my grandfather delivered mail for 40 years and retired with a house and a pension my father worked a steady office job with only the occasional layoff, bought a house and has a 401k i have a youtube channel, a kidney disorder, and a 1BD apartment but yeah I'll get right on that pessimism problem

The only one who fights for your rights is you. Don't look to anyone powerful to do that, they only respond to your pressure.

This is a disturbing illustration of a harsh reality: federalism only comes anything close to working as a means of resisting mass deportation if state and local officials decide not to help. And many absolutely are helping, in part because there's money in it. www.lpm.org/investigate/...

AI is bad and ruining human knowledge, sorry to those trying to convince us otherwise.

It's why he also couldn't NOT say something about Popes' sanctioning and participation in slavery. Human suffering, climate, and environmental ruin link the two. Again, highly recommend "Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis" by Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe 🌱

wake up babe the white house is a six flags

WIRED got a copy of a New York Intelligence and Counterterrorism Bureau report that has a curious term for opposition to AI development and data centers: "anti-tech violent extremist activity." Great reporting here on how law enforcement is tracking big tech opponents www.wired.com/story/us-law...

Mamdani takes office and not even six months later the Knicks are going to the finals. Hardly a coincidence.

Ought to become impossible for the whole “we don’t need a union we’re all family” thing to work after seeing sector wide layoffs on the promise of a talking box.

This guy was not qualified for the job, handed out his business cards to jurors, told them to contact him. Judges tossed the murder indictment. "Such behavior could have easily resulted in a U.S. attorney stepping down or being fired. Instead, the Senate confirmed Mr. Smith’s nomination on May 18"

“My wishes for the planet in 2024: No killing. No killing. Don't kill anyone, anywhere, for any reason. -S.R.” Tweeted by Sonny Rollins on Dec 31, 2023

“I think when the creative person ends, he continues in the next existence. I’m a person who believes this life isn’t the be-all and end-all of everything. A spiritual person doesn’t feel like that.” –S.R. (2009) 2/2

It’s really frightening.

Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜

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This is truly awful. I guess parents /seniors need a secret safe word /question?

Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.

A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”

“We are always looking for place, trying to find our place,” he said. “I want people to lay their stories on top of the map.” In that sense, he added, “it can be what you want it to be. The painting becomes yours"." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/a...

Lots to be said re: egregious behaviour of the gallery, but I've a few comments on art historical nocturnes and how the GenAI print *disregards* the tradition. www.engadget.com/2180105/anse...

"For a mere $10 million gift, you can help us remake the intellectual landscape by endowing a prestigious chair in an underrepresented subfield, such as geocentric astronomy, high-energy phlogiston physics, or patriotic history." Well played, @mcsweeneys.net. Well played.

i was visiting a neighborhood bar in boston when a roving gang of elite college professors strode in acting like they owned the place. they saw me ordering a domestic lager and shouted "this motherfucker's not chasing novel gustatory experiences!" and started beating me with heavy wooden rulers

Michael Jackson was more loved by black people than Drake is even when he shape shifted into a white woman - Harmony Holiday

“largely” lol

TRUMP: Foreigners in the U.S. who want a green card will need to leave and apply in their home country. NYT: Dude, it's risky.

America unilaterally concedes the bulk of its demands in exchange for a symbolic process that will never go anywhere, aka exactly what America has demanded of people for decades. Honestly quite poetic.

One of the most shameful and predatory policies I’ve seen in this industry. This shit is degrading and should be ILLEGAL. I understand exposure is important, I promise I do, but you are simply better off going independent than doing this.

An audience member asked me about leftist pronatalism.

A professor at Tel Aviv University Law School says the obvious: a ban on any trade with settler goods and services will inevitably transform into a broader problem because Israel is enmeshed in the settlements and vice versa, and the Israelis take great effort to obscure any differences.

Wow. Spencer Pratt sounds like Trump: fake victimhood, nonstop grievance, speaking in superlatives like it’s wisdom. And folks are falling for it. People just need to admit they don’t want honesty. They want a charismatic con man who tells them what they want to hear while picking their pockets.

Here's a fascinating snap shot of the policy preferences of that group ca. 1984. "Should leftist television monopoly be broken up?" No on ERA. Apartheid is good. Close the Mexican border Use Army to prevent immigration Don't stop reading before you get to #36

rich people should pay lots of tax, well-off people should pay lots but less, middle class people should pay a good bit, etc taxes are what you pay to live in a civilized society to the extent you can and is proper, and we should not embrace tax-cutting on the left

the sudden "nobody has to pay taxes" thing with even fairly progressive dems wreaks of klein/shor/eggy brainworms that has somehow merged with mmt/linux guy brainworms

If Jaxson Dart wants to be public about his political views/politicians he aligns with, he is open to criticism that may be done in public. And if you align yourself with a politician, you may be assumed to agree with some/all of their beliefs. He’s no victim, and no one has to “respect his views”.

Joe Rogan now has the favorability distribution of a Fox News host. Remember all the 2024-2025 hot takes lmaoooo via @carlbeijer.bsky.social

lmao, imagine quitting your job as an environmental humanities professor at a fancy liberal arts college to write faux contrarian takes about Miller Lite

The 30-year Treasury yield just hit its highest level since 2007 — right before the financial crisis. That means more expensive mortgages. Costlier car loans. Higher credit card interest rates. Trump promised to lower costs. His reckless agenda is doing the opposite.

Genuinely appalling that Dick Durbin, the highest-ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, keeps (accurately) calling Trump's judicial nominees "MAGA loyalists," and has also personally voted to confirm NINE of them. What are we doing here, man.

“Explain what policies you would support to raise more revenue and, if applicable, what spending you’d cut. Be specific.” Ortega: “Tax the billionaires … Abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and reallocate its budget. Roll back the $150 billion supplemental in the OBBBA.”

Today's Daily Cartoon for @newyorker.com by Kevin Maher and me.

This is literally the Mindy Kaling bit

Out of all the things that didn't happen, this didn't happen the most.

pretty crazy how blatant the ending of the late show is just an act of government censorship lol

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This is so sad. Rest in Peace Rob Base. #BlackSky #GenX

“The law allowed the NYPD to withhold cabaret cards from those convicted of misdemeanors involving disorderly conduct or relating to “narcotic drugs” …amended in 1940 to define jazz clubs as cabarets & to require musicians w. limited engagements…to obtain a cabaret card in order to perform”