Little makes me angrier than that we will let people suffer horrifically and die because science-ignorant kooks are en vogue. Too many of us have lost our dearest, most profound human connections to cancer — and now the loved ones of 50k others per year will too… …thanks to crackpot conspiracism.

“.. some engineers argued for mechanical handles,” but “Musk’s directive was clear: Virtually everything in the new vehicle — including the doors — should be controlled electrically .. “.. 15 people have died in crashes where Tesla doors wouldn’t open ..” www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Which of the four squares we land in is crucial, because it is going to fucking SUCK if the GOP heir ends up being the Hawley (populism + white supremacy) and the Dems end up with elites + diversity.

ONE of the major parties is going to be the party of populism, and the other is going to be the party of the elite. ONE of the major parties is going to be the party of white supremacy and the other is going to be the party of diversity.

bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public

literally fuck anyone who doesn’t see at this point that it’s an organized nationwide effort to make trans people unemployable. every trans person they push out of public life is a win for them & a whole hell of a lot of cis people need to start stepping up and saying fuck off to freaks like this.

But if we arrest X them we have to arrest Y...okay. You could throw them all in an oubliette. I don't care. But the reality is that no one will go to jail. Because thr people with the power were all at the same parties. They'll protect each other to the bitter end. Not white women, not children

The most common non lethal form of police brutality? Sexual assault. When you get into why IPV is so hard to stop? Take a good look at the projected IPV stats for every level of the criminal justice system. Cops, prosecutors, judges & politicians

Yes there are lower level trafficking cases involving MOC but largely crime is intra-racial. The biggest threat to white women is white men. It has always been white men. The biggest threat to Indigenous women is also white men. The people peddling fear of MOC are profiting from trafficking

A gross historical fact about white slavery panics (that's all those narratives around trafficking going back 100 years that blame Black & Brown men for the trafficking of white women) is that anytime you dig into actual trafficking cases there's rich white men in the mix as purveyors and customers

The fact that Trump himself is a rapist is occluded by the vision of what a “scary rapist” may be when publicly evoked.

A central motif throughout the drug panics has been the specter of predatory drug dealers forcing innocent young white girls into sexual slavery. Swap out “scary young Black guy” with “old rich white man” and suddenly there’s no urgency.

Christian Zionism is a fundamentally antisemitic project that views the Jewish faith as both illegitimate and a necessary stepping stone on the path to white Christian supremacy. This has never been a secret.

We need a position that's extremely anti AI but also very anti academics making a fetish out of 19th/20th century knowledge infrastructures & practices.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

One of the things that needs to become clear in 2026 is that big changes are possible if you pitch them. Talk positively. Explain the pros and cons like an adult. Be enthusiastic. Repeat the idea. Answer questions about it. Sell the notion that we can make things better. People want to buy in.

I don't like to share this, but I'm most likely descended from a signer of the Declaration... as are thousands of Black Americans. (It wasn't just Jefferson, most unfortunately.) Black Americans don't count as American to MAGA unless we parrot their rhetoric. (And really, not even if we sell out.)

So many things to add to this, but I’ll just give the example of the Mark Twain Project, which has been digitizing for nearly three decades, fairly well-resourced, with a sizable full-time staff. And they are, optimistically, maybe half done.

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

And the danger of this sort of open bigotry in an administration that tried to overturn the will of a multiracial electorate and is eviscerating civil rights protections and voting rights, continues to treated by too many as mere politics and not a dangerous entrenchment of white rule.

For years now, moderates have decried the division of identity politics of Democrats, ignoring of course that the Republican Party was defined by identity politics itself — the identity of whiteness. Now that it’s explicit the inability to call it out and to cover it aptly is starkly disappointing.

CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was. You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...

Color me shocked.

This is specifically about AI use in humanities disciplines within academia, which is clear from context- this crap is extremely harmful in that setting. Inevitably, people show up to be like "AI finds cancer cells tho". NOT THE SUBJECT, and that conflation has been inflicted upon us intentionally.

You supposed to be old… you supposed to be washed You supposed to be in the house telling jokes to your Brazilian supermodel wife who do a little bit of witchcraft on you to make sure your day go smooth I would cry to

The Raiders rn:

A sermon!

Debate kids are like if thinking Guitar Hero made you good at guitar was a political ideology.

I have said it before and I will say it again, Debate Kids are the ones actually ruining the country.

"Far be it from me to keep them from their dreams. But do all their dreams have to involve marrying some rough-hewn yet soft-hearted guy from their hometowns and taking over management of a financially dubious small business, farm, or townwide festival?"

If i could sing like this, i would never speak. I'd sing everything. "Hellooooo...good morning...would you like some coffeeeEeee yeah yeah...yay yeahhh"

There's a series of things (like the ballroom, Gulf of America) that we're going to have to *undo* the moment this guy is out of office. And yet I can already hear future Democrat presidents saying "I'm focused on the people's work, not the knucklehead stuff" and just leave this man's shit up.

not that the present economic picture is rosy, but i do think that popular culture — and specifically nostalgia bait television — is a big part of the reason that our public memory of the 1970s, 1980s and even 1990s seems to miss the real economic pain that marked each of those decades.

When I first started following prison abolitionists and they’d say “laws aren’t real” it was hard for me to really understand what they were saying. And…. Well? We’re all getting a master class right now.

I'll be screaming THERE WAS A 900 PAGE MANUAL on my deathbed

lol all the rich people of ye old understood the power of optics and making sure that you counteract optics by giving GENEROUSLY. While women like Melinda Gates and Mackenzie Scott understand this, their male counterparts don't. And resentment is beginning to brew.

I love to be told that feminism has failed women by women whose careers and ability to flourish in public life, let alone have a credit card, only exist because of feminism

I wrote about how the Trump administration won’t let Black people use MATH to prove racism exists. Apparently, only white self-reporting their own racism now counts as evidence of racism.

Some savvy broadcaster out there should do counterprogramming about the actual state of feminism, what is working, what needs improvement, with a diverse panel of smart women. It would be awesome. Anyway. I’m around.

Lord, please never let me be hated by someone as skilled as that Vanity Fair photographer. Let all my haters be incompetent.

this is the unspoken but absolutely clear argument at hand.

Sincerely one of the funniest things the WSJ has ever written or done. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

Once again a reminder: We can have trans rights, bodily autonomy, gender nonconformity, and freedom of expression, or we can have none of these things. There’s no third option.

The same people who spent the last decade wagging their fingers at those of us who said our politics have been driven by race, who claimed actual victims of discrimination talking about that discrimination was identity politics, are now full on embracing the politics of aggrieved white racism. Wow.

Sincerely: Is the claim actually that white men are facing systemic discrimination from white men? What are we doing here? It’s frustrating that really “smart” people succumb again and again to these racial propaganda campaigns. Anti-1619, anti-CRT, anti-woke, now rampant anti-white racism hysteria.

Everyone is understandably sharing the Miller quote, but I found this response from photographer Christopher Anderson to be notable, too.

This is where I've lived basically since high school.

This is a perfect scene. When I saw it I could *feel* writing teachers adding it to their curricula.