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I had food from a Somali restaurant for my birthday party tonight. Family run business, working hard to bring something awesome and yummy to their community. So glad to have them here 💗

It’s gender all the way down.

Zing. Short thread that starts with the obvious current outrage and takes it deep to its roots.

Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...

The Roads Have Eyes! 👁️ Turn on the Surveillance Layer in Map Options to see known license plate readers from Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions (Vigilant), Genetec, Axis Communications, Axon, Leonardo (ELSAG), Neology, Rekor, PlateSmart, Ubicquia, Verkada, and other outdoor surveillance cameras.

Finished @gilduran.com ‘s book Nerd Reich tonight. He really pulls all the strands together. I recommend it for anyone who has been on the periphery of Silicon Valley, etc. and knows there’s something rotten there but hasn’t quite been able to put their finger on it.

I relish the weekend when I get to catch up with Marcy and Nicole’s show. I do usually watch directly on YouTube but I’ll do the podcast this time.

I think all the boat murders they’ve been getting off to have warped their minds about killing becoming acceptable for public entertainment versus something that should be held with seriousness and humility if we are convinced it must be done to protect a greater good.

GIL SCOTT-HERON in 1982 showing the side of Washington D.C. that tourists never got to see and politicians tried to imagine didn’t exist.

🚨NASA CERES satellite data shows another 4-year average record for global Absorbed Solar Radiation. Earth's Energy Imbalance has more than doubled over the past 20 years. We've been trying to warn about this and the impacts for years, but few seem to care.

Yesterday's terrible news should be on the front pages everywhere. Atrocities that history should never forgive us for. Destroying asylum seekers for sport.

One step closer to justice for my dad, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.

Easter of Eden

Peter Thiel praises evil. Peter Thiel hates democracy. Peter Thiel founded Palantir. Peter Thiel owns JD Vance. Peter Thiel is the most powerful billionaire in the United States. Peter Thiel can’t stop talking about the “Antichrist.” Find out why. Read “The Nerd Reich”

Before you get too gleeful about this, remember that: * More than half of all Black people in the US live in the South * Black people in the South in rural and suburban areas, are dying the most This isn't just the GOP harming themselves. This is the GOP being very effective at harming is more.

Saw these good folks tonight, my first time seeing a brigade in person 🩷

There go my plans for next weekend! At least we got one last Labo(u)r day of whey, molasses and motorcycles.

" 'Juden Raus' was a children’s board game ... The game’s visual features relied on antisemitic stereotypes and caricatures to depict Jews. ... The winner of the game was the one whose Jews 'scurried off' to Palestine." germanhistorydocs.org/en/nazi-germ...

Excellent interview of my old friend @kaibirdbiographer.bsky.social about his new biography of Roy Cohn and how he shaped the young Donald Trump into the monster he is today. I learned a lot from this interview and look forward to his new biography of Roy Cohn.

One of the signs of civilized culture we look for in the archaeological record is caring for temporarily or permanently disabled people as valued members of society. It is part of what makes us human. We repudiate this duty to love our neighbors as ourselves at great moral cost.

Best of luck to Jerome Whalen! I live a couple miles outside the district and I’ve been keeping a wary eye on Neal for decades. He shows up for corporate money but not for his constituents.

As Temperatures Get Hotter, Pesticides Are More Dangerous to Farmworkers insideclimatenews.org/news/1708202...

I’ve gone back to home sprouting to have some variety in greens, as well as buying local. My blueberries have gone by, sadly

Just got the call from my local bookshop that my copy of @gilduran.com ‘s Nerd Reich is in! Excited to delve in this weekend.

Trump voter pleads for fiancée's release after ICE arrest: "They're destroying families" - CBS News share.google/N7qc0Xdsa3np...

Breathe easy, InfoWarriors! Sen. Mitch McConnell just called in with a reassuring update from the space between life and death!

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I remember that sad November morning when I had to tell my then 11 and 9 year olds that we did not have our first woman president. Now they are full voting adults, and I look forward to sharing the joy with them when the country can shake free of Trump for good. They can wake me up anytime!

Unprecedented.

The survivors made a four-day pilgrimage on foot from the site of a Japanese internment camp to the Dilley ICE jail.

An iPad inside Independence Hall tells visitors that a second floor room was used in the 1850s to hold individuals “accused of crimes of the period.” Originally, the screen read “accused fugitives of slavery.” @fallonroth.bsky.social and I discover more retelling of history by Trump’s admin. 🎁 🔗

It should have been a celebration that reminded us of everything that connects us as a nation a moment to showcase the incredible diversity and creativity of the American people. That would have been a celebration worthy of this historic milestone.

Well, I gotta admit it was worth the wait for that curtain to be removed.

Happy Pride Month, Massachusetts. With the Trump administration’s relentless attacks on LGBTQ+ rights, I know it can be hard to feel joy right now. But in joy there is resistance. And I look forward to celebrating with you all month long as we recommit to the fights ahead.

Those really were times that cracked us open and started a pendulum swinging. We saw how wrong we were about fundamental assumptions about how our society is organized and operates. Now we need to confront what we really want knowing how much is possible for good and for ill when all bets are off.

As a late-night explorer of *ahem* obscure spaces at MIT I saw in the 90s that the library facilities had been even bigger in the height of the Cold War era. Times change. I did love my time in the music library.

ICYMI 70k Massachusetts rideshare drivers organizing with the App Drivers Union just won official union recognition, making history as the first union of Uber & Lyft drivers in the US!! They are now on a path to win the first collective bargaining agreement in the history of the rideshare industry!!

In case you have forgotten who Andy Kim is, he’s the rep who came into the Capitol building after Trump’s J6 goons had trashed it, got down in his hands and knees, and cleaned it up. And ICE have gassed him. They have peppersprayed the true patriot who thinks American ideals are worth defending.

Questions Grow Over Mystery Of Missing Legislative Branch

Attention, anyone who still shops at REI. The union is asking you to boycott the Annual Sale to stand with the workers and to urge the company to live up to its values and/or image.

happy 9th anniversary to the day we watched Zendaya fall madly in love with Tom Holland in real-time

When I went to Smith, it was during a right-wing panic that Smith (the final boss of liberal higher ed) indoctrinated young women into radical misandrist lesbianism and birth rates would plummet, men would be forced out of the workforce, &c. if we didn't course-correct. Same story, different font.

John Lewis had John Roberts' number from the jump: takebackthecourt.substack.com/p/john-lewis...

get in loser we're getting Reconstruction right this time

What kills me is all those grown ass adults complaining about having to go through an active shooter situation last night & yet none of them give a 2nd thought to teachers & students going through that same exact scenario once or twice a mnth in the form of drills, some of them go through it for…