I'm deadly serious with this. A huge reason we're in the mess we're in is because the media treats evidenced policy like housing the homeless and decriminalising drugs as absurd, outrageous nonsense, and "you can't even say blackboard any more because of woke" as serious and meaningful.

I know many things are bad and there is no shortage of doomscrolling you can do. But little things still matter. A hot shower. Drinking water. A compliment from a stranger. A kind gesture. Knowing your enemies are aging poorly. Getting enough sleep. You still deserve time to rest and recover.

You can’t get over it because everyone wants to reify it over actual looking at the specifics And the specifics are they targeted people a whole bunch of folks were okay seeing attacked in public They knew it and no one else wants to even admit it

The kids are not playing dumb. They are playing WHITE like so many of you Where you think your REFUSAL to hold anybody accountable for harming Black/ Queer / POOR you need to watch these kids BRAG about how easy it was to play you because you can’t talk about WHY THE FUCK IT WORKED

I mean, I also blame it on Trump, obviously, but I blame it on Biden, too. Biden's decision to avoid decisive action against Trump early in his term was like a decision to allow a rattlesnake to continue slithering around a kindergarten.

The US military can take over the Strait of Hormuz. But it would require a big ground invasion and sustained occupation of Iran’s coastline (at minimum). The straightforward reason why I, with no access to classified info, knew the US had no plan is because they didn’t position the assets to do it.

Just watched A New Hope with my 13YO and that movie hits different in 2026, I tell you what.

fuck me for being this person, i guess, but public universities are a civic good and shouldn’t be run like businesses. and if you’re going to insist on running them like so, at least do some market research. students like their professors; they don’t want MOOCs taught by ChatGPT.

Who’s going to ASSESS all those students? How are you going to find out what or if the people taking those classes are learning the material? (I know they think the answer is ‘AI’, which means ‘no one; we’re no longer concerned with student learning, we’re just going to pretend it’s happening’.)

You don't get to paper over the fact that they are bigots. They knowingly wanted to strip minorities and women of any historical representation. They killed projects simply because they had ethnic identities and genders attached.

my other hot take on birth rate discourse is that I really really don’t much care for seeing specifically *cis men* casually chatter about it.

People outside Ireland need to know how much ordinary Irish people resent this obsequious 'tradition.'

Sheriffs across the country make it a point to publish booking photos of every person they arrest and they run them in the local paper.

😭😭😭😭

No, I am not worried about 'declining' birth rates, I accept them as post-modern birth rates, the birth rates that naturally happen once the conditions are set that children can be expected to survive to adulthood reliably and that women are allowed to be educated and become full citizens.

how ironic to see the state protect two people who sought to strip the state while working under the direction of elon musk, who has made it impossible to seek recourse when people get death threats and harassment on twitter

It’s also yet another example of the unbearable fragility of the “F your feelings” / free speech warrior crowd.

it’s unreal how these grown-ass men had no problem destroying untold lives with chatGPT but go crying to a judge when people make fun of them online

A friend who grew up in the punk scene confirmed to me that Nazis can’t help outing themselves and you gotta turf them out right away or they bring friends next time and it really feels like we gotta learn to do that with every aspect of society.

And just like that, my enthusiasm for Katie Porter whooshes down the toilet. Taxes are a privilege because they support our whole society. It's how they're used and who pays the most that is the problem.

You can't out tax cut Republicans. They will happily put taxes to zero, cut everything they don't like, debt finance whatever they do, and stick a Dem with the resultant mess when it shits the bed.

We simply cannot survive as a society or a democratic polity with ~40% of the population not paying taxes. We certainly can't have a Scandinavian-style welfare state, as Bernie Sanders pretends he wants, as he co-sponsors bills like these. Per @socio-steve.bsky.social: bsky.app/profile/soci...

I feel like it should be more widely unpopular that in the past year we’ve witnessed the creation of an American Stasi required to meet arrest quotas who utilize an AI technology created by a company run by a sweaty raisin of a billionaire who thinks Greta Thunberg is the antichrist.

When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.

one more note here: we are currently running absolutely astronomical deficits at the federal level, and nobody cares because a Republican is president but the second a Dem gets back in the Very Serious Debt People will be back in force demanding safety net cuts not a lot of room for tax cuts there

what i want to see out of future democratic party leaders is a recognition that federal spending is legitimately good, that we should do more of it, and that doing so will require collective contribution that many, many people are going to scream absolute bloody murder about

Hey @uwaterloo.ca, is this egregious nonsense acceptable? Prof Nacke is crowing about his refusal to read, think or do the work he was hired to do, while celebrating farming it out to the text-extruding plagiarism machine. Spitting in the face of ON higher education on the tax-payers’ dime.

Declaring that no quarter will be given unequivocally violates international humanitarian law. Indeed, ordering that no quarter will be given, threatening an adversary therewith or conducting hostilities on this basis is prohibited and constitutes a war crime.

Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.

Exxon is never going to sell you gas for $4.99 when it could sell someone somewhere else gas for $10.99.

Thank you! At an event last night I said "If the word hope doesn't work for you try, 'Never fucking surrender.'" The word hope seems too sunny to a lot of people, but the heart of it as I'm interested in it is: we make the future in the present, if we show up, and that never surrender part.

'Let’s return to that question about the supposed poor returns for creative arts graduates. The answer lies in the fact that they are effectively subsidising the creative industries that they’re working in – they are...selling their labour for less than they might earn in other sectors'. 2/3

I think this has to be the most awful user of AI I've ever read, and there's a lot of competition 🤬

"I don't know what weapons the next war will be fought with, but the one after that will be with sticks." "Because of nukes, right?" "No, because we decided logistics was woke."

i don’t know how this is supposed to work in terms of intelligence but whatever these guys do is taking stuff that is not theirs to take and then sell it for the highest possible price electricity water clean air knowledge you name it they should be treated like the common thieves they are

Yes: Trump *wants* to leave this world with a wrecked USA and a wrecked world. He wants us to remember him as the worst person ever. He knows only fools will remember him fondly & he’s fine with most remembering him as a monster. He just wants to be in our heads until we die.

The fact that on the one hand governments are having kittens about kids and teens on the socials where they *might* encounter bad people, while not giving a fuck about giving them access to psychosis-inducing chatbots is quite something.

I am starting to, and it suuuuuuuucks.

Went to Barnard in the 90s. Lived with genderqueer people; took queer theory; read Stone Butch Blues. Had a roommate say of Kate Bornstein, ‘she is so much of a woman that she gave up all that privilege to live as one; I don’t know why any feminists think she shouldn’t come to our parties.’

One of the problems in a concentration camp regime is that institutions tend to respond to authority the way they always have, and are often incapable of shifting gears to acknowledge in any panoramic way exactly how bad the situation as a whole has become.

It was an an “accident,” but functionally on purpose because Hegseth literally got rid of the make sure that’s not a school unit then bragged about it.

The position “American shuls are presumed valid targets unless they proactively disavow Israel” is as wrong as “American Muslims need to proactively disavow Islamist violence to be considered good, loyal Americans.” Both are racist, and both are wrong.

If you run like we're under mortal threat, you need to lose like we're under mortal threat, too. Throw your body on the gears. Cosplay the GOP rejecting everything just to make those in power look bad. If you don't, do not come back to us in 2 years & tell us democracy is on the line.

This is correct, imo. A Democratic administration successfully broke students' will to protest. They won nothing and faced massive consequences. NO ONE stood up for their free speech rights among mainstream pundits. Now they're to blame for the Biden administration's success at repressing them? No.

For weeks now, I've shared information about HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS protesting ICE REGULARLY. So much so that whole states like Kansas and Texas are rolling out LAWS to sanction schools and laws to criminalize TEENAGERS. Please let's be serious.

No-one says ‘Fast food isn’t going away, so let’s work out how to incorporate it into your diet’, yet we are often treated to the same non sequitur when it comes to AI

Seems to me that if you're upset that there's not more of a student movement fighting fascism in 2026, the first place to direct your anger is the people who crushed the wave of student organizing that crested in the months immediately preceding the fascists' rise to power.

im just really fucking sick of spending my entire adult life lurching from one worldwide economic disaster to another all because people pretend republicans arent dumb as dog shit morons completely detached from reality

Too often I think we view misogyny through the lens of women’s responsibility—do women cause misogyny, how can women avoid misogyny, how can we blame women, always—instead of recognizing that there is literally no way to opt out of or avoid misogyny entirely, because our whole society is built on it

can claude turn an all night existential crisis into a morning epiphany and the produce a semester's worth of work within a weekend?