Regardless of whether it’s all talk, when the leader of our country expresses plainly genocidal intent, everyone has to do something.

For citizens of all political stripes, it means rejecting this madness. For Congress, it means taking action to rein him in. Now.

Order on Motion for Miscellaneous Relief AND Order on Motion for Preliminary Injunction AND Order on Motion to Dismiss for Failure to State a Claim AND Order on Motion to Dismiss for Failure to State ... MEMORANDUM RULING: IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Defendants' MOTION TO STAY THE CASE [Doc. 50] is GRANTED. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Plaintiffs' MOTION FOR PRELIMINARY RELIEF UNDER 5 U.S.C. § 705 [Doc. 2...

NEW: A federal judge granted Trump admin's request to pause a lawsuit seeking to end telemedicine prescriptions of the abortion drug mifepristone while FDA does a bullshit safety "review." Does NOT mean access to abortion pills is safe, just that Trump didn't want anything to happen before midterms

Donald Trump was rather quick to pivot from "We have to invade Iran because they killed some protesters" to "We have to kill *all* Iranians because I say so."

Testing suggests Google's AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour Is 90 percent accuracy good enough for a search robot?

“Testing suggests Google’s AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour: Is 90 percent accuracy good enough for a search robot?”

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NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.

So, thing that is apparently better understood inside academia than outside of it:

International students pay sticker price. Most domestic students do not. International students are subsidizing the education costs for domestic students, as per student governmental funding drops.

Edward R. Murrow called this microphone “the only trophy I have ever kept and I have received many…This I value above anything I have.”

(Having come across one of Murrow’s Peabody awards, in pieces, in an archival collection, I can certify that he cared very little about trophies.) 🗃️

“Loyal Slaves” and Campfire Entertainment in Frank Vizetelly’s Confederate Camp Race, Representation, the Construction of Loyalty in Confederate Visual Culture and its surprising international implications.

“Loyal Slaves” and Campfire Entertainment in Frank Vizetelly’s Confederate Camp #CivilWarMemory 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

Here’s Robert Trout, William L. Shirer, and Edward R. Murrow covering the Nazi takeover of Austria during the very first CBS News Roundup—March 13, 1938. #RIPCBSNewsRadio 🗃️

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🗃️ This is great! And I'm not just saying that as a biased CCNY employee & alum. The amount of things that were once accessible in Harlem: education, housing, etc. were THE KEYS leading to what we celebrate as the "Harlem Renaissance" today

Darializa gets it, and should represent the district in D.C

Who decided Napoleon was short? One candidate was James Gillray, who helped to pioneer the political cartoon and helped British people visualize the tumult that was happening across the channel. 🗃️🧵

b&w photo of people on a train platform. In the centre, looking towards the photographer, is a young woman wearing tartan skirt and dark sunglasses, holding a radio transistor in her hand. A train carriage is behind her and various passengers on the platform.

b&w photo of the inside of a train carriage with a young woman seated holding a radio transistor, another woman passenger is in the row in front wearing a hat.

This young woman photographed using a transistor radio on a train in Sydney's Redfern on 21 April 1960 (photo by Alec Iverson, State Library of NSW)🗃️

The Trump-Flavored Content Administration Understanding the administration as a content mill

Anyway this is what you get when you have a SecDef from a morning show who only cares about “lethality”, a military campaign whose only objective is creating death to put on TV. We’re bombing Iran so we can say we’re bombing Iran and put dead Iranians and rubble on TV. It’s not war, it’s content.

i don’t know exactly how to articulate it but like, we’re absolutely at war yet it doesn’t feel like it because the people leading it are so fucking stupid so the typical climate of seriousness is missing? if that makes sense?

Among other things, the U.S. objected to discussion of “gender ideology”—in a resolution for women’s rights.

They’re literally trying to erase things that threaten white male rule. Heaven forbid we discuss race or gender—in history or otherwise.

Trump Knew the Risk of Iran Blocking the Strait of Hormuz. He Still Went to War. The president told his White House team that Tehran would likely capitulate before closing the strait, the world’s most vital shipping lane.

No one who ever worked at senior levels of the Pentagon, State Department, or CIA would ever believe that career pros told Trump that invading Iran would be quick and easy or that Iran would not close the Strait.

As this WSJ article outlines, Trump obviously ignored all advice except his own.

The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled.

A truly extraordinary moment.

We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT.

Act like it.

When in doubt, pretend linear time works backwards.

One of the reasons that threatening our closest NATO allies with conquest should have immediately ended Trump's presidency is that it endangered our national security, & now that we need allies, we are weaker, less secure, & totally flailing.

It is dangerous and terrible but also just so deeply embarrassing that this is how our country is being run

Remember that you are more likely to become disabled than not.

You can be disabled by illness, injury, climate disasters, war, police brutality, unmitigated pandemics, lack of access to healthcare, etc.

Disability justice is for us all, and it’s foundational to all other forms of justice.

“As far as I can tell, not a single Republican lawmaker has informed the public that the Save America Act would compel all 50 states to send their voter registration rolls to the DHS or that the DHS would then run the rolls through its ‘SAVE’ voter purge system.” 2/26/26 …1/

Dems should pledge to sign and ratify the ICC treaty that Clinton signed but W (smartly for his ppl) refused to push thru.

Make it clear we will arrest these ppl… and ship them someplace no future vice-signaling GOP Pres’s pardon power can reach.

CBS and CBS News, HBO and HBO Max, CNN, DC Comics, Harry Potter, TikTok, Star Trek,Warner Bros., Comedy Central, South Park, Avatar Studios, Turner Classic Movies,The Food Network, HGTV, Discovery, TLC, OWN, Adult Swim, TNT, TBS

CBS and CBS News, HBO and HBO Max, CNN, DC Comics, Harry Potter, TikTok, Star Trek,Warner Bros., Comedy Central, South Park, Avatar Studios, Turner Classic Movies,The Food Network, HGTV, Discovery, TLC, OWN, Adult Swim, TNT, TBS

Oh, really? Were the strikes kinetic in nature? Was their synergy between the warfighting paradigms? Did you all ideate a 360-degree workaround for the blockchain?

Quote from Washington Times editorial board "[Radical liberals] don't realize that, when they express contempt for the man who holds the country's highest office, they reveal their contempt for the Americans who put him there."

Uh no...we definitely realize it.

Hillary’s face shows the disgust and contempt she so rightly feels at this idiotic question from one of the dumbest members of Congress.

As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

David Ellison Unveils Sweeping Vision for Warner Bros: “This Is About Reinventing the Business” HBO Max and Paramount+ will be merged when the deal closes, the mogul told Wall Street early Monday morning.

yes, nothing says "innovation reinvention" like a nepobaby trust fund brat with no meaningful experience being gifted a massive hollywood empire by his technofascist dad, who leveraged his corrupt influence over the country's pudding-headed autocrats to box out competitors (?)