Brilliant. Locals had a town hall in a GOP/MAGA riding even when their "leader" failed to show up. They instructed an AI to read the representative's past work and respond for him based on what he would likely have said. They left an empty chair for him on stage for 2 hours.

I adore this 😂

Please keep reposting this — a performance by The Army Chorus at The Governors Ball at the White House, 2-22-25.

“Do You Hear The People Sing?” from Les Misérables.

youtu.be/pIQh_5dZUwI

Uphold Due Process.
Defend Democracy.
Stop tRump’s stupid tariff wars.
Dogs against tyranny

And the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his half cours yronne,
And smale fowles maken melodye
That slepen all the nyght with open ye,
So priketh hem Nature in hir corages,
Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages

Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote,
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licour
Of which vertú engendred is the flour;
Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
Ynspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tendre croppes...

114 years ago, 146 workers, most of whom were young immigrant women, lost their lives in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.
 
New York honors their memories, and we will keep fighting to defend workers' rights and ensure their safety on the job.

*stares in historian*

For some reason, I keep thinking about how the Emperor Tiberius (the emperor who crucified Jesus) renamed the Sea of Galilee "Lake Tiberias" after himself as part of his brutal repression of the Jews.

Renaming things is a powerful form of colonization and oppression of subject populations.

“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests,” President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, January 6, 1941

I've been having this fight a lot at work lately. We can't expect students to be good media makers if they never study media as an art and an industry. We can't expect students to be good writers if they never study writing as an art and an industry. Study your craft, bro.