Publisher attempts to block AI scraping limits access to the historical record, raising questions about how we preserve the web 📚 PRESERVING THE WEB IN THE AGE OF AI explores access & accountability 🔍 📆 Tues, April 28 🕙 10 AM PDT 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/preserving... 🧵

my now five year old asked for a birthday pasta dinner, so here we have a baked ziti, fresh from the oven

Reporter: What do you make of Republicans saying that Virginia— AOC: Wah wah wah. We have asked Republicans for 10 years to ban partisan gerrymandering. And for 10 years, Republicans have said no. What they’re just mad at is that they have been accustomed to a Democratic Party that rolls over.

Andrew Deck of Nieman Lab ( @andrewdeck.bsky.social @niemanlab.org ) broke the story in February on publishers blocking the Wayback Machine. In a new interview on Marketplace, he challenges the narrative that web archives are responsible for AI scraping. Listen: www.marketplace.org/episode/2026...

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Kingdom Hearts 🔑✨

the House roster has changed six times in the last ten days. in order: 4/14: Clay Fuller (R-GA-14) sworn in; Eric Swalwell (D-CA-14) resigns; Tony Gonzales (R-TX-23) resigns 4/20: Analilia Mejía (D-NJ-11) sworn in 4/21: Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL-20) resigns 4/22: David Scott (D-GA-13) dies

Rep. David Scott, a Democrat of Georgia, has died: www.ajc.com/politics/202... Scott, who is 80, faced a lot of pushback for choosing to run for reelection this year, amid reports he'd skipped voting in many recent cycles (inc. 2024 presidential race) & faced multiple primary challengers in May

4 Democratic members of the House have died in office since this Congress started in January 2025. (That's roughly 2 percent of the Democratic caucus elected in November 2024.)

I just wish it didn't have a stupid my-first-LLC name like Ketchup Entertainment

🧵 The arguments behind landmark Supreme Court rulings have never been freely available… until now. More than 125,000 #SCOTUS records & briefs (1830–2019) are now open on the Internet Archive. Full announcement ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u... @wolflawlibrary.bsky.social

“To say that President Trump is corrupt is to somehow understate the size, scope and magnitude of his corruption. It is as if you were to describe a modern thermonuclear device as a ‘bomb.’ That is true enough, but it is not quite the truth. It does not capture the nature of the thing in full.”

The number of Republicans crashing out about getting nakedly gerrymandered is, unironically, a sign that we need to do more of it. You guys are correct! This shit sucks! Welcome to the party, pals! We can all stop doing it any time you like!

republicans will yowl and piss and moan and that to my mind is all the reason to do it

i think it is cool that the president of the united states routinely slurs black people as biological inferior

Virginia could massively expand voting rights in 5 months, don't sleep on it.

Remember, Democrats have repeatedly advanced measures to ban partisan gerrymandering and Republicans have voted against them time after time. This is the game Republicans wanted to play. OK, then.

Bless their little loser hearts, Virginia constitutional amendments first have to pass the full legislature twice before they ever go before voters

you're gonna attend the Raytheon DEI meetings and you're gonna like it

Internet Archive has not, historically or up to today, utilized AI for moderation. Someone on /r/datahoarder hallucinated that idea, putting good AI out of work

The YES has won in Virginia; voters approved the constitutional amendment to adopt Dems' congressional gerrymander. This is likely to deliver a 10-1 (Dem) congressional delegation in November, compared to 6-5 (Dem) now. The remaining obstacle: State supreme court will be weighing in still.

NBC News has called the race for the YES. And now for what you've been waiting for — the reaction of Senator Louise Lucas, one of the main instigators of the 10-1 map. She does not post on here, so linking to her post on X: x.com/SenLouiseLuc...

Interesting: The "YES" actually did better than Jay Jones in the large city of Alexandria (which is done counting), in NoVa. Yes won by 58% here. Jones had won by 55%, and Spanberger by 67%. York County got done, and it went from a Spanberger County by just under 1% to a "no" county by 12%.

RESULT... in Coral Gables, FL: The city has overwhelmingly voted tonight to change timing of its local elections to November. Part of an effort we're seeing nationwide to get higher turnout in local races. It was one of my 40 races to watch in April. boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

but the fact of the matter is that with the notable exception *of* the mid to late 20th century, every major change in our political system and government has been a partisan or ideological political project.

one of the ways the mid to late 20th century political world has distorted the historical memories of even sophisticated observers is in the idea that you can achieve major transformations of american political life through something like bipartisan consensus

Warsh claimed that the Wall Street Journal had bad sources. Their source was Donald Trump himself. Either Trump lied to the Journal or Warsh just committed perjury.

I have to admit I was already aged out of watching SpongeBob SquarePants when this episode originally aired. But my younger colleagues told me to watch this clip.

the case for strategic gerrymandering youtu.be/YgMSs_aMP84?si…

I'm excited to share that we've made a collection of historic Supreme Court Records and Briefs available via @archive.org I've written a blog post where I go into detail about the importance of this collection. blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u...

Goddamn, they’ve got the whole Giles v. Harris (1903) Supreme Court record here. I had to piece a lot of this together from different sites for a story did on Jackson Giles in 2022.

Lori Chavez-DeRemer resigned today, a week after this:

Gas prices are at their highest level since the pandemic. Inflation is surging. Grocery prices are near record highs. Housing costs are through the roof. Does that sound like a golden age to you?

it’s so cool how most LA politicians wake up in the morning and are like “how can I make it harder to build housing today” Our only hope to make LA a well-run, pro-housing city is electing Nithya Raman as mayor

Really happy to have done a very small thing to help make the Supreme Court's historical records and briefs freely available. Thank you to the @archive.org for doing the hard part. blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u...

I love sharing good news about access to information! @archive.org @wolflawlibrary.bsky.social blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u...

Trump, who said in the 2024 campaign that Kamala Harris would start World War 3, compares his war against Iran to World War II

US Supreme Court Records and Briefs. Available for free. Digitized from thousands and thousands of Microfiche pages. archive.org/details/us-s...

I am neither sick nor sad today! But I am taking the day off from streaming to get some spring cleaning done around the house. We made a nice big list yesterday and I want to get a few things done and build momentum.

Gonna spend the next two years spamming every elected Dem about the concept of "damnatio memoriae." Chisel his name off every inscription. Build over the various Trump Towers like they're Nero's Golden House. Remove him from physical memory, not to forget but as a sign of disrespect to the man.

a real testament to stefanik’s total lack of dignity that she is doing this AFTER trump totally threw her under the bus, backed up, and ran her over just to be sure

96 years ago today Universal Pictures released KING OF JAZZ. 🎷 But where did the title "King of Jazz" come from? Paul Whiteman came to be associated with it, but it didn't start with him. Learn about where public monikers come from & what they say about culture ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2026/04/19/k...

A Q&A with the creator of @wnyc.org's Public Song Project (this year in partnership with @archive.org) on creativity, copyright, and the public domain.

This is when I like to remind people that LeBron’s first national magazine profile was actually like 8 months earlier, in SLAM. 😉

the thing to remember is that by the time FDR takes office the depression had been going for three years and the hoover administration looked like a bunch of do-nothing assholes. loudly and visibly saying "we are working to fix the problem!" was meant to bring some calm to the storm. it worked!

also, the justices' papers ought to belong to the united states, to be made public at some date (let's say a decade) after retirement.

Today, President Barack Obama and I read to a group of toddlers at Learning Through Play Pre-K Center in the South Bronx.  In between singing wheels on the bus, we discussed our administration’s vision for this City — one where New York’s Cutest have the strongest start possible.

Flash was everywhere. Now it's gone. Sound familiar? Flash is just part of the story of VANISHING CULTURE, a new book exploring the fight to preserve our fragile digital history. 📖 Join us for the book launch! 📅 Apr 23 🕠 Doors 5:30 PM 📍 300 Funston Ave, SF 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/vanishing-...