Worth a read every year. But this year? For the 250th? It's scorching. Read it to you family or friends. Find a town square and read it out loud. Repost it. Nothing you hear today will frame this country better. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
“What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” by Frederick Douglass
This is the perfect time to read the entirety of Frederick Douglass’s famous speech, and not merely because of the date on the calendar.
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TONY STARK WAS ABLE TO BUILD THIS IN A CAVE, WITH A BUNCH OF SCRAPS
Anyway, the objectively correct account of Oct 7 — that the Palestinian armed factions had a legitimate casus belli but also acted in gross and shocking disregard for the laws of war — is a position that gets you yelled at by everyone
Khanna's campaign is going to be a perfect sponge to absorb all the worst losers on the left so AOC doesn't have to hire them
If my country is the country of Jim Crow, it is also the country of Thaddeus Stevens, and it is incumbent upon us to make this the sort of country that embodies the ideals for which Thaddeus Stevens was ostracized after his death
Man, it’s almost like the thing we’ve been saying would help actually helps! Time for UBI.
More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 2mo agoA program giving cash assistance to pregnant women in Flint, Michigan, was found to lower the rate of premature births, according to a study by The Lancet. The program gave women $1,500 during pregnancy and $500 a month for a baby’s first year, and is expanding to 42 cities.
Merrick Garland hid this from us for 4 YEARS, and allowed this disgusting monster to be reelected
SNAP benefits should be universal, with zero means testing, and generous. Even from a purely capitalist perspective this would benefit the economy massively. The only reason to be against this is because you're pro-suffering.
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And then I said "Sir, it's the Enterprise!"
A federal judge has denied OpenAI's request to dismiss a copyright suit from George R. R. Martin, Ta-Nehisi Coates, John Grisham and other authors. The judge says that text generated by ChatGPT may infringe their copyrights.
They tortured him to death.
Ben Conarck@conarck.bsky.social · 10mo agoNew: Correctional staff at a Western Maryland prison shut off the water to a mentally ill man’s cell, then allowed him to suffer for eight days before he finally died of dehydration, according to a recent court filing. www.thebanner.com/community/cr...
What you can do, and what I'm trying to do, is build an alternative economy that pushes reliance on the state / capitalism as far out to the edges as possible. Mutual aid can help lead to this, but it's a dual-power effort which is far larger than just mutual aid. And it'll take a long time to do.
borderless@borderless.bsky.social · 10mo agoI do some of the largest scale mutual aid work on the planet. You absolutely cannot mutual aid your way out of state capacity. You can reduce some of the short-term harm via mutual aid. But that's a stop-gap measure, and here's why.🧵
When a Republican says "Soros," they mean "the Jews"
This is unbelievable. They will be meeting with the president soon. They won. www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...
Unsurprising but horrifying. Wherever there are people forced into crowded living conditions, there will be tuberculosis. Wherever people are dehumanized, there will be tuberculosis. prospect.org/health/2025-...
Tuberculosis Spawning in Crowded, Dirty ICE Detention Centers
Doctors and medical researchers expect more outbreaks of infectious disease as the Trump administration crams thousands more people into miserable conditions.
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Gonna kick back and spend the afternoon solving a hard-boiled period mystery on the holodeck. Sure there’s an ion storm going on, but it’s probably fine. I won’t be trapped in there or anything.
When interracial marriage was legalized it was polling at 20%. You can’t wait for the public for these kinds of things. “Meet people where they are at” in this context means don’t do anything.
Microsoft is cautiously onboarding Grok 4 following Hitler concerns
Microsoft is cautiously onboarding Grok 4 following Hitler concerns
Grok 4 is going into private preview, for now
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