Because the problems will remain but the comedy may diminish.

As we recall the trauma caused by COVID in 2020, we should not forget COVID continues to harm. Many still suffer from Long COVID, people who mask are often harassed, and we haven’t scaled clean air infrastructure. If we truly acknowledge past harms, we should be working to create a better future.

Everyone involved in bringing these bogus prosecutions must face criminal charges, from the AG down to the line prosecutors at DOJ. If there are no penalties for this behavior, they will never stop.

Justice Dept. admits Reflecting Pool renovation was flawed, drops case against former Olympian | CNN Politics

The Justice Department is admitting that President Donald Trump’s $14 million renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was flawed, and it is dropping the criminal case against former Olympia...

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I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

Let’s be clear here, when scientists say mistakes were made at the start of the pandemic, we DO NOT mean that we did too much. We mean not socially distancing quickly enough, not making tests widely available, and not acknowledging COVID is airborne and distributing N95 masks to everyone.

Just so you know: this article gets into the history of the bar exam, and you should know that the point when people started pounding on about keeping "unqualified" people from practicing law was coincident with the point when Black people started graduating from law schools.

UEFA spokesperson Dietmar Fumm said to reporters "This decision effectively signals that Gianni Infantino is an enemy of world football". tl;dr: FIFA "foe" - Fumm

there literally are no good-faith concerns about trans girls participating in high school sports. it is children playing games with their friends, its about confidence and relationship-building. let kids play with their friends.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 6d ago

Good-faith concern on this issue would be going, "hmm, professional sports leagues should probably have some standards in place to ensure trans competitors aren't getting an unfair advantage," googling for 5 minutes, realizing every sports league already has those standards and dropping it.

Cops hate cities, hate the people living inside of them and are much more empathetic to someone trying to race through the city to enter and leave as quickly as possible than they are to like, a cyclist or pedestrian, who represent a class of people (city residents) the cop wished stopped existing

@calizaybak.bsky.social · last wk.

I have seen this in so many places, I have no idea why police no longer care about enforcing traffic laws, it's bizarre! They're driving more than anyone! They have kids! Yet they don't care. Like do they get paid more dealing with crashes, the bloody the better?

It's like an 8-year-old breathlessly explaining the castle he's building is going to have sharks with laserbeams in the moat and and and spinning turret guns and a and a and a secret hanger for his SQUADRONS OF ATTACK DRONES. bsky.app/profile/kevi...

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2w ago

The entire speech is just rambling gibberish. My God.

Her “final priorities”? This is just like that NYT headline about Trump “mourning” Lindsey Graham. You know she doesn’t have priorities, we know, everyone knows. Why pretend?

NOTUS Metro@notusmetro.bsky.social · 2w ago

Good morning, D.C. In today’s newsletter: ✅ Mayor Bowser’s final priorities 🗳️ A win for ranked-choice voting 📱 And a Reddit AMA

Mobile: In the app, go to the Me tab. Navigate to Manage Account → Manage Account and enter your login credentials; then, select Delete Account. Computer: Go to the DoorDash website and log in. Click the Menu icon and navigate to Account → Account → Manage Account → Delete Account.

i haven't used DoorDash in ages but I did have an old account that I am digging up to angrily delete because metrics are metrics

Hegseth: “I appreciate winning a war as much as anyone” ?????????? Lived experience and revealed preference though dawg

here’s my offer, The Atlantic magazine, I will read the next “reactionary pretends to give honest advice to Democrats” take if you let me write a piece where I, a DSA member, pretend to give honest advice to Republicans

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 2w ago

“Democrats appear slow to recognize that ideologues on the left are attempting a hostile takeover of the party,” James Kirchick writes. In looking for a way to reclaim control, he argues, they could find inspiration in British history:

If you're thinking about having children, your main priority should be getting gas prices to hit $30/gal.

Bring in the taint team to investigate

Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · 3w ago

everything is butthole and everything is penis psychoanalysis is so back baybee

As always, fuuuuuuck the nytimes.

Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · 3w ago

An incredible euphemism here for “the government is doing illegal discrimination”

Tired of ICE mercenaries terrorizing your community? Afraid that they're going to murder yet another person—perhaps one of your neighbors? Find out where they sleep. Go there and make sure they cannot sleep. It's easy enough. Here's how people did it in Minnesota: crimethinc.com/noisedemos

The Noise Demonstrations Keeping ICE Agents Awake at Their Hotels

Participants in the noise demonstrations targeting hotels that house federal agents in the Twin Cities recount their experiences and explain how this tactic might be employed elsewhere.

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at this point i think we can stop calling it “highly unusual”

fuck off, susan

Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · 3w ago

New statement from Sen. Susan Collins on the Maine ICE shooting: "While the investigation of the Biddeford shooting is not yet complete, it raises sufficient critical questions that I spoke with DHS Secretary Mullin last night and urged him to cease all non-urgent vehicle stops."

this is an underrated point - rebuilding the government and Doing Things are going to be important but that is going to be a hard job that takes time and the federal budget is a shitshow the easiest and cheapest way to show voters that you are Doing Things? revenge

Mikhail Gorbaechev@mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 3w ago

The other thing about this is that it's cheap, and the cupboard is going to be pretty bare for new social programs in 2029.

Calling the RFK Jr diarrhea strain “MAHA Blast” since it has now evidently infiltrated Taco Bell

its bastille day and you all know what that means...yes that's right, it's a day to pretend sword fight with baguettes while making light saber noises

I knew I liked this pizza place

You can’t keep saying the Republicans are an existential threat to democracy and two seconds later pen an ode to Lindsey Grahams corpse and think people will believe you are honest

This is super depressing in the military sense. @drtedros.who.int

Mark Ungrin@mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 3w ago

The hypocrisy of pontificating on "Learning from COVID-19" and preaching equity and the need for more power to fight misinformation, without ever using the words "aerosol", "airborne" or even "air", perfectly captures the crisis in *trustworthiness* driving loss of trust in public health. #medsky

Not even going to read the rest of this thread before I quote-bleat it.

ellie lockhart (she/they)@eleanor.lockhart.contact · 3w ago

Yglesias can eat a flying fuck fwiw