guaranteed basic income payments at adulthood until death that is a supplement to current income/benefits & not taxed. Strengthening of current civil rights laws & voting rights Separate courts, with specially trained lawyers & judges to adjudicate discrimination lawsuits & claims

My brain keeps circling back to this Tracey post, over and over. The phrase "I ended up in a bad situation with him and I will just very politely call him consensually careless" is so clear, and so horrifying, and Tracey's eager, aggressive misreading of it is so profoundly revealing.

Grim once asked me to come on his little video show for an interview about trans rights and when I showed up, his producer let slip that there was someone else on with me. It wasn't an interview, it was a debate with a TERF. I left immediately.

social media platforms that operate to maximize engagement, nazi ideology built on hate and rage, weak regulation and enforcement... democracy is dying before our eyes and big tech is fuel powering it www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...

What people fail to understand is that social media platforms are funding this. They know that racist and hateful content gets the most engagement. And despite knowing this, they are paying based on engagement. They also know when these accounts are based outside the US.

BREAKING: University professors (AAUP) represented by NAACP LDF and Lambda Legal, with Davis Wright Tremaine, file a federal lawsuit challenging censorship at the Texas Tech University System under the First and Fourteenth Amendments. Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

In case you would like to make this amazing scene your own, I have made a blank template and even a meme generator link: imgflip.com/memegenerato...

In the future everyone will be mistaken for a criminal for fifteen minutes

It’s here! Today, we’re announcing the launch of Blacksky-Only Posts! Now, anyone with a blacksky.app handle or anyone on the Blacksky feed can make a private post on blacksky.community. This marks a significant step forward in advancing permissioned data on the open social web.

As a party, we Dems do not talk nearly enough about Republicans’ full embrace of Trump’s rampant criminality and profiting off the office because they want to commit the same crimes and profiting the same way themselves.

All of this. Adding: HR is also code for the state. if you are an affluent man with inherited entitlement Mark describes here, you simply don’t encounter the state very often. Maybe the DMV. But most of these dudes work. HR translates state power by managing regulations and risk.

absolutely insane story, and yeah, just looking at this chart... with the exception of maybe two people, this entire class was cheating like motherfuckers

“people collapse and need CPR everyday, B” - Elaine Chao

HP settled out of a lawsuit where it came out that they were using their drivers to detect when users were not using officially-branded HP ink and then stopping their printers from functioning correctly, btw source: www.techspot.com/news/107266-...

Today’s fascist firehouse news. Another federal lawsuit waiting to happen: FEMA threatens to withhold terrorism prevention funds unless states adopt Trump’s anti-voting agenda www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Netflix gave us They Cloned Tyrone and K-Pop Demon Hunters. They COULD be the A24 or Blumhouse of streaming services, but they refuse to repeat what works and cut off content with a robust audience to avoid paying the talent.

"Remember to always check the output," they tell me. If I have to read the original document to make sure the summary is accurate, then the AI is a *useless and pointless* extra step, and I can never seem to convince anyone at work of this.

⚠️ Iran military spokesperson responds to Trump’s remarks about Kharg Island:

Does anyone have a list of Dem politicians who endorsed Graham Platner over the past few months? I feel like we need a List

It goes beyond stymieing Yale's independence. It'll pressure others under similar investigations to settle, prompting the most significant development in the higher ed landscape since SFFA v Harvard. Under the admin's logic, the mere presence of minorities is proof of impermissible aff action

There’s a scene in the dystopian sci-fi movie Minority Report where Tom Cruise’s character is riding in an autonomous vehicle that gets remotely commandeered by the police to bring him into custody. The audience is supposed to see this as flagrant disregard for privacy and due process.

On July 8, at about 11:10 GMT, about 99 percent of the world experiences sunlight at the same time.

So… Cheyenne, WY won't take data center wastewater anymore after Meta/FB's "Fill and Flush" process (how they test data center cooling systems) was responsible for polluting their whole community's wastewater reclamation system with Cupriavidus gilardii bacteria: cowboystatedaily.com/2026/07/02/c...

"They just want to turn it off." A fascinating story of the librarians who have started teaching classes showing people how to remove AI "features" from their phones and apps. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...

This is an extraordinarily blunt and definitive statement from the Maine Democratic Party—they say Platner has been trying to influence the process of picking his replacement, and they've shot him down cold.

sorry for not being clairvoyant about the nazi tattoo blackwater merc guy. there was simply no way to know about the nazi tattoo blackwater merc guy

Losing my mind at this Murder, She Wrote promo

You, taking the high road: "I take no pleasure in having to say I told you so" Me, a Capricorn:

look I’m sorry but if you can’t find it at least plausible that Lupita Nyong’o’s beauty sparked a war that’s a skill issue

Stoller used to work for Alan Grayson and then, later, Russell Brand. It’s difficult to avoid the impression that he just likes abusers as long as they don’t get caught.

US airlines fuel bills rose by $3 billion in May www.reuters.com/business/ene...

If you are not yet familiar with the disappearance and death of Nolan Wells, it’s time, because this case is only getting started and it smells as bad as it gets.

Since folks are bringing up their "Klip is an asshole" story, here's mine. Four years ago he co-authored an Intercept story that was just... wrong. On almost every level. And helped kick off the MAGA obsession that the Biden admin colluded with social media to "censor conservatives." I called it out

A former strength and conditioning coach at Bucknell University is charged in the death of a football player who collapsed during training, according to the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s office.

They’ve said this about nearly everyone they’ve shot in a moving car, and they’ve lied nearly every time.

there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.

In a powerful measure that crystallizes all these disparities, www.congressionaldistricthealthdashboard.org shows 70% of House Ds represent districts where life expectancy exceeds the national avg while life expectancy lags below the national avg in over 70% of R seats www.cnn.com/2026/06/28/p...

prolonged

Oh.

A near-perfect linear trend seems to fit 1st year college GPA vs. SAT scores from ivy-plus universities in the NYTimes Editorial Board piece. But the cited working paper reveals (to everyone's shock!) that if you account for family income or first-gen status the SAT is a far worse predictor.

I'm on vacation so I'm not going to go deep on this awful, intentionally misleading and elitist piece.. but I just need to show some side-by-sides of data shown in this article vs the "working paper" it cites. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/o...

That’s why we need to ban this shit is something I’d love to hear

"A new report has revealed that 90 per cent of utility-scale renewable energy capacity added in 2025 was cheaper than the lowest-cost new fossil fuel alternative, helping to avoid an estimated $480 billion in fossil fuel costs by year’s end."

if you can’t integrate a theory of race and gender into your class analysis of american politics you are going to run headfirst into a wall.

#DisabilityPrideMonth #AltText

I think the Platner thing hit me so hard bc it was one of the most protracted, widespread acts of misogynist gaslighting from my own side that I've seen. We were presented with an obvious violent scumbag who was constantly lying (badly, might I add) and told we were crazy for not loving him

when i was young they had these people called “investigative journalists” who could find out stuff like if a senator was dead or not

I just played pickleball with my old friend Mitch McConnell, the senior Senator from Kentucky. The game lasted just shy of 20 minutes, after which time we enjoyed a lovely lunch at his southern mansion prepared by descendants of slaves he personally selected and purchased himself centuries ago.

Great read on the logistical, bureaucratic, and technical challenges facing some communities trying to rebuild after the devastating floods in Texas last year.