the people who told us to calm down because Roe was settled law are the same people now telling us to calm down because the military would never open fire on Americans

George Orwell’s Animal Crossing

Cops misled journalists about using a powerful surveillance tool to track a woman across state lines because she had an abortion, then tried to cover it up when we found out the truth. Huge story from @jasonkoebler.bsky.social and @josephcox.bsky.social this morning: www.404media.co/police-said-...

BREAKING: Apple removed an app for preserving TikToks, Instagram reels, news reports, and videos documenting abuses by ICE

🔗 www.404media.co/apple-banned...

Ubisoft: "Okay, so in this game you fight the Klan"
Marketers: "You can't sell that in America"
Ubisoft: "Why?"
Marketers: "Umm [gestures broadly]. The Klan fucking won?"
Ubisoft: "Merde."
Marketers: "Yeah, we've asked for the Statue back but they're being dicks about that too."

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

Those influencing Trump education policy aren't shy about wanting to eradicate public schools.

Asked what % of kids she imagines should be in public schools, Tiffany Justice -- Moms for Liberty cofounder, now with Heritage Foundation -- told @propublica.org

“I hope zero. I hope to get to zero.”

This South Side Weekly report on the Chicago building raid is well worth reading. Most striking to me are the indications of collusion between federal authorities and the building owner and management to effect a mass eviction at the blighted property. southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

You cannot be fucking serious

mascots outside of protests: off-putting, scary. there is a grown man inside of there.

mascots at protests: cool and funny, there is a friend inside of there.

I am once again asking why these data centers are all fucking SECRETS

"A controversial plan to build a 2.2-million-square-foot data center on farmland may still happen. A rural community... is looking to settle a lawsuit recently filed by a development firm working for an unidentified tech giant."

there is no way to put something on the internet without it being scraped

For every GOP org (other than media) there’s usually a center left one. The problem is execution not resources.

Pritzker is everything Newsom wants you to believe Newsom is, including both actually brave and seemingly in possession of an actually beating human heart.

I'm literally telling you I will take this whole country down with me before I help you pick and choose which minorities are icky enough to cut loose from society so I SUGGEST you use the next THREE YEARS to bring me somebody better

Ok, this is just funny.

isportlandburning.com

Extremely un-friendly reminder that "credit scores" are predatory, discriminatory, controlled by for-profit companies, and should be abolished.

A little-known process that requires insurers to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment.

External reviews are one of the industry’s best-kept secrets, and only a tiny fraction of those eligible actually use them.

By @deldeib.bsky.social

As we finish this first week in September I want to talk about my writing and ask for some help in keeping my blog going. I've been trying this summer to intentionally write things that could be useful for the months ahead the-haters-guide-to-international-politics.ghost.io/the-state-vi...

Dunno man, seems a little misleading to write an article about Trump describing activity in Portland and Chicago as “insurrection” with a 33 year old photo of a burning donut shop taken in the 1992 LA Riots (sans caption explaining that) as the header on all your posts about it.

They’re still alive here: iceout.org/en/

Yes, the way we teach this stuff makes it seem like we can win by memes & PR stunts. I only recently learned the peace activists burning draft records weren't just making a symbolic statement. The draft board didn't have copies - every file destroyed was a man who'd never be called up to war.

How can they visit every house in one night?!

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections