the surveillance aspects of this are also stunning

Conservatives think the state should protect them from the traumatizing experience of encountering people unlike them. For some reason this never came up in the heyday of “snowflake,” “trigger warning” or “safe space” discourse bsky.app/profile/kiss...

A group of kids playing Dungeons and Dragons.

Teens and tweens had a blast rolling dice and going on epic adventures at our Dungeons & Dragons program at Carpenter Library 🐉🎲

See when the next session is and get all the details here:
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SORKIN: There's a whole number of very large companies, including Apple and Amazon, that have not sought reimbursements yet for the tariffs. From what I understand, part of the reason is they're worried about offending you.


TRUMP: I think it's brilliant. They got to know me very well. I'm honored.

Originalism just seeks to align rulings with the intentions of the Founders: Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes.

A clip from The New York Times reads: "But only the entities that officially paid the tariffs are eligible to recover that money. That means that the fuller universe of people affected by Mr. Trump’s policies — including millions of Americans who paid higher prices for the products they bought — are not able to apply for direct relief. The extent to which consumers realize any gain hinges on whether businesses share the proceeds, something that few have publicly committed to do. Some have started to band together in class-action lawsuits in the hopes of receiving a payout."

The average American family paid $1,700 in tariffs last year, according to the bipartisan Congressional Joint Economic Committee. Few will ever see any of that money back. The refunds will go to companies, if doled out at all. What a joke.

With help from @kirkman.bsky.social

Relevant.

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Exactly. No such thing as "trickle down economics ".

Businessman is first, and so far only, donor to St. Louis police chief's UMSL job Emerson, the Clayton-based technology and automation company, said it also plans to help in coming weeks.

Just really excellent accountability reporting from my @stltoday.com colleagues @monicaobradovic.bsky.social & @katiekull1.bsky.social www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...

On the right is someone NFL doctors say is 6’3, 230 lbs with 5% body fat

On the left is someone White House doctors say is 6’3, 224 lbs with 4.8% body fat

If the White House is THAT dishonest about something so clear, why should we believe anything they say about anything?

I am not entirely convinced that you caught what she was implying. :)

Power without accountability: The Palantir manifesto The problems with our tech philosopher kings

New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally.
It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...

My favorite idea floating in the zeitgeist currently is that Sun Tzu wrote The Art of War because he couldn't get the worthless noble failsons to sit down for military training before they were given control of the military, so he hid it in a self help book.

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In order to keep winning elections, we need even more candidates who support the right to read. So our friends @everylibrary.bsky.social have launched Read. Lead. RUN! to help allies run for elected office. If you don't know who the bet person for your school board is, it might be you.

Utah Bans Four More Books, Bringing Total to 32 The state of Utah has banned four more books from every public school statewide. That brings the total of state-sanctioned bans to 32.

The state of Utah has banned four more books, bringing the number of state-sanctioned book bans to 32.

Of those, 24 are by women and the average publication date is 2009.

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whats so crazy to me is the only job that chatbots could actually eliminate right now is ceo, every company could save millions today right now by replacing their ceo with a computer program that just parrots what other ceos say

The premise behind the Epstein Files is that rich men can do the most heinous things and get away with it. The consequences prove that this is largely true.

Donald Trump was mentioned a million times in the Epstein files and has not had to answer a single question about it.

Trump Library Saga Takes Dark Turn: Where Did Millions in Funding Go? Four huge media conglomerates forked over $63 million in “settlements” earmarked for Trump’s presidential library. Democrats are trying to track that money—and the latest developments don’t inspire co...

Easy, the bribes went to the Trump Widows and Orphans Fund.

Top 11 Most Challenged Books of 2025. Composite of 11 close-up crops of various book covers. Text at bottom: "Protect the freedom to read" ala.org/bbooks. American Library Association

The list of 2025's most challenged books was release this morning as part of ALA's State of America's Libraries Report.

Of the 4,235 unique titles that were challenged or banned in 2025, these were the top 11 most frequently targeted for censorship: https://bit.ly/3TE4cHi

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"Fuentes is largely supported by donations from a small cadre of sympathizers: Just 10 accounts were responsible for giving him a total of about $77,000, while the top 500 accounts provided almost half of his superchat income — more than $400,000, the Post analysis found."

Residents demand end to BookPage magazine subscription Three residents urged the County Commission on April 14 to cancel the county library system's subscription to BookPage, a free book-review magazine they described as pushing a "far-left" and "woke"

Officials in Hernando County, Florida, are trying to ban the free book magazine BookPage from county public libraries. Yes, they're at "cancel a free thing no one has to take."

It's too woke. Talking about a range of books is too woke!

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Inquiring minds want to know

Ever notice how all of Trump's ideas are so derivative.

So, if I'm reading Rev 13 right, Trump is going out of power, in some form or another, 6 months shy of the end of his second term, and the vice-pres will take over as the second Beast.

Buckley Carlson • @buckleycarlson X.com Remember when you thought 911 was as presented? (I did, for a long time). Now consider what you endured during Covid, Election 2020, J6 Fedsurrection, Epstein (even just the sickening partial reveal), Charlie, and Iran-for-Israel. NOW, will you say the below is crazy? Doubt it. Thanks, @DavidSmuts David Smuts • @DavidSmuts • 4/24/25 Listen folks, because this is bigger than you think. What happened with Trump's "assassination attempt" on 13th July wasn't just some random event—it was a deliberate Judeo-Masonic blood ritual, staged to deceive the masses ... Show more 6:38 AM • 4/18/26 • 105K Views

Tucker Carlson is very close with his brother Buckley. Buckley seems to believe that 9/11 was an inside job and that Trump’s assassination was faked as “a deliberate Judeo-Masonic blood ritual, staged to deceive the masses.” Okey dokey.

So here's the summary from this past week:

The FBI guy is on a paranoid bender and won't leave his room.
The War guy quotes a bible passage from
Pulp Fiction.
The Health guy collects raccoon dicks.
The Vice guy wants to explain theology to the Pope.

Here we are.
Fuck