A person speaks at a podium with the American flag in the background. A large screen displays "Winning the AI Race". The bottom section has text: "The Thread - To Win the AI Race, America Must Close the Digital Divide" by Chhaya Kapadia.

"We all need to understand AI better if we’re going to both harness its power for good & prevent potential harms."

@chhayakapadia.bsky.social warns that a lack of federal focus on closing the digital divide threatens U.S. competitiveness in the AI era: https://go.newamerica.org/digital-divide-ai-5

RULES: 1. Please treat our chambermaids as if they were your own sisters. 2. No shooting will be permitted in the rooms. If the cockroaches annoy you, cut their heads off. 3. Don't use the gas for committing suicide. A rope is provided for that purpose. 4. Please do not stick hatpins through keyholes. A man lost his eye that way last year. 5. Divorcees will leave photographs of ex-husbands at the front desk for identification. No more than six photographs permitted. 6. Guests are not permitted to invite their brothers to take baths in their rooms. 7. Guests occupying adjoining rooms will kindly call the house detective to act as chaperone if they wish to make social visits after one o'clock. 8. It is strictly forbidden to use bed sheets as towels. 9. Guests who walk in their sleep should have their room number on a card in their pajamas. 10. Please do not forget the name under which you registered. 11. Guests are warned against playing strip poker on Mondays. We test the fire alarm bells on that day. COLFAX HOTEL, Cliff and Letha Lloyd, COLFAX, WASHINGTON

Screenshot: FREE DC Activist Street Fair, Sunday, April 26, 10 AM - 2 PM, Laurel Avenue, Takoma Park. Make protest art. Listen to protest music. Attend Free DC orientation. Meet activist neighbors.

April 26, 2026: Free DC Activist Street Fair, Takoma Park, 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM.
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#WashingtonDC #DC #activists #music #art #information #RankedChoiceVoting #RankedChoice #RCV #InstantRunoffVoting #InstantRunoff #IRV #protest #resistance #news #event

Bicyclist association wins court ruling. Federal government loses.

Full story: waba.org/2026/04/21/y...

#WABA #bicyclist #cyclist #news #court #ruling #WashingtonDC #DC #BikeLane

Congratulations, Virginia! Republicans are trying to tilt the midterm elections in their favor, but they haven’t done it yet. Thanks for showing us what it looks like to stand up for our democracy and fight back.

Election results map: 51.5 % in favor of redistricting, 48.6 % opposed.

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Virginia voters approve new congressional maps in blow to Trump Result could help Democrats win four extra US House seats in tit-for-tat redistricting battle begun by Texas

Virginia voters approve new congressional maps in blow to Trump
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#news #VA #Virginia #elections #voting #resistance #protest #gerrymandering #RegimeChange #FascistInChief #LoserInChief

🚨 Talks with Iran have collapsed before they even began.

Iran refuses to negotiate under a U.S. naval blockade and threats, and Trump says he expects bombing to resume once the ceasefire ends.

Iran is warning it will retaliate if attacked—and planned talks in Pakistan appear dead.

What we measured, and how, in our indicators map Check out an interactive choropleth map aggregating 23 indicators across a variety of DC geographies.

Greater Greater Washington: What we measured, and how, in our indicators map.
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#WashingtonDC #DC #map #interactive #GreaterGreaterWashington #GGW

A useful interactive indicator map from @ggwash.org made with @openstreetmap.bsky.social . See reply for the full story.
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#WashingtonDC #DC #map #interactive #GreaterGreaterWashington #GGW

'Bell removed Romeo and Juliet from his syllabus because “in Act III, Romeo and Juliet have sex, and that falls under this very broadly defined sexuality [topics ban].” He also didn’t teach about Joan of Arc this semester.'

What an actual lack of freedom of speech looks like in universities. 3/3

Jacob 'Bell, who teaches medieval history, is headed to the City University of New York, where he will “be teaching the exact same thing, but unredacted.” In order to keep his spring classes from getting held up in an opaque, monthslong course-review process' 2/3

Faculty Defect From Texas Publics, Citing Censorship Fed up with the state’s censoring of Plato, Joan of Arc and Romeo and Juliet, humanities professors are leaving Texas public institutions in pursuit of academic freedom.

'Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is leaving the university after administrators told him in January that he couldn’t teach Plato’s Symposium in his philosophy class; they said the ancient Greek philosopher’s work violated the system’s restrictions on gender and sexuality content.' 1/3

Once again, it all should have ended immediately in 2017, when he started openly monetizing his hotels at Mar-a-Lago & around the corner from the White House. We have yawned, as a country, at unprecedented corruption right in front of us.

The Onion plans to lease Alex Jones’s Infowars after judge blocks purchase The satirical website’s parent company will have to pay $81,000 a month to the misinformation platform

The Onion plans to lease Alex Jones’s Infowars after judge blocks purchase
The satirical website’s parent company will have to pay $81,000 a month to the misinformation platform
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
The Onion #InfoWars #AlexJones #news

holy mother of cats 🎶🎶🎶

Cover of report "Mission Aborted: how NASA illegally implemented the president's budget request without congressional approval. Minority staff report, prepared by members of the committee on science, space, and technology, us house of representatives, April 2026

This report came out today by minority staff of the House science committee on how three NASA missions were aborted due to NASA illegally following the FY26 president's budget request instead of congressionally approved budget. Very important reading. 🔭🧪 democrats-science.house.gov/staff-report...

Greenbelt News Review, page 7 for the full story.

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This Machine : Hour 1 YouTube video by Mike McMullin

Video from the inaugural THIS MACHINE:
HOUR 1: youtu.be/VD3GUnDr2IY
HOUR 2: youtu.be/23NbAUq5xoo
HOUR 3: youtu.be/AVwiI3NHqFc
HOUR 4: youtu.be/bHYlbuZizUY

THIS MACHINE: a protest song open mic NEW DEAL CAFE April 12, 12:30 Sign up. 1-4 Performances

The ad for the 2nd THIS MACHINE protest open mic. Every other month. New Deal Cafe, 113 Centerway, Roosevelt Center,
Greenbelt, MD 20770.

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SCREENSHOT: A post by "scha-den-freu-de" (@BlisterPearl) featuring a photo of Kash Patel and photo of Pete Hegseth with the caption 'So, we're calling these guys the "Liquor Cabinet"?'

Kash Patel and Pete Hegseth:
"The Liquor Cabinet"
#humor #politics #satire #patel #hegseth

When you get caught being a useless alcoholic on the job and have to appease dear leader to save your job.

Julie, you're so awesome! Thanks so much for including me. ☮️

21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures ... have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. 22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?

⚠️ Palantir released what it describes as a vision for “The Technological Republic” in which it argues AGAINST democratic and cultural pluralism and FOR militaristic supremacy enforced by a technocratic elite who produce AI weaponry.

These points stand out:

Holy Smokes! Moderation Lists are EVERYTHING. I just found out you can block an entire list of MAGA with one click! Click subscribe at the top of the list and it allows you to mute all or block all! PROTECT YOUR PEACE & the peace of your friends commenting on your posts!

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The usual suspects are out there yelling "There are 23 million government workers! Fire most of them!" No awareness that most work for local governments, and most of *them* are schoolteachers. Federal employment hasn't grown since the 1950s

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

Two hooded figures with lamps approach a moonlit, isolated cottage. A woman answers the door. We have come for the child, says the hooded figure So soon? she asks It is time, says the hooded figure. The woman is distraught. We should never have got him a library card! What is done cannot be undone, says the hooded figure We couldn’t see the harm! We just wanted him to enjoy reading! For most, it ends there, says the hooded figure, turning away and walking into the wilderness Oh lord, What have I done! says the woman, the child walks past her and out into the darkness with them. Do not cry mother. I am a writer now.

my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com