Golly this makes me want to give the SPLC money.

However, to avoid lawsuits stemming from the certainty of AI hallucination, the hologram agent will answer every question with: "the moving walkway is coming to an end, please watch your step."

The WaPo editorial board when Republicans gerrymander in Texas versus when Democrats gerrymander in Virginia.

really good piece here as AI capacity increases, its potential for use in stealing other people's labor increases right alongside it theamericanscholar.org/who-is-blake...

Just bought a blue canary for the outlet by the light switch!

Does anyone feel safer now

"Supposing we hit the body with a tremendous—whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful light....Supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way....And then I see the disinfectant...by injection inside or almost a cleaning."

What idiot called it AI psychosis and not Son of Sam Altman

Good reminder that the digital devices you "own" are never truly yours.

too on the nose...

It is hard to capture what a sweeping strategic defeat the war in Iran has been for the United States. I’m going to thread here some of the posts today that try to capture those effects. Here’s the first:

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

"THEN they vote MF'er riiiiight back in"

Republican lawmakers in Florida are about to pass a bill designed to suppress turnout on on university and college campuses. The legislation (HB 991) would stop university students from using their student IDs as identification when they show up at their polling place to vote.

In addition to making it illegal for trained and compassion facilitators to discuss race in college classrooms, they are baiting young white men into hating everyone who's different than them.

These guys are going out of their way to ruin their own accomplishment. It’s amazing.

Donald Trump killed two of my constituents. He is a liar and should be ashamed of himself.

Unlike other US Olympians speaking out against the Trump regime, Team USA's men’s hockey players chose to praise the president, write @edgeofsports.bsky.social and @julesboykoff.bsky.social. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

‘We’re just one Epstein story away from Trump announcing that UFOs are real’ - Seth Meyers, 25 July 2025

when you're a size 8 but the 10 was on sale

A good example of how crazy it is that dynamic pricing is legal.

If you see people being dragged off the streets and sidewalks into vans and SUVs by heavily armed masked men this weekend in Miami, not to worry...it's just the US Government at work.

UC faculty and the @aaup.org demand the end of mandatory surveillance software use across the UC system. The future belongs to people, not to big brother! www.science.org/content/arti...

House Democrats Demand Answers About ICE Targeting of K-12 Students for Deportation Trump's “ICE is using your tax dollars to target children,” said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Nearly 2,350 kids have been brought into immigration detention since Trump-2. www.commondreams.org/news/ice-tar...

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

Van Hollen: "Those who cave in -- those like ABC who cave in -- what they do is give the bully an even bigger appetite. When they appease they bully, they put all of us at risk."

This man will not be fired for calling for the murder of American citizens, yet multiple journalists/reporters/teachers lost their job for accurately reporting things Charlie Kirk actually said and stood for. But it’s the “violent left” that’s the problem

This is wonderfully promising for reducing the costs, energy consumption, and CO2 emissions associated with air conditioning! www.nrel.gov/news/detail/...

If trump needed actual medical care he’d be better off with Conan O’Brien’s doctor than Ronny Jackson

“Kirk & I were on different sides of most political arguments. We were on the same side of the continued possibility of American politics.” So it’s personal? B/c if you were a Black woman or transgender, Kirk would not imagine you having any role in the future of American politics.

A threat to authoritarianism anywhere is a threat to authoritarianism everywhere

The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

Casar: "Look, when Donald Trump said first this didn't exist, and then we found it, and now he's saying he didn't sign it -- his signature looks just like his own signature -- it's like the bank robber who who's caught with a bag full of cash and says 'I'm not the one who robbed the bank.'"

What do the clinic trials say about prayer as an effective prevention measure for communicable diseases?

I want to live in a state where the Health Department and Surgeon General aren't the biggest risks to my health and well-being.

The lack of mainstream coverage of regular huge protests reminds me of a talk from a Twitter employees who explained that they had to drop BLM off the Trending Tags section because otherwise it would have been there permanently. The modern media environment has no appetite for sustained movements.

The only silver lining of a potential JD Vance presidency is that he is so thoroughly uncharismatic and unlikable - even among R voters – that his war crimes would land him in jail in no time

I really resent my tax dollars being spent on this

Pentagon officials fume over Trump's Department of War rebrand.

A non-trivial faction of his base is isolationist. Hopefully they can form a coalition with another non-trivial faction of his base that’s anti-sexual predator.

I used to think the people who truly held the purse strings in this country would realize Trump is bad for business and cut him loose. How quickly they fall in line.

Oh my god, Trump actually got the NRA to come out to defend trans people owning a gun.

Gov. DeSantis and FL Surgeon Gen. Ladapo are attempting to remove statewide childhood vaccination mandates. This will result in needless suffering and death among children and families in Florida. Please consider contacting your state representatives to push back against this callous proposition.

Good on Florida Memorial. Makes me sad that #FIU rolled over ( #PawsUp) without a fight when Jeanette Nunez was appointed president last year.

we really do need to figure out how this guy managed to create an environment where he can say "i wasted an amount of taxpayer dollars so large I can't even tell you how much it was" & it doesn't cause immediate national outrage

It’s time to fight! Become a member of @aaup.org or your local union and let’s build power and get ready to rumble!!

“How bad slavery was”.

The judge ruled that 20 banned books had no legitimate basis for being banned and makes it easier to sue when books are banned