So many questions

Over nearly three years, @mariamelba.bsky.social and I have examined hundreds of fatal domestic violence shootings in TN to understand how often they are committed by someone legally barred from having a gun, and the gaps victims fall through in the system. 2/7

Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.

What happened, @nytimes.com? Why not stand by your original headline? Because it’s absolutely an accurate representation of this trash conversation. To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil

The choice America had in 2024.

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

See? We already have socialism, but it's only for the ultra-rich.

"These are not the droids you are looking for"

But of course we can't do it in the US because.... uh.... freedom, I guess?

You shouldn't use Meta products if you can avoid it, because Meta is an unethical company that makes the world worse. But you particularly shouldn't use Meta's WhatsApp if you care about your privacy. (And you should care about your privacy.) aboutsignal.com/news/whatsap...

It’s okay to be glad that restaurants are doing stuff like this AND absolutely furious about the utter failure of the United States government.

“In my work with the (Nuremberg Trial) defendants, I was searching for the nature of evil, and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy... a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.” - Captain G.M. Gilbert, US Army

I'm pro-union because I think workers should organize to balance the power that business owners have in various negotiations. It's true that unions have been weakened, but it's not because of multiculturalism. I would argue, it's because people seek to exploit divisions for their material interests.

Adding

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation. Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

“If they need SNAP they should work”. Most people receiving SNAP are working. Some are working two jobs. Be angry at the employers who pay such a pittance that people are living below the poverty line. Be angry at the billionaires hoarding the wealth Stop blaming the poor.

"The working class"

The architectural equivalent of hands with 6 fingers. This monstrosity wasn't designed, it was extruded from a list of instructions.

Ontario launches the perfect ad. Canadians are true brothers 💙🇨🇦

The AWS outage bricked people's $2,700 smartbeds, leaving them in a reclining position or with the heat up. People were unable to use them, basically. A GitHub repo exists that lets people operate their beds without reliance on the normal infrastructure www.404media.co/the-aws-outa...

Not invited to the grand ballroom.

How many classes today were canceled because a whole suite of EdTech services are built atop AWS? You know what platform never crashes?

NYPD announces that zero arrests were made at the massive No Kings protests today after Republicans spent days claiming the protestors are violent terrorists.

Have you ever wondered What Happened To The Internet? Well, the gang from Wow If True ( @amanda.omg.lol and @isabel.kim) joined me for a collab episode to dive head first into enshittification and the history of our online world!

Have we always done this shtick where ceos can just say what they want and people accept it as True and Wise instead of a sales pitch? "Papa John says pizza most important meal for most families" okay who gives a shit

2+2 = 5

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

Perfect précis of the current conjuncture.

#ResistanceRoots #NationalHispanicHeritageMonth Albert Báez was Mexican American physicist who co-invented the X-ray reflection microscope for examining living cells. He was also the father of Pauline, Mimi and Joan Baez, all of whom became musicians and activists. /1

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

ridicule is a good response

Kristi Noem said this in 2024. It didn’t age too well, considering she now defends all the things she once blamed Biden for

Note also the routinized, unproblematized linking of "crime" and "immigration", as if they always naturally go together. They're two completely separate phenomena! That's how propaganda warps our critical thinking capacity without our realizing it.

The man is TORMENTED. He wants to make a deal with God -- biggest deal of his life -- but can't figure out where the leverage point is.

This man is afraid of dying and going to hell. He wants to go to heaven and hopes it looks like a fancier version of Mar a Lago. What does he think about when he's alone in bed at night trying to fall asleep?

If you'd like to delight in a side-by-side comparison, here's Bari Weiss' reported note to CBS staffers (left) and the one I cooked up on ChatGPT with a quickly dashed-off prompt (right). Looking forward to hearing from you in the days and weeks ahead!

THE RADICAL LEFTISTS HAVE KILLED OUR BUSINESS [also we got bought out by private equity who shuttered the store and fired everyone] BUT IT WAS MOSTLY THE RADICAL LEFTISTS also can we have a federal bailout 🥹

As if irony isn’t already dead, the Hatch Act violation on the DOJ website, which blames Democrats for the shutdown, appears on the page advising DOJ employees they are subject to the Hatch Act. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-note-abo...

The year is 2003. 17-year-old Stephen Miller is sitting in the back of a school bus talking about torture, as in “Torture is a celebration of human life and dignity." Miller looks directly into the camera and describes the torturing Iraqis in gruesome detail, as his peers laugh uncomfortably.

Hegseth and his fellow rage-aholics are getting pumped up to fight the last war.

So exhausting..

There is no depth of indecency to which the man and his enablers will not willingly descend.

In honor of Eric Adams dropping out, I'm now resharing my all-time favorite bit of Eric Adams content for years, this thing was like my video from The Ring, where I had to get other people to watch it in order for me to stay alive enjoy www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk2W...

“The system is working exactly as planned.” 🙄🤦🏼‍♂️😡