So many vulnerable people were hurt, harassed and raped by these ghouls and now—I’m worried—it’s gonna become hehe haha lurid internet circus instead of a long overdue moral reckoning. I’m scared of who we all are becoming. That man has brought us ALL low.

Steve Kerr comments on the devastating events in Oakland this week and the passing of John Beam.

A sad, sad week in Oakland.

Another revelation from all of these emails is that many of the richest and most powerful people in the country absolutely cannot write. Helps explain their sweaty embrace of LLMs.

These same bums will be asking us for cash at the next deadline; looking forward to sending this back to every Senate fundraising text

At a meeting with a more than average number of men earlier this year, a woman my age who I didn't know leaned over to me and said, "you know it's bad when the boys show up"

So, pols, a PSA: here in Oakland at the student-run politics club, the kids ROASTED the Senators who caved on the shutdown. These are just random kids, following the news, seeing you for the sell-outs you are, and then also making fun of your pictures for good measure.

This is about women and children as objects and tools and how abuse of them is not just tolerated and ignored but facilitated and celebrated.

You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants. We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua. www.propublica.org/article/chic...

With genuine shame, recent years in politics have given me my first taste for what it is to have moralised contempt for my opponents. Not hatred, not fear; contempt. There's some core element of the right wing coalition at the moment which seems to me best described as a revolt of the loser men...

"All [170,000 people] are disabled — a condition of the aid — and many are 50 or older. The document does not explain how they would find housing." *gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

🔥 The White House released an article on Monday citing a DoorDash report as confirmation that "inflation has been tamed." I asked a DoorDash spokesperson today if the company had concluded from its report that inflation had been tamed. DoorDash spokesperson told me, "We did not write that."

Can we confidently say that power and money make you a terrible person? Yes. Yes, we can.

Uber Eats surely has some data so why are we concerned

every company in 2025

The lesson of the Epstein coverup is the same lesson of Sandy Hook is the same lesson of SNAP denial is the same lessons of dismal public school funding: Americans do not care about Other People's Children

finding joy despite the world in 2025 is like this lol

If you don't want your representative to join the quislings in the Senate in capitulating to trump, CALL THEM. Call if they're a Democrat. Call if they're a Republican. Main House of Reps switchboard: 202-224-3121

The ability of the tech bros to indoctrinate children while making them illiterate via genAI doesn't get enough discussion.

So many books at different eras of my life! As a kid in a male-dominated world, Island of the Blue Dolphins made me see that girls could do amazing shit, and, looking back on it, mad me realize I was an introvert? Like that life seemed pretty cool?

Still thinking about this story. Imagine how cooked your brain has to be on Fox News -- how terrified you have to be, every day in your isolated suburban castle -- to start *shooting* when you see brown people at your door, before the door is even open. We're such a nation of terrified cowards.

At some point embarrassment MUST come

We lost a student this weekend. Every teacher I know has lost a kid for one reason or another. I didn't know them, but some brand new teachers did. I think about what they don't teach you in teaching credential programs: how to hold kids in confused grief, how to care for yourself, how to keep on.

Those motherfuckers.

Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office. No matter how they voted last night, every one of them has a say in maintaining Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin as their caucus leaders. Every one of them is accountable here.

Here is some unsolicited advice that is unrelated to the current morasse in DC, but also very related: if you have children and lucky enough to live in a place with mass transit, have your kids take public transit. They will grow up unafraid of busses and other people, both good things.

you guys I'm watching this all unfold on cspan let's see what happens youtu.be/mC5MzvgE4c0?...

Why...did we do this?

Did ChatGPT tell the Democratic Party to kill itself??

If our Senators cave on the shutdown, it will waste all our leverage for nothing but suffering. Call them NOW! Cowardice is unacceptable.

Skyrocketing ACA premiums force enrollees to make tough decisions www.cnn.com/2025/11/09/p...

🚨CTA: PLEASE CALL YOUR CONGRESS MEMBERS & TELL THEM TO EXTEND ACA SUBSIDIES. IT DOES NOT MATTER WHERE YOU LIVE IN THE U.S. WE ALL MUST CALL, IT'S CRUCIAL! ALL 100 U.S. Senators DC Contact Information Phone #: Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville 202-224-4124 Senator Katie Boyd Britt 202-224-5744 1/18

Oakland friends! More school foot patrol trainings this week - DM me for deets! It's an hour-long, very well run training on zoom. Allows you to sign up at foot patrols popping up all across the district. All gratitude to the folks in Chicago for showing us how it's done.

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

this is what would have happened if Koyaanasqatsi were made by a 6th grade boy with attention issues

Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

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I think we should all probably read this. There is just absolutely no acceptable justification for the rush to adopt so-called "AI" in education, period.

As a human, this disgusts me. As a history teacher, I am also disgusted, but also recognize how this gilded garbage will make for such simple and clear examples of this historical moment for my teacher siblings of the future. 🫡

I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

The more democratic elements of the American constitutional and economic order are actually throwing up road blocks to Trumpism. Protests and boycotts and low level courts and juries and cetera. Elite actors on the other hand are all too frequently caving. Fascinating study in who actually cares!

Some students run a politics club in my room at lunch (brilliantly called Speakeasy) and today's topic: @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and his policies! Look at these Oakland kids discussing his ideas, and the difference between communism and socialism!

That's murder.

“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion” futurism.com/artificial-i...

Defense begins, “This case, ladies and gentlemen, is about a sandwich. A sandwich that according to Agent Lairmore somehow both exploded on his chest in a spray of mustard and onions but also landed intact on the ground still in its Subway wrapper.”

Shout out to the kids in Oakland, California coming up to me super excited that Zohran Mamdani is now mayor of New York City, 3,000 miles away.

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx