Ossoff: "How does American politics really work? It's coin operated. Money goes in, favors come out. It's been running on secret money, corporate money, billionaire money ... all of this gave rise to a depraved president who exploits this rot to empower and enrich himself"
It’s true: AI will make you lose your butt. Thank you @colsonwhitehead.com for saving our asses: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...
New: 150 unionized ProPublica workers are on strike TODAY over AI, layoff protections, wages, and more.
They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom.
www.theverge.com/news/908401/...
this wikipedia editor is orbiting the moon right now!
If only a dozen Republicans in Congress found the will, they could impeach and remove him today.
This is real
It’s being done in our name
Congressional Republicans are okay with this
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“Denver decommissioned and removed all 110 Flock Safety license plate reader cameras across the city as its contract with the company expired, taking a major step back in automated surveillance coverage…”
A history of the top marginal tax rates on the wealthiest Americans:
1940: 81%
1950: 84%
1960: 91%
1970: 72%
1980: 70%
1990: 28%
2000: 40%
2010: 35%
For 50 years, corporate backed politicians in Congress have slashed taxes to line the pockets of their wealthy donors.
I appreciated your informed summary. Thank you.
People, get a grip! Stop ruining good things.
Holding my son’s puppy at her first protest! No kings sign in hand with growing crowd behind.
All good dogs know. No kings! Amherst, MA
Map showing no precipitation in the US for No King III!
It's gonna be a bright bright bright bright sunshiny day throughout the United States today! Happy No Kings III, y'all. ❌👑
if you want to know the history of this kind of policy, I made a podcast two years ago that explained why these tests make no sense, how they were already used and eventually abandoned by the IOC in the 80's and 90's, and the devastating impacts they have on real athletes: www.tested-podcast.com
I’m working on it
Unions ❤️
photograph or a poster on cream colored paper. "Dear President Ambar, we are writing to you on a typewriter that is over 70 years old. This is a machine that we all know well. With it, we misspell words without the crutch of spell check or generative AI and we think intently about every phrase we pound out. As we force ourselves, for once, to slow down, we engage in a cognitive dialogue with ourselves. We do not seek perfection because we know that education is about the growing and challenging of our young minds' potential, not the chasing of institutional 'gold-star' approval. We do not believe that your so-called 'Year of AI Exploration; providing enterprise ChatGPT and Google Gemini subscriptions to every Oberlin student aligns with our college's founding principles. You claim that this year will be one of experimentation, not adoption. But even just one semester of accepted (encouraged even) chat bot use will jettison our student body down a lazy and irredeemable tunnel of intellectual destruction. We are a college grounded in learning and labor, which now risks straying from these rooted ideals. With ChatGPT at the helm, our emails, essays,and discussion posts will be generated for us, not by us. And let's not fool ourselves. This is precisely what these platforms will be used for by our busy, anxious student body. We see your vision for this year as.advancing the college's 'businessification'--an alarming trend also seen in the takeover of our beloved library cafe by a 'bookstore' with no books in stock and an app replacing customer service. In one instance, the college assumes we want efficiency at all costs through automated rather than hand pulled coffee. In the other lies the false belief that we simply desire to turn in an essay, regardless of how little we've written of it." there's more that doesn't fit in the 2000 character limit :(
OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚
organizing gets the goods
A proposed bill would bar members of Congress, the president and other executive branch officials from trading on political events.
"There’s nothing wrong with being a little crunchy, but we’re well beyond the recommended dosage here” 🤣
The future is subscription-tiered citizenship, where your access to resources and the freedoms they provide is throttled and woe to those who can’t afford them.
"Americans prefer a car-dependent lifestyle."
I can't tell you how much I hate this glib sentiment. The only way to determine someone's true, enduring preference is to give them full familiarity with their options. Americans have no familiarity with their options! They've only seen sprawl!
NEW: Wikipedia editors have implemented new policies and restricted a number of contributors who were paid to use AI to translate existing Wikipedia articles into other languages after they discovered these AI translations added AI “hallucinations,” or errors, to the resulting article.
OK. So we can pretty much presume that all the traffic cameras IN THE US ARE HACKED AS WELL.
WTF are we doing with them??? Why are we allowing ourselves to be surveilled by EVERYONE???
"American innovation" now refers to making a kind of atrocity cronut by combining insider trading with war crimes.
Please keep writing about Nurul Amin Shah Alam.
They killed this man. It's a system wide problem that resulted in his death. Every step of the way it was a travesty of justice.
This is how immigration law intersects with criminal law. ICE and CBP.
Read this and ask why do we fund this? Why?
"In a sense, we exit as we entered.
Unbowed.
Heads held high.
Beholden to none.
It will be for others to take the full measure of [our] contribution to the democratic process, and to the nation’s ability to talk and listen to itself without rancour or malice." barbadostoday.bb/2026/02/14/s...
You’ll never guess but the solution to people not having money is to give them money.
It’s been 8 days and we still don’t know the names of the men who murdered Alex Pretti.
DHS must be abolished. No ICE. No palantir surveillance police state.
There’s no “fixing” a sociopathic agency designed to trample on our freedoms.
