NEW: Workers say their bosses are becoming obsessed with cocaine and essentially turning the entire workplace into an exercise in cocaine psychosis -- making absurd pivots, communicating only in cocaine slop, and even asking cocaine who to fire bsky.app/profile/jonc...

New polling data reveals that a majority of Americans believe there are grounds to impeach Trump right now. But despite this, leaders in the Democratic Party are still refusing to include the idea of impeaching Trump in the party’s messaging in the run-up to the midterms.

The chart made me laugh (in a painful way.) It's part of this incredible story: projects.propublica.org/why-carbon-c...

I think there's actually a useful difference we can draw here. Namely: there is incrementalism that comes from pushing wherever possible (and with whatever levels possible) to make progress toward a maximalist demand, versus incrementalism that's positioned as an excuse for setting minor goals

i am sorry to establishment dems but it will never be 1995 again

"Far left" positions: - Transit should be fast, functional and maybe even free. - Everyone has a right to healthcare, childcare, housing, and food. - Collective punishment and genocide are bad, actually. To quote @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social, I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win.

My friend, they ARE Democrats. YOUR version of Democrats are being eclipsed. The Dem socialists aren’t like MAGA or Tea Party in any set of beliefs but the idea of pushing harder away from trying to please the centrists is very compelling to people and can win elections.

you people need to show more respect for the political machinery that lost to donald trump twice

Mad? You should be. We’re rallying today in City Hall Park and then testifying at City Council hearings. Come make your voice heard. Our own @gregpak.net will be speaking! actionnetwork.org/events/rally...

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Both totally unnecessary and extremely funny that the Guardian has an interactive graphic for you to change the color of the US flag's blue to the color of the Reflecting Pool from 8 to 19 June and counting

Publishing Pride 2026: since taking the helm of Interlink, Hannah Moushabeck has been part of a growing effort to make the queer publishing landscape more intersectional, both on the children’s and adult sides

Also Ayn Rand's "What is Capitalism"

a fun thing I think a lot of people don't know is that the Texas State Board of Educatjon wants to mandate that all public school students read Margaret Thatcher's eulogy for Ronald Reagan

People shouldn't pretend Republicans care about how long it takes to count votes. Their beef is that the votes get counted at all.

Hey so if people are saying “use chat*pt to help you edit” or write your query or research agents or comps or whatever? That’s really bad and dumb advice. Am I being judgemental? Hell yes. 😘

The team of biologists featured in my book TRACKING PYTHONS: THE QUEST TO CATCH AN INVASIVE PREDATOR AND SAVE AN ECOSYSTEM is wrapping up a record year in the field - here's a great update to share with readers! conservancy.org/record-rytho...

We should push back on anyone who wants tech to write anything for us. The default answer should be no thank you. We should never assume that a summary created by an LLM is good enough for us. What are we doing? WE MAKE BOOKS FOR GOD'S SAKE! Reading and writing are good. 6/7

Agentic ai is joining the war on scams on the side of scams.

This is TODAY, friends in NYC! See you there!!!

Here’s a fun thought experiment: in what way, exactly, is this guy morally any different from a CEO of an AI company?

this is a crucial response to the "hur hur silly science experiments" anti-intellectual populism that allows for cuts like this to be politically possible. prospect.org/2026/06/09/w...

This is absolute trash. Never stop yelling at your school administrators if they try to push this on your kids.

I remember when he was asked about how excited everyone was that he was developing this tool, and a lot of people were wondering why he just wasn’t taking that large amount of money to support art curriculum instead

On Sept. 16, 2024, Emily Waldorf’s daughter found her curled on the floor, bleeding during a dangerous miscarriage at 17 weeks pregnant. Waldorf and her husband rushed to an Arkansas hospital, expecting emergency care. Instead, doctors said they could not intervene under the state’s abortion ban.

Across the country, resistance to tech harms are now the cultural zeitgeist. As organized in this work, we see it as critical to expand our demands beyond "privacy" towards lives lived with dignity. https://truthout.org/articles/resistance-to-flock-cameras-and-police-surveillance-is-exploding/

“Missouri Republicans are taking an ax to Dolly Parton’s signature initiative. The state’s decision to freeze enrollment in Parton’s Imagination Library, which offers free books to kids, comes at a perilous time for children’s literacy.” www.ms.now/opinion/doll...

YEAH. JLO. IT'S THIS ACTUALLY.

Actual quote by a guy on our local online message board, arguing that the t-shirt & slogan for the town’s annual 4th of July parade was too woke & anti-Trump: "I for one do not want to see a 4th of July parade celebrating revolutionary resistance."

Sick of "A.i."? Join @comixaction.com at this @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social event in NYC to write postcards to @mayor.nyc.gov to demand a moratorium on "A.i." in the public schools! 4 pm, Wed., June 3 in Prospect Park! All the cool kids'll be there!

If you are discoursing about the modernizing kid kit NYT piece , you are legally obligated to call your reps today bc there are like 5 FEDERAL book banning bills republicans are trying to advance at any given point in time

your regular reminder that the national shoplifting crisis was a manufactured moral panic largely engineered by corporations in order to cover up their own mismanagement — and that wage theft is the largest category of theft in the U.S.

Sometimes people want to ask me questions about word count like I DIDN'T already write the definitive post on that topic. "It's from 2011, it's certainly outdated" -- lemme stop you right there, whippersnappers: I'VE BEEN UPDATING IT THE WHOLE TIME! literaticat.blogspot.com/2011/05/word...

I must once again repeat this: Most people are on social media for hobbies, to be goofy and enjoy talking to friends. They do not need to be challenged or jolted out of their bubble or engage with fascists. Pundits desperately need to interact with normal people because they how no idea

hazard pay for our beaver comrades or we're striking

"I'm really angry that this scifi writer whose work was stolen to train a probability machine that depletes water tables and raises electricity prices and is accelerating the transfer of wealth and capital toward men who actively hate other humans doesn't like 'AI," what a lack of vision they have"

What does a good letter to the editor about book censorship and protecting libraries look like? Here are some examples. bookriot.com/examples-of-...

Radium water is here to stay. We need to stop fearmongering about radium water and start finding the ways that radium water can be used ethically and to support our causes. Naysayers need to realize that this technology is inevitable.

Taxing the rich: it's good. #mapoli www.raiseupma.org/news/dor-fai...

GUYS, IT’S NOT THAT WE ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO FORCEFULLY IMBED “AI” INTO SOCIETY AND THAT’S WHY WE’RE SHUFFLING THROUGH TACTICS RATHER THAN DROPPING IT—IT’S THAT WE’RE OUT OF IDEAS SO WE HAVE TO PLAGIARIZE EXISTING IDEAS CUZ THERE’S NO IDEAS SO WE HAVE TO STEAL YOUR IDEAS OF WHICH THERE ARE NONE

Call your reps. Find your rep here: Reps.fyi Reposting images with alt text

Check out this amazing list of summer reads from @slj.com! Thrilled to see @karinayanglaser.bsky.social's THE KIDS IN MRS. Z'S CLASS: POPPY SONG BAKES A WAY included here! @littlebrownyr.bsky.social www.schoollibraryjournal.com/story/we-are...

If I was a buyer for Barnes and Noble I would sue this man for making me look like an asshole

Happy Book Birthday, Because of a Bee. Buzz into the world.

Sounds like Eisners accepted Van Jensen's proposal to withdraw STARDUST from voting ballot, in response to 1 story using AI. But consider joining me in signing the request to disqualify AI submissions in the future (and I hope other awards will similarly update their policies).

“Given the early responses from parents, we have terminated the study & are no longer seeking participation at any site. (It is not unusual to terminate a study in the early stages as we receive feedback from community partners.)” “not unusual”?? Iteration w/feedback=not unusual. Termination? nope🧪

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)

Everyone should read this.... AI and key words were used to cancel NIH and NSF grants...essentially on the whims of some DOGE folks on a power trip. The damage done to our once globally leading science enterprise is widespread...we need to speak out on this for it to get better. 🧪🌎

This, also, as economic conditions worsen and poverty conditions will grow.