You don't have to overturn Citizens United to beat it. Corporations only exist because states charter them, so a state can decide spending in elections isn't a power they wield. Not regulation, redefinition. Hawaii made it law. Montana's gathering signatures. More states are watching.

Casar: "The problem we face right now in the US is the govt is doing nothing on AI. The govt is doing nothing to stop AI from taking your jobs, from exploiting your kid, from giving advice to a terrorist, from being a cybersecurity threat. It's bc these AI companies have funded massive super PAC."

Undercutting vast swaths of the job market with #AI without also providing UBI is deeply irresponsible. Time for the elites to remember exactly who the #Luddites really were.

Oh, fuck.

There is history and meaning in the placement of the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington. Historian Kevin Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social explains beautifully why Trump's Arch disrupts that connection. kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/a-memorial...

A ca. 4,500-year-old seed bag from #Egypt, made from reed-grass. It's still in fantastic condition due to the arid desert climate. On display at Neues Museum Berlin. 📷 me

This is peak Louisiana sense of humor.

if any Wikipedia editors out there are interested in challenging "gamete truthers" on that site, feel free to use or share my gamete essay!

This is what I assumed as soon as I saw the Wikipedia entry on sex. In theory Wikipedia has mechanisms for dealing with this sort of thing, but in practice, they... don't work as well as they should.

🧵Oh, I almost forgot to tell you guys: Have you heard of Jake Rosmarin, the travel blogger currently at the National Quarantine Unit of the U. Nebraska Medical Center, because he was on the Hanta ship? He's been blogging about his quarantine (mostly about decorating his room & what he's eating -

Saw this in NYC earlier this year and it’s really something special (and would make a hell of a double feature with Paul Wright’s Arcadia)

My homeland is leading the world right now.

“The public comment period closes approximately July 13, 2026…Comments must be submitted to regulations.gov, Docket OMB-2026-0034. Scientists, universities, scientific societies, patient advocacy organizations, state governments, and members of the public all have standing to comment.”

Analysis | By all accounts, the deal Donald Trump is negotiating with Iran would be worse than the one Barack Obama got without a war or fuel spikes. However, Trump will be doing it while White.

I lost my job, my kids have measles, and I can’t afford gas or steak. But at least now Achilles won’t be played by a trans actor in a movie I’m not going to see based on a book that I’ve never read.

Reject Republican framing. Call things what they are.

ICYMI — Justice Alito’s son has been working in the Trump administration 🤔🤷🏼 So much corruption

☣️ ☣️ ☣️ Ebola Outbreak in DRC and Uganda: Situation Report #2 (May 26, 2026) ☣️ ☣️ ☣️ reliefweb.int/report/democ... The Bundibugyo strain of Ebola virus has impacted both DRC and Uganda, with over 900 suspected cases, 223 suspected deaths, 112 confirmed cases, and 11 confirmed deaths. #Ebola #Outbreak

Adding a “How To Use The Library” scavenger-hunt assignment to my intro to Roman culture class was the single best addition to my pedagogical practice last year. Am now creating versions for basically all my classes moving forward. Also, the students LOVED it.

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I couldn’t leave Celiac Disease Awareness Month without yelling about the importance of the The ADINA Act It would change my life, and maybe it would change yours too… 1/

I'm sorry, am I reading this right? Nearly half the workforce at the office responsible for cleaning up the federal government’s nuclear sites is gone.

Real change starts with the first step. Sylvia Wright has spent her career fighting for students, supporting educators, and working to move South Carolina education forward. Now, it’s time to take the next step together. Early voting is officially OPEN across South Carolina.

Corporations spend more than $1.5 billion a year on union-busting. That’s $1.5 billion they could have spent on higher wages, better benefits, and improving workplace safety. Remember: if they weren’t so scared of worker power, they wouldn’t fight so hard against unions.

I just can’t anymore. Needless wars, people starving, jobs disappearing, and these STUPID FUCKS are full on speedrunning Court of the Sun King into the French Revolution.

yet we can't even get infrastructure built during infrastructure week smh

Louisiana just criminalized being poor. Sleep outside: arrested. Can’t pay the fine or the mandatory “treatment program”? The court orders unpaid labor for the state. That’s not a treatment pipeline. That’s a forced labor pipeline and Republicans built it on purpose. Cruel and inhumane.

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How one man's Kafkaesque plight explains the growing hunger strikes at immigration lockups and the nightly unrest in Newark Izzy Aly says he'll die soon unless an ICE camp in rural Pa. stops neglecting his advanced kidney failure My column on the fight to save Izzy www.inquirer.com/opinion/izzy...

Very telling that you have to search rather hard to find the face of the real fraud in MN: www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

What bothers me is the hubris of some of these experts. We're living in unprecedented times, politically, environmentally, biologically. Maybe it's best to err on the side of caution with infectious pathogens

When you hear a recent study has found “Many older adults who died of COVID weren’t close to death before infection,” it is important to understand that while these people “died of COVID” it would also be true to say that these people were sacrificed by their societies.

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why am i just finding out about ICE terrorizing this city and people? why is no one in the media talking about this beyond independent outlets? this is horrifying

Help n share We save each other

Good lord. I had heard that things were dire at Air Traffic Control in the US under our reality show Transportation Secretary, but this is terrifying. Sounds like a stoned teenage intern is in charge at JFK.

trans rights might sound like a Big Ask to some people, but it's not a Hard Ask. the average person has to do literally nothing

🧵on how I was still doing science education on gender affirming care while at the hospital healing This is why I want to become "Dr. Jey the Science They" Not for fame or money... But because it brings me joy to help others learn about science 🧬💖

JFC new IEA report shows: orders for fossil methane plants for data centres are bigger in the US than they for *any other country for any other reason* (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) "if data centres were a country, they would be the second-largest destination for gas turbines ordered from Q1 2025 to Q1 2026"

#VoteEarlySC The primary is as important as the November election! #NewSC is needed!

If we want to have a serious conversation about who's being impaired by social media use, then politicians are going to have to look in the mirror and realise that it's actually them on a personal level and the demographic groups the belong to that are most susceptible.

We must not forget. The killing of up to 14 million humans by illegally erasing USAID is happening now. Congress could stop it. The courts could stop it. We must stop it.

It's publication day for Writing Game Histories!! 🥳🎉 Please do recommend it for your library, but it's also out in paperback so not as hideously expensive as academic books can be: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g... @doktornick.bsky.social @doni.bsky.social @historygamesnet.bsky.social

I believe Sun Tzu wrote "if the most unflattering pic of your enemy that you can find still makes her look like an absolute smoke show, one must find a different battlefield"

WHO warns that eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo faces a “catastrophic collision of disease and conflict” as a fast-spreading Ebola outbreak outpaces containment efforts in a region already battered by armed violence, mass displacement and acute hunger.