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Oligarchs have always been a threat, but tech oligarchs represent a new level of danger. Their wealth dwarfs historical tycoons and their control over algorithms allows them to curate human reality. They own the digital infrastructure of thought

Anyway, here is a photo from MLK Jr's speech and he didn't have to pay anyone to show up.

#ProtestSign #resistance #resist #MayDay #NoKings #HandsOff #BlueWave #BlueWaveComing #Midterms

🚨 Why So Many Knicks Fans Are Done with the Celtics Coaching Staff

ICE has violated almost 100 court orders. Let me say that another way. 100 times ICE was caught brazenly ignoring the law. 100 times a court told them to immediately stop. And 100 times they ignored the order. That's an out-of-control agency that shouldn't get another dime.

LAURENCE OLIVIER underwent treatment for cancer during filming, which affected his memory so badly he could barely remember more than one or two lines at a time. Even so, his superb performance earned him an Oscar nomination & won him a Golden Globe. MARATHON MAN (1976)

This is an incredible tweet.

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

“The new owner of CBS and the editor-in-chief of the news division set an explicit objective of appealing to the center right and the center left. That is a political goal. It is not a journalistic one.” — Marty Baron, former top editor at the Washpost ethicsandjournalism.org/2026/04/15/o...

I'm brave enough to admit that I would, in fact, buy this the day it goes on sale or see it opening night. Yes, I would.

My take on this weekend’s big DC schmooze fest where Trump will hang out with what he calls the fake news, and which he constantly attacks https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/23/white-house-correspondents-dinner-trump?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

No law enforcement officer operating in Connecticut—federal, state, or local—can wear a mask on duty. ICE and CBP agents have to show their faces and badges. And when an officer assaults someone recording them, commits false imprisonment, false arrest, or malicious prosecution, they lose immunity.

I saw a disclaimer in an ebook the other day that said, 'This book is 100% human generated. I'd rather write a story that might have lumpy bits than generate a soulless, passionless, piece of crap." I'm thinking of adding something like that to my next book if I ever get around to writing it.

Two copy editors high-fiving so hard right now

The people banning books are never the same people who actually read books.

Happy Administrative Professionals Day! Every day, assistants, secretaries, receptionists and other administrative professionals make sure workplaces across the country run smoothly and effectively. Thank you for all that you do to make our work possible.

more than anything i suspect if half the funding that went into paying for long-shot election campaigns in red states went into unionization drives, the latter would pay off a lot more than the former

My diary from 1998 after I found Star Wars for the first time:

Today is Charlotte Brontë’s birthday. Did you enjoy Jane Eyre? Her first #novel was rejected, and the next one changed #literature. She had to hide behind a man’s name, Currer Bell, because a woman writer in the 1840s could be dismissed before anyone had even read the first page. ⏰📚💙📚🎧📚🖋️ #books

New Jersey governor picks a fight with FIFA. Good. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

Virginia Woolf, more than a hundred years ago:

If you go back and watch a movie like All the Presidents's Men, it will really hit you how massively our country has changed in my lifetime. It was unthinkable for any of today's headlines to ever even exist back then. A lot of you think it's always been this bad, but it hasn't. It really hasn't.

From a fellow librarian, trustee, and patron, sending solidarity to library workers across the world on National Library Workers Day Libraries work because we do ✊️

“I can’t believe what you say because I see what you do.” — James Baldwin

Happy 89th Birthday George Takei! George Takei, born on April 20, 1937, in Los Angeles, California, is an actor, activist, and social media phenomenon who has lived one of the most remarkable lives in American entertainment. As a child, Takei and his family were forcibly relocated to Japanese...

Spike Lee at the Knicks game at MSG. #spikelee #popeleo #knicks #madisonsquaregarden

The Infowars news is funny, yes. But more importantly, it is an outright rebuke of Alex Jones' evil. It's testament to the strength and resilience of the Sandy Hook families who survived this bullshit for more than a decade as well as the Onion, which didn't give up on this for the last 18 months.

This Day in #History 1927 Actress Mae West found guilty of “obscenity and corrupting the morals of youth” in a NY stage play entitled "Sex". She is sentenced to 10 days in prison and fined $500, the resulting publicity launches her Hollywood career.

I’d like to personally thank every actor and actress from beloved media of my past that has never been problematic and are just regular decent human beings that play make believe for a living. Apparently it is far more difficult than you’d think.

Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited

I have to go to work and this is not my cat.

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Why does fiction matter? Because stories can sharpen the way we understand other people. A meta-analysis found that reading fiction has a small but positive effect on social cognition. Including our ability to interpret emotions, motives, and inner lives. ⏰📚💙📚🎧 #books #reading #fiction

People should read. I'm tired of people not reading. Please, if you can, PLEASE, read! Read everything, but especially fiction! Read comics! It will help you with empathy AND make you smarter. Please, read.

There was a time when the president inspired pride instead of exhaustion. I miss that more than I can say.

Child: I know your name. Mamdani. Obama: What’s his first name? Child: Mayor.

Happy 80th birthday to Tim Curry who has always, *always* understood the assignment.

Also why do we tolerate Presidency by social media posts?

Literally the only times I've seen Cybertrucks appear in TV shows this past year have been as a joke at the expense of whichever character is driving it.

honestly it’s hilarious that he’s trying to fight the pope and the pope is like “I don’t think about you at all”

Mark Rufalo warns Congress against the Paramount-WBD merger: "You don't have to watch 'Citizen Kane' or read '1984' to understand that the concentrated oligarchic control this merger represents is a threat to a free press, an informed populace & democracy itself." www.youtube.com/live/xETe83T...

Friends of the Sacramento Library is offering these free for AAPI month I have read so much work like this, but this might be the single most painful one because, well, everything is local. I drive through Florin often (It's now South Sacramento), SF is where my mom lives, his dad was my age when

My sister got me the greatest birthday present ever!

So the big studios are abandoning the US and turning the staff workers into contractors to get out paying for healthcare. The United States is losing one of its defining industries because of not having universal healthcare and the people are going to be even more vulnerable to the industry.

It is a profound irony when the nation under attack feels more empathy for the attacker's citizens than the attacking government itself.

“The pope should be careful before talking theology” is just extraordinary stuff. Top-shelf. You write one book that gets turned into a Ron Howard movie and suddenly you’re nailing your manifesto to the cathedral doors.

ChatGPT: you’re right you’re so much smarter than him. He’s so schlubby and you’re so suave. Columbo will never catch you.