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Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social it’s not weird but it’s delightfully earnest and charming and I’m bringing this energy into the week.

Like the idea that Industrialization was a good time that people uniformly enjoyed as it was happening is nuts, benefits did not trickle down for nearly 100 years and it sparked massive political and economic instability.

One aspect of the accelerating "pivot to a total scam economy" situation we've been in for a number of years now

“Even if you stopped climate change today, New Orleans’s days are still numbered,” he added. “It will be surrounded by open water, and you can’t keep an island situated below sea level afloat. There’s no amount of money that can do that.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

This is the University of Central Florida. So many people really have no idea how much kids hate this shit.

Saw a headline involving chatgpt.. too nauseating, horrifying to repost

I knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment | Micah Nathan

I don't have a mom anymore, so I gave a gift to someone else's mom. Love this cause.

not to distract from the main point, but as an additional example: one of the first "disasters" declared by congress was compensation to slavers fleeing the Haitian revolution

A wonderful sentence from this story, describing the video of the man who threw a rock at a seal for no reason getting beat up by a local: "Meanwhile, an unidentified gentleman begins wailing on him."

unfortunately, kim il sung's clothes hang a lot better

They dared to dream of undoing the 20th century. It’s inspiration in the most perverse way. badfaithtimes.com/the-american...

weird al gore vidal session weird sassoon for short

MTG is a fascist Christian nationalist lunatic who is right about the Epstein files and betting on Trump's declining health.

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One of your main takeaways from daily episodes like this should be: "your" local/state police, whom you fund with your taxes, absolutely will NOT protect your basic rights from RW goons, not one bit. Even if your elected reps want them to, they feel they have zero control over law enforcement.

"Let me be clear, this is not a golden calf", oh okay then, no follow up questions to you bringing that up, I'm sure that everything you say is in good faith

the US regime “has laid all the track and foundations it needs in order to justify whatever it intends to do to any of us who naysay the rise of our fascist, authoritarian state” i am ‘radically pro-transgender’

Brazil: "Researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil have discovered that high-frequency ultrasound waves similar to those used in medical exams can eliminate viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 and H1N1 without damaging human cells."

The Pentagon wants an easy-out to protect themselves from accountability for killing non-combatants who pose no threat to them. They don't want to spend a second assessing the threat because the life of an innocent means nothing to them. The policy is wrong - the act is worse.

Discourse about finding "the Rogan of the Left" or "the liberal answer to Fox News" rarely accounts for the reality that the entire conservative media universe is the enormously unprofitable vanity project of a few rich sociopaths. It "succeeds" because they don't care how much it costs.

Gotta admit, my first reaction was "lmao ayfkm this is the only social media site where more than a trivial number of users actually read books." "Did you buy any books last year" is probably the one and only consumer behavior question where a majority of users here have the same answer.

the White House menu today as administration officials brag about kicking 4.5 million Americans off food stamps and gas is over $4.50 a gallon -- Caprese salad -- Chicken Paillard -- Vanilla panna cotta (Kevin Dietsch/Getty)

"As our constitutions are superior to our legislatures, so the people are superior to our constitutions."

Black people are giving it these Confederates raw and uncut. This is how it’s gonna be now. You wonder what we’re thinking? It’s this. I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.

Feels like the TL would be significantly improved if someone would drop in adult swim bumps like it was 2am in 2005

The entire embedded thread is worthwhile as well

My entire lifetime has seen Republicans benefit from every structural bias in the system: two republican presidents elected while losing the popular vote,the senate being biased towards small rural conservative states,house and state legislatures being heavily gerrymandered, and a captured SCOTUS.

just ignore the courts. republicans do it all the time.

One side is like “can we disenfranchise all the Black voters by this weekend” and the other is like gotta follow the rules that govern the rules that control the rulebook

John Roberts is one of the most successful proponents of white supremacist power in US history. It's every decent person's job to destroy his legacy.

the end to this entire fucking mess that I am going to manifest is that they all draw their little Slightly Less Red Districts and then furious people crash over them in a wave. folks are mad now, and we're not even REALLY feeling the full impact of Iran yet. they are flirting with chaos.

yes. change the statute on which this decision turned and redistrict according to the legitimacy conferred by the people of the state

Art of the ancient Americas may not be your thing, but you have to love this earthenware crab vessel. I'm sorry, I don't make the rules. 🦀 This is going into our imaginary museum replica store, pronto. #LACMA Colombia, Calima style, Ilama period, ca. 1500 BCE-100 CE. 🏺 1/ 📸 me

You can't "earn" a billion dollars and none of their examples did. Michael Jordan earned $93m playing basketball. He's worth $3.5b today because of our meticulously-engineered legal, economic, and tax structures that prioritize accumulated capital and property over everything else.

The dumbest thing about this "we need to teach kids A.I. in school to prepare them for the future" shit is that, even if you believe that is necessary or good (it's not), the whole interface of LLMs is natural language. The only way to be "good" at using AI is to be good at... reading & writing.

I'm developing a pavlovian rage response to the word "disappointed" that implies you had high expectations which weren't met, and it conveys resigned acceptance. if you are a Dem still using "disappointed" to talk about Republicans in 2026, you have lost the plot entirely

Turns out college drop out DOGE bros put in charge of cancelling humanities grants violated both the law and the First Amendment by asking ChatGPT to tell them why it was okay to cancel grants for being "DEI"

Thin Blue Line bumper stickers, the de facto disenfranchisement of southern black voters, and the president calling any black/PoC female politician who opposes him "low IQ" are diverse expressions of the exact same political force. (Some of the sticker sporters may be expressing it unconsciously.)

WATCH: Sen. John Stevens LAUGHED AT by the gallery when he blatantly lies to Sen. london lamar that he doesn’t know MEMPHIS, where he went to school, is majority Black. Sacrificing his integrity at the altar of Trump as they strip Memphis of representation. Aren’t there Bible verses about lying?🤥

I am begging a democrat to run for president saying word for word “these people are fucking freaks and my cabinet will be made up of normal fucking people”

I tried to warn everyone what the Roberts Court was about almost ten years ago www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

John Roberts, Amy Coney Barrett, and Neil Gorsuch all offering public assurances about how 'the Court is really not partisan at all actually!!' in the span of a week..... did a memo go around? was it titled "RE: Avoiding Court Reform" ? ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/john-...

now thats an anecdote with a punch, from Gillian Tett www.ft.com/content/c0ae...

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labour's anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies will never win them any votes, because "the UK's problems are caused by immigrants" is both a fundamentally incorrect idea and trivial to outflank on the right. "well, we'll be twice as tough on immigrants then. vote reform"