Rebecca Johns

“We should replace Bad Bunny with Lee Greenwood” is an also a perfect summation of the “deal” they’ve offered universities.

This South Side Weekly report on the Chicago building raid is well worth reading. Most striking to me are the indications of collusion between federal authorities and the building owner and management to effect a mass eviction at the blighted property. southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

Hello, We Used to Know Each Other and Now I’m a Toxic Presence on Your Social Media Feeds Hello, I’m someone you used to know. Pretty well, in fact. We had some good conversations. We saw eye to eye on all the important things. We laughe...

"Did something happen in the intervening years that made me swerve into delusion and assholery? Could what happened to me happen to you? You’re not going to get any satisfaction with that line of inquiry. Even if you asked me directly, I couldn’t tell you."

TikTok will be co-owned by China and Trump allies, Paramount was sold to a pro-Trump billionaire who's also set to buy Warner Bros, X is owned by an apartheid-bred fascist, WaPo and Meta are owned by Trump-cowering billionaires, and Murdoch owns the Fox empire. Here's why media has a liberal bias.

I’ll have to read that.

I know, the problem with fictional utopias is that they’re boring if they work well. So it’s always a dystopia at some point.

I love when she gets salty about people thinking she was creating a blueprint for an actual utopia, when she was creating a thought-experiment and putting it through a stress test. I do miss her. Love that you are also a fan.

I just did a talk on The Dispossessed at a local community college. “A utopia with flies in it,” according to LeGuin herself.

As I’m slogging through a POV change in my novel, I decide to do a little experiment. I ask Claude to change the POV from first to third in one graph.

It turns every instance of “I” into “they,” including words inside quotation marks.

In case anyone’s thinking the machines are the answer.

What a great idea for a class! StoryStudio is great and you should definitely sign up for this.

it’s fascinating. majorities of americans oppose the military occupation of cities. a substantial number of those are fucking furious about it, but rather than lean into this anger and attack trump’s perception of strength, these “strategists” want democrats to avoid the confrontation entirely.

Tavern style or deep dish

Epstein survivors say they’re compiling their own client list.

“We know who abused us. We saw who came and went. This list will be survivor-led—for survivors”

Fantastic, Ashley! Congratulations.

This is me every day.

This is me in every above ground pool in the greater Chicago area.

The Political Awakening of the Oyster Farmer Gunning for Susan Collins Graham Platner’s campaign launch has been a sudden sensation. But what he’s building now is rooted in the work of a lifetime.

This story has it all: aquaculture, Black Flag, Bernie Sanders, Star Trek as policy, John Hodgman, male tears, and a candidate citing Luthen’s monologue from Andor.

Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social

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Please please help me spread the word!

I've been to Atlanta a few times, but I don't know as many folks there as I do in Seattle or LA.

So I would really *massively* appreciate any and all help letting ATL folks know about this event. 🍑💖📚

Trump’s Decapitation of CDC Takes Darker Turn—and Hands Dems a Weapon Illinois’s J.B. Pritzker is leading a charge other Democratic governors should take up: In our America, we’ll make sure public health systems remain strong.

This is good: With Trump/RFK destroying CDC, JB Pritzker's officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines from manufacturers and distributing them in-state themselves, source tells me.

Dem govs must step up and fill the void.

New piece from me:
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remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature

A man, near the White House, who describes himself as a "retired disabled combat veteran," after burning an American flag tells bystanders "I am being detained because I expressed my First Amendment rights."

Howwwwww is the Lisa Cook story not in your newscast??

Malpractice.

could use a little less passionate intensity from the worst for a day or two

Putin told him to do this. That’s a very important piece of the story. Im not kidding. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle. As companies like Amazon and Microsoft lay off workers and embrace A.I. coding tools, computer science graduates say they’re struggling to land tech jobs.

Learn to poem www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/t...

Reporter: The owner of Trump Burger restaurants, which has several locations in the Houston area, has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and now faces deportation

r/ChatGPT • 19 hr. ago GovernmentBig2881 Caught ChatGPT Lying Educational Purpose Only Had a very strange interaction with ChatGPT over the course of 24hrs. In short, it strung me along the entire time, all while lying about its capabilities and what it was doing. It was to help me write code and generate some assets for a project, told me it would take 24 hours to complete. 24 hours later I asked for a update, it said it was done and would generate a download link. No download link worked, after 10 attempts of faulty download links it admitted it never had the capabilities in the first place to create a download link. Furthermore, I asked what it had been working on this entire time… turns out nothing. And lastly after some back and forth it admitted to lying. I asked why, and essentially it said to keep me happy. This is a huge problem.

comrade ChatGPT... welcome to the struggle

EXCLUSIVE: Someone Waived Ghislaine Maxwell's Sex Offender Status to Move Her to a Minimum Security Camp in Texas According to sources, you can't move someone with a Public Safety Factor (PSF) designation - which Maxwell had - without waiving it. That's what happened here.

BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: A higher up at the Bureau of Prisons WAIVED Ghislaine Maxwell's sex offender status in order to transfer her to a minimum security camp in Texas, per source. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...

Kennedy Cancels Nearly $500 Million in mRNA Vaccine Contracts

Here is the gifted article.

This is what happens when you have stupid people who think they're smart be placed in charge.

"The new cancellations dismayed scientists, many of whom regard mRNA shots as the best option for protecting Americans in a pandemic."

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This woman is an astoundingly vile predator and its despicable if she gets anything out of this situation just because she’s of political use.