Breaking: A local LGBTQ group has constructed an art installation depicting Baystate Medical System running over trans kids after Baystate decided to cut off gender affirming care for youth in Western Mass. Springfield, MA:

If your main interest in anti-Semitism is as a stick with which to beat your political opponents you're a big part of the problem, you. Well said, and vitally important, from @zackpolanski.bsky.social.

A professional deceiver replacing a professional truthteller is pretty on the nose

The attack on education in the US is not new, but the slow fuse that arguably started with Reagan is now setting off detonations across K-12 and higher education that are going to be incredibly difficult to walk back if we don’t treat this like the urgent crisis it is.

🏴‍☠️ The Israeli police confiscated a Hungarian flag from a protester at the Karkur Junction, claiming it resembled the Palestinian flag. #wtf The protester whose flag was confiscated said he explained to the officers that it was not a Palestinian flag, but a police officer told him: 🧵

Instagrams will be scraped. You’ll be living this down in comments for the rest of your career. Not. Worth. It.

Media companies—out of nostalgia or toadyism—may feel they have to participate in the WHC event. But you, individual journalist in those companies, should skip. It’s like going to a party when Putin and a magician are the main events.

At our city-owned grocery stores, staples like eggs and bread will actually be affordable. And we're going to do it the right way, without cutting workers' pay or dignity. Because in the wealthiest city in this country, buying groceries shouldn't be an unsolvable equation.

"Two years have passed since the genocide war, a war unlike any I have witnessed before, even though I lived through four previous wars in Gaza. Two years of bombing, fear, and displacement… days and nights without safety or peace." chuffed.org/project/help...

IF U SEE THIS, PLS SHARE!!🥺🇵🇸 So sad, support is barely coming in recently... im out of time & busy preparing for my clinical training. treatin patients in Gaza for free is not an easy..I'll be able to do it just if u help me! We're so close..just 300£ to the next goal!🙏 chuffed.org/project/layl...

PLEASE DONATE! Please help Layla! She spends her time helping others! Life is impossible under the siege. We are the line between life and death. Please. 🙏

42 lost pages of the New Testament manuscript discovered Discussion

"We do not document or record unless there is a crime occurring."

Still at $170/500 this morning. Amal has 13 days to collect the money for her husband's treatment. It would be great if she could get some extra for vitamins she needs for her pregnancy, and food for the family. www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-gi...

The piker stuff is just running back the Chapo stuff from a decade ago. Eternal recurrence. Structurally meaningless, best read as interpersonal beef among media types who want each other's jobs. Rich kids throwing food at the other table full of rich kids in the high school cafeteria.

Next time, if you want to fool anybody other than your idiot supporters, move the clouds.

The company’s name is Palantir. It started off fascist.

"Google Search is broken now" The way AI infiltration into everything is essentially salting the information environment by making it harder and eventually impossible to access accurate, actionable information is definitely a feature to the passive-income ownership class, not a bug

Met investigates hundreds of officers after using Palantir AI tool

Delighted to return to University of Chicago for two theory talks. I'll discuss primary document findings that detail how Theodor Adorno's engagement with early communications researchers helped inspire the "Culture Industry" chapter of Dialectic of Enlightenment. voices.uchicago.edu/massculture/...

Nobody could’ve predicted yada yada www.startribune.com/eviction-fil...

You have to be the worst economist of all time to not think that treating HIV provides economic benefits. But Oster also tells people that drinking alcohol is safe in pregnancy (and most recently “a little raw milk is ok”), because she’s a dangerously ignorant grifter with no understanding of health

There is literally nothing positive to say about Emily Oster. She is a pro-eugenics grifter who is either wrong about everything on purpose because she’s a horrible, selfish person, or else just because she is an incredibly stupid, horrible, selfish person. You can disregard everything she ever says

The funniest part of this Hasan Derangement Syndrome is that I barely knew or cared who he was before all these weirdos started coming after him for opposing genocide (?) and now I think he's pretty neat So thanks I guess

Its so funny watching these ppl moan about campism, of all things. Vox house style remains "being deeply inauthentic, unserious, and so desperate to sound like an expert offering sage advice to a vukgsr popular politics that you credulously adopt any critique you can find."

No one should be going to the US for football, the Olympics or anything else they don't have to. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Thanks to @kairyssdal.bsky.social and Megan McCarty Carino at @marketplace.org for talking to me about the end of the subsidized AI era and the Subprime AI Crisis www.marketplace.org/story/2026/0...

What Victor Hugo Got Wrong About Stealing Bread

Real countries is such a fascinating concept. Even before the current admin, USA operated essentially similarly to banks in Panama & the Cayman Islands except instead of for banking it has been a safe-haven for people who wanna do the kinda business that results in capital punishment elsewhere.

i like following international news as a reminder that ALL of this [waves hand at everything] is optional

I literally cannot text Akram about sending him funds for his family’s survival if he loses access to his phone. chuffed.org/project/help...

Please help!! This isn’t trivial - it’s how Akram supports his family and gets in touch with us !!!! chuffed.org/project/help...

Yeah, something like this has to be the real answer. The President can't sue an agency he currently controls, it's ridiculous.

Scammers are stealing homes from New Yorkers. We’re launching the Mayor’s Office of Deed Theft Prevention to defend vulnerable homeowners, and we are pausing the tax lien sale for the next six months as we review and fix a broken system.

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Make it STOP!😢😢😢🥺😭

2/ @smotus.bsky.social tells the audience about the modern Republican party, which he's been studying by surveying GOP local party chairs. He says the Trump coalition remains dominant in the GOP and will likely remain so, even after Trump leaves office and remains alive.

Highlights from the MPSA "Town Hall" on US democratic collapse, featuring leading scholars in political science. 🧵 (1) Moderator, @nazita.bsky.social , starts off with a plain description of democratic decline in the US with an impressive list of illiberal activity and rapid decline. 1/

Can't tell me all these corporations did not grok that token cost will eventually rival then exceed human labour cost, right? There's no way these people get paid that much to be shocked Pikachu at capitalism eating them next on a low-supply product they made themselves dependent on. Embarrassing.

Happy anniversary of this not happening

We're not asking for the impossible, just a chance to live. Our children go to sleep in fear and wake up lacking the most basic necessities. There isn't enough water, not enough food, and no safety. Every donation, no matter how small, could save my family. - doaa family shortlink.uk/1nMph

Oligarchs have always been a threat, but tech oligarchs represent a new level of danger. Their wealth dwarfs historical tycoons and their control over algorithms allows them to curate human reality. They own the digital infrastructure of thought

Lebanon confirms six killed in Israeli strikes despite ceasefire - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/lebanon-confirms-six-killed-israeli-strikes-despite-ceasefire

Big if true

"In Nablus... #Israeli forces invaded... abducting former pol. prisoner Hashem Mona along with his sister. ...illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers attacked Palestinian homes in the ath-Thaher area, prompting confrontations as residents attempted to repel the assault." imemc.org/article/frid...

NEW: Donald Trump has released his national policy on AI, banning states from regulating AI development on their own land. It also protects AI companies from any liability when someone uses their tool to cause harm or break the law.

Most states allow parents of adult children with disabilities, family members of children with disabilities, and family members of the elderly to be paid for providing attendant care. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is now saying all of this should be considered “natural supports” and unpaid labor.

Traitor prom.

DOJ arrested one of the commandos involved in the Maduro raid for insider trading on a predictions market on it. abcnews.com/US/doj-arres...