Maddie

note that this happened after immense pressure from students and workers at MIT, including a press conference planned for later today

Sometimes it feels like there's negativity in all directions

Fortunately the world is complex, full of people of all kinds, I just have to search different places to meet cool folks

It's a vicious cycle that's easy to see when you're the people harmed by the system

But anyway, Mastodon welcomes new friends

Seems like every other week in the #Fediverse, a mini exodus of users comes over from Bluesky and I have to come back and check why

When systems dismiss kind communities and continue to platform hate-inciting ones in the name of fairness -- the kind people leave

I am not sharing the picture because it is an act of racism, but:

The White House’s official X account has a long thread in which they’ve posted pictures of people arrested during the feds’ occupation of the city. Every single person in the thread is a person of color.

This is not a massive decision or any kind of change. Costco has never carried mifepristone in its pharmacies. An anti-abortion group is taking credit for something that didn't happen, possibly to generate disingenuous left-wing ire against one of the few corporations that hasn't gone MAGA.

A tweet by @Altimor about an AI customer support agent with the brand name Lindy reads: "A customer reached out asking for video tutorials. We obviously have a Lindy handling this, and I was delighted to see that she sent a video. But then I remembered we don't have a video tutorial and realized Lindy is literally fucking rickrolling our customers."

Predicting the most probable YouTube link and its consequences have been a disaster for the agentic web.

Stop calling Republicans “conservatives.”

There’s nothing conservative about any of this.

Nothing conservative about it overturning decades of legal precedent.

These bigots are political extremists, enacting extremist, proudly harmful policies.

“Why should we stand up for trans kids in sports? It’s such a minor issue that only affects a tiny number of people & we have more important things to do, like fight fascism. This is why Dems keep losing.”

I am seeing these sentiments everywhere & such a short sighted mistake to buy into:

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There are so many times this nightmare should’ve been over, but I’ll never get how inciting a violent coup on J6 didn’t lead to a prison term post haste. That fucker should’ve been yanked by the lapels out of the White House, handcuffed, and hauled away that day. Everyone knew he was responsible.

Soft money is great. Until there’s no money left. Academics are about to learn the hard way that we are nothing but independent contractors who can be terminated pretty darn easily. “Tenure” be damned. (Many of us knew this already, of course…)

And yes, as @axels15.bsky.social notes, obviously many of those survivors are skeeting about this now.

But if you're not a survivor, please be thoughtful about the, uh, haha funny jokes (haha) you make, and also about putting photos of horrible people on the internet if you don't have to

This is AI. My family is Liberian. President Boakai is a very soft-spoken person who wouldn't make a video like this to begin with. Next, how is this supposed to be addressing Trump's disrespect about him speaking English when the voice over COMPLETELY removes his Liberian accent? WHO DID THIS?!?

I really wish it was killing thousands of children across the globe, destroying our scientific institutions or all the, like, actual fascism that turned people against him, but if it's the Epstein thing that does it...fine, whatever. Live by the conspiracy theory, die by it.

Not saying everyone still posting on X is anti-semitic. I'm saying anti-semitism isn't a deal-breaker for everyone still posting on X.

X CEO Linda Yaccarino has resigned after Musk ordered his minions to make Grok "less woke" and it began praising Hitler, committing libel, and inciting violence against people with Jewish surnames. It then proceeded to sexually harass women including, Yaccarino.

For you web.mit.edu/almonds/www/...

Good time to remember the 3 Dem vacancies tonight

The Big Beautiful Bill can't even get 75% of Republicans to support it, never mind being popular with the American people

I dove into the polling on the disaster bill here: usapolling.substack.com/p/trumps-big...

California: Barragán Chu Cisneros DeSaulnier Friedman Garamendi Gomez Huffman Jacobs Kamlager-Dove Matsui Min Mullin Rivas Ruiz Sánchez Sherman Simon Swalwell Takano Thompson Torres Waters Texas: Casar Castro Crockett Doggett Escobar Garcia Green, Al Illinois: Davis García Kelly Krishnamoorthi Ramirez Schakowsky New York: Clarke Espaillat Nadler Ocasio-Cortez Velázquez New Jersey: McIver Menendez Norcross Watson Coleman Pennsylvania: Boyle Evans Lee Georgia: Johnson Scott, David Williams North Carolina: Adams Foushee Oregon: Bonamici Dexter Washington: Jayapal Randall New Mexico: Leger Fernandez Stansbury Massachusetts: McGovern Pressley Wisconsin: Moore Pocan Michigan: Thanedar Tlaib Arizona: Ansari Vermont: Balint Ohio: Brown Louisiana: Carter Tennessee: Cohen Colorado: DeGette Florida: Frost Connecticut: Hayes Maryland: Ivey Minnesota: Omar Maine: Pingree Mississippi: Thompson Nevada: Titus Hawaii: Tokuda

and the 79 dems who explicitly voted Nay

California: Aguilar Bera Brownley Carbajal Correa Costa Gray Harder Khanna Levin Liccardo Lieu Lofgren Panetta Pelosi Peters Tran Vargas Whitesides New York: Gillen Goldman Jeffries Kennedy Latimer Mannion Meeks Meng Morelle Riley Ryan Suozzi Tonko Torres Massachusetts: Auchincloss Clark Keating Lynch Moulton Neal Trahan Illinois: Budzinski Casten Foster Quigley Schneider Sorensen Underwood Florida: Castor Cherfilus-McCormick Frankel, Lois Moskowitz Soto Wasserman Schultz Washington: DelBene Larsen Perez Schrier Smith Strickland Maryland: Elfreth Hoyer McClain Delaney Mfume Olszewski Raskin Virginia: Beyer McClellan Scott Subramanyam Vindman Texas: Cuellar Fletcher Gonzalez, V. Johnson Veasey New Jersey: Conaway Gottheimer Pallone Pou

Connecticut: Courtney DeLauro Himes Larson Pennsylvania: Dean Deluzio Houlahan Scanlon Michigan: Dingell McDonald Rivet Scholten Stevens Oregon: Bynum Hoyle Salinas Minnesota: Craig McCollum Morrison Colorado: Crow Neguse Pettersen Ohio: Kaptur Landsman Sykes Rhode Island: Amo Magaziner Missouri: Bell Cleaver Georgia: Bishop McBath Indiana: Carson Mrvan North Carolina: Davis Ross Alabama: Figures Sewell New Hampshire: Goodlander Pappas Nevada: Horsford Lee Hawaii: Case South Carolina: Clyburn Kansas: Davids Louisiana: Fields Maine: Golden Delaware: McBride Kentucky: McGarvey Arizona: Stanton New Mexico: Vasquez

128 democrats who voted to table impeachment, sorted roughly by size of state

1000 reasons to impeach the MAGAfucker. Market manipulation, insider trading, corruption, pay to play, Trump Org business with enemies of the USA....and every single time he opens his mouth - lies.

the Dems could have safely all voted yes to try to impeach Trump for an obviously illegal act of war. it would have been their preferred outcome: performative opposition without any meaningful, lasting consequences. and they can't even get virtue signalling right.

A majority of Democrats in the House (and all Republicans) voted NOT to impeach Trump.

Congress has officially abdicated its role as a co-equal branch of government. This is why the Executive Branch has no fear of breaking the law.

There is no one in power to hold them accountable.

The community of Bell is out in force protecting their own. More of this please!! #powertothepeople

As ICE raids continue, parts of Los Angeles go empty Missing vendors, markets of rotting food, and families frightened to leave home.

I've lived in Los Angeles for seven years. The only times I've ever heard it this eerily, horribly quiet are in the very first days of Covid. Here's a bit of what it's like right now, in a city where so many people are rightfully afraid to go outside: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

IF: you’re white and immediately BLOCK fellow whites when you see their racism on social

THEN: assuming you take seriously your DUTY to end the racism benefitting you daily—you’re just as culpable as the fellow white person.

You have a DUTY to confront racism WHEREVER.
You also need the practice.

I am terrified and disgusted thinking about the reports that will come out in the future about what undocumented women have been going through in this country during this time where masked un named men can just throw them in a van

I’m a Black lawyer with race/ism expertise, who’s also 1/2-white.

WHITE PEOPLE should treat Juneteenth like someone ELSE’S birthday:
It’s a celebration, yes—but on Juneteenth, woke whites should be offering Black people gifts and waiting for party invitations.

If you aren’t invited, that’s on you.