In the last hour, dozens of GOP lawmakers began to denounce Trump's racist meme. Minutes ago, the White House capitulated and deleted the post. If those same lawmakers showed that same level of moral clarity when it comes to the Constitution & fair elections, the White House would capitulate. /1

My favorite part is that it’s in tetrameter - a more singsong meter. This man does not deserve the dignity of pentameter.

Trying to figure out if there’s a way to explain to Democrats and median “center right” Trump voters are never going to vote for them, no matter how moderated their ask or their tone. Currently workshopping: The Yankees don’t plan season strategy based on what would make Red Sox fans happy.

Everybody in higher ed has questions these days. For example, admins ask "how can we get faculty to incorporate AI into their classes?" while faculty ask "can I come in to campus to teach my classes without being abducted by an unlawful paramilitary force?"

Snow is nature's urban planner: It can show us what parts of the roadway drivers don't use — and what can be reclaimed for pedestrians. Post your photos and videos of all the #sneckdowns you see and tag us and @mayor.nyc.gov so today's winter wonderland can inspire better streets year-round!

Nuanced take: I think it's really important to give *normal citizens* who supported Trump and off-ramp and *professional writers, pundits and politicians* who supported Trump should have to wear it like a scarlet letter for the rest of their lives

I post this intermittently because, frankly, there isn't nearly enough reporting on the abusive food and nutrition conditions that exist within prisons in the United States. Given the carceral climate we're living through, I think it's important to circulate again. boston.eater.com/22153678/foo...

This is incredibly disappointing Libby. You're aware of the environmental impact and yet. You want to support choice but AI takes the that away from authors whose work was stolen to train AI. This is embarrassing and you should be ashamed of yourself.

Advocates say Mayor Mamdani can’t change state law, but he can halt NYPD crackdowns like Operation Restore Roosevelt, work with DAs to curb sex worker arrests, and openly back full decriminalization to protect migrant sex workers.

the discourse on what jobs are acceptable to replace with generative AI reveals a lot about what we think of other people's jobs

Black Lives Matter folks are showing up to demand justice for Renee Nicole Good. All Lives Matter folks are defending the man and celebrating the bullet that killed her. Maybe now you can understand what we’d been saying all along.

People who aspire to be academics: I wish to live a life of the mind Actual academics:

Controversial but I think I enjoyed Wicked For Good so much less than the first one not so much because of filmmaking skill (I had some notes for the first one I remember and roughly equal praise for the way that introducing Glinda to “Wonderful” and the expansion of the Nessa/Boq arc filled out…

Frans Halsstraat , Amsterdam in 1982 and today. Remove through motor traffic and car parking, replace with greenery, bike parking, café seating, and kids playing football in the street

In a workshop to help professors catch AI cheating, I prompted Gemini to write me a bleeding heart emotional appeal on a topic. It spit out a lecture about rationality and how I should argue based on logic. My one and only use of AI was enough to convince me of that.

I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

And Trump nixed the free option. Fantastic.

Underpaid traumatized workers who are often children

No, YOU’RE stress quilting!

i’ve said this before and i remain convinced it’s true, the 2028 platform that would deliver obama 08 results is “i am gonna bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”

Portland State University AAUP won their arbitration regarding the layoffs of 10 non-tenure track faculty!✊ An arbitrator ruled the university bypassed shared governance protocols required by the Collective Bargaining Agreement. All 10 laid-off faculty must be reinstated! @psuaaup.bsky.social

Found out today that my op-ed has made the opposite side of the union bargaining table Big Mad. Thanks for the reminder that I didn’t post it here: ctmirror.org/2025/11/04/f... And for the record, it violates zero of the bargaining rules but it’s nice to vex them with the truth #aaup #csu-aaup

look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry

My university ran a workshop to detect AI cheating that asked us to use it multiple times, so technically I have but Lordy it felt queasy. Also, would have refused if I realized then how garbage detection systems are anyway. AI labeling AI…I’m so tired.

Already run into kids who, when seeing my wildlife photos, exclaim 'that's AI'

AI is a cancer

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

Just unlocked a new political fear. Been calling to get Connecticut Gov to spend the rainy day fund and end unnecessary austerity — was reminded that where the Gov wants all those billions to be is with Wall Street— meaning that CT’s savings could be lost when the AI bubble bursts.

In their attempt to blame it on the childcare worker, they admit that their presence there inherently endangered the children. But, of course, the cruelty is the point.

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

Apologies to all of my theatre tech students who I banned from ever buying glitter - turns out there is a worthwhile use for the stuff

My mom’s dog declining to sit on the quilt I made for her because of course she is…

McSweeney’s proving they are the best at targeting their audience - the powerful - once again: “It is one thing to take a program away from people who rely on it to survive…it is downright un-American to take a program away from people who rely on it to make themselves richer.”

If you want or need SNAP benefits, literally the only barrier should be...signing up. "But what about fraud?" My sibling in red, white, and blue, THE PENTAGON HASN'T PASSED AN AUDIT IN YEARS AND MONEY IS FAKE. I don't care if too many people have food assistance.

A nationwide backlash to AI data centers is brewing. And for good reason: while AI enriches Big Tech CEOs and props up the stock market, data centers are sucking up communities’ water and power. When the AI bubble bursts, the rest of us will be stuck holding the bag. Be warned.

Hey for those of you who don’t have kids, pls know that until recently, schools had stopped teaching phonics for decades. The substitute method sold to districts everywhere was, & I’m not kidding: “Just look at the word & take a guess!” OH WHY CAN’T THE CHILDREN READ? SURELY IT IS THEIR OWN FAULT!

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

This is Idaho 💙

i know we have to "push back" or whatever but this administration has us saying the goofiest, most obvious shit. late night hosts are allowed to make jokes. actually, WE pay tariffs. no, that's not how tylenol works. could be solving climate change but instead we're debunking middle school rumors

I’m so tired with this timeline.

Quilt top! Productive use of my post-Covid limited time energy? … maybe?

Didn't think you could be more upset about those endless texts/emails from the Democratic Establishment? Read this: data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-mother... Highlights: only $11 of the $678 million raised went to actual campaigns rather than right back to the process itself and the consultants

Biked from work to my kid's school to pick her up for a swimming lesson across town. Here's my view of her school stuff, my bag of work stuff, and her wet towel drying in the milk crate zip-tied to the handlebars.

I sometimes ask myself what exactly it means to be an “urbanist”. Near the top has to be making international comparisons and trying to understand which cities do different things the best. Contrasted with the “my city is special” or “we’ve always done it like that” parochialism people have.

The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it. ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures. Losers with power become the most dangerous kind. (c/o Caroline Codsi)

reverse heist movie where a single snake has to chase all the priests back into ireland

#queerwriters goal share Rewrite a shorter version of chapters 4 & 5 now that I have a plan to make them more interesting so that I can feel good sending queries again

Just saw someone describe the difference between gray and grey as "one is a color and the other is a colour." 😆