this is the t-shirt the bigots at wnba games have made their uniform, and @foiaball.com found out why. great work here.

David at FOIAball@foiaball.com · 23h ago

Wanna know something I think would be crazy? It would be crazy if XX-XY Athletics, the apparel firm stoking outrage against the WNBA, had a secret, Koch brothers-aligned, oil rich family fortune behind it. But that would be crazy, right??? www.foiaball.com/p/xx-xy-athl...

Dems too busy being Islamaphobic about a liftbro on Twitch in the name of "fighting antisemitism" to notice that ICE has been going hog wild on the down low since Homan took over for Bovino and told the Gestapo to be a bit more subtle

Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social · yesterday

in Springfield Ohio right now. I’m told by multiple activists and religious leaders here that ICE took a second Haitian pastor

Republicans have spent the last year trying to defund Dolly Parton

Heaven knows that no Black people or women in US History have ever thought much about what freedom means.

As a free thinker devoted to viewpoint diversity, I have nothing but respect for the University of Austin that introduces students to ideas about freedom ranging from Milton Friedman to Friedrich Hayek, from Leo Strauss to Allan Bloom, and from Forrest McDonald to Gordon Wood.

So proud of my brother for having produced this documentary about Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library that made clear the scope of one of Dolly’s many precious gifts to our world.

Nick Geidner on producing Imagination Library documentary, "The Library that Dolly Built"

Nick Geidner on the motivation to produce the documentary "The Library that Dolly Built," a documentary on Dolly Parton's Imagination Library.

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To expand on my feelings a little more: It feels to me like so many of “today’s” wealthy and famous and powerful people are real pieces of shit. I feel inspired by learning about all of Dolly Parton’s *choices* to be different and do different. What an impactful, rewarding life.

Israelis who thought this would work were high on a similar grandiose fantasy and Bibi made sure those were the people in positions of influence. the belief is sincere, that doesnt make it less dangerously stupid

Bibi, tho he has a lifelong obsess with being the one who eliminated the iranian threat, was pressed to wipe his slate clean from the failure of October 7th and saw a win over Iran as a way to achieve that

Difficult to clock israelis legitimately high on their own supply vs manipulating the US into known shenanigans because they think they'll still come out ahead Tbh the second part of that is just another version of getting high on their own supply I think

They like Vance and want to help him. They don't like AES and they want him to lose the election. This perfectly explains the discrepancy in how each guy is covered.

Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 3d ago

Every progressive gets chased around about their relationship to Hasan Piker. Has ONE reporter ever asked JD Vance about his embrace of the insane and anti-democratic ideas of Curtis Yarvin? Or about his relationship with democracy-hater Peter Thiel? The imbalance is stark.

tl;dw: the job of the dem majority over the next two years, should it materialize, is to make life hell for the white house, not find points of cooperation

What Democrats can learn from Mitch McConnell

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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Big haul for Ukrainian drones last night: three Ozon warehouses, a MiG-29, four radars, a Shadow Fleet tanker and bulk carrier and a special forces position. Very successful #explodey

This is a real fascism bankshot. Truly impressive 2x assholery.

Reuters@reuters.com · 4d ago

Father of sailor aboard USS Abraham Lincoln taken into US immigration detention reut.rs/4c6jT3m

For the show they have to film him from pretty far away

I am getting reports that in retaliation for scuttling the deal, Mark Carney has deployed Caillou to John Roberts' house

The real life Caillou is fourteen feet (4.63 meters) tall

And then establishment dems and pundits have the NERVE to act confused as to why democratic socialist candidates are doing so well in primaries and elections lately.

Saeed Jones@theferocity.bsky.social · 4d ago

“Representative Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat of New York and the minority leader, met privately in recent weeks with Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and top outside adviser, and discussed potential areas of common ground, according to five people with knowledge of the meeting.” BRUH.

Heschel insisted we cannot accommodate the absurd or grow numb. Gaza is not the Holocaust, but every genocide is a unique moral crime. This scale of destruction demands clear-eyed acknowledgment, not retreat into our fears. If your Museum of Tolerance lacks an exhibit on this report, TEAR IT DOWN.

Israel continues to commit genocide and other atrocity crimes by deliberately targeting Palestinian children

GENEVA – Israeli authorities and security forces have deliberately targeted Palestinian children resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in the Gaza Strip and war crimes in the W...

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Listening to Rabbi Asher Lopatin sidestep the ongoing genocide in Gaza is so deeply clarifying—and chilling. Opposing AIPAC isn’t just political; it’s a moral imperative when defending an unatoned, ongoing atrocity.

I spent two scores avoiding the depravity of the Palestinian situation out of cowardice and a soggy loyalty to my Jewishness. That is precisely why what Beinart is doing matters so deeply to me. Facing the reality is a moral responsibility of all who can and have even the most minor say (a vote).

Two Jews Debate Abdul El-Sayed

Michigan Rabbi Asher Lopatin and I hash out our differences about his state’s Democratic nominee for Senate

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This big drop-off in skills once the AI bots are removed is one of the few things research can tell us about students' use of AI. There's good evidence that this stuff could hurt kids and no evidence that justifies the rush to douse them in it.

Here’s what we know about AI and education. It’s not good.

Yet we know the proven interventions that do work will remain sorely underfunded.

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Matt Seybold@mattseybold.bsky.social · 6d ago

Anybody who’s still advocating putting these tools anywhere near a school is not doing so despite the cognitive collapse they cause, but because of it. dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

People tried to shame folks out of using Instagram, out of using Uber, out of getting into crypto. How’s that going? What if, instead, we had focused on providing credible, pro-social community-based alternatives that addressed the things people *thought* they would get from those platforms?

Whatever else we're doing with our lives, that's now our job, too! It's an important one, and it'll last our whole lives! Let's find our organizing homes, get to work, and not fuck it up!

If you're from the US, at least you'll never have to wonder what your purpose on this Earth is. It's simple: to fight fascism, defend your neighbors everywhere, and work to repair the immeasurable damage this evil regime has done and is doing to every single person on the planet.

Trump is not just the worst president, but the worst US citizen of my entire lifetime. A world historical failure of humanity and morality. He and his wicked entourage have burdened us with the task of repairing his damage and eradicating his evil legacy for the rest of our lives.

Trump has been banishing people to one of the world's worst dictatorships Including: a Phoenix man whose family fled Egypt at 4 yrs old a woman who came to the U.S. at 5 yr old They're now imprisoned, & report being handcuffed and assaulted They've committed no crime tucson.com/news/local/b...

U.S. deportees assaulted, threatened at gunpoint in Equatorial Guinea, three say

Immigrants deported from the U.S. to Equatorial Guinea say they have been threatened at gunpoint and fear for their lives while detained at a former hotel.

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< 2 years & these people got it so that preventable childhood illness rates are skyrocketing, there's at least 4 simultaneous foodborne illnesses all in the highest risk categories, iran beat us in a war, everything's more expensive, there's gestapo raids, & now CANADA doesn't wanna trade with us

some of what this administration does is incidental vice signaling but nothing to do with education is. destroying education has been a core goal of the conservative movement for decades. people have practiced their sycophancy waiting for this chance longer than i've been alive

people are talking about this as ignorant xenophobia that will accidentally decimate high-qualification fields of work but it is actually a deliberate attack on the economic viability of american higher education

Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 6d ago

White House is planning to announce “a large new tax on international students who stay to work in the US after graduation”.