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Park Service Is Ordered to Take Down Some Materials on Slavery and Tribes

"At Manassas National Battlefield Park in Virginia, Trump officials have instructed park employees to take down a sign that criticizes the post-Civil War 'Lost Cause' ideology, which romanticized the Confederacy and denied slavery’s central role in the conflict." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/c...

“Coffee or tea?”

1860, to be precise

for every person slowly and painfully de-nazified at great personal cost by a human, Grok is making a thousand more Nazis through automation.
Like, why couldn’t bots be working on replacing THAT horrible human labor? (I know why, just saying)

“Defend the District” protest and Go-Go concert against Trump’s takeover at 14th and U St:

Exposing the Lie of a Confederate Monument's "Faithful Slave" Message Today The New York Times is reporting on an ongoing attempt to remove a Confederate monument from the courthouse lawn in Tyrrell County, North Carolina.

This is the history we have a responsibility to acknowledge when we talk about restoring and reinstalling Confederate monuments. 🗃️ kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/exposing-t...

“I’ve had the experience of sitting with a trans teenager at an initial evaluation, and have them look me in the face and say, If I don’t get access to gender-affirming care, I am going to kill myself,” said Kailey Andrew, a behavioral health therapist at UPMC’s Services for Teens at Risk, a program known as STAR, which serves adolescents who are experiencing suicidality, depression, and anxiety. Health care providers have understood for some years that, as multiple researchers have found, hormone therapy can decrease depression and suicidality among young trans people. They took pride, Andrew said, in being able to refer a young person to Adolescent Medicine at UPMC for care, to vouch for the people there, whom they could recommend because they work together closely. Now that the hospital has barred those providers from prescribing gender-affirming treatment, Andrew told me they didn’t know, as a therapist, what their employer expected them to say to a trans teenager in crisis. But then they corrected themself; they knew exactly what kind of response was expected: “Sorry, I don’t know anything about that. It’s illegal for me to share.” In other words, Andrew would be expected to lie. “And I’m not willing to do that,” they said.

Since UPMC, one of the largest hospital systems in Pennsylvania ended gender-affirming care for those under nineteen on June 30, one therapist in the system told me, they are now expected to lie to young people about their care being illegal, even to discuss. newrepublic.com/article/1988...

Former 'Alligator Alcatraz' worker describes 'inhumane' conditions inside In an exclusive report, NBC6 spoke with a former corrections officer who says she saw hundreds held in cages with no sunlight, backed up toilets and little access to showers.

A former “Alligator Alcatraz” worker says detainees are subject to “inhumane” conditions — packed by the hundreds into cages without sunlight, with overflowing toilets and limited access to showers.

Five knit pairs of socks

Five pairs of socks knit and ready to donate to #knittherainbow.
#knitsky 🧶

A job application with the following sections. 1) Do you agree to take part in an Al-driven interview process? (Next step: a call with our Al assistant Sara) Yes or no. 2)You are forbidden from using third-party software for résumé generation or optimization-including Al, machine learning, and any other writing support. Your résumé must be written solely by you. To proceed, please type exactly the following statement, including your legal first and last name: I AGREE UNDER THE LAW TO THIS STATEMENT - [YOUR FIRST AND LAST NAME] This input is required.

Well alrighty then

MORSE by Alex Johansson Use timing, tactics and telegraphy to stave off a midnight onslaught of the Kaiser's fleet.

The MORSE demo is now available on itch as a web game! Check it out: alexvscoding.itch.io/morse

🎯
"Because people couldn’t vote for a woman."

Social Security Trust Funds Would Be on Stronger Footing If Not for Trump Economic, Immigration Policies | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities The 2025 Social Security trustees’ report projects that the Social Security Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability trust fund reserves will be depleted in 2034, one year earlier than last year’s...

Trump definitely doesn’t want Pennsylvanians to know his deportation of workers and his inflationary tariffs are depleting Social Security. And that *he has no plan* to fix it. Essential work by @kathleenromig.bsky.social and @centeronbudget.bsky.social

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While at the same time transferring $ automatically each month from accounts of those who fall for it.

Count Basie - Afrique front cover

Count Basie - Afrique back cover

TIL that there's an album on which Count Basie plays an Albert Ayler tune (and a Pharoah Sanders tune).

A quiet, empty street

Quiet, empty street

Someone asks the secret service guy standing in front of us whether it's over. "Honestly I have no idea," he replies

I had the most glorious experience with one of my best friends. He’s older. We walked into a pub in a rural area and there was a trans woman on the bar. He absolutely bricked it - “What do I do?!” He didn’t want to offend. So I said - how do you perceive this person would like to be seen? He has…

What a miserable way to spend all that influence. She could have changed the world for the better. This kind of universal dismissal of trans women is sad. I sat and had a deep conversation with a trans woman who I respect and admire and the upshot was that after living what felt like a lie from…

Kristi Noem Appears With Bandage Over Ear Struck By Words

Kristi Noem Appears With Bandage Over Ear Struck By Words

Do lettering with duct tape

State College Celebrates Pride Amid a 'Tough Moment' Nationally for LGBTQ Community State College Pride was about more than a celebration for many in attendance on Saturday. It was a call to action, and a reminder of the battles won and

Saturday was State College Pride, our annual celebration of inclusion and joy. This year, it is more important than ever to stand up for our families, friends, and neighbors in the LGBT+ community.

If we’re going to talk about freedom and justice and liberty for all, we cannot do it in the shadows.

While they're hosting a Made for Punditry TV special today, millions of Americans are on the precipice of losing their health insurance or specific coverage (including GAC, repro care, HIV care) because of their intentionally inhumane, cruel greed.

Their spat is about egos, not your health care.

at lake and bloomington where ICE were seen. large group of angry people

BREAKING: A Montana court just struck down a ban on health care for trans youth, finding the law violates the state constitution.

Leonard Zeskind, Who Foresaw the Rise of White Nationalism, Dies at 75 (Gift Article) With “Blood and Politics,” he predicted that anti-immigrant ideologies would become part of mainstream American politics, and warned about downplaying the threat.

RIP Leonard Zeskind, whose book about the rise of white nationalism was just purged by the U.S. Naval Academy.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...