Also, "do unpaid community service or you will not be given leave to stay" isn't volunteering it's being voluntold.

We're excited to reveal the #WolfsonHistoryPrize 2025 shortlist, celebrating the finest historical non-fiction works from the past year. Congratulations to all the shortlisted authors! 👏📚 www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk/2025-wolfson...

For those of you who aren't female, we get told we're 'upset' when we take opposing positions or don't like being abused or are actually angry or fierce or outraged, not upset. It's a "calm down, little lady" expression.

Myanmar. Russia. Iran. We are sending people to certain torture. Probable death. Tear down the Statue of Liberty. We are no Mother of Exiles, we offer nothing to those yearning to breathe free.

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

Masked ICE agents with military rifles dragging people into vans because of their skin color. Mothers & kids detained at the airport after a Sunday at the lakefront. If it weren’t happening down the block, I’d say this isn’t America. But it is. Know your rights. Chicago.gov/KYR

Been thinking a lot about Raymond Williams’s “Culture & Technology” essay where he critiques the liberal account of technological disruption: organic progress, rather than conscious choices by capital. Just imagine if the money we are flushing into data centers went to railways or solar panels.

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If you're wondering why they don't go to court with their high paid lawyers for an easy win, it's because this allows Google to bribe Trump. All the big players are way over their skis on AI investment and are sure they will need a bailout at some point. It's 2009 but for tech instead of housing

South Carolina lawmakers are about to hear a bill that would classify abortion as homicide and would allow people who have abortions to be charged with murder. The proposal would replace the state’s current six week ban

i do not think ICE’s relationship with the national guard improves when they start gassing oregon guardsmen who are guarding their facility, which is absolutely what will happen if they move the guard in

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You should read the whole piece from @edzitron.com but if you only read one paragraph, make it this one: OpenAI has burned so much money that there is no more money. Read that again: it's not just OpenAI that's broke. All of VC is broke. www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...

Alexa, what happens when you put a fracking executive in charge of the Department of Energy?

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it? If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say? Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

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This is how we need our Democratic Leaders to lead and use their public platform to communicate/engage: instead of groveling for bipartisanship stand up for our values.

Trump's petition asking the Supreme Court to let him officially redefine (read: rescind) birthright citizenship is now available and I wish I did not have to worry about the Supreme Court taking seriously such obviously, egregiously unserious & racist bullshit www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

The Trump administration has taken the first step toward debarring Harvard, a move that would make the university ineligible for federal funding.

The fact that these schools are capitulating rather than defending the academic freedom of their faculty is beyond discouraging and terrifying.

I feel like not nearly enough people understand this: "Where real thinking involves organic associations, speculative leaps, and surprise inferences, AI can only recognize and repeat embedded word chains, based on elaborately automated statistical guesswork." www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

So…let me see if I have this right. The federal government is gonna shut down in 30hrs, and the party that controls the ENTIRE federal government is trying to blame the party that controls NONE of the federal government for the looming shutdown?

fun fact that while trump v. us says that the president cannot be held criminally liable for using his core powers, this does not extend to his officers

"FEMA officials arrived to go door-to-door to help residents apply for federal funds. But then they stopped as the administration canceled the door-to-door program. FEMA closed disaster-recovery facilities where residents could apply for financial assistance last week." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Every major Democrat has millions in their campaign account. The threat to democracy is big enough that we need to be funding mobilization and messaging right now - not just banking money for the next election. If we don't build right now, there might not be another election.

It is important to see this sort of straight talking, precisely because of the executive order last week that conflated criticism of the government with terrorism.

Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."

"They said Hegseth is becoming increasingly 'obsessed' with his own security and exhibits frenzied behavior, such as fidgeting and pacing during meetings. "'"There’s a manic quality about him. Or let me rephrase, an even more manic quality, which is really saying something"' ...

EVERYONE STOP EVERYTHING Mychal the Librarian is hosting the Reading Rainbow revival!!! reactormag.com/reading-rain...

this was heartbreakingly cruel to begin with. but the detail about the ICE agent smiling for a selfie with her as she cried? rage.

I assumed, but this sucks to see out confirmed. We simply don’t fly with our wheelchair-using kid.

That didn't take long! Who will be his next victim and will they survive his decisions to be violent?

It remains illegal, commonplace practices do not dictate the law.

can never forget that Fred Trump spent his later years totally gaga but surrounded by a gaggle of senility-denial-enablers who drove him to a make believe office where a make believe secretary had him sign make believe papers—which sounds cute til you see the sequel & the secretary is Stephen Miller

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

Another Texas district overreacts. Administrators, don’t do this.

NEW: Oregon says Trump/Hegseth’s deployment of 200 National Guard troops is an unconstitutional abuse of power. The case has been assigned to Judge Michael Simon, an Obama appointee (and nephew of Neil Simon!) www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Canada, Ireland, Netherlands, Belgium, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, France, the UK, Denmark, China, Finland and Portugal ALL have new travel warnings and advisories for going to the USA.

Broadview officials have launched a criminal investigation into reports that an ICE agent fired a projectile at a CBS News Chicago reporter. Broadview has been the site of protests against ICE. The reporter said at the time of the incident, there wasn't a active protest and she was alone.

It should be referred to as a Kavanaugh stop.

ICE brutally detains U.S. citizen just for filming—knocking her unconscious. "Agents took her to a side alley, beat her up, then called an ambulance," witness said. "Then they kidnapped her from the hospital—without a formal discharge—and took her to Downtown LA Detention Center."

The United States has a domestic terrorism problem and Trump literally fired or reassigned every expert and cancelled every prevention grant. I was one of those fired at the State Department. www.duffin4va.com

So far today, Chuck Schumer has said his strategy for preventing Trump sending troops into blue cities is to win over Republican senators (!) while Hakeem Jeffries praised Eric Adams's courage and authenticity (!!) while refusing to endorse Mamdani. Again. These two gotta go.

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Italy: 16 million influenza-like cases expected — Australia’s winter trend shows a surge is coming. "The peak of the curve is expected to arrive "like every year around Christmas , facilitated by ideal weather conditions, travel, kisses and hugs." www.adnkronos.com/salute/influ...

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Amazing turnout in Huntington Beach for Yes on Prop 50. These folks are organizing and working to support their public libraries and community. We are going to stop Trump from rigging 2026!

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