He spent one year visiting schools. I’ve been teaching high school and writing about this issue for years and I don’t think this is a good idea.

Annie Abrams@annieabrams.bsky.social · 3d ago

I have a lot of thoughts www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...

The author of the Democrats’ 2024 autopsy says a key chapter was left out of what was made public. The chair of the DNC says he never saw it. The chapter addressed “the sway of an operative class that had become ‘generationally wealthy off politics’ while steering Democratic strategy.” Gift link:

Author of Democrats’ 2024 Autopsy Says Party Left Out Key Chapter (Gift Article)

A dispute over the chapter between the author and the Democratic National Committee has added to the party’s turmoil as it tries to look forward, not backward.

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This New York Times article, which ran a week before Christmas last year, didn’t get the attention it deserved. It detailed Trump and Epstein's predatory behavior toward women – “a game of ego and dominance” in which “female bodies were currency.” Here’s a gift link and a thread. 1/6🧵

‘Don’s Best Friend’: How Epstein and Trump Bonded Over the Pursuit of Women (Gift Article)

The president has tried to minimize their friendship, but documents and interviews reveal an intense and complicated relationship. Chasing women was a game of ego and dominance. Female bodies were cur...

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I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

Red tape. Low reimbursement rates. Delayed payments. We heard from more than 500 psychologists, psychiatrists and therapists who each faced a moment when they decided they had to leave their insurance network. (Published Aug. 2024)

Why I Left the Network

Those who need therapy often have to pay out of pocket or go without care, even if they have health insurance. Hundreds of mental health providers told us they fled networks because insurers made thei...

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I want you to notice how the New York Times does not think it's important to mention that both the OpenAI and Anthropic "AI gone rogue" hack events were completely avoidable and caused by human error

Anthropic Says Its A.I. Systems Broke Into Computers at 3 Organizations (Gift Article)

The disclosure followed OpenAI’s report last week that its own artificial intelligence had hacked into the network of an online library.

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Unpretty 🍃 #TLC

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You may recall the case where Lynne Freeman sued Tracy Wolff for writing a YA set in Alaska where the male lead was hot and broody, just like in Freeman's book. This litigation went on for three years before a judge finally read both books and said there was zero infringement.

Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · 2mo ago

So do you all remember Lynne Freeman who sued Tracy Wolff because Freeman wrote a YA paranormal set in Alaska where the hero was hot and the heroine only learned about her paranormal heritage as a teenager, and so did Tracy?

This article encapsulates everything that is wrong with Louisiana--corruption, racism, neglect of the environment. This state has so much more potential than what greedy capitalism will allow it. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/t...

How Meta Got Everything It Wanted in a Secret Louisiana Data Center Deal (Gift Article)

A Times examination details how the Silicon Valley giant used private talks with local officials to start a project big enough to cover nearly six square miles.

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Trump: "The Democrats are gonna terminate the filibuster as soon as they have a chance and then they're gonna approve DC and Puerto Rico as states. They get 4 more senators, 12 more congressmen, like 40 electoral votes ... you don't want to see me cry."

I hope you’ll read the story here: www.propublica.org/article/alic...

The Wrong Man: The Bestselling Author, the Exoneration and the Rape Crisis the Police Ignored

Five years after Anthony Broadwater was belatedly cleared for the sexual assault of Alice Sebold, the questions of how he came to be wrongly convicted and how one or more serial rapists operated for y...

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Right. The argument isn't, "be leftist on everything and you'll win." It's, "yes, let's be mindful about taking unpopular positions and not get bullied by litmus tests, but moderation as an end in itself is being oversold as a panacea and can very easily lead to unnecessary moral compromises."

Toby Buckle@polphilpod.bsky.social · 2w ago

& on our side that just isn't true! speaking only for myself, whenever i criticise the 'moderation strategy' i make clear that doesn't mean we *always* go to the left, or that there are *no* cases where moderating might help www.thebulwark.com/p/when-moder...

OMG: The racist pappification of culture with Musk's AI. Follow the link to his post to watch the video. Hilarious. Elon Musk says Grok Imagine will make ‘historically accurate’ AI adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...

Elon Musk says Grok Imagine will make ‘historically accurate’ AI adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey

The billionaire says the AI-generated film will stay true to Homer’s original, after repeatedly criticising Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster over its casting choices

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denim = ‘de Nîmes’ because they were made in the French city of Nĭmes jeans = ‘Genoa’ because they were worn by the Genoese navy khakis = Hindi word for “dust-colored, brown” JNCO = “Judge None Choose One"

darling sweet apples, painted by bertha heiges, 1903

I try not to overdo this bit but ... my man is begging for it. Let's go.

PEIPolitical 🇨🇦@peipolitical.bsky.social · 3w ago

Miller: "It's not a coincidence that when you look at these violent Antifa demonstrations not one of the people that is demonstrating looks like a normal person. Not one looks normal. They're all deformed in some way in their appearance, in their dress, in their mannerism." #cdnpoli

duchess de bourdeaux pears, painted by deborah griscom passmore, 1898

sorry to vaguesky but I saw someone whose work has meant quite a bit to me personally sharing that their accomplishments affirm, for them, only their own feeling of uselessness. In empirical fact when we feel useless it is an illusory feeling. we have to Internalize and know this.

Graham Platner's wretched campaign couldn't end fast enough, but the focus needs to be on the "why" and "who" of his 150,000 voters A bad guy rallied voters who want good things. College-educated voters need to stop apologizing for what we believe. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

The other Graham Platner crisis for Dems | Will Bunch Newsletter

Plus, what’s behind the new ICE killing spree.

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AOC on Susan Collins touting the money she got for body cameras and ICE training in the DHS bill. “Senator Collins wrote the blank check to allow these officers to conduct themselves in the way that they have in Maine in the first place, and she's the one who's poured resources into it.”

Sure it was funny,but I often felt that readers ignored Holden’s trauma & grief over a suicide & the death of a sib & focused on his rebellion.When I finally read Catcher at age 20, it made me cry. #BookSky Holden Caulfield, the Ultimate Adolescent, Is Turning 75 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/b...

75 Years Later, ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ Remains a Great American Novel (Gift Article)

Sure, “Catcher in the Rye” has its detractors. But the influence of its wised-up yet winningly innocent hero keeps it among the Great American Novels.

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Exactly. The president is going to spin some incredible lies about the 2020 election and the media -- and every single Democrat in the country -- has to be ready to smack this bullshit down immediately. Not a mealy-mouthed fact check or, golly, this is weird. Call it out as an assault on democracy.

capitolhunters@capitolhunters.bsky.social · 3w ago

Journalists: please, please get ready for this in ADVANCE. We know Trump's going to claim "new evidence shows the 2020 election was stolen". You've got 3 days to write a story that confronts that lie head-on before he says it - pre-write this like an obit. America is begging you: plan ahead. 1/

The evil that men do lives after them, The good is oft interred with their bones

What noise is this? Not dead? Not yet quite dead?

remember, be careful what you post on a day like this. If you do it right, you can get illegally fired for being disrespectful to Lindsay Graham and then win a massive lawsuit about 10 months from now and retire with 2 million in your pocket

We all have to post as hard as possible about Lindsey Graham's death so we can see who wins by getting cited in an article in the Atlantic about how Bluesky is destroying the fabric of American politics next week.

When a politician dies we see a lot of hagiographies about them. If you mention they were a terrible person IRL, you get chastised. My feeling? If you don't want people to talk shit about you after you die, don't be shitty when you're alive.

If he were living, I would try him yet.⁠— Lend me an arm.

Go together, You precious winners all; your exultation Partake to every one.

“Politicians will never hold these people accountable. The only thing they fear is a jury.” I had an extraordinary conversation with Mark Lanier, the lawyer who took on Google and Meta and won. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

‘This was a righteous case. A holy war’: the lawyer who took on Meta and Google – and won

When Mark Lanier and his young client Kaley faced the tech giants in an LA courtroom earlier this year, it seemed a bigger battle than David v Goliath. But they scored a landmark victory, proving that...

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