(friendly quote post) AIPAC does style itself as "bipartisan" and has since its ascent as a lobby on Capitol Hill in the 1970s, but since 2022 when they began directly spending on elections, they have disproportionately endorsed Republicans while spending almost exclusively on Democrats primaries.

Fleet@fleetadmiralj.bsky.social · 5h ago

I mean AIPAC is in theory non-partisan, right? So while bad im not sure it is exactly ratfucking, right?

So apparently, not enough people are taught growing up that, "I honestly did not realize at the time what I said/did would hurt you, and I am so very sorry that it did," is an apology. "I'm sorry you chose to be hurt by that," is not. Mocking someone for being hurt is doubling down, and bullying.

The Trump administration is trying to gut one of the strongest laws protecting tribal sacred sites, burial grounds, and ancestral lands. Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act has worked since 1966. Now a handpicked Council voted to rewrite it..in one week. Here's what at stake.👇

i just saw this thread again and remembered how last fall when i saw some local tvnews "fall/winter respiratory season" info segment they mentioned flu, rsv but COMPLETELY OMITTED covid... they didn't ever say "vaccine" either🙃 thiss what im saying when i said we're *meant to* think it's nbd

Black people have to lock in to protect ourselves and communities. What that man did on Jan. 6—and everyday since—was signal a second redemption. The reign of terror wrought on Black people at the turn of the century was devastating. So much so that we don’t even know the half of it.

Mississippi Free Press@mississippifreepress.org · yesterday

Jackson police are investigating the death of an unidentified Black woman who was found hanging in a tree behind a vacant home in Mississippi’s capital city on Monday night. www.mississippifreepress.org/black-woman-...

I confess I am still thinking about the t-shirt I saw a very nice young person wearing this weekend that said "I got my ass ate while watching a TUBI original" on the back

The role of ChatGPT in the accused FSU shooter’s case goes beyond providing tips, our investigation reveals. In the 12 months before his attack, he messaged with ChatGPT more than 6,600 times—including conversations revealing he was aggrieved, focused on extremist violence, and suicidal.

Inside a mass shooter’s harrowing history with ChatGPT

A year of chats reveals glaring red flags—and disturbing ChatGPT replies—from long before a rampage at Florida State University.

motherjones.com

Look how high up that banner is. Bold!

Jeff Tischauser@jtischauser.bsky.social · yesterday

a banner found above the front doors of the police HQ in Madison, Wisconsin this morning stated: “Arrest the killer cop, 608-266-4211.”

this has gotta be a bit. or he has a fetish for being yelled at (and wrong)?

katie@supermathskid.bsky.social · 2d ago

okay now he's gone too far

@injusticewatch.org @illinoisanswers.bsky.social @unraveledpress.com @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

Dj Ripley@djripley.bsky.social · 2d ago

the government is planning to close the NationalArchives in Chicago, which contains immigration & genealogical records, including things necessary for people involved in active immigration cases, & important history. No plan for future access has been made public?!  www.tiktok.com/t/ZTAq3BJe9/

the government is planning to close the NationalArchives in Chicago, which contains immigration & genealogical records, including things necessary for people involved in active immigration cases, & important history. No plan for future access has been made public?!  www.tiktok.com/t/ZTAq3BJe9/

30 July 2026 Who will you contact about National Archives closures? #Genealogy #NARA #NationalArchives

TikTok video by The Formidable Genealogist

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The “best” thing about genAI (the quotes are doing heavy work here) is that it’s really lowered the bar on getting into hand-made art. Literally anything you make is better than ai. There’s never been a better time to throw away your fear and start learning that craft you’ve always wanted to learn.

doesn't some billionaire want to show off by solving this problem without even feeling it?

Ashton Pittman@ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 2d ago

The State of Mississippi is denying 170 Mississippi foster students full-ride scholarships to colleges across the state, with many would-be freshmen finding out only weeks before their move-in date. Nick Judin reports:

my little sister did her hospital residency during COVID in Oakland (which was a hotspot) hahaha fuck the fuck off with whatever fantasy you think doctors were l coping with in 2020 because it's not what MY family was present for

Gabriel Bosslet@gbosslet.bsky.social · 3d ago

RFK Jr said these words today on national television "There were ICUs that were empty all over the country including in New York at the height (of the pandemic)" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You are a fucking idiot hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha <sobs silently>

Edwin Lopez-Cornejo died at Delaney Hall in Newark, six weeks into ICE custody. He is the 23rd person to die in ICE detention this year and the second at Delaney Hall since it reopened under Trump. austinkocher.substack.com/p/edwin-lope...

Edwin Lopez-Cornejo Is the 23rd Person to Die in ICE Custody in 2026

Edwin Lopez-Cornejo died at Delaney Hall in Newark, six weeks into ICE custody. He is the 23rd person to die in ICE detention this year and the second at Delaney Hall since it reopened under Trump.

austinkocher.substack.com

"I support cyclists and their right to ride safely on the road but only if they follow the rules all of the time" is an absolutely unhinged thing to say in a country where we have drivers killing tens of thousands of people each year and speeding while playing on your phone is normal and accepted

chat can anyone verify that every single Flock camera has about 2-3 Ibs of copper and about 1-2 grams of gold

"The Trump administration admitted that it terminated nearly 300 federal research grants 'solely because' the projects were connected to states that voted against Donald Trump in 2024 and had two Democratic senators in office, according to court filings." www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Trump administration concedes it canceled research grants in blue states

The administration said 284 research grants were canceled because they were in states that voted against Donald Trump in 2024.

nbcnews.com

oh wow. Platner's first deployment was at a torture camp. I wonder how that either attracted him or shaped him.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d ago

"Platner’s first deployment, in early 2005, began at the Abu Ghraib prison complex, part of which the military had rechristened Camp Redemption." missed that detail the first time around!

is it not kind of dizzying how often we read about cops using flock cameras to stalk women? like that specific use case. not even talking about all the other abusive and harassing uses

Drew Harwell@drewharwell.com · 3d ago

We found the Flock cameras cops used to spy on women

This is devastating

Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 2d ago

BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Five months ago, we learned that ICE seized drawings and letters from children in the Dilley ICE concentration camp. I sued under the Freedom of Information Act. Today, I got responsive documents. www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-e...

This also is going to cut all sorts of ways. People go from all sorts of degrees into all sorts of jobs. I wouldn't be surprised to see some STEM degrees 4 years out not make the cut.

This is truly disgusting. We don't participate in higher education for job training. It is crucial for a vital society that we have people throughout our communities who are educated in music, religious studies, history, gender studies, and philosophy amongst many.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 3d ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

Good framing.

Kindergarten girls targeted for invasive exams by new GOP-led ballot measure

Washington State voters will decide the fate of a ballot initiative that would require girls from kindergarten through high school to undergo sex-verification testing before playing school sports — a ...

rawstory.com

When people die and the media says they had “pre-existing conditions”… they’re pacifying the public. Anyone could die from Cyclosporiasis, but they want you to believe it can’t happen to you. It can only happen to the weak, the disabled, the elderly. The expendable people. Eugenics.

Two Deaths Linked to Cyclospora Outbreak in Michigan

The patients had “significant underlying health conditions” that may have contributed to their deaths, health officials said.

nytimes.com

I'm a medical provider who takes care of *plenty* of folks suffering from long COVID. Please point me at that internet rando; I'm kind of just itching to deploy my flair for pettiness and (more importantly) my capacity to wield intense emotional violence, to ruin some denier's day.

As a Religious Studies professor, this directly targets my livelihood in a way that makes a mockery of any supposed profession of concern the administration has ever expressed for me as a Jewish person on campus.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 3d ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

AI companies are trying to do this, but with human knowledge. It's why they're destroying the books. Wipe out our ability to think for ourselves, then own the means of thinking.

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3d ago

Is everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.

what the ever loving F the people who thought this up need to get in the sea

H.D. Gregg@hdgregg.bsky.social · 3d ago

Viles Dorsainvil, executive director of the Haitian Community Help and Support Center in Springfield, said he saw the ankle monitors Haitian residents were given as reminiscent of chains and slavery. www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2...

I like this notetaking example. it is a good case of how gender works. Notetaking has never been about producing a transcript. It is a bureaucratic skill in the 20th c. organixarion because it is SENSEMAKING. Those women socialized to take notes? They have been doing men’s metacognition for them

Jennifer Romig @jennifermromig.bsky.social · 4d ago

Notetaking in meetings is tiny case in point - used to be some predictable social assumptions who would do it; now anyone can offer to do ”notetaking” by turning on the AI listener. Further interesting scenario is human recollection / notes (taken by habit by a person) conflict with AI summary