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Fulfilling my CLE requirements with a class on traffic stops and did you know that reading this post is consent to a search and also not reading this post is suspicious and thus probable cause for a search and in fact you should have already stopped so you are fleeing so lethal force is okay.
I’ve spent time all over Java and Bali. I was lucky enough to have this experience twice. I saw a video that explained we can never be more than 5 Indonesias away from Indonesia on this planet and I find that comforting. Solidarity to the Indonesian people. ✊🏿♥️
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if people yell at you for advocating "moderation" on trans rights on Bluesky but not on Twitter the reason for that might be because Elon Musk, the guy who runs and owns Twitter, explicitly censored trans people's accounts and posts.
Being pro-drowning of children seems like a real are-we-the-baddies moment www.npr.org/sections/sho...
After a false start on Sunday, the flotilla left Spain’s Barcelona port again on Monday evening.
A federal judge stopped the Trump administration from illegally deporting nearly 700 Guatemalan children over the Labor Day weekend, ordering a last-minute block on their removals even as some children had already been boarded onto planes. https://www.democracynow.org/2025/9/2/efren_olivares
Consumer-facing "A.i." is untested garbage and has no business in schools and the clowns pushing it on us KNOW it.
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'“This is coming in 4K, on your television, all over the internet. You do not have the luxury of saying you didn’t know.” As the Global Sumud Flotilla sets sail to Gaza, Liam Cunningham told Novara Media why he believes silence on Palestine will not be forgiven.' www.youtube.com/shorts/4sqoW...
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I’ve spent time all over Java and Bali. I was lucky enough to have this experience twice. I saw a video that explained we can never be more than 5 Indonesias away from Indonesia on this planet and I find that comforting. Solidarity to the Indonesian people. ✊🏿♥️
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Wait, Hugo did go to art school, but for graphic design.
"Eugenics was rooted in rational modern science then" needs re-stating. Far too many people describe eugenics as a "pseudoscience", but it wasn't to those who studied it, wrote books and papers, formed societies and argued its benefits.
Labor Day is a very good day for my fellow academics to joint their local @aaup.org and if your school doesn't have one you should start one!
CUNY is chronically underfunded. Our funding comes from both state and city. We would be even more screwed if the faculty and staff were not unionized. Cuomo hated CUNY.
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9. DeSantis this weekend attempted to deflect responsibility, blaming the legislature: “There’s laws that are on the books that I enforce that I may not fully agree with, but I took an oath to do it and so that’s the way the cookie crumbles, and so but there was a change in law."
8. Suarez’s attorney was on-site for the arrests and delivered a blistering critique to reporters. “I would like you all to look behind me and ask what damage actually occurred. It rained while they were being arrested and there is no longer any chalk on the sidewalk.”
7. Protesters were undeterred by Suarez’s arrest. The next day, they returned to the crosswalk and once again chalked rainbow colors onto the pavement. This time, police escalated: three more individuals were arrested under the same charge that had been thrown out by a judge just 24 hours earlier.
6. A judge ruled that officers had “no probable cause” to arrest the man after Suarez’s attorney pointed out that crosswalks are not included in the state’s definition of traffic devices. Moreover, courts have repeatedly ruled that sidewalk chalk is protected First Amendment speech, not graffiti.
1. On Saturday, a judge ordered Pulse pride crosswalk protester released from jail. Police arrested him after he chalked the bottom of his shoe in rainbow colors and walked across it. Sunday, police arrested 3 more under the same charges. Subscribe to support my journalism.
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My video broke my feed. I had to delete it
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Are there any updates about what is happening on the ground in Indonesia?
Like I saw what he was talking about on the page, but didn’t know the effect was caused by relative size. To me it just looked like I was photo-bombing the statue
Hugo makes the most meticulous storyboards. I don’t even understand how he can draw this small:
NEW: A week or so ago, one federal agent kept popping up in videos from Trump's violent DC crackdown—so @jsweetli.bsky.social and I investigated. Turns out he's a 26-year-old US Parks Police officer, a lesser known law enforcement unit currently championed by Interior Sec. Doug Burnum. Our report:
These people in 1933: "don't be so single issue about Jewish rights"
Pathetic and cowardly. Your tax dollars at work
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A book that more technologists should read.
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And neither did I.
When we met, Hugo was a full-time pedicab driver for tourists in New Orleans who had a background in graphic design. Neither of us had any training in creating graphic narratives. And he didn’t go to art school.
So the paint I’m looking at is paint applied only on the inside of the glass?
or paint on the inside the bottles? I've watched someone do this once. It was amazing.
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I have trouble understanding this level of nihilism. I can’t empathize with being willing to destroy our home in exchange for anything. How can it be that this level of nihilism actually exists and is allowed to run the world? Someone explain this to me.
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
It’s not even a full size sketch book. It is like 5x7 and each page has six storyboard pages—with sub-panels. This doesn’t feel normal to me. Like it is some word artist superpower. Like those people who carve whole sculptures on grains of rice.
I have to photograph it and zoom in to see it clearly. Not just because my eyes are old—this is really tiny!
Hugo makes the most meticulous storyboards. I don’t even understand how he can draw this small:
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I’ve been following this story. The police say it is suicide. That’s all I know. oaklandside.org/2025/08/29/c...
Please donate to support the work of the brave volunteers helping our immigrant community in NJ. They need money for gas, food, vests, to print flyers and to cover basic needs of families facing abduction and deportation. Anything helps. Please donate.
This morning in DC (8/29, 7:20am), a community member witnessed masked thugs detain a man. They barely spoke to him, if at all. When he tried to pull away, they slammed him to the ground. Stay alert. Watch out for each other. We are strongest when we stand united. Submitted anonymously
It is a work of art
Where will the opposition come from?
I love it!
Is this the chemical makeup of dopamine???? ( I hate that the nerd in me was like you know this take a second and look fr) Nerd Rizz goes so hard dawg🤝🏾
“Hide their extreme platforms!” Blue MAGA at its most odious.
Period
These aren't 'extreme platforms.' These are people's fucking lives. Where do you draw that line? Immigrants? Women's voting rights? Or is it just okay because you think there aren't many trans voters, so we can just say 'screw them?' 'Cause fuck that. That's not a country worth keeping.
I don’t expect much outrage about this from democrats.
20 years ago today #Katrina changed lives forever. Over the Gulf it was a cat 5 behemoth bulldozing a wall of water onshore. Part of its power came from the Gulf Loop Current, an ever present feed of deep hot Caribbean water. 1/
DC's night patrols watch over the city to ensure that people are protected from state violence, false arrest, abduction, and harassment. Failing that, they document the occupation forces' constitutional violations, write Dave Zirin and Chuck Modiano.
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Who is the cop who gets paid a million a year in this chart? Why? Santa Monica?
This Bay Area administrator is the third-highest-paid official in California. Who is she? www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/arti...
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It is a Gen X trigger warning
This makes me so happy: I can’t figure out how to gift this article because I am a subscriber but I can’t figure it out. It’s a great story These teens paddled all 310 miles of the undammed Klamath River www.sfchronicle.com/projects/202...
‘asthma’ is one third silent letters
Why? How does that happen?
It’s important that everyone act as if the federal government is occupied by a group of Nazi sympathizing, neo-Confederate insurrectionists who are opposed to multiracial democracy and at war with the constitution—because that’s exactly what’s happening.
Let’s start with the fact that dude is doing Digital Blackface and calling it his “sidekick”
Love to see it
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I've heard people say they're considering about moving to Nairobi. interesting to see the US slowly destroy its hegemony
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TGIF. zohranfornyc.com/events
Trans people, queerness, and feminism are now all Hamas
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Yep. Yet again, this is exactly what's happened here in the UK. The supposedly centre left party went all in on transphobia (and disability & immigration), and now we're careening face first into full-blown fascism. We didn't even need to elect a Trump. They just did it.
This is superb. Thank you for sharing it. We will put this to use.
continue to think that a defining problem with American democracy is that we do not have enough of it, outside of the New Hampshire House. if I had to guess I'd say most state legislators represent a six-figure number of people, which is nuts. more people should be full-time politicians!
Sure, the issue is mental health, not gun control. Specifically, the mental health of people opposing gun control.
For my Boston history peeps: (nb "piece of work" = trigger warning)
20 years ago the protagonist of my novel NONE BUT THE RIGHTEOUS' exile from New Orleans & coming of age journey home begins. And this is what Kirkus said. Lifting the living & dead of New Orleans up on this day. www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
“Scientists have warned previously that Amoc collapse must be avoided “at all costs”. It would shift the tropical rainfall belt on which many millions of people rely to grow their food, plunge western Europe into extreme cold winters and summer droughts, and add 50cm to already rising sea levels.”
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Well, both are possible. 😉♥️✊🏿
I CAN ALSO MAKE PRETENTIOUS-ASS CERTIFICATES NOT JUST EARN THEM. I feel so empowered right now. I mean, if a university can snatch your degree if you say FREE PALESTINE it kind of shows how fake this all is.
This guy is featured in the prologue of Conjure. He was a piece of work. A slave trader who founded Harvard Law School: www.thecrimson.com/article/2015...
We are launching another Kickstarter—that’s how Wake started- next month. We are creating a certificate for people who donate. We are basing it on the pretentious-ass Certificate I received to practice before the Supreme Court and replacing the symbolism. It is SO FUN
Hugo and I are discussing one of my favorite grad school books. More people need to know about this. Each essay is a different topic. The essay in here about Beloved broke my brain and re-shaped my thought. It’s called “not only the footprints but the water too and what is down there.”
BREAKING: Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey JUST CALLED FOR a statewide and federal ban on assault weapons. Who’s with him?