Got a notification from a medieval copyright lawyer

a lot of very valid critiques to be made about the choices that went into this list, but posting "this list is 100% british" above a screenshot that is quite literally half works by non-British authors is just beclowning yourself

A lot of the replies + reactions to this are sad. "I don't like this book and so therefore everyone who says they do is lying" or "these are just books assigned in school that I hated" (your school assigned Juan Rulfo???) These kinds of lists are not personal attacks on your reading taste.

I maintain that this man's entire existence is elaborate performance art to call attention to the elite impunity problem in this country in the most garish way and it's still not working

The original post, which I am sure the OP below read before replying to

Washington Post in 1979: U.S. State Dept. found Israeli "abuse during interrogation of arrested Palestinians," including "refrigeration, use of electricity, hanging by the hands or feet, extreme forms of sexual sadism, interrogation accompanied by starvation, enforced sleeplessness"

Banger thread

“The DSA is harmful for the party’s electoral prospects” is the most infuriating way to defend this. Constantly reinforcing Republican messaging about radical unhinged leftists is a lot worse!

"Who answers for Rama Duwaji's apparent Spotify account?" is one of the funniest things I've ever heard

Every time you drink out of a straw you’re giving a tiny blowjob

kind of resonates with the sound of "six million is an exaggeration"

The Internet is disappearing before our very eyes and it’s why we should all support that absolutely critical work of @archive.org

The 87 genders (Broadway deep cut)

james lipton IS shia labeouf IN curtis sliwa: renegade angel

“Oh so some fella with an Irish-sounding name has gone and desecrated The Odyssey, is that it? Homer’s own Odyssey? The absolute cheek. And tis the talk of the town, is that what I understand you to be saying to me? And people very upset altogether? Sure I never heard the like in all my born days.”

Every time somebody says something like this (“there is just no such thing as a sovereign nation without secure borders”), I like to ask them what year they believe the United States became a sovereign nation.

in a way, isn’t causing men to crash out before she’s even done anything just proof that Lupita is perfect for Helen of Troy

hey john. its your cousin marvin. marvin cage! you know that new sound youve been looking for? well listen to this *hangs up phone*

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.   Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.

Will just reiterate that in the many years I covered Polis closely, he never showed particular interest in the topic of over-sentencing, nor in criminal justice reform generally. This decision would read a lot differently if Polis had any sort of record as an advocate for clemency.

Imposing real, criminal consequences for the Hegseth/Miller/Trump drug boat murders must be a top priority for the next administration. It would be a catastrophic moral failing to let them go unanswered.

The reason people keep doing crimes for Trump is that you get rewarded for doing them, congratulations to Colorado's Dem governor for making sure we get more people trying to overturn elections on his behalf bsky.app/profile/kyle...

Worth noting that most of the people who say Bluesky is dead or useless are journalists, not organizers. Bluesky has been OUTSTANDING for me as an organizer. I've raised THOUSANDS of dollars here, gotten HUNDREDS of people to actual events, gotten LOADS of people to DO POLITICAL THINGS.

So I guess all I can say is that he's careerist and has no real values when it comes to this issue. Unfortunately that's true for a lot of these people so it doesn't stand out to me.

I dislike him but not in any particularly exceptional way, he managed to be somewhat intelligent on Palestine when running in 2020 but then seems to have voluntarily lobotomized himself on the issue while acting as a Biden surrogate, then did another 180 after he Save humiliated himself on Pod Save.

Everyone I know who dislikes Buttigieg is queer 🤷

“Why are the kids a bunch of puritanical nihilists?” I dunno, could it be at all related to every adult they interact demanding absolute fealty & complete impunity while they surround the children with a technology based surveillance state that has very high consequences and no upside

New from me: Five years ago, I criticized a San Francisco TV reporter for getting her facts wrong. Ever since, she and her allies have alleged that I was part of a conspiracy to end her career. That narrative just got a boost with her new book, which is being promoted by some powerful tech people.

The media pushed Biden out for confusing the names of Zelenskyy and Putin at a press conference just like this, they called every notable Democrat in their contacts to ask “should he drop out,” but when Trump does it they say the president has strong views on the success of his recent meeting

FWIW, the New York Times replies to me earlier today (see right before this post), and I responded in this brief thread.

I am quoted several times in this piece about immigration court activism (written by a fellow volunteer!), and for that reason alone, you should read it. Because I'm pretty cool.

Every time I open Bluesky,

Alito's primary argument appears to be that there's no irreparable injury because the manufacturers could keep selling the drugs in the exact same way even without a stay, which I kind of doubt he actually believes, because if he did there'd be no reason to be upset about the stay

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Hard to imagine a more lopsided example of Bluesky left thought versus X "left" "" "thought" "" than us getting to read Bouie and people on X having to make due with Stoller

Happy one-year anniversary to the craziest sign I've ever seen in the window of a pizza shop

I am not worried software is suddenly going to decide it wants power over humanity. I am worried about what people who already have power over humanity can do with that software.

🚨 The NYT appears to have taken a great feature story written by my colleague at Bolts about a west Tennessee county & the VRA, & essentially rewritten it. (Same frame, similar hed, overlapping sources.) Without a single mention, credit, let alone the a hyperlink buried somewhere.

OMG the DOJ lawyer just said presidential power has never been "circumcised." He was trying to say "circumscribed."

Free speech culture means shut up with your criticisms or disagreements with other people’s speech. Free speech culture means students should accept, passively, without dissent, whoever the school chooses to honor with a speaker gig.

I’m a broken record, but it’s facially insane that the SCOTUS’s position is that the interest of a political party—an entity with no special constitutional protection—in gerrymandering is more important than black people’s right to vote, which we have several constitutional amendments addressing

In case you haven’t heard we are all boycotting REI until they respect the union. Please spread the word.

yes. correct.

TN eliminated only majority-Black district AL, LA eliminating majority-Black districts SC planning to oust only Black Democrat since Reconstruction MS planning to oust only Black rep GA planning special session to eliminate majority-Black districts This is what return to Jim Crow looks like

Disaster Mitigation Protip: When considering a message of contrition and promise to get help after your drunken bigoted tirade, check to see whether your handle is “TastyBrew1976”

interesting rationale from a prospective juror in the Elon Musk Twitter stock manipulation case