worst thing you’ll ever read and a revealing glimpse into shapiro’s neuroses and prejudices. also you’ll quickly see why he couldn’t hack it in hollywood.

hey, i'm gonna say more tomorrow, but i'm starting a reading group for "AI skeptics" - it's called "AI Skeptics Reading Group" i am not great at names; please suggest alternatives if you're creative. i'll be sending an email tomorrow, but here are a few things to get you started

Read👇🏽article ths morn, & the clear throughline re wht maj of white voters who voted, voted FOR😶 As history shows, they co-sign ths, evry time. In Sum: “..mythology is America’s favorite lie. It takes blood & turns it in2 honor. It takes theft & calls it destiny. It takes murder & calls it progress”

The real book is “Manufacturing Consent to Manufacture Race.”

It’s a fact. Data from three decades of political violence reveals that right-wing terror attacks outnumber attacks from the left. And it’s not even close!

Nothing says colorblindness like demanding race data

Another big assault by the federal agents. Tear gas, flash bangs, I don't know what else. People panic, scatter. Pushed all the way back to the highway. I can hear calls for medics.

we are gonna win but shits is gonna get weird for awhile

Multiple organizers I trust who have been a regular presence at Broadview are advising folks not to protest there tonight. For a number of reasons, they are worried that fatal force could be used against protesters tonight. They are calling for folks to regroup and return Friday morning.

Feds quietly scrub transgender people from national security reports on threats to LGBTQ+ community www.advocate.com/new... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

The rebranding of reactionary gender and biological essentialism as “heterodox and challenging ideas to which liberal students must be exposed” is one of the greatest achievements of our stupid era. Congratulations to the reactionary centrists who helped make it happen - you dupes, you utter dolts.

Kristi Noem’s threats of federal prosecution for posting flyers is further evidence of this administration’s fascist nature. We support doxxing and any other actions that undermine ICE’s blatant human rights abuses.

“The Dignity and Hope Manifesto,” addressed to the people of Palestine, states, “Here we are, writing a new chapter of courage and pride, in which we tell a story of justice and of the truth that no level of Israeli colonial repression can erase, however cruel and brutal that repression may be." 🍉🍉🍉

Follow them all around with cameras 24/7. Yell at them. Annoy them. Harass them. Wait for one to lash out, catch it on video, and get them fired

#CUNY will stand tall ~ by my lovely colleague, Distinguished Prof. Michelle Fine: psc-cuny.org/clarion/2025...

Black lives don't matter to them.

the term “alt right” is itself gaslighting. there’s no “alt” right, there’s just the right and they all do agree completely wrt the broader goals of their “project”

The polio immunisation program started in the USA in 1955. Look what happened next.

"What we set out to do was nothing less than to explain why humanity instead of entering a truly human state, is sinking into a new kind of barbarism" - Horkheimer and Adorno 1947

During Reconstruction, South Carolina congressman Robert Elliot put his own life at risk to enact measures to litigate & suppress Klan terrorism. He delivered a powerful speech in 1875 in support of the Civil Rights Act that banned discrimination in public transit, accommodations, & schools.

Robby Starbuck is a far-right activist. Meta putting him in the position of being a "bias advisor" for its chat bot is insane.

yeah this guy is dumber than donkey shit

If you've ever had to try and address anti-Palestinian racism/Islamophobia in your circle of family or friends, it was probably an uncomfortable conversation. This FREE workshop this Saturday from SURJ Vancouver will talk about all of that! Consider attending and/or spreading the word!

Folks, we've got an epistemological crisis and it's not going well www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

i would again like to remind everyone that NEGATING A FRAME REINFORCES IT "he's not really targeting criminals" makes it an argument about criminality "this is a fascist attack" states what is actually happening START WITH WHAT IT IS not what it isn't

Writing about this right now. We've had five-plus years of educators being ousted by MAGA. Can we go back and restore those folks' careers, safety, and peace of mind?

New - “Hundreds of federal employees who lost their jobs in Elon Musk’s cost-cutting blitz are being asked to return to work.” www.cnn.com/2025/09/24/p...

Let your friends know

Inside the Hidden Conservative Network Bankrolling an “Ecosystem” of Right-Wing News

Don't think I've ever felt this embarrassed to be an American. There's shame and anger too. But mostly embarrassment. We're the laughingstock of the developed world. And we should be.

"onlookers" ?!?

I want this for us.

The article echoes what I’ve seen and heard from peers: AI makes it easy to produce slick but shallow work that looks plausible on the surface, yet riddled with errors or bad assumptions underneath. Your coworkers end up having to fix or redo it. It’s workslop, and it’s spreading fast.

Warning to anyone who has their art on Spreadshirt.com: They now have a feature where anyone can remix your art and it's impossible to opt out unless you just leave the site altogether. Spreadshirt to artists: We’re taking your designs for AI pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/19/s...

All Amazon Fresh stores in UK to close

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

This story is worth a read, but it's so frustrating to see, since I know virtually everyone quoted in it (and the author) and ... there were *lots* of people warning of these coming dangers. Andreessen became a baby about his feelings long before taking offense to the slight from the Biden admin.

If you are looking to plug into local public library organizing, join NYC Public Library Action Network (PLAN) on October 4 for ra People's Assembly at the New York Society for Ethical Culture. www.eventbrite.com/e/nyc-public...

“It is, of course, a very bad idea to structure foreign policy around the Rapture.” — THEY KNEW (2022)

Keep your head down. Don‘t get upset. Don’t be negative. Positivity without direction will deliver us a solution from the heavens.

Like, get some therapy & leave the rest of us alone.

If it’s one thing Them conservative fellas love … it’s some man sex They didn’t even let the grieving process take place before looking for some man sex

Big Tech's embrace of President Trump has left many of us wondering: What the hell happened to Silicon Valley? In our new politics issue, we're getting into it. Also, we're taking this cover across the US in billboards, posters and a mural. Clues to find us in the 🧵: www.wired.com/politics-iss...

From Texas, where zoning laws are considered a communist plot.

you know what doesn't happen in other countries?

TikTok algorithm to be ‘retrained’ by Oracle in Trump deal on.ft.com/3KiS1xM

Hakeem Jeffries supporting Charlie Kirk before endorsing Zohran Mamdani is really fucking nasty.

Repost anything except anymore news pieces about genocidal countries recognizing Palestine while helping to ethnically cleanse it. Please. We can't take it anymore.

Go to protests Sign up to be on mailing lists Practice good operational security Don’t volunteer information you don’t need to, like where you plan to be Know your phone gives away information even when locked Don’t use face unlock or print to unlock your phone