Important PSA from @scalzi.com and his hype man (me): EMPATHY IS COOL, ACTUALLY

Absolutely incredible. NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone. Watch with sound on.

I think before you build an Arc de Triomphe you should be able to identify at least un (1) triomphe

Gonna spend the next two years spamming every elected Dem about the concept of "damnatio memoriae." Chisel his name off every inscription. Build over the various Trump Towers like they're Nero's Golden House. Remove him from physical memory, not to forget but as a sign of disrespect to the man.

Everything the Ellison family could own if Paramount buys Warner Bros: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central Cartoon Network And more... This is a rotten deal that the Trump regime has rubber stamped. State AGs must step in and block it.

This debate over progressive neologisms being pointless hectoring has been going on for 50 years (below was published in 1980) Dems should try to reduce its political salience rather than credit the idea that they’re part of a problem in need of fixing www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

And the thing is!!! With Ossoff actually running right now, it's clear he understands this is a winning message.

"And I will prosecute them and take it all back."

Trump didn’t create it. Over decades “we” have allowed the Supreme Court to become what it is.

Sometimes the preface to the question actually answers the question...🤷‍♂️

And so I will circle around to my constant point: the instinct for a comforting aristocracy is endemic in the human populace, and the job of democracy is to ruthlessly destroy it whenever it appears. Not build a political, legal and moral (prosperity gospel) framework which fucking encourages it.

Look, for my money the absolute game changer technologies right now are batteries and biosciences, not statistically modeling a mid conversation, but you do you.

“Parents call 911 for help with mentally ill son, so cops come & kill him” is an EXTREMELY common story But our elected officials & media live in daily terror of being branded anti-cop, so we’re not allowed to talk about it

Some ambitious Democrat humor me and run for president just repeating just these simple ideas: 1) justice / prosecution / revenge against Trump + GOP 2) anti corruption across the board! connect to above 3) universal healthcare 4) universal human rights 4) no USA tax $ or weapons for genocide

It’s actually fine & good to say “I would not vote for Newsom” right now bc he’s NOT the nominee! Ppl are saying “I won’t vote for Newsom” to be as loud as possible that he sucks and should not become the nominee, challenging Dems to do better. Newsom is not inevitable and NOT the right person.

for those who missed it, here's the reason behind Melania's batshit crazy "press conference." Surprise: Melania is a liar. apple.news/AsZ7RsmlqTB6...

If there are any Democrats who are thinking of running for the presidency on 2028 on anything less than a clear agenda of widespread prosecution for this administration's corruption and fundamental structural changes to ensure it can't happen again, they should just stop right there.

👇🎯 Yes but it needs to go further: - No shadow docket - No clerks - No building - Riding the circuit We can debate necessary structural reforms like more seats & such. But first, immediately, the next Congress needs to strip these Wizards In Robes of every perk & power not explicitly in Art. III.

This is so funny to me. We've suffered white commentators being OBSESSED for months with this man and the "manosphere" as a weather vane for whether white men were dumping the fascist. We have been subjected to his every utterance to detect which way the wind is blowing. There's your answer.

Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026)

Record profits are unpaid wages and unpaid taxes.

Here’s is the problem with characterizing J6 as viewpoint discrimination: it is not. It was an attempt to overturn a lawful election. We have been here as scholars and we have a choice for history: we cannot rewrite public memory to excuse violent anti-democratic acts.

Allow me to yell about court reform for a bit. My latest:

“Yale admits roughly 2,300 students a year. SUNY’s 64-campus system serves nearly 400,000.”

the basic theory of DOGE was that if powerful people said it was fine it didn’t matter what the law said. I think proving that theory wrong is worth significant effort

We should have never doubted this man

I sent a classified letter to House and Senate colleagues about a secret interpretation of surveillance law that every American should be concerned about. Representative Massie is right. The Constitution requires EVERY member to vote against a clean reauthorization.

The House passed our extension of TPS for Haiti with a 224 vote victory of Democrats & Republicans alike. This has been a long-fought battle to defend our Haitian neighbors & our communities, and we're not letting up. The Senate must take action without delay.

I think there are two key takeaways for Americans from Peter Magyar’s ouster of Orbán: 1. We must rally overwhelmingly behind the 2028 Dem nominee 2. We have to be ready to send people to prison if we win My latest for @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/two-lessons-...

This, this, 100% this. Leftists will never be able to have a discussion about our policies if authoritarians aren't swept away fully. The return to a much more free democracy is the Prime Directive in this political universe.

Exactly one year ago today:

This is the single funniest thing I have ever seen Bluesky staff do.

Feels important to uplift Rep Pressley's leadership. She puts in a lot of work on issues that others often don't see as a priority. I've appreciated her anti-criminalization work over the years. She's a worker.

A level of societal collapse below the shoe event horizon has now been empirically confirmed...

Just so you know CEOs aren't valuable they don't need high wages, most don't do anything. Elon Musk is CEO of FOUR companies and he spends all day every day posting lies on Twitter. CEOs shouldn't be paid 10x the minimum wage. They should be paid the minimum wage.

The 2019 ProPublica TurboTax investigation never gets old

I taught an old Michael Walzer piece from the 80's called "In Defense of Inequality" in one of my classes this semester. I had to impress upon students that he was upset about a level of income inequality that is literally *an order of magnitude* LESS than what the U.S. has today

It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

ChatGPT is a website. Claude is a website. I will never respect a website. You cannot convince me to treat LLMs as anything different to any other technology. If a website only gets things right sometimes, it's a bad website. I will not be told otherwise. www.wheresyoured.at/i-will-never...

Again: for any big liberal donor who wants to funnel millions into fixing this country's politics, the ROI on buying any struggling paper and simply tasking it with doing real reporting on local news is vastly higher than the same $$ given to some group that does mass ad buys every election year.

Last week, a 20 year-old man threw a molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's mansion; two days later, people fired a gun at it. Earlier that week, someone fired gunshots into an city councilman's house who approved a data center. Why the AI backlash has turned violent:

DOGE turbocharged the deficit. budgetlab.yale.edu/research/wea...

To be fair, this is a photograph of my actual doctorb

This book series is so absurd and has me cackling or making some other noise every couple of pages, I LOVE LOVE LOVE it! First contact, but it's Intergalactic Eurovision "Space Opera" and "Space Oddity" by @catvalente.bsky.social, two really really REALLY good reads <3

The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.

When people are like, "Where is the money for X going to come from?" I'm like, the police budget. The money you are looking for is in the police budget. It's in police contracts (many of which mandate an annual increase--PVD's does) & police pensions, but it's also in things like the supply budget

When I was reporting on Dan Schneider 8 or so years ago, I got to a point where I had to stop. Because I was being threatened w a lawsuit & despite having everything nailed down, I couldn't afford to go to court. When "Dark Side Of Kid TV" came out, Schneider sued the producers @moryan.bsky.social

Faith of Beasts. Officially out tomorrow, though a bunch of stores have let it slip out early. Just a reminder…

Your Kindle's not obsolete, it just needs a jailbreak — and I'll show you how it's done You can transform your old Kindle — even a bricked device — into the ultimate open-source reader. Here's how. www.zdnet.com/article/your...