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You can easily obtain the secrets of the Necronimicon without succumbing to its corruption if you read the audiobook version, because the ancient and frankly conservative demons that haunt it don't consider that to count as "real" reading

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I want to frame this beautifully written essay.

every time i see a white guy in their fifties radicalized by the twitter algorithm into racism and extremism i think about how it's a total failure of the youtube algorithm to instead radicalize him into home brewing, elaborate A/V setups, or DIY solar

My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE

california is gonna have so many mail in ballots that don’t get counted because people don’t know the new USPS rules that are impacting mail in voting. tl;dr don’t put your ballot in the mail today, find a ballot drop box. www.kqed.org/news/1208537...

There was no political will in a “male tears” mug; if anything, the artifacts serve as a grim reminder of feminism’s defeat and impossibility, its reduction to kitsch.

Thinking about why women might not want to use a product that has forced itself into every software interface to confidently shout things that are wrong

Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.

For the past 30-40 years, society sold us the lie that you could just "individual responsibility" your way out of having to do politics. But politics is just decisions about how we organize society, and "not doing politics" is the same thing as giving up your voice.

Too real! 😖

oh wow it's that thing that was only happening in everybody's heads

Everything has to change. Everything. Do not settle for politicians who want to go back to "normal." "Normal" was the garbage state of existence that allowed all of this evil to take root and thrive. Everything has to change.

"I am pleased to report we are 95 percent of the way up the tenacious little hill here in Tartarus. Honestly, folks, we are so, so close. The summit is largely visible. It is nearly visible. There is a concept of visibility at play here that is impossible to ignore."

Yes . . . and: "legislative leaders and Governor Kathy Hochul agreed on significant new protections for immigrants, but the legislation doesn’t limit informal collaboration between local police and federal authorities, which has funneled New York residents into immigration detention." @nysfocus.com

NEW — My first true foray into AI haterdom is about how those of us not convinced by AI’s inevitability are a real constituency worthy of a voice. Give it a read:

my latest is on trump's "pecuniary presidency" (gift link)

We had 15 @runforsomething.net winners (or move-on-to-the-runoff-ers) yesterday -- onward we go.

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That's a lot of Black women. Here's how racism and sexism combine to destroy Black women: Picture a Black girl in high school with a 1580 SAT, 4.0 GPA, and 5s on all her APs.👩🏿‍🎓🏆 Her family isn't wealthy, so can't afford college. But no one will hire her without a college degree. So, student loans.

YES!!! “My hypothesis is that women will use AI to do more work. Men will use AI to get out of doing more work. And, every argument that is not dealing with the preconditions of this gendered inequality is not thinking seriously about AI” @tressiemcphd.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/o...

“Congress judges the republican character of each state every time it seats that state's elected representatives. This also implies that Congress can refuse to seat a state's representatives, if it thinks that state's government is not republican.” www.liberalcurrents.com/how-the-120t...

"Millennials ... were the generation endowed with the promise that if we could be ambitious and confident and do all the right things, we could change women’s outcomes — and we are now in our peak earnings years facing the same gender pay gaps as when we started, and fewer reproductive rights." 🎯

Governor Spanberger’s decision to veto public sector collective bargaining is a betrayal to Virginia’s workers who were promised change. We’re disappointed, not deterred. We will not stop fighting until all workers in Virginia have their rights protected by law. Onward.

My latest free newsletter is about one of The New York Times's specialties: publishing the opinions of wealthy elites as if they are news.

This is actually true, imo. And also, COVID reminded people of their own vulnerability, the porosity of their own skins and bodies, their mortality and they HATED it. They still hate it. Thats why they scream about masks, about COVID and any reminder of that vulnerability.

3 actual quotes from this piece: “Can I afford the tax? Yes. Is it going to deter me? No. But I think it’s shameful. I provide a lot of money to people who are blue-collar workers who work for me, servers in restaurants." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

rich people don't even want money that much, they want obedience

🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) has allowed Alabama to select a different map for this year’s congressional elections in a stunning, last-minute move to interfere with another state primary election that has already begun. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

turns out when you legitimate a taste for bigotry people gravitate to the parties that serve it as an entree rather than as a garnish

Black people are giving it these Confederates raw and uncut. This is how it’s gonna be now. You wonder what we’re thinking? It’s this. I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.

The left and our movements actually have a media ecosystem that does incredibly important work. People have a lot of ideas about how to make something that already exists, or how to make it more successful, when most have never put any real support behind what's already been built.

Yup. Your job as regular person is not to parse whether particular policies are 'realistic' or 'possible.' You are supposed to actually demand what you need to live a dignified life.

what's that name for the literary aphorism where if an author shows you something with a clear function early they should make it be important later on

I really wonder what the fallout is going to be because the sanitized version of history they’ve sold for a long time is “Jim Crow was a shameful moment in history but we defeated it and came out the other side a better country” and now it’s just… back it’s the end of a myth in the starkest terms

Witnessing southern states rush to dismantle black voting power is truly truly some heartbreaking shit to behold

The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting.

Pierre Bourdieu once argued that the question of whether something is art isn't answered by the artist's intention or even the object itself. Instead, the quality of being "art" is conferred by a community — curators, dealers, auction houses, audiences, etc. 🧵

4 things you will never hear from Trump or any of his cabinet members: 1. We made a mistake. 2. We take full responsibility for it. 3. We apologize. 4. We will learn from it and do better.

Your tax dollars should support the disabled, elderly & poor. They should pay for healthcare, food assistance, housing and childcare. Spending money on robust social supports and bettering the lives of the majority is far better than war, destruction & enriching billionaires

You were moved to do this by pride and by hate. Is it any wonder the result was ruin?

When I criticize elected officials for not doing enough to fight Trump, it's because they're less persistent than me, a mere voter. When I get mad at people shifting blame from them onto voters, it's because voters are already being held to a HIGHER expectation of straight-ticket opposition!

Taxing the ultra rich is not primarily a revenue raiser, because there are so few of them. The purpose of taxing them is to curb their anti-democratic power. Contributing to the maintenance of the public sphere that you share & enjoy with other people is good, actually.

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Yeah, as a lawyer I don't know what to tell you about "SCOTUS rewrote a 43-year-old voting rights statute to restore the exact holding the law abrogated, which makes the situation worse now than then because SCOTUS's other decisions obliterated the rest of the VRA." No clever lawyering around that.

get in loser we're getting Reconstruction right this time

The court has simply recreated the pre-Brown world in allowing racial discrimination across a broad number fields as long as it is “facially neutral,” gutting the Reconstruction Amendments in the process.