Sally Forth

Child of the Southland. Passionately blue. Wife, ma, kiddo.

[Dr. Simon @goddek]

Nothing to see here, apparently.

[dr. floww @__Floww]

My mother piloted a program in Columbus, OH called the Veggie Van. Under Local Matters, she was able to deliver fresh produce to central Ohio’s food deserts for a fraction of the cost.

Because of these cuts, the program was no longer able to sustain itself. 18 years of service.

[Sarrah Bellus @sarrah_bellus]

It’s kind of amazing that no one from MSM organizations has found any way to infiltrate that hospital, or found any hospital employee willing to talk, even if off the record.

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

The U.S. has worse wealth distribution than pre-revolutionary France.

[TROCK @THERock927]

Wonder how many of these Kellogg Workers voted for TRUMP because they “couldn’t ever vote for that woman with the weird laugh “

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."

My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."

I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.

Hedgie🤗

[ɠɧıʂɧ @rirokpik]

"Get over racism."

Four Black Haitian women were found beheaded after being deported by ICE.

Why aren't we hearing about it? Because they aren't white.

[Jordan Schachtel @JordanSchachtel]

Trillion dollar a year military spending and we can’t handle sustained conflict for a few months?

Where is all the money going?

[Jerusalem @JerusalemDemsas]

Awful awful awful allegations of abuse by Ohio Republican Congressman Max Miller.

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

more than one hundred years ago a young man named Upton Sinclair, living in a small cabin about two miles from this house, on Rosedale Rd., Princeton, wrote a novel exposing the unspeakably filthy conditions of meat-packing in Chicago, titled "The Jungle." President Teddy Roosevelt read the novel, his stomach (which was considerable) was turned, he called Sinclair to the White House, & soon thereafter laws were passed to regulate (to some degree) the meat-packing industry.
Today we don't have a US president who can read, let alone read an entire novel; we have a US president who has deregulated industries that provide food & medicine for us, to our detriment.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

I can’t wrap my head around an economy where nursing homes cost enough to bankrupt families, yet the aides caring for our grandparents still rely on food banks. Or where daycare can consume an entire parent’s paycheck, while the people providing that care still can’t earn a living wage and need a second job. Something about that math just doesn’t add up.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Mitch McConnell has been in the hospital, likely brain dead, for 6 weeks, while still collecting a paycheck, and having his medical bills government subsidized.

Mitch McConnell spent his career opposing the paid leave and healthcare benefits he’s still receiving.

[nacho @nachoeveryday]

I wish it was more common knowledge that almost all regulations exist because companies weren’t doing these things on their own and bad things were happening because of it.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Hunter Biden: “People believed there was this thing called the Biden crime family. I didn’t do a single piece of business when my dad was president. I made basically $200K a year selling paintings. Don and Eric have done over $1.3B just in contracts for underlying companies they have an ownership stake in with the DoD”

[Ellie Leonard🇺🇦 @RedPencilScript]

Shhh, Trump is asleep. I’m just going to leave this here.
#EpsteinFiles

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

RFK Jr

Cut salmonella surveillance - Huge salmonella outbreak

Cut cyclospora surveillance - Huge parasitic diarrhoea outbreak

Cut screwworm research - screwworm returns

Cut cruise ship outbreak team at the CDC - Hantavirus outbreak on a ship

See any pattern emerging?

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

There's a lot of manosphere advice about how all men need to be hyper-masculine douchebag alphas to get women, but if you polled women for the single sexiest thing any male celebrity has done in the last 30 years this routine would be #1 by a mile.

[Rebekah Jones @GeoRebekah]

So on one side we have a Ph.D. MD who left a cushy job at Columbia to rebuild Detroit's public heath system & erase medical debt for people struggling, who wants Medicare for All & to get corporations out of politics, who is endorsed by:
Warren
AOC
Sanders
Van Hollen
Khanna
Tlaib
Jayapal
Frost
Lee
Etc

And then on the other side, you have somebody who is funded by special interest groups who only want her to win so they can keep killing children thousands of miles away, and she's endorsed by:

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

.@kwelkernbc caught being Kristen Welker.

(Cue the excuses, defenses, you don't understand, you are not being fair, etc...)

[jezz @JezziiB]

Turns out that food companies were only checking their food because the government told them to which is exactly why we need government regulations