fascism is popular

i am having my students do bluebook exams, and handwriting is a serious problem

people often miss the misogyny in fascism for the racism both are inherent, motivating parts of their politics

weird how much the current oil crisis has changed my lectures on Venezuelan history it's not that weird

Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

open racism, just full on blatant

I have used LLMs exactly once - I asked it to make a syllabus for my class to see if it could. It couldn't, I shrugged, and that's it.

nor does your food grow without fertilizer, your phone/computer/clothes/etc materialize without plastics

the lack of preparation for this case shows just how much a trial balloon it was - poking holes, trying vulnerabilities, seeing what sticks, what they can get away with

one of the primary things that makes the Americas different from the Old World is birthright citizenship (Colombia and the DR are the exceptions, and French Guiana is legally just as French as Paris)

"hallucinated" is a lot of letters for "fake"

we've passed so many thresholds already - he's staged a coup, he's destroyed our international alliances, he's literally demolished the White House - but this one would dwarf all of them combined without birthright citizenship, the United States as you knew it is over

Very important reporting here. In Oregon, the GOP has turned over a significant chunk of its messaging operations to right wing livestreamers. One of them (David Medina) is even running in the gubernatorial primary.

Bannon has thrown his hat in with the antisemitic wing of Trump's base, betting that they'll either remain a powerful part of the US right-wing or that they'll take over the coaltion

right now, Arcs: The Blighted Reach a game where you're a space guy doing space politics, war, and council diplomacy in a dying space empire, and the art is spectacular

folks, i don't know how many different ways Trump needs to say it before you believe it, but he wants to steal the midterms and every election after that, forever

Trump being less approved of than Nixon at the height of Watergate is funny on its own, but given that we know he won't ever resign it is instead a tragedy

Check out my interview with @mikesenters.bsky.social, expert on gaming culture and the far right-wing, part of a new series of interviews with other folks who cover the extreme right-wing

I dont give two shits if Kristi Noem's husband likes cross-dressing. The only thing he should be ashamed of is being married to Kristi Noem.

In other words, we’re hoistmaxxing on our own petard.

this is coming as gulf producers are shutting down production, can't be started up again for months at least - when if we're back to the status quo ante in a minute, this lasts for months

Happy Trans Day of Visibility ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️

The Base is an international nazi terrorist organisation & was grooming this child to commit terrorist acts since he was 13yo remember that the trump regime has since stopped the FBI from investigating such extreme right groups last year.

It’s actually not okay to pay someone with a PhD $2500 to teach a college course

The primary purpose of a public institution of higher education is to provide accessible education to ALL members of the public.

Trek is fundamentally about a yearning for a better future for humanity than we could ever reasonably expect, and if your politics don't have room for that you need to pretend it's about the phasers and warp drive

I started covering this last year, and I can't overstate how important this is: the Trump administration officially labeled some of the most commonly-used forms of birth control as 'abortion' jessica.substack.com/i/173447780/...

this is a great book for all parents

@nickmortensen.com this is what you mean when you say you want Talarico to go all the way

i have worn the wrong shoes, and now my feet hurt very badly

optimistic! it's already been 46 of those years and if we count in his erasure of the Carter Presidency's progress on climate change, could be more like 501 years

Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir. The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell. Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/ www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...

Emanuel is running for the Cabinet, not President, there is no need to pretend otherwise

getting an early start on my April resolution, which is: post more

i would seriously invite people who believe in political horseshoe theory to consider if they think it applies to the 1860s and abolition vs slaveholding, or the 1960s with segregation and integration, or only the leftist views of today that they don't yet support

we can't keep shooting our own feet by not building housing build housing in the places people want to live

this is not a children safety act, this is an internet ID bill. Gov Pritzker, this is a major misstep in the fight against online radicalization (aka the "rabbit hole") and in personal freedom in the state of Illinois

folks have figured out this person is from San Diego, and from there guess which units are possibly being deployed - waging war in an environment where this kind of information is freely available is a completely different universe

the thing about MAD is that it assumed that both parties had enough nukes to destroy each other's entire country multiple times over - this is not true between the US and any other country except Russia, and not yet China

Raul Julia and Anjelica Huston in The Addams Family (1991).

what an embarrassing thing to say about a show that was so far ahead of the times that MLK praised it when he was a reviled radical hated by most Americans

This is the situation we find ourselves in

I tried to watch this show but couldn't make it past episode one, everybody felt like a stock character introduced to me like "I am [insert personality trait here]" and then the other characters would go "did you notice [insert personality trait here]"

the olde-time conservatives are freaking out about the fascists too -- but this is their fault, they got in line with Trump 1

Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities

if there's something you really, really hate about the US it can be traced back to either the 1870s or the 1970s

the 14th amendment is maybe the single most important thing that's happened in this county since it's independence, and they want to destroy it

the Punisher hates cops, like very very much which means that the cops who like him don't think of themselves as cops - they think *they're* the vigilantes

i study times and places when teachers weren't just cut from the budget - they were assaulted, imprisoned, tortured, forced into exile if they were lucky and killed if they were not opposing that is much more risky and scarier than opposing student movements, many are simply too afraid