"What if QAnon was right" is very, very dumb and even more dangerous. Not trying to sell books here, but this is why i named last one undertow. As in a current you get tired of swimming against and you just lean back and let it take you out to sea.

realized i didn't know the origins of "in the ballpark" meaning "approximately correct" and once again had it reaffirmed that you will never regret looking up the etymology of a word

Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics" guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation

New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings “Big tech has made their choice” www.404media.co/google-has-c...

I found the most cursed snack chip of all time at the grocery outlet

Quick sketch of an idea

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

I’m a goddamn American don’t tell me what hole to use

As an online MAGA discussion continues, the probability of a laudatory reference or comparison to Hitler or to Nazis all-too-briskly approaches 1.

god if I had a house this is so the shit I’d get up to!!!

This is possibly the all-time funniest real answer to an interview question

after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

My dope friend Adrian, who is trans, interviewed 90 transgender Texans. His project is finally out: www.dallasnews.com/news/politic...

The petition for Rodney Taylor, a disabled double amputee being held in an ICE camp, is over 3300 signatures! Rodney has been in the US since he was 2 years old. He was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE grabbed him. He’s in solitary confinement & facing deportation to Liberia

Usually a fan of Tim Harford, and i suppose the "what if we just thought of it in terms of economics" approach is intellectually useful. But to know a bit more about actual subject than he does. A predictable outcome of charging everyone $100k (or £ or €) would be massive debt-linked exploitation

When the Orwellian named Dept of Homeland Security was created … MANY of us predicted that it would eventually be doing all the things that it is doing right now Pinning it uniquely on Trump really misses the point in a bunch of ways

Just everyone’s periodic reminder that the entire idea of “alphas” is a myth that science has rejected for a while now while culture stubbornly refuses to admit it lol

NEW: California is on the verge of passing nearly a dozen bills supporting queer and trans rights—if Newsom doesn’t veto them. In our latest, Mady Castigan (@madycast.com) talks to trans people impacted by the bills as well as politicians who wrote them, and explains how you can pressure Newsom.

one thing i think which informs ezra klein / derek thompson thought is this notion that liberalism won the war of ideas with facts and logic and not like a century and a half of intermittent warfare against the ancien regime(s).

In which a top US Border Patrol official, incredibly, tells my tall and Anglo colleague @chipmitchell1.bsky.social that he's not the type they're looking for as they go about downtown Chicago arresting people based on "how they look" chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

This is, after all, the original and authentic meaning of "stay woke." In fact, the perversion of "woke" into an epithet is perhaps the defining metaphor of our moment: Historical victims are not only being revictimized, but also mocked for never forgetting this is always a possibility in the US.

NEWS: The Congressional Progressive Caucus — which represents nearly 100 members in Congress — has just voted to endorse the Block the Bombs Act, to block weapon sales to Israel. First time any major congressional caucus has backed legislation to end US aid for Israel’s destruction of Gaza.

party rock being in the house tonight implies the existence of party ska being in another house this very same night

You knowe how yn legendes someone doth fynde a cursed sworde that bringeth ruin upon them but thei do not cast it asyde by cause *part of the curse* ys that thei believe it ys a powirful magic sworde that ys helpinge ynstead of hurtinge? Anywaye, Gen AI...

beale *is* an unhinged maniac. depressed, alienated and antisocial. and his rant, critically, is inchoate, apolitical, reactionary rage, packaged in a bow for advertisers. what the movie gets absolutely right is the way that alienation is just another product.

One thing you learn in life is that "speaking truth to power" and practicing integrity is easy when your job, your money, your fame, or your office is not on the line. The hard is speaking truth and practicing integrity when any one of those is on the line. That is the test of who you are.

As a government information librarian who archives a lot of federal web pages, I strongly recommend this approach. The Internet Archive and similar tools are great, but, as mentioned here, are imperfect tools and there is just too much uncertainty about continued access to federal resources.

“Who me? As a tripod fish, I deal with stress and fear by transforming into an eyeless abyssal predatory elder god. What about you?” 🎥 Huge thanks to @frida.yolotzin for letting me use the baby tripod fish video, and @schmidtocean for permission to share the adult video.

4/? community has been deliberately severed here by funding cuts to social programs while police funding has ballooned. There are some local family festivals, but they're very intentionally aligned with pro-policing and consumerism while pushing unhoused community members out of their own spaces.

Happy 3²/4²/5² day

"Hulk Hogan should be remembered as a living expression of our national decay: a hero exposed as a fraud, a fraud exposed as a coward, and finally a coward who cried with joy upon finding an authoritarian monster to tell him that his sins were in fact virtues." www.thenation.com/article/soci...

An hour after #GoodTroubleLivesOn scheduled to end, protester vibe is not only resilient but uplifting outside of Metropolitan Detention Center in Downtown Los Angeles. Literally dancing in the streets. Some of the most enthusiastic/supportive honking is from passing bus drivers and garbage trucks.

Thanks for the props. 🥰

whoever convinced journalists their job was just color commentary on opinion polls has done incalculable damage to the world

Y-you- you’re thinking about this all wrong, as if I had the Epstein files back in a safe. The Epstein files aren’t here — the Epstein files are in Joe’s house, and Mrs. Menklin’s house, and a hundred others

In presidential precedents, Nixon went down over Watergate, not the genocidal carpet bombing of Cambodia.

Liam O’Brien was diagnosed with HIV in 2000 and had to quit his dream job on Broadway. He had two options, he says: “You either win the lottery, or go make yourself really poor. So I went and made myself really poor.” That’s how he turned to butterflies. missionlocal.org/2025/07/liam...

Someone needs to bear witness as masked agents of the government brutalize members of our community. It doesn’t surprise me that a Philosophy professor would do so. Be at least as brave as a Philosophy professor. (And demand that ICE release Prof. Caravello.)

they have pictures of you guys in here

I attended this hearing in the courtroom, so no electronic devices. I'm driving home and processing; I'd like to post thoughts soon.

totally non-insane way to serve pasta

I’m out here in Camarillo, CA, with @acatwithnews.bsky.social, where hundreds of demonstrators have gathered to protests today’s raids. As we walk up, you can hear hundreds chanting. Lots of press here as well

#Bluesky seems to take issue with Black women with opinions and I think that needs to be addressed. Yesterday.

At a moment when the problems our world is facing feel insurmountable, I found a lot of inspiration in this. My friend and reporter Allison Herrera sat down with recently freed Leonard Peltier, one of the longest-serving political prisoners in the U.S.

Want some good news? Look at these union wins from just this week alone! Every month HUNDREDS of Starbucks workers join our union the fight for a fair first contract.

I was just informed that Denali National Park has a sled dog puppy cam and you might also need this information www.nps.gov/dena/learn/p...

In times like these I look to ideas like those from @victorpickard.bsky.social and so many others in the field who push us to dream ... we need to "decommodify, deprivatize, de-commercialize" and pursue more "radical projects and even utopian visions" for the internet, social media, and AI.

The only purpose of these NYT stories is to depoliticize by making a certain kind of reader feel things. The human-interest-story-as-news isn’t reportage; it’s vicarious sanctimony. Most NYT readers will say ICE is bad, but the lingering *vibe* will be antipathy to yokels they can feel good about.