One of my favorite videos. 🙂

I will always regret the death of Twitter because I only saw this because of the #miltwitter folks I follow.

https://heartlandsignal.com/2023/04/11/missouri-house-republicans-vote-to-defund-libraries/

Republicans.

Republican House, Republican Senate, Republican governor. Here we are.

In North Carolina, we are one election away from this kind of hogwash.

Well, since I’m always last with the news, I guess everybody already knows this. On the off chance somebody doesn’t know, Smalls was quite the dude.

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/10/1169131310/navy-ship-with-a-confederate-name-now-honors-black-union-hero-robert-smalls-inst

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/10/nashville-council-justin-jones-expulsion/

36-0 vote! Go get ’em, Justin!

https://brid.gy

https://brid.gy

Is https://brid.gy really that easy to use?

@rvawonk 🔗 https://newsie.social/users/rvawonk/statuses/110167439937678249 – The number of children and teens killed by gunfire in the United States increased 50% between 2019 and 2021.
FIFTY PERCENT. IN TWO YEARS. I keep pretty close tabs on these statistics and I had no idea it was that bad. 
#gunviolence #publichealth https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2023/04/06/gun-deaths-among-us-kids-rose-50-percent-in-two-years/

Hmm.

«A land acknowledgment is what you give when you have no intention of giving land.»

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/against-land-acknowledgements-native-american/620820/

I may have just posted a pre-print of this paper.