People who use AI think that they’re skipping to the success when they’re skipping to the failure. You begin and end your life as someone who has not written the novel, you did not teach yourself to express what was inside of you, you died without making something that no one else could make.

entire press has gotten bullied into treating charlie kirk as if he was one of the most important americans alive and not a modestly popular podcaster

What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?

Who commits more domestic terrorism: left-wing or right-wing extremists? I compiled a brief literature review using various sources including the FBI, DHS, GAO, and academic studies. The facts: far-right extremism is now the predominant domestic terrorist threat. 🧵 Thread with references:

Kimmel. Colbert. Suits against the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and 60 Minutes. Extorting settlements from CBS, ABC, and others. Blocking the AP's access to the White House. 🧵

MY GOD, I HAVE A NEW HERO. SHE HAD THEM SO HOOKED AND THEN BAM, SHE ATE THEM, BONES AND ALL.

@schumer.senate.gov, you are not the man for this moment. You apparently can’t even accurately perceive the moment we are in. You must step down if you can’t find some courage.

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school. Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families? My own colleagues are silent.

In all seriousness, I'd love to see a reporter try to get comments from all of these people about their initial impulse to declare a literal war on half of their fellow citizens and to see if any of them regret it, apologized for it or learned anything at all from it.

You can't 'make' peace. You can stop 'making' conflict. You can allow peace room to exist.

pretty wild that it so quickly became normalized that immigrants don’t have even basic free speech rights www.axios.com/2025/09/11/c...

Wait. The same Clay Higgins who suggested Twitter execs would be investigated by the FBI and jailed for doing basic content moderation... is now demanding that social media accounts be banned for life?

@governor.pa.gov This is too much. Condemn political violence, place in context of other acts, but do not act like a hateful liar was a hero. Commemorate the destruction of civil, logical debate, not the people who are helping to kill it. The valorization of Kirk himself encourages more violence.

Insanity

Must read, and not just for higher ed folks: anyone concerned about education and people’s ability to think rigorously and critically should read this manifesto.

We don’t yet know who killed Kirk or why. Not that you’d know it from the endless numbers of accounts on X with huge follower numbers, including British politicians, making as yet unknowable claims about the motivations behind the murder. Exhibit A. Extraordinary stuff.

I condemn this shooting as I condemned others before it. Political violence is never acceptable, and it’s un American. We have a way out of this horror we’re experiencing, and it starts with a de-escalation in rhetoric from political leaders and passing common sense gun control.

We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.

The anti AI in education manifesto we have been waiting for for!!! Thank you to all the authors who contributed to this important piece of writing that unpacks and critically examines AI hype and false AI inevitability.

2. the strange but often repeated cultish mantra that we need to "embrace the future" — this is so bizarre given, e.g. how destructive industry forces have proven to be in science, from petroleum to tobacco to pharmaceutical companies. (Section 3.2 here doi.org/10.5281/zeno...) 4/n

You and I are richer than Gates, Zuckerberg, etc. because we can afford not to polish the boots of the authoritarian clown.

Why are federal agents wearing masks to hide their face? Public servants should face the public — take off your masks! We just launched ads at over a hundred bus shelters around Washington, D.C. — check them out!

Here’s the thing, do you recall the 1000+ plus individuals that asked not to even confirm him? Keep bending the knee to Trump, get devastation.

The ad campaign criticizing the use of masks by federal agents working in Washington, D.C. has expanded to 115 bus stops, per organizers

Your occasional reminder that the positive effects of UBI have been tested and validated hundreds of times more often than the murderous Musk robotaxis or LLM’s we’re rushing to put into our schools and streets.

The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it. ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures. Losers with power become the most dangerous kind. (c/o Caroline Codsi)

Brian's absolutely right: this always needs to be framed as an OpenAI story, not simply an "AI" one.

we will NEVER FORGET!!!

You know what's crazy? There have been no op-eds or editorial statements in major newspapers this year calling on Trump to resign. None calling for his impeachment. None asking if he's medically fit to be in office. Not one in any major newspaper all year.

Donald Trump says he is going to deploy the National Guard to Chicago. This is what weak men do to pretend they’re strong. Stay safe, stand with your community, and most importantly, know your rights:

Phew, the sex trafficker and perjurer exonerated the one man who can free her. I am totally persuaded.

🧵PLEASE stop insisting that this is meant to distract from Epstein. An evil man with all the nation's levers of power in his hands can enlist legions of fellow travelers to hide his acts of sexual depravity against women & children **WHILE ALSO** acting on long-held dreams of military dictatorship.

Remarkable open letter from Bill Burns. "If intelligence analysts at the CIA saw our rivals engage in this kind of great-power suicide, we would break out the bourbon. Instead, the sound we hear is of champagne glasses clinking in the Kremlin and Zhongnanhai." theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

On the topic of James Dobson passing, I figured it’d be appropriate to reshare my new article in @sfjournal.bsky.social showing Christian nationalism strongly predicts Americans valuing children’s obedience over thinking for themselves and hard spanking to keep kids in line. doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...

Do not give the Gestapo a moment's peace. Do not let them believe for a second they will ever be respected, trusted, or seen as anything but invaders.

As of late last month, the investigation—led by US senator Jon Ossoff, a Democrat of Georgia—had unearthed 41 cases of physical and sexual abuse; 14 involving pregnant detainees and 18 involving children.

One-third of Americans vote by mail. The president just announced an executive order to ban it, despite having no constitutional authority to set election rules.

By the time we get to Nov. 2026, Trump will have federal agents and the national guard in many, if not most, blue cities.

this is (1) not a distraction, (2) not able to be disentangled from the military occupation of multiple us cities, and (3) the greatest threat to liberty in this country since jim crow

SO MUCH YES TO THIS. Every city needs to stand up this way, and every Dem politician needs to explain what is at stake this clearly.

The whole confederacy is getting in on it.

Outside Dupont north metro

Trump is laying the groundwork for martial law and unleashing his Gestapo against Americans who protest. This dude is never leaving office peacefully or legally. People still aren't paying attention.

The White House’s official X account has a long thread in which they’ve posted pictures of people arrested during the feds’ occupation of the city. Every single person in the thread is a person of color.

I'm going to publish the entirety of an exchange I just had with the press office of the DOJ. I want you to see how they are talking about truth.

**NEW FEATURE** As our TrumpActionTracker gallops towards 1000 authoritarian actions, we've added a new feature for downloading the data! You can choose to download filtered actions - e.g. just a specific time period, or with a specific key word or a single domain. www.trumpactiontracker.info?

Wanna help ground Avelo? Check it out here. One thing he mentions - universities like Yale (!!!) have contracts with Avelo. Time for alumni pressure. (YALIES, WE GOT THIS, RIGHT???) www.groundavelo.org