my public service announcement to you is that Hundreds of Beavers is on pluto and tubi
this is just an utterly preposterous way to govern a modern state. any of several hundred hack fraud judges should not have veto power over the administrative statethis is just an utterly preposterous way to govern a modern state. any of several hundred hack fraud judges should not have veto power over the administrative state
The Biden administration’s sweeping student loan forgiveness plan has been temporarily blocked again by a Missouri judge
The Biden administration's new sweeping student loan forgiveness plan is temporarily blocked again, a federal judge ruled.
What Ta-Nehisi Coates is doing, using his standing in the liberal mainstream to enter rarefied mainstream spaces to speak out on behalf of Palestinians, even though those spaces will be invariably hostile and even perhaps subsequently foreclosed to him, is incredible
been saying this for a decade: buy hard copies of anything you love, even if all that's available is a dvd or a cd or something, because you cannot fucking trust a landlord
"We’re living through an age of mass deletion, a moment when entertainment and media corporations see themselves not as custodians of valuable cultural history, once freely available, but as ruthless maximisers of profit." @zachschonfeld.bsky.social
The amount of media being wiped from the internet is worrying for viewers, and industry workers who need the exposure, says journalist and critic Zach Schonfeld
my elderly parents are visiting me in the US next week and can’t get their vaccines before they leave 🙃
Just absolute lawlessness. If the Dems have a trifecta in 2025x expanding SCOTUS is essential, but it’s also critical to do some district court reform (end single-judge courts, end nation-wide injunctions, limit forum-shopping) to cripple the power of these autocratic judges.
people (on here) yelled at me about this when i said it before but a) you need traffic enforcement and b) speed cameras are vastly preferable to cops.
“…when speed cameras are doing the ticketing, the proportion of tickets issued to Black and white drivers aligns closely with their respective share of roadway users. With human enforcement, in contrast, police officers stop Black drivers at a rate that far outstrips their presence on the road.”
‘Driving while Black’: Researchers found that Black drivers make up 70% of police traffic stops on roads where only half the drivers are Black.
Love American disaster relief, where after you lose everything there’s a cop there to make sure you know that trying to save your own life is looting.