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BOSTON (AP) — Judge reverses Trump administration's cuts of billions of dollars to Harvard University.

Pritzker: "It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try to disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear -- the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anybody living here."

are we sure that’s him

Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change. Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.

“Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces.

Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.”

Leadership, strategy, real action, common sense. #Paris

I have never seen so many public servants protest the mismanagement of a government. Trumpists will point to this as proof of the deep state, but the reality is that these are professionals who are desperately trying to get the public to understand how bad things are.

i've been without a phone for nearly a full week now and i regret to inform you that it has been fucking awesome

we've subscribed to the onion in print and u should too

i wonder who told trump he was low on the totem pole for heaven or if he just figured it out himself

just tried to click and drag my uber eats driver's car closer to my house AMA

Just finished Sarah Wynn-Williams' fantastic memoir—CARELESS PEOPLE—about her time at FB/Meta. this should be required life reading

D.C. TODAY…

"None Of These Books Are Obscene": Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida's Book Ban Bill In a major win for intellectual freedom, a judge rules against Florida law that led to removing hundreds of books from school libraries.

“None Of These Books Are Obscene”: Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida’s Book Ban Bill

This is a big win for intellectual freedom and will have big implications in other ongoing lawsuits and future laws aiming to ban books.

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say what u will about newsom but i would call this 'trying to do something about trump'

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The two greatest evils known to mankind, A.I. and the person directly in front of you in line at the post office, have finally teamed up. We’re done.

Hopping Fences for Free Shows and the Spirit of Rock ‘N Roll — A Return to Lo Fi Summer (Exclusive) I love the music scene so much, I wrote my novel 'Lo Fi' about it. This summer, free and pop-up shows brought me back to my roots.

wrote about the all american rejects house party tour, $$$ concert tickets, and a return to LO FI SUMMER for
@people !!!
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best thing you’ll watch all week

I've spent a lot of time thinking about this fascinating exchange Colbert had with Dua Lipa, when she asked him about the role his faith plays in his comedy.

“It was a very healthy reciprocal acceptance of suffering,” he said. “Which does not mean being defeated by suffering. Acceptance is not defeat. Acceptance is just awareness.” He smiled in anticipation of the callback: “ ‘You gotta learn to love the bomb,’ ” he said. “Boy, did I have a bomb when I was 10. That was quite an explosion. And I learned to love it. So that's why. Maybe, I don't know. That might be why you don't see me as someone angry and working out my demons onstage. It's that I love the thing that I most wish had not happened.” I love the thing that I most wish had not happened. I asked him if he could help me understand that better, and he described a letter from Tolkien in response to a priest who had questioned whether Tolkien's mythos was sufficiently doctrinaire, since it treated death not as a punishment for the sin of the fall but as a gift. “Tolkien says, in a letter back: ‘What punishments of God are not gifts?’ ” Colbert knocked his knuckles on the table. “ ‘What punishments of God are not gifts?’ ” he said again. His eyes were filled with tears. “So it would be ungrateful not to take everything with gratitude. It doesn't mean you want it. I can hold both of those ideas in my head.”

when i think of Colbert, i think of an interview he gave to GQ when he first took over The Late Show, and had this to say about losing his father and brothers in a plane crash. www.gq.com/story/stephe...

we've been over this sojo.net/articles/cul...

yup

happy paperback release day to @riggser.bsky.social and Lo-Fi.

Step into the sweaty music clubs and late-night house parties of Nashville this summer with LO FI by @riggser.bsky.social!

This "magical" (Southern Review) and "sultry country song" (W Mag) of a novel about an aspiring songwriter is now out in paperback! 💜 Start reading today: bit.ly/48kF4KC

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

The Big Blasphemous Bill The GOP’s sweeping legislation would make it official: The economy is America’s god, and people will be sacrificed on its altar.

sojo.net/articles/opi...

i don’t need chatgpt i need to download the reddit app

Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer This is another communist candidate running for Congress in Illinois. If DSA@DemSocialists had their way, Congress would be full of jihadists and wannabe hookers who want to seize all means of production. Not only is she running for Congress, but she's also dating @oneunderscore_Ben Collins, the CEO of the Onion. These are not serious people. Please cover your cooch @KatAbughazaleh. kabughazaleh. [picture from my Instagram of me on the fridge behind the bar in fishnets, shorts, and a top being goofy with my coworkers]

lmao

sunglasses indoors so we can’t even see our haters

Trump on Mount Rushmore? President Trump wants his face added. Our interactive guide examines the rock to find out what's possible.

Are you fucking kidding me