@lizardbean.bsky.social
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: “interfering with the duties of a police officer” is going to be how they try to lock up, fire and expel all of us who dare to stand up when our fellow humans are threatened. If you don’t want to happen to you whet happened to me, abolish the police.
Another ICE "assault" case unravels. Border Patrol and ICE are arresting US citizens and then after they find out that they are US citizens, they are charging them with "assault" to justify their actions. This is clearly DHS policy at this point. We've seen it repeatedly now.
July 12, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: “interfering with the duties of a police officer” is going to be how they try to lock up, fire and expel all of us who dare to stand up when our fellow humans are threatened. If you don’t want to happen to you whet happened to me, abolish the police.
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"Yes, lunch debt was real, she told me. [...] Yes, it was about $88,000 just for elementary schools, just in my district. And then, almost as an afterthought, she mentioned that Bluffdale Elementary had about $835 in outstanding lunch debt."
www.huffpost.com/entry/utah-s...
www.huffpost.com/entry/utah-s...
I Randomly Decided To Pay Off A School’s Lunch Debt. Then Something Incredible Happened.
“I immediately wondered if this was real.”
www.huffpost.com
July 11, 2025 at 8:51 PM
"Yes, lunch debt was real, she told me. [...] Yes, it was about $88,000 just for elementary schools, just in my district. And then, almost as an afterthought, she mentioned that Bluffdale Elementary had about $835 in outstanding lunch debt."
www.huffpost.com/entry/utah-s...
www.huffpost.com/entry/utah-s...
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Thousands of people from Bosnia and around the world gathered in Srebrenica to mark the 30th anniversary of a 1995 massacre there of more than 8,000 Bosniak Muslim boys and men.
Thousands gather in Srebrenica on 30th anniversary of Europe's only acknowledged genocide since WWII
The U.N. General Assembly last year adopted a resolution to commemorate the Srebrenica genocide on the July 11 anniversary.
buff.ly
July 11, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Thousands of people from Bosnia and around the world gathered in Srebrenica to mark the 30th anniversary of a 1995 massacre there of more than 8,000 Bosniak Muslim boys and men.
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Apparently, the summer associates in 2025 are trying to bring the aughts back in terms of *inappropriate behavior.* :)
From @abovethelaw.com
From @abovethelaw.com
Summer Associate's Naughty Toddler Impression Gets Her Bounced From Biglaw - Above the Law
She really sunk her teeth into Biglaw.
abovethelaw.com
July 11, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Apparently, the summer associates in 2025 are trying to bring the aughts back in terms of *inappropriate behavior.* :)
From @abovethelaw.com
From @abovethelaw.com
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the american jewish establishment has made it transparently clear that you can hate jews and wish for jesus to come back and convert and kill us all, so long as you’re pro-israel. conversely, it doesn’t matter if you’re an observant jew—if you’re anti-israel you’re as good as david duke to them.
The accusations of antisemitism against Mamdani are flaccid and transparent AND I also want to point out that the Normative American Politician, particularly the evangelical Christian politician, is baseline pretty fucking antisemitic and very few people bat an eye about that
July 11, 2025 at 5:11 PM
the american jewish establishment has made it transparently clear that you can hate jews and wish for jesus to come back and convert and kill us all, so long as you’re pro-israel. conversely, it doesn’t matter if you’re an observant jew—if you’re anti-israel you’re as good as david duke to them.
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The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe.
Will we listen to his words today?
Will we listen to his words today?
July 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe.
Will we listen to his words today?
Will we listen to his words today?
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✨📚 We're thrilled to announce that after being unavailable for 7 years, the digital omnibus collection of the first three Myst novels is once again available as The Myst Trilogy!
Buy them for the FIRST TIME EVER on Amazon Kindle and Apple Books 👇
Buy them for the FIRST TIME EVER on Amazon Kindle and Apple Books 👇
July 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
✨📚 We're thrilled to announce that after being unavailable for 7 years, the digital omnibus collection of the first three Myst novels is once again available as The Myst Trilogy!
Buy them for the FIRST TIME EVER on Amazon Kindle and Apple Books 👇
Buy them for the FIRST TIME EVER on Amazon Kindle and Apple Books 👇
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Please just buy a car. They work. They are easy to park. Get a hatchback. Demand more wagons. SUVs are lifestyle need illusions that kill children.
A new study of vehicular crashes in the UK shows that—after accounting for driver characteristics, road conditions, & more—adult pedestrians & cyclists had a 14% higher fatality rate when hit by an SUV rather than a regular car.
Children had a shocking 77% higher fatality rate when hit by SUVs.
Children had a shocking 77% higher fatality rate when hit by SUVs.
Do Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs) Cause More Severe Injuries to Pedestrians and Cyclists than Passenger Cars, in the Case of a Crash? Findings from Great Britain, 2004-2023 | Published in Findings
By Anna Goodman, Phil Edwards & 1 more. In Great Britain, road crashes involving SUVs cause more severe injuries to pedestrians and cyclists than crashes involving passenger cars. The effect is strong...
findingspress.org
July 10, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Please just buy a car. They work. They are easy to park. Get a hatchback. Demand more wagons. SUVs are lifestyle need illusions that kill children.
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When the coal plants were still open, all summer log there was a brown smear acoess the horizon. When they closed, it was gone, until the wildfire smoke. I don't want it back.
Ontario managed to get smog days down to nearly zero a year over the last two decades (forest fire smoke notwithstanding). 20 years ago a day like today would be maybe be a smog advisory day, hurt to breath. Ford counts on people forgetting. Ontario seems to be a very checked-out population.
NEW: Ontario’s environment minister is feeling the heat after writing to his federal counterpart asking Ottawa to repeal a slew of climate laws, a few months after briefing documents showed his government was set to miss its own emissions targets. #OnPoli
globalnews.ca/news/1128222...
globalnews.ca/news/1128222...
July 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
When the coal plants were still open, all summer log there was a brown smear acoess the horizon. When they closed, it was gone, until the wildfire smoke. I don't want it back.
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When I think about attacks on Black access to higher education, I think about Edward Bouchet, the first Black American PhD. It was from Yale in 1876, in physics. He clearly loved physics. He also wasn’t allowed to continue a research career because he was Black. He did teach at an HBCU. 🧪⚛️
July 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM
When I think about attacks on Black access to higher education, I think about Edward Bouchet, the first Black American PhD. It was from Yale in 1876, in physics. He clearly loved physics. He also wasn’t allowed to continue a research career because he was Black. He did teach at an HBCU. 🧪⚛️
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The "unitary executive theory" is not a theory but a rational-seeming veneer to stop people seeing the simple power grab for what it is. The antidote is people speaking plainly & ubiquitously on why this "theory" is just bullshit, until it's common knowledge that many experts think it's bullshit
The "unitary executive theory" is a fancy name for a strategy used by authoritarians worldwide, rebranded for the US. It’s a legal blueprint for a power grab, and my new article explains how it turns the law itself into a tool for undermining democracy:
How to Dismantle a Democracy, Legally
The unitary executive theory is a masterclass in autocratic legalism.
open.substack.com
July 10, 2025 at 4:27 AM
The "unitary executive theory" is not a theory but a rational-seeming veneer to stop people seeing the simple power grab for what it is. The antidote is people speaking plainly & ubiquitously on why this "theory" is just bullshit, until it's common knowledge that many experts think it's bullshit
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Amazing news: Princeton & its prosecutors pressed charges against 13 students for a pro-Palestine protest, then offered to dismiss charges against 12 if one, @aditilrao.bsky.social, pled guilty.
Instead, everyone held firm, and today the case was DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE & arrest record expunged!!!
Instead, everyone held firm, and today the case was DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE & arrest record expunged!!!
July 9, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Amazing news: Princeton & its prosecutors pressed charges against 13 students for a pro-Palestine protest, then offered to dismiss charges against 12 if one, @aditilrao.bsky.social, pled guilty.
Instead, everyone held firm, and today the case was DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE & arrest record expunged!!!
Instead, everyone held firm, and today the case was DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE & arrest record expunged!!!
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This is a hugely important and well-sourced report showing that DOGE isn't gone but burrowing in and becoming normalized across the federal government. And there's evidence that reporting throughout the DOGE network still goes up to Musk's right-hand man.
July 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
This is a hugely important and well-sourced report showing that DOGE isn't gone but burrowing in and becoming normalized across the federal government. And there's evidence that reporting throughout the DOGE network still goes up to Musk's right-hand man.
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McDonald's uses an AI bot called "Olivia" for hiring. A pair of hackers found they could access every conversation job applicants had with it—including all the personal info they shared—by exploiting security vulnerabilities as basic as using the password "123456". www.wired.com/story/mcdona...
McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants’ Data to Hackers Who Tried the Password ‘123456’
Basic security flaws left the personal info of tens of millions of McDonald’s job-seekers vulnerable on the “McHire” site built by AI software firm Paradox.ai.
www.wired.com
July 9, 2025 at 7:31 PM
McDonald's uses an AI bot called "Olivia" for hiring. A pair of hackers found they could access every conversation job applicants had with it—including all the personal info they shared—by exploiting security vulnerabilities as basic as using the password "123456". www.wired.com/story/mcdona...
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Workers from Jamaica and Mexico are human beings...they need what has been proven to save lives: shade, water and paid rest breaks, to be safe, while performing strenuous work during dangerously high temperatures. Any suggestion otherwise is racist.
documentedny.com/2025/07/09/t...
documentedny.com/2025/07/09/t...
Advocates Say Leaked Farm Bureau Memo Promotes Racist Science - Documented
In opposition to the Temp Act, farm industry memo claims that Caribbean and Latino immigrants would “Feel Very Comfortable Working in New York in the Summertime.”
documentedny.com
July 9, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Workers from Jamaica and Mexico are human beings...they need what has been proven to save lives: shade, water and paid rest breaks, to be safe, while performing strenuous work during dangerously high temperatures. Any suggestion otherwise is racist.
documentedny.com/2025/07/09/t...
documentedny.com/2025/07/09/t...
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Faced with abandonment from the state, rural residents built their own fire lines, shelters, and support systems.
As Fires Consumed California, Small Towns Organized Their Own Defense
Faced with abandonment from the state, rural residents built their own fire lines, shelters, and support systems.
truthout.org
July 9, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Faced with abandonment from the state, rural residents built their own fire lines, shelters, and support systems.
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"Now thought to be the second most common cause of stroke in women under 40"
Enough already. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Enough already. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
‘There is no safe way to do it’: the rapid rise and horrifying risks of choking during sex
Now thought to be the second most common cause of stroke in women under 40, it can also lead to difficulty swallowing, incontinence, seizures, memory problems, depression, anxiety and miscarriage. How...
www.theguardian.com
July 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
"Now thought to be the second most common cause of stroke in women under 40"
Enough already. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Enough already. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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To celebrate Marc Chagall's birthday, have a drink, but don't lose your head! As he advises here in 1911.
July 6, 2025 at 6:17 PM
To celebrate Marc Chagall's birthday, have a drink, but don't lose your head! As he advises here in 1911.
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“Oh, sorry, I fucked that one up. My bad.” You, sir, never attended law school
July 6, 2025 at 4:17 PM
“Oh, sorry, I fucked that one up. My bad.” You, sir, never attended law school
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The concepts in the MingKwai typewriter underlie how Chinese, Japanese and Korean are typed today. The typewriter, patented in 1946, was found last year in an upstate New York basement.
How this long-lost Chinese typewriter from the 1940s changed modern computing
The concepts in the MingKwai typewriter underlie how Chinese, Japanese and Korean are typed today. The typewriter, patented in 1946, was found last year in an upstate New York basement.
n.pr
July 6, 2025 at 10:45 PM
The concepts in the MingKwai typewriter underlie how Chinese, Japanese and Korean are typed today. The typewriter, patented in 1946, was found last year in an upstate New York basement.
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Customs and Border Protection has broad authority to search travelers’ devices when they cross into the United States. Here’s what you can do to protect your digital life while at the US border.
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How to Protect Yourself From Phone Searches at the US Border
Customs and Border Protection has broad authority to search travelers’ devices when they cross into the United States. Here’s what you can do to protect your digital life while at the US border.
wrd.cm
July 6, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Customs and Border Protection has broad authority to search travelers’ devices when they cross into the United States. Here’s what you can do to protect your digital life while at the US border.
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wrd.cm/44sZoZT
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You claim to hate communism but you keep getting publicly owned
July 6, 2025 at 6:27 PM
You claim to hate communism but you keep getting publicly owned
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the moment we've all been waiting for
Israel to issue 54,000 call-up notices to ultra-Orthodox students reut.rs/404yy9n
Israel to issue 54,000 call-up notices to ultra-Orthodox students
Israel's military said it would issue 54,000 call-up notices to ultra-Orthodox Jewish seminary students following a Supreme Court ruling mandating their conscription and amid growing pressure from reservists stretched by extended deployments.
reut.rs
July 6, 2025 at 6:02 PM
the moment we've all been waiting for