First they came for the universities and I did not speak out-- because I wanted them to go away. Then they came for the universities again and I did not speak out-- because surely that would be good enough. Then they came for the universities *again* and I stood up to Trump. 💪 🆘 🌮

Dreamed I was in a reading group full of zoo animals. The snake—Glen (he/hiss)—kept saying “that’s praxisss”

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors. ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart. ISILDUR: true

ORB ORB ORB ORB

Trump: "We've got a lot of stupid people in this country running things."

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

Mainstream pundits have instantly sanitized and ignored Charlie Kirk's core political project and its impacts. He has been remembered by the mainstream press as someone they merely disagreed with, a debate me-guy whose words and actions had zero consequences: www.404media.co/charlie-kirk...

Is this loss?

bottomless depravity

Incredibly on brand for Trump to ruin Woke Marxist Pope day by appointing Jeanine Pirro

I'M GONNA KEEP ON DANCIN AT THE

I keep thinking “WOKE MARXIST POPE” to the tune of Pink Pony Club

This is really the logical conclusion of like three or four cultural trends

What?

The country may be in free fall, but at least there will be less I-40 traffic, so I've got that to look forward to

🚨A U.S. born citizen was arrested in Florida for entering the state as an “unauthorized alien.” His mother and a community advocate showed his birth certificate during a hearing in Leon County. The judge said she had no authority to release him.

Fantastic thread

The US loves to run pilot programs that yield wild conclusions like 'free childcare helps families' and 'giving poor people money helps them be less poor.' Will they be implemented at the federal level? No. Will they be taken up as core, non-negotiable policy demands by the DNC? Also no.

Wishing every white supremacist excited about April 20th a very April 30th 1945

BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him. Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.

No you misunderstood. She said "fighting Law & Order." Benson and Stabler are on sight.

I…

Guy who doesn't understand how Uno works: Oh yeah, I'm holding ALL the cards!

holy shit

I once saw a tik tok that was something like "You're all Girl Dinner this, Boy Dinner that. I thought we wanted to end gender. Don't you want to end gender? ... *anyone?*" I've never been able to find the video again, but it lives rent free in my head.

It comes down to a single basic moral quandary. Which is the greater ill to society: that we have people who need help and don't get it, or that we have people who get help and don't need it? I have a firm answer based on my values. Those tearing down every last safety net have their own answer.

I have no idea what a DOGE payout is and I'm already afraid to ask

The richest men in the world have decided to undermine NC's Hurricane Helene recovery and destroy the lives and livelihoods of ordinary people doing some of the most important and humbly-compensated work being done today. www.citizen-times.com/story/news/l...

Fix your hearts or die. Happy Friday. 🩷🤍💙

there’s an alternate universe where AI products were introduced in a measured way, workers thoughtfully figured out how to integrate them into extant workflows, and reasonable leaders didn’t use them as rationale for laying people off (and legally couldn’t) unfortunately that’s not the one we’re in

No they're not. They know exactly what they're voting for: The continued dismantling of our public health system. That's what they want. You know this. Why do we have to do this playacting goldfish brain shit every time.

This would've done numbers as one of those "copy and post to your account before midnight on Friday" chains on facebook

Linda McMahon is in confirmation hearings to become Secretary of Education today Don't let her kindly, even-measured exterior fool you -- she is a loyal soldier of the American fascist agenda and will happily destroy the entire Department of Education

Nearly all Americans [ _______ ], though most dislike it, poll shows

If I won the lottery, I wouldn't tell anyone, but there would be signs.

Kelly Stonelake is suing Meta for what she describes as a culture of sexism, harassment, and retaliation for speaking out. I wrote about her case which will feel relatable for anyone who’s tried to speak truth to power. lyz.substack.com/p/a-woman-is...

Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place advait.org/files/lee_20...

These are their stories. *Donk* *Donk*

Kendrick Lamar's Superbowl performance is why funding arts and humanities matters. We have Kendrick because his teacher introduced him to poetry and writing.

I somehow got on a spam mailing list for prostate remedies and they send emails with the wildest subject lines like "dribbling | pee red juice ~instantly~ *DISSOLVES* painful prostate blockage" and " prostate cloG PISS like a race ~horse"

NEW: An internal email obtained by WIRED from a threat intelligence team monitoring US Treasury systems advised labeling DOGE operatives an "insider threat," adding that it recommended suspending their access "immediately." | www.wired.com/story/treasu...

I bet doom scroll meant something way cooler in the middle ages.

Re-upping this. We need experts in media literacy & stewards of the freedom to read now more than ever.

INSECT DESTROYER GUN (1899)

This is the most important story in the United States right now. www.wired.com/story/treasu...

New — I did a brief history of the ‘Fork in the Road’ email to show how Musk screwed up by treating federal workers like fucking idiots, and how the pressure to resign is about breaking morale more than culling the workforce.

NEW: A Harris campaign organizer says senior officials ordered them to erase voters who asked about Gaza—marking emails as “no response” so they’d be removed from outreach. No engagement, no persuasion, just ignored. “The only clowns are the ones who decided to abdicate on this.”