Boston has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

If you're boycotting the US so that the American people suffer, rather than to pressure the government and large corporations into changing the political path we're on, you're doing sadism, not activism.

International boycotts of US goods doesn't mean individual Americans should stop trying to make ends meet actually.

the Dems are all like "what are we supposed to do????" and I think the wildly positive reaction to Cory Booker right now should send the signal loud and clear "literally fucking anything, just do SOMETHING instead of sitting there"

"RUGGED INDIVIDUALISM DIDN'T BEAT THE NAZIS" Sen Corey Booker And it won't do it this time, either

IF YOU'RE IN LINE TO PISS ON STROM THURMOND'S GRAVE, STAY IN LINE

No, Democrats, these little auction signs aren't it. You're acting like Wes Anderson characters who don't understand that they're in a Tarantino movie.

The thing that everyone thinks is nuts, but I absolutely think would work: a presentation that looked like an Apple keynote product launch, but for all the cool shit that the government makes for people. Cancer treatments, national parks, space discoveries, free tax filing, cool new airports.

"Together is the best way through. It always had been. When we build systems that include more people we do better. When we build systems that exclude more people we do worse, and it's pretty much that simple." @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social on #p4a2025 💚💜

waaaaay too many people in the middle imo

#P4A #P4A2025 The moment when Hank finally started to sing "Pink Pony Club" with his guitar and the audio cut out...

THREAD Weird and wrong beliefs that humanity held onto for way longer than we should have. These days we enlightened denizens look back on those simpletons and giggling fools of old and tut-tut at their hilarious beliefs. *Record Scratch* Here's some stuff we got wrong until recently. 1/19

Huh. So this is how we're going to get back on the correct timeline? That tracks.

👍

Think about what daily, hourly chaos does to the ability to make *any* kind of plan for the future, shrinking time horizons that have already been shortened by existing marginalizations The people most affected by that chaos, are the ones who are already trapped in an eternal present.

This seems very bad.

I am holding on tightly to these words because this week has felt like a year. The moment demands the wisdom of ancestors.

Me sitting at a desk instead of on a couch for the first time in months yesterday.

I like to sew. The first step is cutting out the pieces of fabric. Alone, each one is just a useless scrap. But when stitched together, they create something really cool, or helpful, or beautiful, or all of the above. All of us are “cut out” for it…But we can only do it together.

My eight year old suggests that we just have TikTok every other day and, honestly, yes.

Looking to the future, the greatest challenge America faces is the lawlessness and recklessness of the new executive branch and the total fealty the president commands in the Republican party. Seems to me there ought not be any role for bipartisanship in what’s coming. bsky.app/profile/schu...

What top Democrats have spent the last eight years trying to restore can't be restored. It's been broken irreparably, and it's been repudiated by voters. What progressives—leftists, liberals, Democrats, whoever—need to do now is articulate a vision of the next thing, and start making it real.

Ain’t a single one of you lived under a full fascist state & you don’t know how you’re going to respond anymore than anyone else will. & if you’re looking for a list of heroes who operated in full fascist states in modern history, the list is gonna be woefully short. Start by supporting each other..

When a parent denies medical care to a child they are arrested for child abuse. When your insurance company does it their stock rises and the rich get richer.

Buying art from folks I follow (and in some cases are now friends with) on Instagram is my favourite thing to do. My second favourite thing is giving them detailed (and sometimes slightly unhinged) compliments in the comments of their posts.

a lot of people are saying to make weirder art right now, and i totally get it, totally am for it if that's what you feel your heart wants!! but also there's a part of me that thinks what we should actually do is spend time figuring out what our heart wants, weird or not

Hard to overstate just how much of the tech industry’s horrifically dystopian present grew right out of its transparently misogynistic past

Are your friends in LA exhibiting a completely normal trauma response? Comfort them in their time of need by telling them they've been drugged and/or have fallen victim to space lasers

Calling the fire department woke in the middle of a massive wildfire is I guess the logical endpoint of gamergate

It annoys me when people say bigots are voting/acting against their best interests when they harm themselves because it also harms those they hate. They are voting/acting on their interests, it just happens to be that their highest priority is pushing down those they hate.

Unpopular opinion apparently: Society is very complicated, and improving it is very hard, but we should at least try. Please tell me I'm wrong about it being unpopular.

NGL this made me a little homesick.

Does the Wirecutter have any recommendations for DIY guillotines?

This is so sad, it's been closed pretty much since we moved here so we hadn't gotten to visit.

I’m in a Lyft on the way to a doctor’s appointment and my driver is listening to an NFL analysis show, are these people sports pundits? Is that the appropriate term? Because this sounds exactly like post election commentary.

Tbf the excecutives are a symptom, the real disease lies in the shareholder system

This is your recurring reminder that you shouldn’t say stuff on public social media that would look really bad if security forces printed it out and knocked on your door to discuss it at midnight. If you believe, as I do, that we are entering very dangerous times, please start acting accordingly.

USGS is now showing two: 6 on the mainland and 7 off the coast. NOAA says the coastal is 7.3. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/... tsunami.gov

I felt this (and got the phone notification) in Chico! I thought we’d left this behind in the Bay Area.

Normalize saying “I need to think about that.”

It's wild that people do this when you can communicate "I already knew this and am very clever" with a "yes and" reply that actually adds to the conversation. This approach only makes sense if the entire point is to be rude.

I just learned two things. 1. I had never peed with noise cancelling headphones on until just now. 2. If I can’t hear the pee being peed I will assume I am somehow doing it wrong and panic just a little bit until I confirm I am.