Erin Holt Sandoval, who helped organize today’s student walkouts, said her mother is from Chile and lived under Augusto Pinochet. “She’s sad because [Donald Trump] is her second fascist dictator.” (Video by The Tribune’s Rick Egan) Read more here: www.sltrib.com/news/educati...

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The California State University system spent $16.9 million last year giving ChatGPT to all students, faculty, and staff. We are asking the CSU chancellor not to renew the contract with OpenAI when it expires. Anyone can sign the petition — link below!

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Tort still chilling in the leaf pile

This is happening right now. Money going in a circle and they're gonna use your tax money to bail it out. Basically they're all Musk now. They know they don't have a product to sell so they wait for the fed tax money to make themselves rich(er). In this case it's the bail out.

Wanna hear something crazy? The federal budget allocates three times the funding for ICE than for the United States Marine Corps.

2011 to 2026

Wolf Hall!

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

cat turkey mixer

Callie, so poised

update: male loneliness epidemic solved

Introduce yourself with: One book 📚 One movie 🎥 One album 💿 One TV show 📺

Smoky the dog!

I'm so old, I remember when cars had colors glennmercer.substack.com/p/fade-to-gray

counterpoint: shut the fuck up

Once again: DST doesn’t solve the problem of going to/from work in the dark. Instead, when days get shorter in the fall, we should just shorten the workday by an hour. Then in spring, when we start getting more daylight again, we can shorten the workday by another hour.

“how are we gonna explain to our kids that trans people exist” how am I going to explain to mine that people like you exist

A Tale of Two Torties

Look at this little Rory Calhoun 😍

I would really, REALLY like people in positions of power and influence to push back on the idea that the government should be run like a business. It’s not a business! Its purpose is not to make money, it is to ensure the general welfare of its people!

Fresh picked dandelion and mallow for Tort today.

Just started my annual at least once listen #October

Since going into effect on April 1, California’s $20 fast-food minimum wage has not led to overall job losses as industry groups had warned, a study by UC researchers found. (via California Sun) www.kqed.org/news/1200715...

My two tortoises

I think that rich people and corporations should pay taxes.

Immigration is an unalloyed good, at all socioeconomic and educational levels. We should have a lot more of it. We could absorb the entire populations of El Salvador and Honduras into the United States without blinking if we wanted to.

I love my honda fit!

Show me picture in your phone that has your energy, not a selfie

mayan figure from 1600 yrs ago, with accessories. earliest lego guy

Oh. Is this why the GOP wants to pass the SAVE act so bad? To be able to prevent women from voting? Especially women in blue states? newrepublic.com/article/1861...

The tortoise in the Friday afternoon soak

Lmaoo the NCGOP is doubling down and backing up Robinson. Really telling on yourself calling it "personality contest" when one candidate is a self-professed Nazi

The replacement of the amazingly functional minivan by the far less useful--and much more expensive, dangerous to others, and climate-unfriendly--4' or 6' bed pickup truck is a big, infuriating failure of both culture and policy. (Gift link)

"Writing in a forum discussing Black Republican...Robinson stated unprovoked: “I’m a black NAZI!” ...That same month, Robinson wrote...“Slavery is not bad. Some people need to be slaves. I wish they would bring it (slavery) back. I would certainly buy a few,” he wrote." www.cnn.com/2024/09/19/p...

Well, well. The Heritage Foundation somehow added me to their mailing lists and wants me, their "Fellow Patriot", to take a survey that they'll use to form policy? It'd be a shame if the link for that got out into the wild, wouldn't it? secured.heritage.org/annual-suppo...

That is, in response to the Robinson news, Democrats shouldn't be doing anything other than saying loudly & clearly that being trans is not shameful and that trying to use this as a "scandal" to push him out is just more anti-trans and anti-otherwise-LGBTQIA+ bigotry from republicans; because it is.

I worked for a fly by night long distance phone company founded by a convicted drug trafficker. We couldn't operate in our home state due to shady biz practices. We never made any kind of profit, and the top 3 execs all made million dollar salaries. Finally went chapter 7.