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For those seeking another reason to oppose #Anthropic (or #AI more broadly): "Anthropic described the project as 'our effort to disruptively scan all the world’s books' in an internal memo, which noted 'we do not want it to be known that we are pursuing this project'." #booksky #speccolls 🗃️📜📚

"The American electorate dislikes high gas prices roughly as much as it dislikes attempted insurrections" isn't anyone's favorite sentence, but it's worth internalizing.

Josh Hawley has a law degree from Yale. He know that "no honest person pleads the fifth" is a lie, and he understands why it's a lie. But he also know that the audience he's performing for doesn't know that and doesn't understand it, and he values the performance over his own honesty.

This is a good reminder that some "voluntary" departures people sign while detained by ICE are the product of coercion. The worst incidents I've heard of over the years involve agents grabbing a person's hands and forcing them to sign a piece of paper they can't read; it's a "voluntary" removal.

Trump Administration Is Repurposing Federal Land for A.I. Data Centers. In one case, the Energy Department will convert a shuttered Cold War-era uranium enrichment facility into a data center campus and gas plants. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/c...

I think a lot about how almost everything nativists say about Muslims and Latinos today, nativists said about Catholics and Italians a century ago. Every time I hear paranoia about "Sharia Law" coming to the US I think of these KKK cartoons from the 1920s

Ran into the mayor on my way to lunch and was delighted that he gave me a few minutes to ask him to work on affordable housing policies, specifically for teachers and students in New York City.

Complete loser bullshit. What "illicit cross-border activity" happens in a fucking library, you dorks

A federal judge has thrown out the FBI director’s lawsuit against a blogger who called him a “googly-eyed Kremlin bitch.” trib.al/ouHgmYA

www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/u... “The case remained open because Mr.Blanche and the Justice Department had refused to file an affidavit under penalty of perjury “that they will not take any action to create or operate” the payout fund and that it “will not proceed in any manner, under any name.” 🤥

People think "Hollywood" is rich and famous. The reality? Film and TV is a national industry. It's a blue collar industry. And it is an industry free fall. My latest for @newrepublic.com on how the Paramount merger would crush blue collar workers who can not afford it newrepublic.com/article/2136...

Aaaand there‘s the bailout www.reuters.com/business/med...

It's genuinely insane that it's a mainstream belief that the problem with COVID was that we did *too much* to address it.

Six Years After a Reckoning, Criterion Puts ‘Cinematic Blackness’ in Focus Adding a curator, the Criterion Collection expanded its offerings and its vision of Black film. But auteurs continue to push the company on what inclusion means. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/m...

this guy is getting mad about an all-gender locker room that had plentiful changing stalls. i'm still mad that there was some weird anti-nudity taboo in the single-sex changing rooms at the public pool in boyle heights and you were expected to change in the gross toilet stalls. we are not the same

CNN: "The president's overall approval rating now stands at just 34%. That matches his career low following the January 6 insurrection."

Gotta shut down the factory that makes this kinda guy

GET TO THE POINT? THEY WERE TRAFFICKED AND RAPED THAT IS THE FUCKING POINT