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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 13h

Mother Jones has substantially more paid subscribers than Bari Weiss’ Free Press, so perhaps someone should put us in charge of a TV network.

Nice little TV network you got there

How easily has Trump rolled corporate media? So much more easily than he probably expected.

www.motherjones.com

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 21h

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

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Elizabeth Story @hyperbolictelly.bsky.social · 15h

screencap of Dr. Cox from Scrubs captioned " It's regular-strength Tylenol. Here's what you do. Get her to open her mouth, take a handful and throw it at her. Whatever sticks, that's the correct dosage."

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Elizabeth Story @hyperbolictelly.bsky.social · 15h

the roundest face!

Elizabeth Story @hyperbolictelly.bsky.social · 16h

peter capaldi was in an episode of Poirot and i didn't even recognize him because i assumed he was born a weird old man

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 21h

Watch the full conversation:
zeteo.com/p/beyond-isr...

‘F*ck ICE and Free Palestine’ - Hollywood Star Hannah Einbinder Talks Zionism, Jewish Identity, and Palestinian Liberation

In the first episode of this new Zeteo podcast, host Simone Zimmerman dives deep into Israel and Palestine with one of the most outspoken anti-Zionist Jews in Hollywood.

zeteo.com

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 22h

The Atlantic, the NYT, the Post, the Free Press, Persuasion ... god, so many others ... they did it. They participated in the destruction of norms against bigotry & now bigotry is running rampant, out in the open, at the highest levels.

Great work everyone.

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SF Signal @sfsignal.bsky.social · 17h

Last night, I finished THE ESSENTIAL HORROR OF JOE R. LANSDALE, a new collection out this week from @TachyonPub.

What a great collection! Every single story was superb: engaging, skillfully told and a little bit weird. Lansdale is simply a masterful storyteller.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 17h

we would all be much better off if the crimes committed by the rich for their own amusement were treated more seriously than the crimes of desperation and necessity committed by the less fortunate

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Elizabeth Story @hyperbolictelly.bsky.social · 1d

i UNDERSTAND that health codes exist for very good reasons, but a bookstore with a cafe AND a cat is still the dream

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 1d

They absolutely should give an entirely redacted presentation

Thomas M. Keck @tmksyracuse.bsky.social · 1d

Weber State administrators told student they couldn't present their research on the state's anti-DEI law at an on-campus conference on censorship(!) unless they removed all mentions of DEI from their slides

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Weber State Censors, Then Cancels, Censorship Conference

University officials said that several planned presentations violated a Utah state law banning diversity, equity and inclusion at public universities.

www.insidehighered.com

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Elizabeth Story @hyperbolictelly.bsky.social · 1d

i, too, am famous for my disco naps

Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 2d

Highland cattle are famous for their ability to "disco nap". Normally these brief, efficient sleeps will last between three and twenty minutes, deploying a variety of objects as pillows, including moorland boulders, cars or any particularly large dog or sheep who happens to be nearby.

A highland cow having a little nap on a boulder on Dartmoor (ok, it was actually scratching its head)

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Elizabeth Story @hyperbolictelly.bsky.social · 1d

where did you get this video of me and my boss

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Elizabeth Story @hyperbolictelly.bsky.social · 1d

everybody knocks on the school festival arc of HeroAca, and yeah it's not the strongest, but it is NECESSARY to have a storyline that reminds the readers that these are high school students who should be doing normal high school things before the status quo is literally disintegrated

Elizabeth Story @hyperbolictelly.bsky.social · 1d

my mild take is the battles in battle shonen are too long. if you took 2-3 episodes off the Shibuya Incident to squeeze in some final classroom scenes before everything goes down, then the deaths would have hit that much harder. You need time with characters to miss them when they're gone.

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 1d

DEI for me, not for thee.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Pritzker: "He said he was going after the worst of the worst. It's not going after the worst of the worst when you're just literally stopping children who happen to be brown & asking them for papers as if they're gonna have proof they're a citizen. Pull out your phones and film everything you see"

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 1d

This right here is Trump's ultimate goal: staying in power

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 2d

They come from Indiana just like the guns in NYC come from Virginia. It's an open secret.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 2d

You can’t talk seriously about gun violence in Chicago without talking about where the guns come from. www.pbump.net/o/the-red-st...

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter:

A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

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Nick Baumgardner @nickbaumgardner.bsky.social · 2d

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Elizabeth Story @hyperbolictelly.bsky.social · 2d

is there a world where wide-leg pants don't make me look weird? because it's not like i wear skinny jeans for my own amusment

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 3d

this is practical advice about immediate steps to take if somebody you know has been taken by ICE.

nothing is ever guaranteed, they'll try to get away with whatever they can, but you have to try whatever you can too

ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 3d

this felt too informative not to share

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 3d

Really want to encourage libraries - especially school libraries - to put no-AI content into your collection development policy. At the very least, if you have a clause in there about requiring accurate information, you can use that to weed out or prevent genAI purchases.

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 3d

“When you get a suspicious book, “you look it up to see what else the [author] has written. And you see there's 30 things, and none of them have any reviews, and they were all written in the last two years,” DeMeester-Lane says.”

How Local Librarians Keep AI Slop Off the Shelves

AI is being used to create nonsensical, sometimes dangerously inaccurate books. Local librarians are tasked with keeping these volumes out of their collections.

www.governing.com

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Elizabeth Story @hyperbolictelly.bsky.social · 3d

"Your pronouns are cho/chang?" 😂😂😂😂

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