Benjamin Ludwig

But here’s the truth:
📢 The Texas Legislature still has no quorum.
📢 The Democrats are still standing strong.
📢 And this tantrum proves the GOP can’t win unless they cheat.

They’re not trying to pass policy. They’re trying to force silence and punish dissent.
And Texas Democrats aren’t having it.

Late to the show, here, but *many* congratulations to you!!!

Tom Baker aka the 4th Doctor Who, he was my first Doctor when I was a kid I saw it on Maryland Public Television

Without the The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) I never would have seen Doctor Who when I did and would have lost out.

This sounds great! Wish there was an online version!

Motherfucking wind farms…

“While New Hampshire’s inadequate and inequitable school funding system has exacerbated teacher shortages in property poor and lower-income communities, lowering the standards for who can teach is an inappropriate response,” said NEA-NH President Megan Tuttle. #NHPolitics #NH

A simple black and white zine from a folded piece of paper, with the title "Why GenAI SUCKS AND YOU SHOULD NOT USE IT" dated June 2025, version 1.1, author Lauren Woolsey. The zine is sitting on a green and gold cloth with a sun motif.

My first ever completed Zine idea! "Why GenAI Sucks and You Should Not Use It" with 20 sources cited on the inside page. Thanks to all the researchers and journalists for the hard work I built from!

The scanned zine to print your own and all the references can be found at padlet.com/laurenUU/antiAI

Thank you for this! Will share it with some of my colleagues at school!

News paper clipping: 'There is no ethical way to use the major Al image generators. All of them are trained on stolen images, and all of them are built for the purpose of deskilling, disempowering and replacing real, human artists. - MOLLY CRABAPPLE, artist and activist

Do you use Libby + Overdrive? Act now

Several people have asked what we are doing in Kenya. @slj.com posted an article where we explain what we will be doing if you’re interested!

www.slj.com/story/Librar...

Tootles!!!

I'm with her, always.

How can you tell it’s AI? Seriously don’t know, so I’m asking.

Trump Officials Want to Prosecute Over the ICEBlock App. Lawyers Say That’s Unconstitutional The platform, which allows users to anonymously share the locations of ICE agents, is currently the third-most-downloaded iPhone app.

Trump officials are incensed about the popularity of the ICEBlock app, which shares the locations of ICE agents, and are threatening to prosecute its developer and CNN for covering it. Lawyers tell @thiccreese.bsky.social that would be blatantly unconstitutional: www.wired.com/story/trump-...

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

AI Is Changing Classrooms. Should Teachers Help Build It? Headline from education week

Nope.

If there was ever a time to call your Senator, this is it.

Voting has begun on the GOP plan to cut off health care for working-class Americans and slash taxes for the wealthiest.

Gang I have studied language and grammar for more years than is probably healthy and I can tell you this:

What is the correct grammar? The one that is mutually understood

We already knew that Emil Bove was unfit to serve as a federal judge.

Now we see additional confirmation of that fact.

How can we trust someone with such contempt of the law to be a fair arbiter of the law?

Every year, Small Albert forgets how the fan works. Today he remembered. #shetlansheepdogs #shelties

🚨NEW: Erez Reuveni, the DOJ lawyer fired for his honesty in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case, sends Congress a whistleblower letter detailing lawlessness at the DOJ around the CECOT deportations.

He says Emil Bove told the DOJ to respond to likely court orders blocking flights with "fuck you."

The TNR Wealth Poll: Americans Say Spread the Dough Our exclusive survey shows that a majority of Americans understand just how unequally wealth is distributed in the country—and they’re not happy about it.

So what’s the political takeaway from these poll results? They suggest that Bernie Sanders is on the right track in criticizing the superrich in particular—the top 1 percent as opposed to the top 10 percent.

https://trib.al/qKjSJ0r

Be careful.
When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.
- Albert Camus

If 102-year-old Kurt Goldschmidt, a survivor of the Holocaust, says "no kings" you'd best get up and stand up for your rights before it's too late. Mr. Goldschmidt knows all too well what he's seeing in Trump's America. It was an honor to stand with him today. #NoKingsInAmerica

YouTube video by The Bulwark New footage: Padilla thrown to floor and cuffed at Kristi Noem presser

VIDEO: Here is the Regime treating a duly elected U.S. Senator like a farm animal because he had the temerity to ask questions of Kristi Noem.

Fascism is here. The jackboot of Big Government is pressing down on all our faces, and the only question is what we do next.

Interview with author Annette LeBlanc Cate — Benjamin Ludwig - Author After reading and reviewing Seven Little Duckling (Candlewick, January 2025), I had the privilege of interviewing author Annette LeBlanc Cate. We talked about how she became an author/illustrator, h...

New interview up on my blog! I talked with author Annette LeBlanc Cate, picture-book author/illustrator of several excellent titles! www.benjaminludwig.com/blog/interview-with-author-annette-leblanc-cate

So to review:

1. He never should have been deported. The admin admitted that.

2. The admin said he was an MS-13 member and also they couldn’t get him back. They lied.

3. They are now charging him with a crime that they did not mention until literally now.