While you highlight it, please note is the product of local journalism, which has been carrying a lot of the burden in an environment where national outlets simply can't cover everything everywhere all at once. Support your local journalists!

Harvard’s putting up a fight from the academic sector. Where are our business leaders?? The silence is deafening. The latest No Mercy / No Malice: www.profgalloway.com/breaking-the...

Good on Greyhound! #goodtrouble

trying to switch off the AI bloatware that has been pinned to the top of every single menu in every single app

If you think fertilized eggs have rights but 2-year-old US citizens with cancer don’t, stop pretending your concerns are “the children.”

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

I've said this before but I'll say it again If your reading recommendations (especially if you are an industry professional of some kind) include no works by Black authors Then I urge you to *seek out and read* more work by Black authors

I won’t share RFK Jr.’s lies about autism. It’s disgusting and dangerous. If he had a shred of decency, he would apologize and resign. Autistic people contribute every day to our nation’s greatness. To every kid with autism, I’m in this fight all the way for you.

It is really bothering me (understatement) that the message is “bring back that one innocent guy” and not “WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK SHUT DOWN THIS WHOLE OPERATION IMMEDIATELY.”

if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.

🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 literally any 🕯 good news 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯

Please, please, please stop using AI. Its environmental impacts are devastating. People keep using it for social media trends that die in a week - but when people, animals, and/or the planet die, it’s forever.

Bone chilling. A court ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia to stay in the United States. The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that he was illegally removed. Trump is pretending he won the ruling 9-0. 1/ You may not think this case means anything to you. But let me tell you why it does.

More journalists need to talk about this the way Japanese articles do

This is beyond alarming, everyone. Write, call, show up on Monday if you're able... Screaming Red Alarm in the Texas Capitol open.substack.com/pub/franklin...

This is a screaming red alarm for Texans who care about books and intellectual freedom, and it’s about restrictions in *public* libraries (not schools): HB3225 will be heard in the House State Affairs committee on Monday morning.

Timeline cleanse

Kidnapping. Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping. Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking. A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

my offer to america: we bring woke back

make america great again means turning the clock on america’s political economy back to 1890, make america healthy again means doing the same for public health

Trump’s Justice Department is currently asking the Supreme Court for permission to build a deportation machine that can disappear anyone, citizen and immigrant alike, to a foreign prison forever, permanently extinguishing their constitutional rights with zero due process. slate.com/news-and-pol...

I don't care if ANY of them have gang ties or criminal records. They should never have been sent to this place.

i'm holding your hands, gently april 7 is the start of national library week. get your library card. write your library board. check out 10 books. use your library. do it.

ICYMI nearly 400 library books were purged from the US Naval Academy - a college for adults. America- our first Amendment rights are under attack. This is not a drill. www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/dei...

Target foot traffic falls for the eighth consecutive week after the retailer ended its DEI programs. Meanwhile at Costco, which kept its DEI programs, foot traffic has been up for 13th straight weeks.

When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public

They adopted a posture of total submission and it bought them precisely nothing. A lesson for the Trump era www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

Damn! Canadians aren’t messing around—they’re even pulling already imported alcohol off the shelves. We’re being erased, and I don’t blame them.

See Dems? Not that hard!

YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO

"So don’t make any long-term bets on getting your checks on time, keeping your lights on, buying a home for the first time, or enjoying Yosemite. Don’t assume all the things that work now will still work tomorrow." www.wired.com/story/doge-w... thank you @wired.com for staying on top of it all

I am hugely grateful to these well-informed fantasy fans for taking the time to write these letters rebuking The Guardian for that asinine 'romantasy' opinion piece. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

"AI is a cruel technology. It replaces workers, devours millions of gallons of water, vomits CO2 into the atmosphere, propagandises exclusively for the worst ideologies, and fills the world with more ugliness"

this thread is the whole thing. however comma Black women have been SHOUTING this for months on end, but a lot of y’all (even the liberals and progressives) somehow struggle to hear a message unless it’s delivered by a white dude, and that’s on y’all.

NEW: My office is hearing that DOGE is now at the IRS. That means Musk's henchmen are in a position to dig through a trove of data about every taxpayer in America. And if your refund is delayed, they could very well be the reason.

Yup: “Now that they have control of all the levers of government, they can subjugate, oppress, and exploit Black labor through pure economic means, just as long as white folks and especially white women stay in line and keep dutifully voting for white supremacy.” www.thenation.com/article/poli...

White House has fired the USAID inspector general after his office's blistering report on the consequences of Trump's aid pause. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Oh hey. Just reading up on revolutionary anarchist theory.

If Tupac lived to see the early 2000’s, white america would’ve tried to convince me Justin Timberlake was the better songwriter.

“The president has threatened to “take over” the city, and two Republicans in Congress recently proposed legislation that would take authority from the D.C. government.” www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Some white folk are too quick to praise mediocrity & performativity imo. Rather than compare Swift to the likes of Kendrick, it would be more apt to draw Drake comparisons. They make the same product for different demographics.

If you use AI to produce creative work, you’ve lost sight of what the purpose and beauty of art making.