Every ICE agent is a traitor. Those who were once Christian are also apostates.

although they do carnally and visibly press with their teeth

Every ICE agent is a traitor.

This is less of a biased study trying to push for more AI usage. It's a list of the utmost fantasies of the worst anti-intellectual executives sitting at Microsoft. This is such a display of ignorance? A complete uselessness regarding what Historians and Mathematicians do in their jobs.

Maybe we shouldn't have a society that valorizes traits (e.g. greed) that have historically and universally been understood to be evil.

Every ICE agent is a traitor.

Every ICE agent is a traitor.

Cracker Barrel American Eagle War on Christmas: the right needs us to loathe them because that's central to their identity and operations, and if we don't they'll just fabricate it. Not news, but here's a new case of that:

The population of Chicago is measured in millions, and the invaders number in hundreds. We could smother these attacks in bodies like honeybees dealing with a murder hornet. The reason we don't is assholes like me, chilling in safe neighborhoods where you'd think nothing was happening.

Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance. Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn. We have been sent here to fight for people.

Uncannily accurate.

This is what we need.

There's a wrong way and a right way to report this

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

Despite what Klein says, he’s not trying to understand the American right. Understanding them requires being honest about their beliefs, policies and (far!) higher propensity toward violence. Pretending this is all a polite philosophical disagreement is the opposite of fostering understanding.

Wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.

MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence

they didn't do this when democratic lawmakers were targeted by a gunman. the mainstream media barely peeped when a Kyle Rittenhouse fan did a mass shooting at a Portland protest. Democrats and the mainstream media are just terrified of conservatives to the point where no one else's lives matter

once again, i'll suggest that perhaps the reason the broad public thinks democrats are weak is that when confronted with situations that demands that democrats loudly and proactively stand up for their values, democrats shirk from the fight

The regime will do what it wants and we only have control over our responses. Let our responses be worthy of our values.

There's a man in back of this place. He's the one who's doing it. I can see him through the wall. I can see his face. I hope that I never see that face, ever, outside of a dream.

The people remain standing.

If you went back to the 2000s and told someone the future has a website called "x dot com" that has heaps of pornography they probably wouldn't be surprised until you said the UK Prime Minister and Elmo from Sesame Street post on there.

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our common life depends upon each other's toil

The problem isn't that transphobic parents are being ignored, it's that they're *lying about basic facts.* This is the dynamic on nearly every issue of public interest, from guns to climate change to economics. "The bigots are lying again" is a fucking great message for democrats and it's true.

I used to do this. JDI is inviting folks to write holiday cards to incarcerated people. It's simple: you sign up and they send you cards to write: justdetention.org/woh/ - perfect for people who are homebound.

Every summer that I worked on Capitol Hill, I got *multiple* assignments resulting from conversations my Senator had at the state fair. It feels like many current members are irredeemable but if we give up on telling them what we want, it's just another victory for them.

"She says each tent had eight large cages, which hold 35 to 38 inmates, which means each tent holds close to 300 detainees." ...Like “an oversized kennel.”

Bodies like chaff some ecstasy must thresh, /

What is happening is that the less visible work, the smaller commercial commissions that writing careers are built on, are disappearing, not because LLMs can do these small jobs well, but because the universal adoption of this tech is *convincing* people that they can do them well. 9/

If the (wildly popular) governor of Kentucky can say this with his whole chest then what excuse does the (wildly unpopular) governor of California have?

If you pretend to know nothing about Epstein, the "Physical Evidence" row here sounds like a writing prompt (possibly written by a Coen brother.)

not wanting to "do discourse" but compelled by conscience to say that Gavin Newsom accepting right-wing framing of gender-affirming care and trying to position himself as some Solomon of hard choices is bullshit. care is care. the people who need it and the people who provide it are the experts

It's when you assemble the whole picture that you have to raise the question if the intention is to destroy this country and whether this country is in fact being destroyed.

ICE abuse and violence isn’t starting from scratch. ICE officers aren’t new grads from ICE school. ICE abuses immigrants, because US law enforcement abuses residents. ICE facilities do human rights abuses because US jails and prisons do.

I've written my Representative asking him to call for censure against Randy Fine. I think you should too. We need to push back on this kind of bigotry being treated as acceptable in the public sphere.

About once a week, I walk over to buy new coffee beans and accept the free drip coffee that comes with. So one day a week I consume way more caffeine, and subsequently write way more, than any other day. (Sadly, it only works because I consume less on the other days.)

I know we don't feel like there's much to celebrate this July 4th. It's been a rough several years. So I want to talk about how we're making history right now.

REMEMBER: All the "Don't use em-dashes" "don't use rule of three" advice because it makes your writing "look like AI" is because they stole actual writers work, and their "predict the next thing" stuff just simulates what WE FUCKING DO. Keep writing well. Use every style and trick you have. Fuck AI.

anyway, in the wise words of @prisonculture.bsky.social :

Elon Musk casually, and illegally, dismantled USAID. According to a new study in the Lancet, that action will lead to *14 million* premature deaths between 2025 and 2030. Again: Elon Musk is directly responsible for 14 million coming deaths. 4.5 million will be children.

You know you can just not use AI, right? You can make a choice not to be part of this. Even if your job uses it, YOU don’t have to in your normal life. You don’t have to let your kids use it. You didn’t have it three years ago. You can just…be on Team Human. You can choose.

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This is necessary advice for any kind of writer, ultimately. I'm guilty of not doing this enough, because if I sit down to read during the day my mind floods with 8 other things I "should" be doing instead, and I can't concentrate.

He is literally *doing* the blood libel! Gay revolutionaries did not "focus entirely on children," the right plucked these issues out of obscurity and turned them into culture war fodder! How is he this fucking credulous

If you’re an anarchist and you can’t or won’t build consensus I have bad news for you about what the commune will be like.

This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

imagine a world where the national press gives these stories 1/10 the coverage they gave to right wingers getting booed on college campuses