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[Abraham] “Lincoln saw clearly that if we give up the principle of equality before the law, we have given up the whole game.”

—Letters from an American 🇺🇸 by @hcrichardson.bsky.social

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And the incompetence - across the board - may just save us😵

Pulitzer-Winning Composer on How Music Can Inspire Climate Action Julia Wolfe shares how she wrote unEarth, an oratorio about global warming and nature loss.

Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Julia Wolfe joins Zero to Share how she wrote unEarth, an oratorio about global warming and nature loss.

Rich guy whose business is entirely, entirely built on both foreign labor and the integration of the descendants of former colonial subjects sees the formal legal equality of those subjects as vile oppression. Story of our age! bsky.app/profile/theg...

Nobel Novelist Orhan Pamuk Finally Gets the Netflix Series He Wanted

This should be great, and read his novel ‘Snow’👍👍❤️

Can Artists Help Shape American Cities Again?

“Artists have played a vital role in defining the American city only to be forced out when rents rise. A novel approach in San Francisco seeks to break the cycle 👏👏👏

WATTERS: "Do I come across as ... [a fascist?]"

@jessicatarlov.bsky.social: "Yes!"

Gallup Will No Longer Track Presidential Approval Ratings

There is no approval 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

I don’t casually compare stuff to China’s Cultural Revolution but this reminds me of 八个样板戏

“Art” created under authoritarianism will always be rotten because creativity is killed at the very inception, so that the work is devoid of beauty, wit, and anything else that makes art great and engaging.

JUDGE JOHNSTON: “Today, immigrants are being detained without due process. Tomorrow, under the Government’s interpretation of the law, American citizens could be subject to the same .. This Court will not allow such an unraveling of the Constitution.”

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Grand Jury Rebuffs Justice Dept. Attempt to Indict 6 Democrats in Congress

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It's jarring to see how much money is going to ICE instead of education, healthcare, public transportation, international aid, green energy infrastructure, and the arts, but I guess that's the point.

Pirro should be impeached just for attempting to get an indictment against members of Congress for speech.

Her incompetence is actually useful right now because it negates her malevolence.

Watters: I was walking in my street, a car drives by and I give him a wave. He rolls down the window and says, “F U fascist.” He doesn’t know I’m a fascist!

Jessica: Yes, he does. You’re on TV.

Always a great sign for how things are going in your country when 21-year-olds are like “hey, I innovated a system to play bagpipes in tear gas”

Marjorie Taylor Greene: "It is being covered up. Pam Bondi works directly for Trump…Everyone's getting mad at Pam Bondi — you can name anybody you want, but the man at the top is Donald Trump. He's the president and he's the one that was completely against releasing the files."

Olympic doggie dreams 🤣👏

BART’s cost-cutting plan risks a ‘death spiral’ that could end all train service Hidden deep in the contingency plan to slash costs at BART if voters decline to bail out the rail agency is an all-out nuclear scenario called Phase 3: Shut the rail system down altogether.

This is what happens when a transit agency has an elected board if directors. 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ #dobetter @bayarearapidtrans.bsky.social

lol

I'm uninstalling my RING today.

Dystopia notwithstanding, the Ring commercial about their surveillance finding lost pets makes no sense.

Of the ~10M pets lost annually, their service finds ~500. They want Americans to commit privacy suicide for a .005% success rate???

Yeah, no thanks. Cancelling.

There's a ChatGPT ad about a family farm where the owner says her family has been doing this for a hundred years and she doesn't want to be the one to screw it up and that's why she's getting advice from ChatGPT and, my God, can you people hear yourselves?

Epstein was not ostracised for his crimes. To some powerful men, he became even more appealing | Moira Donegan The latest tranche of files expose how he was viewed as a sexual svengali – and an expert on dodging the #MeToo movement, says Guardian US columnist Moira Donegan

Epstein was not ostracised for his crimes. To some powerful men, he became even more appealing | Moira Donegan

If Bad Bunny was serious about uniting Americans, he would have given his Grammy to Donald Trump.

Billionaire Called Epstein a ‘Blessing’ as They Made Deals

“Andrew Farkas has repeatedly played down ties to Jeffrey Epstein. But they swapped business favors in the Virgin Islands, and in nearly 2,000 emails, the two expressed admiration for each other.”🤮🤮🤮

Sex and snacks, but no seat at the table: the role of women in Epstein’s sordid men’s club Files reveal a world of flattery and fratboy tones, where rich men are cultivated and women provide services

#metoo2

Mamdani announces a new executive order protecting New Yorkers from "abusive immigration enforcement," including requiring ICE to have a judicial warrant to enter NYC property

FWIW this is more or less how white conservatives destroyed multiracial democracy after emancipation. That & paramilitary violence, but of course they would never... oh yeah they're doing that too.

Incredible stuff from @wsj.com

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