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Climate change is costing working people thousands of dollars a year, and if we had people in the party that were doing the work to break it out, we would be better off.

"The Faculty Senate Chair deviated from the remarks he had shared before the ceremony. The Chair’s comments were inappropriate and do not represent our institutional position. Nor do they represent the diversity of views across our entire faculty." -UM president president.umich.edu/news-communi...

I understand why the lawyers settled for it but $1.5 billion from Anthropic was not enough It should have been in the several billions and now every company knows that the cost of perpetual plagiarism (among problems) is a fixed amount of $1.5 billion

"...there’s a small problem with this spin. It’s that the Iranians were already negotiating with Trump before the war started." Iranians also negotiated a deal in 2015 that included the demand that they abandon their nuclear weapons programs. Fun fact: It didnt require any war costs to accomplish.

Hideous concentration camps. In America.

Oh, word? Copilot is for entertainment purposes only? So it was several billion dollars and multiple cross-sector privacy and consent violations all for a gag, then? Neat-o, Microsoft. Real keen.

Whom to believe? 🤡 @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/w...

Sky drama

Did you know that there is one group of Americans who are not entitled to birthright citizenship? People born American Samoa are classified instead simply as “U.S. nationals” — and as a result they cannot vote or run for office anywhere else in the country. Much more here, for anyone curious:

It’s arguably less a war than it is just a string of war crimes

ANTHROPIC IS USING AI TO FUCK UP OUR CLAIMS ABOUT THE USE OF AI???? okay I feel like we should sue again for this

Employers should cover work-related travel and other expenses directly rather than require employees to float their employer an interest-free loan while subjecting them to a byzantine reimbursement process that will take at least a month and entail multiple rounds of paperwork.

1. I think it's time for us to accept the bitter truth. We are going to pay, and continue paying for a long time to come, for the president’s war of choice against Iran. Such are the consequences of politics. Maybe Americans will take their democracy seriously next time.

I feel like many of us remember the exact moment we learned that they weren’t already and were shaken to our cores. you mean the part of the process where people are the rudest and they deserve hazard pay?????

Republicans apparently WANT ICE terrifying and abusing travelers in our airports

Why are settlers always surprised that Indigenous peoples did and still do things deliberately? www.science.org/content/arti...

That's how the "Bibi made him do it" narrative is working. Trump voters get to say that it's not his fault, and therefore not their fault for voting for him. But they all had choices. They all had full information. They all chose to ignore it for egotistical reasons, and here we are.

Trump voters have been repeatedly warned, for a decade, that the man is a sociopathic narcissist who would do something stupid — like start a war with Iran — to boost his own ego. Now that the warnings were proved true, they want a story about how they are innocent, and it wasn't their fault.

I thank @michellegoldberg.bsky.social for being a clear voice on this. If Democrats had been unified in opposing Israel's genocidal campaign against Palestine, I think it would have done a lot to prevent anti-semites like Kent from preying on weak-minded people. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/o...

I'm sure Netanyahu applied flattery to Trump. But Trump is president. It is *his* responsibility not to be swayed by cheap flattery. And his voters should not be left off the hook, either. The purpose of the "Bibi made him do it" narrative is to allow Trump voters moral absolution.

The SAVE America Act is an awful bill that furthers Trump's agenda to gain more power and price people out of voting. It's a poll tax on you.

Nate Cavanaugh has gone viral recently for his taped deposition about DOGE eliminating "DEI" grants. He's also a key figure in our story from last year. We found that he helped expose a sensitive Afghanistan program, leading to a brutal Taliban crackdown.

Your tax dollars at work: the Trump Administration wants to pay Total $1 billion NOT to build wind farms.

I still hear some people saying Trump is still more popular today than he was at this point in his first term. That's not true. He's more unpopular now. Also more unpopular than Biden was. But that's not even that close any more.

Too on the nose

RIP Access Hollywood you did more to prevent a Donald Trump presidency than many other American institutions

NO NO NO YOU DON’T GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL tell everyone you know www.freetaxusa.com

🤬 this 🤬 “A documentary about Jewish women’s slave labor during the Holocaust? [CharGPT said to axe the NEH grant cuz] The focus on gender risked “contributing to D.E.I. by amplifying marginalized voices.” ☠️☠️☠️ 🗃️

BREAKING: A federal judge in Washington just ruled that Kari Lake has unlawfully served as chief executive of the U.S. Agency for Global Media — which oversees Voice of America — and nullified many actions she has taken in the role, including mass layoffs of staff.

The last photo of third-grader Mikaeil Mirdoraghi, waving to his mom before he left for school. He was killed shortly after in the U.S./Israeli strike on a primary school in Minab.

AZ public school teacher here! Adding insult to this nonsense is the fact that AZ teachers have second lowest salaries in the country—but at least rich people can buy Legos.

Since 2022, AZ taxpayers funded $7.25M in Legos that individual families kept for themselves. Every AZ K12 teacher could have spent ~$125 on purchases *for their whole class, present & future* w those "take my toys & go home" Lego sets. [And yes, my code for this analysis was straight bananas.]

Great news - 1600 academic workers won their first collective bargaining contract at the University of Kansas @afthighered.bsky.social @aaup.org www.aft.org/press-releas...

Trump To Americans: ‘You Won’t Have To Pay Your Son’s Cell Phone Bill When He Dies At War’ https://theonion.com/trump-to-americans-you-wont-have-to-pay-your-sons-cell-phone-bill-when-he-dies-at-war/

She should be remembered as a vicious fascist who had no qualms about terrorizing, killing, and defaming people while running an agency that should not exist.

We hate kids. Like SO MUCH. We vote for the guns. We vote for the bombs. We protect the rapists. We have LEOs physically restraining parents from trying to save their children in Uvalde. We just blew up a school in Iran. We love Jeffrey Epstein and his friends. They run the country.

US and Israeli missiles have just hit a 4th school in Tehran. This is an intentional massacre of children

What just happened in Dallas County is one of the most blatant voter suppression operations I've ever seen—and it happened in a *primary*. In March. Imagine November. I broke it down here: open.substack.com/pub/objectio...

🚨ATTN Texas Voters! Voting hours in Dallas County will be extended until 9 p.m. www.kwtx.com/2026/03/04/d...

Since Mahmoud Khalil's initial immigration hearing, new evidence has come to light that makes clear the government targeted him solely for his speech. That's why we have filed a new motion with the Board of Immigration Appeals urging them to consider these documents.

I worked at and with Warner Brothers for years. What a monumental loss for democracy, entertainment and free speech. Shame on all of them.

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

It's not state-run media, guys. If it was state-run media it would switch to supporting Democrats when they were in power. It's right-wing media.

This is very bad. Handing CNN to Bari Weiss/David Ellison is very, very bad.

The closing of African American Studies and GWSS at Iowa is absolutely heartbreaking. It is such an important time to study these subjects. Words really cannot express how upsetting this decision is. www.thegazette.com/higher-educa...

These are “low enrollment” majors but the classes are regularly at capacity. They changed the funding structure a few years ago here, switching the allocation from course enrollments to majors then blamed these departments for a structural, top-down change. This is entirely a political choice.