Sitting Senator here. Still not censured. Islamophobia is the last refuge of all bigots. You can hate with impunity.

We don’t say it enough on this app: Fuck Bill Maher.

Dayton library in ‘Crisis mode’ after spending $433K to improve workplace culture A recent survey finding that Dayton Metro Library employees widely distrust library leaders follows those leaders spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to improve worker productivity and satisfact...

Someone needs to study why libraries keep making the same mistakes. Whoever is teaching these “leaders” are not doing a good job. They are consistently bad in the same ways! www.daytondailynews.com/local/invest...

No shade to the OP for admitting this, but it shocks me that people my age don’t know this.

You fundamentally cannot understand how the world functions, how power works, if you don’t know history.

The thing about high profile men prone to sexual misconduct is that very few of them just did it the one time. All the people who are "just asking questions" could save themselves a lot of looking like a total ding dong by giving it 24 hours to see how many more people show up with complaints.

i firmly believe that kennedy wants preventable diseases to rip through american communities since, in his warped mind, those who survive without vaccines will have proven themselves “healthy.”

Thread.

AP says it will offer buyouts as part of pivot away from newspaper-focused history The Associated Press says it will offer buyouts to an unspecified number of its U.S.-based journalists as part of an acceleration away from the focus on newspapers and their print journalism that sust...

People should actually be very alarmed that while AP's business model is shot to bits, Americans are still very much reliant on the news it delivers. The alternatives in some cases are inferior or non-existent.
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Absolutely egregious paraphrase

Keep going. Save yourself.

Gotta love all the ANDOR Dedra Meero pics today. STAR WARS isn't ahead of the curve; it's just that these fascists are so goddamn predictable.

Someone sent me this.

have discovered that Bluesky is really anti-Hasan Piker, which is weird, cause the guy basically does good work

Death of refugee found after being released by Border Patrol determined to be homicide Erie County, New York, officials said the cause of death was “complications of a perforated ulcer precipitated by hypothermia and dehydration.”

Please don't forget this story.

They deliberately dropped off Nurul Amin Shah, a blind refugee, in freezing weather miles away from home. Less than a week later, he was dead.

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

If she runs she will automatically be the front-runner in the progressive lane, a fundraising behemoth, and whatever her position is on the issue will be both a countervailing and contouring force on how virtually every other candidate puts forward theirs.

I really don't think it can be understated that, if she sticks to this, it *automatically* changes the way this conversation will be had in 2028.

As someone who studies politicization of democratic militaries this statement on X is a five- alarm fire. It creates an undeniable permission structure for overt partisan behavior by mil. It's part of a concerted effort by civilian leaders to turn the U.S. military into a partisan aligned force.

Everyone pony the fuck fpr the librarian who just got sacked for refusing to remove LGBTQ books from the kids' section of the library.

This is Daisy. She helped her human make the bed today. Through moral support. 13/10 (IG: daisyneverhelps)

Yes, this is real.

I said this in replies elsewhere, but I want to say it loudly here.

Anything other than a fullthroated affirmation of birthright citizenship in this country by SCOTUS is an act of treason. It is grounds for immediate impeachment. It is a violation of every oath they have made.

really striking how race science freaks seem to spend their every moment crowing about how superior they are versus actually doing anything socially useful that would demonstrate it.

reading a book about a bad person will in fact turn you into one. authors are lying to you about this because they’re all bad people themselves

Still knocks.

The distinctively American language of politicized white evangelicalism this woman speaks is only about 50 years old. It was still considered a fairly embarrassing element of the GOP coalition in 2012 when it manifested in the form of Rick Santorum and Michele Bachmann. Now it's the only note.

"we should never do litmus tests" is one of those things that consultants think sounds smart but falls apart if you think about it for two fucking seconds

Yeah, some of your fellow Democrats have called Israel’s actions in Gaza genocide. Do you agree with that? That’s becoming one of those new litmus tests that we said we would never do as a party again. It’s trying to throw out a word and, “Are you going to raise your hand or are you not going to?” I understand that Israel was hit with a terrorist attack the likes of which it had never seen and it has been through a lot and that it deserves the right to defend itself and to eradicate that terrorist organization. I believe that it could have been done without a lot of the suffering, but I put a lot of that blame also on Donald Trump. If he’d said we are coming in and we are bringing food and aid and you are going to make sure that we’re safe, it would’ve happened.

Terrible answer from Beshear
www.politico.com/news/magazin...

I'm happy for him because they tried to shame him for having an honest gig bagging groceries. He said I know my worth, I'm a thespian, there's pride in however I'm putting food on the table.