"In the 3rd Reconstruction Era" - Judge Jones

This is an important piece. Epstein was a consummate social climber and courted academics as a way of building social clout. Brockman and “the edge” illuminate just how that worked.

I don't actually believe they backed down, given what we paid the last time we used Instacart - and that was the last time we will ever use Instacart

Urge your reps to ban Surveillance Pricing and boycott any business that uses it. If it’s allowed to take root, you will be robbed for the rest of your lives.

(11/11) In this new normal, costs are individually adjusted to a consumer’s maximum threshold and wages to a worker’s minimum floor.
The next time you see a price, know that it may not reflect what the item is worth—but what the algorithm believes *you* are worth.

Instacart’s AI-Enabled Pricing Experiments May Be Inflating Your Grocery Bill, CR and Groundwork Collaborative Investigation Finds - Consumer Reports Exclusive: Instacart’s AI pricing may be inflating your grocery bill.

(3/11) A December 2025 Consumer Reports investigation found that Instacart prices for identical items varied by as much as 23% between different users. Instacart characterizes these discrepancies as routine ‘A/B testing’. www.consumerreports.org/money/questi...

(1/11) If you live in NY, you’ve probably started seeing a new warning: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.

"Feed yer lawn!! Feed it!!"

Thank you!!!

The idea of Scotts irish inflames me. No such thing, The Plantation of Ulster (Irish: Plandáil Uladh; Ulster Scots: Plantin o Ulstèr) was the organised colonisation of Ulster – a province of Ireland – by people from Great Britain during the reign of King James VI and I. So JD. can fuck right off.

"Scots Irish" were the Protestant "planters" who the British "planted" in Northern Ireland to steal the land and all civil rights from the indigenous Irish. Talk about a lack of understanding of Irish history

When Bereleh and Faygel Krugman emigrated from Belarus to New York, which was mostly Catholic and Jewish in 1920, I don't think they did for the Scots (with one t) Irish culture

Slotkin got the head of ICE (Todd Lyons) to say that there'd be no reason for ICE goons to have a role. But he did not that HSI does.

There has been FAR too little attention on HSI's abuse, including in both DHS hearings last week.

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

It would not be hard to use this to make Bannon's ties to Meloni a problem.

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Just a reminder that the UC system was not a party in this litigation. Faculty, staff and the @aaup.org fought on their own. UCLA, and the entire UC system, should be ashamed of themselves, and their leaders should be reminded of their submissives every day.

Now there is a further wrinkle, and I hope all UC researchers with federal grants read this: This injunction may need to be enforced.

UC FACULTY: If you see something where the federal government violating this injunction.... say something.

Tell your faculty association, who can tell the lawyers.

Trump administration drops appeal of court order blocking $1.2-billion UCLA settlement The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a major higher education case in which a federal judge blocked its $1.2-billion settlement proposal to UCLA over alleged civil rights violations. It will...

This is a genuinely huge, sweeping victory today for the University of California—or rather, for us, its faculty, acting through our faculty associations, while the UC itself maintained a strict policy of deer-in-headlights silence.

The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:

Taking the Wins There’s good news to report on many fronts, and we should not only enjoy them but understand what they mean going forward.

open.substack.com/pub/statusku...
Great read from the Status Kuo
"...There is still no justice for the murdered victims, the investigation remains politically tainted, and many residents illegally detained and transported to concentration camps have yet to be returned home..."
But there are wins

a tiny brown & tan chihuahua in a pink sweater is sitting, looking up at the camera. two white strands of hair stick out the top of her head. they’re curled into a perfect heart.

This is Lexa. She really hopes you’ll be her valentine. Wouldn’t want to waste this look on just anybody. 14/10 (IG: bambiandlexa)

Unrivaled schedules postseason games in New York following Philadelphia success After a hugely successful, record-breaking road debut in Philadelphia, Unrivaled is taking its postseason on the road to New York.

Unrivaled has already sold 10k tickets to its Brooklyn semifinal games since this afternoon’s announcement www.nytimes.com/athletic/704...

#RedtailHawk
#LakeStClairMetroPark #HarrisonTwp #MI

#birds
#photography
#birdphotography
#BirdWatching
#birdsofbluesky
#nature
#wildlife
#wildlifephotography

You earned a follow from me, man, that blackout poetry is some award-winning level stuff!

I became Senior VP at a multi-million dollar company at age 26. My salary was $600k. This was in 2018. How did I do it? Blacked out lines CEO (my dad) promoted me to SVP. There are no gimmicks. There are no shortcuts.

This is blackout poetry to me

Opinion | Who got fired by the government in 2025 — and who got hired Philip Bump: Data from the Office of Personnel Management lays out how the composition of the federal government shifted during Trump’s first year back in the White House.

The theme of Trump’s first year back in office: eliminate VA nurses in favor of immigration agents. www.ms.now/opinion/fede...

Considering that they’re getting crushed not just by Dems but also by Rs and Indies, losing solid red districts in solid red states, I wonder how they would decide who is “the right people”…. 🤔

And it should continue to be made clear in every article every time he utters his BS.

YouTube video by Big_G Money “Floor Wax is a Dessert Cleaner” Gilda Radner, Dan Aykroyd & Chevy Chase. #comedy #SNL #funny #70s

An executive order:
It's a floor wax.
It's a dessert topping.
(but it's not a law)

www.youtube.com/shorts/HY4MI...

Repeat after me:
An executive order is not a royal edict; it is not law. It is a direction to the executive branch as to how to carry out the law.

Also:
Key parts of Trump's last EO on elections have been stopped by federal courts, ruling that the President has no role to play in federal elections

Jeffries: "Republicans have clearly come to the conclusion they cannot win fair elections, so they've adopted voter suppression as a strategy. Which is one of the reasons we're making sure there's a clear separation between DHS & ability for state officials to ensure there are free & fair elections"