How is “viewpoint diversity” not just affirmative action for people with bad ideas

A picture of a library shelf with a small rolled up note on it. The note says “read this” in child’s handwriting.

A picture of the note unrolled. In the same child’s handwriting it reads “beware of the future!!”

Still thinking about this note I found in the children’s section of the public library when I worked there back in 2018. This kid tried to warn us…

Here’s just ONE of the artists Marvel Studios let go today:

Wesley Burt, a brilliant veteran, one of the best in the industry. He made the viral Fantastic Four Valentine’s day card!

He was also pivotal for the look of many films and shows like for example Loki, Black Panther, Avengers and so on!

Get this camera off me

Sorry. That’s not gonna cut it. Oh the “criminal” allegations are false but all the other ones are “mistakes” you can’t tell us about?

Nope. No. Born at night, but not last night.

I've studied so many concentration camps through history that held vulnerable people in just this kind of crowded squalor. You demonize people, you demand more arrests, this is what you get. It already has its own budget and its own momentum, and is on track to go much further, unless we stop it.

Black Service Members Warn Military Is Moving Backward Military service has long been seen as a means of upward mobility for Black Americans, but recent actions raise questions about inclusion.

I was waiting for this to be written.

capitalbnews.org/military-div...

Finland has ranked as the world's happiest country every year since they criminalized sorrow.

Smart.

We need your help, folks. Let's be LOUD in opposition to the slew of discriminatory bathroom and locker room bans we've seen move through both the NH House and NH Senate.
visit 603equality.org/current-acti... to send Gov. Ayotte a letter telling her to STOP this kind of legislation.

Chicago Freedom School | Co-empowering with Youth. Honoring The Past. Building Movements For Change. Rooted in the long legacy of liberatory education, Chicago Freedom School (CFS) provides training and education for young people and adult allies to create a just world.

Next year will be 20 years since we launched the Chicago Freedom School. I can't believe it. Time does fly. When I opened my big mouth to suggest that Chicago could use a freedom school for young people who wanted to organize across difference, I did not foresee this.

www.chicagofreedomschool.org

If you wonder why students protested loudly under Biden but aren’t as visible under Trump, it’s because they thought they had some margin of safety to speak on campus then. Even before Trump 2.0, they learned administrators and political leaders were willing to harm them instead. So here we are.

I will always smack god

Some of us are already disabled, but we have benefited from having aids that have been normalized, like glasses & contact lenses. Just cuz lots of ppl share astigmatism doesn’t mean we’re not disabled! We’re just well—accommodated!

This is the answer to the ridiculous "big tent" argument people keep throwing out to excuse their failures to support marginalized communities.

The tent has to have a moral boundary.

The people outside that moral boundary are the ones who need to change. If they won't, we need to keep them out.

...but at least we get to pay way more for everything now.

Negotiating from a position of "please let us get back to worse terms than status quo ante"?

Loser shit.

Iran Deal By Obama:
•Strait of Hormuz open for free
•Iran limits Uranium enrichment
•Iran agrees to make no nuclear weapons
•Iran allows Int'l inspectors to ensure compliance
•Inspectors confirm Iran's full compliance

1/2

America should be labeled a pariah state for what it pulled yesterday and I'm not joking. Like I'm talking trade sanctions. Tourist Entry denials. This is a rogue nation with no regard for international stability or human life.

It is crucial that the press underscore that Trump just straight up lost the war.

Alas, they will fall for his relentless insistence that “worse than before the war” was the strategic goal.

“The Alarm Bell”: Arizona’s Drop in SNAP Participation Signals Potential Nationwide Impact of Trump Legislation Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act imposes stricter food stamp work requirements and shifts a larger share of the costs to states. Arizona’s swift implementation has made it more difficult to apply an...

NEW: Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act imposes stricter food stamp work requirements and shifts a larger share of the costs to states. Arizona’s swift implementation has made it more difficult to apply and caused nearly half of recipients to lose benefits.

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

Can’t think of anything to do right now? Help pay a Minneapolis immigrant family’s rent!

Trump Budget Proposal Gives Pentagon Record $1.5T Funding, Cuts Social Programs “It’s beyond the wildest dreams of the military-industrial complex,” says Public Citizen co-president Robert Weissman.

The White House is seeking a record-shattering Pentagon budget of $1.5 trillion for the next fiscal year, the largest year-over-year increase in a presidential military spending request since World War II. The budget proposal also includes deep cuts to social programs.

everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability

“verify jerry” they said

“ what could go wrong”
they said

The only statement they should make it not to go. Insane to turn up and honor this man who hates you and will use this as yet another occasion to berate and humiliate you and your employers and the First Amendment as a whole.

President Donald Trump is once again threatening to bomb Iranian power plants and other civilian infrastructure if Iran doesn't reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

The U.S. president's threats, which would constitute war crimes if carried out, came in a profanity-laced Truth Social post on Easter Sunday.

“But there has to be a path to redemption for people like Louis CK..”

Let me stop you right there: no there doesn’t. You made that up.

I couldn’t figure out why my feed was so depressing this morning. I wasn’t reading my normal feed, I was on the nonprofit newsfeed, so there were no funny commentaries interspersed with all the horrifying news.

Also, I’m gonna need to speak to a manager about this snow.