the Dems need to stop treating “political theatre” like a dirty word. it means two separate things. obviously sometimes it’s just a gross empty stunt; but sometimes it also means when you do the thing, and then you do a big song & dance about doing the thing to drive the theme home for the audience

Unfortunately the administration seems to have latched on to a key vulnerability in our constitutional order, which is that if you charge ahead and do the illegal thing, you often get most of the result you wanted even if you later lose in court.

New York Times: If you're gonna crib our headline, you could at least credit Nick Judin and the Mississippi Free Press for first reporting it 2 days earlier. I'm glad this story is getting national attention. But Nick puts a lot of himself in these stories, and deserves credit (just as we'd do).

Post your warning sign.

Genuinely love to see a stance changed like this — and publicly acknowledged. Public opinion is in our favor. It’s long past time for Illinois lawmakers to repeal this anti-free speech law.

as long as john roberts has his majority, there is simply no pro democracy reform that will survive the supreme court. none.

Not quite. They also perked up their ears at the simulation hypothesis and/or solipsism.

For me it was the white supremacy.

you do not tax billionaires to fund universal healthcare. you, yes you the person reading this, and everyone you know, pay more in taxes to fund universal healthcare. you tax billionaires to take away a gun that Elon Musk is pointing at your head.

ALERT ALERT ALERT The @dukepress.bsky.social biannual sale has started and it’s even better pricing than usual this time

does anyone on staff understand how east asian surnames work

Disability justice activist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha reminds us that disabled communities hold vital wisdom about care, access, adaptation, and collective survival. May we follow disabled leadership and build a world where everyone can flourish in community. #DisabilityJustice #UU

The reason Peter Thiel destroyed Gawker--the real reason, not them reporting on the available info that he was gay, which they could pass off to dummies as cruel--was how viciously Valleywag reported on his hedge funds performing badly off his picks and guidance.

I will die on the hill of "The Warren Court was good, actually." Just about everything you think of when you say "America has freedom" comes from the Warren Court and not any other era.

the formative supreme court for most of the political class was quite literally the one period in its history when it wasn’t terrible so there’s this view of it as a much more noble institution than it actually is

New privacy violation unlocked! It's not just about those (extremely obvious) "SMART" glasses invading your personal life and recording you while you're on the street, at work, or in class, it's also about THE PHARMACIST WEARING THEM AT WORK WHILE FILLING YOUR PRESCRIPTIONS AND LOOKING UP YOUR INFO

"Constitutional romantics will object that Congress can't simply nullify representation based on partisan displeasure. But these people are trapped in a narrow reading of law that prioritizes text, precedent, and meaning over the principle of wanting something very, very badly."

This is Cooper. He tried to politely decline the blowout, but apparently it's a nonnegotiable part of his spa package. 13/10 (IG: biscuitsandbathnyc)

In a complete coincidence, this group matches the same 6 justices who just weakened the Voting Rights Act

Rhythm Aryan Nation over here

I also recommend reading @cyborgapologist.bsky.social's work from 2019 on forward scholar.google.com/citations?hl...

More evidence of how fucking chock-full of eugenics silicon valley iss, has been, and will continue to be if steps aren't taken to name, acknowledge, and dismantle those connections. '“All my fundees have blue eyes.” [Jeffrey] Epstein and the tech world’s dark ideology'

My best craft advice is "Put a giant worm in it." You can never go wrong with a giant worm. Sci-fi: Giant worm on an alien planet Fantasy: Giant worm in mountain sitting on a pile of gold Horror: Giant worm (eats people) Romance: Giant worm causes third-act breakup Mystery: Giant worm investigates

mood

@maxread.info doesn't miss. maxread.substack.com/p/the-coming...

We white people on a journey to make everyone else choose the bear over us

the ongoing destruction of media - and CBS in particular - is bad but we do get to witness the ongoing public humiliation of Bari Weiss, so we got that going for us, which is nice

If you have any kind of modern car, it is sharing data about you with your government and data brokers. This includes conversations, weight, passenger info, as well as driving telemetry. The FBI told me the data was so useful to them that they didn’t care about privacy or tech abuse risks. So…

Harvard increased its wage offer and proposed a new benefits package Tuesday, marking the first major movement at the bargaining table since the Harvard Graduate Students Union-UAW launched an indefinite strike last week. Noah A. Ferris reports. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

these focus groups are just further anecdotal evidence for my view that trump is is understood as a totem for wealth and prosperity. these people are genuinely bewildered that he isn’t, and might in fact be a human being with ulterior motives

Charlottesville used bookstore’s got game

This is the perfect encapsulation of the conservative id: make everything the way I thought it was when I was nine years old

I know it's moving fast and you're trying to get info out there, but if you're posting images of official govt correspondence you need to get Really Fucking Serious about using your alt text. When you don't, you're excluding some of the people Most Affected by this ongoing nightmare of a situation.

Looking for: University of California Publications in Philosophy. Volume 13, Studies in the Problem of Relations (1930). More specifically, looking for Stephen Pepper's paper from it, simply called "Categories". Anyone got access via their institutional library? Please repost fellow #philsky folk

Step one: DON'T FUCKING GIVE "AI" YOUR CREDIT CARDS JESUS FUCK WHAT ARE YOU THINKING www.wired.com/story/the-ra...

I want to watch a recent movie but I can’t remember the name. It’s about gay hockey. Is it called BrotherPuckers

Folks you do Not Gave to give it to Hegel when there is a whole John Dewey who made journalism a cornerstone of democracy as a way of life WITHOUT the eternal racism of being.

My favorite Sam Neil fact will always be that he designed a future Australian flag that replaces the union jack with the aboriginal flag for Event Horizon and insisted the film use it.

"Kids will devour vast amounts of garbage (and it is good for them) but they are not like adults: they have not yet learned to eat plastic." what a fucking banger

me reading books about sexy cyberpunk dystopias: "Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!" me living in one: "Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck."

The problem with grading papers in the order they arrive is that, generally, the quality decreases as you go.

having committed the crime of lese-ignominie (making fun of Why), my bluesky account is suspended until Sunday 26 April. You may notice it's Tuesday 28. Anyway, please spread this one around. I've told my DNS to repoint @davidgerard.co.uk here, should take effect in uh about a day.

We just got word that this handsome man will be transporting to Pennsylvania on Memorial Day weekend. If you live around that area and are looking for a gorgeous, silly, snuggly boy for your family, he will be adoptable through The Sanctuary at Haaffsville.

But it’s also that bizarre thing where politicians on both sides of the pond believe that if they stand for higher ed, they are going to be defending a posh, pipe smoking, rich professor man wearing a tweed jacket who has an office with leather chairs and wooden paneling: a complete caricature.

You really cannot overestimate the level of status trauma a lot of white Americans experienced at the election of Barack Obama and how much of our politics is still influenced by it bsky.app/profile/beau...

GNU Terry Pratchett, whose words will echo long after we, and our children, and our children’s children have moved on thank you, as always, for making me a better person (quote from Reaper Man)

"...they have not yet learned to eat plastic." Is a fucking bar. 🔥

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

Relieved that pur generals are finally learning the vital combat maneuver Bawitabaw, and it's natural followup, d'bang d'dang ditty.

this is real