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Good work -- actual journalism -- from ABC News. h/t Joy Reid 'No Blame?' ABC News finds 54 cases invoking 'Trump' in connection with violence, threats, alleged assaults. abcnews.go.com/Politics/bla...

'No Blame?' ABC News finds 54 cases invoking 'Trump' in connection with violence, threats, alleged assaults.abcnews.go.com President Donald Trump insists he deserves no blame for divisions in America.

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It might make you happy to see the baby opossum my neighbor found yesterday and the pouch she put him in to come show us.

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“Our bodies and brains have not evolved to reliably differentiate a rape at knife point from a job loss that threatens us with financial ruin or from the dismantling of our world by our parents’ divorce. It’s wrong, but explain that to your poor, battered autonomic nervous system.”

Since so many of you have cancelled the NYTimes, here is a gift link to an incredible story. Really it is two stories, interwoven, about themes I’ve been thinking about - kidnapping, misogyny, inheritance, survival, and trauma — a sometimes difficult read and very thoughtfully considered 🎁

The Kidnapping I Can’t Escapewww.nytimes.com Fifty years ago, my father’s friend was taken at gunpoint on Long Island. Then he went on with his life — and that’s the part that haunts me.

I love these books so much, and also yes.

This is honestly a better promo for the book than I ever managed.

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David Simon is GOAT.

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“Satan is in Libraries” Well if he can provide photo ID with his current address then he is entitled to sign up for a library card. We also have other ways he can sign up if he is currently without identification

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A pox on the phony king of real estate

How BlueSky looks right now

"There is only one of us here." - Gabrielle Roth

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Our E-Sim drive for #ConnectingGaza is still going, in case you need any more incentive to help break through the communications blackout. If you're not sure what you can do tangibly, donating an e-sim is helping to keep Palestinians connected with the rest of the world as this genocide continues.

Help the urgent need for families to reconnect by purchasing e-sims using this guide and receive thank you art from a co-op member. details: cartoonist.coop/esims4gaza

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Our current moment, explained: imagine that keeping your car idling 24/7 solved mad libs that told you to put glue on pizza

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SCOTUS rules 6-3 racism is okay as long as you don't turn to the camera and giggle about doing racism

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My God, this is the best poem I've read in months. "When My Daughter Tells Me I was Never Punk," by Jessica Walsh. (Sorry the alt text doesn't go all the way to the end, but you can find the poem online.)

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KOSA is cowritten by the guy who wrote SESTA/FOSTA, so yeah, the time to act is NOW

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Y’all know what to do.

It's been too long since this graced my timeline, so I'm invoking the Tom Holland Rule. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPCJ...

Lip Sync Battle - Tom Hollandwww.youtube.com Tom Holland no volará en este lipsinqueo, pero si te hará bailar con su versión de "Umbrella" de Rihanna. ¡Suscríbete a Comedy Central Latinoamérica y no te pierdas nada! https://youtube.com/c/ComedyCentralLA Y si aún te quedaste con ganas de más, descubre mucho más de tus shows favoritos en nuestras redes sociales: ❤️Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/comedycentralla/ 👍Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ComedyCentralLA/ 🐦Twitter: https://twitter.com/ComedyCentralLA

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Yes, why don’t activist college students just become major shareholders in the large defense companies to influence them as investors?? It’s truly a mystery.

omg

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Actually really upset by oral arguments today. It seems clear that the Supreme Court will allow states to outlaw emergency abortions. It will be a death sentence for thousands. I can’t countenance the cruelty of it.

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Alexandra Merideth Erin [she/her] - in my Brain Damage arc

The Dreams In Which You're Dying Are The Best You've Ever Had, Charlie Brown

Why not?

Sure why not a challenge for anyone willing post a selfie of you right now at this moment. no filter, no edit, just shoot and post.

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As someone who used to work in Student Affairs they hated shit like this. Emails stresd them tf out. If you are an alum you can support these students by writing emails. VP of Student Affairs, institutional advancement, board members.

Vanderbilt University is trying to expel this student for participating in peaceful protest. www.instagram.com/reel/C5qw7A3...

Jack on Instagram:www.instagram.com 6,530 likes, 243 comments - jackpetoczApril 12, 2024 on :

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I don’t like to victim-blame OR make assumptions about other people’s kinks, but after about the tenth time Lucy yanked the football I have to assume that Charlie Brown is getting something out of these little performances, as is anyone who pretends that this time will be different.

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"The shut-up-and-study crowd ignores the fact that virtually every college + university in the US has a dual pedagogical mission: the development of students’ critical-thinking skills (via knowledge production + dissemination) and the preparation of students to be informed, engaged citizens."

Opinion | Student Activism Is Integral to the Mission of Academewww.chronicle.com Some think protests and politics are beside the point. They’re wrong.

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Y'all this is a fucking banger. youtu.be/JNEhrojBUiw?...

MOTHER ATEyoutu.be Provided to YouTube by DistroKid MOTHER ATE · Jane Bell MOTHER ATE ℗ simplytarable Released on: 2024-03-22 Auto-generated by YouTube.

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Crystal Mason, a Texas woman who was sentenced to 5 years in prison after she tried to cast a provisional ballot in 2016, has been acquitted She has always maintained she had no idea she was ineligible and only tried because her mom urged her to

Crystal Mason: Texas woman sentenced to five years over voting error acquittedwww.theguardian.com Appeals court rules Mason, now 49, did not know she was ineligible when she voted in 2016 and throws out conviction

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Google apparently had to release a "verbatim" setting so that you can get decent search results. I tested it and it does seem to help lifehacker.com/tech/how-to-...

How to Make Google Show You the Good Search Results Againlifehacker.com Off-target search results are getting more and more common, and we can only lay part of the blame on the results being cluttered with AI-generated junk and human-generated SEO-bait. I don’t have a fix...

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how I view every executive pronouncement about the exciting things their company is going to do with AI

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I don’t trust anyone who invites the scrapers in the first place not to mention making it something we have to opt out of one by one vs. defaulting to informed consent for users to opt in, but for now I will use the Wordpress.com setting to opt out of scraping. wordpress.com/blog/2024/02...

More Control Over the Content You Sharewordpress.com There are currently very few options for individual users to control how their content is used for AI training, and we want to change that. That’s why we’re launching a new tool that lets you opt out ...

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“I unfortunately don't think this meets the criteria for the law and my interpretation even though it is the ethical right thing to do.” fuck. that. shit. www.propublica.org/article/abor...

Inside the Internal Debates of a Hospital Abortion Committeewww.propublica.org In states that banned abortion, doctors are forced to wrestle with tough decisions about high-risk pregnancy care. “I don’t want to have a patient die and be responsible for it,” one Tennessee doctor ...

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It took me four minutes to call and leave a message for both my Democratic senators. This is a great script. Let them know that this isn’t going to work.