It is genuinely incomprehensible to me how people who have devoted their lives & careers to education can decide it no longer matters whether high school graduates are capable of reading an entire book.
Annie's feed is a must-follow and an inadvertent advertisement for homeschooling or Catholic schools (ok Episcopal)
You may have noticed: American politicians are really old. You, and everyone else who follows American politics.
But you may not know that American politicians are exceptionally old compared to other democracies.
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Creep whose phone calls nobody will take anymore seeks new friends with literally no standards.
It’s extremely funny that Patel’s lawyers decided to spread allegations that got cut from the published story
This is glaringly obvious to everyone except for the faces of corporate media, who desperately want to walk a red carpet
“It suggests that the annihilation of innocent non-combatants is one of the many reasonable options available to a leader if he wishes to bring about strategic results. It implies that all means can be used to achieve an end” www.liberalcurrents.com/remembering-...
There's a tiny detail in the Atlantic story that reveals how books on pressing news really come together. Reporters don't hold their most important stories for personal gain, the way everyone on Bluesky thinks.
More generally: Trump’s economic policy makes more sense once you recognize it’s just an elaborate bribe-solicitation mechanism.
NYT INVESTIGATION: As the Trump administration & Congress last year moved to repeal sanctions on Syria, the Qatar-based family that most stood to benefit was privately negotiating a real-estate partnership with Jared Kushner and proposing a Trump golf course in Syria www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/u...
Going to be the refrain of an epic poem about grappling with mortality OR a memorable line uttered by the next great Star Trek/Avengers villain.
Devin Stone turned punchy legal explainers into a YouTube empire. Now he’s warning that the sheer volume of Trump administration scandals is distorting reality itself. www.wired.com/story/the-bi...
#Palantir Goes Mask-Off For Fascism. It Won’t End Well. - www.techdirt.com/2026/04/20/p... pity #starmer doesn't understand or care
The Slopocalypse is upon us.
The AI bubble is like the dotcom bubble: It’s not that the Internet was some useless passing fad; it’s that a lot of money got poured into absolute horseshit before people started figuring out where the actual value was.
"We are pleased to share more than 125,000 U.S. Supreme Court records and briefs. These materials which span nearly two centuries of American law are now freely accessible online."
"Includes records and briefs spanning cases from 1830 through 2019."
The fact that every major police union endorsed Donald Trump is under appreciated in our political discourse.
YouTube is showing me ads for software to “create your own AI influencer” and I would very much like to set off a global contraceptive bomb and give the bonobos a chance.
In a nutshell. 😊
Usually they were vaguely aware that the FBI/CIA had done unsavory stuff during the Cold War, but the sheer level of cartoonish supervillainy still came as a surprise to most of them.
I used to give talks on surveillance history to interns a few times a year, and the vast majority of them always looked shocked when we got to this bit, and I showed them the actual letter. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
The FBI tried to drive MLK to suicide by sending him threatening letters along with illegally recorded tapes of his extramarital affairs.Though that’s sort of cheating b/c it’s not really a “theory,” just a well-documented historical fact that sounds like a conspiracy theory when you first hear it.
Well at 70 I may well circle back around.
You know you’ve reached middle-age when it’s early evening before it occurs to you that it’s 4/20
Did I just argue with a joke? Part of a Bluesky educational series
Also the GOP’s current definition of “socialist” seems to be “anyone to the left of Chip Roy.”
"particularly" is a funny way to spell "exclusively"
Also for god’s sake if you’re going to be a poll sniffer at least take note that Trump’s atrocities have succeeded in shifting the electorate in a massively more pro-immigrant direction.
Or at least be fully weird about it and put Doctor Doom’s backstory in a post-credits scene on a new remaster of Eraserhead.
I am of the quaint opinion that if you have new footage that is necessary to understand the story of your new movie, you should put that footage… in your new movie.