The worst red flag is that there have been no sustained well-publicized engagements with the communities affected to show it’s in the past. Contrast with Mamdani, who clearly made a point of reaching out to the Jewish community.

I know “he’s got an SS tattoo” is hard to top as a red flag, but for my part I may actually be more disturbed by how consistently Platner’s line on wars has been “they’re awesome, killing people is fun, and my favorite kind of war is imperialistic anti-insurgency”

many kids can't even write in Comic Sans.

introducing a bill requiring all students to learn how to make the cool S

I think they should teach how to make neat, clearly legible block letters because the AI bullshit means I’m gonna have to grade a lot more of those little blue test booklets.

Without cursive handwriting, you dumbasses would still be thinking that this was a pipe

Let kids be kids. Teach them semaphore.

“I am not asking you to forgive. I am not asking you to forget. […] the policy differences […] exist. They matter. They will matter again, on the other side of this crisis, when there is a functioning constitutional order within which to contest them.“

A letter to the political left.

I doubt you could have built this level of organization with five years and 20 million dollars. But ICE did it in two months by threatening to steal our neighbors.

Oh I do Phil, I do

ngl, the new Lego movie is a banger

Gary Larson predicted Bluesky posters over forty years ago

I'm not a big fan of criticizing people for who they follow. But almost every person I know who has criticized others for who they follow is following people who are regularly, and currently, saying deplorable things about Jews. Not criticizing Israel. Gutter antisemitism.

the definitely mean the warren voters (ask me how I know)

NEW: WebinarTV, a company that bills itself as “a search engine for the best webinars,” is secretly scanning the internet for Zoom meeting links, recording the calls, and turning them into AI-generated podcasts for profit. @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social reports:

An actual war hero from Maine, Joshua Chamberlain, quit his job at a college and learned how to defeat Lee by reading a book about how to be a military officer. He read a book. Anyway. They should have hanged Lee outside the White House.

Robert E. Lee got his ass beat at Gettysburg by a professor of rhetoric and oratory from Bowdoin College and generations of reactionary fantasists have died mad about it.

The Singularity is upon us: Apple's AI summarized a text message that read "I'm still down to clown if you are" to.... "clown event still possible."

“I am political,” Ms. Rachel told me of her new effort to free kids from ICE detention. “It’s political to believe that children are worthy of love … and that our care shouldn’t stop at what we look like, our family, at our religion, at a border. Mr. Rogers was very political.”

Aesop: I TOLD YOU

I too would like the exact level of toxicity which scares off everyone I don’t like without anyone ever being mean to me and my friends. Unfortunately, we live in a society so sometimes people are mean back when I’m mean to them.

This is my theory Current Moment. Huge swathes of the MSM really really wanted a 10-15% shift to the right relative to Peak Woke, in large part because they were very extremely afraid of the consequences of gender equality as seen in MeToo. They thought Trump II would be the vehicle for that....

“The wealthy cultural elite who run the media really, really wanted Trump to win” was a much better way to explain what happened in 2024. And the things we’re learning from the Epstein Files give some pretty solid evidence as to both how and why. The anti MeToo backlash was EXTREMELY important.

Philosophers use "ducks lay eggs" as an example of a curious generic because it's true despite being false of at least half of ducks. Yet we hear of Perry the Platapus (a particular named individual!) that "he's a semi aquatic egg laying mammal of action". The only conclusion: trans. lives. matter.

OK, so it’s official from the President of the United States when someone you don’t like dies it’s OK to say “I’m glad he’s dead” we got it in writing folks

Every time someone sets off fireworks in my neighborhood I rush to check the news to see if they’re celebrating that It Finally Happened.

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

Account named Green Revolution wants to roll back the actual green revolution…

Some reading you might want to do.

Let them eat Whole Foods organic sliced mango

these guys convinced themselves that things like "the rule of law" and "free elections" and "free speech" were bourgeois used to enslave the masses to capital; thus they avoided them, deliberately, and in so doing created a government that was not constrained by its people

Holy shit we might have a cure for sickle cell anemia

@simonmaechling.bsky.social #medsky

we were in bad shape from the moment social media decided "Zionist" meant pro-genocide instead of its actual meaning of "Israel should exist"

My inner monologue whenever I’m about to open bsky:

Comparing and contrasting Marx and Douglass, two contemporaries, could be a valuable exercise in looking at historical liberalism and socialism in the same context. But the authors of “The Communist and the Revolutionary Liberal in the Second American Revolution” only offer caricatures

Incredibly funny that the president of the United States can do this and retain command of the American Armed Forces, but I said it about a literal Nazi and got fired from a job writing superhero comics.

It feels like we’re playing Jenga with the underpinnings of society. There‘s the peaceful transfer of power norm. There’s the norm against antisemitism. There’s the stable global energy market. Idk how long this is sustainable before something breaks for good.

新瓶舊酒 orientalism

And I do wear a cape

During covid, a Black friend of mine was masked up in the grocery store. This white dude walked up to her, yanked her mask down, got in her face and shouted “ALL LIVES MATTER.” They both knew exactly what he meant by that.

And I largely shrug it off. Because folks aren't ready for the conversations about the abuse Black women writers get when we operate in "liberal" spaces. Because it's not actually that they care about the racism. They care about their own feelings of purity. So I shrug and go about my day!

I know reading comprehension is on the downswing, but it's still not hard to tell when someone is making a policy argument versus when someone is using "AIPAC" as a codeword. If you didn't like how Arab-Americans were treated post-9/11, watch what your timeline is saying about American Jews now.

in careless people, sarah wynn williams describes the eerie phenomenon of explaining to fb leadership the negative consequences of an action they’re considering, the deaths it might cause in myanmar or somewhere, and watching their expressions go blank before they moved on as if she’d said nothing

Laying the groundwork for “stab in the back, part 2”

I have an artificial intelligence joke and whether or not you're interested, I'm gonna tell you it

we are now in a situation where Iran legitimately has more leverage than the United States does on a significant chunk of the world brilliant plan sir, going perfectly, no notes

If someone starts hating Jews ‘because of Israel’, that is the fault of that person and not Israel