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“The people impacted by this policy are neighbors, friends, and family members, living peacefully in the United States and making important contributions to our communities.”

I think it’s telling that the cultural touch point for authoritarianism and fascism in the United States for so many white people are the fictional events of The Handmaid’s Tale and not the actual history of the United States.

Finished reading Psychopomp by @mariadongwrites.bsky.social. Started reading Ballad & Dagger by @djolder.bsky.social. #AmReading #Fiction #Books

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"keez you're posting a lot of like strong feelings on very diverse topics tonight eh" yes sorry yes my book I've been working on since March 2021 is coming out tomorrow and I'm vibrating on several different frequencies atm sorry

Every episode of The Pitt feels like smoking one (1) pack of camels unfiltered and then jumping into a vat of ice water (affectionate)

Grok's sexy AI "companions" are being powered by listening in on user's private conversations with chatbots, say former workers. "It made me feel like I was eavesdropping... like people clearly didn't understand that there's people on the other end listening to these things."

Welp it’s gotten real real if you can please help. If you can’t it’s really hard out here so share gofund.me/a5ee0064

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Apropos of nothing in particular, here's Walt Disney's testimony to HUAC in 1947, where he named employees he believed were communists, condemned labor unions, and accused "commie" groups, including the League of Women Voters, of smearing him. 🗃️ archive.org/details/walt...

Guess we know kushner's answer to the age old LLC twitter question now

Audre told us.

Despair is a commodity for which we have no use for in this moment

You pissed? Good Get creative Get strategic Get organized

This. Need more Ripleys and fewer Hudsons. The game is not, in fact, over, man.

we are going to win (Stealing format from @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social) www.ft.com/content/36dd...

"I'm asking you with a broken heart" 💔

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win (h/t @miriamposner.com) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Heart, Be At Peace by Donal Ryan is a fucking masterpiece. Brilliant storytelling, character work, worldbuilding. Every page a full meal.

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New from me: There's a lot of misinformation around the reasons I was fired from WaPo. Here's the official termination letter I got sent by Washington Post. Read and judge for yourself. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

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Mario Guevara is here legally and is not facing any criminal charges. He is being thrown out of the country for nothing but reporting news.

That final "it's all good" is the most Kendall Roy statement ever to be uttered lmao

reposting this for Reasons buttondown.com/theswordandt...

if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved

The remarks weren’t “about Charlie Kirk,” they were about how this administration is using Kirk’s death as an excuse to shut down critics … and they responded by proving him completely correct.

UPDATE—21 members of Congress now say Israel is committing genocide. Ro Khanna: "I agree with the UN commission's heartbreaking finding that there is a genocide in Gaza. What matters is what we do about it—stop military sales that are being used to kill civilians and recognize a Palestinian state."

A new report shows the Israeli Govt has hired a Democratic run PR firm (founded by Joe Biden advisor Anita Hill) to send a bot army to counter the factual claim that Israel is committing genocide. Stop debating them. Block & move on. Raise your voice to condemn genocide unapologetically.

Sorry I was late to your wedding, my flight was canceled because my pilot posted a Charlie Kirk quote verbatim in the comments of an Instagram Reel.

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

I think the coolest thing you can do right now is live with integrity and care about the people around you, not just your friends and family but your community. Deny the lie they want you to believe, that taking as much as you can while giving nothing back is the goal.

Free Palestine forever 🇵🇸

Finally, an excuse to reprint the op-ed we run 6 times per week

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it is hard to explain how delightfully bonkers this is but the incumbent mayor, who may be okay at parts of the job but who is abysmal at communicating, will NOT be standing in the general because the queer, black, polyamorous, DSA, pro-psychedelics city councilor CRUSHED her in the prelim

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I am just going to keep posting that the TX governor recently pardoned a political murderer. The dude texted "I'm going to shoot protestors", then went and shot a Black Lives Matter protester. He was convicted in a jury trial. Hard to find a more blatant example of celebrating political violence.

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Really important story here from Tactical Tech, a @globalvoices.org partner:

huge congratulations to E.G. Condé and Sordidez! Hear more about Taínofuturism and writing the futures we need in our conversation on the podcast Not Now But Soon, debuting tomorrow with this very episode! issues.org/not-now-but-...

🧵My Taínofuturism novella, SORDIDEZ @stelliform.press, won the Indie Ink Award for "Writing the Future We Need: Latinx/Latine Representation by a Latinx/Latine author". What a wonderful way to kick off #HispanicHeritageMonth ! What an important institution for recognizing indie works. Gracias! 1/

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Angham. Angham took care of her two small children Omar, 6 and Ayla, 2 before the war and her husband was a house painter (just like my dad growing up). They found out today that their house is totally destroyed and also need to evacuate.

Why? Why should parents and children "use AI together?" Why not make an ethical choice not to use it together? Why is the implicit and explicit message always "you must use it, there is no other option"