Happy Elizabeth Freeman Ends Slavery In Massachusetts Day to all who celebrate! PS: Hollywood, WHERE IS THE MOVIE
Jury Decides in Favor of Elizabeth
On this day in 1781, a jury in Great Barrington found in favor of Mum Bett, a black woman who had been a slave in the home of Colonel John Ashley for at least 30 years. Listening to her master's frien...
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I did not think we would actually go back to that old saw "it's about ethics in gaming journalism" "It's about academic integrity!" How many times do we have to fall for this???
For my Sick Burns Friday post, I argued that centrists should welcome DSA candidates as a much-needed counterweight to the growing extremism of today's Republican parties. www.burnsnotice.com/actually-cen...
Actually Centrists Should Love the DSA
In the age of conservative extremism, it's about time a lefty counterweight gets some traction. True centrists should welcome this.
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We need to reframe the "wealth tax" - it's basically a refund of the tax we all pay to support these people in the first place.
Over The Top Under The Radar@overunderpod.bsky.social · 2w agoThis week we've got a tax special with Aditya Chakrabortty and it got a bit spicier than we thought it would... Are the left too focussed on a wealth tax at the expense of other reforms? We get into that and much more in this week's episode. 🎧 Available below
When Crimethinc, no weak tea liberals, call bullshit on a political symbol of violence…
ben chambers 🏴@benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 2w ago
This is inside baseball, but: It is a lot easier to get on relevant committees as the 1st working software engineer in Congress, instead of the 45th MBA. Or the 180th lawyer.
Firmly in the dont-threaten-me-with-a-good-time category
Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3w agoCelebrate AOC's beautiful path to the 2028 presidency, as proclaimed by Andrew and Tristan Tate's lawyer. 'McBride saw it as a given that MAGA couldn’t afford to lose his clients, writing on Instagram, “AOC will be the next President without the Manosphere and Andrew Tate.” '
Giving serious "don't threaten me with a good time" energy I don't even support Piker, but I will if it means we can ditch this lossr
Oliver Willis@owillis.bsky.social · 3w agoi didnt have much of a position on hasan piker but this could make me his biggest fan Carville rips Piker: ‘If he becomes a force in the Democratic Party, I’m out of here’ thehill.com/homenews/cam...
“You have to make people dream. The space that’s taken by a single car can be used for so much more.” @milesperhoward.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/02/o...
What Boston can learn from Montreal’s car-free summer - The Boston Globe
Miles of city roadway become places for gardens, art, outdoor dining, and unhurried discovery.
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Starting the morning with fresh biryani and ghugni (yellow pea curry) - https://the-calcutta-kitchen.blogspot.com/2023/07/yellow-peas-curry-ghugni-from.html
Yellow peas curry - Ghugni from the traditional Bengali kitchen
Yellow peas curry - Ghugni from the traditional Bengali kitchen
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First time I tried making ghugni and am really happy with the results.
John Mark :blobcatverified: ☑️@johnmark.freeradical.zone.ap.brid.gy · 3w agoStarting the morning with fresh biryani and ghugni (yellow pea curry) - https://the-calcutta-kitchen.blogspot.com/2023/07/yellow-peas-curry-ghugni-from.html
if you want to stick it to aipac, worth donating to cori bush, whose election looks a lot closer and where there's a lot less money in the race. www.coribush.org
Cori Bush for Congress: St. Louis
Join the Cori Bush campaign for Congress to bring real change to Missouri's 1st District and strengthen our community together.
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Google Fi Wireless is reportedly down for hundreds of users at the moment. Are you one of them? #GoogleFi #GoogleFiDown #GoogleFiWireless #GoogleFiWirelessDown #Google #GoogleDown https://community.designtaxi.com/topic/34066-is-google-fi-wireless-down/
Hug ops to @tmobilesupport.bsky.social #tmobile and #GoogleFi folks right now. Will probably be burning the midnight oil on RCA and solutioning #hugops
Reporters still have no idea how much they're playing into these tech weirdos plans. They're cluelessly following the script laid out for them.
Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · last mo.This is laughable --- "reporting says", well yes, these reporters did a bang-up job anthropomorphizing the system they are talking about, and obfuscating the responsibility that OpenAI holds here. bsky.app/profile/mims... Some examples:
@beth4ma.bsky.social, Congressional candidate for CD6 - the seat currently held by @moulton.house.gov - spoke to attendees at the Bearing Witness standout today in Burlington.
Making rage a useful emotion
YouTube video by Bearing Witness at ICE Burlington, MA
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For instance, Homer was clearly unfamiliar with the Bronze Age use of chariots in battle. He knew they had them but depicts them totally inaccurately. The weapons described are a mix of Bronze Age weapons and weapons from Homer’s own time. The boats in the Odyssey are closer to Iron Age design.
Jon Mezzera@jonmezzera.bsky.social · last mo.I wonder if people who complain about the historical inaccuracies in The Odyssey are familiar with the fact that both of Homer’s epics are filled with historical inaccuracies. They were written centuries after the end of the Bronze Age by someone unfamiliar with Bronze Age warfare and seafare.
The silliest part of Argentinian Blanquemiento, is that this wasn't "White people doing this to Black and Indigenous people." This was "Mixed race people doing this to themselves, because White people told them to.🤡" Most Argentinians are between 2% and 8% African. Just like actress Rebecca Hall.
Interview with Rebecca Hall for TheTown
YouTube video by reelrave
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Mekka Okereke@mekka.mekka-tech.com · last mo.Blanquemiento (rough translation, whitening), was a set of policies intentionally designed to: * Increase the Black + indigenous death rate * Decrease the Black + indigenous birth rate * Eliminate non-white immigration * Increase white immigration In order to turn Argentina more white. It worked
The lesson of this game is clear: England just don’t have enough MLS players to compete at the highest level
Here's my Lindsey Graham obit. While most people are focused on his late career villian arc, I will never get over his sneering, hysterical defense of an alleged attempted rapist. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Lindsey Graham’s Defense of Brett Kavanaugh Told Us Everything
The senator’s infamous cry of rage spoke not only to his cruelty but also to his larger role in changing the court.
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Me: "It's time to start eating healthy." Lettuce: "I'm going to give you explosive diarrhea!" Chips and cookies in my pantry: "I would never do that to you."
Maine is in absolute outrage! Protesters took over Senator Susan Collins’ office chanting "VOTE HER OUT" after an ICE thug brutally executed a 26-year-old Colombian man. We demand immediate accountability for this state-sponsored murder! Enough is enough!
Yale president implies that NYT was overdramatic in reporting Yale was "seeking a deal" with Trump in response to DOJ's anti-DEI "investigations". She says it's more seeing if they can "resolve the matter." I still think she should just tell DOJ to fuck off. president.yale.edu/posts/2026-0...
Message from the president
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NEW @crisesnotes.bsky.social PIECE: I finally finish a series I started last fall on what ties together Conventional Wisdom Processors and the constitutional crisis under the second Trump administration. This is the "payoff" piece which puts the pieces together. www.crisesnotes.com/what-connect...
What Connects Conventional Wisdom Processors, AI and The Second Trump Administration’s Constitutional Crisis? Part Three
This is a premium piece of Notes on the Crises. Subscribe here to read the full piece- and series. Find part one here and part two here. Dear readers. I was interrupted by sickness last winter from f...
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ICE desperately wants you not to care about this story But we must. The killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national striving for his American Dream, is a moral outrage, and a warning. ICE hopes you won't notice that mass deportation is back My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
ICE killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. They want you to be apathetic. Don’t be. | Will Bunch
Salgado came from Mexico, built the American Dream, sent his sons to college, and was senselessly killed by ICE.
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