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Illinois enacted the strongest artificial intelligence safety and accountability bill in the nation. We need to take the threat that AI poses seriously, not just state by state, but on a federal level. The stakes are too high to sit around and do nothing — it’s time to act now.

Americans are going to lose their health care. Mike Johnson and Republicans don’t care.

"Free speech is not about whether someone else agrees or disagrees; it's about whether you are able to do it." --Jasmine Crockett, just now to Chris Hayes.

Happy 120th birthday, special relativity! Albert Einstein introduced special relativity in the paper "On The Electrodynamics Of Moving Bodies," published in Annalen der Physik #OTD in 1905. 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭 Manuscript: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... English: www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einst...

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

Charlie Kirk dehumanized trans people as “a throbbing middle finger to God.” That cruelty was infuriating. But Sarah McBride was right to condemn his assassination — political violence will not liberate trans people, it hurts us most. aridrennen.substack.com/p/when-viole...

Orgs can still sign on here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

NEW: We joined a coalition of nonprofit orgs and charities urging the administration to stop its escalation of political division, and the unjustified targeting of orgs and people in the wake of Charlie Kirk's murder. Full statement via @publiccitizen.bsky.social 🔗 https://protdem.org/3I9KZLk

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

estimated ~5,000 gathered in london’s parliament square to protest trump’s state visit

Pretty clear that some places are just using current events as an excuse to get rid of people they weren't comfortable having around anyway. Darkness is coming, democracy is dying.

Pay attention. Something dark might be coming. The murder of Charlie Kirk could have united Americans to confront political violence. Instead, Trump and his anti-democratic radicals look to be readying a campaign to destroy dissent. 1/ Here's what's happening.

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

This is literally true, and I'm very worried about the implications of it. Even among what I consider to be relatively levelheaded associates (in non-political spheres), the conservatives are almost all Trumpers. The future of the GOP only gets Trumpier.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but when the Nazis first started sending Jews and other victims to camps, they called it deportation, and the camps were technically in other countries.

Trying something new: A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?" It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social 🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...

NEW 🧵 Is human intelligence starting to decline? Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s What should we make of this? www.ft.com/content/a801...

Don't forget, he had help in all of this

You may not care, but I do. Is Trumpism driving a generation to leave this country? My daughter will study abroad next year and is already researching where to live and work internationally after graduation because of Trump. Same with some of her classmates. It breaks our hearts, but I get it.

For those who wanted to share this video off platform. Here it is on YouTube youtu.be/OiPa9VY9PH8?...

"The Russian-backed government of Serbia under pressure tonight as massive protests fill the center of Belgrade. It seems that only the US hasn't gotten the note that Russian-backed fascism just isn't cool anymore." via @jayinkyiv.bsky.social

The Trump administration sent out a second round of emails demanding that federal employees summarize their work over the past week after the first effort fizzled amid confusing directives reut.rs/4bmxfH4

Do these suburban wine moms with Ukrainian flags even know that my faith in humanity entirely relies on them

I don't believe the notion spread by some that Trump is a Russian agent. I think he's just really stupid.

This is the most right wing newspaper in the UK. Extraordinary.

HERO vs ZERO I'm in a state of shock & still trying to process yesterday's shameful, traitorous debacle in the WH: A DAY THAT WILL LIVE IN INFAMY. Our standing in the world has plummeted overnight, but the repercussions will be felt forevermore. #SlavaUkraini🇺🇦 #ShameOnUS🇺🇸

Loss of Civil Rights for millions of Americans is inconsequential according to the New York Times. There is no other American institution that has contributed more towards the erasure and systemic elimination of transgender people except maybe the heritage foundation. NYT, go fuck yourselves!!!

Three years ago this week. 🇺🇦

I did a write up on Anarchism vs Statism!

my view is that as soon as the administration froze disbursement of congressional appropriations we entered constitutional crisis territory

But what team is #Gabbard playing for? This advancement is terrifying to me, quite frankly. It would appear that Republicans don't just want to "remake" our government, they're willing to risk losing 🇺🇸 to foreign influence. 🚨It may seem hopeless, but call anyway! www.reuters.com/world/us/maj...

Living in Putin's dystopia, Russians are choosing not to have children, because “normal people are taking normal decisions to wait and not to condemn their child to that nightmare into which the ruling regime has transformed the country.” By the way: It is similar in #China #Russia #Demographics

"The mission now is actually clearer than it's ever been because we know who Trump is. We know what he did the last time. We know what he wants to do this time." - Kyle Kulinski

Democrats need to learn how to treat real scandals with the same intensity and seriousness that Republicans use on bullshit like Hillary's emails and Hunter's laptop. Non-stop circus. Run shifts outside treasury, someone there 24/7. Make them prove they're not breaking the law.

Excellent by @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social "If you’re always consumed by the next outrage, you can’t look closely at the last one. The impression of Trump’s power remains; the fact that he keeps stepping on rakes is missed. The projection of strength obscures the reality of weakness. Don’t believe him."

We don't have much investigative reporting anymore. We just have reaction channels. For every one person out there actually trying to find out the truth, there's 1,000 others just adding noise and pushing political agendas.

The stakes become painfully real. On plane crashes and the importance of our civil service not being thrown into chaos by Trump's recklessness. open.substack.com/pub/protectd...

This is a reminder that no one can convince Trump voters to no longer support Trump, better than Trump can.

If you can't define it, why talk so confidently about it?