Imagine if — rather than pitting and ranking our kids against each other from birth — we raised them to know and embrace their dependence on shared systems and other living things. As @jeremydavidengels.bsky.social says, we contain multitudes and multitudes sustain us.

this is exactly right. Our culture is so individualistic — especially in the "high achiever" reaches — that young people don't learn or practice collective solidarity. The higher on the social/ financial ladder you are, research shows, the WORSE you are at empathy and practicing solidarity.

Breaking: Vanity Fair and Olivia Nuzzi agreed to part ways after new revelations and allegations about an affair with RFK Jr. and her behavior while reporting on him.

I'm getting "hands grasping frantically for deliverance before their owners disappear into quicksand"

Reason #6467743 to practice humane parenting: Have you EVER heard of an autocrat who had a stable, loving childhood? I mean ever?

Guess who: "Although _____ almost invariably introduces a few human elements into his speeches... he seems to lack any real sense of humor. He can never take a joke on himself. [An associate] says, 'He takes himself seriously and will flare up in a temperamental rage at the least impingement.'"

And there's the motive.

I wonder if My Lai crossed Admiral Bradley's mind for even a flicker of a second of those 42 minutes? In any case, he's now linked with those perpetrators for the rest of his life.

Military leaders sat in an office for 42 minutes watching two men on the verge of drowning mid-ocean, clinging to wreckage, with no aid or ability to call for help. They sat there deciding whether to execute them, and then they did it.

TBH I'm a little baffled at how Nuzzi apparently hasn't thought up a single talking point, explanation, or excuse for the central question of her ethical breech. She acts like it never even occurred to her that people would question her about the results of her actions.

Why is The Bulwark of all places platforming Nuzzi at this point?

Let me get this straight: we trained this guy to be an elite killer, abandoned his country to the Taliban, isolated him, arbitrarily banned him from working and so left his family unsupported. I don’t know if there’s any more efficient way of producing a mental health crisis outside of torture.

"let them" is doing a lottttt of revelatory work here...

Anytime anyone brags about working obscene hours per week, remember that one of the biggest advocates for the 40 hour workweek was Henry Ford — and not because he cared about the workers It's simply not good for productivity to work people to the bone

For most people, AI tools simply don't meet the "essential" bar. While I've occasionally found them useful for brainstorming, I don't depend on them in any sense. I can get results just about as good with garden-variety noodling around on search engines.

If we cannot hold the line on being able to give bad grades for bad work then everything else we do is screwed.

We will not advance multiracial democracy until we stop blanket dehumanization of others based solely on their group identity presentation. From endemic racism, Islamophobia and xenophobia in narratives surrounding “crime” “immigration” and “voting patterns” to in-community jokes. It must stop.

In 25 years of teaching creative writing, by far and away the two most common traits I've seen among successful writers are that they read avidly and that they support other writers enthusiastically.

Once again, not a single member of the press corps stands up for their female colleague being verbally abused by the President. Trump is a historic disgrace, but every single person in that room standing in compliant silence is complicit.

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.

I'm embarrassed by how long it took me to learn this, but a creative life isn’t built on adrenaline. It’s built on unsexy consistency. I took my first creative gig in 2006. Somewhere along the line I learned that boring, repeatable work habits get me further than sprinting on inspiration fumes.

Scientists: have you been the target of an online harassment campaign, doxxing, or weaponized FOIA requests? I'd like to talk to you about steps you had to take to protect your digital security for an upcoming Nature story. (You can be anonymous if necessary.) RTs appreciated.

EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg

I think Alyssa told on herself...

Yes, this is boneheaded — but also illustrates well how the authoritarian instinct, in subduing rivals, is to target supposed violations in appearance and decorum, when most non-authoritarians find this laughable/ couldn't care less.

Carville had a great cameo in Road Trip but even that was *checks notes* 22 years ago

Americans will be unable to resist the deathless charisma of a ShamWow Guy/ Pillow Guy ticket

something i'll note is that if nuzzi ran catch-and-kill ops for rfk jr and lizza knew this prior to him being appointed as HHS, and instead of telling anyone, he decided to save it for his substack long after rfk jr had made communicable disease into federal policy, that's completely fucked

very Caroline Calloway (remember her?)

"At this time, I suggest the general public avoid the CDC website." --epidemiologist @kkjetelina.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...

Statement from Rep. Crockett on Threat at D.C. Office

"Fear is contagious, but so is courage." What we also know: choosing one or the other generates continued momentum in that direction. And that individual momentum turns into collective momentum.

Friends—I don’t care about the bluster of blowhards and bullies. You belong, just as you are, and I’m glad you’re here. The unity that suppresses community is not true unity. The oneness that denies diversity is not true oneness. The strength build on hate is not true strength.

Are we seeing the Donald Trump extinction burst?

We've all said this for years, but it's absolutely essential: he must be impeached and removed from office. Any "leader" who's not on board with that is no leader at all.

I know this song is real because I found a 2010 blog post about it, but I'm still having a hard time believing it

Well, that was something. Showed up for deportation defense training in Borough Park, trainers arrived, said there was “evolving situation” in Bensonhurst, were we up for heading there, we said Hell yeah, went and met folks on the ground, ICE ended up driving out of the hood with no one detained 🔥✊

the bricks are alive at this day to testify it; therefore deny it not.

Don't forget the gold-chain Zuckerberg version of this:

Absolutely - and speak with community leaders about what they need. In LA, Greg Boyle and Homeboy Industries are enlisting volunteers to run the carts of food vendors who don't feel safe, to keep their income stream going.

You might not have caught what just happened on the Senate floor, but the Senate just “deemed as passed” the Epstein resolution. That means as soon as it arrives from the House, it automatically passes the Senate (with no amendments) and heads to the President’s desk. Wow.

For the most part, our must-win, atomistic society does not teach or reward effective practices of solidarity. Intelligent young Americans are raised not to cooperate with others, but to surpass them. Why would that value system, drummed into them from birth, change now?

at any time the press corps could have stood up for each other. trump needs them - formal legacy news outlets - more than they need (to be in the room with) him. but it's been years now, almost a decade, and no reason to think they'll start doing it now. disappointing.

Trump-ku for you: The one pilot said Skedaddle and that thing just Turned on its side — pppphhh. (Pppphhh: the sound of a balloon expelling what little air it has left.)

The election of Donald Trump and his continued presidency is a catastrophic failure of the U.S. Constitution and our political institutions on the scale of the Civil War. We should spend the next decade reforming our laws and rules to ensure that nothing like it ever happens again.

Amid the wasteland of this week can we please just pause and rejoice that toucans actually exist

Olivia Nuzzi was doing journalism the right way. by Ezra Klein

Which female reporter was this? Do we know?

This is some horrifying predatory shit.