There was a moment in the 2010s when a lot of us believed this, myself included! But sousveillance really hasn’t brought about the justice we want from video evidence. If anything, we have fed training data on how best to abuse us and anesthetized the public to death rituals.

OSSOFF: Who won the 2020 election? CLAYTON: Uhm, you know, I'm not going to do this with you O: This is a job interview. You have an obligation to be honest with the committee. Who won the 2020 election? C: I'm not gonna get into that with you O: You're not being honest or forthright C: ...

Listen, once the consumer tech made us FEEL good/right/in control? Our libidinal desires took over. we are “feeling” our way right into corporate sovereignty and ceremonial government.

It's actually good and normal to feel awful and shocked about this. Now extend those bad feelings to victims of police violence everywhere.

You can and should point out that police killing people daily is the "norm" in America. But that doesn't mean you *accept* the normalization of this violence and the way some people rush to smugly point these things out contributes to collective fatigue. Your horror has been stolen from you.

"Your horror has been stolen from you." bsky.app/profile/unra...

It is very important to state things plainly & directly & repeatedly. Euphemism provides places for your opponents to hide & too much rhetorical architecture for false credulity and/or misunderstanding.

stuff like this is why one important avenue for court reform is just nixing the shadow docket altogether and forcing these people to explain themselves to the public when they issue orders. also, making their records property of the united states and subject to publication when they leave the bench.

shoutout the chucklefuck pundit who insisted once that “environmental racism” was a nonsense term

stop. if you think the existence of a warrant is part of the conversation in any way, you cannot, by definition, argue that it makes any difference whether the guy they killed had a warrant or not. because right guy or wrong guy, an arrest warrant isn't a death sentence.

I wish more journalists would point out that Sen. McConnell and Rep. Tom Kean (missed 4 months of work) are/were essentially on paid sick & medical leave. The same employment protection they’ve spent their careers blocking other Americans from having.

this is “pete hegseth wants an all-white military”

Not at all. I’ve grown and changed so much in the last couples of years and I really believe there’s so much more to learn

i’m sorry but ‘literally died of hard heartedness’ is the most hack writing yet in an already weak season

He did not say that "Black leaders defang the white left." He said that there is a gap growing between young Black progressive voters, and older Black centrist politicians. "It's not something I can talk too much about, because I'm white, and it's not my struggle." Scrub to 41 minutes and listen.

Memphis is under siege from the federal government. This is hideous.

She's just like me

"The appearance of federal law enforcement agents on the doorstep of news reporters should shock the conscience of any American who believes in the Constitution and the press freedom it protects." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/b...

…for one thing the president of the United States isn’t just allowed to sic armed US troops on you just because he feels like it Per our Trump admin sources: Memphis is a test run for MAGA’s attempt to normalize this kind of militarized America. Don’t let them

Alarming story that confirms my own reporting along similar lines: Dan Moraff, the political strategist who plucked Graham Platner out of obscurity to run for senate and barely vetted him, was barred from Rep. Summer Lee’s 2022 campaign after three complaints of sexual misconduct.

This isn’t funny but it is hilarious. I’m so sorry to everyone who had to go to school with this guy.

Don’t look away from Memphis. Don’t look away from Houston. Don’t look away at the nationwide ICE surge. The trump administration is counting on you losing interest and falling for its tweak in tactics. zeteo.com/p/trumps-vio...

With each of these killings by ICE, the administration is telling us: they decide who is worthy of citizenship, they decide whose lives have value.

It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.

Just thinking this morning about how many women are forced to serve up the most intimate and horrible moments of their pasts because people blast through a veritable thicket of red flags in support of a political candidate, and in retaliation, they are smeared and harassed.

In better news, John Oliver's three-day stint/stunt as a corporate villain on legendary soap opera "General Hospital" appears to be going... fucking brilliantly?? I have watched this clip on a loop for like 20 mins I really, truly need to see the full episodes NOW

Sent these to my therapist at 9 am. I’m totally normal, why do you ask??

If I’m not able to bend I should be able to access my untapped telekinetic powers to grab stuff. This is not complicated.

You do not have to give people “due process” before you choose not to vote for them. You can just be like “oh word the guy who wrote rape apologia and had allegations just got another serious allegation? Guess he doesn’t need to be my senator.”

Cuba began slowly restoring power on July 6 after the country's national electric grid collapsed, the latest blow to an island already suffering severe energy, fuel and medicine shortages.

I watched four international news broadcasts this evening. Trump cheating with Balogun call was top news story on 3 of 4. It’s not structural but this moment may well be a notable in his eventual political autopsy. It’s got that texture to it.

I don’t know how much we’ll have to repeat — we will govern as we lead, we will lead as we treat each other. We cannot make each other the acceptable trade off for progress. It will always, always, always end like this.

It's most important to keep your internal temperature down. So drink a ton of water, drink more than you think you need and if you have ice, use it. eat as many Popsicles as you can stand

Sample thoughts: Guava Sorbet Elixir, like the original, is just not for me. I get why others may like it, it’s sweet and fruity but a bit generic. Juries out on Fleur de Sable. It’s almost amazing but there’s something missing (or too much pepper?) The new Bottega line is dangerously good. 1/2

Statement from Counsel for Olympian Davey Hearn:

additionally, if there is ANY possible non racist motive for an explicitly racist action, Alito says you must accept it as the actual motivation. meanwhile, ANY use of race consciousness to prevent or alleviate discrimination is unconstitutional under “equal protection”

I now fervently believe this. Relatedly, I think celebrating good news and embracing joy are equally radical. You have to remember what you’re fighting for. We cannot sustainably organize around sorrow.

people are always amused/confused about how romance authors & readers keep doing things like organizing 1.5 million whistles or raising $1 million... but we read & write books where when everything is bleak, you pull together with your people & hope your way to victory. we rewired our brains.

my husband is doing fantasy baseball for the first time. he does not follow baseball. his team is run entirely by our 10yo neighbor, who gets a split of his winnings if she helps my husband defeat the rest of the league. they’re in 1st place! but now, a problem: today she left for sleepaway camp

Large chunks of the Mall are now effectively an armed encampment surrounded by tall fencing. In some areas, crowds are herded through security lines to get to features that used to be easily accessible in previous years.

You know developing some anxiety around international work travel as I’ve started to need to travel more internationally is really just great. On the one hand, thank you anxiety brain for helping me to get my shit in order. On the other hand, 4am stress dreams about snow and aardvarks are rough.

In the 4 years since Roe v Wade was overturned there have been over 400 pregnancy related prosecutions. Maternal mortality is up 33% nationwide and 50% in some states. We are being criminalized and murdered. That’s the legacy of Dobbs

Scorpio: Keep marching to the beat of your own drum. Even if it is the sound of your partner banging their head against the wall.

The theory that “electable” means “work to appease right-wing bigots under the assumption that majorities agree with them, at least partially, and they prioritize it when voting” has been tried. It has failed. Try something else.

In my sleepless anxiety in the early morning I was thinking about whether I should start flying in UV long sleeved clothes in case my airplane ever crashes in a body of water to protect me from terrible sunburns. And that’s on anxiety brain.

Happy Father's Day 🖤

For more than two decades, Mona Khalil protected the endangered sea turtles that laid their eggs on a beach in Lebanon and kept predators away from the hatchlings. On June 4, she was wounded in an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon, and on Friday, she died of her injuries, a close friend said.

They're dumping slimy, green peroxide water from the Reflecting Pool back into the Potomac. #dc @popville.bsky.social

Love the start of summer. Love being on a work call with pretentious British KCs and hearing my children yelling bloody murder over some ridiculous dance / stomping related disagreement. Looking forward to summer camp.