It’s been a rough couple weeks for my family, with probably more tough weeks to come. Any good thoughts/vibes/prayers are very much appreciated 🙏🏻

Epstein matters, but there's a much greater story of American moral depravity that ought to be leading the news America is building an archipelago of squalid concentration camps. No one knows where this will end. The time to scream 'Never again'? Now! My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/us-c...

Hey is it bad if google AI search results stop people from leaving google dot com 99% of the time? All our news and information creators can survive just fine with one percent of their previous search traffic right? I’m sure it’s fine. www.404media.co/googles-ai-i...

Convenient list of places where your donation would go the furthest

All, today is a good day to support your local PBS station.

when a company announces they're going to start using Al in their products all I hear is "our stuff is about to get noticeably shittier, but you should be excited because it'll be cheaper for us"

Counterpoint: the last time we switched fuels we saved a ton of lives and cleaned up our air. We can do it again.

We need an OFF switch for bullshit.

This romantasy starter pack is the most chaotic thing I've ever written. I can't believe the editor let me get away with this.

I never see this in reverse. Like I've talked to individuals still healing from family that cruelly threw them away for who they love or don't worship but I never see conservatives opining about a responsibility to love & accept their LGBTQ family. Or to stop terrorizing them.

“Why is no one covering-“ it’s because every local news outlet has been decimated if not collapsed entirely for a number of reasons, among them that people want the product but are shocked that it costs money to produce and therefore provide it

This is the sort of smoking gun connection between a decision and outcome that gets people fired in a normal government

Fascism is evil. Fascism is scary. Fascism is awful. But goddamn it is also so fucking whiny and intellectually vapid and incredibly annoying.

gently: it's fine if you don't love explicit sex scenes in fiction but it would be cool if you could talk about it without sounding indistinguishable from moms for liberty

"The masks frequently worn by agents make ICE seem like the type of secret police that operates in authoritarian regimes. But they are apparently meant to keep the police secret."

I truly loved #Superman , thanks to its phenomenal cast, sweet spirit, and a story that manages to feel both fantastical and relevant. Yes, it can be goofy, but it's thoughtful too - and its flaws mainly lie in its sprawling ambition, not deeper issues. Read my full review ⬇️

Just left my #Superman  showing with I the biggest grin on my face! Earnest and humorous w/o losing itself in the quips, some serious and timely themes, and big-hearted (if perhaps a bit spread thin at times). Full review @ladygeeksmedia.bsky.social later this week!

Ready to #LookUp !! 💙 #Superman

Stop spreading this garbage about em dashes in ACTUAL EDITED PROSE OH MY GOD. Plenty of actual human beings know how to type em dashes! We’re called “writers” and “editors” — maybe you’ve heard of us?

lol. lmao. jesus fucking christ.

Arguably if NYT wanted to get ahead they could have written that story, about Nazis trying to start a race controversy with hacked data. But as it turns out, they wanted to be the Nazis.

To me this feels like a similar moment to Sandy Hook. If republicans aren’t willing to accept responsibility and change policy to protect young white christian girls in Texas, they won’t do it for anyone.

"Elphie, now that we're friends, I've decided to make you my new project!" #TheGildedAge

Really a sad way to go through life www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/b...

So today is also a good day to reminder everyone that it is not an "honor" to have your book banned. It doesn't increase sales. It doesn't land you on the elusive banned books B&N front table. What bans do: harm individuals, erase identity, destroy democracy. Book bans are attacks on freedom.

It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins

Sotomayor, in dissent, correctly says that today's decision in Mahmoud will lead public schools to simply censor books featuring LGBTQ characters and themes, creating "chaos" and stigmatizing children with LGBTQ families. This decision will lead to book bans. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

*Biden tries to forgive student loans* SCOTUS: Whoa there, that is, uh, a major question. Which means you can't do it. *Trump revokes part of the constitution* SCOTUS: Obviously, we got to give the President the benefit of the doubt on this one.

tfw a major legacy publication drops a big ol' spoiler in the middle of a feature review, while the rest of us struggle to even get access 🙃

raise your hand if you're not in NYC but you're following the mayoral election out of a desperate need to believe that good things are possible

what’s funny is that if pro-cuomo centrist democrats were less myopic they might see that mamdani was running the kind of campaign that could help rebuild the party brand — accessible with an outsider persona and a focus on “kitchen table” issues.

This move is abhorrent and antithetical to the fundamental principles of a democratic society. Five-alarm fire time for historians and others who care about access to the nation’s past and its documentary record. 🔥 🔥 🔥 #historians #history #skystorians

Between June 10 and June 16, there were FOUR bomb threats sent to public libraries across the US. That this doesn't make wider news–the ongoing targeting of public libraries with bomb threats–is mind-boggling. buttondown.com/wellsourced/...

I was a teenager in the early aughts, and it felt out-of-step with so much mainstream opinion to speak out against war. What is happening now is cruel and sad and wrong, and you don't have to let anyone make you feel bad for thinking and saying so.

Oh, look, a new MIT study shows that LLM use rots your brain. Quelle surprise. Your Brain on ChatGPT: "the LLM group's participants performed worse than their counterparts in the Brain-only group at all levels: neural, linguistic, scoring." arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872

this is the most bullshit logic that I have ever seen and my rage CAN NOT BE CONTAINED. the supreme court does not need to be deciding WHAT MEDICAL CONDITIONS ARE TREATABLE and no one should ignore this just because this time it wasn't yours, holy shit

"In sadness, I dissent."

at this point, i just want this dumbass country to exist long enough for john roberts to be pilloried in history textbooks as the worst chief justice since roger taney.

If a pregnant woman is brain dead, in a coma, and no longer has rights to make decisions about the pregnancy according to E. Bruenig, that means we don’t have a say in what happens to our organs and corpses after we die. We are public property upon death. Quite an argument!

My god! They've discovered TELEVISION!!

I know I’m in my 30s because I just got irrationally excited over figuring out a more effective spreadsheet for my business accounting.

Remember in 2014 when the new U2 album was automatically installed in everyone's iTunes and everyone got really annoyed? Imagine if they'd installed it on every other programme you ever used. And it also somehow meant Bono could interrupt what you were doing and take over That's modern AI, that is

Make no mistake: creating in the face of hate and despair is an act of defiance.

Exactly this. There are so many alternate options.

I’ve been browsing job boards and the like lately (looking for more freelance/contract clients!) and the algorithm on one suggested I apply to V*lnet 😬

Feels kinda important to point out that if non-citizens are required to carry proof of legal status, then citizens do too by default. This is absolutely insane.

I'm not a historian but my analysis is it's "Not good" when a government constantly commits crimes and tells the legislature, courts, and general public "What are you gonna do about it"