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During integration, Black schools typically closed. In Henry County, integration sent white students to G.W. Carver High School. The 1976 class, the first to attend all four years at the integrated… https://mrf.lu/2Ht85

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

When JD Vance says Abdul El-Sayed should express "gratitude" for what America has given him, Vance is really saying he's lower on the American hierarchy than "heritage Americans" are. I asked El-Sayed to respond to this point. Here's his answer: newrepublic.com/article/2169...

Women don’t come forward because of men like Vivek Ramaswamy.

This awful saga is a good glimpse into how MAGA gets propaganda laundered into mainstream discourse by making just enough noise to get news outlets to treat their outrage as a "controversy," which then requires even-handed treatement of both sides' stances: newrepublic.com/article/2168...

the lady who interviewed Acton's mother did two years in prison for attempting to blow up an abortion clinic. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheryl_...

“The administration is poised to set the US back years on weather forecasting rather than advancing its capabilities.” ☑️ It already has 📉

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...

"Notably, none of the three SCC commissioners—Kelsey Bagot, Jehmal Hudson, and Samuel Towell—were in attendance at Wednesday’s hearing. Instead, all residents’ comments were documented by a court recorder and fielded by SCC Chief Hearing Examiner..."

“This police union convention, as unfun as it was, gave us one valuable thing: the chance to hear how police talk when they believe that they are only speaking to one another.” @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social - open.substack.com/pub/howthing...

AI is basically that for the whole economy and the workings of government. It's a bleed-out of current conditions. Not all of these companies are going to make it, but the billionaires are counting on a situation in which existing social relations can no longer be reproduced. A re-ordering.

No group in America is more afraid of DSA @demsocialists.bsky.social than the police. This truth was on full display at a police union convention this summer. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/we-infiltr...

"It's already here, what do you mean you think you can refuse?" is just another variation of the agency-stealing inevitability narrative. The future is not yet written, and we can shape it, starting with rejecting inevitability and claiming our agency. /fin

A pastor running for sheriff in North Carolina says immigration enforcement should primarily be a federal responsibility. “We’re going to do our job, and our job is not to do what they’re doing, which is, right now, racial profiling.”

I do not think an exec branch led by a man who thinks he is entitled to treat federal agents as an arm of his firm, refers to Somali Americans as “garbage” and has said racist things specifically about Omar is capable of neutrally applying the law to her, to put it mildly apnews.com/article/ilha...

This is just a fucking carjacking. How the hell was he supposed to know it was a state sponsored carjacking. what the fuck are we doing here.

Trump started a stupid & illegal war in Iran that has driven up diesel prices. Now he wants to bankroll Putin's illegal war against Ukraine by buying diesel from him.   One strategic disaster after the next. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

Between having one buliding inspector and ICE taking workers, new construction in Charlottesville/Albemarle region is challenging. www.realcentralva.com/2026/10/09/i...

a lot of people are replying with 'what are you going to do about it,' and while every level of government could do more, the powers the *DC City Council* has in this situation are comparatively limited. This isn't just voter intimidation, but an argument for statehood for the District of Columbia.

This is clearly not acceptable

“To say Margaret Hamilton was… ahead of her time would be a dramatic understatement. She was a software engineer at a time when it was in its infancy, & not only developed advanced code but also led a team using that nascent technology to develop [a] complex system” #RIP news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.

New: The White House is conditioning $190 million for the Smithsonian on compliance with its executive order "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History" through legally-binding footnotes in recent OMB apportionments. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

The most important political task in America is clawing back wealth from the very rich. The most important ballot measure in America is the California billionaire tax. Oligarchy is at the front door. Time to stop fucking around. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-war-ag...

a little louder for the cheap seats in the back

Many states require that mail ballots be postmarked by a specific day. But due to a USPS rule announced late last year, voters may need to put their ballot in a mailbox days in advance.

ICE has detained more than 500 U.S. citizens.

September 2026 was the warmest one on record for the Contiguous U.S. according to PRISM climate data. If confirmed by NOAA it would be the first time there will be three back-to-back record months JUL, AUG, SEP — a concerning first thanks to climate change. (via @climateguyw.bsky.social)

This morning goons entered a private property through the gate and forcibly removed a man from his home. The incident reportedly occurred in front of his wife and children.The goons allegedly entered aggressively and did not present a signed warrant to enter the property.

Turning Point USA’s production team joined alongside dozens of Border Patrol agents as they entered onto private property in Lochiel. Activists have been detained and the last standing grandmother tree in the area was destroyed. Here they are gleefully filming as people scream and the tree falls.

Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit

I would find it much more interesting to name all the women who won Nobel prizes for men. I can start with Franklin and Meitner, anyone wants to go on?

"You may not deadname superintelligence but you should deadname trans people" is now 100% real US policy

Enough about the mayor’s race. Here’s why you need to be talking about the LA City Attorney election LA’s next top prosecutor will wield broad power over homelessness, policing, tenant protections and lawsuits against the city. lapublicpress.org/2026/09/la-c...

Public education, labor unions, and the free press are the three load-bearing pillars of our democracy and they are all in desperate need of material support before they collapse. inthesetimes.com/article/thre...