I want to thank a generation for bringing the expression “cringe” into the mainstream

This is a reminder of what social media should be. A+, no notes.

Jon Foreman: Sculpt The World: Direct, 2025. Created fairly recently (08/09/2025) at Poppit sands, a first for me making stonework's. Had a great time that week with a bunch of Land Art friends, more work...👇

dawg not the steakhouse wedding font

To be fair we should really have good civics classes - and financial literacy classes, and social studies, and geography, and and and

There is a distinct possibility that some people are too stupid to participate in a democracy

Republicans are unprepared for Democrats who fight back, much less play the offense, but this is what it looks like.

Plus ça change

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

The NYT Editorial Board has compiled a list of 12 markers of democratic erosion. It finds that the US has regressed on all 12. The Board concludes: “Our country is still not close to being a true autocracy”. Really? This kind of wishful thinking is dangerous. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

This is about as on-the-nose as it's possible to get without it being a Versailles, Romanovs, or Titanic themed party.

Pete Buttigieg is probably the best communicator in U.S. politics today. He does not just criticize Trump behavior and policies, he uses them to (1) show the deeper problems with them; and (2) to show how he/we should do better.

This is what happened to my Grandfather in Frankfurt, Germany on 9th November 1938, commonly known as Kristallnacht.

BREAKING: Representative Ro Khanna is introducing legislation to ban the president, his family, members of Congress, and all elected officials from trading crypto or stocks.

Eastern European history: musical.

Tiny #academicrant - I'm stunned that the author portal at Taylor&Francis doesn't allow multiple email addresses. Just - why? I've had four (4) different institutional emails recently and I just can't get everything together at T&F. It makes publishing so much more complicated than it needs to be.

Just a bit depressing that I fought this one - checks watch - 23 years ago. And at that time I met someone who had been doing it since the 1990s. And they told me that this fight has been going on since 1977. Just checked Wiki and, yup, up to 2017, repubs tried to open ANWR fifty times. 50.

The president is establishing the principle that he can order the murder of anyone he deems a threat. And Congress is letting it happen.

There are laws about how to interdict suspected criminals on the high seas. There are laws about how to renovate federal buildings. There are laws about how not to monetize the presidency. There are laws. We should enforce them. And not normalize the flagrant violation of them in the newspapers.

I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak

Cartoon by @billbramhall.bsky.social.

Chris Murphy: "There's a lot of history that has taken place in the East Wing & it was just destroyed without any conversation in the public, without any consent of Congress. It's absolutely illegal. That visual is powerful b/c you're watching destruction of the rule of law as those walls come down"

christ almighty what is this guy doing www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

"There's no way I'm bending the only knee I have left for a king, here in America"

Important detail. The banal cruelty of the state’s low-level enforcers should not be forgotten

Worth remembering the the Portland Frog Brigade—and the beautiful proliferation of dissident frogs at #NoKings protests across the country & around the world—started after a federal agent deliberately pepper-sprayed a Portland frog protester in their air valve

Home of the Brave's Sarah Matthews hit the streets of Washington, D.C. to ask Americans a simple question: Why are you protesting? #NoKings

A very cool and important thread about why mass protests matter - the space they create, the visuals they disseminate, and all backed by literature Extra super special bonus points in my book for referring to the tyrant as the One Special Boy 🔥

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Bertrand Russell to Oswald Mosley. Perfection.

The world is so filled with beauty and wonder and I feel very strongly both that it should be a kinder place to live in and that it is within our power to make it as such

I am usually just complaining on here but this morning I wanted to share something small and pretty. Commuting through Zurich main station in the early morning, you hear gentle piano music. That’s a conscious decision. Someone decided that music makes things better, and they’re right.

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

Example: the new CBS evening news team unvestigated the strikes on boats in the Gulf of America and determined that they were all carrying drugs and terrorists

A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy. Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...

I made a typo while writing a project plan: "unvestigating." It occurs to me that this might be a useful term. I propose that "unvestigating" be defined as trying to discover something but actually confusing facts and obscuring it. Suggested usage: much of the PR masquerading as journalism 🤷‍♂️

Things to do in the future: 1. Putting them all on trial for crimes against humanity at the Hague 2. Totally reforming entire government to root out corruption and abuse of power so this bullshit never happens again 3. At some point you’d imagine, brunch

Authoritarianism is a cancer. And it's growing, metastasizing. In America. Now. YOU are the cure. Do your part and join us on Saturday. Do it for your country. For the Constitution. For your freedoms. While you still can. @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social

I don't understand why U.S. reporters so regularly seem to let politicians get away with 'I haven't seen that' about stuff a) they obviously know and b) is directly relevant to their job. Did they sign some kind of agreement never to ask a follow-up question?

I love this so much. Bozo the Robot!

"Look at the picture... One of these is a member of a private militia that supports the President and was involved in a violent effort to overturn the election, the other is an agent of the state. Can you tell the difference?" donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow embodied what a journalist should be: someone who holds power to account instead of capitulating to it. Over 70 years later, his segment denouncing Joe McCarthy’s congressional witch hunts rings truer than ever.

Did anyone else see this today and wonder wtf happened? Oopsie, Stephen.

"The richest 20% of nations, with 15% of the global population, contribute more than 40% of annual ecological overshoot, whereas the poorest 40% of countries, with 42% of the global population, experience more than 60% of the social shortfall."

Texas is preparing emergency resources for wildfires and floods. The Texas National Guard should be THERE — not in Illinois. We stand ready to support their return home so they are best positioned for helping Texans respond to any natural disasters.

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”

It’s the Portland way.