Another good time to remind people that “tear gas” is a term of copaganda that police, the military, and its manufacturers use to obscure that it is a dangerous chemical weapon internationally banned for use even in warfare.

There is a form to make known how you feel about MLS using AI for recaps. It takes two seconds and has a section where you can let them know in your own words why you’re opposed to the league using any form of AI. www.mlssoccer.com/feedback/rec...

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

IMLS’s new team decided that nearly all of the $14.1 million allocated to the Nat'l Leadership Grants for Libraries(in 2025) is going to 1 recipient, the U.S. Semiquincentennial Co. So instead of our taxes going to support our libraries, we're paying for a UFC fight on the white house lawn.

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Hey Minnesota: ICE is now on the ground in NE Minneapolis. See thread. Stay alert everyone!

Chicago October 2025: "Are the helicopters over my house this evening because of the Cubs playoff game or is it the federal government doing extrajudicial kidnappings?"

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

I wrote about the bizarrely credulous way the New York Times’ flagship podcast “The Daily” presented Russell Vought, how it is indicative of blind spots and fallacies that undermine the public response to Trumpism - and what we actually need to understand about this dangerous man:

Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile debuts tonight on The Onion's YouTube channel at 7 p.m. ET. Finally somebody will release some dang Epstein Files if you know what I'm sayin'!!!

The U.S. healthcare system is so messed up.

This remains the most important piece i’ve written about the goals and ideological principles of the second Trump administration www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... bsky.app/profile/jame...

Hey @queermedieval.bsky.social your illustration prints *beautifully*!! Anti-fascist frogs hot off the press

This is easy: BACKEND LLMs, purpose-built for specific tasks, used as aids to human workers, is great! FRONTEND general "AI" that can cause psychosis in some users and/or used to harass, fool, and pollute the web is very bad! A lot of tools are limited to skilled workers because they're dangerous.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

John Oliver: "If ICE can bother some guys at a roofing job, bystanders can bother ICE at their state-sanctioned kidnapping job."

Preach!

People perceive thickness of letters very individually, and that’s why we are conducting Font Weight Survey to understand the regional preferences of font weight. Could we ask you for 10 min of your time? The findings will be published publicly once we have some results. tptq.com/weight

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

i just can’t get over ICE going into the streets of the city i live in, throwing gas at citizens, invading people who live here. this is state sponsored terrorism being enacted on americans

JD Vance has had such a good life in this country. It’s been overwhelmingly kind and gracious to him. He is far wealthier than most. Yet he oozes with contempt. My honest, non-trolling advice to Vance is that he’d be a much happier person if he showed a little gratitude.

RFK Jr fired a whistleblower, illegally. They hint at it in the story, noting she followed proper procedure with her complaints but it's a new world of Kavanaugh stops and Roberts' endorsing every illegal termination (except at the Fed). But the NIH is being gutted. www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...

Gov. Pritzker has said all the right things, but now he needs to act and get these state troopers out of there.

I am thrilled that Molly will moderate this discussion with Alec. If you read, “Copaganda,” or hear Alec talk, you will recognize so much of media coverage and establishment talking points here in Minneapolis and elsewhere.

With Chicago in the ICE crosshairs right now, here are some independent and nonprofit media orgs to read, follow and support. Unraveled: @unraveledpress.com Block Club Chicago: @blockclubchi.bsky.social Chicago Reader: @chicagoreader.com The TRiiBE: @thetriibe.com WBEZ: @wbez.org

“It’s drinking the water!”

“Dirge Without Music”

This is really, really great. It explains the whole Peter Thiel/Antrichrist thing and its roots in Carl Schmitt. www.wired.com/story/the-re...

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

would love to hear more congressional democrats say "should we win power next year we are going to treat every one of these as bribes and act accordingly" arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Perfect image for this moment -- Pete Hegseth wasted millions of dollars flying military leaders from across the globe to hear him blather about gender-neutral physical fitness standards and appearance, and the chryon in the corner notes the government is about to shut down.

I’m opening a movie theater in which I show recently released films that I ripped from the internet but the studios are welcome to opt out if they wish.

That quote is not out of context, the full version is worse.

Current mood:

Justice Kavanaugh: “If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”

Announcing a good ol’ fashioned Teach-In in Washington, DC on Sunday, October 26th. We’ll convene for a series of lectures, stories, and conversations to celebrate and stand up for the work of history and museums. Shoutout to @natedimeo.bsky.social for bringing this idea to us. See you in DC!

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

The sentiments could not be clearer by this administration- upholding imperialism even amidst a surrender showing the devaluation of Native lives, women, children, civilians- estimated at 250. Remember Wounded Knee apnews.com/article/woun...

Yes, this is why the “they’re not groyper” fixation also misses the target because it is only a technicality. This *is* postmodern fascism at its heart. 20th century fascism was a result of industrial capitalism meeting nationalism while this the result of consumerism meeting racialized nihilism.

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

... and if I were to ask you "Who would you like to see speak at CSS Day 2026", what would your answer be? Name as many names as you like. I'd like to hear about people who aren't that well known yet.

This is huge: “A drug that provides near-perfect protection against H.I.V. with shots just twice a year will be made available at $40 per patient annually in low- and middle-income countries, offering new hope… making lenacapavir a realistic choice in countries with constrained resources.”

Phil Morris is garbage, Steve Grove is garbage, Andy Brehm is garbage, the Star Tribune is garbage.

If you’re in line for the rapture, stay in line!

HHS Secretary RFK Jr. wants to find the causes of #autism by September. Erin McCanlies has spent the past 20yrs studying how parents’ exposure to chemicals at work affects the chance that they will have a child with the condition. RFK Jr. cut her entire lab. My latest video for @propublica.org

The METRO Blue Line will be out of service from 10 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 22 through Saturday, Oct. 4 due to the Track & Signals Project, as part of the Renew the Blue efforts. During this time, replacement buses will operate along the full length of the Blue Line

Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.

10/ The folks with the least among us, or who get the most political shit, are out there doing the work. We’re seeing a lot of weaponized religion & politics right now, but it was good to be reminded of the goodness of the human soul.