things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

Happy 'entering the town of Twin Peaks' day to those that celebrate 🥳

"Popularism is a politics for people who have given up on persuasion, argument, and intersubjectivity" Yes yes yes!!!

The GWB swing explains so much about the millennial political experience

Metry and her husband of 4 years go to DHS to get their I-130 in motion. "Good news" a DHS employee told them, the form to start her naturalization was approved. DHS employee asks the husband to follow him through a secure door. When it locks behind him, ICE detains his wife to deport her.

Vice President JD Vance gets roundly booed at the opening ceremony of the Milano-Cortina 2026 Olympics. "Those are a lot of boos for him, whistling jeering," says the presenter. US athletes receive a warm welcome from fans, though.

AOC on ICE: It’s our task to figure out how to claw back what has essentially supercharged this agency into becoming a relentless domestic paramilitary that is also a blank check to Palantir to create facial-recognition scans on U.S. citizens.

when they tell you to go back to writing about gadgets www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

If Bilbo had Chat GPT

reminds me of a friend who explained why recent years have felt so weird to so many millennials here and it’s because “we went into the pandemic young people and came out of it old”

@tnimmigrant.bsky.social sharing the call for a remote candlelit vigil.

Tonight, shine a light for Minnesota.

okay definitely never expected my alma mater to be college football champs literally ever

fwiw these are unionized hotels and their local sent a formal request to employers not to accept ICE bookings or allow ICE to use their facilities www.facebook.com/share/p/1aV9...

I’ve been studying civil rights protests for 20 years. With new mobilization against Trump’s agenda, I’m sharing a thread summarizing my research on how nonviolent & violent actions by 1960s activists and police influenced media, elites, public opinion & voters. 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

🚨Border Patrol whistleblower outraged by ICE's conduct exposes over a dozen secret ICE programs in documents leaked to me: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/21-secret-...

Bandcamp is announcing that they're prohibiting music created wholly or with subtantial use of AI

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

My scheming vizier when I start to cough after taking a swig of wine from my goblet

yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.

Reminder for everyone operating at situationally-diminished capacity.

For all that the media has spent years freaking out about what social media does to our brains, I don’t understand why there appears to be little effort to grapple with the fact that these chatbots are, for some not insignificant portion of the population, literally psychosis machines

and then for hours used passive voice to pretend they had no idea who was behind the apparently spontaneous explosions

Make no mistake, 2001-2005 was awful, but yes, this moment is so much worse.

The year is 2003. I’m 17 years old. I’m watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil. The year is 2026. I’m 40 years old. I’m watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil.

we in this country (and, I'd argue, the world, but I'm not here to argue tonight) are challenged to make of our present situation something better. it's a tall order

you have done it before, squared the smooth circle, navigated the hard corner, slipped through and lived to see another day

When you get the reputation of being the guy with the encouraging words on New Year's Eve, it can start to come through as a little pressure -- what if the situation on the ground is worse than usual? what if people are more scared than they usually are, and with cause? what use are good vibes then?

We’re gonna win.

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it faced hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects last year. (Published July 2024)

This is incredibly important. If you read one thing this week: marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-...

there are pundits who will say that immigration is trump's strongest issue and that picking fights around immigration helps him on the margins. but i think this misunderstands the way public opinion works, as evidenced by trump's declining fortunes on his handling of immigration.

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over

Like @prisonculture.bsky.social, I've been worried about the ways popular myths of the civil rights movement make it hard to see how to struggle today. On the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, the things we get wrong & what a fuller history shows us: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.

So proud of you @aftynbehn.bsky.social — this is what's possible in the South with a candidate that takes on the rich and powerful without sacrificing the marginalized.

Normally I would say “okay it was a low turnout electorate so you have to mark down the swing to the party with a higher propensity to vote coalition”. But. Uh. 94% turnout versus 2022 means that you shouldn’t by much.

Getting this kind of swing without a turnout differential is wild. No R seat is safe.

That second part is what should really have Republicans spooked. This isn't just Democratic turnout differential like '23-24 specials. Their own voters are turning on Trump.

If you ever wondered what GOP gerrymandering looks like in red states with blue cities, I present:

Hey that's me!

Gotta chalk this up to candidate quality, too. Respect to Reps. Mitchell and Dixie, but Rep. Behn always had the profile and the organizing experience for this race. (No comment on that other guy)

Anyone casually weighing in on this race needs to understand this.

TN07 is a story about gerrymandering: the GOP cracked Nashville into 3 districts when it redrew the 2022 map, destroying the Dem seat there. Fast-forward: a section of Nashville, which just 5 years ago had a Dem representative, is now voting Dem by huge margins but it's been designed to not matter.

love to see national media figures use their saved up Tennessee jokes from the gore era

Keep kicking ass @aftynbehn.bsky.social - #TN07: “If our victory margin is single digits, the conference may come unhinged,” one senior House Republican said. A loss would be catastrophic and the conference would “explode,” the Republican added. www.politico.com/live-updates...

As polls are set to close in about a half an hour in TN7, I just want to congratulate @aftynbehn.bsky.social and her team for running an incredible race, regardless of outcome.