother to explain the majority of its decisions. It's apparently too much to ask they at least barf up dishonest, unprincipled, poorly-reasoned excuses for their arbitrary exercise of power.

“This is the first time the Supreme Court has given its blessing to redistricting across the boundaries of four-dimensional space,” political scientist Jonas Neuhaus said of the decision in RNC v. Garner

(data indicates that the very second the Trump administration rubber stamped the Sprint T-Mobile merger U.S. wireless carriers stopped competing meaningfully on price. 8,000+ people also lost their jobs. Just as experts predicted.)

Guaranteed: 1) Black girls will be harassed and demanded to be tested over and over again regardless of how competitive they are. 2) Winners from public schools will be relentlessly hounded by the parents and coaches of losers at private schools, with the goal of making them quit the sport.

An extraordinary cancer stat recently just dropped: zero. That’s how many UK women in their early 20s died from cervical cancer between 2020-24. My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com is on 20 years of HPV vaccines--& how the US could better maximize the potential of this critical public health tool (🎁):

Americans today are resisting the same kinds of tyranny we resisted 250 years ago when this nation was founded.

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George Retes, a 26-year-old father of two and an Army veteran who served a tour in Iraq, describes getting swept up in a chaotic altercation with ICE agents and thrown in jail.

One of the biggest mistakes made on both sides of the Atlantic in the last couple of decades is people assuming that once a battle for rights is won, it's settled forever. It is not. You have to continue to defend those rights.

The Supreme Court using its power to explicitly target a tiny number of trans girls is par for the course unfortunately and won’t stop here. They need to be stopped. We need to entirely remake the judiciary, this is merely the latest example of their maliciousness

“Every school functions as a prison now”, “it is functionally illegal for people under 18 to congregate without strict adult supervision outside of their homes and schools”, “most extracurriculars cost large sums of money for non-trivial involvement” huh i wonder why kids are so anxious & lonely

It’s just like the rise of therapy. It is not that therapy is wrong but there is absolutely a parallel “lack” to be seen in social structures and activities where people no longer have previously routine social outlets for their own personal struggles. Professionalization replaces socialization.

Court can't go on like this. The Constitution as plainly as possible says people who were born here have an unequivocal right to citizenship. Four people whose ONLY job is to read the Constitution for the rest of their lives just tried to overturn it because they're tired of brown people. Pack it.

5-4 for what it explicitly says in the constitution is incredible. They were this close to undoing the civil war entirely. bsky.app/profile/mjsd...

The thing you need to understand is that there are 2 (TWO) different method for amending the constitution 1) The process laid out in the constititon itself (conventions, or 2/3's of both houses followed by 3/4 of states ratifying) OR 2) find five votes on the Supreme Court.

Reminder: it is still *illegal* in the UK to rip a legally bought and owned CD to MP3 on your computer. But Google will likely convince the UK govt that every creative endeavour should be available for it to remix and regurgitate, entirely for free. One rule for the public; another for megacorps…

this whole online ID verification push stuff is turning me into a weird crank at rapid speed because I've never seen such an unpopular policy forced through with such speed in so many countries simultaneously with basically zero real consent from any population, just pure elite collusion

I think this case is one where—paradoxically—the larger the reform, the more moderate it appears. A small change to just the Supreme Court is much more easily dismissed as a partisan power grab.

“To the extent that that makes sense for the mafia or for violent street gangs, it makes less sense for political protesters.”

““Some have asked if this means a transgender woman can join DAR or if this means that DAR chapters have previously welcomed transgender women,” Pamela Rouse Wright, President of the DAR, wrote in a newsletter on the bylaws. “The answer to both questions is, yes.””

my standing thesis is that voters do not actually give a shit about any judicial process story and rarely give a shit about any particular judicial decision so pushing hard on this stuff is ~free electorally

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I don’t have much to say about Slaughter, and honestly I think we do too much justice to the Roberts Court by treating its opinions like serious judicial reasoning. But I will say that it’s striking how openly the court treats congressional oversight as somehow antithetical to democratic government

Supreme Court slamming the giant red button that says Dictatorship and then going well ok we do have to keep the dictator from destroying the entire world economy Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

The Slaughter case, overturning precedent, returns us to a spoils system where a president can “clean house” every four years, destroying our professional, independent civil service.

NOT FUCKING MULLVAD GOD DAMN IT www.tumblr.com/3liza/820613... circumstances.run/@davidgerard...

every single person in the Maine senate race comes out looking awful: -Mills for being an awful candidate -Schumer/Gillibrand for recruiting Mills and discouraging others from running -Platner for being a sicko -the activists/unions who recruited platner -Collins for being a fascist enabler

That last point I'm not sure is even cynical enough. Education in the humanities is seen as a prerequisite for a democratic civil society; and that's why political elites have marked it for death

Remember the internet before Google, before algorithmic feeds, before monolithic social media corralled us onto the same handful of apps? When small, *personal websites* and webrings linking them together reigned supreme? Time to bring it back.

KARL: Rs are gonna make you the poster child for the D Party MAMDANI: Let them. We don't have to ask ourselves what life looks like if a socialist wins. I won last year & over the course of the last 6 months what we've delivered for working people are the very things we were told were impossible.