Going to war as "a favor to our oil companies" used to be something Republicans vigorously denied.

The government is responding to the Human Rights Commissioner’s position statement by doubling down on their murderous refusal to address the unregulated drug poisoning emergency honestly. bchumanrights.ca/resources/pu...

Biden put a hedge fund manager in charge of Covid with a strategy of allowing Covid to spread out of control to please short term business interests. It was not a good long term plan as Long Covid is costing the global economy 1 trillion dollars a year. #Medsky www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/lon...

These Mamdani transition committees are seriously impressive. Hiring @ruha9.bsky.social for the technology committee is very smart. And so many more. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

R.I.P. TrumpCare (2:12 pm, November 24, 2025 - 2:14 pm, November 24, 2025) You will not be mourned.

Never fall for the scam that letting these llm merchants sink and die hurts anyone except the venture capitalists trying to manufacture consent for everyone else to subsidize their monumental failure at their own jobs

Not beating the “America invades countries to grab their oil” allegations

You have to keep giving money to avoid collapse and if there’s collapse you have to give more money. It’s called the free market.

We've gone from the masked American secret police grabbing our students and pushing them into waiting vans to them grabbing our colleagues as they board airplanes. Down to a person, everyone who voted for this is trash and should never be forgiven.

The open secret that Thomas King is not Indigenous at all is finally verified, and honestly it's a relief. Having him just confess this instead of going out kicking and screaming like so many before him causes a LOT less harm to Indigenous communities. It still sucks though.

banger 😂

My “We’re not Enron tshirt..”

Ppl w #LongCovid in nyc: avoid the Mt Sinai clinic in union square. It is not connected to the one lead by David Putrino. The union square is run by a nurse who is pushing SSRIs as the only possible Covid treatment & if you don’t want them they refuse to offer anything else. And they insult you.

“Ladies, we know you aspired to full citizenship and equality in the public sphere and the home alike, but unfortunately men are feeling a little blue so it’s time for you to get back in the kitchen again.” -an article, white paper, or book that gets published like three times a week now.

if there's a reason to keep up the "tribunals for all involved" discourse one such reason it is to put in stark relief how far away some of the Dem politicking is from the mood on the ground

I 100% agree and would add that if you are hosting a holiday event and you do NOT have something festive, creative and delicious for your guests to drink without alcohol in it, you are actually an asshole don't make them drink tap water while everyone else has bespoke cocktails!

i am willing to compromise by just insisting on prison terms for ICE employees. that is the moderate position.

Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.

do you have any idea how much you have to piss somebody off to make them change their gauge

Cheetahs continue to be scary predators.

Really proud of myself for protecting my offline spouse from the horror of the past week’s media Discourse.

I think the House does not have the capacity to do all the investigations that will be needed. We need more; we need to think bigger. We need a Truth and Reconciliation commission, and we need serious punishments. We could also use the Hague for some of the criminals.

Jared Kushner is another person who must be prosecuted and jailed if we want to have a functional democracy going forward. And his money must be taken and used for pro-democracy purposes.

I think the shortest version of why LLMs are an anti education technology is that education is fundamentally about making shared context to understand ourselves, each other, and the world And by design LLMs destroy shared context

general reminder that Emma Goldman (my number one main gal) got deported from this country for her cool ideas and a dude even got court martialed for shaking her hand. Gilded Age 2 heating up.

It was still pulling this Putinist propaganda this year which is sad as so much of the show was very moving otherwise

Cool FREE event at the Stanley Park library: learn about the food and traditions of Eritrea and Ethiopia and sample some deliciousness! Register here: kpl.events.mylibrary.digital/event?id=268...

I'm old to remember the first time they tried worming their way in. Remember when Usha visited Greenland and none of the locals could be goaded to even appear that they were interested in meeting her? www.newsweek.com/usha-vance-g...

techbros dream yet of the technate of america

JD Vance and Peter Thiel are running a sustained operation out of the White House designed to acquire Greenland, either voluntarily or by force. Thiel has laid out plans for what he intends to do with the island nation in past writings. It doesn't entail the consent of the Greenlanders for anything.

IDK who needs to hear this, but protesting outside a synagogue because it's a synagogue is absolutely wrong, but protesting outside a synagogue because it's hosting an info session about how U.S. Jews can buy real estate in Palestinian territories is absolutely fine and good.

This is nazi shit

A new low for Foreign Affairs.

Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced. Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.

It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!

YES, PLEASE

This is a story about how America’s world-leading cancer and dementia research system was destroyed by frauds and naifs who broke the law. There must be consequences.

If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand” Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.

OTD in 2014, police officer Timothy Loehmann killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice—a Black child—in 1.7 seconds as Tamir played in a park. People often talk about those 1.7 seconds—but forget about the 4 minutes. After Loehmann shot Tamir, he refused to let anyone get near him for 4 agonizing minutes. 1/2

That shirt, tho.

DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.

“Listen to the Ukrainians who know the cost of freedom. And listen to the lessons of history, which tell us that pressuring a victim to concede to his attacker is not peace. It is surrender dressed in the language of statesmanship.”

Saying DOGE wasn't successful because it didn't cut waste is like saying Republicans weren't successful with a tax cut because it didn't pay for itself. A complete misunderstanding of their goals, which in and of itself is a victory for the bad guys.

Twitter had to turn off its location feature within hours because thousands of prominent and "verified" MAGA accounts turned out to be foreign and I think it's hilarious that Elon was the one who exposed them all

Fun fact: November 28, 2001: "ENRON, which had been a component of the S&P; 500, was removed at the end of trading Thursday and replaced by NVIDIA Corp., a Santa Clara, Calif.-based maker of computer-graphics chips."

*wakes up 7 hours later* these whales are migrating thousands of miles, which you can imagine is tiring, especially when the way you sleep is by turning off half your brain. You know what they're not doing? Buying Starbucks during the duration of @sbworkersunited.org's ULP strike.

Day laborer organizers protest Home Depot, pressuring it to "scrape ICE out of their stores."

Why don't you ever wanna play? I'm tired of this piece of string You sleep as much as I do now And you don't eat much of anything

If I ruled the world I’d free all my sons Black diamonds and pearls If I ruled the world