Lucie Brooks

Behold the free speech the Harper’s Letter signatories hath wrought:

I am ordering all of my opinion-writing employees to only write about the importance of personal liberty, if they don't want to write on the assigned topic, they will lose their jobs

We could just be reading great books, watching good movies, and eating fruit. Instead we have to survive/fight miserable power hoarders. What a waste of limited time.

CEO: UnitedHealth's approval ratings are in the dumps. We must take decisive action. Give me your best ideas.

General Counsel: We sue the widows of deceased cancer patients who we denied care to.

CEO: I like it. I like it.

Drake is the all-time biggest loser of a rap feud and that includes people who have gotten shot and died as a result of rap feuds

The Wild True Story Behind Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl Halftime Show From the start, Kendrick Lamar wanted to turn his life into a video game for his big Super Bowl halftime show. The team tasked with doing that knew what to do—right down to sourcing a vintage GNX.

NEW: Want to know how Kendrick Lamar's incredible Super Bowl halftime show came together? I got the scoop for you.

www.wired.com/story/true-s...

Harvard Divinity School punished students for having a PRAYER-IN last semester. I absolutely understand why students have decided to change tactics.

When you tell people to stop protesting genocide, it absolutely impacts how they respond to your shouts about fascism. Everything is connected.

Cats in the U.S. Are Contracting Bird Flu: What Pet Parents Need to Know Cases in domesticated cats have risen dramatically over the past year.

PSA for cat owners in the US: cats have been contracting H5N1 (bird flu). They are very susceptible to it and the fatality rate for cats is 67%. To avoid it:

-keep your cats indoors. They can catch it from infected birds and mice.

-do not feed them raw dairy

-do not feed them raw meat

20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it.

The law only ever serves capital.

Infant Mortality Increases Across US Following Dobbs Decision The Dobbs decision was associated with a 7% absolute increase in overall infant mortality—equivalent to 247 excess deaths—and a 10% increase among infants with congenital anomalies, corresponding to 2...

Me, a public health person, just sitting over here reflecting on the fact that the US has experienced a 7% increase in infant mortality post-Dobbs.

Like, do you realize what that says about this society from an ethical perspective? That we made policy choices that caused this?

#PHEthx

Heritage Foundation authored. (Saved you a click.)

Private company buys a public good. A few years go by and the company decides the public good is no longer worthwhile; the public suffers as a result.

This story arc is way too common in modern society.
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@thetrudz.bsky.social heeeeyyyyy it's nice to see you here. 👋🏼 ❤️

She Was Separated From Her 1-Year-Old at the Border. The Government Wouldn’t Tell Her Why. U.S. officials can withhold their rationale in family separation cases that relate to national security. There have been about 80 children separated for these reasons this year, with an estimated 50 o...

Today we published a story about Marina, a Russian asylum seeker, who was separated at the U.S. border from her one-year-old eight months ago. She remains in detention and her baby is in foster care. She says she has no idea why. 1/
www.propublica.org/article/fami...

Just awful in every way. I'm so sorry for your loss, Joe.

During the Super Bowl, everyone on the planet is going to yell “A MINORRRRRRRR” at the same time and throw earth off orbit.

lan Millhiser @imillhiser Follow I'm very proud of this piece, which is the culmination of 4 years of thinking on how the Supreme Court recently transformed into a partisan institution, and what my obligations are as a lawyer and a journalist under a partisan Court. Please check it out.

the liberal legal media exists in a 50 First Dates situation where they wake up every day with full faith in the legitimacy of the legal system and then are shocked to find out the truth, only to fall asleep and reset again

An Art Nouveau staircase decorated with curved patterns and soft colors, with a nature-themed background and rounded windows on the walls.

Art Deco staircase. An angular, grand design in dark colors.

Art Nouveau is when stuff looks like it was made by Elves.

Art Deco is when stuff looks like it was made by Dwarves.

The Editors Protecting Wikipedia from AI Hoaxes WikiProject AI Cleanup is protecting Wikipedia from the same kind of misleading AI-generated information that has plagued the rest of the internet.

1: AI is hallucinating events, historical figures, entire concepts on Wikipedia

2: a task force of Wikipedia editors is detecting and deleting this stuff

www.404media.co/the-editors-...

Opinion | 65 Doctors, Nurses and Paramedics: What We Saw in Gaza “Nearly every day I was there, I saw a new young child who had been shot in the head or the chest, virtually all of whom went on to die.”

"It was almost a daily occurrence to have children arrive at the hospital with gunshot wounds to the head."
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Donate to High Holidays Drive for Palestine Emergency Fund, organized by Rabbis for Ceasefire The High Holidays invite us to reflect, account for our actions,… Rabbis for Ceasefire needs your support for High Holidays Drive for Palestine Emergency Fund

Rabbis For Ceasefire is having a High Holidays donation drive as an act of repair for Rosh Hashana.

(This is a trusted organization that does very good work.)

This essay exactly. The president of wash u demanding that Richard Spencer be allowed to speak now having students and faculty arrested for speaking. It gives the lie so clearly.

#SeanCombs #Diddy #Cassie #Indictment @Vibe Check TikTok video by Saeed Jones

Fuck it.

I made my first TikTok. Might as well use my powers for good.

I went overboard at @sarabandebooks.bsky.social but luckily this sticker describes my finances as well as the situation at large

Any #poets out there use Scrivener/have an opinion on Scrivener?

I have a whole drawer of notebooks that says otherwise!

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A sycamore tree is on the ground next to Hadrian's Wall, near Hexham, in northern England. A headline reads: "One of Britain’s Most Famous Trees Is Felled In ‘Act of Vandalism.’" Photo by Oli Scarff/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images.

One of Britain’s most famous trees, a sycamore that was several hundred years old and stood in a dip in Hadrian’s Wall, was cut down overnight. A 16-year-old boy was arrested Thursday on suspicion of criminal damage. nyti.ms/3PWHzwv

This is one writing rule I always follow and take extremely seriously