I would love it if those of you who do not have library cards will apply for one at your local branch during #NationalLibraryWeek. Then let me know about it. 😇

Beacon Hill’s effort to restrict social media use by teens is clumsy and invasive, critics say - The Boston Globe Proposals from on Beacon Hill aimed at curbing social media use among teens have run into a range of practical, constitutional, and security challenges.

"Civil liberties groups and organizations in favor of tech privacy warn the proposals could backfire and make online activity even less private by requiring users to submit personal information to verify their ages or parental status."

#mapoli

www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/19/m...

Amazon, which saved $4B in taxes under Trump's Big Ugly Bill, has cut 30,000 jobs since last October.

Verizon, which saved $2B, plans to cut 15,000 jobs this year.

Meta, which saved $3B, plans to lay off 20% or more of its workforce.

Trickle-down economics is a cruel joke.

Josh Rogin: “Somebody shorted the oil market today by hundreds of millions of dollars exactly 20 minutes before Trump made his announcement—

If you see that once, it could be a coincidence. But that's happened at least three times, if not more, since the war began — that's a pattern”

This is a good piece.

also

Religion is not a synonym for Christianity

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit

Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here

Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse

Media and universities: AI is here to stay

Reminder that "the kids" don't talk like this, the Hitler Youth do.

One thing that makes the Pulp Fiction script brilliant is Tarantino made up a fake Bible passage that sounds like a Bible passage, introduced it as just something that sounds badass,” then had a character do a thoughtful interpretive analysis of that (false but treated as real) passage at gunpoint.

does anyone remember when i asked that one billionaire liberal donor complaining about attacks on media free speech why he doesn't buy a media company and he said it's against his core values? good times.

This is amazing...

Dr Ioannidis (9 April 2020): "I would say that COVID-19 will result in fewer than 40,000 deaths this season in the USA."

Dr Howard: "The USA reached 40,000 COVID deaths the next week."

Oh hands down, Amy Poehler

despite all the efforts of certain press outlets who have been doing their best for him

this really is a significant blow to the global far right. Hungary under Orban was more than a financier and place to host events: it was a proof of concept

i keep telling y’all but you wont listen.

Every GenX queer person was hardcore bullied BY OTHER GENX PEOPLE.

the reason every women’s center and queer center you know has those genx girls who are ALWAYS ready to throw down is because we have been dealing with these assholes our entire lives.

URGENT! The Massachusetts House just passed a "social media ban" that would force YOU to upload a government ID or submit to a face scan to post online. CALL YOUR STATE SENATORS! 978-485-4694

Okay bluesky I need your help

I live in Massachusetts. You might think we're a bastion of lefty intellectualism but our state government a clusterfuck of post-puritan real estate bros

Reskeet this. Text it to your "friends from home"

Help this find every masshole poster who will know what to do

This was far too relatable and yet, maybe, just maybe, better things are possible

feels so good to steal money straight out of Intuit's pockets, love this for all of us

Same goes for every "genius" academic or scholar.

it's hard to get retractions to stick because you can't un-have an emotion. a lot of people developed angry feelings for Chappell Roan over this, and now that they know she didn't actually do it they're even MORE angry at her because they resent being told they repeated wrong information

So once again a man started a wildly successful harassment campaign against a female celebrity who didn’t actually do anything and the internet swallowed it full throated, and the whole thing is revealed to be concocted horseshit he can’t muster anything more than “sorry that happened I guess”

if you wanna keep your job, don't be a fucking creep. it's really that simple.

the Swalwell accusers are heroes and I'm so so glad they got to see such a swift and definitive outcome rather than months of this dragging out while their honesty was constantly relitigated by Twitter pundits

MAY IT EVER BE THUS

What if we just cleared Congress of all the abusers and sex pests this week

what is stopping us

who cares what party they are in

good day for resignations

mr president

Tony Gonzales says he will resign from House

GONZALES OUT AS WELL.

Good.

I just want to say this out loud: a man like Swalwell could surely have any number of consensual affairs he wanted. He targeted vulnerable young women he had power over ON PURPOSE, because he gets something out of abusing his power over people. The lack of consent is the POINT for men like him.

I know that some people are angry about the double standard this resignation represents, but this is an area in which Democrats simply have to do the right thing, swiftly and without whataboutism. The contrast makes the point. And even if it didn’t, this still had to happen.

transphobia is a luxury belief, which is why it’s so prevalent among beltway types who don’t have real problems

This!! The Bund didn't "fail," they were massacred, along with European Jews of all political stripes.

Pride Flag Can Fly at Stonewall After Trump Administration Reversal

Tell me again how all is lost and there’s no point in fighting back blah blah blah

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/n...