I'm looking forward to listening to this. I really enjoyed Griffith's talk for Long Now, a decade ago (youtu.be/gsHnrBVr-2k -- and apparently he gave an even more popular one several years prior to that), so I know he communicates good ideas well.

We're ruled by people in all three branches of government and across the tech/corporate landscape who think it's bad that this happened and wish the mob had prevailed, plain and simple. It's clarifying.

I have to assume (because I won't check the record) that some of the Clown-King's several hundred Xmas Day bleats took care to note that his bombing of Nigeria was part of a concerted Nobel Peace Prize Hail Mary effort, no?

Great points in this thread: We don't usually think of 1965 immigration act as on par w/New Deal and Civil Rights, but it was a major liberal achievement and Miller's real project is to undo it. As @larryglickman.bsky.social says this connects w/goal of undoing other great 20th century achievements:

Seventy years later, and the US remains reliant on brave youngsters to withstand the denigrations of our ignorant, hate-fueled powers-that-be.

Certainly makes sense to me..............

The Cracker Barrel thing was THIS YEAR. We have three more years of this shit. Anybody who makes it to 2028 without looking like Nosferatu will be required by the state to start a skincare brand.

This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.

One doesn't expect much of the courteous and complimentary in social media (maybe the Bouie/Chatterton dynamic is closer to par?), so it's been nice watching this li'l interchange btwn Jamelle and Moira develop, while I've waited in line for crabs outside Sun Fat, for the past hour.

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

Full story about what's going on at CBS News: www.cnn.com/2025/12/21/m...

support independent media. idk what else to say right now.

here’s a list of great independent media outlets to support instead of fascists:

The opening passage of a @flaminghydra.com piece, published a few days after our most recent presidential inauguration, eleven months ago, continues to feel relatable. So... I guess we're still hanging in there! flaminghydra.com/the-end-and-...

An immigrant works a dangerous job to protect Americans. It puts him in medical debt. Now he also has to worry about being deported by ICE when he goes to work or takes his kid to a soccer tournament. Feel safer?

LOUDER.

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

This is exactly what I thought *last* weekend, ugh...

alien from a dying world: there it is... our only hope. all now depends on these 'Earthlings' being kind and trusting enough to allow us refuge here in exchange for our advanced techn— (the entire planet is suddenly blanketed with nuclear explosions) well. what can you say. honestly, pretty funny

The thing that always gets me about the whole “mass migration means immigrants recreate the conditions of their country of origin!” thing is that it is so transparently fucking nuts that there is not a single example of it ever being true in all of human history

This, of course, is the typical method by which erratic tariff increases lead to a golden age, see: eventually, every other country's rising tide will lift the US boat. Crafty!

It took me way too long, to move Graeber's history of Debt: The First 5,000 Years, to the top of the pile. Picketty's Capital still languishes there. I think I might bump this higher, sooner.

Nicely done job by @annamerlan.bsky.social on a very difficult subject given how thin skinned Benny is for such a tough guy alpha male www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Today, my colleague David Yaffe-Bellany and I published an investigation into the frenzied world of crypto unleased by Trump. Risk taking, profiteering & yes, innovation, as crypto bros sense that this is the moment crypto will go mainstream in the U.S. Free link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/t...

“Making America Great Again is a project to give meaning and dignity to the American man, to give the people discipline, identity, and a vision of forward progress.” MAGA’s human avatar: *drools*

Finally, a workable plan.

Jews are 3% of the population in the US and less than 50% consider ourselves Zionists. Zionism is approved by 35%+ of the US population which means that 94% of Zionists are CHRISTIANS but somefuckinghow it's Jews fault if we get killed bc Zionism.

All time fave summer gig, manning the griddle at Dave's South Philly franchise!

Here’s Zelenskyy, freely walking in Kupyansk that Russia claimed to have occupied. So when we talk about “occupied territories in exchange for peace”, what exactly are we talking about.

I really do unironically feel like this all the time

Some combo of the many things I don't know--pop density of PEI, exchange rate of Canadian $$$, drinking rate of Canadians--must be exponentially different than I'd have imagined, to generate $600k *profit alone* from backstock of US liquor on what, to my mind, is a tiny island, north of rural Maine!

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara to US citizen detained by ICE: "I apologize that this happened to you in my city with people wearing vests that say 'police.' That's embarrassing."

Hiring a Black woman: “identity politics” Hiring a white guy for a job that has been held disproportionately by white guys, because he is a white guy: “subverting” identity politics! (The author of this sentence is Dylan Byers; you will not be surprised to learn that he is a white guy.)

It’s good that more of Wall Street has realized a rule-of-law market economy is better than corrupt personalist authoritarianism. Would’ve been nice if they got that last year, rather than thinking they’d gain from the corruption, or that the priority was getting to say slurs with less pushback.

I genuinely don't think I've ever seen a more transparently corrupt government and I'm from India

Immigrants ‘plucked out of line’ at citizenship ceremony at Faneuil Hall “the cradle of liberty”. If you ever claimed you want immigrants to do it the right way, this should outrage you. On the other hand, If you think this was okay, you need to come to terms with your white nationalist views.

This is everyone’s free speech stance. Writing a book about that now.

I'm listening to the audiobook of Greg Grandin's America, América, and learning TONS I hadn't previously known about the history of interpretation of the Monroe Doctrine, around the world, but chiefly in the American hemisphere: bookshop.org/p/books/amer...

I’m fairly confident that our Amerimaidan moment will happen when we get leaked footage of this stuff. You thought the reaction to video evidence of George Floyd’s death was bad? You haven’t seen anything yet.

Link here: www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

I'm pretty sure the Venn diagram overlap of Americans who would describe their attention paid to politics as anything more than minimal, with those on whose lives the Pantone color matching system has even the slightest bearing, is both vanishingly slight and minimal.

A lot of folks have spent time dunking on this and being angry in response; both are understandable because this view is wrong. But I also understand how people *arrive* at this mindset, because it's the cultural default that we're taught if we don't know any better. One of scarcity and vengeance...

ALTMAN: And so you can use Sora to generate interesting videos of you and your friends, all with AI. FALLON: (giggling) So, heh, so that's a video of me in space, wow! ALTMAN: Exactly. FALLON: Could you generate a video of me where I'm not just a useful clown for fascism? Where my work has meaning?

RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women". Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.

Trump is exploiting last week's shooting to do what he's wanted since day one: shut down asylum, block refugees, revoke green cards, and target immigrants from countries he doesn't like. This is racist, un-American, and illegal. Trump can't erase international law with a social media post.

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

This is why foreplay is important