This is insane.

Tried to get my real ID. I had my license, my SS card and my birth certificate. I was not allowed to get my real ID because my birth name is different than my married name. Now I have to go dig up a marriage certificate. You know who wouldn’t have to do this? A man. Never change your last name.

In the US, we tell women that they have to be Supermoms. That their kids are in constant danger, and it's their job to be on watch for threats and then swoop in to save the day. That role can feel empowering for moms*. But it also leaves them vulnerable to disinformation campaigns.

Only women? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... cc @jessicacalarco.com

It also could be worth including that, along with exploiting the original creators, these Ai tools/LLMs have also exploited workers across the world www.cbsnews.com/news/labeler...

Piggybacking on this great Jeff Selingo article with a couple paragraphs from our 2020 book Grasp: The Science Transforming How We Learn. A "selective" university sounds good until you realize how much human potential it's turning away.

A few strategies I use: 1. Talk with students about how: 1) AI tends to produce work that is at best mediocre and at worst just wrong, 2) using AI habitually weakens the critical thinking skills that make college valuable, and 3) AI exploits environmental resources and content creators.

A reminder: the in-state public institution that you or your loved one is admitted to will most likely offer you a quality education at an affordable price.

"Elite colleges have convinced us that scarcity equals quality, that a lower acceptance rate means a better education. But their own behavior shows that many of their decisions are more about manipulating the market than academic or any other kind of excellence." 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/o...

Ugh “Many, if not most, of the removed pages have obvious tie-ins to topics known to be disfavored by the Trump administration……the care of LGBTQ+ people, health equity issues related to a variety of diseases or disabilities, sexually transmitted infections, and related educational resources.”

Electrek: Tesla influencers tried Elon Musk’s coast-to-coast self-driving, crashed before 60 miles Hit debris in the road. Car kept going-after bouncing off the debris. Model Y had a broken sway bar bracket and damaged suspension components. electrek.co/2025/09/21/t...

Watch: 📺 🖥️ 💻 📱 Wisconsin Department of Health Services state epidemiologist Dr. Ryan Westergaard described an executive order from Gov. Tony Evers that requires health insurance to cover access to COVID-19 vaccines.

This is no small reason why pronatalism is so important to this administration. If women are busy having and raising kids - and the US further weakens its childcare infrastructure and job protections - then women will be increasingly relegated to domestic support roles.

I remember my first job after social work school, a cop saying I made more than him in juvenile booking. I made $35k, cops were starting around $50k. Now 10 years in as a licensed social worker with a masters in a different discipline, I make $60k as a supervisor.

This is what we risk when we fail to make student loans forgivable and when we fail to make college degrees free for all.

Essentially, women don't just become "tradwives" because they buy into conservative thinking. They can also be forced into trad roles by an insufficient social safety net. And being forced into trad roles can lead them to become more conservative. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697130...

Some pundits have argued that we can solve the "boy problem" by persuading more men to go into fields like social work and teaching. But I'd argue--they ignore the systems (and politics) that benefit from persuading men to skip college for the promise of high-paying, high-esteem "enforcer" jobs.

Fascisms also look to men to be the state's enforcers. And I'd argue that they persuade men to fill those roles by making jobs in law enforcement, military, and corrections the best path to security and esteem for men without college degrees.

“What fascisms old and new have in common is they tend to look to women to fill in the gaps that the state misses." And, I'd add, they get women to fill these gaps by making patriarchy's coattails the only way means by which women can achieve security or esteem. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

RELATEDLY: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

I’m going to say something abt domestic abuse that I think applies to our current situation: Abuse increases when the abuser feels they are losing their control. Also, here is the Power and Control Wheel.

The *useful* thing about Tom Homan being exposed taking bags of cash to benefit entities like GEO, now immigration lawyers can routinely point to that as an explanation for the stupid detention policy adopted by Trump's Admin.

Another entry into the Continuum of Insidiousness Book of Measurements, alongside the "Scaramucci."

I feel like we're operating at a rate of a Watergate-and-a-half a week.

If you're a cable host interviewing Tom Homan, at the very least you need to ask him about accepting bribes to influence government contracts. Or -- hear me out -- you could wordlessly pull a thick envelope from your coat pocket and slide it to him across the table with a stage wink.

The fact that these people are this upset over chalk drawings tells you how easily they’ll cave when faced with actual mass resistance. Bullies fold when you stand up to them. www.arlnow.com/2025/09/19/c...

Back in the old neighborhood, one of my mom’s closest friends sold dinners out of her kitchen using the ingredients she bought with food stamps. Huh.

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

Ten. Fucking. Years.

This kind of entrepreneurship is literally the only way that the families in my neighborhood growing up survived on the meager benefits we received that were heavily policed. This is exactly why I roll my eyes when people talk about the 2% of fraud in our gutted social safety net. It's mostly this.

I would like Never Trump Republicans to demand that George W. Bush appear and speak up for democracy in this country. Why do ppl always ask Obama to do things and “where is Kamala”? Where is the 43rd President of the United States while democracy crashes & burns. This is the party he led. 1/

This case makes clear that the point of work requirements isn't to keep people from exploiting the system. It's to ensure that the system has a steady supply of people to exploit. atlantablackstar.com/2025/09/19/m...

Hi, hello, I've spent nearly a decade recruiting & supporting local candidates who've won elections in 49 states - red, blue, purple, rural/suburban/urban & the secret is the candidate needs to reflect & connect with *their* community, not *your* ideology.

In the US, we require most food stamp recipients to prove they're "deserving" by working for pay. But we also charge them with felonies and threaten them with 10 years in prison if--rather than just take a sh*tty job--they try to start a business for themselves. atlantablackstar.com/2025/09/19/m...

People have been outside all day and night so far. Sending care & protection. Chicago forever.

To use the damned tent metaphor, you’re weakening its (ideological) structure by accepting anti-choice framing, and you’re making it a less desirable place to be for those itching for autonomy and freedom of choice protections.

Another aspect is that we are seeing massive gains in the stock market, but growth is entirely driven by the tech and AI sector while jobs in manufacturing and every sector except health care shrink.

"Anyone who's thinking about coming to this country, whether it's to work at a battery plant, or to watch the World Cup, is having second thoughts."

Great clarity on how the call for ‘more dialogue’ with MAGA is a dangerous, counterproductive Trojan horse (as it has been for a decade), plus a historical comparison for vital perspective.

I'm totally smitten with this birthday card that my 11-year-old made for her cat-loving friend. All the tiny details are packed with care, whimsy, and joy.

"One recent study... looked at every populist over the past century... 15 years after the election of a populist, avg income in a country was 10 to 15% lower. In a country like the US, that means your children will be $15K/yr worse off because of this president for the rest of their lives" 2/

"The shift towards crony capitalism.... the move towards authoritarianism. These are not things that show up in next quarter's GDP, but they still really matter." -- @justinwolfers.bsky.social in a must-listen conversation with @maryharris.bsky.social 1/🧵 open.spotify.com/episode/26ys...

there’s a lot of talk about big tech and corporations but so many international academic colleagues are also on H1Bs. no university is going to pay 100k extra a year to keep them. if this holds, it would essentially mean the end of foreigners on tenure track jobs at US universities.

Klein’s entire political project has been problematizing minor transgressions of the left while insisting we excuse or valorize the cruelty of the right. Every few months he facilitates the ceding of more ground, assuring us it will protect whatever thing he will then insist we cede 3 months later.

Contrarian pundudes are dudes first

Klein's suggestion reinforces the false perception that feminism is to blame for society's problems. And, in that sense, he's actually making Democrats' job harder. By making it seem like "men's rights" activists are right.

I genuinely cannot believe that Ezra Klein said we should run pro-life candidates in Kansas, Ohio, and Missouri; three states that recently held abortion referendums where the pro-choice side won!

The notion that Republicans are the more real Americans, whose authenticity Democrats must pay tribute to with imitation, persistence even though it is contradicted by more and more actual empirical evidence.

Big companies like Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft appear to be playing ball--issuing orders to their H1B visa employees last night, telling them to come back to the US by tomorrow.

Did they think no one would notice the change? www.ipm.org/news/2025-09...