Go outside and look at the moon!

It kinda feels like Bluesky is dying 🤷‍♂️

I like that the alien is in chains

Finally. A politician with a spine. Melat Kiros, the DSA challenger for the Denver congressional seat, calls for Jared Polis' impeachment after he freed a convicted MAGA election rigger.👇🏻

the thing about Trump’s corruption is that it is so staggering it’s basically impossible to comprehend it’s like asking your brain to visualize stellar distances, you can’t do it with a mind built to look at an elephant and go “wow that’s big” there’s greased palm corruption and then there’s… this

Hello from the 9th Ave Food Festival from me and Windsor!

I find it very strange that we unequivocally equate "nonviolent" with "less harmful." Attempting to overthrow the democratically elected government is a hell of a lot more harmful than many--perhaps nearly all--violent crimes, and should be punished accordingly.

I’m fairly certain everyone is afraid of nuclear war? That’s the core assumption about rational actors…

The Internet is disappearing before our very eyes and it’s why we should all support that absolutely critical work of @archive.org

Always read @brianbeutler.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/brianbeu...

“In what world is turning on an extremely loyal and activated demographic the right decision?”

Writing has been independently invented maybe four times in human history. Radiocarbon dating has found evidence that the original inhabitants of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) invented writing independently. buff.ly/PS5nm5j #ShareGoodNewsToo

I want to point out asking ppl who they like is v different from who they will vote for. Some people liked Trump but voted for Biden. Others hated Trump but voted for him anyhow. In these super tight elections, those ppl are worth paying attention to

"My guess is that the percentage of Americans who are aware that we are blockading and immiserating a neighboring country is in the single digits. Its not an invasion, but involves the use of American military force with the intent of collapsing the government." -- @donmoyn.bsky.social

This is exactly why people like AOC need to run. This was the conventional wisdom when Biden came in and everyone was exhausted by Trump 1.0 and it went nowhere. We need to push the Overton window farther like with abolish ICE. The Supreme Court needs to be dismantled!

It's VERY important to understand what's happening with the NASA 🔭 budget. White House proposed cuts to everything *but* Artemis. The GOP-led House proposal restores the size of the budget BUT shifts spending, which is to say *House committee and White House agree on cutting NASA astrophysics* 🧪⚛️

Every month, thousands of working class New Yorkers use Western Union to send money to loved ones. Now Western Union wants to buy its top competitor, Intermex, so it can jack up remittance fees and squeeze families even more. Families shouldn’t pay the price for corporate monopolies.

The House votes 212-212 (!) on a resolution to end the Iran war. It fails. 3 Republicans vote YES: Barrett, Fitzpatrick, Massie 1 Democrat votes NO: Golden Barrett, who virtually never bucks his party on big votes, says he flipped because the war has crossed the 60-day mark.

Grading is finished for the semester WOOOO!!!

Whoa: devastating article in the NYTimes today about Jack Schlossberg (who is running in the Dem primary here in Manhattan), who appears to care more about naps than campaigning? Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/n...

🚨 The NYT appears to have taken a great feature story written by my colleague at Bolts about a west Tennessee county & the VRA, & essentially rewritten it. (Same frame, similar hed, overlapping sources.) Without a single mention, credit, let alone the a hyperlink buried somewhere.

It’s so deranged that the Supreme Court pretends civil rights law is unnecessary bc of the great racial progress we’ve made, while simultaneously green lighting ethnic pogroms by inventing the Kavanaugh Stop, an obscenity against our liberty and the fourteenth amendment

Believe people when they tell you who they are! www.cnn.com/2020/11/06/p...

If the President can successfully order the IRS to hand over billions of dollars to his personal bank account, the Constitution is dead and no longer operative. I'm not kidding. We've crossed a kind of Rubicon and the social contract is null and void.

Good to know he's got the outfit already for when we prosecute him.

It's hard to see the Trump admin rebounding from all of the problems they've created, from the war to ICE to inflation. Dems taking back Congress will exacerbate the pain. Then the finger pointing will begin (in true Trump form), although the president is a pale shadow of his former self...

It's weird to me that there appears to be an entire generation, elites included, who are absolutely, positively not prepared for this anti-democratic moment.

Trump on Iran War: Reporter: What extent are Americans’ financial situation motivating you to make a deal? Trump: Not even a little bit. I don't think about Americans’ financial situation

If you're paying attention closely, you can see a preview of the change coming in American politics post-MAGA. The clues are all there.

Mamdani wins the game of chicken with Albany! Funding secured and gap closed! www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...

Ken was the absolute best! I wouldn’t be where I am today without his mentorship.

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I would love it if we had a major political party that is against defunding the public sector.

this is why AOC's going to throttle this whole party, whether it's in 2028 or 2036. even now only she understands what we're facing and is capable of articulating it.

Humiliation or (increasingly futile) escalation. Those have always been the choices, they are still the choices. The only question now is what the political psychology of Trump himself will mean for the path he chooses. Declaring a piece of paper a "win" is getting harder, he's cornered and angry.

Muscles and men summer (with @firstknivesclub.bsky.social)

Everyone likes to make fun of the Midwest until it’s time to eat the 7 layer dip I bought to the party!

Some people are calling public advocacy for science political, while they are positioning themselves to avoid conflict with the parties and pretending that’s apolitical. But that’s wrong. That’s not apolitical— it’s often done to seek favor of one party, and often in service of the status quo.

We honestly don’t talk enough about how the GOP is just allowed to shit on urban cities. If Dems pulled this with rural areas, it would be on the news cycle for WEEKS!

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A solution in search of a problem.

Hello middle insomnia, my dear friend!

V glad I refused to upload any of my intellectual property on Canvas at the start of the semester since they wanted to use it to train AI LLMs. With the ransomware attack, it made it very easy to link to materials and email them to the class instead!

The bar across the street over serves some guy every week and he spends the next hour after the bar closes hooting as loud as he can outside and waking everyone up in the neighborhood. >:(

I’m kinda thankful I chose not to upload any of my materials to Canvas this semester, since apparently they’re all in on AI and might train LLMs on my intellectual property, so everything is linked to Google Drive! 😈

NEW: Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie tells me he expects the NYC "super speeder" measure will be part of a final state budget. It'll require the owner of a vehicle that racks up 16 speed-camera tickets in a year to install a speed-limiting device. gothamist.com/news/state-t...

I will add this person was holding a kitten and trying to get me to touch it.

Justice Gorsuch was doing a Fox News interview a few days ago.