Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

sure gas is headed to $8/gallon but at least cornell got rid of their gender studies classes. or at least i think they did, i haven’t checked and if im being honest i wouldnt really know if they had or hadnt because it doesnt affect me but it makes $8/gallon gas all worth it

The Pike’s Peak Humane Society has a social media manager who is very good at their job

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.

Jesus. Did that sergeant at arms walk there directly from the Pettus Bridge? The hair, the whole look, everything. Make the photo B&W, and you wouldn't know if it was 2026 or 1965. And the reasons are the same. And the fight's the same. Confederacy and Jim Crow lost before. They'll lose again.

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

This is an amazing video.

Jon Oringer, founder and executive chairman of Shutterstock @shutterstock.com, is trying to recruit comic and graphic novel creators over on LinkedIn to a new AI platform that he’s building. Feel free to let him (and them) know what you think of this, and never use Shutterstock again ✌🏻

Last night, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee quietly slipped $1 billion in funding for Trump’s ballroom boondoggle into their reconciliation bill, as part of a $72 billion package dominated by ICE funding. Republicans in Congress plan to pass this bill without a single Democratic vote.

The Russian government is charging and convicting LGBTQ people of "extremism" solely for advocating for their right to exist in Russia. This is a preview of what the right wants to do here in the US. www.unclosetedmedia.com/p/under-new-...

Jeff Bezos could’ve done what several other wealthy newspaper owners have done — turn the Post into a nonprofit and provide it a sizable endowment. Instead he did shit like this ⤵️

"If you're a Democrat who can't decide between people and corporations, my humble suggestion is to get the f*ck out of the party." @mehdirhasan.bsky.social and @benmckenzie.bsky.social discuss the influence of the cryptocurrency lobby on the Democratic Party. Watch here: zeteo.com/p/ben-mckenz...

i see a horse has won the kentucky derby again. this is beginning to feel rigged

If a governor cancels elections within 24 hours of being given permission to draw new districts to eliminate Black voting power, is that enough for a headline to call it "racist" or is it still "racially charged" and "racially tinged" and "what some suggest is racially motivated"

This is how the United States Department of Justice writes now.

It clarifies the stakes tremendously to note how these loser authoritarians are acting on every front they can to strip people and organizations of the ability to stand against them.

Sounds like a guy you should have a dinner with celebrating the First Amendment.

Every day I watch the tech industry build The Boot On the Neck Of Humanity Machine and watch universities say “we are going to sustainably and ethically prepare our students to become innovators in The Boot On The Neck Of Humanity Machine space”

Pour one out for the Hilton staff who are working perhaps the worst shift in food service history rn.

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They think you're stupid.

I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals

Hey! Less than $500 and two days to go for this campaign. LET'S GET IT FUNDED, Y'ALL!!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/dea...

Trump started an illegal war where 13 service members and many Iranian schoolgirls died Gas and grocery prices are through the roof We can’t afford to pay rent or buy health insurance And ICE is killing people in the streets Changes at the federal level are long overdue Vote YES, Virginia

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

It’s finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for.

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

I misread the headline as one movie and got very excited for a moment…

there are real switching costs in both money and time for folks to move their newsletters off substack. in some cases, they may be substantial! it was a hassle for me, i'm sympathetic. but man, this is bleak, and i'm glad i got outta there.

It’s profoundly ignorant to suggest that the Pope should be fighting crime on behalf of the Catholic Church. Anyone who was remotely familiar with Roman Catholicism would know that that’s what Daredevil is for

You should turn off message content in your notification settings. No real point in using an end to end encrypted app if people can just read the push notification.

Happy Surrender and Freedom Day! On April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant and the Army of the Potomac. home.nps.gov/apco/planyou...

This is a big misunderstanding. During this ceasefire I’m still allowed to kill you and your allies. You allow us gasoline so our country can continue operating. I am good at diplomacy and widely viewed as the serious one.

"AI is garbage, bro, it gives you wrong answers like half the time and the other half the time makes you stupid." Overheard a middle schooler chastising a fellow student for suggesting they use AI. Whole middle school herd started mocking the AI kid. ...We need to let these kids at the tech bros.

We won’t really feel alive and full of relief until we see tomorrow morning’s story about a new Kalshi account called “whitepwr_wifeleftme69” who signed up at 4 PM today and made $6 million

There's hope for our people I think. The Romans used to terrorize the world and now they just make delicious food. Maybe we'll have a non-evil thing someday too

We didn't deserve this day.

You don’t need to think prior U.S. administrations have clean hands—obviously they don’t—to believe the current one is acting in uniquely dangerous and unprecedented ways.

BREAKING: Trump announces two week window for Congress to remove him from office

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

What was normalized in Gaza will have lasting effects on the entire world. It was a signal to the worst of humanity that they can get away with even livestreamed genocide. And we see that very genocide expanding today, and Trump joining in not under cover like Biden, but front & center.

yeah man i'll circle back to you on that agenda item from yesterday's all hands in just a sec. our pedophile king just threatened to destroy a whole civilization

you have to get him out of office and you have to do it today even if it gets blocked you force an impeachment vote right now how else can you live with yourself if he follows through with this and you didn’t do everything you could to stop it

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

Under international law, "genocide" is such a fraught term because it requires showing 'dolus specialis,' or proof that perpetrators specifically aimed to destroy a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. Trump or someone on Trump's team intentionally crafted this to meet that standard.

people split hairs about the genocide classification all the time, but Trump unambiguously wrote down his intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national group, and then he broadcast it out