73,928 This is the number of Palestinian deaths since 10/7/2023 according to the Gaza Ministry of Health's most recent report on 9/24/2026. This is what 73,928 looks like. We will not forget.

AI scammers have gone mad. Just had an email from Jane Austen who is very impressed by my short story collection.

“US capitalists executed the leaders of the May 1 1886 strike for an 8 hr work day. In 1889 socialists declared May 1 Int'l Workers Day to honor them, creating a beloved holiday worldwide, but not in the US, where Labor Day was moved to September to erase workers' struggle from the public mind.”

May Day: Fighting for the Eight-Hour Day | American Postal Workers Union

Chicago in the 1880s was a hotbed of labor organizing. Fed up with the status quo, where industrial workers toiled long hours in squalid conditions, the International Working People’s Association form...

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U.S. soldiers, no one- not even the Iranian government- respects you less than your leaders.

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Trump administration is now refusing payouts for US soldiers who died in the US-Israeli war against Iran "because it isn't a war." Libby Klinner, widow of 33-year-old Maj Alex Klinner, says the US Air Force deemed her ineligible for additional benefits following her husband's death because

Now in Gunmetal Grey!

A man and woman embrace as ICE and FHP detain her during an immigration stop in Fort Myers this morning.

you have the freedom not to love this country too. because a state is incapable in of feeling or returning love. your feelings otherwise are irrational. I appreciate and am grateful I was born in a safe, stable and affluent country. I don't love the USA. It certainly does not love me back.

John Schwartz@jswatz.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In the U.S., "free speech, including the freedom to criticize the government and its leaders, is not a sign of our democracy’s fragility. It is evidence of its strength... Here you can simultaneously hate the content of a person’s speech and love the country that cherishes the freedom to allow it.”

this was a very visceral and horrifying police report to read through.

Florida ‘Deputy of the Year’ Used Flock to Stalk Ex, Held Gun in Her Mouth, Did a Nazi Salute

The deputy resigned after an investigation uncovered an alleged history of racism, stalking, and sexual abuse.

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The flip side of understanding how much of one's career is luck is that it helps tamp down envy when friends catch luck. I have friends with movies and TV series! Other friends with ten times my sales! Good for them. It's nice when people you like get that break. They deserve it, as much as anyone.

It really is quite funny how the people who insisted for years that leftists needed to be pragmatic and meet voters where they are have planted their flag in support of Israel and data centers, two of the most unpopular stances in the country

SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are transgender athletes in youth sports.

The only responsible attitude for liberals and progressives to align on is that all right-wing grievances, claims and believes are not only false, but malicious lies. Nothing passes the mouth of an American conservative in public life that is not meant to harm and destroy the lives of millions.

By filing Freedom of Information requests, 404 Media has obtained bodycam footage and documents that uncover stories about tech that powers ICE and how cops abuse Flock. You can FOIA too! On July 30th at 1 pm ET, we will teach you how to file a FOIA request live: www.404media.co/our-new-foia...

You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given to know that we must die. And that is a great gift: the gift of selfhood. For we have only what we know we must lose, what we are willing to lose.

AI companies are buying, scanning, and destroying older books to improve their models' training data & avoid problems of "model collapse" (wherein LLMs choke on their own slop). One of their suppliers is Better World Books, which partners with public libraries. www.404media.co/ai-companies...

AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop

ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”

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Unbreakable truth. 🧔🐴

That we continue to persist at all is a testament to our faith in one another.

ladies and gentlemen, the democratic party

Sen. Adam Schiff@schiff.senate.gov · 4mo ago

What I’ll remember most about Senator Graham was his sense of humor and how he deployed it to move his policy positions forward. Though we did not often agree, Senator Graham was never disagreeable.

Zohran, invade Bucca de Beppo. My people long for liberation.

LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍@lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The "Mamdani hates Italians" stories seem like they're going to be much healthier for society than the antisemitism angle. It's funny on its face and it takes the wind out of the sails of all the worst actors

I too was on the "Mitch McConnell is definitely dead" train but I just had a call with the man and he sounds fine. We talked about Iran, the average heat of hellfire, how it feels to be eternally impaled through the rectum with a burning trident. He looks forward to returning to D.C.!

My nine year old asked for a Rosetta Stone cake for his birthday

Socialism is ultimately about economic democracy: extending the principle of democracy into the realm of production. Cooperatives are an important step in this direction.

Almost a decade ago, I was very Special Interested in mushrooms and developed an organizing training framework based on mycelium. The core teaching was, people think the above-ground part (the mushroom) is the body of the organism, but that isn't the case. So too with movement. (cont)

Those agendas and biases can be anything! Case in point: you think the fruit in the garden of eden was an apple because a guy translating the story into Latin wanted to make a pun.

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