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Matthew Schwartz, nominated as a federal judge for the 2d Circuit, once wrote that gay marriage in a chapel showed "sheer offensiveness and lack of respect." If confirmed, what views will he bring? Taking away rights from others doesn't increase yours. open.substack.com/pub/nomination…

@RepLloydDoggett @WeDemandJustice So honored to have your support in this important fight, @RepLloydDoggett!

Great to learn that my former legislative counsel and long-time trade & labor expert Celeste Drake has joined @WeDemandJustice to fight Trump's corruption & weaponization of the courts. She will bring persistence & strategy to the critical fight for fair & ethical courts.

@RepLloydDoggett Well deserved!

Meeting John Hawkins, Cameron Massey, and Carrie Kroll with the Texas Hospital Assn who presented me the Texas Hospital Advocacy Tribute Award for my work to expand coverage to more Texans, rein in pharmaceutical price gouging, and stop Medicare Advantage abuses that cost taxpayers, delay care, and threaten the ability of rural hospitals to continue delivering services.

Critical #MissingPerson 16-year-old Alaina Cabano, who was last seen in the 5400 block of Kansas Ave, NW, on Thursday, April 16, 2026. This incident was reported on April 29, 2026. Have info? Call 202-727-9099 or text 50411.

Critical #MissingPerson 15-year-old Ka’Ron Pleasant, who was last seen in the 400 block of 8th Street, SE, on Saturday, May 2, 2026. Have info? Call 202-727-9099 or text 50411.

Critical #MissingPerson 14-year-old Brandy Capers, who was last seen in the 4400 block of Hayes Street, NE on April 28, 2026. The incident was reported on May 1, 2026. Have info? Call 202-727-9099 or text 50411.

Who is setting beauty standards? Is meeting them making you happy? Think about Dr. Seuss’s Sneetches as you read this interesting piece: From Kardashian Injectable Lips to Mar-a-Lago Face nytimes.com/2026/01/08/opi… via @NYTOpinion

Louisiana’s GOP governor just declared a STATE OF EMERGENCY to CANCEL an election. Not for a storm — but to redraw maps so he can ERASE a historically Black district. They’re not even hiding it. MAGA is rigging elections to silence YOU.

Check out @WeDemandJustice's latest report on Trump's Judicial nominees, and how they've evaded basic questions like "Who won the 2020 presidential election?" and “Was the U.S. Capitol attacked by a violent mob on January 6, 2021?" #NoCronyJudges demandjustice.org/judicialreport/

Say what? The “Actually, The Anti-Racists Are The Real Racists” Administration open.substack.com/pub/johnfugels…

Trump’s Supreme Court appointees made Callais possible — and he’s still appointing anti-voting judges to the bench open.substack.com/pub/nomination…

The Supreme Court just gave states a recipe for disenfranchising communities of color--just make sure you say your purpose is to create more Republican districts. See statement by @WeDemandJustice President Josh Orton here: demandjustice.org/statement-from… #VRA #NoCronyCourts

Justice John Roberts made a lot of promises about how fair he would be if he got a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court, but we have the receipts about how that has worked out talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/john-robe…

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That cute rock stack by the creek just killed a bunch of mosquito killers. Dragonflies spend most of their lives underwater, sometimes up to five years, clinging to rocks while they grow. A single dragonfly larva eats hundreds of mosquito larvae before it ever flies. But dragonflies are just one species. The rocks in a healthy stream are also covering caddisfly larvae, mayflies, stoneflies, water beetles, salamander egg clutches, and the freshwater snails that fish depend on. Eastern Hellbenders, an endangered giant salamander species, lay their eggs specifically under flat stream rocks. Moving the rock kills the clutch. When you pull a wet rock out of the water and stack it on the bank, everything clinging to that rock dies. They desiccate within minutes in the sun. A single rock pile is dozens of small lives lost. Most stream cairns are stacks of fifteen to twenty rocks. If you see stacked rocks at a creek, knock them over. The stream rebuilds itself faster when rocks are scattered the way water put them. Leave no trace isn't an aesthetic preference. It's real habitat protection.

Spread the word! Here is the link: planning.lacity.gov/dcpapi2/meetin…

Researchers sent the same resume to an AI hiring tool twice. Same qualifications. Same experience. Same skills. One version was written by a real human. The other was rewritten by ChatGPT. The AI picked the ChatGPT version 97.6% of the time. A team from the University of Maryland, the National University of Singapore, and Ohio State just published the receipt. They took 2,245 real human-written resumes pulled from a professional resume site from before ChatGPT existed, so the human writing was actually human. Then they had seven of the most-used AI models in the world rewrite each one. GPT-4o. GPT-4o-mini. GPT-4-turbo. LLaMA 3.3-70B. Qwen 2.5-72B. DeepSeek-V3. Mistral-7B. Then they asked each AI to pick the better resume. Every model picked itself. GPT-4o hit 97.6%. LLaMA-3.3-70B hit 96.3%. Qwen-2.5-72B hit 95.9%. DeepSeek-V3 hit 95.5%. The real human almost never won. Then the researchers tried the obvious objection. Maybe the AI is just better at writing. So they had real humans grade the resumes for actual quality and ran the experiment again, controlling for it. The result was worse. Each AI kept picking itself even when human judges rated the human-written version as clearer, more coherent, and more effective. It gets worse. The AIs do not just prefer AI over humans. They prefer themselves over other AIs. DeepSeek-V3 picked its own resumes 69% more often than LLaMA's. GPT-4o picked its own 45% more often than LLaMA's. Each model can recognize and reward its own dialect. Then the researchers ran the simulation that ends careers. Same job. 24 occupations. Same qualifications. The only variable was whether the candidate used the same AI as the screening tool. Candidates using that AI were 23% to 60% more likely to be shortlisted. Worst gap was in sales, accounting, and finance. 99% of large companies now run AI on incoming resumes. Most of them use GPT-4o. The paper just proved GPT-4o picks GPT-4o 97.6% of the time. If you wrote your own cover letter this week, you did not lose to a better candidate. You lost to a worse candidate who paid OpenAI 20 dollars. Your qualifications do not matter if the AI prefers its own handwriting over yours.

@PurensPhD @totickle @WUTangKids No, he gave a speech from the Oval Office explaining his choice of “American flag blue” and how he is saving millions. It was surreal. He kept calling the reflecting pool “filthydirty” like it was one word.

@totickle @WUTangKids are you sure this isn’t a ~black sealant? It will certainly be darker when dry.

Holy shit they really are painting the granite of the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool smh…..won’t this paint now make it not reflecting?

Is his idea that we reconfigure all of society so that one person can make an astronomical profit? That’s the opposite of what a society is—social. We have to stop outsourcing decisions about our shared future to the most anti-social among us. Maybe AI really does rot your brain.