The arguments behind every landmark Supreme Court ruling have never been freely available to the public… until now.

Thanks to a gift from the Wolf Law Library at William & Mary Law School, more than 125,000 #SCOTUS records & briefs are now freely freely available on the Internet Archive, spanning 1830 through 2019. The arguments that shaped America, including Brown v. Board of Education. Loving v. Virginia.

Read the full announcement ⤵️
https://blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u-s-supreme-court-records-and-briefs-the-arguments-that-shaped-america-now-freely-available/

#DemocracysLibrary

NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK

Believing a 12-year-old is mature enough to give birth to her rapist's baby, but needs parental approval to check out a book, is peak Republican.

#Books #BannedBooks #NationalLibraryWeek #AbortionRights #RapeCulture

Dear hacker,

You can build that fediverse platform. The one you dreamed of building *right*.

Build it and they will come, if you respect and listen to them.

Signed,
Your favourite serial fediverse builder

Streaming or recording on Linux? Check out the audio management tool Pipeweaver https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/streaming-or-recording-on-linux-check-out-the-audio-management-tool-pipeweaver/

#Pipeweaver #OpenSource #Linux

People living in the Middle East are not some special species that becomes more immune to tragedy the more they experience it. They are humans who are suffering at levels that are almost inconceivable. To believe otherwise is to justify your cold indifference!!!!

#gaza #palestine #middleeast #israel

If you or someone you know has an account on mastodon.cloud, I would highly recommend migrating to a new server. Lots of instances are in the process of completely blocking mastodon.cloud which will sever all connections for people on mastodon.cloud. Mastodon.cloud is effectively abandoned, running very old and out of date software with minimal moderation resulting in a good deal of moderation work for those of us running other instances.

I am posting this in hopes that some people on mastodon.cloud see it and decide to take action.