They killed this man. This was a murder, as sure as any Starlight Tour. They abandoned a blind man in the middle of nowhere, with no idea where he was and no means of contacting support, and hid his release and location from his family. They murdered this man.

Setting aside them guys who knock each other's teeth out for vainglory can we just take a moment to really appreciate that what Ali did in staring jingoism down & rejecting it, taking years in prison rather than engage in imperialism or injustice, is one of the coolest things anyone has ever done?

However angry you are, you're not angry enough.

Abolish DHS

It’s an important point precisely because they want to obscure the dynamic but it’s the reactionaries who are driving the political polarization by raising the stakes for everyone they don’t approve of by trying to use the state to punish or disappear them.

No one would care about your politics as a hockey player if people weren’t trying to use them to *eliminate* people they don’t like.

"It’s good to have a healthy body, but it’s not a moral requirement to be healthy" is such an important sentence

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Breathtaking 🌮

Can't believe this would happen with tech built by indiscriminately vacuuming up all of the Internet, running a billion Plinko simulations, then training by sociopaths who can't even understand culture much less appreciate humanity.

Enough can’t be said about how “machine-learning” simply reiterates the anti-blackness of tech bros and their ilk. And that includes the violence of disregard: “oh, we didn’t anticipate that as a possible problem.” That’s racist too.

Until this country reckons with police and policing, nothing will improve.

"Five teenagers arrested during a protest in Quakertown last week face charges of aggravated assault and related crimes after a judge ruled Tuesday that prosecutors had presented sufficient evidence for the case against them to proceed, according to sources." share.inquirer.com/HQ4QSJ

I'm constantly trying (/failing) to get this point across. If you're a trained expert in a field, then it may be worthwhile to question the scientific consensus of your peers. If you're not, the scientific consensus is absolutely the best you can do and it's arbitrary foolishness to disregard it.

When you realize that Warner Brothers said "Delete that shit" and the BBC chose to keep it...baby this is why I'm not debating nothing about modern racism. Full grown adults made a lot of choices

cop union president: snowballs are lethal weapons that endanger our brave men in blue 👮👮👮🫡🫡🫡🫡 Zohran Mamdani: hey kids, try and hit me in the face with a snowball! bsky.app/profile/spec...

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Can we please make this happen? The men get Kash Patel and a shit-smelling pederast. The women get Flav. A little cosmic justice would go a long way right now.

Here's the thing I will continue saying every time this came up: Kamala Harris did not mention trans people in her campaign. She went out of her way to avoid it. She dodged every question on trans rights. And then she still lost. So what Newsom wants is *open hostility* to trans rights

Relevant to today's conversation about AI's inherent sexism, here's an email from cognitive psychologist and early AI theorist Roger Schank, arguing to Epstein that women can't be truly intelligent, because they care too much about what other people think.

Acting like he shouldn't apologize also strikes me as infantailizing of disabled people. I apologized for how I treated people while on high dose prednisone after things got normal and my emotions while on the drug were rather involuntary.

This guy gets it.

Center Black disabled people. That’s all I got right now.

Worth remembering that, among his many other evils, Newsom's fortune and businesses were extensively bankrolled by Gordon Getty — his father was an attorney and fixer for Getty Oil — and that his first major move in politics was cutting aid to homeless people. The gentry, y'all.

If you see someone who may need help during the cold weather, read our guide on what happens when you call 311 for help during a Code Blue. www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/22/f...

being so bad at posting you get internet clowned by Chuck Schumer should be grounds for expulsion from office

BTW, you can still have good feelings about USA hockey around these Olympics, just pivot them to the women. The women did a damn fine job, they aren't a bunch of MAGA frat boy trash, and the team captain got engaged to her speedskater girlfriend in the middle of the games.

if I may share my own piece, this post reminded me of this!

A reminder that REBUILD can connect people of color detained by ICE and released with free therapy/counseling: www.darknessrisingproject.org/help-me-find...

The Gen X urge to get knocked down, get up again, and never be kept down.

"The irony is that what might be described as NIMBY (“not in my backyard”) issues ... are giving permission to weak-kneed politicians afraid of the immigration issue to still oppose these sites without addressing the bigger human-rights crisis."

SCOOP — Tom Suozzi has a Democratic primary challenger in the NY-3 congressional race. Danielle Welch (@daniwelch.bsky.social), a public defender, has officially declared her candidacy. Welch gave me this comment about launching her campaign:

I'll be raffling this mini wall quilt created by my friend Rachel Wallis next week. It will be a fundraiser.

International hockey sweater thread

They think "punk rock" means anti-social in the most literal sense. Look at me parking in a handicapped spot and smoking a cigarette in a movie theater! Punk rock! You're not punk rock you're a fucking psychopath

there is a lot still to go on this fundraiser and these women need your help. deporting a married trans woman to the US right now is not going to end well for anyone. if you can help, please help.

I am never going to get over the fact thar so many Americans died that corpses stacked up in nursing homes and hospital morgues, that refrigerator trucks had to be brought in for the overflow, and that the big takeaway from Important Pundits is there should have been *less* mitigation.

NY is going to suffer for the next few years because Hochul did not have a vigorous primary challenge.

Memorials will do nothing to make up for the lives we should have saved, for the people we should have kept out of the concentration camps.

I know this will probably have asshats in my mentions again, but periodic reminder that everything happening now has a precedent. And that precedent is closer than slavery, internment, boarding schools, Jim Crow...it is the very modern school to prison pipeline. It is the last 40 years of policy.

"The Jerusalem we speak of, and the Palestine we defend, are not merely holy sites and inanimate stones; they are people." theorkneynews.scot/2026/02/21/t...

Obviously like everyone I love this post. But also, everything is like this. If you simply water it it will grow.

Last year, a civilian review board in Illinois debated unarmed alternatives to police and met with representatives from STAR, a Denver program that deploys mental health workers and paramedics to handle mental health and homelessness-related 911 calls.

This is what I mean when I use the term "consolidating resources," which sounds much too nice for what it actually is

There is not some gravitational force pulling the U.S. and Iran toward major military catastrophe. This is a war of choice by the U.S., and we must remember that it could be stopped in an instant.

Mine was an Aiwa or something, but ... (Alt text for QS: A blue and silver Sony Walkman, portable cassette player, with orange headphones)