This essay is really good, you should read it

trump did january 6th. republicans did january 6th. violent traitors did january 6th. they stormed the capitol, destroyed the building and threatened to kill members of congress. ashli babbitt was a violent insurrectionist. the capitol police protected people. these are truths we need to repeat.

i know this is all very basic and obvious, but it's maddening to watch the white house tell us we didn't see what happened right before our eyes—literally livestreamed for all to see. don't let them introduce doubt into what you know to be true. fuck them.

A concise encapsulation of how Trump and his supporters and enablers have rewritten the history of their insurrection attempt.

anyways i think it's kind of wild how quickly we went from "be careful, that shark in the flooded city is from a different hurricane" to "nearly every piece of media about this world event is fake and also we took the fake media and made it nude also we added more explosions"

The worst world events filtered through the worst AI imaginable by the worst people on earth overseen by the worst man on earth www.404media.co/groks-ai-csa...

It is an on-demand revenge porn and CSAM bot. How is it still functioning and how are people not in jail.

A functional country would shut Grok down permanently. Like, immediately. Right now. Last week. Whatever. Just flip the switch. Obviously.

Just finished it, and it was SO good! Highly recommend @older.bsky.social’s “Infomocracy” if you have not read it :) 📚 #booksky

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So @cantwell.senate.gov has a post out on the Trump actions and let’s just say it’s a disappointment. (See below.) No condemnation. No statement of action that she wants Congress to take. Do better. bsky.app/profile/cant...

Already Congress is coming up with excuses not to do anything. For shame.

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Hey Senator Maria @cantwell.senate.gov, we need to hear you unequivocally condemning this illegal, unconstitutional, and immoral violence from the Trump administration.

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

Feel free not to displace your anger onto people who are simply stating facts. Knowing who to actually be mad at is praxis.

Impeach, convict and remove. I don't know what Congress is there for otherwise.

In our name, with our money, ostensibly for oil, but mostly because we have a president who's addicted to power and attention and needs to deflect from being friends with the world’s most famous pedophile. Shame on these fucking monsters who run my country. They need out.

Impeach him.

Multiple explosions in Caracas, Venezuela. No to pointless foreign wars and bloodshed.

BREAKING: Hearing reports of explosions in Caracas, Venezuela. Source with family on the ground says people advising each other to shelter in place.

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This man really wants to start another awful quagmire of a war.

Fuck.

Impeachment. Now. @jayapal.house.gov

It is kind of wild that no big media outlet has busted open the story of who is making DHS' posts on X. Whoever that may be is certainly plugged into hardcore white supremacist internet propaganda with a harder edge. "Groyper" would be underselling it. This is Daily Stormer-tier sludge.

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or Alice In Chains. Every single song on this is just absolutely fantastic

www.berkeleyside.org/2025/06/12/s... - I enjoy learning about stuff like this.

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Have been in a bit of a fiction reading slump but just started Infomocracy by @older.bsky.social and it is SO GOOD

Are there any data on people who may have taken their own lives when their research funding was cut? Any investigative news reports or similar? I have heard bad things through the grapevine. Please reach out if you’re ever in the darkness.

New research on Twitter (right before rebranding to X) shows right leaning accounts got outsized visibility from the algorithm & suggests this bias stemmed from different content production techniques (more sensational, outrage-bait) and from direct interaction w/ the new king of the platform: Musk.

"All is lost" narratives are popular because people generally do not want to take action. Taking action is tiring so if all is lost, you are off the hook. Nothing is more seductive than not having to do anything.

Doctors could create simple checklists listing all vaccinations that new parents should make sure their children have to keep them as healthy as possible. Make copies and keep them in waiting rooms across the country.

Melissa was part of the “Be Here for the Cure” campaign in 1993. She was 21 yo. She’s still here, more than three decades later. Sometimes, when the present makes me sad or scared, I think about the courage that those young people had to stand up and fight — for their lives — against the stigma.

My wife has been HIV+ for 34 years. She’s alive today b/c work of activists who destigmatized the virus, pushed medical science to adapt & find ways to treat it, & advocated for gov health programs that helped fund her care. The current U.S. regime may want to go back in time, but we won’t let them.

9000 words down, somewhere around 30,000 words to go. This weekend I will be locking myself away to work on Chapter 1, which will be a highlight reel of animals commonly found in north American cities.

So grateful to everyone in NYC who mobilized to stop the ICE raid of Canal St. The violence being committed against immigrants is heart-wrenching, but the shows of solidarity we have seen around the country give me so much hope.

Indeed. We went through a very similar thing, being accused of being the center of the “censorship industrial complex”, interrogated, then defunded. As researchers of conspiracy theories, becoming entangled in one was perhaps productive (for our understanding), but definitely no fun. Disrecommend.

Sooo many folks I’m excited to work with on Mamdani’s technology transition committee. All hands on deck to bring the Affordability Agenda to life: childcare, housing, transportation. While its easy to get swept up in personality, this is a group focused on peoples real needs. LETS KEEP THE FOCUS.

People are already doing what you say they *should be* doing. You could join them.

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Finally tried the HoneyFairyLand tea from @fridaytea.com and it’s SO GOOD

Just a reminder that the circulation of the Epstein emails, reminding us not just how many people in power are predators... But how society will close ranks to protect them .... That might be hitting you some place soft, for a lot of reasons. Be gentle with yourself.

Preprint w/ (rapid) analysis of Grokipedia, showing it to be “highly derivative of Wikipedia”, but differing, often on controversial topics, in that Grokipedia includes content/cites from low quality (hyper partisan & conspiracy laden) sources like Stormfront & Infowars. arxiv.org/pdf/2511.09685