you ever notice how media uses this weird framing when talking about men and boys? it's always, "hmm, women are doing better according to this specific metric. how do we help men get back on top?"

Using your debt, your search history, and your private data to decide how much you’re worth? Hell no. This is what happens when technology is built to serve profit instead of people. This is why every worker needs a union.

NATO is an indispensable force for democracy and peace that plays a key role in keeping America safe. Trump may continue to throw an anti-NATO temper tantrum, but his hands are tied—because of my legislation, he cannot unilaterally withdraw from it. time.com/article/2026...

“Plunging teen pregnancies” is actually a good thing unless you’re a member of the Epstein class

As the father of a middle schooler I have seen the rebellion against AI forming there — even using “that’s AI, bro,” not indicating something is literally AI, but that something is metaphorically so — it’s sus, it’s bullshit, it’s bad weird

So imagine being Black for all of America's history.

The singular goal of all future US politics is to ensure Trumpism is defeated and cannot again take root here, and everything that serves that end is to be considered and prioritized. It's a holistic organizing principle, from a Green New Deal to Nuremberg 2 to expanding the court to Reconstruction.

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Putting aside Sam Altman just continuing to emit huge lies constantly, this is an amazing example of what I mean when I talk about how GenAI is replacing *extremely low energy* digital tasks with *WAY WAY HIGHER ENERGY* replacements that *do not even work* Why TF is anyone using ChatGPT as a timer!

#ImpeachTrump; impeach his entire cabinet; impeach every member of Congress who has enabled him; impeach Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, Barrett, Alito, and Thomas. Permanently remove everyone from every position of power who has allowed and encouraged every illegal action this regime has taken.

OH. MY. GOD. THIS IS THE MILKY WAY SHOT BY THE ARTEMIS II CREW. LOOK AT ALL THOSE STARS!!!!

I'm sure there will be no long-term consequences to all of us veering between hypervigilance over potential nuclear war and trying to go to work because none of us can afford to pay our bills and may still be trying to recover from health consequences from the pandemic we're pretending didn't happen

We are simply not going to get free of this until our political class accepts the fact that the entire GOP led us here and must be destroyed.

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In 1953 Iran had a functioning democracy. A free press. Seven political parties. Women in universities. Women granted voting rights in municipal councils in 1952. A secular prime minister named Mosaddegh who believed Iran's oil belonged to Iran. The US and Britain decided he had to go.

I realized two things yesterday. 1. For years, I didn't care at all about anything associated with rockets and going to space. 2. That's not right. I had just gotten sick to death of shitty billionaires and their performative expressions of wealth. I never stopped loving NASA and its mission.

Yeah but on the flip side, that means a lot of terrible people become immortal, too.

And if it comes and goes and nothing happens, and the apologists say “it was just a threat to get them to buckle, he never meant he’d actually do it,” it is morally correct to punch them in the face.

I'm not sure how you can be against removing this man from office right now. What will it take? A nuke being dropped? It's too late then. The purpose of impeachment and the 25th Amendment is to prevent that type of thing from happening, not just to react to it.

The President of the USA declaring that "a whole civilisation will die tonight" is not something that arrives out of a vacuum. It is precipitated by the widespread international failure to hold USA, Israel, and their allies including the UK, accountable for their actions for many decades

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This is the most horrifying, psychotic, grotesque message Trump has ever posted—openly threatening to commit genocide. This is beyond reckless. It’s dangerous, dehumanizing, and utterly unfit for any leader.

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Speaking of Threads, this one got me in the feels.

This capped House has had a horrific and distorted effect on our representation—and policy. The cap was devised as a way to preserve the power of exurban and rural Protestant whites over the ascendant cities that have dominated population since 1920. It’s time to turn the tide back.

The Artemis II mission is now in radio blackout because they’re behind the moon. When they the re-establish comms, please, please say the line:

My 2023 book Burn It Down has chapter about exactly this & LCK mentioned obv. Not trying to sell books, get it from library if inclined. Tl;dr: if someone does not do the hard, consistent work of amends, repair & reparation, there doesn’t have to be a path back. If not, experts agree: fuck that guy.

The two truths: 1) There is nothing wrong with porn, let people safely make it, let people safely enjoy it. 2) If you let people define porn as bad, authoritarians will ALWAYS expand the definition until their hands are around your neck.

Not one dime for a tyrant is what Congress could and should do, including it's what Democrats should do when they take one or both chambers.

In a very real way, the President of the United States should be held to the highest standard of conduct in the whole country. Somehow, he’s held to a lower (nonexistent) standard of conduct than literally everyone else. It’s unfathomable.

Iran has elections, but to its great shame, it has an unaccountable council of ayatollahs that overrules the elected representatives. Here’s why we’re nullifying the Voting Rights Act. by John Roberts

He is risen.

“Parliament had turned over its constitutional authority to Hitler and thereby committed suicide, though its body lingered on in an embalmed state.” Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (p. 331)

If I were in Trump's Cabinet, I would spend Easter calling constitutional lawyers about the 25th Amendment. This is completely, utterly unhinged. He's already killed thousands. He's going to kill thousands more.

happy first contact day slash easter to those who celebrate

I feel like to be US president there should be some sort of Real Life Experience testing period of two years where you have to dress presidentially and act presidentially and then you need two letters from psychiatrists, at least one from an MD or PhD, to transition to a presidential candidate

A single long fixed term for Supreme Court justices, mandatory retirement age (but not term limits) for Congress, term limits plus a mandatory retirement age (to complement the minimum age) for president. Plus a ban on insurrectionists in any of these offices.

Verizon just screwed themselves by insisting on putting Nationals.TV on a $30/month higher plan than my current one. Because for less than a third of that, I can now watch #Nats games in the MLB app with the radio automatically synced to the TV broadcast and I don't have to listen to Bland Kolko.

It’s called “Gollumizing”

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

When MLB eventually gets with the times and institutes a salary cap, they should give it a name: The Los Angeles Dodgers Memorial Salary Cap. Because seriously, that fucking team is the reason MLB needs one.

when we're all unable to connect to use the internet, send emails, pay our bills, use our toasters, and god knows what else if AWS goes down, i want you to know now that i blame our lack of antitrust laws far more than i'll blame a foreign missile

if voting is choosing the conditions under which you organize, then there couldn’t be better conditions for pressure than NYC’s rn. that’s *why* you elect a mamdani & not a greg abbott or brad little. it’s so you can say, “we deserve better than this” to someone who will allegedly listen & act.

In space no one can hear you Teams.

Just to jump from this, which isn’t really the point of an insightful thread: Any “AI” writing is plagiarism because it is by definition using language that you didn’t create and promoting it as your own. I am not sure what definition of plagiarism could exclude “AI” work.

I think the reason AI propagandists are so flustered by the fact that no real writer wants to use their idiotic tools is that they themselves don't enjoy writing. They see it as a boring arduous chore to be avoided, while real writers actually enjoy writing and actually care about the quality of it.

I love this. I wish all cis women saw it this way. We love womanhood so much we gave up almost everything for it

Revenge is a dish best (soft) served cold.

We should remember part of humanity is also generating complete nonsense. I'd like to see AI wake up at 1am with a vision of a sitcom about Dracula who has two pomeranians, one liberal and one conservative, with a theme song that includes the lyric "it's a two cup teacup politics dust up."