Happy Fat Squirrel Season to those who celebrate. #fatsquirrelseason

Emil Seidel (1910-1912), Daniel Hoan (1916-1940), & Frank Zeidler (1948-1960) have likely impacted your life in ways you never think about, even if you’ve never stepped foot in Milwaukee. And if city governments are laboratories of democracy, then the Cream City has been research central!

Some on the far right want to repeal the 19th amendment. Many more share a coercive, patriarchal view of women. I wrote about this and how the far right sees subjugating women as key to building the sort of electorate they need to win. @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/women-should...

This is a historically excellent speech.

Diversity doesn’t weaken unions. Racist bosses like Vance using racism to divide workers by race so they can exploit them weakens unions. All this stuff is arsonists complaining about the temperature in the building they set on fire. bsky.app/profile/diew...

One reason the US lacks public investment in paid sick, family, and parental leaves is because of a tacit assumption that women will continue to do this work. www.forbes.com/sites/adiaha...

Hi all! If you're looking for a place to give some money my local food pantry could really use it. Cash is often the best way to support food pantries, especially bc so many are under-resourced & unable to process big influxes of food. And please feel free to repost! 💓 www.ebcnorfolk.org/foodpantry

I have a monthly standing donation to Astoria Food Pantry. Now that SNAP benefits are ending, every food bank needs your help, if you can swing it.

At least 5 federal agencies were involved in a massive immigration raid on Canal Street on Tuesday @jumaane.bsky.social: "I think this simple-minded president is, at some point, going to flood our streets with federal agents and that should concern everybody.” talkingpointsmemo.com/news/federal...

Fellow journalists: Look, I get the impulse, but "CALLED IT IN 2021!" with a gift link or screenshot is an objectively weird response to the horrors of the day

where's this nor'easter that we all canceled our plans for, anyway?

i remember when this guy was posturing so hard as the most lefty Silicon Valley billionaire and all about calling his employees a "family" etc and then he realized Salesforce could cash in on that sweet sweet border patrol / fascism cash and ... welp

Would be a good time to shut down Dreamforce. If I have friends who are still speaking there, this is a good reason to cancel.

And this: 92% of the growth in the entire country this year has been data centers. And some of that is "circular deals" that dont involve actual money fortune.com/2025/10/07/d...

NYC's one and only REI store is getting replaced by an OpenAI corporate office. You can't even make this stuff up.

I'm a middle — not even elder — millennial. My college laptop didn't have wifi capability. I had to plug it in, with a cord, to go online.

If I were editing a column about Charlie Kirk’s political genius, I would tell the writer he needed to quote Kirk’s actual political beliefs. If the writer responded that doing so would weaken or distract from his argument, it’d be a pretty good sign that the column was not ready for prime time.

"What's coming next is awful." What's already here is awful. Retaliatory political violence is the norm now. This is it.

“In general it seems like more and more nomads eventually realize the importance of having a more settled life and decide to have a stable base somewhere where they have a community.” @kelkord.bsky.social checked in on the developer digital nomad dream: leaddev.com/career-devel...

"Public transit is a service, not a business—should public schools have to turn a profit? A powerful transit system can benefit everyone, unless one is so petty as to view the ability of human beings to move from place to place as a zero-sum game to be won" defector.com/doomsday-for...

i remember when jd vance blamed the haitian immigrants to springfield for rising home prices. well, the prices will come down, because a mass departure of haitian workers will crash the local economy.

I mean, weepy sentimental middlebrow-beloved feelings-writer —> political revolutionary is basically the entire Irish intellectual tradition

Latinsky is 150 people away from having 1k on the feed! Help #BuildTheBarrio and share this post so the Latine community on Bluesky knows that there’s a place for us here! If you’re Latine, reach out to be included in the feed! If you’re an ally, share the post so your Latine friends see it too!

New: The Writers Guild of America, which represents writers on “The Late Show,” says it is concerned the cancellation was a “bribe” to curry favor with the Trump admin. The guild wants the New York state attorney general to launch an investigation.

goddammit

"The world is now installing one gigawatt worth of solar energy infrastructure every 15 hours — or about the output of a new coal plant." futurism.com/electricity-...

For the first time since she was freed from an immigration prison, Rümeysa Öztürk speaks. And she does so by ... writing: "Writing is the heart of freedom of expression. Unbelievably, this single opinion piece, published in our student newspaper, would lead to my arrest and detention."

If you need a break from the news cycle, this is one of my favorite stories that I've worked on in recent memory and I think you'll like it: thehustle.co/originals/th...

If you need a break from the news cycle, this is one of my favorite stories that I've worked on in recent memory and I think you'll like it: thehustle.co/originals/th...

In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

This reflection/reporting from Hua Hsu winds up in the place I've been writing about for more than a year. If we want students to write we have to mitigate the transactional aspect of the experiences as much as possible. They must be worth doing. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

This is a stupid idea.

Andrew Cuomo's biggest mistake? Not going on Joe Rogan.

I'd almost forgotten what democracy looked like

it's cuover

Minneapolis.

A pro-AI subreddit reports banning over 100 users exhibiting "AI delusions," believing they achieved godhood or made incredible discoveries via chatbots. There are raising concerns about AI's impact on individuals prone to mental health issues.

Important study, some of which confirms what we already know: *Work requirements reduce access to benefits *Even among people who are working *People in poor health are disproportionally affected What we did not know: *The effects are hard to undo. Once you kick people off, they are gone.

Our national parks are a treasure—we can't let this administration destroy them. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/o...

Does anyone know what CEOs actually do all day? techcrunch.com/2025/05/22/a...

An immigration lawyer who tried to stave off ICE disappearances in Lower Manhattan last week spoke to Hell Gate about the trap that's being set for immigrants. "This is so extreme, from both a legal perspective and one's conscience," she told Hell Gate. hellgatenyc.com/immigration-...

What the declining-birthrate debate often leaves out is how many of us watched our boomer parents spend the prime of their adult lives bone-tired and way too thinly spread.

This is monstrous.

I spent five weeks talking to federal workers about knowledge loss and brain drain across the federal government, and its implications, both right now and for decades to come. Their stories are frightening, but I think it's important to know what we're facing: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I'm pretty gutted by this. It's also indicative of the way AI is ACTUALLY going to kill jobs in the months to come. Hint: it's not automation. Jobs aren't getting cut because AI is replacing workers; AI is replacing workers as a stopgap bc Google's AI overview is killing SEO traffic and revenue.

Please read and follow this powerful new series from Verite News about how slavery built New Orleans veritenews.org/2025/05/29/d...

this is a great thread, and I’m grateful I can just point at it and urge everyone to read all of it, since I’m too angry to say anything else about what it addresses