This is the kind of thing that has been rattling around my mind. The thing making people frustrated with Democratic response to the GOP is that it broadly lacks the level of vision—reconstruction, if you will—that extricating us from this mess requires. Couple paragraphs I really liked.

The toilet issue on the Gerald Ford carrier was so severe that it went all the way up the chain of command—to the Rear Admiral.

This AK-47 Negotiates 800 Rounds of Cease-Fire per Minute!

In the 1920s, leaded gasoline solved the problem of noisy automobile engines—and caused a public health crisis. In #AHAPerspectives, historian @dcsackman.bsky.social asks about the risks of embracing new technology like generative AI before understanding the consequences. 🗃️

Site of the asarco smelter right now, cleaned up through superfund. I’m hoping we won’t need a superfund for gen ai fallout….

You know it’s bad bad bad when they’re pepper-spraying Senators for demanding entrance to facilities in the state they represent as permitted by law

It’s wild that the Pope is doing what most college and university administrators refuse to do )and in fact, many are tripling down on AI).

"If technology promises emancipation, yet produces new forms of global subordination, it stands in contradiction to the fundamental principle of human dignity."

The Pope and Chris Hayes, among others, are raising questions about AI in light of technological history. (I'm one of the others.)

Will Clarence Thomas and his wife be reimbursed for paying for the J6ers' buses?

President Lincoln Concludes Mostly Enjoyable Night at the Theater

My take: it’s like lead poisoning from gas and smelters. Just published by the American Historical Associations Perspectives magazine www.historians.org/perspectives...

Tribute to Rudy Acuña: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Mamdani: I cannot help but think of the words of our 40th president, Ronald Reagan. He famously said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the govt & I'm here to help'" I think nine more terrifying words are actually, "I worked all day and can't feed my family"

The most accurate portrayal of the pro-Jim Crow, white nationalist Roberts Supreme Court I've seen yet.

Pissed about this. Shake hands with Trump, while the Constitution and our democracy go up in flames. Like throwing Reconstruction under the bus.

(Mis)anthropic case update, timing of payout scenarios

A piece I wrote on legend Ramona Bennett Bill's firecracker of a memoir, Fighting for the Puyallup Tribe. I highlighted the theme of fighting for education.... www.pugetsound.edu/stories/educ...

My AI take: like the Tacoma smelter… www.historians.org/perspectives...

What's gutting about this is that Juniper seems to have had a family who supported and loved her, she was in a community that has been explicitly welcoming to trans people, and a man still murdered her. She was living the life so many trans people can only dream of, and it simply didn't matter.

In the past week, the Trump regime has sought the names of every trans kid in NYC, passed a rule that trans people must out themselves to buy firearms, and said trans people are akin to terrorists who will be "identified, mapped and neutralized". Where is the coverage? Where is the goddamn outrage?

My AI take: like the Tacoma smelter… www.historians.org/perspectives...

Abortion is in fact deeply rooted in our history and traditions, Mofo Alito

[well actually post] on the modern potato: that would be luther burbank, and it "originated" in Massachusetts, but he brought it with him to California (where he worked as an independent plant developer, not affiliated with a land grant U) and eventually it took root there and everywhere.

Born Yesterday in the USA

Our Sloop, aka Ode to Canvas (Beach Boys, based on Bahamian folk song): So hoist up the John B's sail See how the mainsail sets Call for the captain ashore, let me go home Let me go home I wanna go home, yeah, yeah Well, I feel so broke up I wanna go home

This right here is what was at the heart of The Grapes of Wrath. People starving, but saving capitalism demands the destruction of food. We need good farms, good food, and good working conditions.

For @ms.now, I wrote about the Trump administration going after Smith College, a New England women's college, over allowing trans women to attend the school. The investigation not only threatens the school, but also the surrounding town, which I live in. www.ms.now/news/trump-s...

Joe Biden didn’t use Funny Words. Kamala Harris didn’t use Funny Words. Tim Walz didn’t use Funny Words. The Democrats don’t have a Funny Words problem. Trump & Vance & the entire far right authoritarian party call people vermin & use Funny Words every day. Stop spreading this BS. It’s an ugly lie.

“Mr. Dawkins, have you seen Claude's vagina, sir?”

americans already distrust institutions, what if we badly automated the entirety of education using tools developed by a sociopathic extraction class with absolutely no morals and a vivid hatred for the humanities in a country with no privacy laws or consumer protection standards? I am very smart

MMIWG, important piece by Michael Oberg.

Open bribing from big oil—/what could go wrong?

By Treaty, which the Constitution says is the "Supreme Law of the Land," this is Lakota _land_.

They bought the supreme court, who have brought a flamethrower to our democracy fight. What are we going to do, state of Washington?

Knicks up 41 with 7 min left in the second? My goodness.

This one is for Dana Bash (and for the great Jamie Raskin in a different way), because in the middle of a berserker rampage by the right, those of us on the liberal-to-left spectrum are supposed to stop it through seraphic politeness, according to the lost souls in the middle of the road.

John Garrison Marks gives a great George Washington talk! Perfect for this year: invite him to your campus or museum.

University of Puget Sound women's 8 crew places third at Western Championships (against div 2 schools). Lumberjacks just nosed out the Loggers.

your money or your life

We are already seeing Massachusetts DOC take trans women in men's-designated prisons out of their single cells and place them in cis men's cells. They have been told PREA rape protections no longer cover them. This is illegal, immoral, and WILL result in assault www.yahoo.com/news/article... #mapoli

"icarusing"

This #EarthDay, we honor not only the land, but the hard working people who nurture it. #WeFeedYou Este Día de la Tierra honramos no solo la tierra, sino también a las personas trabajadoras que la cuidan. #SoyEsencial

"This investigation is very much ongoing," FBI Director Kash Patel said, "just like my drinking problem. If anyone needs me for the investigation, just break down the door. Out"

“Why weren’t faculty consulted? On the contrary, Skynet was trained on an extensive archive of pirated humanities articles—hence its misanthropy, overuse of the em dash, and proclivity for always already predictively adding “already” after “always.””

It's essential, but also a fitting punishment for someone who spent so much time and energy protecting the statues and memorials of the white supremacist traitors who came before him in the Confederacy.

The pontiff and I, an atheist, walk on common ground with respect to the weaponized and monetized imposition of AI into our daily lives and epistemologies.

Humans need electrolytes Droids need to be electrolitonfire

Bunch FTW again