leaders like trump are why sun tzu had to write a bunch of advice like "don't write your enemy a letter detailing what tactics you really don't want them to do"

the modern take Plato's Cave seems to be that the shadows are actually the only real things, and that everything else--including other real people--don't matter because they're not shadows

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It smells like the left wing of the day of judgment

I think a lot of people forgot that Iran was already falling into an absolutely cataclysmic water crisis before this war started; their president spoke about the fact that they might need to *relocate the residents of Tehran*, all 15 million of them, back in November

@clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social !!

They are torturing and killing people in our concentration camps, and I wish more people were actively bothered by that

we need smarter idiots

If you are between the ages of ~35-45 [strictly honor-system reporting here]: 1. Do you use the adjective "fire" in conversation? E.g. "Wow, the cover of that book about Elizabethan carpentry is fire!" 2. Now this is very important, be honest: Do you think you sound not-ridiculous saying that?

If you’re interested in this, I wrote about the weaponization of anti-retaliation policies (and other good faith efforts like no contact orders) in On the Wrong Side.

i've never been a great (or even especially good) poster in the twitter/bsky sense, yet it still surprises me for some reason when my scrupulously articulate posts e.g. analyzing current events don't generate interest and silly jokes or flights of fancy I wrote in 10 seconds become well-liked

"Our good friends in Israel, those sneaky mind-controlling Jew bastards, have gained control of Donald Trump's brain, you see, so really this is their fault, and we support them completely, the backstabbing [k-slur]"

"Trump / Every Single Awful Thing Trump's Ever Done = Trump / Israel"? This math doesn't appear to make a whole lot of sense. Israel is guilty of the worst crimes a state can commit. Their military/security apparatus is entwined with that of the US. None of this means Israel controls Trump, (1/4)

WELCH: Mr. Yoho is also the husband of your former spokesperson, Tricia McLaughlin? NOEM: Yes WELCH: So your former assistant and her husband are the ones that got the DHS no bid contract for $143m. Any dispute about that? NOEM: No.

'UNIMAGINABLE CRUELTY': Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointeee from NY, thrashes DHS' treatment of a man who came to the US at 9 as an abuse/neglect victim, has no criminal record and became a college grad. "The laws of decency condemn such villainy." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I had to quit the high school debate team because I didn't like what it was doing to me. I didn't like what I was becoming

Criticizing Zohran over NYPD's dumb, senseless, quasi-legal belligerence: not super helpful. This is Jessica S. Tisch's fault. Criticizing Zohran over the decreases in public library funding in the NYC budget: important, necessary. Push him to do the right thing where he is clearly able to.

is every show on every streaming platform 10 episodes per 'season' now because that's the number people can count to with the number of fingers we have, or is there another reason

a production of Romeo and Juliet that turns into a kaiju story when Juliet's balcony is reveal'd to be a huge monster's mouth

it's fine if you say "The days are getting longer" but somehow it's not okay to say "the days are getting fat again"

someone said "just shows to go ya!" to me recently and I said "ya just that shows goes to!" and then walked away a bit, then turned back and yelled "just ya shows that it it it it goes just! YAAAAAAAAA!"

NEW: Four federal judges have formed a firewall against ICE in West Virginia — and say they’ll punish state and federal officials of they continue detaining people in ways they have ruled illegal and unconstitutional. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

The white supremacists want to divide Jews and Muslims because they know we actually have more in common with each other than we do with them and some people apparently want to do their job for them smh

JUST IN: A federal judge in Oregon has barred ICE from conducting warrantless arrests without probable cause in the state, saying the agency's "dragnets" have flouted "clear and undisputed" law. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The judges in WV have seen enough. They say that if the ICE continues detaining people in ways they have unanimously deemed illegal they will start issuing civil fines and contempt findings — including against state officials who help them carry it out. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Cover of The Lancet: @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

BREAKING: We're suing Kansas for a law that invalidates transgender people's updated driver's licenses and authorizes anyone to sue anyone they suspect of being trans for using the "wrong" bathroom.

is every show on every streaming platform 10 episodes per 'season' now because that's the number people can count to with the number of fingers we have, or is there another reason

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.

Criticizing Zohran over NYPD's dumb, senseless, quasi-legal belligerence: not super helpful. This is Jessica S. Tisch's fault. Criticizing Zohran over the decreases in public library funding in the NYC budget: important, necessary. Push him to do the right thing where he is clearly able to.

I'm currently mad at him about the issue of library funding in the city budget but this really was handled much better and that's an impressive improvement in a short time

Yes, that's a large part of the difference between critical thought and blithe credulity. I don't know if what he's saying is entirely true and fully accurate, and you're just assuming it all is.

staying on the Nazi site apparently results in great journalists with righteous politics retweeting racists, though, so doesn't seem like a great idea.

Now THAT's a headline. "The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents" fortune.com/2026/02/21/l...

review of Tlingit writer Caskey Russell's incredible first novel, The Door on the Sea: anduilleaggheal.neocities.org/leirmheasan/... as I said previously, incredibly refreshing to read a novel that feels so genuinely grounded in the aesthetics of oral storytelling, not just oral stories.

I got a tip that all over the world, people are using a dead-simple hack to manipulate AI behavior. It turns out changing what AI tells other people can be as easy as writing a blog post *on your own website* I didn’t believe it, so I decided to test it myself www.bbc.com/future/artic...

The bottom line is that NYC Public Libraries need increased and most importantly STABLE funding annually. Mayor Mamdani promised both and this preliminary budget is a BROKEN PROMISE. There’s time for him to rectify this. NYC library patrons expect that he will.

6 months ago, I spoke with Marisa Kabas about the dangers that the Trump administration's anti-immigrant campaign represented for our communities. Today, I am as clear as I was that day, we must Melt ICE, dismantle DHS, and hold the fascists accountable.

Emeril, no one has to get hurt... put down the Brontë

wealth concentration is already 200% as bad at is was in 2020. think about that

🔥 “To me, when we're talking about what justice looks like, it's ultimately getting to a place where every single fascist agent and the leaders that directed them to do what they did are held accountable to the highest degree of the law. And that means prosecution.”

NEW — I spoke with Rep. Delia Ramirez (@ramirez.house.gov) about her calling DHS leaders "inheritors of the Klan hood and the slave patrol," the prospect of one day seeing them behind bars, and what it's like to see the public [finally] embrace her long-held dream to abolish ICE. Our conversation:

I had to quit the high school debate team because I didn't like what it was doing to me. I didn't like what I was becoming

just before Newsom lunges you can hear "KNIFE!" from one of the muppeteers