Some of the Democratic senators are either mindbogglingly stupid, or completely disconnected from reality of what their constituents really need.

look, I'm not an idiot. I know paywalls are annoying. I am just asking, for decorum's sake, that you do not quote-post me when you ask for help getting my article for free. please. I don't need to know that you don't value my work.

The basic view of Alito and the rest of the Roberts Court when it comes to voting rights is that black people can vote for anyone they want as long as it is a Republican.

the era of people smoking everywhere fucking sucked, with every street littered with flaming garbage, and everyone else forced to trudge home smelling like shit. romanticizing that is batshit.

if someone is smoking indoors you should be allowed to douse them with a bucket of water

the indoor smoking bans of the 90's and 00's were the last genuinely great win for organized labor in this country and absolutely could not happen today, trying to reopen this door actively sets us back as a civilization, don't give them an inch

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Supreme Court: [overturns Voting Rights Act] Professor at the Lee Atwater School of Race Law: this is sound jurisprudential reasoning

This is the result of decades of organizing in the conservative legal community that’s been allowed to flourish in plain sight as anything but a committed ideological movement.

Which one are you? I’m somewhere between 2 and 3. 😅

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🙋🏿‍♂️It's me, some dipshit! 1. Texas banned cell phones, but didn't ban school resource officers. An SRO is a cop that walks the halls in high schools, violently assaulting Black kids for no reason. No one believes Black kids about this. Smartphones are the only path to accountability.

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Hilarious that people are suddenly up on their fucking high horses and finger wagging about "conspiracy theories" and "disinformation" as if any of them have a clue what the fuck they are talking about

Hey, it's my birthday. No need for presents: just, as the guys said, be excellent to each other. But I guess if you *really* wanted to get me something you could preorder my next book, ETERNITY'S TOMB. Though seven months is a long time to wait for a gift, I guess. www.amazon.com/Eternitys-To...

What right-wingers cannot handle is moderation. They simply can’t hack it in places where the best ideas rise to the top and the worst ideas are disregarded and subjected to the scorn and derision they deserve. Ironically, enough, what conservatives can’t handle is a marketplace of ideas.

It pisses me off how the good folks are leaving. We didn't have enough good folks in this industry in the first place. It's gonna be too late *when* the bubble bursts too.

RFK junior‘s health ideology is a mish mash of eugenics and euthenics, much like many eugenicists of the past. In this essay, I will…

It is an emotional day for me. Two years ago tonight, I had a brush with death when I found myself in the center of a borderline EF4 tornado while in my car as it ravaged Sulphur, OK during an outbreak of >30 tornadoes. ICYMI: this long read is my story of what happened and what I experienced.

Right now, at least, voters care more about whether their elected officials will fight for them than ideological alignment, and certainly than individual policy issues, which are rarely a singular motivation for voters even in normal times: nobodyslistening.org/p/first-look...

This is one of the many reasons AI “art” comes off as offensive to so many people. Its aesthetics have become a visual shorthand for evincing a lack of care or consideration on the part of the purveyor. And most of the time that is exactly right.

WE DID IT TEAM

This insightful thread made me reflect on how I, a Gen Xer, was socialized to think about the political agency of ordinary citizens...and how those historical "lessons" that I'd imbibed, drawn from the history of the 1960s and 70s, just don't ring so true to today's young adults.

He was corrupt, voted against universal healthcare and is a bigot.

It has the same vibe as Mangione’s: no one else is doing anything, and someone has to. He has well thought out moral underpinnings for why he’s doing it even if his conclusion about *what* he must do is wrong.

Someone please bring this up when some GOP pundit accuses “the left” of glorifying violence

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ugh all the bad kinds of sickos are going to start showing up here huh

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I put my Alex Karp / Palantir piece on Medium, where a lot of the techie are, and someone left a long response here that is exactly illustrative of the humanities blind spots that a lot of these people have. medium.com/@espiers/ale...

“No place for violence in a Democracy” say people you may remember recently encouraging drivers to run over protestors for being in the way

I'm glad I kept an open mind. It wasn't easy judging from the title, but really worth the lesson learned.

raising kids is like watching the “reaping/sowing” tweet happen five times a day

So are we calling it the "Faux-ssasination"?

AI now writes 127% of my code. Here's what I learned.

"The plot" is how much profit the old guard can suck from oil, gas and coal in what's left of their lives. Anything beyond that such as what it does to the country, is simply not a concern of theirs.

This is such a stupid question. Criticism is not “heated rhetoric” much less violent rhetoric. But it’s particularly gobsmacking when actual violent rhetoric comes from the Republican president all the time

That may be true but only because Christian Zionism exists, is heavily white Evangelical, very racist, and wildly anti-Semitic. But Netanyahu is happy to play with fire if it decreases his chances of going to prison

Ever notice how many men see a woman doing something they think is risky (like traveling alone) and immediately assume she’s naive and stupid - instead of assuming she’s intentionally taking a calculated risk? They can’t imagine a woman might do something even mildly dangerous on purpose.

whatever i’m going to bed. one of you call me if it happens

This is one of those times where our smartest social media posts ever might be the ones we typed and then deleted without sending.

The White House Correspondents Dinner’s First Amendment theme overtaken by the Second Amendment.

Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom. Many may not know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country. (Published 2022)