The security guard outside the Islamic Center of San Diego was reportedly shot twice by the two teenaged attackers and was knocked down, he got up and ran back into the mosque and he is being credited with preventing a worse massacre before he was killed. 😫

I love the NBA playoffs bc I’ll turn em on thinking “I just hope this is a good game” and within five minutes my hearts desire is revealed to me (rooting against the Thunder like they’re dementors)

Pretty sure you don’t need to quote ethics experts to say the $1.8bn slush fund is corrupt.

Why would your solution not be to download the software at home idiot www.businessinsider.com/gavin-newsom...

Not sure which is funnier - the tea and potatoes in Medieval Europe or the very modern shape of that loaf of bread (in medieval artwork, bread loaves are almost invariably round - to the point that monastic sign language for bread was making a circle with your fingers like the 'OK' gesture!)

There isn’t much left to say except that your children will be less well-rounded than you. Less well-read than you. Less intelligent than you. Less able to problem solve than you. Leas worldly than you. Less empathetic. Less equipped. And more helpless. For the first time in living history.

This is probably the most historically illiterate and racist crap that an official in a presidential administration has publicly uttered since...oh I don't know...let's just say a very long time.

unfurling a "white replacement" banner should get you permabanned from MLB stadiums

“Love” is what you are promised in return if you submit and obey. I can’t think of a more accurate depiction of the MAGA social vision.

Charlotte Russe? This was the old lady store at the mall when I was a kid.

I said it once I'll say it again: there's a great sparsely - seasonally - populated region of the US that is near the ocean. Slap a desalination plant up there and the rich can have all the data centers their portfolios can handle at the cost of their summer homes.

So it's our pal Jonathan Richman's birthday today and he's 75 and it's getting warmer outside so let's hear "That Summer Feeling," because it's never too soon to get nostalgic about what's to come. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zmy...

Memphis Press-Scimitar, 21 December 1945. "[Gerald Smith] wants to preserve 'Christian Nationalism' without domination by the Jews or any other minority group. And he wants America First--with Mr. Smith leading the 'crusade.'"

No, other fields do not have a Pubmed style vetted repository. The National Library of Medicine which maintains Pubmed *alone* has 1.7 times the budget of the *entire* National Endowment for the Humanities.

My dad just retired, and his last 10 years of understudies looked at him like he could read Runes because he hand drew everything and had a CAD coworker digitize it all. The old ways a dying. Programming is flattening the world.

Against the Day, The Dispossessed, and Parable of the Sower.

Other men: click the tongs 2 to 3 times before grilling. Me: plays seconds 1 thru 11 of To Defy the Laws of Tradition by primus on tongs. youtu.be/AccbAu2KmFg?...

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

$170/week *before* taxes, which make it more like $135. I know, I know, that New Yorkers get such leave at all makes us lucky. It should still be better—for everyone! Everywhere! www.timesunion.com/opinion/arti...

There's a major civil rights protest taking place in Selma, Alabama, right now in response to the SCOTUS decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act and the ongoing attack on Black Americans’ political power (video: defiancedispatch/IG)

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This is essentially Michigan State. I was there for my phd. We routinely had STEM awards for innovative research across the US, Asia, and Africa. Tons of global partnerships. And were one of the highest producers of Fulbright scholars. Now, the legislature is kneecapping it and other state schools

US universities genuinely are like “welcome to Tennessee Agricultural College in Bumfuck Nowheresville. We invented the modern potato and our facilities include a particle accelerator, nuclear reactor, and TOP500 supercomputer. Tuition is $12,000 for instate students and we have 40,000 of them”

Idk idc, Damson Idris. But make it a send-up or spiritual sequel where Jacob Elordi plays Jaws, you cowards!

As an LA county resident, I grow tired of our mayoral race and decide to zoom out at look at the governors race. Then I decided to go back to watching every series of taskmaster.

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...

This is such a funny article. It claims "hackers" are looking at the amount of fuel in storage tanks and says it's probably Iran. Then the article admits the info isn't even password protected and there's no evidence it's Iran.

this is emblematic of the past couple years just how much university admins despise the students

This is a form of psychosis. These people will burn the world if they have their way.

Weird not to see real estate expansion projects, chatbot TAs, or ed-tech privatization on this report of what makes university experience valuable to students

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To add insult to injury, the current head of the DOJ’s Civil Rights division is a protege of the Dartmouth professor who wrote this article a few years before she enrolled there.

the crimes of this era are nigh innumerable but what the united states has done to the global south will live forever in infamy

I've had this song in rotation for a year. It wasn't until a few months back someone epitomized the vibe: What if Frank Zappa wrote a song for Frank Sinatra and had it composed in 3rds by 3 different people unaware each was composing their their respective parts? youtu.be/2JinjAcMYEI?...

This is middle age and it’s horrible

The Trumpsonian.

🚨 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.

I think people really tell on themselves when they compare a Mamdani or El-Sayed to a Platner

Talked about The Internet of Clips with @killthecomputer.com ✂️ Gift link to my story laying it all out: www.theverge.com/report/92000...

Holy shit this piece will melt some eyeballs. Writer argues Dems need to take drastic, even once-unimaginable tactics in response to Voting Rights Act being gutted. He writes: "Patience is the enemy now" and we have to stop asking people for it. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

"The oligarchs want a permanent ruling class. The extremists want a permanent underclass to grind a boot into. The deal between them is straightforward enough: the oligarchs get captured courts and permanent tax cuts, the extremists get their hierarchy of human worth written back into the law"

this is a good example of what I’m talking about when I say that people like stoller are completely irrelevant on the platforms that actually reach people. he thinks that if you’re not on X, you’re not anywhere. meanwhile, half of americans get their news and politics from youtube and tiktok

Spanberger (D-Langley) is vetoing collective bargaining rights for a broad swathe of VA public sector workers. It's an immense betrayal to a core part of her coalition, in a moment when they're under attack. She didn't even offer amendments but a "substitute" bill that would've delayed til 2030...

I wish I didn’t know as much about the end of Reconstruction as I do. If you understood what is being unleashed now, how it will touch every aspect of our civic life, and how difficult it will be to undo it, you wouldn’t be able to think about anything else.

Two police officers from Gratis, Ohio, an all-white town per the US census, showed up at a majority Latinx public school in Cincinnati—50 miles away—to search for kids for ICE, disguised as a “wellness check.”

"I'd be amazed if they gave you 30, an HMO, and a bus pass" One of my favorite lines by the preacher in S4 of The Wire

Gas Pump: Do you want a receipt? Me: No, I'd rather forget this whole experience.

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.