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House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Burns Down Authorities are investigating a fire at the home of a South Carolina judge who had reportedly received death threats in what could be the latest incident of political violence across the country.

"The 69-year-old judge had received death threats in the weeks leading up to the fire... Last month, Goodstein had temporarily blocked the state’s election commission from releasing its voter files to the Department of Justice..." time.com/7323442/sout...

Review of On Transhumanism, by Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, trans. Spencer Hawkins (2020) A review of Sorgner's "On Trans-humanism." What to do with transhumanism? And – before we figure out how to categorize it, think about it and make actionable policy decisions with it – h...

#transhumanism #posthumanism #humanism book review of Sorgner's "On Trans-humanism," www.academia.edu/85921410/Rev... (originally in Prometheus, 2022)

YouTube video by paulderoma1 F THE CC - Steve Earle

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In Texas we like to say 'come and take it!' 🌈

Angelo State Reportedly Banning Pride Flags, Pronouns The new policies, if fully implemented, will also prohibit any discussion of transgender topics. It’s the latest assault on academic freedom at Texas public institutions.

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This is blatantly at odds with the First Amendment, right?

Often!

Third Uncle count? Ragey. ❤️☕🧑‍🎤

Dead Finks Don't Talk - 2004 Digital Remaster

Brian Eno's crime songs ought to be in more soundtracks. Dead Finks, Limbourg, etc.. perfect, funny, scary songs. open.spotify.com/track/2asnQK...

#gaza #palestine #israel

Democracy.io - Contact your Members of Congress Democracy thrives when people’s voices are heard. Send a message to your legislatures using EFF's simple new tool.

Let's not starve people, and let's not shoot starving people as they try to get food. Ask your representatives what they're doing to stop it. democracy.io#!/ 5calls.org

"Superheroes may be understood as deeply (even pathologically) small-c conservative; although they are gods among men, they do not cause large-scale disruptions to human institutions, even when those institutions are widely considered to be unjust or even evil." #superman bit.ly/4luQEdk

"Civil disenfranchisement persist in the worlds of superheroes... although Superman fights for the American way, he is fact an (undocumented) alien... his failure to use his godlike powers to make a... better world suggests... a deep and aberrant conservatism" #superman bit.ly/4luQEdk

#superman #woke Time to reconsider "Why They Won't Save us: Political Dispositions in the conflicts of Superheroes?" @transformativeworks.org (my take 10 years ago: Superman is TOO conservative (small c)). journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/tw...

Looking forward to this! I might have to revisit "Why They Won't Save us: Political Dispositions in the conflicts of Superheroes" over at @transformativeworks.org journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/tw...

@therestpolitics.bsky.social thank you all for the honest conversation about Gaza. Well done.

When someone has studied concentration camps around the world tells you this bill is a blazing red flag we cannot ignore, I hope you listen. Maybe on the way to work.

June Meeting Join us for our June meeting! 2-3 pm socialization 3-4 pm meeting New members and kids are always welcome! I’ll have drinks and light snacks. Please inform me of any food sensitivities or allergies.

Our June meeting is one week from today!

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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

How to Think Impossibly: About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief, and Everything Else - Think Jeffrey Kripal joins host Krys Boyd to discuss UFOs, souls, déjà vu and how these universal concepts make us more human.

think.kera.org/2025/04/23/d...

Opinion | American Soldiers’ Wartime Experience Serves as a Warning Sara Brennen’s writes about the American soldiers that liberated the Mauthausen Nazi concentration camp in Austria in 1945.

OPINION: "The local Austrians claimed they had not known about their town’s concentration camp. But a farmer who lived nearby…filed a complaint asking the Nazis either to stop 'these inhuman deeds' or do them 'where one does not see it.”"

YouTube video by The 6ths - Topic San Diego Zoo

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How federal layoffs could lead to private sector job losses Spending by federal workers stimulates local economies. Once they’re laid off, that could affect nearby businesses, like restaurants.

Each federal layoff could lead to at least one other job loss in the private sector.

We break down how.

MORE: Senators Jack Reed, Lisa Murkowski, Kirsten Gillibrand, & Susan Collins all joined the letter to the interim director of IMLS.

Library advocates are making their voices heard.

Congress is listening.

ALA applauds this bipartisan action. Read our full statement: www.ala.org/news/2025/03...

Trump plans to dismantle an agency that helps fund libraries. What does that mean for Texas? The Institute of Museum and Library Services was among seven federal agencies dismantled by executive order.

A recent executive order from President Trump dismantles seven more federal agencies, including the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the primary source of federal funding for museums, libraries and archives nationwide.

What could this mean for Texas institutions?

Minus details that could, y’know, get people killed.