In that “real or imagining patterns?” way these things always go, I am like 80 percent certain there is a coordinated campaign targeting liberals for using “inflammatory” language about Trump and co.

IT'S HAPPENING www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKZp...

POV: you are going to be bitten

Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

"This website is free" No. This website comes at a terrible cost

There are countless stories of human connection that start with social media. They are the modern commons, and it is a tragedy they have been hijacked by con men, advertisers, and manipulators.

"That's the point – the smudge, the rough line, the hesitation - that's what makes my work come alive." - Jim Lee talking about why DC will never use AI storytelling. "AI doesn't dream, feel or make art, it aggregates it." @jimlee.bsky.social speaking very passionately at Retailer Day. #nycc

Agricultural work is highly skilled labor critical for the survival of any community. Agricultural workers have been demonized, criminalized, and enslaved for as long as we have written records. These are the same story.

all i know is that normalizing debate with fascists has only facilitated the rise of fascism.

Less than 900 only 🎉

Me reading the news every day.

In a fight between Pritzker and and police, who is going to win? This is what happens when both parties allowed law enforcement to become one of the most powerful political actors in the country -- a taxpayer-funded political movement that wants to kill people.

The 21st century is an era where "The leader of Argentina is sleeping with his sister, who he says really runs the government" is just a thing that's happening.

quantitative methods, qualitative methods, mixed methods

Mothman

quick PSA for everyone: you *gaze* into the abyss, and you *scream* into the void. too many people screaming into the abyss and gazing into the void and we are not licensed for that. it’s a liability issue, people

the new stand anthology, the end of the world as we know it, was the most solid anthology i may have ever read. my favorite stories of the bunch were the ones by cat valente, cynthia paleyo, and usman t. malik, but many have stuck with me.

I don’t want to talk about this because I don’t want to be a target But on just a human decency level the person tirelessly deleting Gazans just permabanned the guy who uses his thousands strong platform to boost the fundraisers of literally anyone who needs money or mutual aid every single Friday

Serious question: What's stopping the State of Illinois from arresting Stephen Miller & charging him with incitement? The Senate didn't confirm him. He's just a guy. At some point, the states MUST use their authority to prosecute, because the federal government certainly will not.

When the Orwellian named Dept of Homeland Security was created … MANY of us predicted that it would eventually be doing all the things that it is doing right now Pinning it uniquely on Trump really misses the point in a bunch of ways

The year is 2025. There are three social networks remaining. They are run by Dweeb Lowtax, Tweaker Lowtax, and Girlboss Lowtax. You have to pick at least one.

“I’m strong and I want to have like fifty kids and a farm” of course you do. You’re twelve. “I don’t want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal” hell yeah homie you’re twelve. “Maybe if there’s crime we should just send the army” bless your heart my twelve year old buddy

My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

Armentraut: that just happens to be my latest book Armentraut: I've infused it with a Hellmans original garlic aioli smell King: Poe: Barker: Lovecraft: Koontz: Barker: why Armentraut: for booktok, of course King: oh right right booktok Poe: yes that scans

As long as the loudest folks on the left insist tone-policing, compromise on human rights, and acquiescence are our only options for a unified country, they will continue to lose the faith of the marginalized. And even when they win, they’ll just be waiting to lose the same way again.

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

The whole “it’s the left’s fault the right supports censorship” bullshit is rubes and propagandists trying to save face for being useful idiots or willing accomplices for the greatest censorship campaign since the red scare. Otherwise they’d have to admit to being wrong bsky.app/profile/jeff...

They want the entire armed services to be as undisciplined, racist, and violent against civilians as their recent ICE recruits.

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

The message Klein is pushing is that it is okay to sell out. His problem is that it is 2025 not 2015, and the people with money are not interested in what most of us have to sell anymore. It’s not even a moral argument anymore.

This is what “better training” talk is meant to elide.

The superintendent they just kidnapped is a former Olympic athlete who runs footraces with the kids from his schools while wearing a maroon suit and a bowtie. This is quite simply about the people in power feeling threatened by Black excellence.

These rooms should be filled with newborn cries, the beeping of monitors, pregnant women being cared for, patients finding relief amid a genocide. Instead, these rooms now stand empty because MSF was forced to evacuate our last functioning health facility in Gaza city.

I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵

What’s the guarantee that if the government shuts down it ever reopens ? Hope people are ready for really confronting the hard reality that the federal government may never fully reopen after a shutdown this time around.

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A divide in journalism right now that's worth watching is between reporters who understand how bad things are but are mindful of their reputation and not wanting to be perceived as too extreme or hyperbolic and reporters who feel things are so urgent they have to use urgent, clear language.

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

When you work with foreign outlets as a reporter (BBC, Guardian, Der Spiegel, Aussie Broadcasting Corp, CBC, Popular Front for me), you become acutely aware of how degraded almost all American media outlets have become

The United States has swiftly retreated from global health leadership. In @lemonde.fr, I share why this retreat will have serious repercussions worldwide.

I know there's a variety of factors in the "male loneliness epidemic," but I think one of major roots is a pretty universal one: That we treat making friends, broadly, as an activity that you do when you're young.

#DarkCrystal #JimHenson

If I could get non-autistic people to understand one thing, it wouldn't be that I have support needs. It would be that YOU have support needs.

Trump is absolutely cratering in new Quinnipiac poll: Overall approval: 38-54 Approval on economy: 39-56 Approval on trade: 39-54 On National Guard into cities: 42-55 On immigration, his "best" issue: 41-55 Trump is weak, unpopular, and failing. Treat him that way:

I watched the Criterion version of Godzilla vs. Biolante, and the big takeaway is that for all the budget limitations the monster fight scenes rocked. That’s where they put the budget, and they were masters of lighting and shooting those rubber suits trying to kill each other.

Criticizing the enlightened centrist isn’t kicking them out of the so-called tent, it is presenting them with an opportunity to stop eroding the integrity of the tent by tirelessly trying to find commonality with people who want to burn the tent down.

the pejorative "deliverism" bothers me for the same reason anti-left liberals using "do-somethings" does: the implication being that voters don't deserve anything good done for them by elected reps, bc the ask is either "too unrealistic" or the recipients insufficiently grateful, so why even try

Some of degreed political scientists have decided that delivering goods and services to the voters is bad policy due to Biden not being rewarded for creating the Best Economy in History. Constituent service and increased benefits are “deliverism” now, and they say Democrats should abandon them.

Yup, exactly that—we have a HUGE problem in the US: the MAGA/MAHA men in charge of the health system are dismantling it, while spouting damaging BS, but because they were at Hopkins (Makary) or Stanford (Bhattacharya) or Harvard (Kulldorff) or UCSF (Prasad), apparently the world should believe them😢

Scholars who aren’t actually at risk of bearing the repercussions of the current sociopolitical landscape are so terrified of the mere specter of censorship that they will end up censoring marginalized scholars more efficiently than the president ever could.