One thing that AI evangelists seem to assume, particularly legal AI evangelists assume, is that the thinking and analysis is quick, and the writing is just tedious busywork that slows us down. But the writing IS the thinking and analysis. You work out the thinking and analysis by writing it down.

People shouldn't feel bad about previously admiring someone when they didn't know about the terrible harms that person committed, but we should challenge ourselves to consider how pedestalizing and prioritizing the legacies of charismatic leaders can create harmful dynamics. That can be addressed.

I read the NYT piece, and I am holding onto the words of a woman who fended off inappropriate advances from a 60-year-old Cesar Chavez at the age of 19. “It makes you rethink in history all those heroes,” Esmeralda Lopez said. “The movement — that’s the hero.”

One thing I think about often as I watch the decline of CBS, is do you know how hard it is to lose the CBS viewer? This is by and large a viewer that doesn’t ever want to change the station.

This @the-independent.com story is such an obvious lift of mine that they didn’t even bother deleting my site’s referral URL. And no, they do not credit me for reporting it first or (intentionally) link to my story. In j-school, rewording someone else’s reporting was called plagiarism. 1/

A reminder that you should want universal voting in a democracy irrespective of whether your side is suddenly benefiting or losing due to restrictions and disenfranchisement.

But let's be clear: When an evil, bloodthirsty man pushes your buttons and promises your glory YOU REMAIN A HUMAN PERSON WITH AGENCY & YOUR DECISIONS ARE YOUR OWN. That the president & his cabal are such easy marks is not Bibi's fault. It's ours. Trump was elected. By people in this country. 3/3

IRAN WAR Bibi didn't "make" Trump do anything. He told Trump, Miller, Hegseth, etc, what they wanted to hear—that the thing they ALREADY WANTED TO DO was a great idea. They grabbed that gleefully, & with both hands. Which is part of Bibi knowing that America is a thing you can move very easily ⬇️

Was surreally on my mind this weekend while trying to learn about fertilizing on a small-scale and mycorrhiza (and news on this today:)

A mix of decorated veterans and rising stars won 24 medals for Team USA, 13 of them gold. The last one arrived Sunday, when the U.S. sled hockey team beat Canada to win its fifth straight gold medal.

North Carolina raising the cost of products sold in state prisons by five cents is a significant increase to incarcerated workers who typically earn between forty cents and $1.25 per day.

Gonna hold on to this croissant metaphor for the rest of my creative life

An honor to talk to Dahlia Lithwick about the policy + legal history of US citizenship & migration. It is horrifying that my book drops as SCOTUS decides the constitutionality of the birthright citizenship stripping EO. What U don't know about this history can shape your support for present law. 1/

"Virginia General Assembly Passes Historic Legislation to Allow More Than Half a Million Public Service Workers the Freedom to Collectively Bargain" bluevirginia.us/2026/03/virg...

Every pronatalist argument I’ve encountered seems like it could be solved by a robust immigration system that allowed more people to move here. The reluctance to entertain that solution tells you what the real concern is.

We were just here donating books to a small reading group. There’s an online class starting on racial capitalism that meets after work. The community garden needs people to work the land and teach kids. The tenants are working on learning guides. You can canvass for the socialist candidate. Choose.

To be clear: the SAVE Act does not simply require the identification voting ALREADY requires. It demands proof of CITIZENSHIP— a birth certificate with a name that matches yours now (bye, bye, married women), or a passport— both of which are expensive and take a long time to obtain.

Viewers noticed Ryan Coogler appears to have a guitar and treble clef braided in his hair at the #Oscars

First takeaway from French local elections: continued gains for far-right, esp. in south of the country. Far-right wins reelection already in the first round in Perpignan, biggest city it already governs, & many smaller towns. It's going to be in a strong position to gain Toulon & (bigly) Nice.

A broad and erratic patchwork of severe weather rumbled across much of the U.S. on Sunday, dumping heavy snow in the Upper Midwest while damaging high winds swept across the Plains. n.pr/3N7ScOt

When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.

*taps internet microphone* After months of work, a project i've been coordinating for @literaryhub.bsky.social in conjunction with @maris.bsky.social is now live ... We've commissioned 13 reviews of books by LGBTQ folks not covered by the NYTBR under Pamela Paul ... lithub.com/what-was-los...

12 percent of people on death row in Alabama are Muslim, per the article.

"Jennifer Schuessler has meticulously documented the destruction since the beginning... But there’s something about seeing a callow young man blank out when asked why he destroyed so much that really brings home the mindless destruction of this campaign." www.lawandchaospod.com/p/doge-bros-...

This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon. Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org

It's not just that he refused to condemn Ogles and Fine; he endorsed the substance of their vile messages, taking issue only with their "tone," and he introduced a new line of bigotry-fueled conspiracy theory about Muslims wanting to impose sharia law. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

“The University of Wisconsin-Madison Academic Staff Assembly passed a resolution on Monday calling for UWPD to end their contract with Flock Safety and publish all other contracts with surveillance technology companies, like Motorola Safeties and Rhombus.”

A study of the landscape of data center organizing covering a one year period. This is fast. Data center organizing is local because politics is local. But local doesn’t mean small. www.datacenterwatch.org/report

A few things. This media justice report mediajustice.org/resource/the...

Another tough day for team “there’s no point in complaining about AI, just accept it.”

“Refuge, the UK’s largest specialist domestic violence organisation, has revealed that referrals to its Technology-Facilitated Abuse and Economic Empowerment team rose by more than 62% in 2025 compared with the previous year.”

"Do you want to want for the party that wants to return to transgender mutilation surgery for children? These are the choices" -- with the economy reeling, Mike Johnson is leaning hard back into culture war issues

1. Horrifying ruling out of the 4th Circuit. An all-Republican 4th Circuit panel has just ruled that states can compel trans adults to "appreciate their sex" by enacting care bans. It even directly says that trans adult care bans are legal in the ruling. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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4. More broadly, the ruling signals that courts may treat restrictions on transgender adults’ care as constitutional. It directly states that Skrmetti can apply to adults as well, saying that there is "disagreement among the experts" about trans adult care.

Gotta say that this is some extremely creepy language. And the argument basically is... that if the prevent people from treating gender dysphoria (adults, in this case), that they'll just... stop having it? That's not at all how any of this works.

A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.

Yep. You’re going to say “fuck tha police” one day and a month later you won’t be able to get through TSA.

We know about the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. But there was a very similar killing of a young man named Ruben Martinez in which immigration agents claimed he attacked them with his car before they shot him. New video suggests that too may be a lie. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

One, they wanted the content. Two, they wanted to get rid of women and Black people. Three, they wanted to install loyalists.

It’s one of the easiest things to game if you want to dabble in a little wage theft. And they are fundamentally anti-labor. I get why people feel morally obligated to do them but it’s not great. jacobin.com/2021/04/cust...

The danger to my job from AI isn't that AI can do my job, it's that my job is made even more precarious by the way AI is shaping ideas of the value of work. It can't do my job, but it can be part of convincing people (incorrectly) that my job isn't necessary.

maybe I'm focusing on the wrong thing here but this is the wildest shit I've ever heard a white South African say and I study racism for a living

A contrived “people” without a geography to justify it wants a homeland <—- that’s as dangerous as it gets.

The promise of charters was that they could do more with less. The reality is that they do less with more.

Her trip to Ireland was ruined by this one question?? Gee, I wonder why…

Happy International Women’s Day!

I'm too bored of this to try and be clever about it anymore. If you think that two men kissing, or two women kissing, requires any more explanation than a man kissing a woman, that is homophobia.

Brilliant 🏆 Isata Kanneh-Mason absolutely tears through Rachmaninoff’s fiendish Piano Concerto No. 3 with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.