SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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So he's gonna advocate for all people with depression to get four months off for rehabilitation, right? And he's gonna tell RFK jr to fuck off with his quest to limit the medication that Kean is very clearly taking to be functional?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo ago

Rep. Tom Kean finally speaks after months away from Congress for a previously unexplained absence: "I was given the diagnosis of depression ... the doctors recommended I remain in the hospital to address my illness"

In support of this post, here are some extremely negative things that I expect to happen as a matter of course because of this.

Erin Biba@erinbiba.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Stunned by all the “ICE isn’t gonna do anything more than what TSA already does” rhetoric. Untrained white supremacists who’ve been told by bosses they’re not subject to laws will have POC and women lined up in front of them to grope and abuse and they don’t even have to chase them.

Here's the exchange in which Rep Adam Smith says all Dems should oppose any more funding for the war. Smith is generally moderate, so for him to unload this way is a big deal: newrepublic.com/article/2080...

I am SCREAMING.

The banality of evil is shocking. An ex-Big Lots warehouse for cheap consumer junk is bought by ICE to ship as many as 7,500 handcuffed human beings, as the Trump regime builds a U.S. gulag archipelago The unthinkable comes to Pa. coal country. My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

From Big Lots to warehousing humans: ICE plan sparks fear in Schuylkill County | Will Bunch

A massive warehouse in Tremont. Pa. that once moved cheap goods will now detain migrants in an $119 million ICE deal.

inquirer.com

Here's an excerpt -- I hope you'll reward me for getting off the couch and doing some reporting by reading the whole column and telling me what you think

Eight great reads (and one listen) about the miracle of Minneapolis: www.headsupnews.org/p/people-pow... includes @adamserwer.bsky.social @erikhane.bsky.social @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social @kerryhowley.bsky.social @mollycoleman.bsky.social @jamellebouie.net @pkrugman.bsky.social @brucespringsteen.net

People power is real

Take a moment to savor that

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Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

"There is no such thing as other people’s children" — @erikhane.bsky.social for @lukeoneil47.bsky.social www.welcometohellworld.com/there-is-no-...

The National Park Service has dismantled exhibits about slavery at the President’s House in Independence National Historical Park. Here are some of the signs that were removed and why they were flagged.

Here are the signs the Trump administration removed from Independence Park

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I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

The Democratic party today remains trapped in its neoliberal past. But working Americans everywhere are raging against corporate power - a rising political antimonopoly movement. The Dem party will either embrace it, or lose. New from me in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/acti...

Anger at Corporate Power Is Everywhere

It should guide the Democrats.

thenation.com

MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”

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Today's absurd sci-fi headline that's somehow our reality: Fact-checkers barred from immigrating to the U.S.

Kate Klonick@klonick.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Holy shit. Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

This is amazing, amazing work. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Opinion | In Trump’s America, Are We Losing Our Democracy?

Donald Trump has wielded power as no previous president has.

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Gonna repost this every time I come across it on socials. 💚

I hope everyone reads George Packer's latest. He has thought deeply about these issues for a long, long time. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

American Tyranny

Free-speech hypocrisy is a symptom of the democratic decay that leads to authoritarianism.

theatlantic.com

shit ain’t over til it’s over

Sen. Bernie Sanders to RFK: "So you're telling the American people that...they should not trust their doctors?"

On the radio this morning, I heard a story about a school in Baltimore that had replaced detention with mindfulness and meditation periods, and has seen a drastic drop in suspensions over a decade. I think as a society that already treats children poorly we are too quick to label them as bad.

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NEW: On March 15, President Donald Trump’s administration sent more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Last week, the men were released as suddenly as they’d been taken away. These are their stories.

The Men Trump Deported to a Salvadoran Prison

On March 15, President Donald Trump’s administration sent more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Last week, the men were released as suddenly as they’d been t...

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Talk about The Wire, Sopranos, Game of Thrones all you want, but the greatest US television program ever made is Sesame Street. It's not even close. 50+ years of treating kids across class, ethnicity, religion not as mini-consumers...but as citizens with a stake in this world.

<Thread> I figure I need to explain how extreme and irresponsible is the June 7 Memorandum federalizing the National Guard and authorizing regular armed forces. Those saying anything in support of this action may not realize what they’ve gotten into. (It will also escalate from here.) Preview⤵️

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences