What if all ownership was just subscriptions now? Wouldn’t that be great? No it fucking sucks actually.

If a protest consists of a bunch of anonymous people who show up, chant for a bit, then disperse leaving no evidence that it ever happened, what's the point? If "good opsec" means protesting is indistinguishable from not protesting, I may as well not bother

Yeah, "we've been fascist this whole time" is what I'd say if I were trying to convince people (starting with me) that refusing to vote for Harris didn't contribute to ::gestures at everything:: (A notional me, of course, actual Gerh did vote for Harris)

All this is scary for a similar reason as March 2020 when Tom Hanks got COVID and the NBA shut down. It’s a volatile and uncertain moment and we don’t know how things are going to resolve. I think in the face of that, focusing on our strengths and his weaknesses is the best, the *only*, way through.

Exactly this

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@rahaeli.bsky.social As a New Yorker trying to address the SAFE For Kids Act rules, am I best off calling, emailing, sending a letter, or using a web form if they go that route? (Very disappointed in James here, I gotta say)

One of the many terrible things this illustrates about Republicans: they can't imagine someone saying "I actually don't think it should be illegal to disagree with me"

So according to everyone in the press, cancellation drives, listing professors who do wrong think, lying about COVID during the pandemic are all politics as they should be

I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.

Once more with feeling

I think we tend to see all these people as being on the same saide, and for our purposes that's usually broadly true, but there's a reason the Charlottesville…um, event was called "Unite the Right"

The way some people talk about Zionism is pretty indistinguishable from how McCarthy talked about Communism.

The discourse over Kirk’s career is really hammering home how little the media and so many Dems understand the concept of lying or bad faith arguments. An entire life dedicated to poisoning the well under the guise of ‘an exchange of ideas’ and nobody is capable of calling it out for what it was.

jesus christ, some of you really fucking suck at information warfare yes, his politics were almost certainly turbo online and completely incoherent. but he's clearly not on the left, and so you can actually punch back now at the narrative the GOP has been pushing for the last 36hr

The problem Mamdani is going to run into trying to distance himself from antisemitic rhetoric is that Jews aren't going to believe him and antisemites are

We are stuck living in reality while the people in power and their enablers get to make up stuff and pretend it is true.

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life. The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

Whatever *you* might think about "decorum," a politician or even a pundit not openly saying "fuck Charlie Kirk, I'm glad he's dead, we're better off without him" may have some explanation other than they thought hecwas a real cool guy. Particularly given how he died

Does "enhanced" mean "we had the Amazon AI make shit up"?

Still thinking about how scared Charlie Kirk was of the New York subway, how comfortable he was in suburban Utah, and how this totally incorrect sense of threat is really emblematic of the American right

the people who mocked and made up shit about the attack on paul pelosi have thoughts about decorum and we should definitely take them very very seriously

Meanwhile AI is still a great advancement, congrats techbrahs

there was never going to be a world in which the right didn’t claim the left was celebrating the death of charlie kirk, no matter how respectable anyone tried to be.

I don't have to mourn the death of a Nazi. I don't even feel I need to be respectful about a Nazi's death. My feelings and thoughts on the matter, as well as yours, will not change the reaction of other Nazis.

I can get behind this

It’s worth noting that the gyopers, the far right Nazis who are fans of nick feuntes, absolutely hate Charlie Kirk. We don’t know what the shooter is or their motives yet. It could’ve just been a crazy person. We don’t know.

anyway

The only thing I will say about this is that if this is what sets off the purges they were about to happen anyways. Do not torture yourself with endless what-ifs about regime escalation like these guys have become more powerful and competent because of this.

So, *speaking abstractly*: • Never celebrate death. As the snowclone goes, the deceased won't see it, but people who have lost loved ones will • Celebrating the neutralization of a threat is at worst understandable • You don't owe anyone mourning, much less a display of grief

This is the line that Dems need to push. It can't be simply. "Political violence is bad" it MUST be "Political violence is bad and Trump and his ilk are responsible for creating conditions ripe for political violence"

All the "don't celebrate, don't celebrate." Are the people celebrating in the room with us right now?

Charlie Kirk wouldn't be wringing his hands about violence if I got shot

I will say that I find it weird that a lot of people are like "this is the moment that will tip us into violence" when a Minnesota politician was assassinated in her home 2 months ago and someone literally shot Trump in the head last year. how exactly is charlie kirk the tipping point

I guarantee you the thought process was "Hamas leadership feels like they're personally safe, that's why they keep refusing our demands, if we hit them it will change their negotiating position" and that's not how it's going to go

Lawyers are problem-solving, service-focused, rule followers. In other words, exactly what we need in poll workers.

One of the greatest errors in K-12 education, in my opinion, is prioritizing trigonometry and calculus over statistics. Yes, trig and calc are important for many professions. Statistics are important for literacy.

Dan Savage is who he is, but there's something to his assertion that The AIDS Crisis ended a couple of decades ago even though a cure for AIDS was only announced in 2025

Maybe unpopular take but I think "during COVID" is fine! Death data show a clear acute phase from spring 2020 until spring 2022. Since then deaths have steadily trended downward and this winter fell below flu deaths. You can take COVID seriously and still talk about the worst of it in the past tense

Not going to stop thinking about the comment that Trump is sending Confederate armies to occupy Northern cities. How much more is there to say? That’s not a “distraction.” It’s what the white supremacists who tried to secede have wanted for over a century. It’s not a distraction to them at all.

It was the third of June …

Leaving bad enough alone would have been way better than putting out suspicious photos and scheduling a press conference and proceeding to significantly delay it

seems fine

This isn’t just clothing. It’s purses, totes, cosplay, and toys and it’s happening *right* when the tariffs are cutting off overseas supplies and when usable, tested patterns are being replaced with AI- generated bullshit.

Happy Labor Day 🙂

Just realized "Proto-Indo-European" is trocheic tetrameter. I can't find a good logo generator to illustrate this, though

RFKJr seems to be using a lot of medical(-sounding) terms in ways unrelated to what those terms mean. E.g., inflammation doesn't cause lack of social connection, that doesn't even make sense

They want to put the unlicensed therapist that tells your kids not to trust you and it’s ok if they die into all your kids’ rooms.

Sure do want to see the explanations of how it’s good, actually, that Must Age-Gate Entire Internet Lest Teenager See Boob has cut off adult victims of alcoholism from their support structures.

There's no guarantee that hospitals that have chickened out will resume care once a Dem enters office. The threat of a future GOP administration will always hang over them. That's why the next Democratic admin needs to also find a way to punish the cowards. Or at least reward those who held strong.