This is very, very good news out of New Hampshire tonight, and I hope it is a step toward better for a Granite State that is led with compassion, by people who believe in funding education, trusting teachers, and letting kids be their full selves.
“The University of Wisconsin-Madison Academic Staff Assembly passed a resolution on Monday calling for UWPD to end their contract with Flock Safety and publish all other contracts with surveillance technology companies, like Motorola Safeties and Rhombus.”
smh of all the places to host your charity event to support getting stray animals into homes… and the orange cretin wasn’t even there
Happy Harriet Tubman Day! #quiltsky #artsky #quilting #quilts #historysky #BlackHistory
I wish I could trade my sleepiness for some of their wakefulness. LOL
Some children should have been left behind
Falsehood is an untrue statement or a lie, which also refers to the practice of lying or the absence of truth or accuracy; a statement that is not correct; a pack of lies (idiom); a delusional belief; a myth, superstition, illusion or fiction; an inaccurate story or pretense to spread misinformation
Was so excited for spring weather, I forgot about spring allergies.
Same. But you can easily have a psy-op on a stupid person leading a regime that traffics in paranoia and conspiracism
I appreciate this family’s commitment to refusing to do more damage in the name of punishment:
“Hughes’ family said he knew and loved the five students involved and urged authorities to drop all charges against them.”
The hot buttered yam bought off the street in Invisible Man. 😋 😋 Makes me want to fire up the oven
Actually moving to Texas “to protect” itself from “shareholder abuse.” 😒😒😒
I keep resharing info about LaFlamme and the people mad about Platner‘s candidacy keep not sharing it and I don’t really get why you wouldn’t
Let me tell you something. Y’all are asking too many damn questions at every point of sale. I have to leave a comment, make a suggestion, donate to a charity, choose a method of payment three times and then multiple choice of ways to get a receipt.
Take the damn money and leave me alone.
AI isn't taking people's jobs. Here's what's really happening
Oracle's layoffs show that the people losing jobs aren't losing them because AI can do their work. They're losing them to money spent on chips and data centers
qz.com/ai-layoffs-w...
i’m disabled and could drive in an emergency, but don’t feel it’s safe. If I trusted techbros I’d definitely use that feature.
lol lmao
I'm sure it's fine that my university's VP for civil rights compliance is leaving and the President isn't planning to hire a replacement
NY Times is officially in a post-satire reality frame.
Our tax dollars are paying for this horror.
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Botstein still has a job.
A+
Ogles isn’t the only Republican in Congress comfortable with being openly Islamophobic.
um, too late?
“W/loss of hundreds of experts, CISA’s ability to detect threats from_most significant adversary, China, as well as others like Russia & Iran, is severely diminished, & now is not the time 4 U.S. to let down its guard,said a former agency official”
www.alternet.org/msn-uk/trump...
Fuckery afoot in Virginia.
Tbh I’m not experiencing narrative rupture and it feels really bad being right so don’t worry it all feels bad one way or another
If you're keeping an eye on the global rise of right-wing populism, put South Africa on your watch list. The Patriotic Alliance is small but growing in popularity. Other parties might well veer rightward to counter it. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...
Was thrilled to be asked to contribute to this issue. I talk about some interesting parts of the history of slavery and continuing fights to end its modern incarnations, but the thesis of the piece is simple:
In this moment, stand up and fight back. It’s worth it, and you won’t be standing alone.
