I know what kind of friend I need. I need friends who like know-it-alls. I should go to jeopardy trivia nights.

The sole promise of using LLM's in war is to entirely remove a Stanislaw Petrov from the decision chain. (Oh, remember how LLM's were found to advocate nuclear strikes in 95% of tested scenarios?) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...

The rise in antisemitism is so, so ugly. It feels like dams of restraint have been breaking open steadily.

Over 17 THOUSAND people of the Korean #adoptee diaspora in the US, spanning the entire period up to its inception 70 years ago, lack US citizenship because of their adopters’ inaction. americancommunitymedia.org/immigration/...

Just underneath the absurdity lies one of the most volatile fault lines in city politics: The rift between elected government on the one hand, and the political power of the NYPD and the constellation of interests with which it is aligned on the other. hellgatenyc.com/mamdani-is-g...

Nancy 2/22/26… 🪱WOIMS🪱

This drink is called the Blue Sky Tea and it has blue curaçao in it, so naturally I had to try it

Dug into this absolutely wild thing happening to Finji. The deeper I read into their increasingly baffling conversations with TikTok "support" the more I felt like I was on something. www.ign.com/articles/tun...

It blows me away a bit to see how cynical people are today about the impacts of school desegregation. Like there’s been a huge retreat from the idea that integration is a social good in general. People only talk about it as a means to another end these days.

One of the lessons I hope people take away from Jesse Jackson’s life and the outpouring of remembrances small and large is that progress is made and measured in every act and utterance against oppression and not measured solely in legislative or electoral victories.

average european conflict over the past 1000 years is like “[french king] declares war on [french king] over claim to [italian speaking territory] based on their shared great great grandparents. both raise army of peasants consisting of 30 mutually unintelligible dialects

WOMEN👏DON’T👏WANT👏CHOCOLATES 👏FOR 👏VALENTINE’S 👏DAY 👏THEY 👏WANT 👏MERRIAM-WEBSTER’S 👏COLLEGIATE 👏DICTIONARY 👏TWELFTH 👏EDITION 👏

I love that they printed this lol

a thing we should consciously do on this website is stop just imagining LeftistsTM and LibsTM in these cartoonishly stupid ways, as though these guys in people’s heads are in any way representative of either

Look i think we have the bones of a really good country going here but the principles of democracy have been systematically corrupted by the forces of capital and their ideological minions who care more about fighting commies than promoting the welfare of their people

Bad Bunny’s halftime show was significantly closer to how America projected hegemonic power in my youth then any of the actions Trump and Hegseth have taken.

this may draw a lot of mockery On Here but it's true, the u.s. build a mount everest of soft power that it is now in the process of burning to ashes

No Kings includes Draft Kings

Ok it is now officially unbearably cold. Wouldn’t be so bad if i could be at home snuggled in a blanket but I have to be in MIT buildings that are made with way too many windows to chaperone a MUN conference

free them all

“(This is how men behave.)” It is not how men behave. It is how creeps behave. I swear to god, nobody is as eager to torch the reputation of men as men are.

So he is just saying out loud that it must be true because it would have hurt his feelings if it wasn’t. Dude how does anyone believe this guy’s shit

the kids’ inability to get in these colleges by themselves despite unfathomable educational and social advantages is likely the result of their parents enabling them to shirk work, cheat, and avoid consequences all their lives. It’s bad parenting. I am judgmental of it too.

Wtf? What rationale could there possibly be for this? I was just teaching students how to use this less than a month ago!

THREAD 🧵: The Epstein files are real. The antisemitism they're fueling is also real. And right now, the second part is getting almost no attention.

Third, journalists, non-profits, social media influencers, and everyday people need to be VERY discerning and careful about not amplifying unsubstantiated rumors about ICE or other law enforcement at or near the polls, because false rumors (even if well-meaning) WILL suppress the vote.

this is pretty wild. good argument for lockdown mode if your threat model is one where you might have your phone seized by the Feds: www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-...

Aliya Rahman’s congressional testimony is incredible. She is a very powerful, cogent speaker and I am glad to hear her voice.

JKR has a superyacht called samsara? That’s a little on the nose

Please make it your new resolution to visit AskHistorians once a week, because we've never been this invested in overtaking another community.

Some jawdropping CBP crime statistics here...

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

A federal judge warned Justice Department lawyers that their statements on a slavery exhibit display in Philadelphia were "horrifying." "You can’t erase history once you’ve learned it. It doesn’t work that way"

“Doctors won’t tell you this, but you don’t need medication for a tapeworm—all you need is the natural power of friction,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said as he dropped to the floor, lifted his legs high, and dragged his ass along the White House carpet during a press conference.

It always feels like all the wrong people die, but I think it’s because there are far more beloved people than there are bastards.

Borders also keep you in

i think this is exactly right. fascism is the Death Drive as ideology. it's why the catastrophic end of the Nazi Party does not deter people from worshipping Nazis. that the Nazis destroyed Germany along with the rest of Europe is part of the appeal.

Recall that Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered not long ago by a fake cop who showed up at their door looking like this guy

re: Stancil I think part of the problem with people on bluesky weighing in on this is that there is a natural asymmetry of public communication between a very online person and a group that, for reasons that they are probably not gonna want to hash out publicly, wants to keep operations private

the entire administration is a pit of vipers but we should hand whoever is trying to shank Stephen Miller more knives the absolute worst of the cruelty always comes back to him, get him out of there

Jake Auchincloss featured this lobbyist and former DHS official who supports ICE as a guest at a constituent event last night. #Massachusetts #mapoli @repauchincloss.bsky.social

It’s definitely not antisemitic to compare this admin to the Nazis AND in every post that does that there’s some rando in the comments saying “at least the nazis didn’t….” and without fail it’s something that the Nazis definitely did do. Guys, they’re the yardstick for evil for a reason.

types of replies to this post: 1. Lmao it’s so funny that they think these normal people are an insurgency. They’re just people who know how to organize potlucks Or 2. Of course insurgency tactics will evolve when you have a community that is living under oppressive occupation!

110% agree. The “empathy is a sin” doctrine is dangerous and dare i say heretical and too many people have been taking a live and let live attitude to it even while it lays waste to our society

signs left at alex pretti’s memorial in minneapolis: “i love you so much / i’ll miss you forever” photo with a friend, “i would have done the same. RIP alex,” a stethoscope and “we’ll take it from here, alex” and a tshirt for the minnesota nurses association

i feel for all the radical centrists out there now confronting the fact that their ideology was the one built in a bubble and formed by groupthink. with enough exposure to facts and logic they will, some day god willing, catch up to the left

ICE killing #AlexPretti should remind you of police killing #PhilandoCastille. Both men had concealed weapon permits, did not draw their guns, & were killed in Minn. These homicides are the price of unaccountable policing. These deaths are variations on the same fatal theme.

i’m a mess right now as all the tributes to Alex Pretti bring back the experience of being w my mom in the ICU in a state of the most terrifying dependence, always on the edge between death and life.

the children are protesting from inside the camps. i hope they know that we hear them.