Honestly it’s a lot of the appeal to Trump too. He’s how a lot of people think they’d act if they were rich.

It’s one of the war’s most overlooked dynamics: Russia and Ukraine are running two of the century’s fiercest strategic bombing campaigns at once. But do drones offer a new form of strategic bombing, or are they still trapped in the same dilemmas that stumped the bomber mafia? My latest⬇️

The facts are complicated, but here’s a summary of what appears to have happened based on the filings and today’s hearing:

Trump's economy is being held up by a massive AI bubble. A recent study found that of 300 companies that owned generative AI tools, 95% reported zero return on their investments. We will not entertain a bailout of these companies should this bubble pop.

This week is Road Safety Week & a chance to talk about Barbara Castle! Barbara was Transport Minister for three years yet she was able to introduce the Breathalyzer, a proper integrated transport strategy & more! This was done despite fierce opposition. 📸 Photo from the Parliamentary Achieve

Melissa Tran came here on a Green Card at age 11. She's since raised 4 kids, started a business, & is a beloved member of the Hagerstown community. Trump is deporting her, despite a judge saying she poses no threat. Is she the "worst of the worst"? Do you feel safer yet?

The crime is not what we were doing protesting in the 10th floor elevator lobby of 26 Federal Plaza. The crime is what ICE agents are doing on the other side of the door.

the funny thing is we put exactly 1 streetcar line back and it’s been an instant sensation with two expansions and continuing record-high ridership that has made all adjacent property into prime real estate, so consumer demand has spoken quite clearly as far as I’m concerned!

my wife and her entire team were fired over Zoom from their program manager jobs at a local nonprofit Seattle hospital this Spring because Trump just stopped paying Medicaid reimbursements. and this is a relatively affluent urban center we're really not prepared for what's coming

Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air. “The transit system is one of the greatest tools communities have to combat climate change and reduce emission. You can make a pretty immediate impact.” [nytimes.com]

Hell he literally wasn't even cold before some dipshit was trying to use his death to get TikTok follows, and then stole bloody merchandise to hawk on eBay.

Probably not great to be selecting legislators by their talent at smoothtalking rich people or operating a scam call center

If AI was so profitable all these hobbled together “companies” wouldn’t be hitting up my inbox incessantly, as they are with so many, to try to get me to hock their slop to you. They are desperate to try to get anyone they view as an influencer to sell their stuff, it is the same as any other scam

A big part of why Mamdani won is that he actually seemed like he was interested in doing the job of mayor, and I would appreciate it if people let him focus on what is already going to be an uphill battle without demanding that he also declare war on the Democratic party.

Ukraine is of course actually dangerous.

This is basically correct. The fantasy is that he's a gritty antihero who lives by his own code and shows no mercy. Which is attractive. This all flows quite naturally from 80s and 90s popular culture - edginess as the sole barometer of morality.

I worked at the Pepperberg Lab back in the day where I cared for African grey parrots. It was a very rewarding experience, but caring for an African grey is a JOB!! The birds are very intelligent and social, and they are NOT TOYS.

Violent anti-mask protests, 1918 (by me). From www.thenewatlantis.com/publications...

resources re: ICE presence in North Carolina, distribute widely if you feel like it. all love to my community, no love to the people who said "but what is fascism really? historically, blah blah, name-calling gets us nowhere" when we were all saying "these people are fascists" linktr.ee/apply_heat

wrote about the president’s flagrant and destructive corruption in a column that references street fighter, the simpsons, machiavelli, and a host of revolutionary-era americans (gift link)

"The owner of the shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear plant has been awarded a $1 billion federal loan guarantee that will enable it to shift onto taxpayers some of the risk of its plan to restart the Pennsylvania facility and sell the electricity to Microsoft for its data centers."

This is the hardest I have seen any member of Congress work to try and address transphobia in Congress, and her ability to get nearly all Democratic lawmakers to sign onto this letter is something any first would applaud

“Most officers can tell the difference between orders that uphold our values and those that contradict them. They are not ignorant — they’ve simply been given permission to look away. Concocted legality offers cover, and the system rewards those who take it.” www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

but that last part did happen. imo it is particularly important to emphasize that the oil majors + big three did, in fact, directly reshape much of public transit in major cities and this included the literal dismemberment of public transit systems. was it the only thing? no did it happen? yes

The cowards should remake Ghosts with the perspectives reversed: a scrappy coalition of nations who don't exactly like each other team up for mutual defense against an increasingly unhinged country with a terrifying mix of vast wealth and obsessive delusions who cannot be reasoned with

Powerful op-ed from Btselem on accountability in Gaza: "Accountability is essential – not for revenge, but because there’s no reckoning without responsibility. Genocide must not be normalized. And a system that carries it out must not go unchallenged." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I'm honored to earn the endorsement of former Congressman Andy Levin. Congressman Levin fought for Michigan's 9th district with courage and conviction. He’s a champion for working people, our environment, and human rights. Grateful for his support.

"defense attorneys are telling us they can’t get their clients to take good or reasonable plea offers because they felt they’re better off spending their money on a political donation, drawing Trump’s attention, and getting the case dismissed or going to trial and getting a pardon."

The DOJ ordered US Marshals to the house of the pardon attorney who refused to sign off on a pardon to give Mel Gibson back his guns. Big law firms told her they supported her but did not want to be seen representing her. This is the use of government-sponsored fear to silence dissent.

Mary Beard: Hollywood Lied to You About Ancient Rome. Here’s the Truth. “We’ve inherited the history of Ancient Rome through movies, ruins, and shallow stories. The truth is far messier.” [kottke.org]

if white voters in southern states were the same as white voters in New York this would be every electoral map of our lifetimes

the great self-liberation of humanity is precisely our self-liberation from the shackles of our natural condition--yes, including our natural biology. fuck that noise

chicken ice cream convenience who could possibly object? (lots of people, it turns out)

don’t you just think every day of your life about how the only reason anyone still takes JFK seriously is because his side pieces didn’t have Twitter or TikTok to blow up his spot

great thread on how trump's personalist regime is playing out in the international arena. personalism as a mode of rule is not identical with, but is quite compatible with, reactionary policy agendas. it is this corruption we are going to need to CLEAN OUT www.liberalcurrents.com/americas-pat...

I spoke to Mahmood Mamdani about his new book, his expulsion from Uganda, his son Zohran, and *that* NYT article.

I will be writing another "Myth of Israeli Military Independence" entry soon. The hits keep piling up, and the more we disabuse the general public of the idea that the US was only indirectly involved in the war Israel unleashed across half the planet, the better.

Awards being given to USAF aircrews who expended several hundred million dollars worth of US taxpayer funds to ensure that Israel didn't have to face consequences for its brazen and illegal attack on the sovereign territory of Iran and the targeted killing of Iranian diplomats

man this shit is spreading denmark, uk, us…

Ten minutes ago, I woke up, looked at my watch to see it was almost 10 and freaked out because I’m moderating a panel at 10:40 and was supposed to be there by 9. I quickly threw on my suit and coat and started leaving, only to see it was dark out – and it shouldn’t be dark at 10 am.

I just hope we all understand that this can’t be just her. A lot of journalists are obviously treating politicians and CEOs like members of their messy friend group, meeting up for drinks and golf and dinner and sex, instead holding any of these people to account. They got into the job for this.

NEW: For months, the Social Security Administration was quietly sharing sensitive data about immigrants with DHS. Now it’s official. read @telliotter.bsky.social:

I know it's basically besides the point but Wu is also playing off a very popular trick-- sneakily eliding Palestinians as a people from her claims about ancestry. Most Palestinians are Levantine. A large share of Nablus descended from Christians or Samaritans that converted under Arab occupation.

THIS IS BIG For non-academics who might not understand why: 1. Sen. Warren is still a Harvard professor so this is a call coming from inside the house 2. As a tenured law prof, Warren knows it is a VERY big deal from a labor standpoint to call on Harvard to ignore tenure. The bar for this is HIGH.