Mamdani has demonstrated something that Democrats have largely forgotten. You can't just do good things for voters and expect to be rewarded for it. You have to tell them about it, over and over again. You have to advertise your work in office just as much as you did on the campaign to win it.

The president’s mental health is a global crisis.

this pretty well sums it up.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy defines the marketing devision of the Sirius Cybernetic Corporation as "a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes." 2/2

The central reason that trust in health professionals dropped during covid is that the president intentionally and explicitly used doctors as scapegoats for the economic damage the pandemic caused. What irritated overly online center-right pundits is a smaller factor.

I really can’t state strongly enough how utterly stupid this is. Once you eliminate taxes for a class you will never be able to bring them back. And it WILL domino. Eliminating taxes and privatizing everything is the republicans’ end goal. Do not help them!!!

The Trump White House freaked out so much at the political disaster they created for themselves with Minnesota and other viral images of their roving, trigger happy crackdowns that they were forced to make their secret police force more secretive, but they’re still committing lawless abuses and…

Remember when EVVVVVVVVVERYTHING was going to be on the blockchain? Remember how so many people say AI is inevitable so just start using it?

WHY the GOP relentlessly attacks trans children is trans children are vulnerable. Everybody needs to decide which side of this fight they're on.

Part of the reason we are here is an inability to call racism “racism” because we are too scared to call racists “racists” It’s as racist as the day is long. We’ve “anxiety” “tinged” “coded” “some critics call” “could be seen as” and now “Calvinball” ourselves to this point. Call a thing a thing.

My friend who used to say the final stage of corporate greed was demanding to be loved is never, ever proved wrong.

The Roberts Court, the Trump White House, and the national GOP are acting like this is their one big shot. Either they secure the lasting end of US Constitutional democracy, or they’re in very serious trouble from the backlash. And they’ve already gone so far that there’s no other possibility.

If his job was to represent the rest of South Carolina, he would be Senator Clyburn.

Of course Achilles' shade shows up in the Odyssey (different Homer, imo) to inform us that, having done it, he now views his decision to choose a short, glorious life over a long, peaceful, obscure one as a terrible mistake. If he had it to do again, Achilles wouldn't even be Achilles.

This started happening to me this morning, AI offering me entire drafts of response emails. I find this enraging at a very deep level. Maybe for other people this is a convenience, but for me if I can't compose my own written responses I'm not a person anymore.

AI HR hiring AI candidates to do AI jobs selling AI products which are advertised on AI channels producing AI content for AI views to make AI stats go up. They won't even notice when the humans die out. That's the dead world aliens are one day going to find.

two things. 1. when the trump administration says that something is “illegal DEI” they are saying “you don’t deserve this” 2. the practical effect of destroying the VRA is to make it nearly futile for these americans to get relief from congress

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

we spent generations bipartisanly building an immigration system that is maximally cruel and burdensome whose only safety valve is discretionary enforcement, thus guaranteeing that when a Nazi came to power all the infrastructural legwork for concentration camps and race laws had been done for him

the severe misread of youth by ai prophets is that at 22 you’re starving for agency. all your life you’ve waited to call your own shots. the idea that what you get instead is “tell the machine to draw a horse” is inherently offensive

It'll be an unequal battle because landlords will not only have political backing they'll be employing legal professionals to find loopholes in a way that someone struggling to meet exorbitant rents won't be able to.

huh. when i had a cardiac incident in july and no insurance, the triage nurse asked why i decided to come in and i said i was scared my kids would find my body but I suppose this is scary too

The sense of a shared reality.

On the one hand, yes, but on the other: the baristas at my local coffee shop were my first friends when I moved to Dublin. We’ve been to each other’s parties. Neither of them has worked there for about a decade, the shop is no longer local to me, and we’re still in touch.

this isn't correct lots of eliminated Humanities departments were overfilling classes and effectively subsidizing STEM programs that cost universities money it was never about majors it is about what they could effectively fundraise for which includes this AI bullshit

"But AI can transcribe quickly for me!" The lack of time for transcription in the archives is not natural, it is created. The time to transcribe, which is also time to read and think about material, has been taken from us by those with the power to fund our work. Now they want it without funding it.

To be clear since the headline isn't: a study that claimed GenAI was good for learning, actually, turns out to have been bullshit.

if only Mary Shelley had warned us in 1818 about the dangers of literature instead of the reckless, hubristic pursuit of scientific and technological advancement carried out by ghoulish men with no regard for humanity—men who would desecrate the dead and kill the living to feed their power hunger.

Historical research does not need to be done faster or in greater volume for any social or intellectual purpose whatever; if anything, it needs to be done more slowly and deliberately than at present, by people allowed the training, time, space, and resources to do it that way.

And not just MLK. You’ve got to toss Malcolm and John Brown and Mister Rogers out of the boat, too.

Thanks today and every day to all the moms of trans youth out there fighting like hell for their kids. When the stakes feel like they're rising by the hour and everyone tells you you're wrong no matter what you do, thanks to those who stand between their kids and a world that doesn't deserve them.

If you use a search engine to research my institution it only has a handful of websites to pull from, which is why LLMs crank out wild shit about us. There isn't enough data to pattern predict from. And there isn't gonna be. I'm not putting any of our archival material online until LLMs die.

You're not gonna like my suggestion for making friends IRL but... Find a hobby/thing you like Do the hobby Reactivate your facebook account and find people doing that hobby locally in groups. Sorry, you had to reactivate facebook or you can just die bored and alone

A huge part of the power of this story is that she’s telling it to Axelrod, knowing that he is exactly the people she’s talking about, inviting him to get it, requiring him to react with ordinary sympathy to keep the audience. She is very very good at this.

This is such a needed public service. People have no idea how not private their surfing is. Very well done.

I have started checking the AP front page before I open Bluesky, just in case I need to know what I’m in for.

This is why I still mask on airplanes, and will never stop.

This 1952 memo from the Pentagon UFO files is superb There is no point preparing for aliens ‘because no one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens. At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic.’ 🤣 www.war.gov/medialink/uf...

It’s fucking hard to swallow that the democracy you thought you lived in has crumbled beneath your feet and you’ve got a long stretch of shitty times ahead. But that doesn’t mean there’s no hope. And you have to fucking swallow that pill.

1/ Tear gas was created to incapacitate grown men. So when I started seeing reports of kids hurt by tear gas deployed by federal immigration agents, I wondered how often it was happening. My colleagues and I started to count:

I'm seeing people post things like "things would be boring if Harris were president" and look, it would be much better if Trump weren't president, but posts like that are telling people that we are not in the fight of our lives, and that the end goal is complacency. That is how we got here.

“We’ve just pushed 4.5 million people further into poverty. Congrats to us”

The most important reason why Democrats should refuse to capitulate to these illegal and illegitimate acts like what just took place in Virginia is because capitulation only reinforces the belief that politics is futile, which in turn increases the probability that people will turn to violence.

More than anything, Republicans want Democrats to start to believe that it's hopeless so they won't bother to turn out. But the truth is that even the Virginia decision is not enough to prevent Democrats from taking the House if we have a wave election. But we have to have a wave election.

@abigailspanberger.com now faces a career-defining moment. Is she a fighter or is she a folder? Does she have what it takes to do the right thing or is she going to retreat behind process and conservative legalism and give up?

destroying the trees themselves instead of the peaches is where this goes from unmitigated greed into actual evil

I'm developing a pavlovian rage response to the word "disappointed" that implies you had high expectations which weren't met, and it conveys resigned acceptance. if you are a Dem still using "disappointed" to talk about Republicans in 2026, you have lost the plot entirely

One side is like “can we disenfranchise all the Black voters by this weekend” and the other is like gotta follow the rules that govern the rules that control the rulebook

People ask why I’m optimistic with how bad things are and it’s the miraculousness of human nature Common people have been toppling authoritarians for centuries. People who have no idea what’s going on are instinctively preparing for crisis and growing softer and kinder as revolutionary energy grows

Not yelling at Dave here, but the fundamental issue is that the bedrock assumption of our country's politics is that conservatives losing faith in the system is seen as an indictment of the system, and liberals losing faith in the system is seen as an indictment of liberals.