"When you see our work, what are you really seeing? Are you seeing a robot's soulless prose? Or are you seeing the image of our Standard 8 English teacher, Mrs. Amollo, her voice reminding us to connect our paragraphs with a suitable linking phrase?" open.substack.com/pub/marcusol...

Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments. My response ⬇️

July 4, 2025

Stunning work, honoring history.

And that's why LLMs often present "NATO expansion" as a reasonable, even leading explanation of the Russo-Ukrainian war. Not because it's right or consistent with the facts, but because a ton of accounts are parroting Mearsheimer's contrarian/light-on-facts take and Ru propaganda.

CRONINESS: noun. The quality of being a co-conspiratorial buddy to a corrupt tyrant. Used in a sentence: “Overlooking obvious signs of untreated alcoholism and other troubling behaviors, Hegseth’s did not meet any of the qualifications for the job of secretary of defense, other than croniness.”

The United States is Disappearing Human Beings. Disappeared People Tracker: 1402 and growing. public.tableau.com/app/profile/...

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

"Who could have predicted this?" say the people who spent the past year dismissing or mocking those who predicted this.

There are are no "exceptions" to the requirements for the FAA Airline Transport Pilot certificate; there are multiple ways to qualify. The ATP with restricted privileges, commonly called the “R-ATP”, is not a lesser pilot certificate. It is an ATP certificate with restrictions on privileges.

People keep asking me if Dems are divided between left and center of party. Nope. We are divided over old and new ways of fighting. That 20th Century playbook ain’t stopping a dictator.

A disinformation campaign falsely links “DEI” to airline accidents. Does airline safety correlate with diversity? Let’s check the facts. ⤵️

The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

-The Question: How the hell did we get here? -The Answer: Citizens United.

The U.S. reputation as a leader in aviation safety may become tarnished — and not for the reason you think.

Hell yeah. Hold the line. This is what we need people to do. Slow things down, don’t comply in advance so the courts have time to stop them. It’s starting to work.

I am really frustrated that the press is discussing the destruction of USAID as something that has happened rather than an illegal action that will likely be undone in two weeks when courts tell the world that it was illegal.

I linked DOGE staffer Marko Elez to a deleted X account that advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act, backed a “eugenic immigration policy,” and wrote, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity." He just resigned. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...

We know what that’s really about, and it’s absolutely unacceptable.

Everyone needs to be following @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social and subscribing to her newly launched newsletter, which you can receive via email for free (simply select $0 at check-out).

The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.

Crockett: "If feels as if y'all have just decided that y'all are gonna castrate your constitutional duty & hand it over to someone who was unelected. It doesn't matter how many cheerleaders he had on the field campaigning for him. That doesn't mean he gets to go in and sit atop any of our agencies"

A foreign-born private citizen with unfathomable wealth & deep financial ties to our nation’s adversaries has seized control of our government and is currently canceling congressionally apportioned spending without a shred of authority. And no one seems to be able to stop him. So this is fine.

Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

WELCOME TO BLACK HISTORY MONTH

Very saddened to hear of the tragic midair collision between American Eagle Flight 5342 and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter near DCA. My heart goes out to the families and friends who lost loved ones, Air Traffic Controllers, and rescue workers.

Quakers in the U.S. have a long history of providing sanctuary to the unfairly persecuted, from people fleeing slavery in the South to people fleeing war in Central America. The tradition of religious sanctuary dates back centuries in Europe.

If you're struggling financially due to government fuckery or for any reason really and you need infant formula talk to your pediatrician we can hook you up and don't like to ask questions.

WASP Iris Cummings Critchell Flew West on 24 January 2025 at age 104. Blue Skies and Tailwinds — thank you for paving the way for us!

They call it "Know Your Rights" he says. THEY CALL IT. Makes them harder to arrest. I have no more words.

They have no idea what they are doing beyond petulant destruction. They are literally just testing the system to see how far they can go before they meet some resistance. And clearly they can go pretty far.

This will make you more furious when you realize that all of this is to pay for tax cuts for very rich people

www.dailykos.com/stories/2025... @muellershewrote.bsky.social — can you look into this??

Brilliant.

NOW: More than 98% of #Costco shareholders have just rejected an anti-DEI measure The attempt to force Costco to audit their #DEI work was by an anti-inclusion lobby group: "The proponent's broader agenda is not reducing risk for the Company but abolition of diversity initiatives." - Costco Board

Stop worrying for a minute and just look at this badger cub instead.

We’re coming up to the Mojo Dojo Casa House part, and as a reminder, when the men took charge, they deliberately subjugated and gaslit the women, which the women had not done to the men.

SHARE WIDELY. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one. (1/3)

Winter Storm Warning for New Orleans and Blizzard Warning for Lafayette — time to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, amirite? /s