I'm not so easily shocked these days, but it might actually be shocking that the vice president of the United States is as violently, smugly, publicly racist as he is.

Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama. Us: Across your entire career? Reiner: In a 6 year period. Us: That sounds- Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.

the thing is there really is a epochal tech revolution happening, it’s called renewables and green industry

I live in DC. You think “official Washington” didn’t care what Trump administration 2 was likely to do? Talk to someone who works at NIH. Or State. Or CFPB. Or DOJ. They all knew what was at stake. They were all scared + furious. And reporters like Nuzzi saw none of it because they didn’t care.

The thing I try to explain the most to those who don’t live here is that the Nuzzis of the world live in Washington (the place that deserves your ire) and the rest of us live in D.C., a collection of diverse, mostly quiet, walkable residential neighborhoods with no federal representation

"It is newsworthy that the president of the United States is increasingly verbally abusive of women reporters and he should be told to fuck off for that." (Clarified it.)

It is newsworthy that the president of the United States is increasingly verbally abusive of women reporters and he should be asked about it.

The only time Article 5 of the NATO Treaty was invoked was to defend us, not for us to defend Europe. European soldiers and civilians died fighting with us and working next to us in Afghanistan. Europe was not attacked on September 11, 2001.

it should probably be a bigger story that the richest man on earth and leading Republican is a fucking Nazi media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

It’s not just a problem with LLMs. People pushing skills over content drive me crazy. If students never develop domain knowledge, all of the analytical skills don’t matter much because they don’t have a basis for analysis.

this also drives me insane, this idea that it is the most normal thing in the world for a young (white) man to have a nazi curious phase. it isn’t!

Before it was illegally destroyed by Musk and co., USAID had a budget of $35 billion (in 2024)

Every day at noon, no matter how busy, Johny Merida Aguilar left his construction job and hurried to his 5-year-old son's school to feed him. His son has brain cancer and generally only accepts food from his father. Merida Aguilar was arrested by ICE in September and faces deportation to Bolivia.

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated…

America is currently a giant experiment to see how long we can keep stuffing a year's worth of news and outrage into every single day before everyone's heads explode

As if irony isn’t already dead, the Hatch Act violation on the DOJ website, which blames Democrats for the shutdown, appears on the page advising DOJ employees they are subject to the Hatch Act. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-note-abo...

separate from everything, the idea that 2020 was a squeaker but 2024 represents a historical mandate will simply be the death of me

not loving how fast the r-slur came back from the grave where it belonged

Many studies have shown that there is no relationship between MMR vaccine and the development of autism. Here are two of the best. This one followed every single child born in Denmark from 1991 through 1998 (n=537,303). There was no association.

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

this exists it is called thinking

The complexity of the cost of service model for visas (and other consular services) is real. The right bureaucracy protects as well. Single voice rule hurts us all.

“The law doesn’t matter anymore” is obeying in advance.

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

So the white dude from Fox News said we should kill mentally ill homeless folks, he apologizes and they’re good; @karenattiah.bsky.social posts an accurate quote and says she’s not in the mood to mourn and gets bounced.

If you know about Korea, you know that people will tell this story for generations. Given the scale, tech savvy, cultural sway, strategic importance, and national pride of ROK, this might be *the* most lastingly damaging, idiotic move team MAGA has made. Blessed by SecState Marco.

Murder. He’s calling for the murder of people, a significant percentage of whom are veterans who served in our country’s military.

Kirk didn’t debate out of some spirit of democracy or whatever. He did it to expand the Overton window, so that the humanity of marginalized groups could be seen as being up for debate. His “change my mind” schtick was a sham: he was never, ever willing to change his mind.

Sabotaging America's progress in renewables is one of the most harmful actions Donald's regime has taken in terms of preserving human civilization against the unpredictability & destructibility of the climate catastrophe we're already very much in the middle of.

Mainstream pundits have instantly sanitized and ignored Charlie Kirk's core political project and its impacts. He has been remembered by the mainstream press as someone they merely disagreed with, a debate me-guy whose words and actions had zero consequences: www.404media.co/charlie-kirk...

lead the kind of life where your death will probably not be followed by a wave of threats against black universities

Judging by the shamefully opportunistic & politicizing rhetoric of some rightwingers on Twitter, & their cynical use of Charlie Kirk’s horrific murder for political point scoring, it’s almost as if Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman wasn’t murdered by a Trump-voting MAGA maniac just 12 weeks ago.

The Rosegarden CLUB? He turned the People's House into a private CLUB? He literally privatized a public good. He stole our house. Do you understand? This is no different than if he seized the Grand Canyon & put it behind a velvet rope, for members only. He's a fucking thief & a vandal to boot.

FYI: The White House isn’t a club. It’s ours.

I really resent my tax dollars being spent on this

At this point, any elected Dem who doesn't want to or can't stand up to this should step aside. Equivocating and bipartisanship and "kitchen table issues" won't get us out of this.

The biggest scandal in US public life *ought* to be that we are the richest country in history & yet our infrastructure sucks, our transportation choices suck, our cities suck, our healthcare sucks, our public administration sucks, & in dozens of little ways, our daily lives suck.

"I support trans people." "Oh, so you support gender reassignment surgery on 3 year olds?" "No. That's a stupid thing to say." "I don't want the National Guard invading my city." "Oh, so you support crime?" "No. That's a stupid thing to say." It's such a good answer.

I'm watching the @lindsayellis.bsky.social video on empathy, and one of the best bits of it so far is when she's talking about objecting to babies being killed in Gaza, and some dude going, "Oh, so you support Hamas?" And she just says, "No. That's a stupid thing to say." We should practice that.

The way the Trump administration has tried to make an example of a very ordinary person, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, basically for embarrassing them politically, is unprecedented and terrifying.

I refuse to believe we are going to relitigate slavery. SLAVERY. It’s too much.

The people who are *still* making a massive deal about having to go to the doctor and get a shot think historians made too big a deal out of **slavery**

If it’s bad for someone else, it must be good for me” as the overriding US policy in all things. We don’t easily come back from what we are tearing down.

“The president cut your health care so he could build himself a golden ballroom” is a pretty easy message to sell

That certainly takes balls to cut 17 million people off health care and then announce you're spending $200 million to build a new ballroom. Let them eat cake.

the US profoundly needs a children's rights movement. children are not property... they deserve opportunity and learning and autonomy and security.... and our country just does not acknowledge this

Really does perpetually stun me how many people in the US fundamentally don’t believe in pluralism. Like I don’t like purity balls or Hillsdale college, but yeah I think that shit has a right to exist in a free society. But they want to burn down everything over drag shows and Oberlin existing.

Former teacher here: it matters