So, librarians, do you have a contingency plan for when these goons enter your facility? You might not be able to block access to a public building, but how are you alerting your patrons? Do you have a plan to get them out safely? Because you should.

Humanities programs have ceded scholarship of the premodern to bad actors on the right. This is a serious problem, not only because it represents a loss of current and future knowledge, but also because it enables white supremacists and Christian nationalists to twist history to their own ends.

As if artists don't have enough to deal with, Amazon has a "Buy For Me" program in beta which is scraping indie shops for their items and putting them up on Amazon (often incorrectly), for their "AI agent" to buy from the other site. It is NOT opt in, and there is no opt out.

As things at the Kennedy Center continue to devolve, I'm thinking of Guster's protest while performing there earlier this year as a bright spot for resistance.

HHS Secretary RFK Jr. has decided to roll back vaccine recommendations, cut critical cancer research funding, and spew pseudoscientific theories. He is a threat to our nation’s health and safety. We can’t continue like this. That’s why I filed articles of impeachment.

Rent is due! Please support these New Orleans families targeted by ICE #ICEoutofNOLA

USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked

I’m facilitating the rehoming of two sweet cats who belonged to a friend who recently passed unexpectedly. They deserve a stable place to land. 2-3 year old bonded pair, one male one female. Please send me a DM if you have the interest and ability to care for these sweet voids. Located in Oakland.

Vinegar

This is slavery.

New U.S. border rule just dropped! Canadians now get photographed EVERY time they enter and exit the U.S. land, air, sea. ✔️ Includes children ✔️ Photos stored for life ✔️ No opt-out Driving over for the day? You’re still getting scanned. #USDemocracy #Pinks apple.news/AtXc_G3WGQgG...

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

me: could you take the part of my memories that memorized mindless self indulgence lyrics when i was a teen and put 'em to something like, i dunno, addresses, dates brain: hang on, lemme check brain: brain: no. me: alright, good talk

It’s worth noting that PA joined this lawsuit through an action by Governor Shapiro. The PA AG, Dave Sunday, a Trump supporting Republican, is quite comfortable with Pennsylvanians being denied healthcare based on their gender identity.

“Some of the facilities will include special housing designed for families in custody.” i cannot say what i wish for these people.

All of the folks saying that blue states not paying federal taxes is a form of secession, you are correct, but continuing to pay into a system where my money ONLY goes to red states seems like they're doing the same so

Damn, it'd be an absolute shame! A shame, I say! if this were to be shared widely

Update: link above no longer works but the full segment has been uploaded to the Internet Archive with torrent link.

New legislation from Rep. April McClain Delaney (D-MD) would "require the immediate removal of Donald Trump’s name from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and to prevent future actions to rename it or other historic landmarks or memorials."

What the actual fuck.

Hard to express how much I love this. Twitter is the Nazi site for Nazis. Delete it, ESPECIALLY if you're a famous person or political leader. Abughazaleh does a great job explaining that it's also TRASH and doesn't even let you reach your audience. Get the hell off.

I have sister with Down Syndrome. If I hear that word around me I become livid with rage

We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists who are currently or have previously worked in game development about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier. Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder. thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...

So if anyone is confused by the statement that the Flyers just put out, this is apparently what happened last night. Lmao

President Trump has every right to change the name of the Kennedy Center. But if a future Democratic president tries to change the name back, that would be completely unconstitutional. by John Roberts

For too long, presidents of both parties have claimed the authority to carry about extrajudicial killings under the guise of "national security" without any meaningful oversight from Congress or the courts. Our leaders must chart a different course and stop President Trump's illegal boat strikes.

New Illustration: "We Beat 'Em Before..." Taken from a British WW2 poster, the original features a WW1 German soldier at the top. I just swapped it for the Nazi soldier it had at the bottom.

UPDATE: The DOJ just filed an additional lawsuit against Wisconsin.

If any journalist wants to talk to a trans man with a PhD in Human Genomics who was trained in labs that studied the evolution of sex, I'm right here Or just keep platforming Republicans who have a 5th grade understanding of biology so they get more trans people killed, sure 🤷🏻‍♂️

Any Democrat who thinks it's appropriate to "find common ground" with the Republicans on issues like high school sports teams is negotiating with a political party that does not believe trans people should exist. This policy will kill people, so maybe stop wringing your hands about volleyball.

I will not be watching or listening to that man. Send me the cliff notes.

soooo ... all the sports sites just going with nacua "criticized refs," not went on an andrew tate loving stream and promised to do a grotesquely antisemitic celebration for his next td? yes i read that the streamer is from a jewish background. it changes nothing about nacua.

The Rams need to bench Puka Nacua and the league needs to do something to punish the anti-Semitic gesture he did on stream

A former immigration judge alleged to DOJ that Trump fired her bc of her sex & national origin DOJ said equal employment opportunity laws don't supersede Trump's removal powers under Article II this is literally a claim to constitutional power to discriminate ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

BREAKING on MS NOW: Jack Smith, in his opening statement to House Judiciary, says: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."

White men are 30% of the US population but are 80% of show runners according to this article. I fear that if white men ever got to parity in influential jobs in media & politics & banking instead of having a super majority they would drop nukes on this country.

People say AI is a magic shortcut to creativity & success. I’ll tell you the real secret and it’s voraciously reading, being interested in everything, being diligent in the pursuit of learning, paying attention to the interior lives of others & keeping a heart open to the world.

Now this 👇is how to write an obituary for a racist. "A man would carry such a prejudice to his grave has undoubtedly gone to hell, if there is such a place and if not, a hell should be made for his especial benefit."

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families. The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.

This is incredible news. Today, Virginia officials will unveil a statue of Barbara Johns at the Capitol to replace one of Confederate General Robert E. Lee that had stood for more than a century. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

This is the compromise? This is the bipartisanship? This is the civility? This is the return to normalcy? This is the price of winning? WHAT WILL YOU HAVE WON

I have just found out that some reprehensible fucking dork has made an AI chatbot based on the character I played on The Magnus Archives and *it has my voice*. I genuinely don't think I have ever felt so fucking violated. My actual voice. Saying things I have never said. I feel sick.

I'm not even going to repost a screengrab of his post about Rob Reiner but man it really needs to be said every single day: Trump truly is the biggest piece of shit in the world, a man of absolutely no good qualities and seemingly limitless bad ones. Support for him is just so damning.

Mystery solved! Probably! A weird oxygen gas cloud discovered in 2023 that's near the Andromeda Galaxy in the sky is actually a nebula inside our own Milky Way. This is super cool stuff. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/mystery-so... 🔭 🧪

if anyone needs to see a dog in the snow

now feels like a test of whether those who say they’re just antizionist and not antisemitic actually demonstrate that

Heartbreaking and horrifying to go to bed reading about the mass shooting at Brown University and wake up to read about the mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach. Thinking of the victims, their loved ones, and those affected by the hate that drove these attacks.

In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites. He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him. www.wsj.com/world/china/...