Today is the last day you can post a comment to the FCC about their plan to label content that includes representation of LGBTQ+ people. Keep it brief and succinct. What I wrote follows: (1/4) glaad.org/FCC

MAHA: Make Agribusiness Happy Again. Atrazine should be banned. It persists in water and soil for decades. And we're only still just understanding its harms. www.newsweek.com/trump-admin-...

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So much depends on whether our system, and our leaders, speak to what is best in us - or what is worst in us.

What a beautiful world it would be, for everyone. ~sigh~ No lack of food, public schools (& supplies!), no lack of housing, or higher education, no lack of healthcare for all. The research, inventions, cures, discoveries to be made & found! It would be unbelievably wonderful, @philiploring.com 🙏💙☮️

Corps are putting hundreds of billions each year into AI. Imagine if we put that investment into people instead. Into human intelligence. It would be the biggest humanitarian effort in human history. Imagine what we'd be capable of.

“Third Way” exists solely to prevent a pluralistic left coalition and prop up the right

Trevor Noah as Elon Musk

I actually wasn’t even thinking about going to see The Odyssey but now that the right is all pissed about it I feel motivated 😁⚔️

Sure wish the Dems would stop playing identity politi…. Oh wait

Marc is worried which means we all should be very worried. These recent SCOTUS rulings don’t just disenfranchise People of Color (which itself is wholly unacceptable) they create a cultural permission structure for the right’s assault on democracy writ large.

This is happening literally concurrently with the federal government trying to classify trans people as terrorists and us the full power of the state to crush us.

This article was tastefully written, for those seeking better, more ethical/moral coverage.

A transgender student at University of Washington was stabbed to death. 💔 Transgender people face over four times the incidence of violence than do cisgendered people. The endless stream of anti-trans hate and misiformation from the right fuels that violence.

If you're seeing this skeet an old photo of yourself that you still love.

I don’t even think democrats are talking about climate change that much anymore. Sure it comes up but it’s never the centerpiece. Don’t get me wrong, centrist dems are way out of touch but its not because they’re talking too much about climate change

I know folks think this guy is just putting on a progressive costume. I'm troubled by his past words and acts too. But watch this clip. Few people are capable of faking this kind of extemporaneous speaking, maintaining coherence and consistency across topics, for views they don't actually hold.

I don't know how the abundance-anti-regulation narrative we get from folks like Ezra Klein can be considered in good faith when tech companies are out here deploying billions of dollars of new datacenters at a breakneck pace. Doesn't seem to be a problem there. Its not the regs that are the problem.

If anyone needs a case study in identifying AI slop writing, here you go. The first five "paragraphs" alone contain two "what began as X became Y" and two "its not X, its Y". www.agri-pulse.com/articles/246...

Fuck this guy and his eugenics--classifying COVID deaths as due to chronic disease and not infectious disease. By "sick" he means hypertension, diabetes, asthma, high cholesterol., of which about 75% of American adults have at least one. Reclassifying that as 'already dying' is vile.

Monday productivity update

Sound advice

I study food systems and food security for a living and have absolutely no idea what the fuck they’re trying to say here

The reason for citizens is labor, unless you’re rich.

Also -‘flesh it out’

This is truly mind-blowing: Norway has gone from near-zero sales of non‑emitting battery electric vehicles to now close to 100% of all new passenger car sales - achieved in about 13 years. More in my next substack newsletter. Sign up here: substack.com/@janrosenow

This is a really good and winning agenda. Easy to communicate, addresses issues felt across demographics and parties. 10 bucks says the DNC ignores it.

Wait I’ve lost the thread is she a centrist Democrat or maga it’s getting harder and harder to tell the difference

“Mission accomplished” from a right wing perspective.

I love that “AI” is becoming a pejorative adjective in Gen A slang (sort of like temu), to note poor, knock off quality. As in “that’s such an AI answer” And whenever my daughter sees something that has weird spelling or weird looking photos she always comments on it being “totally ai”

I just learned that my essay, "I believe in unicorns" is being used in a high school sophomore English class and that hits so much deeper than any citation count on my academic papers medium.com/age-of-aware...

New book project officially underway

The reason this administration is dissasembling our science institutions is because they want corporations to be able to harm you with impunity. prospect.org/2026/04/27/b...

Can we just ignore the Atlantic out of business? JFC

Im old enough to remember when Very Smart People™️ were saying we need a Joe Rogan for the left and we kept saying centrists would freak out more about a charismatic heterodox progressive than they ever did about people like Rogan or even Kirk or Shapiro or Pinker or Peterson

US voters worried about high food prices in 2024. This admin has: 1) taxed food & fertilizer imports 2) deported farmworkers 3) canceled food/climate investments 4) started a war that spiked energy/fertilizer prices 5) increased crop-based biofuel mandates 6) released dietary guidance centering meat

Remind me again how its progressives that are guilty of "identity politics"? Sorrynotsorry for simply standing up for our right to exist.

This is my shocked face.

Texas Tech Issues Ban On Students Writing On LGBTQ+ Topics • The ban applies to theses and dissertations, and is expected to begin going into effect on a rolling basis.

HMFIC is really an underused acronym

So there is actually a really interesting literature on theft and looting as a legitimate form of protest, particularly in highly inequitable societies I found this book quite provocative on the subject. The question is, theft from whom? searchworks.stanford.edu/view/14020995

So there is actually a really interesting literature on theft and looting as a legitimate form of protest, particularly in highly inequitable societies I found this book quite provocative on the subject. The question is, theft from whom? searchworks.stanford.edu/view/14020995

Tbh this probably would work on me. They even spelled it right!

“What niche mom-and-pop can we buy, scale, franchise, and then bankrupt next?”

Wait wut? "Taking the bagel nationwide?" It has an emoji 🥯

Me after watching this trailer