Amazing how much of Trump's presidency is just blowing up something good that Biden did and then slowly, incompetently, ineffectively trying to recreate it.

A.I. Has a Message Problem of Its Own Making A.I. companies are facing hostility and mistrust—and much of the heightened, sometimes histrionic rhetoric about the powers of the technology has come from within the industry.

"Does anyone still believe that billionaire tech executives can be trusted as unelected stewards of the social good? The past decade should have disabused us of that notion many times over."
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The Art of the Divine Reach-Around.

Threats to Library Funding End With Settlement by Trump Administration

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For all those still feeling the moon joy—Artemis II was brought to you by public schools and publicly funded science. Copy that! 👩‍🚀🚀💕

*All four astronauts went to public schools!

I lent my kid my 35mm point and shoot for a camping trip and they accidentally created some shoegaze album covers.

A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

Chart showing print books still dominate in the U.S., but use of e-books and audiobooks has grown over the past decade.

📚 Americans still opt for print books over digital or audio versions. Which reading format do you prefer? www.pewresearch.org/...

A WHOLE CIVILIZATION WILL DIE TONIGHT My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools. Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's "keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's "we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight." It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before. "It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time. A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead. @michaelfdubois Mukad A QuBoy @michacifdubois

Brutal.

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

Quigley Calls for Trump's Removal Under 25th Amendment Today, Chicago Congressman Mike Quigley (IL-05) called for Donald Trump's removal from the office of the President, following his post threatening Iran that "a whole civilization will die tonight":

I'm officially calling for the Cabinet to remove Trump from office under the 25th Amendment. If they can't, Congress must return from recess today and begin impeachment proceedings.

Read my full statement below.
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Workers say Columbus Metropolitan Library management is union-busting – Matter News An Unfair Labor Practice Charge filed last week alleges that the recent termination of a CML employee was “unlawful and retaliatory,” motivated by the worker’s involvement in union organizing.

Columbus, Ohio has one of the best public library systems in the country. It's one of the absolute best things about this city.

But its management is engaging in union-busting and they need to be stopped. matternews.org/community/wo...

Egregious murderer

Statement: Rejecting the FY2027 Trump IMLS Budget Page 56 of Trump’s proposed budget calls for the closure of the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The ONLY source of federal funding for libraries.

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The movies are back baby!

this video of Mark Moran needs to be studied for the gap btwn what's happening with the face/hand gestures/posture and the message being delivered

this is the chaplain btw. wonder why he was fired.

screenshot of the "Michael Clayton" entry on Criterion Channel for April 2026

It's real: Michael Clayton is on the Criterion Channel.

"In Illinois, civil rights attorneys and civic organizations are pressuring the Cook County state’s attorney to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate and potentially prosecute ICE, CBP, and Border Patrol agents for uses of force and wrongful arrests during Operation Midway Blitz."

native americans determined to not be birthright citizens; deported back to america

Trump criticizes European allies for not helping fix the damage his war against Iran has caused

It’s actually possible to write headlines that don’t obscure who did what. Thanks, AP.

INTERNATIONAL TRANSGENDER DAY OF VISIBILITY MARCH 31

International Transgender Day of Visibility is celebrated annually on March 31 to honor the lives, achievements, and resilience of transgender and non-binary people worldwide.

The mere existence of this sentence in the chyron is evidence of a staggering level of incompetence, stupidity and failure. You talk to the people who control the army and state power ministries. They seem to be playing games going on something they heard from a guy who said who knows a guy.

Defence Minister Margarita Robles of Spain’s left-wing government says it has closed Spanish airspace to US planes carrying out missions against Iran, describing the war as “profoundly illegal and profoundly unjust.”

Free Chicago

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So much to requote in this short clip.
Love the thoughtful pauses as she contemplates the questions. The answers are so coherent and articulate. And innate.

Walz: We will never leave the side of our Somali Minnesotans. Here's our pledge to you, our Somali Minnesotans, your great grandchildren will still be here when that orange clown is in the dustbin of history.

View of street full of marchers in Chicago for the No Kings protest

Chicagoooo 🚫👑

Blue Governors Are Tacking Rightward on Fossil Fuels Governors like Healey, Hochul, and Lamont portray their backtracking as a pragmatic solution to affordability issues. Others say it doesn’t make economic sense—and betrays key constituents.

This fucking party. Just absolutely incapable of mustering even the minimal baseline unity necessary to make an argument to the public.