#BrokenTimes: "Republicans have taken a different tack.... It is a question on which the left and right have largely diverged"

Credit to Bluesky, “Nazi tattoo bad” managed to nail the litmus test on the first go-round.

It’s not a guarantee that if you’re for racial justice, you‘ll have good gender politics. But a lot of lefties with terrible gender politics are racist and it’s often expressed in their class commitments and virulent anti-identity politics.

There’s simply no way to come out of a fight with a clown looking good. Either you’re the guy who got savaged by a clown, or you’re the guy who beat up a harmless clown.

Land near Light Rail generates 27 times more property tax per acre than before. We've seen $14 billion in development along the 52 existing miles of Light Rail in this region. That's not a small difference. 2/

may it be mcconnell's legacy that reconstruction includes a whole raft of metarules: when in congress, show up to your job when there is a nominee, there must be a vote when a bill passes, it must in fact be advanced for either signature or veto when congress allocates $ it must be spent

The L sign I'm making on my forehead is a nuanced symbol bespeaking a rich trove of ambiguous motive

Do you all know about this Sips and Scholars series? It is a free public lecture series set in bars, parks, cafes, and restaurants all over Brooklyn. Organized by BPL and Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. discover.bklynlibrary.org?event=true&s...

This Is Just To Say I told you so about that thing you disagreed with me about of which irrefutable proof has now emerged Forgive me it is too delicious too sweet not to remind you that you were wrong

oh yeah no i definitely said this

DOGE was *wildly* successful. Its purpose was: 1. A cover for an administrative, personnel, and financial coup, following a plan laid out in Project 2025 2. Data theft and tech backdoor installation 3. Letting the world's richest Nazi nepo baby commit a white collar genocide shutting down USAID

my hot take is that this is the actual america 250. just a ton of different people coming together, showing people what makes America weird and fun. people being welcoming. and yeah there’s some bullshit too, which is also very true to America! but the good and community far outweighs it rn.

Architecture Foundation has the better tours anyway

Happy 4th to you + yours. Did you know the colonists were BIG MAD at King George III over migration & citizenship issues to the point that these end up as enumerated line items in the Declaration of Independence? Drawn from the colonial chapter of Migration & the Origins of American Citizenship.

Democrats are afraid the DSA is gonna do Stalinist purges and the Republicans are just concerned they'll give free stuff

would love to see a hostile audit of Freedom 250. hell, would love to see hostile audits of everything even tangentially related to trump. this will produce endless material. you could conceivably bring the administration to an effective halt!

There were more people at the DNR Fish Pond at the 2025 Minnesota State Fair (as there should be)! Their Reflecting Pool was much clearer too…AND HAD GAR 😎👍

Enjoyed the second in the Detective Aunty series of Uzma Jalaludddin. Toronto-area settings, interesting cultural context, engaging protagonist in Kausar Khan. #CrimeFiction #WomenWriters #CanadianLiterature #AmReading #BookSky

Mamdani: "As we mark 250 years ... we see the wealthiest country -- one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more ... we see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans"

the scandal is that on fundamental matters of life and death, he leads the party in the interests of donors and against the interests of voters

We spend so much time thinking about how awful everything is that we forget Trump and The Turds don't get to decide what America is. I bought a birria ramen and tamale in the supermarket parking lot last night and sat on some folding chairs and watched soccer with some random people and had a blast

MECHANIC: that’ll be $250 CUSTOMER: $250? For tightening something with a wrench? MECHANIC: $250 for a lifelong education that allowed me to know what to tighten with a wrench

one of the biggest issues we have had is that we don't call out dumb people enough. a lot of the people with a disproportionate influence over our world are just really dumb. donald trump is dumb. elon musk is dumb. yglesias and klein. they're dumb.

I can’t get over how this announcer is just acting like all this is normal, as if we aren’t all waiting for Bob from Chicago to finish his coffee and clock in

I thought it was nice

Would also be great if academic leaders didn’t trip over themselves to capitulate. They aren’t leaving anything in place to defend.

When Nottingham, Exeter, and Glasgow are making cuts, the entire sector is dying. Well done to successive governments for killing one of the few sectors that combines local economies and global influence.

READ MORE CRIME FICTION: Like in Issue XVI of RHP! Check out this list of amazing writers. Available July 2: bit.ly/4eJmjp7 #crimefiction #shortstories

You can’t. Just defend humanistic inquiry.

This weekend’s reading. The primary crime plot and investigation are okay; the cultural and historical context offered by way of a secondary plot is compelling. #CrimeFiction #Finland

The difference between this attitude and the abject fear driving the centrist Dems who have done nothing (besides largely capitulate to Trump and whinge about not having power) and have nothing to offer is so, so stark.

This is like the way we talk about calories. The goal of calories is not to get your calorie consumption as close to zero as possible- that way lies death. It is to help people understand how many calories they need to eat to live a healthy life.

So Musk sics his DOGE boys on the NEH to eviscerate humanities funding on the pretext of it incubating woke mind virus while contributing to the ongoing tilt in humanities funding toward technologically oriented projects. These are not separate incidents. They are a coherent plan. 11/n

"Hiring of college grads is down across the board. But certain majors are able to access opportunities in a wider array of industries, new LinkedIn data shows." ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH 69% VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS 68% www.forbes.com/sites/courtn...

“Loitering is not permitted in this area. Please proceed to a designated location. Thank you for your cooperation,” a surveillance machine tells a small cluster of National Guard members as they patrol the fenced off Reflecting Pool in the rain.

Liberal minded people, members of a minority or not, urgently need to get our heads round the fact that there is ALWAYS a reaction against gains in equality and not allow ourselves to be seduced by the idea that it wouldn’t have happened if the less privileged group had been more discreet.

My big hypothesis is that the old state flag discourse is just a replacement for all of the Trump flags that folks no longer feel comfortably flying. Was surprised driving up north last weekend how few Trump flags or decals I saw. The old state flag is just a less embarrassing way of vice signaling.

Chronically annoyed by people who do not love things. Have a dorky hobby for the love of god. Please. I love someone wearing a dumb tshirt about their interests and carrying a field guide. It rocks so hard

What confuses me is why there is so much discussion about how to fund LLM-augmented research but so little discussion about how to fund people to go to archives for years to read and interpret documents.

the “practice having no fear” mural of alex pretti on nicollet ave in minneapolis is finished, just a few blocks north of where he was killed by border patrol during operation metro surge. the inclusion of a medicine wheel makes me wonder if a native artist did this, couldn’t find a signature

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"I have seen children harmed by disease, poverty, by bad luck. I had not, until now, seen them harmed so methodically by their own government." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The movies lied to us: from the goose-stepping ultracompetent Nazis and gimlet-eyed Soviets to Darth Vader and glamorized absolute monarchs Fascism isn't cool and edgy. Authoritarianism isn't ruthlessly efficient. They're both too dumb for words Only Death of Stalin truly gets it right

World Cup in Milwaukee would’ve ended the world

This is the legal defense fund for the 15 anti-ICE organizers who were recently arrested in Minneapolis. Please contribute generously. They are going to have millions of dollars worth of needs. chuffed.org/project/1865...

Future generations won’t ask what happened. They’ll ask who allowed this.

At a World Cup watch party / street festival / Afro-Caribbean local-business market watching a guy in a kilt chat with a Morocco fan, eating something delicious and fried from an Ethiopian food stall on Juneteenth, and, despite everything, this is a great country.

literally just shed a tear at jozy altidore, a usmnt player whose parents are haitian immigrants, interviewing ricardo pepi in spanish. this place can be so fucking cool if we let it.