“I knew it was risky to speak out, but my responsibility to Stripes and the First Amendment was paramount,” she said The troops, Ms. Smith said in the interview, “deserve to have the unfiltered news, not what the Defense Department wants them to hear.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/b...

❌ Myth: Guaranteed income creates a disincentive to work ✅ Reality: Guaranteed income actually helps people find suitable and sustainable work that leads to more stable employment:

New photos from the USS Abraham Lincoln show service members receiving minimal food portions as reports grow that some troops have lost significant weight and aren’t receiving care packages—while the Pentagon denies any shortages. (Newsweek)

Checking out D'Aulaire's Book of Greek Mythology in E. School, first; reading Madeleine L'Engle's books; enrolling in Quest instead of IB History courses in high school; fourth, starting Greek my first year of college out of curiosity.

“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.” www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...

I’m shocked. www.texastribune.org/2026/04/21/t...

Yet again I remind everyone (as Elizabeth does in her very next tweet) that "foreigners are corrupting our pure blood with weakness & disease" is Fascism 101. Not some variant, not some metaphorically similar thing, not some echo -- the thing itself.

"Cleaning up the risk pool" is a euphemism for eugenicist depraved heart murder. When the Trump regime takes health insurance away from people who rely on it to pay for the medically necessary services that keep us alive, we die. RFK Jr knows that 🧵

RFK Jr. told the House E&C Committee today that the way to bring down healthcare costs is to "clean up the risk pool" — remove the people who cost too much. He said the $4.3 trillion we spend on chronic disease is the emergency. He said most of Minnesota's autism services funding was stolen. 🧵

Aside from who started it, states like CA and VA putting a counter-gerrymander up to a referendum, where people are told and can make a decision on the context for why it's being done, has vastly more democratic legitimacy than state legislators rushing it through because they got bullied by POTUS.

We won. Tesla Chicago is closed. Their new location is in a ghost town. They sacrificed visibility to thousands/day--& proximity to the other luxury car dealerships--to get away from us, because we'd turned their brand ambassador location into a liability. Organizing works. @teslatakedown.com

I was having just a very tough day yesterday, and asked friends to send flower pictures. Well, the universe and Flora also sent an actual bouquet! My neighbors are giving away these floral centerpieces and they are amazing, especially covered in rain drops! #BloomScrolling

I really wish more people had paid attention when several observers tried to warn about the technofascist and eugenicist tendencies of thiel and karp and that group, for rolling up on two decades, now. And i *Really* wish the media & political actors would take the threat of them seriously, today 😕

"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."

Hey folks! I'm selling my tiny house, it's all prepped and ready for someone new to love it as much as I did. If you're interested, please reach out, I'll leave DMs open for a while! Happy to answer any questions, and I've got a more detailed sales flyer I can share upon request.

Spending a lot of time ripping out crab grass by hand so my clover can take root out back, and it has me meditating a lot on what it means to take out fascists. We always used to say it was whack-a-mole, it wasn't. Successful antifascism in a democracy is a practice of weeding

Tuition costs, homeless rates, food bank usage rates, and debt never seem to count either for reasons I suspect I'd need a MA in economics to explain away I mean understand.

tbf theres certain data that the chartbros dont like sharing

just… believe people? bsky.app/profile/turt...

Meanwhile the percentage of renters with rent over 50% of their income is virtually the same now as it was at the peak of the Great Recession.

I’m not sure why I’m getting such a kick out of this, but on my walk this morning, my foot slid on something laying on the sidewalk. Looking down, angry and expecting to see a pile of dog crap, I found, much to my delight, that for the first time in my life, I’d actually slipped on a banana peel.

yeah, seems like you're definitely headed for "transformation"

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

This weekend I gave a presentation to a group of mostly college-aged folks and had a little line at the beginning of my slides that described it as an "AI-free presentation made by a human, for humans" and I had to pause for clapping at that part you love to see it

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto https://theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-cocktail-at-sam-altmans-home-claims-he-was-following-chatgpt-recipe-for-risotto/

I am once again asking

I’m thrilled to announce the launch of Literature & Government, or L&G with the LG, a lecture series engaging campuses across Virginia in thoughtful dialogue on democracy, leadership, and public life. Coming to a campus near you!

Kid no. 2 is having little break throughs understanding geometry and cosines, Kid no. 1 is so happy now, kitties are snuggled down, and the house is peaceful. #TinyJoys

I'm reading Paula Fredrickson's Ancient Christianities. The first Five Hundred Years. I needed this book in grad school, and again, the first time I taught my Ancient World in Cinema class. I'm so glad it's around and I get to read it now, as I once again need this background! So far, it's great!

The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

Israel bombing a synagogue in Tehran is the kind of symbolism that would feel too heavy-handed in a work of fiction. But yeah. That tracks in this ridiculous timeline. May God bring comfort and safety to the Tehran Jewish community.

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV declares the Iran War is “unjust” and “is not resolving anything.” After suggesting Trump is committing war crimes by targeting civilian infrastructure, he called on Americans to contact Congress to help end the war.

@aoc.bsky.social spitting truthbombs here. x.com/i/status/204...

God this poem is haunting me again.

HORRIBLE. ICE is averaging more than one death a week this year. It's like clockwork. The last death reported was exactly seven days ago.

For every one of these “teachers should really get over it and jump on the inevitability train” articles (which are mostly of the editorial genre), there are 10 actual studies establishing the dire, destructive effects of AI use and dependence on things like, ya know, cognition.

"Wine moms." You mean the women who organize all appointments and school activity drives for 3 children, show up to all the PTA meetings, can summon an army from their cellphones, can hunt and cook and sew, and know the skill sets of every woman within a 30 mile radius? Those "wine moms?"

We all know this is fascism.

there it is, all 7 continents

Hundreds of millions of people live close enough to data centres used to power AI to feel warmer average temperatures in their local area

Words matter. If you're advocating for tax fairness, say what you actually mean: "Stop letting billionaires pay a lower tax rate than the rest of us." That's not socialism. That's accountability. (2/2)

Reach out to your state electeds and ask for a progressive vehicle weight fee like Washington DC

As someone who—after a disabling Covid infection—can no longer attend protests, volunteer, lend my film skills to environmental groups, help my neighborhood’s anti-ICE efforts, etc, please wear a mask tomorrow!

Oh my god, the alt text is a gift. 😹

Happening now: a small protest at O'Hare is marching through terminal 1 this evening outside Chicago. ICE agents have been spotted inside the airport all week. Folks chanting, "ICE out of O'Hare! ICE out of everywhere!"

That’s an excellent question.

we might see 70 percent disapproval!