I said it before and I’ll say it again, I hope the damn AI bubble bursts before this gets built.

Every municipality needs to understand that data center jobs do not exist. There are no people in data centers. When people need to go to data centers they usually come from some big tech company HQ, or from some contractor hired to shove servers into racks. They are built by nonlocal specialists.

Just gonna leave this here... bsky.app/profile/prop...

This keeps coming up in the feed so the Romance girlies (gender inclusive) would do well to use what they’ve learned in On Tyranny and switch from Goodreads over to Storygraph supporting a Black woman instead of Bezos.

This bear is the reason tardigrades get called "water bears"

Are @oaklandballers.bsky.social STILL celebrating?

New: Sarah MacLachlan, Jewel, and more musicians scheduled to perform at tonight's premiere for Hulu's ABC News doc LILITH FAIR have all pulled out after Disney scrapped the red carpet. First notable talent consequence of the Jimmy Kimmel situation.

Our economic freedoms and civil rights are under attack right now. Over the coming months and years, we're all going to need to work even harder to protect the gains we've made. We need to answer the call to leadership like the tradeswomen of NABTU have.

Lots of terrible stuff in this but "banning dual citizenship" a bit of a buried lede www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

In Naperville, IL on Wednesday, ICE surrounded a group of documented workers replacing a residential roof. ICE agents reportedly kicked over the ladders and forced the workers to jump. The episode involved a chase with guns drawn.

GOING FROM BINARY TRANS TO NON-BINARY IS NOT DETRANSITIONING

Growth industries in the USA, 2025: - Private prisons - End-of-life care - Deportation officers - Deportation transport - Tariff collection - Ballroom construction - Mortgage fraud investigation* - AI training - Coal mining** *Only applies to investigating liberals **Bitter geologist laughter

This keeps coming up in the feed so the Romance girlies (gender inclusive) would do well to use what they’ve learned in On Tyranny and switch from Goodreads over to Storygraph supporting a Black woman instead of Bezos.

European journalists assessing the political and cultural impact of the Charlie Kirk memorial rally should contrast its ratings and online reach with the ratings and clicks for the Eagles-Rams game

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

This is truly insane. The definition of "disappearing people"

A Black teen named Kalief Browder was falsely accused of stealing a backpack. He spent 3 years tortured at Rikers & died by suicide A wealthy white man named Tom Homan was caught by FBI accepting bribes. He was promoted to a powerful law enforcement position This is what white supremacy looks like

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)

Dems advertising that they are capitulating to threats of violence is not an especially smart plan even on narrow selfpreservation concerns

Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom. Many may not know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country. (Published 2022)

Hawaii just iced Fresno State!!!

I'm here *trying* to enjoy autumn, the best season, but the rampant fascism is really FUCKING UP THE VIBE

I’d like to live in a world where DOJ leaks don’t swing elections but that’s not the one we live in and it’s incredible malpractice that after 2016 dems were like hey let’s just sit on this and ten months later the president is just tweeting out watergate

Tom Homan took a bag of cash from an undercover FBI agent the right way. by Ezra Klein

The reaction Disney fans are having makes think maybe the Harry Potter fans are just bigots who don’t care after all.

companies make it difficult or impossible to disable ai in their products because it is an authoritarian project made from a stack of consent violations in a trenchcoat they don't give you a checkbox for "i don't want this and will never use it" because they know many people would check that box

Abortion rights are not only more popular than Democrats -- especially in purple and red states -- opposing them is one of the hallmarks of authoritarianism. What's more, Democrats ALREADY TRIED running anti-abortion candidates for 40 years. It was a bust and wrecked the party brand.

As I told @newrepublic.com, "Once last week, twice today, ICE has picked me up and thrown me on the ground. Honestly, it doesn’t compare to what our neighbors who are trapped inside the Broadview processing facility are going through. They’re committing crimes against humanity there."

The idea of running anti-abortion Democrats is sickening to me. That means killing women! That is what that means!

Check out Justice Eddins’ complete repudiation of the Roberts Court here. It’s worth reading in full. It’s quite brave—and exceedingly rare—for a sitting judge to speak so candidly and scathingly about SCOTUS’ partisan contortions of law, history, and fact. www.courts.state.hi.us/wp-content/u...

I am pleased to report that Hawaii Supreme Court Justice Todd Eddins has dropped another total evisceration of the Supreme Court. He says originalism is a fraud—and the Republican justices are shamelessly making up facts and history to impose radical Christian nationalism: slate.com/news-and-pol...

If you are one of the almost 100 Dems who voted to honor the guy who said the Civil Rights Act was a huge mistake, don’t bother asking Black people to vote for you, donate to you or canvass for you next year. Don’t bother. Please. And don’t be shocked if you get a primary opponent.

In the Fourth Republic, we're going to resurrect the Postal Service with postal banking, public email accounts, and neighborhood post offices that provide constituency services and free legal advice. It's going to be so good.

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target

They object to the tone of your speech when they can’t object to the content of it. @hirono.senate.gov

Someone asked if I was ready for the fall, and it actually took me a moment to realize that they meant autumn, not the complete collapse of democracy.

UPDATE: Democrats just put a bill on the floor to save health care. Republicans voted to shut down the government and keep up the health care crisis THEY created. We're not giving up on this.

I like this. Since under RFK Jr, Covid shots are now for people with underlying conditions that put them at risk, Michigan’s chief medical executive Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian states that not having the most recent Covid shot constitutes such an underlying condition. www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...

Garbage in, garbage out.

moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot. one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.

Get them! Get their asses!

NEW @teenvogue.com: a Texas bill passed this summer mandating schools deadname trans students, leaving enforcement to districts. @kitoconnell.com speaks to trans students in TX: “I’ve never felt more at threat here. I can’t stop thinking that everything would be so different if I detransitioned.”

Unrelated, but my favorite German word is "vorauseilender Gehorsam" or anticipatory compliance. When you take action in expectation of orders that haven't even been given to you or even if you're not in the line of command, to avoid trouble or even opportunistically. For examples see German history.

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Heritage Foundation has released an absolutely insane policy proposal to label all trans people as domestic terrorists. It uses completely made up instances of terrorism and made up statistics but facts don't matter to them. They want us all eradicated.

Today I sat through an active shooter drill with my kindergartner. I have some words, but also no words. This HAS TO CHANGE. *in this same post elsewhere, “Take the Power Back” by Rage Against the Machine plays in the background. Seemed appropriate.

we need a congressional majority and president ready to do the largest restructuring of federal power since 1865 or at least 1933 (definitely larger than post watergate era) and a DOJ willing to impose consequences for those who've violated their oaths and the law

If you’ve canceled Disney+ consider checking out PBS Passport for $5 a month!