I think Elon Musk is JUST sentient enough to be dimly aware that he is damned for all time - that his name will be pissed and spat upon for as long as his filthy legacy is remembered - and that delights me. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Today is the birthday of African American science fiction author #OctaviaEButler. The winner of numerous Hugo and Nebula Awards, she was the first science fiction author to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. #💙📚 #Booksky Have you read her work? www.librarything.com/author/butle...

I did not know about the A-pillar blind spot problem (gift article) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The reflecting pool is being sabotaged by paid protistas

This Day in Labor History: June 21, 1877. Ten alleged members of the Molly Maguires, an Irish secret society blamed for labor radicalism in the anthracite country of Pennsylvania, were executed. Let's talk about the Mollies, or at least what we know about this pretty secret organization!

EXCLUSIVE: Pulled together, details across four UFC plot affidavits portray a Christian extremist movement. But I tracked how law enforcement's explicit references to Christianity and religion vanished by the time top officials addressed the scheme. And how badly they're missing the target.

In 2020, my book VAGRANT QUEEN was adapted into a glorious season of television on SyFy and nobody watched it because it got zero promotion and immediately relegated to a death slot. But it's so good, and you should watch it if you like cheesy sapphic space opera with a snark.

Don't worry—Vance does give Mr. Antichrist Lecturer some credit for inspiring him to convert to Catholicism. Cool cool. Not weird at all. There's an entire chapter in my book focused on how Thiel created JD Vance. Here's a glimpse: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRWF...

James Talarico isn't man enough to give a sweetheart deal to a pedophile.

Took this video of a guy getting detained and a citation for putting his hand in the water an hour ago.

Reposting just for your handle.

I learned most of my vocab from reading books, so learning that some people think there shouldn't be novel words in books is very weird. I don't know what words you don't know. That is not my problem.

It's not enough to oppose Trump’s wars and his gestapo. Unorganized discontent is politically irrelevant. Our job is to organize that discontent into real opposition. If you're looking to help build it ahead of the midterms, check out the organizing that’s happening near you.

We are 91 years on from the 1935 Belfast pogroms. Brutality that echoes throughout our history. [1/7]

just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna dramatically constrict my state capacity while plotting dramatic imperial expansion, and expanding my set of internal enemies while alienating most of my foreign allies" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't

I read everything he writes.

JD Vance’s Communion is a bog standard Politician’s Book, what you write before a presidential run. But that it’s written for a reader that doesn’t exist, about a country that doesn’t exist, by a man that doesn’t exist, and thus is alternately baffling & offensive. My review for @newrepublic.com:

I read this hot mess so you didn't have to. Vance still needs remedial catechism class. www.ms.now/opinion/jd-v...

So, hey: If you casually conflate "The Israeli Government" and "The Jews" in my comments, you're gonna catch a block. I'm not going to indulge your either intentional or unexamined general antisemitism by using Netanyahu, et al as cover. If you can't or won't parse the difference, keep walking.

the reason dsa candidates are winning is because theyre saying theyll do actual things to make peoples lives better and identifying billionaires as an obstacle to those things, its not super complicated or anything

Protest everywhere whenever you can. It's the American Way. youtube.com/shorts/7P2B0...

Defiance until death. Ignore the circus and fight for change. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTBgDeohs/

Butler's "War is a Racket" should be more widely read. And so should Jonathan Katz's "Gangsters of Capitalism," which dissects the American imperium as it intersected Butler's military career. @katz.theracket.news

"The pre-Trump status quo is dead. Whatever else he has accomplished, that is a done deal. We will need to rebuild, and when we do, it shouldn't be simple fix-up job. It should be a Reconstruction grounded in good, liberal values." www.liberalcurrents.com/building-a-n...

When the Republic Almost Fell What we can learn from new reporting on how the Trumpists have been contemplating despotism, the fault lines within the regime, and the prospects for a post-Trump MAGA. Some thoughts from my new piece (free to read, no paywall): 🧵

Trump on Egyptian President el-Sisi: "He was in a hotel and I met him. We fell in love, deeply in love ... we didn't know each other before that. We had great chemistry, and I stayed twice as long as I was supposed to."

I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +

Norway fans are rowing their way up the escalators in Boston

🧵I want to unpack the 5 words Josh Hokit spewed on the White House lawn concerning one of its most beloved former inhabitants [I'll open @'s & QTs at 🧵's end] "Michelle Obama is a man" carries meanings & messages that are so twisted around & rooted in each other that some are effectively invisible.

The library should have told the busybodies at Moms for Liberty that they were also creating a new "Hypocritical Scolds Who Are Into Sexual Three-Ways with Strangers" display in honor of Moms for Liberty and their scandals. #Pride

Studio Ghibli turns 41 today!

I harp a lot on Trump's use of spectacle in Guy Debord's sense, but the UFC match on White House grounds brings up the subject again, and how central it is to Trump's presidency. Yes (I'm sorry), a thread...

#VisibilityBrigade #massachusetts #democracy #election #vets #rights #dday #environment @visibilitybrigade.bsky.social @rosaliewong.bsky.social @jesscraven101.bsky.social @emmatk.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social #midterms #worldcup #war #fascism #ice #ice #freedom #fifa

Drew Sheneman cartoon www.gocomics.com/drewsheneman

Thousands gather at a peaceful anti-racism rally in Belfast as the crowd chants, "Refugees are welcome here”🙏

Definitely. SF, Mystery, Classics should have sections. Label fantasy and Romance. Maybe separate Sf from Fantasy but that splits authors. Also show me all the new cookbooks. Biographies. Etc.

I want someone who supports the Israeli government's war on Gaza, and now Lebanon, to explain to me how the regime they support are the good guys. Go slow and use shorter words if you think it'll help.

OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN VERY CLOSE TO A DEAL WITH EURASIA

Dr. Conevery Bolton Valencius recounts the New Madrid earthquakes which reshaped the landscape, displaced Indigenous Americans, and prompted America's first disaster relief legislation. #WeAreAmerica250

Leah from Indivisible - Primaries are for hopes and dreams. General elections for beating fLIcking fascists. If I was in Maine, I would vote Blue. Sadly Wisconsin re-elected Ron Johnson because the Dem candidate was painted as flawed.

Republicans running on this.

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My family left what is now Ukraine because of anti-Jewish pogroms -- and those who stayed behind were killed in the Holocaust -- and I am completely comfortable calling what is happening in Belfast a pogrom

Watching the NBA Finals and can't understand anything the commentators are saying. Not always a negative but is it some deliberate move to involve watchers? Or do they know that commentators are just part of crowd noise for most people?