Learning our history is not about guilt. How can one feel guilty for someone else's actions? It is about recognizing and identifying harmful behaviors so we can prevent them. In others and in ourselves.

Nazis has picnics outside of concentration camps. White Americans made lynching a fun family activity and handed out souvenirs. When depravity is whitewashed, it is repeated.

A lot of the apps on your phone are tracking your physical location and selling that information to other companies. Here's a fantastic explainer from @pcmag.com about 20 of the most common apps that spy on you. Service journalism at its finest. www.pcmag.com/explainers/t...

s/o to @jaywillis.net for coining the phrase 8th grade-ass lawyerin

Ian Curtis? In what world was Ian Curtis an incel? Dude was married and fucking around on his wife. Not a celibate of any kind, much less "involuntary." Incel does not mean "Shy awkward guy." It means "misogynist who blames women for his inability to get laid when the real problem is himself."

The Big Short 2

One of the reasons that government programs that direct farm produce to food aid work is that they produce a satisfying result for the people involved. What's happening now is not doing that on any level.

Today in news from the heartland: The soybeans have no buyer. Dad (D) and the tenant farmer (MAGA) are drifting from passive aggressive to regular aggressive while discussing tariffs. Mom (also D, but tired of listening to it) reminds Dad that the tenant will take a bigger hit than they ever will.

...how could a mod list of ai slop posters warrant such a reaction? Are y'all (Bluesky ppl) fucking around with ai? Please don't be dumb and shortsighted (and evil) for money. It's extremely unbecoming.

Most people in the US do not understand the severity of the situation we are in. This is not just a rogue president where we can ride it out and vote for someone else in a few years. This is a well planned takeover that has been shaped for decades. Every action creates opportunity for the next.

'The wealthy have bought their jets, they’ve bought their multiple houses and mansions, but now they’re buying senators and media outlets. We’re now entering this other chapter of hyper-extraction where the wealthy are preying on the system of inequality.' #TaxTheRich

this is a very well-reported piece and if you didn't read it last year please read it this year

Election day was my last tweet too. Elon absolutely has me fucked up. Doing nazi salutes and people are legit still over there. I cannot make fucking sense of it

I refuse to let hopelessness prevail. This may just be one essay, by a lawyer few have heard of, in a newsletter read by a fraction of the public. But I will not stay silent. Will you? www.democracydocket.com/opinion/i-re...

I'm not a conservative commentator. Billionaires won't pay me $150m. No major network is making me the editor in chief. But I am a lawyer who fights for democracy. I did build Democracy Docket from scratch. And, for $10 a month you can help it do its vital work. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0

very cool that if you are working on behalf of right-wing culture warriors, you no longer need standing to have your claim adjudicated by the supreme court

Should we be surprised a political culture which refuses to recognize the possibility of bad faith among white people turned a watch word against that very phenomenon into a pejorative? We should not be surprised.

Supreme Court: of course states can regulate, and restrict access to, medical procedures if there’s a compelling public interest Colorado: (bans conversion therapy for minors) Supreme Court: no not like that, we only meant abortion

Learned a new slur today! (Think I've seen/read this before, but didn't realize what it meant.) One reason why it's important to watch non-American shows - best to stay on top of these things. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taig

"As of late January, insurers were already seeking “large premium increases of between 30-50%,” according to Knowledge at Wharton, a journal published by the University of Pennsylvania. Estimates of the insured losses have ranged from $20 to $44.5 billion..."

the children are rebranding criticism of their faves as “parasocial hate” now

This could happen only with the enthusiastic help of the media. They treated all the insanity as if it were perfectly normal, but merely “stretched boundaries” and whatever. They did this quite knowingly and purposefully, even if they didn’t really understand what was driving them.

Tiktok delenda est

The irony here is that domestic terror investigations in previous years were often tepid at best because most of the suspect groups (and are still now) right extremist groups. /1

today in class we read @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social ‘s Defector essay and then talked about whether we should spend the next few weeks on Hawthorne’s short stories or on The Scarlet Letter—students agreed on trying the longer, more difficult thing in light of the essay defector.com/close-readin...

The Trump admin is threatening not to pay furloughed federal workers -- except that would be illegal, and Trump himself signed the law requiring them to get back pay www.huffpost.com/entry/govern... w/ @delaneyrules.bsky.social

Probably the most personal conversation I’ve ever put online. We talk about coming out, imposter syndrome, and what it means when just existing becomes political. youtu.be/UIuIaN2kimE

you guys happen to notice how everything is finance and landlords now and many things are both

What’s the over/under on the expected % rent decrease?

Crime prevention works when it builds on community trust and evidence-based solutions, not performative displays of force. bit.ly/4neYVD1

Stop worrying about flying to conferences. Most methane released in academia is the direct result of bullshit.

And it's more and worse than that The plaintiff is not suffering from any particular injury And the malicious Court majority just recently upheld a Tennessee law prohibiting some gender care on the ground that such things should be left to the people and the democratic process

Fuck Germany. This ALREADY HAPPENED HERE. Ex. Black women could not be considered rape victims under the law because we werent considered women. This was proven during Jim Crow when 7 white men kidnapped & gang raped Recy Taylor in Alabama. Black people have always lived under a dual state

A functional government that cared about its citizens would do something to address this exploding problem (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/m...

These are their legal names now

I used to be the guy on Twitter reminding people that contractors like me do not get back pay. “And then also contractors experience permanent economic harm because they don’t get back pay.” Thanks to OMB Circular A-76 far more of the federal workforce is contractors than you know.

Every crisis is an opportunity. This is the moment for Dems on Capitol Hill to call a news conference and make clear: Not one dime to fund the federal government until Trump withdraws his unlawful orders and agrees not to send troops to occupy Democratic-run cities

I'm feeling this more than ever since I moved to SLO. I'm a civil engineering professor with a good salary, and the rent on my modest (and slightly dated) 2br condo is FORTY percent of my take-home pay. And that's before utilities. How most people survive, esp single parents, is beyond me.

I wrote about why the regrettable conclusions of Ezra Klein pissed me off so badly in the last couple weeks. On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...

I know the news moves at faster-than-light speed now but it's worth remembering that the Trump Administration canceled the jobs report on Friday and is keeping it hidden from the public. Meanwhile, the stock market continues to run at record highs as the AI bubble keeps inflating.

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..” @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I don't want to be a font of hot takes and commentary. It's exhausting and I only have so much time and mental energy, some of which I want to allocate to, yannow, positivity and joy. So I'm gonna just say this once and not discuss this again: Journalism isn't about winning or losing.

I saw a Reddit comment that said the VP is invested in a company that buys up bankrupted farms for cheap. Chat, is that true?

Should've used this photo

actually our AI programs are like people so its racist to say you don't like them. anyway would you like to buy one

"you are taking in the human centipede of content from the very end of the line" is such a good way of describing AI

"AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be re-consumed" so succinct! so good!

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

“don’t be bigoted towards AI.” your AI data centers are poisoning Black communities as we speak, please get some fucking perspective. jesus christ