Nicole Chung

Donor List Suggests Scale of Trump’s Pay-for-Access Operation

The most corrupt White House in history. Here is an account of what people are paying, directly to a PAC called MAGA Inc, in order to meet the president, get pardons, change policy

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/u...

The rise of AI tools that write about you when you die Families and funeral directors are using AI obituary generators to more efficiently memorialize the dead. What happens when they get it wrong?

New: A few weeks ago, when my father-in-law died, the funeral home asked if we wanted to use AI to write his obituary. So I dug into it and found that it's the biggest new trend in "death care." Tens of thousands of AI obits have been made already. Often the families don't even know wapo.st/4okuxIg

As A Brown University Alumnus, Let Me Say: Fuck This — Assigned A Brown alumnus recalls his time at the ‘gayest’ university and calls for the Brown community to stand united against the Trump deal.

A reminiscence on trans college life in the closet and a big fuck you to Brown University for trading the rights of their trans students to the Trump Administration in this special Sunday piece by @sandyernestallen.bsky.social.

I've added a number of original, stitched-into cyanotype prints and collages to my Etsy shop. www.etsy.com/shop/BINDbyB... #cyanotypes #originalart #papercraft #wallart

and for all we have “learned” (and how we supposedly oppress/ignore boys 🙄), my daughter’s preschool teacher still told me that I needed to “teach her to stand up for herself” when a boy was harassing and physically shoving her at school (I had, and she told him to stop. shocker: he didn’t)

I’m sorry, Karen ❤️

At my elementary school, they’d try to lift up our skirts (every Friday was “Friday Flip-up Day”). The school responded by telling girls not to wear skirts, or wear leggings underneath.

her little black nose 🥹

ah, true

or doing at least half of the domestic labor

it’s my own fault for being alive and online :(

I had somehow missed the discourse and now I’m mad lol

This is gutting.

The P in PBS now stands for Privately Funded, I guess, so:

“There is no indication that the government will provide some grace period before snatching up and imprisoning this new underclass of noncitizen babies; they are apparently subject to arrest from the moment of birth.”

ADL web gone

Shortly after Trump’s election in November, the Internet Archive registered major changes to ADL’s website. Sections devoted to voting rights, racial justice, and other civil-rights issues were all gone. (3/x)

ADL Musk

I spoke with 40+ sources for a look inside the Anti-Defamation League. Here’s some of what I found.

ADL’s gentle response to Elon Musk’s infamous salute was partially driven by his support of Israel. To ADL, that indicated he didn’t have “antisemitic tendencies.” (1/x)

nymag.com/intelligence...

After this article published, the Smithsonian said the exhibit will eventually be updated to “include all impeachments”

Just kinda wondering if that will happen before, idk, 2029

Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American history museum A temporary placard, on display since 2021, described the president's historic impeachments. Officials said the exhibit was restored to an earlier version following a review of legacy content.

The National Museum of American History has removed a temporary label containing information about Trump’s two impeachments from an exhibit “as part of a content review that the Smithsonian agreed to undertake following pressure from the White House to remove an art museum director”

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right, and of course many families have particular needs that make finding childcare more challenging. for years it was just not possible for us to have non-family overnight caregivers for our autistic kid.

I’ve never understood why people get upset over this either. It’s simply not my business—your wedding, your rules, etc.

(We *have* been guilted for not being able to line up childcare/make it to kid-free events, which I don’t think is cool. But I’m never mad about the kids not being invited.)

uh

Very much same hustle and grind, but mine’s about books and shit-talking! Let me and Josh in your inbox, please… www.themarisreview.com

followed, of course!

The “deal” that Brown made with the Trump admin is much more extreme than is being reported. It includes government oversight of course evaluations and no barrier to government interference in faculty hiring.

Read it for yourself here:

www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

have to imagine that state Departments of Education will be overwhelmed without a federal Department of Education to investigate violations of disabled students’ educational rights and hold school systems accountable

Idaho “relies on a decades-old funding formula that assumes a set percentage of students in every district would qualify for special education: 6% in elementary school and 5.5% in middle and high school.“

The national average is ~15%.

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Same. It was also the only place I saw nonwhite kids besides myself. Mister Rogers was very important to me, too.

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