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also and I feel like I buried the lede here: it calls for the people who CREATE queer media to be imprisoned. That'd be people like me. Or any other queer creator you love. Any queen who's been on drag race. Chappel Roan. Janelle Monae. Anyone who's made a piece of queer media. Imprisoned.

Psst: Project 2025 is terrifying for a lot of reasons but also because on page 5 it calls for teachers and librarians who grant access to books that are maligned as pornography (which just means anything LGBTQ) to be registered as sex offenders. Pass it on.

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Something you may have missed yesterday - The Biden Administration is going to unveil a nationwide rent control proposal. It's going to be challenging to implement, and will require control of both chambers, but they're working on it. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Biden to unveil plan to cap rents as GOP convention beginswww.washingtonpost.com The policy plan comes as the president tries to assure Democrats about the viability of his candidacy.

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If you want access to free books, please get a library card. In the US, the more people there are with library cards, the more funding libraries have access to. Libraries provide more than books. They are a community resource. As an author and reader, I support libraries! #books #libraries

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Trump’s VP pick … — demanded the DOJ open a criminal investigation of a journalist for “insurrection” over an op-ed critical of Trump — spouted replacement theory garbage — called for criminal prosecutions of other Trump critics — blamed Biden for Trump shooting — called for Biden’s prosecution

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I'm working on policy proposals to protect consumer rights when companies brick smart devices. So please share devices that you've owned that stopped working because the company that made it killed software support or went out of business. Also, please share this request. Thank you.

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i made this shareable version of my one sentence project 2025 summary so it can be easily shared across platforms. feel free to repost.

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If I could repost this a million times I would.

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"Amidst all the tearing of garments and vultures circling, the fact is that we’re still pretty much where we were pre-debate. There are two questions: Is Biden fit to serve? And, would Democrats benefit by forcing him off the ticket? The answers remain 'he is' and 'probably not.'"

The pundit class needs to get a gripwww.publicnotice.co Politics isn't fantasy football and there's no One Weird Trick to beat Trump.

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Biden Cabinet #BlackJobs - clockwise from top left- OMB Director, Sec. Defense, EPA Director, UN Ambassador, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors

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Vp Kamala Harris - #BlackJobs

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Something I've been thinking for a while, but haven't said. It's not up to Joe Biden alone to defeat Donald Trump. The responsibility is on all of us. That includes getting the message out. You are more credible to Uncle Jack who thinks that Trump is THE MAN to push Putin out of Ukraine. 1/

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Every climate scientist I know reacted to this bill like it was Christmas and Mardi Gras rolled into one, and hardly anybody has any idea it happened at all.

THERE’S A QUIET NEW DEAL GOING ON The antidote to Project 2025 is happening now and will die if Trump seizes power. So let’s make some noise.

Why is The Quiet New Deal so quiet? | the earlyworm societywww.patreon.com Get more from the earlyworm society on Patreon

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If you’d like to support the Smith College Library Workers’ Union as bargaining begins, the union has made it easy with a quick form. SCLWU hopes to gather as many signatures as possible from students, staff, faculty, alums, & community members. Thank you! forms.gle/2gNfouMmT4ga...

Sign our open letter of support!forms.gle CALL TO ACTION 6/26/2024: With over half of Smith College Libraries Workers United (SCLWU) members reporting that they are looking for other jobs, and while recruitment and retention are at all time l...

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It's been two years. This day must be avenged. Vote.

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If you find an out of copyright book on Google Books, that they have a scan of but aren't making fully available, use this form to ask them to release it: support.google.com/websearch/an... It's simple, gets results, and enriches the #PublicDomain

It worked (and in record time)! books.google.com.ph/books?id=e9E...

Catalogue of Manuscripts in European Languages Belonging to the Library of the India Office ...: pt.I. The Orme collection, by S.C. Hill. 1916. pt.II. Minor collections and miscellaneous manuscripts, ...books.google.com.ph

Your Google Books inquiry - Google Search Helpsupport.google.com

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New illustration inspired by Diana Wynne Jones' Homeward Bounders. Hope is an anchor. Available as a print here: emmafalconer.bigcartel.com #dianawynnejones #thehomewardbounders

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Over at @lawgunsmoney.bsky.social, some thoughts on how the term "AI" is increasingly being used to describe all algorithmic tools, new and preexisting, as a way of obscuring the fact that LLM-based text and image generators are effectively useless. With examples from my own workplace.

AI and Me - Lawyers, Guns & Moneywww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com [This post is an expansion of a tumblr reply I posted yesterday. Thanks to Murc for suggesting I expand and republish it here. This may also, finally, light a fire under me to finish the AI-focused Po...

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A huge amount of tabletop roleplaying games available in this bundle, all proceeds go to Medical Aid for Palestinians. For $10 you can find my game Fording the Derbal Yerrigan (uno cards and invasive-species catching) as well as big names like Wanderhome, Gubat Banwa & FIST. itch.io/b/2295/ttrpg...

TTRPGs for Palestine via itch charity bundle has officially LAUNCHED! There are 640+ TTRPGs for you to discover for a $10+ donation to Medical Aid for Palestinians! Donate here: itch.io/b/2295/ttrpg...

TTRPGs for Palestine by jesthehuman and 354 othersitch.io TTRPGs for Palestine: 643 items for $10.00

There are two big errors in this article in the Ron and Kendra scenario. www.tiaa.org/public/inves...

How to increase income from Social Security | TIAAwww.tiaa.org Maximize Social Security benefits and boost retirement income. Learn key tips on benefit calculations, delaying claims advantages and spousal coordination.

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…If we get indictments against Harlan Crow this summer, shit is going to get VERY interesting, VERY fast.

Landlords use RealPage to jack up rents, often with the majority of units in a city using the software, allowing it to raise rents in unison - leading to FBI raids and a criminal investigation Turns out RealPage is the brain-child of Harlan Crow, most famous for taking Clarence Thomas on vacations

FBI raid on real estate company linked to Harlan Crow's RealPage rental price fixingwww.dailykos.com A tip of the hat to David Cay Johnston, who opened his interview on the Mark Thompson Show yesterday by noting a story that, so far as I can tell at this time, has been completely blacked out of the n...

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These were my colleagues and they were right. $24B is a bargain. Put it into IRA2.

The God of Schmaltz Things

*deep sigh* Crullerver's Travels #MakeABookGreasy

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(Alito quoted the part of these paragraphs that says “it is murder” but failed to note that what Sir Matthew Hale meant was not that abortion was murder, but that it was murder to kill women with botched abortions, so just be aware that originalists are just full of absolute shit.)

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Are you in California? Are you mad about the Supreme Court's corruption? Guess what. Senator Alex Padilla is ON the Senate Judiciary Committee. He can push for proper investigation and hearings. He needs to hear from you www.padilla.senate.gov/contact/

Contact - Senator Alex Padillawww.padilla.senate.gov We want to hear from you. Please choose one of these options to get started. Newsletter Signup → Write to Alex → Office Locations

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More people in the US rely on Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), which is a *different program with different rules* than SSI There's no asset limit for the 7.5M disabled workers who relied on SSDI in April. Spouse can have millions. This isn't true for them ⤵️ bsky.app/profile/roxi...

While we're talking about how everyone should be able to marry the person they love, here's a reminder that disabled people still can't get married legally because they will have their benefits taken away. In many places, they can't even -live- with their partner unmarried without losing benefits.

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Interesting dental news, she typed for the first time ever. newatlas.com/medical/toot...

World-first tooth-regrowing drug will be given to humans in Septembernewatlas.com The world's first human trial of a drug that can regenerate teeth will begin in a few months, less than a year on from news of its success in animals. This paves the way for the medicine to be commerc...

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In the same article where he admitted that he still doesn't have a plan for North Carolina's farm future after two decades in the job, my opponent found a new villain to blame for our state losing so much farmland: Solar panels! (the article: www.carolinajournal.com/stakeholders...)

Feeding NC: strategy to grow agriculture takes shapewww.carolinajournal.com Agriculture and agribusiness remain the number one industry in North Carolina, reaching a milestone of $103.2 billion in economic impact, according to a June 2023 NC State report. Some stakeholders ar...

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A thing that tends to not get mentioned in these pieces—and I thought this one was better than mostly, especially the way the reporter documented the child abuse—is that Malcolm Collins’s granddad was a segregationist congressman from Texas. His great-grandad founded Fidelity Union Life Insurance

is this about these nut jobs: apple.news/AJ5G55-ndSWO...

America’s premier pronatalists on having ‘tons of kids’ to save the world: ‘There are going to be countries of old people starving to death’apple.news Elon Musk (father of 11) supports their cause. Thousands follow their ideology. Malcolm and Simone Collins are on a mission to make it easier for everyone to have multiple children. But are they reall...