Quoting s'thing @cnygren.bsky.social & I are publishing soon: "the literacy argument is being made in advance of its necessity...it presumes a state in which those who are “AI illiterate” are disempowered, precisely in order to make an argument in favor of compulsory indoctrination in its use."

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7h ago

“If it's this embedded in the world, then it needs to be embedded in the learning and in the coursework…”

I can't even. I already have a hard enough time explaining to students how there were no formal parties in the early republic and then later the parties change names, stances on subject matter issues, and voters w/ electoral realignments over time. AI: Artificial, but certainly not intelligent.

Ciara Torres-Spelliscy@profciara.bsky.social · 9h ago

OMG Google AI just spit out this crap: "A Federalist Congress refers to the early United States legislative bodies (roughly from 1789 to 2001) dominated by the Federalist Party ..." You all remember the Federalist Party which was really big in the 1990s like Nirvana. 🤷🏾‍♀️

Chairteenth 🪑

KEW@kidadaewilliams.com · 11h ago

Happy #Chairteenth y’all. ✊🏾

Tomorrow, Michigan Democrats decide whether to elect Medicare for All champion Abdul El-Sayed. Gretchen Whitmer is backing his opponent after Blue Cross donors poured record sums into her campaigns. Her father was the company’s longtime CEO.

Welcome to August and the kickoff to Month Three of Sen. Mitch “MIA” McConnell’s taxpayer-funded medical leave.

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

Great job 👏

remember when Sheryl invited a bunch of feminist bloggers to dinner and they all wrote nice things about her airport book being the future of feminism

Sarah Szalavitz💡@dearsarah.bsky.social · yesterday

Lean In To Fascism

They subpoenaed an 85-year-old man who has testified before Congress 250 times. They published his private diary first. Then screamed profanity at him for not talking. Six years of investigation. Zero charges. This is what having nothing looks like. www.JackHopkinsNow.com

AIPAC has spent a record amount in this race to elect my opponent because she'll be a reliable vote to a foreign government that is aiding, arming, and abetting a genocide. I want your tax dollars spent on schools in Michigan, healthcare in Michigan, and roads in Michigan.

Remember when David Hogg was running for DNC chair and the establishment stepped in and said we needed a responsible adult and then gave us Ken Martin, who throws his phone at his staffers? Also the DNC is $2 million in debt. But centrists still demand they should be in charge.

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger announced Friday that she has restored voting rights for 66,085 people who otherwise wouldn’t be able to vote due to past felony convictions. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Virginia Gov. Spanberger has restored voting rights for 66,000 people with past felony convictions

The volume presents a dramatic reversal of prior Gov. Glenn Youngkin's tenure, when he restored less than 10,000 voter's rights during his entire four-year term.

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The Internet never forgets.

Not only did they absolutely beg for this, they made it so that “merit” was synonymous with being white so now you’re stuck with precisely the kind of moron who believes that. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Hay humanos con gran corazón. ❤️ There are humans with big hearts. ❤️

WISCONSIN: “We’ve been told doing better isn’t possible. That’s bullshit. All we need to do is fight together.” 💪🏽 @francescahongwi.bsky.social

I can't tell you how many people either laugh at me or stare in disbelief when I say "I'd retire tomorrow if I could." They're like, and then what would you do? Seriously? Rehab a house, travel the world, visit natl parks, banjo lessons, make art, read, write, bake, visit friends, etc etc etc...

It’s summertime, many Americans (including journalists) are on vacation. The DOJ did a Friday night news dump that revealed how weak their case was and probably hoped this incident would go away. But Drumpf is such a thin-skinned failure that he just Streisand Effected the story 😆

Angry@angrystaffer.bsky.social · 4d ago

Trump may disagree with Pirro, but there are apparently limits to how much she’s willing to lie to propagate his narrative. If DOJ had any evidence, even circumstantial, they would be charging people.

America is weird because we have a free press but also an authoritarian government and so we learn in pretty close to real time the shit that is not revealed in other authoritarian settings until decades later.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · last wk.

MS NOW EXCLUSIVE: The Secret Service felt pressure from the Trump admin to surveil James Comey. Documents detail worries about the legality of the directive to surveil Comey — including surreptitiously tracking Comey's phone without a warrant — in the wake of his 'seashells' photo.

Millions are engaged in some form of resistance What's your lane? ✊ "After leaving her job at the Van Buren National Historic Site in New York, Dalley helped launch America433+, an anti-censorship coalition that advocates for public pressure on the Interior Dept through education and activism." 🧵

National park ranger quits, tours visitor centers to fight censorship

She's talked about history with visitors at Yellowstone, Grand Teton and Glacier national parks.

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Defend truth-telling at National Park Service sites. Snap a photo with your JR RR booklet at a park site (or just hold the booklet in your hand to be anonymous). Post your picture with hashtags #JrResistanceRangers & #America433. Upload your photo & get a Junior Resistance Ranger badge! More: ⬇️

Defend Truth Telling at National Parks

The Zinn Education Project (Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change) has joined a coalition led by the Resistance Rangers to defend truth telling at the 433 sites of the National Park Service.

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www.npr.org/2026/06/26/n... Kerwin a park ranger who helped found Resistance Rangers after Trump axed programs and wanted to rewrite history is moving forward with teaching the actual black history as normal. The building is locked and no exhibits displayed but it didn’t stop her. #SheShed #BSC1

Trump axed a Black history exhibit. Former park rangers are teaching it anyway.

As the U.S. prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, former national park rangers are hosting teach-ins and sharing history that the Trump administration has sought to erase from federal land.

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they take this more seriously than police shootings

Los Angeles Times@latimes.com · 5d ago

LAPD officer who recorded colleagues' racist comments to be charged with felony eavesdropping

The State Department said ​it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.

dems holding shadow hearings to get this info out is good politics

Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · 6d ago

Chicago teen shares his experience in ICE detention centers: I am 18 years old and I just graduated from high school in Chicago. I was in ICE detention for 2 months and 10 days. They kept me in solitary for 2 days for no reason, alone in a room with just a toilet. They never let us go outside.

“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

It’s really starting to grind me down

New from 404 Media: a company is selling tons of old books specifically to AI companies and says they have a strong NDA to never reveal which AI company bought all of the books. They don't want headlines of 'we scanned and destroyed millions of books for AI' 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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