i think that he is telling the truth about the agreement and knows that the government has literally no intention of abiding by it

A judge just tossed out Columbia University's disciplinary actions against 22 students over the 2024 Hamilton Hall occupation, finding the school relied on sealed arrest records and held individuals responsible for group actions, violating its own rules. iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/Documen...

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New — I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:

the sentiment that everything is getting worse used to skew more to older people but these days it's broken generational containment, because everything is undeniably getting worse

ICE is all over TN right now, kidnapping people off roads and construction sites. Nashville's seen the most visible pushback from citizens, but it's getting essentially zero media play. Johnson City has seen a surge in the past two weeks. Today it looks like they're pushing in Chatanooga.

Ward 1 Councilman Ashby Foote was the lone vote against RaShall Brackney’s confirmation. “She’s much too educated and too charming to be police chief,” Mississippi Today reported him saying after voting against her.

Please pay attention. This is a horrible situation and it's going to do tremendous damage. Any fighting back, any help you can give, NOW IS THE FUCKING TIME TO DO IT.

Looking for a way to stand up for trans people today? Here's something you can do RIGHT NOW: Take ten minutes to get on the phone and help stop this violent, dangerous bill. The linked post has all the resources you need to make that call. Go go go

So the AI was wrong *and* racist. Hurray! Let's force it into everything!

Aw, man. First, no Mars. Now, no moon? 😞

We don’t do AI images, but we post this as a warning about the use of AI phalluses. That’s putting an artist out of a job, that is.

I've not been on socials much these days. But I'm very proud of this little movie - in particular because of the utterly spectacular performances of Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel. It was a small film, written and shot on spec. It opens in NY and LA April 10. www.indiewire.com/news/trailer...

An 18-year-old San Jose man was arrested and charged after authorities discovered a cache of ghost guns allegedly manufactured in his bedroom using a 3D printer.

Cover of The Lancet: @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Good source protection from Benny here.

I hope the next D POTUS appoints an army of antitrust attorneys to wield the Sherman Act like a sledgehammer

relatedly you should all turn off all push notifications on your phone for anything that's not urgent work/personal stuff. News push notifications are (at best) a distraction and nuisance

Correct. Still true today of the parasocial relationships people have with YouTubers and podcasters! bsky.app/profile/amat...

(the reason it was so valuable is that the cognitive load of driving, especially driving in congestion, lowers people's defenses and makes them more susceptible to dubious but emotionally satisfying claims, combined with the ephemeral nature of live radio)

A thing I strongly believe, but that was only obvious in retrospect, was that drive-time talk radio was the most valuable propaganda platform in history and a big reason we got into this mess we're in now was because conservatives dominated it in the 1990s and 2000s

I think @normative.bsky.social made this point yesterday, but once you get beyond the outrage of the brutality of the original “arrest” here, you also have to confront the fact that a D.A. CHOSE TO PROSECUTE THIS and a judge SENTENCED HIM TO A YEAR IN JAIL. Total system fail. WTF

In a year Trump has converted cabinet positions into little dukedoms, where you don’t do any real work but are rewarded with luxury jets and exotic vacations and VIP accommodations at major events, partying with the stars.

This is not a fake narrative being peddled by leftists in the media. It is exactly what Anthropic is saying. They aren’t prepared to give up on these 2 conditions and are willing to put their $200 million contract at risk over it. All Hegseth can say is, ‘Trust me, bro.’

i actually think this is the wrong way to think about the direction this is going. fox news is the default channel in many public spaces — most troublingly, us military bases, has been for decades. this was not a matter of policy afaik, it just slid into place. it's not hard to lock it in as policy.

“The court is not aware of another occasion in the history of the US in which a federal court has had to threaten contempt—again & again & again—to force the US govt. to comply with court orders” *210* violations of court orders in MN alone according to Reagan-appointed judge x.com/rparloff/sta...

i cannot stop thinking about this man, who survived the Rohingya genocide but couldn’t survive border patrol. “He died trying to get home” is a gut punch

Credit where it's due, first Democratic senator I've seen talk about it.

It Came From Neverland is available June 9

imo the threat posed by CBS News and CNN getting absorbed by pro-regime billionaires isn't that they're going to produce right-wing slop that convinces people to be right-wing, it's the dismantling of newsrooms capable of doing investigative reporting on the administration. Fewer eyes on the street.

They dropped off Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a blind refugee who didn't speak English, at a CLOSED Tim Hortons. 5 miles away from his home. He never made it. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

SCOOP: Noem's DHS has acquired at least NINE new jets in recent weeks, with another one on the way. Half are luxury jets. gillianbrockell.ghost.io/noems-luxury...

That story is why I voted for her to be governor, her with a box of narcan on her front seat driving hours and hours to some small town in rural Maine because it might help one person. That she never takes no for an answer when the right thing needs doing, that she always finds the way.

he refused to distribute the Narcan Janet Mills had bought. So she delivered it, herself, every weekend she'd put a box in her personal car and drive by herself across the state delivering life saving drugs to fire houses all over this big state.

here's a little story. Janet Mills won a big settlement against drug companies as part of the opioid crisis and used it to buy Narcan, enough for every fire station and police department in the state. Republican Paul LePage said Narcan just encouraged drug use and people should die,

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Toronto, February 2026.

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

If you're not a hockey person, what happened here is that one of the MAGA-est dudes in the NHL just got used and embarrassed by Trump because no amount of kissing Trump's ass is enough to make him respect you or hesitate to humiliate you for his own entertainment.

Everyone who adores Trump signed up for other people to be humiliated and abused and they always manage to be shocked when they end up being humiliated and abused

Fed. judge has scheduled a "combined contempt hearing" related to 26 Minnesota immigration habeas cases where the gov't is alleged to have violated court orders to return the personal property of people who were unlawfully detained. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

the consolidation of major media institutions by the president’s oligarch friends is obviously bad, but i do wonder about the ultimate impact. it is clear that trump and his allies believe that you can buy up media and pull an orban or a putin. but…

Hillary Clinton could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and do nothing, and maga would say she shot somebody.

10 Senate Dems joined in confirming the latest Trump nominee Cantwell Fetterman Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Rosen Schatz Warner Welch www.senate.gov/legislative/...

the most notable part of the far right buying up legacy news media is that liberals generally always trusted legacy media far more, aside from places like fox news. the downstream effect of this, maybe intentionally, is to have more people distrust media. misinformation will spread easier

Musical genius and humanitarian Dolly Parton announces that the East Tennessee Children's Hospital has officially been renamed the Dolly Parton Children's Hospital 🦋 people.com/dolly-parton...

The Conference of Catholic Bishops is... not playing around in this brief. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

If the DMV said “you have one year to get a new license; here’s how to do it for free” it would still be shitty and discriminatory. But to have your license invalidated OVERNIGHT is absolutely malicious.

First workout after being off sick and halfway through all I could think about was getting to the shower at the end to try and drain the concrete snot congestion. Was planning to do some more work but am instead hitting the hay for a bit. Still lightly stuffed up as shower didn’t move anything. 😐