Florida’s Board of Governors is made up of “political appointees from the business world, from insurance executives to roofing contractors, who are dictating how professors must teach their courses and even providing state-created textbooks for doing so.”
My new piece in @truthout.bsky.social
I've never used grammarly but if you have an account, I'd throw it in the trash and set it on fire because what the actual fuck
They’re still lying to us.
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If the Washington Post story above sounds like PR for Anthropic, that's because it is! Amazon has invested billions of dollars in Anthropic. Jeff Bezos, of course, owns both the Washington Post and Amazon.
There's another right-winger running as a Democrat in California as well, trying to take a seat in a blue county in SoCal. Looks like this is their attempt at counteracting the gerrymandering.
ah, the Jacksonville Excommunication
A new lawsuit alleges Google’s chatbot sent a Florida man on missions to find an android body it could inhabit. When that failed, it set a suicide countdown clock for him. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/gemi...
just in case anyone is ever tempted to feel like the wives are victims who need saving
like nah man most of ‘em married evil on purpose
These motherfuckers deliberately target schools for violence HERE. I sure as shit believe they targeted schools elsewhere too.
Reminder that The Cloud *does* have a physical infrastructure.
UK chums, this is a full five-alarm fire. Write your MP, call them, whatever. The government’s own survey showed 97% of us wanted copyright strengthened, and those abject fucks are weakening it anyway to appease snake-oil grifters and thieves
Remember what I said about how, when Trump is flailing, they start inserting a fake, fictional Trump into their stories, who is acting rationally and sanely?
“The Department of Homeland Security admitted to Congress this month that it deported dozens of unauthorized immigrants who are protected under U.S. law because they were brought as children to the United States, according to a letter made public Thursday.” www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
Under a new policy released Thursday, the Trump Administration will test conversion therapy on trans people in prisons. It explicitly states that it aims to help trans people “recover,” all the while forcibly detransitioning them both medically and socially.
transitics.substack.com/p/the-trump-...
Reminder that @nora.zone and I are building a bot that will respond with Gavin Newsom Facts when people @ it BUT we need your help to populate it before we can launch. Fill out this form to add your favorite moment(s) in Newsom history.
To note: doctors are mandated reporters. Every single one of these ethical failures need to lose their license to practice.
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Dept of education with banners
Historian here interesting choices Catherine Beecher an anti abolitionist- feminist known for her crappy response to Angelina Grimke and into trad wife stuff. Booker T Washington publicly an accommodationist to the Jim Crow south and an opponent of WEB Bois’ civil rights activism. Kirk CC drop out!
I will keep saying this, I guess: the entire concept of "unlawful assembly" is unconstitutional if you think about it for even two minutes.
Individuals who haven't committed crimes can't be prevented from assembling because other individuals nearby are alleged to have committed crimes.
okay here’s a big one. this minneapolis middle school in an underserved area needs some real love to the tune of $27K. every little bit helps families pay march rent. can we put a dent in this?
www.gofundme.com/f/Help-Olson...
CONGRESS MUST Repeal the AUMF now!
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The 2001 AUMF was used as a justification for the 2025 United States strikes on Venezuelan boats.
I'm already sick of "It's all a distraction from Epstein" replies. This regime is killing innocent people because our leaders are all power-hungry tyrants and war profiteers. When you say it's "just a distraction" you minimize the gravity of what's happening and the lives lost.
Worth noting that Japan using peace talks with Washington as cover for their sneak attack on Pearl Harbor is one of the reasons we were so fucking furious at them on December 8, 1941.
It's WHY FDR called it a Day of Infamy
New — I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:
Great news, everyone!!!
Lrt: reading that review, all I can think is "damn I could do better than that"
So, uh, going to track down a fresh project notebook.
Before you spend your money, don't forget what they did to Melissa Barrera for simply being a good human taking a stance against murder.
When you buy into the idea that "porn is evil" then anything deemed porn becomes evil.
We are so afraid of sex in this country that it is effectively a tool to control the masses.
This is (part of) why sex education is so important. Sex should not be some kind of boogeyman.
this bill is legitimately a three-alarm fire. if they manage to define trans existence as explicit then there is nothing stopping them from genocide. i need every single cis person talking about this, calling their reps, getting out in the streets.
