"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

Worth a watch. Push back. There’s mounting evidence showing that states/institutions that are pushing back are losing less than those that just comply.

The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.

Alright, so I've been afraid to say this out loud, but I think after today, I can say it: In the first Battle of Los Angeles, the good people of LA County have prevailed. We beat ICE back. 1/

It's happened! My newsletter has finally Gone Woke! Trump appointed landlord app AirBnB's co-founder as the Chief Design Officer of the USA, right after DOGE blew up 18F (which did real work). And the UX commentariat cheers, because the vibes of a "seat at the table" play better than the reality.

I have never seen so many public servants protest the mismanagement of a government. Trumpists will point to this as proof of the deep state, but the reality is that these are professionals who are desperately trying to get the public to understand how bad things are.

"Democratic-led states and select blue-leaning cities fought back in court and saw money for public health efforts restored — while GOP-led states sustained big losses."

This is great: a National Guardsman standing up to say every member of the National Guard and military "is legally obliged to disobey an illegal order."

One of the deep issues of liberalism is the assumption that if you just explain things properly, all people will come around to believe the correct thing. And thus, there’s an impulse to blame themselves for not communicating 100% accurately.

They fired all my friends who were experts at doing this so that they could hire corrupt vendors to do this poorly

Thank god I put it in The Paper because they are going to pretend none of this ever happened.

So, as someone observing a lot of online discussion of tariffs (including from MAGA folks) and someone who has stumbled into becoming the proprietor of a small business over the last year or so, I am now: 1. No longer surprised at the rate of failure of small businesses….

I don’t believe this person actually exists but, if it did, it would kind of prove the point of why people are critiquing the ad. Mind you, no one offering a critique of the ad has any kind of formal leadership or spokesperson role within the Democratic Party.

Shout out to the WSJ journalists who reported on Vought’s impoundment by footnote, causing the White House to walk it back. Impact journalism!!

Everything he said is wrong. The NIH is a boon to states economically. It did not, in any respect, cause the pandemic. This is lab leak bullshit. And the final claim is just an open admission they’re imposing rightist ideology on science. It’s a war on science this administration is waging.

This is correct. My professional expertise is communications and digital strategy AND I currently support a federal agency under attack rn. Do my clients sometimes do not a great job explaining their value? Yes. Does that matter when you have bad actors completely distorting reality? No.

My husband’s cousins in Chile said that people lined the streets in Santiago when Pinochet’s funeral procession came by and cracked bottles of champagne celebrating that the bastard was dead and spat at the motorcade as it passed by. That’s the energy I am bringing.

normally if you want to spend millions of dollars on something no one goes to you have to make a joker movie

I read a lot of George Orwell (his political essays not Animal Farm) in my early 20s and in one of them he commented on how in a meeting of 12 English socialists there would be at least 5 different versions of socialism represented and nothing would get decided.

There's a real attentional trap that all protest movements face and have faced for a long time. If you pull off protests that are polite and civil, even if large, they will struggle to get coverage. Reporters will dismiss them as not newsworthy.

Amazing how hard it is to write: “Police shoot at journalists.”

Some vintage stuff from the past couple of weeks, coming to Etsy soon. First this mid century modern wooden jewelry box with a 3-panel landscape painting on it.

A junkie unmoored from reality destroyed our govt: "The drug has psychedelic properties and can cause dissociation from reality. Chronic use can lead to addiction and problems with bladder pain...Mr. Musk told people that his ketamine use was causing bladder issues" www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...

So are any of my followers 90s era vintage snowboard/surf folks? I have a vintage Burton insulated snowboard jacket right now in size XL. Couple spots of minor discoloration, otherwise great condition. marycmvintage.etsy.com/listing/4312...

For the record, if any of these staffers who walked out face any kind of professional consequence for their actions, my signal is in my profile. I want to hear from you!

This is important. Part of what has given DOGE cover is a fairly mainstream belief that government is hopelessly bloated and inefficient when, by all objective measures (and not—anything I don’t personally like is wasteful), this is mostly not true!

Back on my reseller bullshit this weekend. Spent a couple hours digging through a giant house where literally everything was still left from the previous owners. They offered me a couple big boxes of beauty products for cheap so—I’ve got some NIB Laura Mercier, Anastasia and Stila.

“Abolish ICE” is the moderate position. Radical is “prosecute every ICE employee under RICO.”

what is fascinating to me is the number of people whose “knowledge” of government appears to just be an accumulation of cliches and stereotypes + an inchoate sense that if something is big and costly then it must necessarily be “wasteful”

Internet is one giant mirror. Effects how we see ourselves . @daviddylanthomas.bsky.social, closing keynote @theiaconf.bsky.social

lol if you don’t realize that teaching computers is teaching about systems of power I don’t think you should be a professor at a university

AI increasingly pollutes information ecosystems @cward1e.bsky.social at @theiaconf.bsky.social

@theiaconf.bsky.social bingo (I have a lot of these so come see me if you want to fill out some squares.)

This is the problem with electing an administration of too-online edgelords instead of people who actually want to govern. You can’t just “sh—post” your way to a deal with China

Well, this is, as they say—a WORD.

If you are in any way shape or form someone who both is *and* understands what it means for you to *be* in contact with an archive of material, you need to start doing whatever it takes to protect those archives, right now.

Another Sunday so another estate sale. This one I only went to today because I was on a mission to acquire more spring/summer items, plus it was run by my favorite estate sale company and advertised a huge amount of women’s clothes, many NWT.

Our NIH director had financial incentives to keep his audience angry and inflammed.

I mean, I have a history degree—I feel like they would be getting off pretty easily if that’s all that happened.

During the hearing I noted how our adversaries were watching to see how the censorship lie was being used to endanger our national security. Didn’t expect Margarita Simonyan, EIC of RT, to immediately prove me right

I’m so jealous of Tim Walz right now. I can’t imagine how good it must feel to have Elon Musk go on TV and say that you - specifically - hurt his feelings so bad.

So in my latest haul of vintage shit, I have a lot of fun stuff if you’re a boho hippie type at heart. First, this nifty 60s rattan bag, made in Hong Kong. marycmvintage.etsy.com/listing/1895...

Hi. I’m an expert in modernizing legacy government software systems. This is profoundly stupid and will definitely fail, and it’s just a question of whether our social security system fails along with it.

It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.

This is why those of us on the left need to get over our animus towards the median Trump voter. There are hardcore MAGA types w/ atrocious views, but most voters make decisions based on tribal loyalties/vibes. It’s not like there aren’t plenty of Democratic voters w/terrible opinions too!

We are very close to a near cure for two of the highest-mortality cancers we know: glioblastoma and pancreatic cancer. These are both mRNA based treatments which are losing their funding during stage I and II trials. Thousands will die needlessly because of this motherfucker and his lies.

Someone literally try to run over @teslatakedown.com protesters today. Terrorism aimed at actual people, not cars. I'm assuming this will get at least as much coverage as the property damage?

Keep yelling. Show up at the town halls and make yourself heard. ❤️💪

This weekend’s vintage shopping adventure was at this crumbling Victorian mansion in the Charles Village section of Baltimore.

mullin making history as the first senator with a perfectly smooth brain