BREAKING: A federal court has BLOCKED Texas' gerrymandered congressional maps from going into effect for the 2026 election

❌ A/I can’t replace real skills ❌ A/I can’t stop crime before it happens ❌ A/I can’t have real feelings or thought ❌ A/I isn’t therapy ✅ A/I is hurting the environment ✅ A/I is plagiaring creatives ✅ A/I is moderated by underpaid traumatized workers ✅ A/I can give you psychosis 🚫SAY NO TO GEN A/I🚫

“I was 14… I was 16… this was me when I met Epstein… there are thousands of us… time to let the secrets out of the shadows” Powerful ad from survivors ahead of a vote to tell us where each House rep stands on protecting kids vs protecting pedophiles.

Again: racial profiling is all ICE does. truthout.org/articles/rac...

Scoop from @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social & @ariberman.bsky.social: Docs obtained by @weareoversight.bsky.social show efforts DHS is making to gather drivers' license data from all 50 states in order to weaponize Trump’s false claims of voter fraud. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

DANG! Phoenix, Planet She-Hulk, Rogue, AND Daredevil? @stephsmash.bsky.social is a MACHINE! I'm looking forward to checking this out! 🔥

Tapping the sign: "Staying alive is a lot of work for a disabled person in an ableist society."—Alice Wong in the Introduction to Disability Visibility

If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university. You’re working at a state propaganda factory.

Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”

Rep. Adelita Grijalva has officially signed the discharge petition to force a vote on the Massie-Khanna bill to release the Epstein files. That's 218, meaning House GOP leaders cannot block it from the floor. (That's 214 Dems + Massie, MTG, Mace, Boebert.)

"That is why I will sign the discharge petition right now to release the Epstein files" -- Rep. Grijalva

*NEW ROBYN KLAXON*

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

Rep. Adelita Grijalva said two victims of Epstein's abuse were in the gallery to watch her be sworn in: Elizabeth Stein and Jessica Michaels.   "Justice cannot wait another day," she said, referencing the Epstein files discharge petition.

Adelita Grijalva is FINALLY sworn in and is now officially a member of Congress

Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

the republican party is engaged in a cover up to keep the american people from learning whether president trump is president pedo

First trailer for Gore Verbinski's 'Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die' starring Sam Rockwell and Zazie Beetz It follows a man traveling from the future who tries to save Earth from a rogue AI In theaters February 13

Fuck you Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nevada) Richard Durbin (D-Illinois) John Fetterman (D-Pennsylvania) Maggie Hassan (D-New Hampshire) Jeanne Shaheen (D-New Hampshire) Tim Kaine (D-Virginia) Angus King (I-Maine, caucuses with Democrats) Jacky Rosen (D-Nevada)

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Well, at least the Supreme Court knows how to do something right

Following several unnamed appearances, Snoopy's name was first used in "Peanuts" 75 years ago, on November 10, 1950:

POPVERSE: The future of the Marvel Universe starts with the X-Men and Wolverine this February

It doesn't actually matter if Chuck Schumer votes for this or not. If he can't keep his caucus unified to protect healthcare for over 10 million Americans, he should resign as leader.

We all deserve the right to travel freely with dignity, with respect.

THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY Please read this entire excellent piece by Caroline, which points out that a judge ordered the Feds (again) to stop doing **this exact kind of thing** and they are still continuing to do it all over Chicago

Reality:

My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash

Schiff: "The president -- 'I'm going out to play golf.' One thing that is so shocking to me is that they're appealing to the Supreme Court for the right to cut off food from people. Who does that? Who works so hard to cut food from people who need it right now? The cruelty is part of the policy."

Brutal clip of Trump's Treasury Secretary downplaying electricity price increases. He's trying to blame the states instead of taking responsibility for this administration's disastrous policies.

“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states

Fun fact: Musk's pay package would be equal to the cost of SNAP (i.e., helping 42 million people to buy food) for TEN YEARS.

I’m going through some old high school documents and found this form which pretty much makes me sound like I went to a mutant school of learning

A perfect album for a November morning

We are at most a few years away from the mainstream media becoming controlled top to bottom, with a few very exceptions, by ultrarich conservatives and their hirelings. trib.al/DB2iRVW

Cornell agreed to pay $30m, hand over admissions data with demographic breakdowns, produce annual "campus climate" surveys to check on antisemitism and changes "since October of 2023," and—here's the dumbest part they agreed to—that the govt can open new investigations whenever it wants. Appeasers.

I see Cornell bent the knee

Hear @proftwolf.bsky.social: “OUR compact is: higher education as a public good—that means free college for all; that means an end to student debt; that means work with dignity for everyone on our campuses; it means freedom to teach and freedom to learn without Big Brother on our back!”

I am honestly sick of being told — at a university FFS — that we need to ‘embrace’ this profoundly unethical and irresponsible technology.

It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points

800+ flights cancelled today because Elon took a chainsaw to the federal government and Trump won’t pay the remaining airport personnel. Elon’s on his way to becoming a trillionaire. Trump’s net worth has more than doubled inside a year. Glad everything worked out for them. How about you?

Nick Fuentes and anyone who follow him are a Nazi. Full stop. These fascist weirdos keep telling on themselves and telling us the truth millions of Americans are Nazis.

Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.

Supreme Court OKs Trump’s passport policy limiting options for transgender people

The union is calling on people to boycott btw!!

DC "Sandwich Guy" Acquitted: Jury Rejects Assault Charge Over CBP Confrontation Verdict caps a high-profile trial from Trump’s DC task-force days and underscores grand juries’ and trial jurors’ resistance to stretching protest into crime. migrantinsider.com/p/dc-sandwic...

Just unnecessary cruelty. This is their priority as the government is shut down and Americans are starving. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Justice Jackson sharply dissents yet again from SCOTUS interfering with trial court decisions on important matters by always siding with the Trump administration.

The language in the unsigned opinion will be utilized to try and overturn existing cases and bolster increasing bans on gender marker changes. Incorrect gender markers on ID's can out trans people and subject them to harassment, abuse, and even severe violence. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...