Eric Parrish

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Drug Enforcement Administration officers patrolling the National Mall.

If you know DC you understand how tremendously goofy this is

(h/t @lorenzohall1.bsky.social)

Southern Minnesota should be a place our kids run back to, not flee from.

But they can't find a job, a daycare, or a house.

Let's fix that.

Anti-trans laws cause bookstore owners to leave state SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) – On July 1, a new South Dakota law will take effect, requiring transgender people to use restrooms that align with their gender assigned at birth. The change has one South Da...

10 Aug 25 -- Family with trans daughter opened an award-winning local bookstore in South Dakota; but after passage of state bathroom law, their daughter can't use the right bathroom in their own store. So they've solid it, packed up and are leaving the state. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Virginia Giuffre's Family Speaks Out Following Ghislaine Maxwell's Clemency Request: 'Survivors Are Saying No' Ghislaine Maxwell has asked for immunity in exchange for testimony in front of the House Oversight Committee

“Survivors are saying no. No to leniency, no to a pardon," Sky Roberts, Virginia Giuffre’s brother, said to the Trump regime. "Will you silence them again?” people.com/virginia-giu...

We’re Already at Risk of Ceding Our Humanity to AI Machines It’s 2019. I’m in a bar in Providence, Rhode Island, chatting with graduate students and researchers with PhDs. One of them, who holds a PhD in Latin American literature, observed approvin…

The stakes go beyond education. An excerpt from my HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY: 4/4

lithub.com/were-already...

The state level counting errors he is referencing primarily occurred in Red states and undercounted Democratic-leaning demographics. Not sure this is a Pandora’s box he wants to open.

Reposted w/correct numbers!

Whatever you’ve been doing, STOP & LISTEN (read). This is happening on our soil in our name paid for with our tax dollars.
Every one of us should call our House members & Senators. 202-224-3121
And flood the call lines to Gov. DeSantis’ office: 850-717-9337

You're gonna see more of this.
Europe leading the way in science while the RFKs drag us back into caves.

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VOTER: “West Virginia has 4 members of Congress… none of them are willing to come here and do what you’re doing. What can we do?”

BERNIE: “We need a political revolution. We need to elect people accountable to the working class rather than raising money from billionaires.”

Pete Hegseth shares a clip saying women shouldn’t have the right to vote, the 19th Amendment should be “repealed,” and women should “submit” to their husbands: “All of Christ for All of Life”

For the last time: ChatGPT is not a search engine. It is an aggregate, made to spit nonense information back to you. This is why it cannot be used in an academic context.

What the fuck is anybody doing about it?

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They fled Haiti and work America's most dangerous jobs. Trump plans to deport them. After being recruited by the world's largest meatpacker, they faced grueling conditions on the line. Is the worst yet to come?

They fled Haiti only to endure brutal working conditions at a Colorado plant run by the world’s largest meatpacker. Now they face deportation.

From our friends at @thefern.org:

@marcelias.bsky.social: "I want everyone to pay attention... Trump is laying the groundwork to steal the 2026 election."

I will say it again.

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The FBI As We Knew It is Gone It took a hundred years to create the Bureau as we knew it. And it took one dinner at the White House to destroy it.

I know we have seen a lot of agencies being hobbled and dismantled over the last six months. But the coup happening at the FBI should worry you the most asharangappa.substack.com/p/the-fbi-as...

Multiple times this year I’ve had coffee with fellow immigrants who grew up in corrupt third world countries and the shared sentiment has been that Americans don’t understand how bad things are going to get.

Every single word of this. #Resist

Military force against Americans, in our nation’s capital, starts Monday. They’ll start with the homeless and mentally ill, but it won’t end there. This is a test…

Texas State System dissolves faculty senates, eroding professors' influence on campuses While other universities move to preserve the advisory bodies, Texas State will abolish them under a new state law that curtails faculty’s influence on campuses.

Ummm, this is bad. Very very bad.

www.texastribune.org/2025/08/07/t...

With just a few messages, biased AI chatbots swayed people’s political views University of Washington researchers recruited self-identifying Democrats and Republicans to make political decisions with help from three versions of ChatGPT: a base model, one with liberal bias and....

Researchers (including some fantastic people at UW) found that chatbots can persuade people on political issues, and that they often do so by shifting the frames of the debate: www.washington.edu/news/2025/08...