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"Stop publishing the employment data because we don't like the answers economists give" and "subject the Smithsonian to searching ideological censorship because we don't like the answers historians give" all on the same day.

Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you:

Our funding depends on usage.

So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

There’s a theme here, between Miller and Vermeule, which is that the authoritarian right has a view of “order” which has nothing to do with actual crime and has everything to do with violently enforcing their preferred cultural hierarchies.

Order: a group of masked men shoving a day laborer into an unmarked van.

aww how adorable, rainforest lock y'all 💚

haha ty 😘 kinda rare these days

I'm Jewish and I think about antisemitism all the time. I can't tell you how fucking weird it is that Homeland Security posting literal neo-Nazi propaganda generates less discussion about the threat to Jews than a mayoral candidate who believes Palestinians are human beings.

connecting flight in ft lauderdale, RIP vacation sarah, seems like Too Much has been Happening as always but coming for you scrappy btmore

bragging about being a giant pussy is integral to the conservative mindset

This from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social hit me over the head like a mallet of truth. This is the thing. This is what I’ve been trying to warn people about perfectly crystallized. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...

"Most of the promotion of A.I. in schools boils down to: Well, it’s happening, and so students need to know.

But there’s nothing attaching it to learning outcomes. There’s nothing assessing its risk to privacy, to data, to the mental and emotional and cognitive development of students."

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

It costs a lot less to house people.

Great week for people who are like once I saw a black person, therefore it’s time for martial law

actually do think there's lots of good change work happening in baltimore but also impoverishment of the east side is still devastating, drove thru highlandtown recently to do outreach & saw blocks filled w/trash, during ICE raids + the mayor's city clean up & all, we cannot stop seeing this reality

How much of Gaza is left standing? Analysis by independent researchers reveals the scale of the destruction

“The studies imply that estimated life expectancy [in Gaza has fallen by more than 35 years, to half the pre-war figure. In percentage terms…bigger than…during China’s Great Leap Forward; in absolute terms it is similar to the one in the Rwanda genocide”

giving you permission for today to not have to argue about how crime is lower actually

Imagine if "combating homelessness" meant housing people, not brutalizing and disappearing them.

lol thank uuu, honored

climbed to the tallest peak in Puerto Rico/Borikén's tropical rainforest El Yunque yesterday and passed some folk on the way down who were then overhead describing me per this encounter as an "unbothered queen" lol, clearly time off for somatic + land therapy is the mass policy we need

(yes that is a list of things that mediocre white men are "good at")

generally speaking they never stopped being administered by white men & their putative inclusive excellence largesse since the 90s has been based on maximal asset capture from a globalized market-- now they are gladly following the market mutations toward overcapitalized AI/tech, militarism, plunder

Visiting a state that is actively engaged in the deliberate starvation of 2 million people. This is America’s “left” party.

Edit: *insurers worry that insuring the world will no longer profit them

How Baltimore became a rising star in America's worker cooperative movement On a sweltering August afternoon at Red Emma’s, the anarchist bookstore, cafe, and community organizing space in Baltimore’s Waverly neighborhood, something that would have seemed impossible two decad...

baltimorebeat.com/how-baltimor...

It's happening everywhere including the Midwest.

they eat the lanternflies too 😇

This is part of what I find tiresome. People ARE in the streets DAILY and it's not just in L.A. And at this point, folks should just assume that this is true and what's needed is for you to plug in too if protest is important to you.

Trump administration seeking $1 billion settlement from UCLA | CNN Politics The Trump administration is seeking a $1 billion settlement from the University of California, Los Angeles, CNN has exclusively learned, marking the latest effort by the White House to shape higher ed...

I see they’ve chosen UCLA to be their whale.

www.cnn.com/2025/08/08/p...?

I wonder if Gen X still believes in discourse the most

thanks I (millennial) hate using it and needed someone to confirm. degradation is right there