The grift with AI is endless, really.

Thread. This is something that always gets to me when people in movement spaces talk about "winning" because I don't always know or believe that what we define as "winning" is the same thing

THIS THIS THIS . I can’t take this seriously , because I have too much faith in men to not be Andrew Tate I feel okay giving them consequences to their bad behavior and they cultivate good relationships Tate wants to deny ALL OF US the right to have those relationships

I still think about a fellow Asian in grad school who told me that she refused to sign a DREAMer petition when her student asked her to because "she came the right way" and when the student said he himself was a DREAMer, she said "I don't care. You should still come the right way."

Abolish ICE It was absolutely the right call 7 years ago, and more so now, with nightly reports of violent raids gone awry, strip-searching tourists, and snatching student op-ed writers How America created a secret police, and how to get rid of it. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

May 4th hits a bit differently in Ohio because today marks the 55th anniversary of the Kent State shootings --- when armed agents of the state shot into a crowd of college kids protesting the Vietnam War and killed 4 people and wounded 9 others. www.dispatch.com/story/news/h...

May the fourth be with you, Illinois.

Aren’t the Ewoks so cute and fuzzy? you say as they lift your body bound on a spit to the large fire they’ve prepared to roast you alive.

I have a lot of questions, like what process led to the original response, which they admit missed all the points. Did they somehow not comprehend all the reasons people were angry? Also, hooow did they not see this coming?

And esp during #APAHM Asian Americans must have a serious reckoning w/how too many in our communities keep believing the lie that aligning w/whiteness instead of embracing solidarity w/other non/white & marginalized folks is the right choice. www.npr.org/2025/05/02/n...

For #APAHM you know what would really show how much Americans “celebrate” us? Not tolerating an iota of Sinophobic anti-Asian xenophobia that’ll be endemic to US life so long as it’s elided & ignored to protect the myth of meritocracy & the Model Minority. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Every review of youth gender medicine is just, "there's evidence that this helps and no evidence that this causes harm, but here's why that doesn't count."

The @nytimes.com editorial board views its role as embodying the reasonable consensus of American societal and political discourse, rather than articulating an actual set of values and beliefs, which is why they produce almost nothing of value.

News from the inside of a Fortune 50: Sitting in a meeting where it was said, as fact, that healthcare, IN GENERAL, is being targeted by the executive branch for reduction SOLELY to pay for Trump's tax plan. That's it, the elites know it, and it isn't complicated. None of you are getting DOGE money.

That editorial reflects, exactly, the country club consensus. Too much race stuff is making our white members - all 99 percent of them - a little irritable, so knock that off. Also the deportations of rabble rousing pro-Palestian criminals - well, Deborah Lipstadt, take it away! Not dextrous enough.

This is NYT for "literally nothing will stop us from fear-mongering about campus SJWs."

No. It is not the job of ordinary citizens to show perfect message discipline. It is the responsibility of actors with agenda-setting power — like, say, national newspapers — not to treat random-ass people exaggerating as a threat equivalent to the madman president.

Trump has committed dozens of impeachable offenses in his first 100 days. There is no chance he is going to stop doing them and even if he did, he still deserves to be removed from office, what is wrong with you

Why on earth would a protest movement against the worst president in US history begin by acknowledging that he's not so bad www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/o...

Started being enacted which meant Black people would finally get access

One of our nations issues with being unwilling to reconcile with racism means we don't really about how most of the country's social net came from the New Deal, that it was crafted to deliberately exclude Black people, and that its provisions started being too "costly" when civil rights laws /1

Louisiana is rolling back legal safeguards for death row prisoners, limiting appeals and making it harder to challenge convictions. The changes will “make it much, much harder for lawyers for people on death row to keep them out of the execution chamber.” boltsmag.org/the-hum...

Listen: Homelessness is a bipartisan issue, but there isn’t a bipartisan vision for the way to end it. Reset learns more about how changes by the Trump administration could impact homelessness and housing efforts in Illinois. www.wbez.org/reset-with-s...

It's TODAY! So looking forward to this discussion with an incredible cohort of writers. It's FREE to attend & no registration required but it's also first come first serve so I'd advise arriving a bit before the doors open at 5:15pm to get a seat.

I'm so excited to moderate this discussion with such incredible writers! It's FREE to the public but first come first serve so I'd advise arriving a bit ahead of time for the 5:15pm doors open. Talk goes from 5:30-6:30pm, then signing with the authors until the library closes promptly at 8pm.

TheSpun [ Apr 21] -- Boston Marathon kicked off today after bucking trend & announcing it would be totally trans-inclusive, with trans women allowed to compete as women or -- with NB runners - in a new nonbinary category. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

I have my problems with any Pope, by definition But you gotta hand it to Papa Francisco for coining the phrase "theirs is the construction site of hell" in a description of American fascism and then dying almost immediately afterward

This is how you do solidarity.

For those puzzled why the strong box office opening of SINNERS is being framed as disappointing somehow, Vulture gave the game away two days ago. Studios are freaking out about letting the copyright revert to Coogler, so the film can't be seen as a success. The fix is in.

If you live outside America and have plans to travel here: Strongly consider canceling them if possible If you’ve been considering making plans to come here: Don’t

US police departments are using "unproven and secretive technology that uses AI-generated online personas designed to interact with and collect intelligence on 'college protesters', 'radicalized' political activists, and suspected drug and human traffickers ..." They've automated snitching.

"What I think about is what the ecological responsibilities of every landscape... Every landscape needs to manage the watershed in which it lies. Every landscape needs to support pollinators. Every landscape needs to support a viable food web. And every landscape needs to sequester carbon."

The Van Hollen line—"I'm not vouching for the man. I'm vouching for the man's rights. His constitutional rights to due process." I'm not sure it's the best framing, but it's the kind of thing you could train even the most "centrist" Dems to say because they can connect to its immense self-interest.

The endgame of cultural erasure in acts of cultural appropriation is *theft*, but theft can also be done without the erasure. Thank you for listening to me on my forever soapbox.

Any politician framing a loss of Constitutional rights *which absolutely is a “kitchen table issue!* as a “distraction” should be rewarded with immediate irrelevancy until they pull their head from their ass to do their actual job.

Incredible that they're destroying the service industry in tandem with destroying the retail industry Oh and the farming industry And the shipping industry And of course the nonprofit and educational/research and governmental sectors.

We really should be thinking of this in terms of state violence and theft.

Judging from the replies I think we are all due for a reminder lesson on how organized boycotts work, lol. Friends, a boycott is not just "ugh I don't want to give them my money," it's a coordinated formal economic action. (Also don't give them your money! But indiv consumer choice is not boycott)

god I don't know why this is so much of our current world in a nutshell. x is worried about going to prison, y is worried about having their feelings hurt. These things are equal for some reason.

Binged all 3 available eps of #LeverageRedemption S3 & boy not that @johnrogers.bsky.social ever pulled punches on social commentary but those first 3 hrs were 👩🏽‍🍳💋. Also The Scared Stiff Job ought to be nominated for a Hugo.

A photo from today's walk: Laceleaf maple at the Seattle Japanese Garden. #photography #nature #garden #Seattle

🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

WHAT IS HAPPENING

I think today definitely calls for a classic Ghostbusters moment because be honest, if the Stay Puff Marshmallow Man showed up in NYC at this point, no one would blink an eye.

Every time I’ve been forced against my will to see that stupid fucking photo of JKR & her cigar I’ve said “she looks like a cartoon villain” & I finally figured out which one

Me, trying to explain this to my husband: Okay, so pretend that the Nature Conservancy and the Audubon Society made a joint statement and then EarthFirst jumped in and went “Yeah, what they said!”

Houlihans, Sizzler & Bakers Square. Clearly I am a child of the 80s Midwest.