Notice DOJ doesn't talk about its efforts to obtain state voter files anymore. They are 0-20 in those cases and today is the beginning of the quiet period -- states can no longer do systematic removals of names from the voter rolls. TLDR: We won!🥳
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"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality." -James Baldwin
#OtD 2 Aug 1924 James Baldwin, gay African-American author and social critic was born. During the civil rights movement he played an active role in fighting racism, encouraging civil disobedience and taking part in demonstrations stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9166...
Some great new reaction images to use when people are obtuse on BlueSky.
This paper shows that immigration enforcement can _increase_ crime. Undocumented immigrants already have the lowest crime rate, but tough-on-immigration policy makes immigrants less likely to report crime. So immigration enforcement worsens the problem it was ostensibly meant to solve
Like imagine someone defending their doctoral thesis while they *and* the panel are all dying from powerful hot sauces the entire time.
I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
What he’s describing is a totally different kind of AI. There has been very effective AI use in the medical and scientific fields for decades. It’s generative AI - the theif and the environmental disaster- that people are angry about. They are not the same and shouldn’t be bucketed together
high heels were men's fashion before becoming women's and I think the next arbitrarily gendered clothing switch up should be us fellas getting frilly parasols. we should never feel more manly than when we're twirling one of these
The point of the famous "drunk driving" dril tweet is still true without the word "drunk", but you guys aren't ready for this conversation.
This is not a drill. There is a picture of a bunny hexagon.
daily bunnies 🐇✨@dailybunnies.bsky.social · 4d ago
Another death in ICE custody: Prisciliano Trejo Ricano. He said this before he died:
INDY Week@indyweek.bsky.social · 6d agoPrisciliano Trejo Ricano began feeling ill while detained at a Georgia detention center, where he had been for three weeks. He reported that he had not received medical attention after experiencing severe symptoms. He died on Wednesday, July 22.
Blue milkweed beetle (Chrysochus cobaltinus) on dogbane. It was a warm day, but a sprinkle of rain from a brief afternoon thunderstorm cooled things off, plus gave the beetle a few droplets for decoration. (Montana) #BugSky 🌿🐙📷
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In case anyone needs a quote from me about this: "I'm still not tired of winning." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Trump DOJ loses bid for New Jersey voter rolls, now 0 for 18
The ruling arrived one day after New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill (D) formally rejected a new DOJ request for personal information about people mistakenly registered through a software failure.
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I’m sorry. I tried being patient. 🙁 But in todays world, as controversial as this take is, I can no longer be quiet on the topic b/c many of you need to hear this *walks up to the lectern* *adjusts glasses* Yorn desh born der ritt de gitt der gue Orn desh, dee born desh, de umn BORK! BORK! BORK!
People have a right to know what is in their food, and Ben Katz hopes that shining light on additives like DPA and polyethoxylated tallow amines through his comedy channel will encourage more people to push back and pressure industry to develop cleaner alternatives. #chemsky 🧪
Ben Katz showed the internet that some vegetables aren't vegetarian
His work has revealed a lack of transparency in fruit- and vegetable-based products
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breaking: Wikimedia Foundation says it will not voluntarily recognize its workers union, instead insisting on an election held under Trump's NLRB. Wiki Foundation execs dodged this question at its massive conference last week. www.404media.co/wikimedia-wa...
Wikimedia Waits Until After Its Massive Conference to Say It Won’t Voluntarily Recognize Union
A supermajority of Wikimedia Foundation workers say they have signed union cards, but the foundation is insisting on an election.
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The Taiwan Council of Indigenous peoples has already told Xi to f*ck right off. Translation w/ text in Chinese here: g0v.hackmd.io/@chihao/SyKT...
Indigenous Peoples of Taiwan to President Xi Jinping of China - HackMD
# 《原轉會各民族代表：台灣原住民族致中國習近平主席》鄉民英譯版 Indigenous Peoples of Taiwan to President Xi Jinping of China (tr
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Catch DJ Mr. Picky streaming from Kyiv, Ukraine! He often streams weekday early afternoons EDT. Today it's jazz, but he also plays dub techno, house, drum and bass, and many other kinds of music... all picked with excellent taste. www.twitch.tv/dj_mr_picky
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I have repeatedly tried to convince normal people there's a major crisis brewing in the Sahel, but no one cares because "it's Africa". I wrote about the April attacks earlier this year, but English language coverage of this basically non-existent. Except for those like @saladinaldronni.bsky.social
The Sahel is Still Burning
What just happened in Mali?
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"As a society, we are horrified by gun violence, but generally give scant attention to deaths on our roads that result from motorists’ choices." From @seanyyz.bsky.social
Where’s the outrage when pedestrians are killed?
Birchmount Road and Lawrence Avenue East, Scarborough On Friday, July 10, the driver of a westbound Toyota RAV4 SUV drove through a red light on Lawrence Avenue East and struck another vehicle trav…
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