I believe everyone on Bluesky who signed the Harper's Letter has been labeled now. Please let me know if I missed anyone (or incorrectly labeled someone).

"If you tax the rich, they'll just leave." Massachusetts' tax on millionaires has fixed bridges, funded buses, hired teachers, and made community college and school meals free. The state has 39% more millionaires than they did before. Tax the rich.

You don’t need to gate-keep accommodations AT ALL. Let all the kids use all the options that support their learning day by day

feels like someone somewhere is seeing poll numbers that have terrified them about losing voters under 45 and their attempted fix was “try telling them they are stupid”

We have set up a system where only the well-off can afford to show they have disabilities and then punish them for showing it because it’s a privilege of being well off 🤡 The obvious solution here is no one gets to have disabilities??

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

There were Korean government sponsored ads about this on the airport train in Seoul

Ok so given that citations / code enforcement does not get sidewalks plowed, and the city does not plow sidewalks, and the lawyers tell me municipalities won't plow sidewalks to avoid lawsuits, should we start advocating for heated sidewalk installation

The people who are trying to destroy universities when it comes to inclusion around race and gender are also opposed to inclusion around disability. This bullshit gives them cover. Once again, legacy media laundering far right complaints because it makes elites feel smug.

Household debt reaches new heights, and somehow the takeaway from the corporate elite is always: try harder, grind longer, and budget your way out of systemic inequality.

My great-uncle was born in the Russian Empire and wrote God Bless America

Just want to call out this incredible move by the Guardian to embed a year on their social sharing graphic so it's very clear that something is not new reporting. Should be standard operating procedure.

this is why i will never give up my circa 2010 dvd boxset of THE WIRE. i don't give a shit about high def for older tv shows, give me the original aspect ratio (need to get my hands on an old simpsons boxset for this reason as well)

Like how American-educated journalists won’t call out a lie for fear of being seen as “biased.” This is due to an inherent cognitive dissonance rooted in the myth of meritocracy. Pull one thread, as genius @nhannahjones.bsky.social did with the #1619Project, and the lies glow in stark relief.

A lot of it is "Was life better back then, or was I just 8?"

"Slow violence is harassment, spying, infiltration, and undermining; it is weaponization of the criminal justice system. Bit by bit by bit, it makes the already hard work of fighting for change too exhausting, too maddening, too costly, or too dangerous to continue." newrepublic.com/article/2028...

I guess it's unsurprising that mediocre men find each other extraordinary, especially when they're behaving selfishly and pretending it's for the good of society.

Hmmmm. The case against Hernández was developed, the indictment secured, and his arrest and trial arranged by the Trump 1.0 administration. So what happened? Look for a seven figure payment in crypto...

As someone who is spectacularly bad at all sports, the idea that it’s unfair when some people have a “biological advantage” over others just makes me laugh. Of course it’s not “fair”, in the sense that I don’t deserve my stunning lack of talent. But, um, that’s sports.

YES If you're talking about "affordability" but aren't discussing what people get paid, you're NOT talking about affordability.

The money came through. HEAP is open! otda.ny.gov/programs/heap/

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Yes, though on that front--we also have to talk about why care work is underpaid. And the problem there is cost disease. Basically, care is too labor-intensive to be simultaneously highly profitable, high quality, and highly paid, especially while also being affordable for the people who need it.

They devote more column space to interviews with randos about how they FEEL about crime than they do to descriptions of the crimes. And of course they are all positive that crime is out of control. The post is a cancer on this city.

Toad looked at the ground. The seeds still did not want to grow. “What shall I do?” cried Toad. “These must be the most frightened seeds in the whole world!”

It is so depressing seeing the arc of feminist economics finally break out from the shadow of this stuff just for global politics to go completely rancid and questions such as “is spending more time on family something men should be worrying about as opposed to the entrepreneur hustle grindset?”

Yup. But hot take: If the downstreaming of care work were adequately compensated? I'd have less of an issue with it. I worked long hours as CEO during the first two years of my startup. I "worked" long hours(childcare) when my kids were under two years old. Only one of these was well compensated

Felix Gonzalez-Torres's "Untitled," 1991, originally appeared on a series of billboards throughout NYC. Gonzalez-Torres, a wildly inventive and influential artist, died of AIDS in 1996, age 38. #WorldAIDSDay

"The deliberate killing of survivors at sea represents one of the most clearly defined war crimes in international humanitarian law." www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops... #hegseth

The right wing male loneliness crisis is such a mystery when they're such nice guys.

There’s also an element of elitism to centrist ideology: Govt shouldn’t help people *too much* bc reasons. But history shows big govt programs/direct relief are *incredibly* popular. Almost like there’s an ulterior motive here—like centrism is an excuse to serve capital. Who’da thought?

There is no “centrist” solution to MAGA.

WHAT now is the time of morbid symptoms? the morbs! zizek strikes again

Strong floor. No ceiling. Rain wet. Me sneeze. What bronchitis mean? Oh no. Me dead.

late to see this but gratified nonetheless

The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet. Run on *that*

Remember when it was imperative that we take Haidt seriously?

Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.

This is a huge part of why so many people think we're in the middle of a widespread "anti-woke backlash": Small movements opposed to social progress are collected into trend stories by conservative media. Far larger movements that want more diversity are ignored or cast as threats.

[visibly sawing off my own arm with a bread knife] this is the healthiest I’ve ever been, by the way. and last week? when you thought I was *super* healthy just because I was walking around with two fully-functioning arms? yeah, I actually had earache. makes you think.

To a non-trivial number anti-anti-Trump pundits, Trump's chaotic response to COVID-19 was preferable to the liberals telling them that the response to a pandemic would require some rules and sacrifices

"No ceiling" results in what we have: a couple dozen psychopaths control several trillion dollars and the power has made them go stark raving mad. They are obsessed with using their concentrated wealth to punish the population and remake the country into a failed state and international pariah.

Just hear me out: maybe the Democratic Party’s problem is that the party leadership is full of people incapable of realizing that Matt Yglesias has terrible political instincts.

Make America Great Again huh?.....

Agree with nearly everything here. Cross-ideological solutions rock.

just a reminder that *lots* of countries have universities, and (to my knowledge) none of them but the U.S. treat their universities as largely minor league sports franchises

i think it's useful to look at areas where the *tech* has gotten much better while tech *interactions* have gotten way worse. streaming has gotten worse, google search has gotten worse, digital cameras are leaps better. apple's silicone is so good it's threatening their user upgrade cycle

This is a legitimate scientific revolution in meteorology. Also, to be clear, these models are not the AI LLMs that most people are familiar with. They are machine learning algorithms trained on observations (actually reanalysis).

The Car and Oil industries are going to work overtime to paint ebikes as dangerous instead of a solution to the danger of cars, and legacy corporate media like the NYT are going to help them