"In 2025, 92 percent of all book challenges were initiated by pressure groups, government officials and decision makers, up from 72 percent in 2024. Less than 3 percent of challenges originated from individual parents." 📚
www.ala.org/news/2026/04...
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One of the Sandy Hook families lives in hiding 1500 mi away from their baby’s grave due to people stalking them.
The graves of multiple children have been defaced.
One of the fathers had to submit DNA evidence to prove his son was a REAL HUMAN BEING after Alex Jones’ book said he never existed.
Rockland County, NY, gave a $77 million data center tax break to JP Morgan Chase to create exactly one job. On a dollars-per-job basis it appears to be the costliest subsidy in U.S. history, possibly even a world record
nysfocus.com/2026/04/20/d...
A real senator would hammer away at an administration that caused 130,000 of their constituents to lose healthcare because they couldn’t afford it. But you hear more from Fetterman and McCormick about affordable bulldozers for Israel than about affordable healthcare for Pennsylvania. Pathetic.
It’s been so rough 😞
The FBI responded with a statement, attributed to Patel: “Print it, all false, I’ll see you in court—bring your checkbook.”
The @theatlantic.com story:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
The problem is that we may have "certain inalienable rights" endowed by our Creator, as the Declaration says, but as it goes on to say in the *next sentence* "Governments are created to secure those rights" Because your "natural rights" are no help when, say, men with guns come to take your stuff.
Vote on house resolution 140 tonight at 6:30. Will they allow Chilean company to mine copper sulfide which will destroy the Boundary Waters and the outdoor activities and wildlife. Call your representative: 202-224-3121. 💚🌲
My god. Essential, horrifying reporting here.
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A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week.
For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead.
One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.
Orban concedes.
And in that lies a lesson for those rightfully worried Trump will try to deny midterm results: deliver a rebuke so overwhelming there’s no way to deny it.
Congratulations to the people of Hungary!
No one likes unnecessary scaffolding. Thankfully, we have a plan — and John Wilson is here to help break it down.
In Bruges scene where Colin Farrell is pointing a gun at his head and Brendon Gleeson is also pointing a gun at Colin Farrell's head
Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute
Marathon? I’m sure every hour in JD’s presence must feel like an eternity - but come on, he just got there.
Chicago White Sox pope hats giveaway
In the running for greatest giveaway of all time
Best. Maryland is best at that.
And fuck right off for getting it wrong.
I mean… this seems really worth it.
#photography #badphotography #Iceland
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As my mother used to say- “Why can’t we have nice things?”
@pkryan.bsky.social why are you not in this list??
Nicole Smith-Holt experienced the unthinkable - she lost her son, Alec, after he was forced to ration his insulin.
She has become a fierce advocate for insulin affordability since. I'm proud to have her support in this race and will carry their story with me to the US Senate.
This is a verified GoFundMe for librarian Luanne James from the Rutherford County Library Alliance.
gofund.me/f7704eb98
Read what happened to this hero: www.newschannel5.com/news/rutherf...
Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social
This looks like a complicated chart, but in fact it's some of the simplest and best news imaginable: batteries are quickly turning night into noon. Worth a read if I say so myself
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This 50 yr old woman spent 5 months in jail accused of a crime in a state she's never even been to, because Clearview AI misidentified her as the suspect.
A judge signed off on it, cops went along with it, no process in place to even question the AI.
www.cnn.com/2026/03/29/u...
An image of a list of the 27 grievances against King George III in the Declaration of Independence. Donald Trump's regime has committed at least 20 of them in whole or in part, condensed into the list below: 1. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. 2. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation … 3. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing … his invasions on the rights of the people. 4. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; … obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners … 5. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice … 6. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices … 7. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. 8. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. 9. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. 10. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution … giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: 11. For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: 12. For protecting them … from punishment for any Murders which they should commit … 13. For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: 14. For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: 15. For depriving us … of the benefits of Trial by Jury: 16. For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences: 17. For … abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: 18. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. 19. He has … destroyed the lives of our people. 20. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us …
The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain.
Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow.
#NoKings
No Kings (Philadelphia)
Honestly feel like you could get true bipartisan, Epstein-files-level buy in for getting to the bottom of this.
Author Steven Vickers wrote on Threads, "To confirm, this '100% AI generated' passage is the opening of Chapter 5 from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. I think authors are going to get screwed in these AI witch hunts."
I agree 100% with Steven Vickers that authors will be falsely accused of using AI in the coming years. In particular, authors like myself whose works were stolen to train AI systems are at risk. When we write in our own unique styles, AI trained on us will quite likely flag us as using AI.
