A window into the mind of the Israeli right. This is a key idea: that everything would have worked out if only Israelis were allowed to do more violence, but they were foiled by legalities, hostile world leaders, or a soft-hearted fifth column. It’s a self-reinforcing motor of radicalization.

A window into the mind of the Israeli right. This is a key idea: that everything would have worked out if only Israelis were allowed to do more violence, but they were foiled by legalities, hostile world leaders, or a soft-hearted fifth column. It’s a self-reinforcing motor of radicalization.

So called “hallucinations” are a huge, disqualifying problem, that should rule out this tech’s use in any context with real stakes. But line gotta go up and they’re all out of profitable ideas that work, I guess.

"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"

there needs to be a coordinated global effort among democracies to destroy this man's financial and social media empires and leave him impoverished and powerless

there just isn't a good, grounded-in-reality argument for centrism right now. you can't work with the GOP bc they're insane and consequently even modest policy requires procedural/structural radicalism like considering court packing. they lost their chance lol

Aha DE ist als Nächstes dran mit den muskschen Pogromen, ob sich die lokalen Medien auch schon passend verharmlosende Umschreibungen ausdenken wenn maskierte Faschos hier im Viertel Häuser anzünden?

Fascists are a dime a dozen in America but this dude is a full-on Nazi.

A dynamic that was enabled by ranked choice voting. Co-campaigning is only possible when voting isn't zero sum. RCV incentivizes more positive and collaborative campaigning!

ICE investigators leaned on Signal communications to build their case against protesters. Take these steps to keep your chats safe.

Hell of a Freudian slip. I *assume* he was thinking of the Baader-Meinhof Gang, a far-left terrorist group. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a legendary and rightly celebrated anti-Nazi theologian & dissident.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was an anti-fascist German Lutheran pastor who opposed Hitler and the Nazi Party so effectively that they murdered him in 1945. He is only a bad guy if you literally spend all your time on far-right, neo-Nazi websites and have pickled your brain in fascist group chats.

Every single word in this sentence is both completely astonishing and exactly what we should all expect.

Find your chapter. “I don’t live in a DSA chapter area” is largely a thing of the past. If you actually don’t there is a not very complicated process for starting one. If you ever want to make a call for local people to help you reach out to me to boost. Zip code finder: chapters.dsausa.org

A question I get a lot is “I signed up for DSA, but how to I actually get integrated” Often, the core members of your local chapter are at capacity and not on top of tracking every person that joins and walking them through this process- so I want to talk about how take it into your own hands

Reading threads like this about AI in higher ed feels like watching something big and beautiful slowly die

(The answer to grade inflation, btw, isn't "tougher" grading. It's recognizing that grading, especially letter grading--not a very old system--serves employers but not students. It incentivizes cheating & corruption. Other evaluative frameworks are possible.)

"The president got mad the reflecting pool wasn't reflective enough so he had it painted a darker color which warmed the water and resulted in an algae bloom" is really funny I'm not gonna lie. Everything this guy tries to do down to the most nothing of aesthetic changes leads to rot and decay.

jesus christ NO! NO!!! FUCK

I don't like Newsom to begin with, but this disqualifies him all by itself. Anyone who leave a brick standing that Trump put in place is just inviting the next authoritarian to do the same thing. Destruction in this case is cleansing.

"Either way, the concentration of wealth at the very top is much higher now than it ever was during the Gilded Age. And these are numbers from last year, before the SpaceX IPO. The robber barons were pikers compared with today’s oligarchs." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/meet-the-n...

and no one will believe you any more when you say this despite it being established common knowledge all the way up to c. 2024

There's a far better case for banning social media for people 65+ than for people 16-18

how the fuck was this the middle of the episode whose ending made me cry like this?!

Orban was held up as a model for enacting an enduring “nationalist” regime, and the moment he’s passed from power, they’re looking to reverse his influence. Good reminder there’s no such thing as a permanent settlement of politics…anywhere.

Today: Germany (among others) vetoes EU proposal to sanction on Ben Gvir While at the same time The US effectively denies Ben Gvir a visa The Trump (!) administration is tougher on Kahanists than the EU. Unbelievable. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

In a disastrous ruling, the Court of Appeal in London has overruled the High Court and upheld the government's decision to ban Palestine Action as a terrorist group. Defining a protest group as terrorists has created an absurd situation where thousands have been arrested for holding up signs.

An explosive was detonated outside the Pilsen alderman's home in what he called an "act of political violence." blockclubchi.co/4otkQrf

I don't know who is Bibi and who is Trump in this but it doesn't look good for either of them

Journalists have a duty to tell the public that the president and his aides are seriously considering suspending habeas corpus *when it is happening* rather than saving it for a book rollout over a year later

I'm just gonna leave this here.

this is unsustainable

Julia Roberts: Renee Nicole Goode is not a symbol. She is an American woman, a queer woman who was doing the very best she could do to be good in an unjust world. And I am honored to celebrate her life and her legacy tonight, because the life she gave is our responsibility to carry.

This would be very very bad writing if it happened, but so much of what we have now is very bad writing, so I live in hope for Chekhov’s Lightning Bolt

I have been working on societal impacts of language technology since late 2016, and my nightmare example since pretty early on has been using automatic transcription in emergency services systems. And today I learn it's happening *in my own city* www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news... Short 🧵>>

My problem with the White House thunderdome isn’t that it’s “vulgar,” or “tacky,” qualities I often enjoy & terms which are often crudely classist when used pejoratively. My problem, as always, is the fascism. Don’t get distracted by taste, which is deeply subjective; it’s the fascism.

started >>> going

The Trump White House picking a fight with the *Weather Channel* because they *reported the weather* is the most pathetic, easily triggered, loser energy I have ever seen

"the deal with iran is now complete"

Well bombing our DSA chapters socialist candidate for office is next level holy shit I'm just glad Byron Sigcho López and his family are safe.

This administration is doing everything it can to stop renewables and they can't. Fossil fuels are on life support. It's over.

Insane self-blinding of the US. They are throwing away their investment in the ocean observation system and the benefits it provides. The only explanation I can think of: they don’t want the people to know what their fossil emissions are doing to our oceans. easternherald.com/2026/06/13/u...

Anti-fash counter-protests outnumber fash marches all the time and it would be cool if the press made a big deal about it.

This AI-generated image is making the rounds and normally I wouldn't even bother with something like this However, it gives us the chance to talk about a fascinating sub-group of White Nationalism that believes a race of pure Aryans called Argathans live in the center of the Earth 🧵

This point can’t be stressed enough. Just as Musk bought Twitter to try to make himself seem popular, he bought Tesla to make himself seem smart. The only thing he’s actually invented is a mythology about himself

Always a nice reminder that We outnumber Them, and it's not even close.

If you can’t tax billionaires & trillionaire because “its unrealized gains until they cash out,” then stop letting them leverage that wealth for loans, as collateral, or as equity. If it’s not real enough to tax—it shouldn’t be real enough to leverage. Abolish billionaires—Protect working people.

i feel like its bad that one of the largest video game streamers in the world gets the proud endorsement of the wealthiest man alive when explicitly calling for sending his political opponents to concentration camps and executing them in the street but that's just me