Re-uploaded with good audio! Here's the new link: youtu.be/3MBUeBuG5Jc

Smdh. There was a good thing going with nos across the board and here comes UVA fucking it up, and for what? It's not like this means you'll be spared when Trump decides to extract some new BS, so all you're accomplishing is the sacrifice of your integrity and betrayal of people of color. Congrats!

This exactly how Black folks feel about the Confederate flag

There's a lot of abstract talk about nazis right now and I just want to bring it back to concrete reality for a second: Those motherfuckers tried to murder MY GRANDPARENTS.

(discourse would also be better if people could separate their obvious anxieties about their own masculinity from their political decision making but that’s a separate conversation)

people seriously underplay the strength of elected leaders, influential people and the like just saying a thing. just... like... say a thing and repeat it. its the core of politics and communications. you say a thing and say it over and over and it becomes the story. it works.

the plan otherwise is running another candidate. running another candidate is a plan. maine has ranked choice primaries 8 months from now. running a good candidate with no nazi tattoos is a plan. you don’t have to do this. there are 6 posts under this one & they’re all “you don’t have to do this.”

Not my normal post but apparently even Tom Hanks rides the subway

I don't care if it's PR: celebs on the subway is a counterweight to "it's the most dangerous space in NYC". That's why I posted it. I don't really care about Tom Hanks.

Saying "a brown liquid that resembles feces" because they can't actually fact-check the video is hysterical, but also underscores how so many of the institutional norms and guard-rails of the old era of US politics are no longer fit for purpose.

“Indeed, throughout modern society, the availability of statistics is often mistaken for the availability of knowledge and deep meaning.” Todd Gitlin in 1979 with a line that feels profoundly prescient for our outsized contemporary worship of computer scientists and MBAs.

"US Marshal shot during immigration enforcement in LA" * article explains he was shot by an ICE officer whose weapon discharged when he used it to smash a car window

would it be particularly not nice to say that if you bought a bed that requires the internet to function /as a bed/ that's really a you mistake and i don't care about the consequences you have to face as a result

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Graduate seminar did a deep dive on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense yesterday. At the line, “in America the law is king,” they (14 students from 6 countries) burst out laughing. I've been doing this for 35 years and this is the first time that was a laugh line.

A reminder all: GO TO JURY DUTY WHEN YOU ARE SUMMONED Yes it is disruptive of schedules but these days, juries need you

Dems, I bet of you, STOP VOTING FOR TRUMP JUDGES JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

I bet a candidate could do well with “yeah, I said some awful things online when I was younger, but I see why it was wrong, and I’m familiar with extremist spaces online, how young men get radicalized by them, and what we can do about it.” Less good is “it’s wrong of you to care about what I said.”

Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.

hey georgia, early voting is happening now -- please vote out the shitty republicans who keep increasing our electricity bills for no reason and show them we can kick them to the curb if they don't work for the people!!!!!! find your early voting precincts here: mvp.sos.ga.gov/s/

“What is to stop Trump from making comparably inflated claims about the situations on the ground in other American cities as a pretextual basis for deploying troops? And what’s to stop him from making those claims not tomorrow, but next November—on the eve of the midterms?” Me, via “One First”:

Let me be less vague. For a certain type of person: 1) It's safer to argue with Black people than to actually confront white supremacy. 2) It's incredibly threatening to consider that the world might be how Black people say it is rather than what you've always been taught. bsky.app/profile/polo...

“There’s no way I’m bending the knee I have left for a king in America.” Damn. Just … damn.

okay lol I just checked and I kid you not this is literally the cover of my own copy of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense. Note: This was published in 2012, more than a decade ago. This was just the iconography the publisher felt best expressed Paine’s views.

Flexed it on whom? You do understand that the Marines are a branch of the US military. Flexed on citizens of the United States is what you mean. You really want to be The Fascist Times lol.

I've mentioned this before but it bears repeating. Don't leave FSA funds on the table at the end of the year. LOTS of places like homeless shelters etc... would love donations of FSA eligible items. For the past 2 years, I've used left over funds to shop here: fsastore.com - then donate the items.

Reminder: another way to say “research conducted without ethics approval” is “unethical research”

know what if you're gonna indulge in this nonsense every single time you indulge in their rage bait? You have to find two posts from people DIRECTLY affected by the issue they're mocking and retweet THEM. IF you can't resist the cheap the cheap dopamine ... pay for it in real support

Informed consent is different than ‘do your own research.’ They’re tricking us all into thinking ‘doing your own research’ is just as good as ‘informed consent,’ but there’s a reason organizers fought for informed consent.

“oh here, i have it queued up on this tablet for you already” how i expect reporters to reply to the “havent seen it” replies from republicans

There's a reason these thugs are so hot to dismantle the humanities and arts.

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[Exit pursued by a bear.]

Perhaps they should self-deport themselves from those operations then

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Best sign so far. #NoKingsDay

Proposal: instead of giving ChatGPT tens of billions of dollars to fail to create artificial intelligence, give me, an Actual Intelligence, a mere $10 million and I will gladly do a spreadsheet wrong for you from time to time for a modest fee.

I haven't had the capacity to keep up with moderation lists for a bit, but this one is really obvious, so I'm stealing some energy from Future Me: a list for the extremely obvious wave of inauthentic accounts following today's newly-created US gov accounts bsky.app/profile/did:...

Getting ready to head out to the Long Beach rally! Doesn’t start until 12 but I’m pretty sure parking’s going to be an issue

This thread is giving me life tbh 😭❤️

For God’s sake let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings

I couldn't get a good photo of this one but there was a teeny weeny with a "preschoolers against fascism" sign, standing with another teeny weeny chanting BE NICER, BE GONE 😭😭

The real banger in this is the coinage of the term "epistemia," for something that has the surface appearance of knowledgeability & plausibility but no actual verification or expertise. Gonna get a lot of use, connecting the dots between bullshit, technochauvinism, & epistemic/hermeneutic injustice.

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

Excuse me: bb turtles

Actively resisting knowing things that decrease one's comfort is extremely immoral, due to its inevitable results.

If you're taking to the streets to protest today, know your rights.

President Trump reduces trade surplus in profitable export industry that provides middle-class jobs all across America.

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.