"criticizing AI use in journalism or other creative industries is classist" NO IT IS NOT there is a class that benefits enormously from cognitive surrender, epistemic warfare, and the enclosure of all hitherto produced culture and it is NOT THE WORKING CLASS

This is someone who has never created anything for or by themselves. You can always clock that shit a mile away. It's really not hard to learn Photoshop or Illustrator. You're just a lazy asshole and a hack

Desktop publishing and autotune never infringed on copyrighted material on the scale that AI has. A convenient omission, and comparing apples to oranges

Extremely strong and good response

Solstice Blessings!! Happy days of Summer

We gave Iran a massive concession they want very badly up front in advance in exchange for a promise to allow inspectors in again with zero specifics about when, how, or what sites they will be allowed to see. This is insanity.

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Anyone who’s seen the lock ness monster is a witnessy

Some people have it Some people don’t … The Barack Obama Presidential Center Reflecting Pond

Starting out worse than the Vasa for Sweden #sweden #worldcup

noticing a lot of people forgot what our greatest modern philosopher said about patriotism

This should be deeply embarrassing for the NYC City council. Paying interns would be one of the easiest and cheapest "lead by example" things that Council could do on equal access and living wages. Who can afford to do an unpaid internship for the summer? (not poor folk!)

seems corrupt, @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social

Spotted in the reflecting pool

Volume II of Jack Smith's final report detailing Trump's shocking misconduct in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case is being wrongly withheld from the public We @democracydefendersaction.org & with Platkin LLP filed this brief for 10 US Senators We will help pop Vol. II loose for all to see

Iran is now busy clarifying its "fee structure" for passage through Hormuz. The key point of reference is this: before Trump's MoU, none of these "fees" existed. www.ft.com/content/e106...

Black soldiers fought for their own freedom in the Civil War and played a pivotal role in freeing the enslaved people of Texas on Juneteenth. Learn more by reading this National Geographic article. www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...

📜 In recognition of #Juneteenth today, we’re sharing scans of General Order No. 3, the document that informed enslaved people in Texas that they were free on June 19, 1865, carrying out the Federal Government’s final execution of emancipation ⤵️ archive.org/details/gene... #Archives #BlackHistory

Happy Juneteenth, frens!

Did the New York Times just BOTH SIDES Ken Paxton's sweetheart deal for a child sex predator. Yes, yes it did.

The NYT never misses an opportunity to be the guy in the hot dog costume. Trump is a deranged, amoral monster, but he is an amoral monster that serves the same masters as media outlets like the NYT. He doesn’t have to manipulate anyone in the media. They’re in on it.

In capitalist America if you are poor but tell the government you're slightly more poor than you are you go to prison but if you are rich and you are in the government you can just rob poor people and the consequence is you get to be in the government more

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This is of course how we got to the Iran war in the first place. The US GOP identifies with the Israeli far-right narrative and adopted it wholesale and mirrored it and then Trump had to face reality and it turns out it isn't so congruent.

People often come to me and say Hezbollah or Hamas is a threat to the US. Really? You don't really believe that sorry. It is ok to just admit that you think Israel and the US are identical or should be and that policy should flow from that. I think that's absurd but it's okay to argue it.

This is an incredible victory for the local communities, researchers, litigators, and longstanding anti-detention organizers in these states that have been working tirelessly to stop these sites from going online. But warehouse expansion continues in AZ, TX, and elsewhere. The fight is far from over

Trump staffing cuts left Social Security at near 50‑year lows, with closed offices and endless waits. Republicans underfund the agency and then call it “dysfunctional” to justify more cuts. That’s sabotage. Fund SSA and protect every earned benefit. #HandsOffSocialSecurity

Corrupt Republicans and Trump puppets already slashed Medicaid while handing tax breaks to billionaires, and now they’re circling Social Security too. This isn’t “tough love,” it’s class warfare against workers who PAID IN every paycheck. #HandsOffSocialSecurity #Pinks

Trump puppets would rather raise your retirement age than raise taxes on billionaires who pay the same SS rate as middle‑class workers. That’s the scam. We can keep Social Security strong by asking the wealthy to pay more, not by cutting what you earned. #HandsOffSocialSecurity #USDemocracy

If Congress does nothing, everyone faces a roughly 22% cut in 2030s. Republicans are using that cliff as leverage for permanent benefit cuts instead of fixing the revenue gap. Tell them “do nothing” and “cut more” are not the only options. #HandsOffSocialSecurity #USDemocracy

Paul Krugman is right: there is nothing “inevitable” about Social Security cuts. The crisis is political, not mathematical. Corrupt Republicans took new revenue off the table so they can force benefit cuts onto workers. Don’t swallow the gaslighting. #HandsOffSocialSecurity #USDemocracy

"why didn't Europe help us bomb schools and water supplies? jerks"

It's Paul McCartney's birthday. You've probably noticed. So here's your semi-regular reminder that We All Stand Together is an utterly charming and lovely piece of music. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVfa...

Nothing infuriates fascists more than being held accountable for their own failures. YOU did this, Pete Hegseth. You and Donald Trump. For nothing. An absolute catastrophe. If you had a shred of integrity you'd resign and disappear from public life forever.

It’s been five years since Alex Jones lost InfoWars to the Sandy Hook families. As the verdict came down, he asked: “Do these people actually believe they’re getting any money?” He hasn't paid them a penny. Well, The Onion is going pay them anyway. The new InfoWars begins July 2nd at 8 p.m. ET.

i really don't think people understand how much a trillion dollars actually is. that's three million dollars. you could offer tampa bay rays outfielder jake fraley an entire one-year deal with that kind of money. imagine jake fraley playing an entire season for your team. that's wealth. that's power

Why didn’t we send Joy Behar then?

This piece is another example of how evidentiary standards for covering young people basically don't exist. It's a take on the supposedly widespread and normal use of this language anchored around guesstimates from two (2) people about behavior at a single high school.

“The men smiled at the sisters and the volunteers, but the sadness of being away from their children lurked underneath.”

Teacher with school tour group outside the Supreme Court: ok everybody! Who can tell me what the Supreme Court does? 16yo, under his breath: fuck things up

First opinion is U.S. v. Hemani. The Supreme Court UNANIMOUSLY holds that a man who uses marijuana several times a week has a Second Amendment right to own a firearm, blocking his federal prosecution. Gorsuch writes for the majority. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Gorsuch's majority opinion is kind of an ode to legal weed—he explains how marijuana is now legal in much of the country, and the federal government has not only tolerated but "helped fuel" the growth of the industry. So it's silly for the government to now claim that weed is so dangerous.

that aside, a happy birthday to Paul McCartney, now 20 years on from when he was 64. The gorgeous isolated bass on "Something," which could have been its own track: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIoq...

also, Rob's chapter title "Paul Is a Concept By Which We Measure Our Pain" in his Beatles book still cracks me up

“the caterpillar in me, is the caterpillar in you” - butterflies, singing Smashing Pumpkins to one another

“Bike lanes would solve this” okay but in the meantime you not riding your bike on the sidewalk would solve it

get your bikes 💕💕💕 off the sidewalk 😍😍😍 you selfish assholes 🥰🥰🥰

I feel like there’s a small chance Trump purchases and runs a peanut farm just to rub all our noses in it.