They built this technology with this use case in mind.

For the second semester in a row, I am feeling this. Why ask me to critique an article when it's the first one I've ever read on the subject? 😭

Pretty clear from Secretary of Lying @karolineleavitt’s tweet they’re just gonna try to lie their way through it. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

"but we can't support trans rights, it's unpopular!" just a reminder that US approval for marriage between black and white people at the start of the civil rights movement was 4%, reaching a whopping 20% by the end of the movement it's 95% now you don't wait for popularity for a rights movement

People make fun of the Arkansans begging for help that they won't get after voting for someone who never had any interest in helping them anyway but I need folk to also make the connection that they are employing the strategy advocated for when you say 'Get them into office & then move them left.'

Fell asleep with YouTube going and woke up horrified to realize it had autoplayed me onto a 24/7 feed of AI-generated "jazz music"

What this means in practice is that 14K trans people will have to quit their federal employee jobs and find jobs that cover gender affirming care. In other words, this is a purge of trans people from the civil service. Lavender scare. Everyone who participates is responsible

I never realized that the people making arguments and decisions about this stuff think these cities are vibrant and beloved because of their economies. When I think of the coolest cities in this country, I don't think of the wealthiest ones. I'm not sure most other people do, either.

“I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed,” said then-Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Oct. 9, 2023… This was not a secret. It was the proclaimed policy. And it has been followed as such, on and off, ever since.”

Donald Trump blocks Taiwan’s President Lai from New York stopover https://on.ft.com/4lTlOey

me when my friend is talking to their better friend at the function

They fired the people answering calls for help. Hundreds of them. During the crisis.

Good thing the Democrats spent the last week melting down about Zohran Mamdani winning the NYC mayoral primary because otherwise more Americans might have known that the GOP was planning to fuck them to high hell and that wouldn't have been a good use of their time oh wait

With this budget, ICE alone would have nearly as large a detention operation as all 50 states' prison systems combined. Bigger budget than the Marine Corps. Police-state levels of spending

ICE *already* can't meet their detainment numbers without rounding up children, veterans, people born in the U.S., people with no criminal records, people at immigration hearings, plus academics and visitors with valid visas. So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget? The answer is: you.

Truly horrified by this order in way that is deeper and darker than I have felt over many truly awful merits decisions.

leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening historians: that thing is definitely happening star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it news outlets: these protesters are out of control

making art right now isn’t pointless making art right now isn’t pointless making art right now isn’t pointless making art right now isn’t pointless

GODDD I wish I had time to be in a rock band again. I miss being in a rock band so bad

The state Kristi Noem is from gets 40x as much representation in the United States Senate as the state Los Angeles is in. They take billions of dollars of tax money from our state every year. And yet it's not enough. They won't stop until they occupy our territory and destroy our freedom.

it really doesn’t matter if someone is in america illegally or not. who cares, grow up

One of the things mentioned here is that they arrived in unmarked cars and wore casual clothing, so if staff hadn’t had the courage to tell them to go away, how would you know they were federal agents and not random adult men abducting children? This should be the biggest conservative mom panic ever

I've been a casual fan, but I saw her live last night at World Pride and now this and... I don't look down on mainstream music, but you rarely see someone with this level of technical skill and personal integrity gain access to these stages. We're gonna be talking about Doechii for a long time.

a thing about plane travel these days is that the TSA policies are subtly different from airport to airport yet the TSA agents act uniformly incredulous that you do not know their specific, undisclosed-until-you-ask policies

Stepping out the door tomorrow to kick off summer gigs at World Pride in DC! Y'all know where to go for more info. Hope to see you somewhere out there!

Thanks for all the questions. Some questions answered. @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

I had to train an AI on how to say my name when I registered for commencement. It was weird, but I figured it was to help some official learn to pronounce my name properly for when I walked across the stage. Nope! AI read all the names out at the ceremony.

Jake Blount, A.M.! After two tiring, mind-expanding years, I got my Master’s in Musicology and Ethnomusicology from Brown University last weekend. Qualifying exams, my anthropology A.M., and the music Ph.D. remain ahead, but it's nice to have a win—largely thanks to the folks pictured here.

Unfortunately my new upstairs neighbors have a large and anxious dog

Let’s see how this goes down when it’s a yt, non-Latin person

It appears that the Republican administration has started deporting people from Myanmar and Vietnam to South Sudan, in blatant violation of court orders.

I haven't been on here lately bc I've been busy finishing my MA (more on that later), but cool stuff happened! I am unspeakably grateful to have played a small role in the making of Sinners as a music consultant. If I could commission the film of my dreams, it would be very much like this one.

None of the 278 men sent to CECOT have been returned. Meanwhile their lawyer has been arrested and "disappeared" in El Salvador.

People with houses, you need to start putting on house shows! We made art, and art moved people, long before these large institutions came into being. The arts do not actually depend on the NEA, they depend on our general resourcefulness.

This part

DHS arrested a Democratic mayor and is now threatening to imprison Democratic members of Congress. I assume this means no more talk of seeking "bipartisan legislation with my Republican friends," right?

fuck it, let's do it all at once, constitutional crisis, secession, schism, international trade collapse

You're reborn as a cartoon character. Who are you?

Just published my newest newsletter: "The Fog of Stagflation." This moment doesn't feel like anything Americans have lived through. We're used to stories with clear narratives edges. But now the map is gone, and an old word has returned. Stagflation. www.dataandpolitics.net/the-fog-econ...

So that's what Big Balls did with the terabytes of data he stole from the National Labor Relations Board a few weeks ago.

Jeffries is reportedly discouraging Dem members from going to El Salvador to protest the continued detention of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. www.thebulwark.com/p/what-happe...

i think it's time for me to really give Primus some attention

Pritzker: The reckoning is here. And now that this culture of timidity is on display, these same do-nothing Democrats want to blame our losses on the defense of Black people, trans kids, and immigrants, instead of on their own lack of guts and gumption.

everything is sooooooo bad

yes, senator slotkin, you're absolutely right that no one outside DC knows what oligarchy means. that's why 20,000 people in *checks notes* salt lake city showed up to an event with AOC and bernie literally called "fight oligarchy"

this would be an amazing band name

i've been saying we all need to get more used to cooking our vegetables

Trump's counterterrorism czar Sebastian Gorka says Americans critical of deportations like Abrego Garcia's are providing "material support" to terrorists — a felony crime. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-cou...

Let's let a bad presidency pass without lazy jokes about how DC sucks. There are hundreds of thousands of people in DC, many of them are not government-affiliated, and none of them have representation. The troublemakers come from elsewhere. The problem is quite literally everywhere BUT the District.