Today marks 11 years since the death of Freddie Gray. Last year, we documented the ways everyday people in Baltimore came together to create change.

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Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

An AI-free OS for an AI-free product line with a written guarantee from Apple not to insert AI into users’ devices at a later date.

it's at least cosmically funny how some folks in the admin were clearly setting up to blame israel for this debacle and then trump is like "oh nonono i made the decision to do this all by myself"

I AM BEGGING

The Infowars news is funny, yes. But more importantly, it is an outright rebuke of Alex Jones' evil.

It's testament to the strength and resilience of the Sandy Hook families who survived this bullshit for more than a decade as well as the Onion, which didn't give up on this for the last 18 months.

I recently realized that I have been using the same white noise generator now for 26 years, almost every night. It's lasted longer than any other device in my possession. The only problem is that the plastic is breaking down and getting sticky ... but today, I fixed that! (1/3)

it really is remarkable *how mild* the op-ed that she wrote was. It really shouldn’t matter what she said, but I think they chose to make an example of her precisely *because* she didn’t do anything remotely wrong. They wanted to show they could do this to anyone.

There's a lot of Apple Pie & Freedom Fries marketing slash nation-branding BS that generations of US citizens have believed is true about our country and the world.

e.g. "The Long Peace"

capitalism is destroying democracy TikTok video by ashley st. clair

Ashley St Clair, former MAGA influencer and Elon Musk’s baby mama, posted a TikTok 6 days ago called “How MAGA influence campaigns operate” and it's WILD. www.tiktok.com/@ashstc/vide...

It's 9+ minutes long and worth the watch. And no, it does not work like this on The Left.

i think people have a right to expect that leadership figures go back to hiding their drug and alcohol usage and posing as dignified professionals

The 2016 Supreme Court memos and the mess that John Roberts has made of his court The New York Times scoop about the Clean Power Plan case SCOTUS memos highlights the conservative justices' brazen disregard for their own rules — both then and now.

NEW: The 2016 Supreme Court memos and the mess that John Roberts has made of his court.

The New York Times scoop about the Clean Power Plan case SCOTUS memos highlights the conservative justices' brazen disregard for their own rules — both then and now.

Tonight, at Law Dork:

Fellas, if she tries to tell you that another 2 inches doesn’t matter, just remember: July 13, 2024 Butler, Pennsylvania

This is the best painting of ‘Tippi’ Hedren in The Birds I’ve ever seen.

Calm down, computer software isn't making decisions about who lives and who dies in war. It merely processes a ton of data and then makes a recommendation to a human who has no realistic way to verify it

Strange People on the Hill A gripping story that reveals what happened to a small American town when an influential white nationalist group relocated its headquarters there, illustrati...

Next time someone asks me what it's like to report on the far-right, I'll point them to @michaelehayden.bsky.social's new book. He captures the mental/emotional labor involved w/ reporting on people who want us dead, while providing riveting accounts about

www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/micha...

The thing I think about whenever Palentir comes up is that I once played Werewolf sitting next to a guy that worked at Palentir and he spent the entire time trying to convince me that the company wasn’t evil while simultaneously picking off every villager in the game.

This is a boringly accurate, purely factual description of events.

And again, this is simply not receiving the same breathless BIDEN FAILED IN AFGHANISTAN type of coverage, even though this is orders of magnitude worse on every dimension. The two parties simply are not held to the same standards.

yep: one of the reasons i want to nip the "stabbed in the back" myth now is that it gets Americans an excuse to avoid reining in the boys in Tampa in CENTCOM

holy shit

Searing opinion from a federal judge on Long Island, who describes "police state"-like tactics by ICE to arrest peopleand draw up after-the-fact warrants.

He says DOJ is damaging its credibility with the courts by trying to shield ICE from scrutiny. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

bloob for the bloob gob

It's like what says @diplomatofnight.com regarding Democrats and Israel, the reason they're willing to spit in our face and assume there won't be any consequences is because there is a long track record of them doing exactly that. If we want that to change, we're going to have to actually change it.

Do you ever think about how Georges Bataille and his French sociologist friends all got so obsessed with ritual human sacrifice that they formed a secret society to conduct one, but they couldn’t do it because nobody wanted to be the executioner and everyone wanted to be the victim?

“Feud with the Pope” is BACK as a likely Wikipedia section heading after a 400-year gap.

FARA enforcement, Title IX compliance for faculty, and fiduciary duty of board members of publicly traded companies; all stuff already on the books waiting to be enforced and all stuff that is objectively good and will also put a serious dent in the fascism complex

It's been so interesting to watch this unfold. Barnes & Noble and other big book chains shut indies down in the the 1990s (and on) and then Amazon came along and ate up all the book market share. Now people tired of big corporations are creating demand for more indies

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