I don't post about sports much here, but I'm genuinely excited about this. I've been a fan of his game since he was in Santa Cruz

The winner of the FIFA peace prize is at it again

Like this is why I've said Democrat electoralism isn't actually about ruthlessly pursuing a median politic. If they wanted to win, they'd aggressively pursue popular policies and leverage any strength they had. Even if they don't CARE, they would WIN. Their failure in the pols is ideological.

The Ford Pinto had a death rate of 85 people for 10 million cars sold. The Cybertruck hasn't sold 10 million, but the fatality rate so far maths out to 1,452 people killed per 10 million sold. The Cybertruck may be the deadliest road car, for the occupants, ever sold. fuelarc.com/evs/its-offi...

Spread the word!

Spread the word!

The AI bros (who clearly don't understand AI) in the comments are hilarious. "ask stupid questions, get stupid answers". LLMs have no concept of how intelligent a question is, and they certainly were not designed to deliberately give stupid responses if they deem your question too stupid. 1/?

I'm still SHOCKED by the obscene rise in billionaire election spending since Citizens United in the NYT piece, despite already knowing that election corruption w/ $ was profound. (Recall that BCRA fought dangerous campaign $ in *2002*) The article data didn't have a graph, so I made one to show it.

I see a couple life lessons about work here: 1) if you become unreliable because you don't think management has your back, management will often see your unreliability as a reason to not have your back 2) if your employee doesn't see how being on your team furthers their career goals...

Some jawdropping CBP crime statistics here...

Santa Cruz County has made big strides on homelessness. But what's happening federally is threatening all of our gains. Here's how you can make a difference app.lookout.co/story/298249...

Harvard Business Review calls our political system a duopoly. I wonder if it's better described as a cartel youtu.be/NE61lMiZV2k

Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics

Back in July, research showed that 40% of employers had already posted fake job listings in 2025 www.forbes.com/sites/bryanr...

When I think about ICE, it seems obvious to me that this is what they are doing

1️⃣ He didn't say that. 2️⃣ He said it, but you misunderstood him. 3️⃣ He said what you understood, but he was just trolling. 4️⃣ He was serious but he's just negotiating, not going to do it. 5️⃣ He's going to do it for grand strategy reasons I've invented. 6️⃣ Look what you liberals made him do.

I wonder what folks in Europe are thinking right now? How could they be viewing current events? decorrespondent.nl/16667/donald...

"Vast majority of men are only willing to engage in public violence if they feel like the people around them will approve of — and reward them for — that violence. ICE Watch works because it surrounds men seeking approval with people loudly expressing their disapproval." www.ms.now/opinion/minn...

I think it's important to note that there are quite a few American businesses that haven't turned their back on our democracy open.substack.com/pub/populari...

When I lecture to students about how the apparently thriving economy of the 1920s was really a house of cards just waiting to be knocked down, one of the points I stress is how much a small number of the very rich were essentially propping up consumer spending in unsustainable ways

i have been reading Tom Ricks’ “Fighting the Good War” which is a military analysis of the civil rights movement, and one thing that comes abundantly across is that movement leaders and ordinary people made it a practice to refuse to fall into despair and cynicism.

An honest assessment of the current status of higher education in America open.substack.com/pub/sharonmc...

Wowwwwww

ICE apparently lacks capacity to oppress more than one city at a time. This is performative authoritarianism. performative authoritarianism that has killed people, yes. It’s not a joke. But it is also incapable of any sort of meaningful authoritarian consolidation. They lack the numbers to win.

😢 www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

You deserve food, shelter and medical care. You don't deserve an economic/political system that shames you for not being able to afford any of those www.firesidestacks.com/p/billionair...

These guys are all on the same Telegram channel where the orders come down

the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches

They hanged propagandists at Nuremberg.

Real interesting stuff here

For those of us interested in saving this democracy... blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/12/t...

Certainly interesting...

oh hey, what do you know?

This is so discouraging. The one area where I thought AI might actually be helpful and nope, these AI tools are prioritizing race, gender, and age for both diagnosis and treatment. E.g., AI recommends inferior treatment for Black cancer patients.

Holy crap chart from Gallup

Here's the full-circle scam Ultra-wealthy PE's and bankers buy politicians who promise not to tax them Politicians instead borrow from pension funds to pay for public infrastructure Pension funds go insolvent and get stuck yield-chasing Pension funds have to invest in funds managed by said PE's

“Movie Intros in 2026” 🤣

A police stop is enough to make someone less likely to vote, recent research has found. "Voting is a reflection of our belief that we’re part of the system, that our voice matters."

Maybe the poverty line is actually $140k, and what that means "We have created a system where the only way to survive is to be destitute enough to qualify for aid, or rich enough to ignore the cost. Everyone in the middle is being cannibalized." www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...

It's not this platform. It's all of society that hates AI

Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy are not merely the result of genetics and childhood experiences. These traits are also a natural consequence of the survival logic of the environments in which people develop. Here's how.

🤣 www.cnn.com/2025/11/21/p...

imagine walking down the beach and seeing jesus carrying some guy

Musk's ego was mortally wounded by Joyce Carol Oates and he's been on a narcissistic supply bender since

TEN MONTHS IN: The national debt is higher. The trade deficit is wider. The inflation rate has worsened. The unemployment rate is up.