At jury duty in SF, one woman was making small talk with another, saying “My school starts soon. But I’m not technically a teacher; we’re called ‘guides,’ because the students do all their learning on AI modules.” And the other said, “Well you’re certainly not a teacher.”

HUGE crowd in the Rio Grande Valley for James Talarico 🔥 Something is happening in Texas.

Coastal Grace 60x40 acrylic on canvas Available at Koyman Galleries in Ottawa, Ontario

25% of the news is just did you know rich people spend money?

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 2d ago

To compensate for what college may not provide, some families are paying as much as $95,000 for curated gap years that combine travel, volunteer work and career coaching.

"It was a time of high spirits, wackiness, and frivolity... until cold, hard reality set in. When Behind the Music™️ continues..."

Muppet Pictures@muppetpictures.bsky.social · 2d ago

Hakeem Jeffries is being criticized for meeting with Jared Kushner, but as a potential future Speaker of the House he has to show the kind of leadership that ensures everything stays the same and nothing gets better, so cut him some slack.

"He's being unfairly targeted for blowing the whistle on academic fraud" is the most ironic claim possible to make about someone who is advancing the cause of 19 century race science in academia

"If those kids wanted college, they shoulda been born richer"

I’ve also never seen so many mini-fridges in pick-up trucks.

Toni Salazar L., PhD 🧿🇲🇽@mexhistorian.bsky.social · 3d ago

In College Station, which may be a gateway to Hell considering how hot it is today. (I’m sure Austin is just as hot.) Niece is installed in her dorm and ready for classes Monday.

In College Station, which may be a gateway to Hell considering how hot it is today. (I’m sure Austin is just as hot.) Niece is installed in her dorm and ready for classes Monday.

Do you know what happens when places don't have power for days like in Gary, Indiana? Disabled people die.

Everyone should be angry. So sick of the cruelty and tired of accepting things like this.

Chris⚖️Justice@chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 3d ago

💥 ICE drag mom & teen daughter out of hospital room—in middle of being treated after car accident. Still wearing hospital gowns. Both victims of car collusion, with asylum case pending in good standing & valid work permit. Grace Calero 39, & Giulianna Carriel 19, from Ecuador.

NEW: James Talarico holds event for puppies after new reports reveal that Ken Paxton protected puppy abusers.

Happy 4th birthday to my favorite little bear, Riley!

This happens in “It Can’t Happen Here” —written a year after the failed coup against FDR and the author witnessed fascism in action on a research trip to Europe… former RNC chair and professional prude Will Hays blocked the planned film adaptation of it in 1936 gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/030...

It was 105* today so here’s Riley in the snow:

Upton Sinclair - “In my 1906 novel The Jungle, I wrote about the horrors of the meatpacking industry as a cautionary tale.” REPUBLICANS - “At long last, we have created the horrors of the meatpacking industry from the classic literature novel, The Jungle.”

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4d ago

The peasants aren't allowed to know where their foreign beef comes from.

Once you normalize drones in residential areas, how do you prevent surveillance/stalker drones and worse [see: Ukraine: warfare]?

David King@cityplanning.bsky.social · 4d ago

One of the most powerful legal tools cities have to regulate different vehicle related issues is noise laws (this includes cars). Cities can enforce noise much more strictly, and they should get ahead of drone delivery as a nuisance. This article notes noise is the biggest complaint. Gift link.

Trump is constantly talking about how under threat he is from antifa or whatever, and meanwhile he's just letting some weird lady sleep in a crawl space directly above his head and then spend her days trying to clone him from scraps of his diarrhea.

Sam is welcome to grind away on a landscape crew in 104* heat. I know a guy.

Fight For A Union@fightforaunion.bsky.social · 6d ago

Not a single damn person feels this way, Sam. Spend a day on a short order cook line. Try a 14 hour nursing night shift. Spend a summer in a plant or warehouse without A/C. We’re tired man, all we do is work.

This 90s/2000s pop-punk playlist at PT isn’t it this morning. Sorry.

Turns out Meta, the company caught internally approving chatbots getting sexual with children, is providing harassment tools to children.

Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 6d ago

NEW: Teen boys are using smart glasses — mainly Meta's AI Glasses — to film themselves harassing classmates at school, following girls around and "rizzing" them or "ragebaiting" them w/ insults. In several videos we reviewed, girls plead w/ the poster to stop filming. futurism.com/artificial-i...

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Who controls the archives controls the future

Doctora Malka Older@older.bsky.social · 6d ago

I just heard about this from my agents, as translations of my books were among those destroyed. I'm relieved that apparently no one was hurt, but this is awful. Donation details to support publishers here: fond.ranok.com.ua/yak-nam-dopo... according to this article: english.nv.ua/nation/ukrai...

Mexican migrant is 47th person to die in ICE custody during current administration. Alejandro Cabrera Clemente died at the Winn Correctional Center in Louisiana. abcnews.com/amp/US/mexic...

Mexican migrant is 47th person to die in ICE custody during current administration

A Mexican migrant died last week in ICE custody, according to the agency, becoming the 47th person to die in ICE detention during the second Trump administration.

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“The magazine proved that regional long-form architectural journalism, a typology that daily newspapers, regurgitated press releases, & artificial intelligence cannot ever provide with meaning, had value…” Brilliant on Inland Architect by @blaservations.bsky.social mascontext.com/observations...

The Highs and Lows of “Inland Architect”

Published on and off from 1883 until 1999, Inland Architect chronicled the rise of Chicago and the Midwest as centers for architecture and provided a home…

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As of June 29, GOP members of Congress had held just 39 in-person town halls this year, according to LegiStorm, marking the lowest first-half-of-the-year number since the Capitol Hill-focused platform began tracking that data. Dems, in contrast, had hosted 451 town halls during same period.

Taegan Goddard@politicalwire.com · 5d ago

The Republican Town Hall Is Vanishing https://politicalwire.com/2026/08/20/the-republican-town-hall-is-vanishing/

Now we can’t eat the blueberries?🫐 fml

Sitting outside while it is still a cool 87*. It's actually pleasant with a light breeze. Mercury will hit 104* later today.

They are not just deporting these people to countries they have absolutely no connection to, but are incarcerating them there indefinitely without a trial. This is a total miscarriage of justice and goes against everything America stands for!

MC@zeitheist.bsky.social · 6d ago

Insane stuff. Gift/unlocked: He Was Deported to a Country He’d Never Heard Of. He May Never Go Free. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/m...