Counterpoint: if the Prince of Darkness rises from a fiery portal at the Iowa Caucus and declares his opposition to Donald Trump, I will ride to battle with the host of Hell

it's really generous of NBC to let women play hockey in the background while the tkachuk interview is going on

And finally, part of the reason I object so strongly to the "AI skeptic" framing is that it pushes off-stage all of the real harms of this technology. That is, the topic of the stochastic parrots paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... >>

1: yes, in fact. as long as there are fascists you have to keep fighting them. this is not complicated. 2: the democrats are not taking on maga's position on trans rights. or abortion. or immigration. go home you are high

in america there has never been a starker difference between the parties. both parties are not the same. there is no ratchet cranking democrats rightwards. these are lies you tell yourself to make yourself feel cooler

if you believed this in 2016 & didn't leave it all on the field to prevent Trump's power, you can come back to the fight It's ok to want to avoid violence that flows from either letting fascists take power or failing to use electoral means to stop them, to want that more than you need to be right

My great-grandmother’s grandfather was a student in Munich in 1848; after prison time he came to the US with heroes of our Civil War like Carl Schurz. They didn’t die for a multicultural nation-they made the white nationalist Confederates downrange die for theirs.

Lincoln 1851 "I am not a Know-Nothing. As a nation, we began by declaring "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes." When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and catholics."

Gallup announced after 88 years they no longer will be tracking Presidential approval ratings. BTW The last rating on Trump Gallup printed was the lowest a President in history ever rated at this post in their term.

this started a holy war, so let me state a very plain and direct argument for this the democratic primary is when we decide if we get to have things be good or mid the general election is when you decide if you dislike nazis

My English-Scots-Irish ancestors didn't die for multiculturalism; they killed for it. Killed Confederates who said shit exactly like this.

this is not funny, sociologists only post about Weber like this when they’re in extreme distress. (Or when society is.)

key insight here, turn it upside down: Since we're told zoning & local codes make it impossible to turn empty warehouses into housing, how can they be converted into prisons for immigrants?

worth noting that police arrested a woman *and her husband* this week for reckless homicide related to a miscarriage. Yes, men: fetal personhood affects you too

Oh, so we're just denying Gaston's lived experience now?

As someone said: When Elon talked about electric cars, I figured he was innovating because I don’t know much about that, same with space flight, but now this ignorant muppet is talking about ethnic nationalism & whoa he is just not smart

Researchers have found that 6 of 10 abortion restrictions — bans on Medicaid funding for abortion, mandated waiting periods, 2nd-trimester abortion bans, ACA marketplace insurance coverage bans, biased counseling laws, and ultrasound requirements — were linked to higher rates of maternal mortality.

“should i give this data to a guy on fiverr” is also an important question if you’re not using a local model “do i trust a guy on fiverr to understand this complex language/idea/situation/document” “do i trust a guy on fiverr to not just make shit up”

I am, by all accounts, a coward, an overthinker, and a waffler, and I don’t think I’ve ever had greater moral clarity about anything ever in my life. ICE is so absolutely morally repugnant that there is no way to live wirh yourself if you do nothing.

Wow, this is just like in the #Gospels , where the Good Samaritan gets the crap beaten out of him by man he went to help:

notice that in the video quoted here the person who said he is engaging in protest for the first time in his life says, with emotion, “that’s not who we are,” in reference to ICE terrorizing grade schoolers. think about this person every time you see someone scolding someone else for saying that

Stephen Miller is never gonna be able to solve his average-guy-from-Camden-New-Jersey-who-has-never-protested-but-just-saw-ICE-hurt-children problem. That's not solvable for him

"You may not believe immigration restrictions are racist, but racists believe immigration restrictions are racist." www.liberalcurrents.com/abolition-am...

hello and welcome to the political genius exam. here is question one. which is a more compelling message: - the president is sending armies to occupy cities and kidnap and kill people and your town could be next - a meal at the cheesecake factory that previously cost $100 now costs $104.9

It just keeps happening. www.them.us/story/usa-ca...

Homan threatened Philly was next. Anyone who’s ever been to Philly snort laughed & said OK you try it. Yesterday ICE chased 4th graders in a Philly suburb. Though this man standing up for the America our kids deserve is in NJ, he’s telling us they sized it up & decided 10yos were safe to terrorize.

i think this is what drives me nuts. people talk about how, say, the UN was founded by "starry eyed idealists" who didn't understand "reality." the truth is that the UN was founded by those who had just fought and *won* the bloodiest war in human history.

One of the most powerful, if not the most powerful, forces in public opinion is elite leadership. Partisans largely “follow the lead“ of their side’s elites. Arguing Dems shouldn’t try to shape opinion is arguing they should give up this power voluntarily. That’s dumb, not to mention morally vacuous

A malignant response to A malignant response to For Atlantic writers who have never read 1 book about the 20th century’s Civil Rights Movement may I recommend the PBS series ‘Eyes on the Prize’ to learn about the right’s history of lying about slavery to justify racism, or maybe attend 8th grade

The American right does not defend slavery because progressives say it was bad. They defend slavery because racial hierarchy has been an important and increasingly explicit component of their ideology for 70 years. Read a fucking book.

Roses are red Sunflowers are tall Sweep the midterms Then impeach them all

“Jewish fears (as minority communities) are real and justified. Israel's project of the subjugation, dispossession and elimination of Palestinians feeds of those fears. If you want to stop that project, you should think proactively how to allay Jewish fears, not how to make them worse.” 👇🏼

In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”

“this is not who we are, this is not what America is, I never want to see little kids running away from our own government“ We are going to win as long as we don’t quit. Decent people will always be a majority in this country.

Oh my GOD King County Public Health is just wilding out for Valentines Day (and a lovely one).

You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).

This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.

Let’s raise our voices in support of reproductive health & rights for all! 💪💖 #HealthPolicyValentines

Mobilize the NIMBYs of war

Trans rights are a great litmus test for candidates - Do they believe in bodily autonomy? Do they believe in science? Do they like women and believe women are capable adults? Do they have weird religious hang ups about sex and gender? Are children people? Etc

The biggest political divide on here is not between left and liberal but between "politics is real and involves real outcomes for real people" and "no it doesn't fuck you"

What some of us don’t like about AI is that its business model is to poison Black & poor people to get the electrons needed to give away, induce dependence on and then sell a psychosis inducing plagiarist robot, this is not complex, or irrational

JB Pritzker led the creation of a Holocaust Museum, was a funder of the Cambodia Tribunal Monitor (which covers the Cambodian Genocide), and his family came to the US to escape Russian pogroms. I don't have to wonder if he understands what's happening under Donald Trump. He does. Hence:

the "it's impossible to have a conversation about AI right now" folks need to grok that a huge volume of that furor is entirely justified rage at the fact tech oligarchs purchased an automated murder autocracy; rage that's good and useful and deserves a generous berth in the months and years to come

What I needed when I had a high deductible plan & a rare cancer at an unexpected time in life was a shopping cart to price compare the only oncology practice that would treat me at all. This is so stupid.

Listening to @wrigleyfield.bsky.social present on this paper is just amazing. The methods she brings (demography, history, public health, expertise in structural violence and cr*itical theory, etc.) and the way she thinks is just breathtaking. I teach her work and will plan to teach more.

The code officer at your local zoning authority is your friend, she is the only good cop

"they both serve the capitalist class" okay cool, you have said the requisite incantation. You may now cease the Shamanic frenzy, descend from the realm of Spirits, and observe the profane, material world around you

Voters have no idea how US immigration laws work & the timing for Democrats to tell them has never been better

there's a lot of talk about how the US has permanently destroyed its position in the world and while I do think it's done some real damage I also think we underestimate how readily a lot of former allies will be willing to rekindle a relationship if we replace this regime