Virginia's legislative session only started yesterday, and it was a very big day. The House already passed four constitutional amendments on Day 1: —protect abortion rights —repeal the same-sex marriage ban —allow mid-decade redistricting —greatly expand voting rights restoration. Next: Senate.

Just guessing here, but I suspect the White House is pushing so hard for wars of conquest on multiple fronts because they see their support collapsing ahead of the midterms and worry they won't get another shot. An example of how tyrants become more dangerous as they get weaker, not less.

What fresh hell is this? He's supposed to be a lame duck. Instead he's being worse than lame. theriver953.com/virginia-bec...

Timeline cleanse. Watch and be inspired. 🍊🍋

Says billionaire whose company’s GPUs are literally the brain of Grok the rape bot

you need to fire the expensive ivy league consultants who've been telling you that no one cares about unaccountable federal agents kidnapping and shooting people in the street

Be mad. Be enraged. But don’t act shocked.

Frey: "You cannot drag pregnant women through the snow. You're not allowed to take teenagers out of their car and detain them when they are in fact American citizens. That is against the law in every state. That is against our US Constitution."

It's obvious stuff, but we must remember that if Americans had elected Kamala Harris, none of this would be happening right now. Keep that in mind when you vote in the midterms.

Books don't turn kids into someone else. Books show them they don't have to deny who they really are.

I'M NOT, IT MAKES ME SICK!!!

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Spotted:

When Vance insists, contra the videos, that Good threatened the ICE agent and "had it coming", what he means is that he, like Ross, feels threatened by any woman who has the audacity to use her voice in the public sphere. This deeply misogynist worldview is core to MAGA.

He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.

AOC: What we saw today was a criminal murder a woman while she was trying to flee for her life. What we saw today was a manifestation of every American’s worst nightmare: their government turning into a tyranny.

Never forget. 🇺🇸

trump did january 6th. republicans did january 6th. violent traitors did january 6th. they stormed the capitol, destroyed the building and threatened to kill members of congress. ashli babbitt was a violent insurrectionist. the capitol police protected people. these are truths we need to repeat.

Five years ago today, Donald Trump incited a violent insurrection to overturn the results of a free and fair election he lost. Calling it anything else is a lie. (1/2)

Pretty fucking wild to see people in January 2026 whining about “vote scolding” to defend people who couldn’t get off their ass to vote against Trump. Whatever they thought of Harris, they can never honestly answer whether the world would be better if she’d won (lol of fucking course it would).

Plain and simple my politics is that nobody should be wealthy enough to make their insecurities my problem.

One thing just keeps going through my mind. “WE FUCKING TOLD YOU!”

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Who does it better? Ohio, Florida or Texas? And by better, I mean dumber. www.cleveland.com/open/2026/01...

Life has come full circle when saving files on an external hard drive is now labeled DIY. ROFLMAO. 😭 www.cnet.com/tech/service...

just so it's clear: this is the exact core function of genAI Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism. Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)

Thank you! I feel conspiratorial telling everyone I can that it's about control. Seems obvious to me, but even lefties are like, 'derp, I need help writing my pointless emails'

It has been a truly upsetting revelation how many people who I thought cared about disinformation, advocating for science, etc just flipped in 0.002 microseconds after a tech company programmed a chatbot to tell them how great their questions are

It's just a bullshit product designed to fuck everyone over except the billionaires. Stop using it.

Every outlet that took Trump's claim to not be associated with Project 2025 at face value should be ashamed. Ideally, everyone involved should be fired. The man is a known liar. Assume whatever he says is a lie until proven otherwise. www.salon.com/2025/12/31/p...

Samantha Fulnecky failed an assignment because she didn't do the work. After claims of religious discrimination, her college caved. Two Florida Republicans now want to make the Fulnecky defense a statewide law. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/can-studen...

To all Americans, We warned Project 2025 was real. We warned they would attack women. We warned immigrants were in danger. We warned he’d destroy science. We warned he’d destroy education. We warned he’d rob us. And we are warning Trump will attack ordinary citizens with this bill. Enough. 🗣️

Rather than FIX WHAT'S BROKEN, Microsoft has decided to double down on obnoxious bloatware. They've made Edge even more annoying when installing Chrome. www.slashgear.com/2060490/micr...

We are expending a vast amount of energy trying to find reasons to adopt a product in spite of a significant body of evidence showing that it‘s impact on education & research is extremely malign. We shouldn‘t have to waste that energy.

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Putting this one on repeat www.ru.nl/en/research/...

I saw an academic unironically suggest that instead of assessing students’ understanding and competence through their writing of essays, arguments etc., we can assess the “quality” of their prompts, and I feel us slipping further and further into dystopia.

Ive tried really hard, online, in person, going to "town halls" on gAI and speaking up, and its all gone nowhere.

Maybe, if you're not actually in university classrooms, teaching students in the age of gAI, perhaps you might want to stop and listen when people actually in those classrooms raise concerns about what they are seeing; and not just dismiss us as luddites, or boomers, or cruel profs playing cops

Im profoundly committed to access as care, access as process. Some of you need to understand that since chatGPT etc have entered the fray, many profs are seeing truly detrimental effects on students' engagement, learning and community. Caring about that isn't ableist/being a cop/technophobic.

Solution for Medicare is elimination of the For Profit Health Insurance Industry. The drive for constant record profits at the expense of human lives is fucking abominable. Every other Industrialized nation has figured out healthcare except for US.

Read this thread and when you’re done, read it again.

Most of us have given up on all the shit we "asked" them to do in 2020 and literally now just ask to be left alone, and they see THAT as a challenge and an insult. Like fucking hell. "Apologize"? I know it's for a distraction but Jesus Christ JD

💯 White people who shut down their brain the moment they feel horror at white history never think about the topic long enough to understand it. They know they hate the horror & want to avoid it so they start to associate anyone who brings up the topic as “attacking” them. Lazy & an endless loop.

Trump talking about a third term should disqualify him from being president because he's telling us he won't abide by term limits mandated by the constitution which no president can change

Genuine kindness is pretty durn sexy. The rest is icing.

Another example of oligarchy propaganda telling us to work until we drop dead.