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The Atlantic should be ashamed to have published Jamie Kirchick's "DSA is a 'parasite'" screed. Beyond that, though, no one should credit Kirchick's thoughts on DSA or the Dems. He is a bad-faith operator here, undermining those he has always sought to undermine — because he is a neocon.

👀 El Salvador's AI Agency has named Ginger Luckey Gaetz (Matt Gaetz's wife, Palmer Luckey's sister) as Strategic Advisor. Palmer’s firm Anduril is backed by Peter Thiel & partners w/ Palantir. El Salvador recently joined the Thiel-ally-led “Pax Silica” global initiative. They are moving fast...1/

I bet it didn't cost them a fraction of what it cost black and trans people for just existing.

Must read on how "Literature, in the Prairieland case, was turned into a vector of criminalization." A disturbing example of how creative expression can be used as evidence of criminality.

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The attack on Chaco Canyon, the shrinking of Bears Ears, the gutting of Section 106 is all related. Erasing tangible places that hold our history is the ultimate erasure of the people connected to those places. When that history is forgotten the land is free for extraction.

Perhaps this advice can be bundled with the advice to shut up about trans rights, immigrant rights, women's rights, and climate so we can develop a marshmallow platform (essentially a bouncy castle in the kingdom of nowhere).

I mean yeah because a lot of Americans are saturated in Christian culture and the idea of the redeemed sinner is incredibly seductive to many, including progressives.

That's it, I'm boycotting SpaceX. No more space shuttles for me

The State Dept wanted to paint Cuba like it was the Legion of Doom headquarters but the nefarious US infiltrators its report points to is like, pro bono lawyers, an anti-war women's group and the DSA. www.state.gov/wp-content/u...

I think the thing I resent most about gen AI- and this is a selfish thing to say but it’s true- is that it’s put an asterix on my sense of wonder. What I mean is that now when I see an amazing or beautiful image I can’t have that initial “wow!” reaction. I doubt. I have to verify. I hate it.

I really hate the “I don’t owe anyone anything” mentality because we actually owe each other and this planet a lot. You don’t have to be selfless all the time or burn yourself out but you should be kind and helpful and compassionate to the best of your ability. We need to care about each other more

the best day for the presidents of every R1 to hold a press conference screaming that higher ed is our second largest export and destroying it is economic sabotage and soft power detonation was Jan 21st 2025. the next best day is tomorrow.

Labeling George Floyd a subversive enemy of the United States is quite the, um, choice.

It shouldn't be difficult to say something like, "While we both agree that healthcare is too expensive, no, I'm not interested in building a coalition with a notorious antisemite and transphobe because we have fundamentally different visions of what America should look like."

as a person with cptsd and related night terrors i would like to bully this woman appropriately for the use of “triggering” here

Saying a version of "I don't know" and then outlining the steps you would take *to* know is a nearly-universal requirement for passing your qualifying exams as a PhD student. It was also a requirement for getting hired as a Supplemental Instructor when/where I was an undergrad.

one thing i see over and over from a certain kind of elite liberal is this desperate clinging-on to any conception of politics that lets them believe in a politics without risk and without uncertainty when the truth is more as bismarck had it: gambling in the dark

Did not Truth, Justice, Mercy, and Peace gather for a Girl Dinner at the table of Piers the Ploughman?

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If your upbringing taught you that allowing queer people to exist like every other citizen is incorrect, your upbringing was flawed and bigoted and your responsibility is to adapt and work on yourself.

these are the same people who think Luke Skywalker is meant to be a badass warrior and that he spares Vader to, i don't know, humiliate him? after beating him in the lightsaber fight. people who have killed their internal sense of empathy in favor of toxic masculine tropes assume that is normal

All the girls talk about relating to Cassandra’s cursed gift of prophecy. I find I also relate to the way she embraces fate and chooses to help bring it along when she realizes that doing so means she gets to take down the people who killed her family and burned down her home.

i would say that within the next year you are going to start seeing US national journalists follow the green card holder or immigrant academics being threatened in leaving the United States to report from elsewhere

You don't have to comply; "Fuck you, make me" is always an option unless a gun is pointed at your head.

MULDER [slapping down plane tix]: Hope you packed your rain coat, Scully. SCULLY: Seattle? Mulder it's the weekend, what- MULDER [handing her a file] Confirmed sightings, Scully. This is big SCULLY [eyes wide]: My God Mulder, what am I looking at here? MULDER: The locals are calling it.. JIMOTHY

These results are bad, and reflect a growing problem among American youth, and also, this poll is from a Trump-aligned group that should ask whether they’ve been part of the problem by feeding a moral panic about “critical race theory” that has made teaching the real history of antisemitism harder.

Fixing the world is a damn buffet and if you don't want the salad you don't need to tell people you don't like salad. You can just eat the pasta.

If you don't believe in electoralism, you can simply choose not to engage. You can do other organizing. This is not hard. Do the thing you think needs to be done instead.

"A.i." is a tool pushed by racist, fascist billionaires for racist, fascist purposes.

A really salient point: Jews tend to be hyper vigilant and suspicious of obtuse jokes and memes that reference us because all too often they turn out to be dog whistles from a novel corner of the neo-Nazi bunker. We historically do not have the luxury of presuming good intentions.

What community means, if we gone get this revolution popping like you say y'all say you want while you keep playing, is that the strong protect the weak. If you have force or strength or power, you use it to care for & defend those who have less of it. We all matter & we're all coming along.

Hey #sanfrancisco and friends who use tik tok. If you see a video of a couple (man with dark curly hair, and woman with black short hair, tall, white) in San Francisco, crossing Chez Maman in Hayes Valley, they just pepper sprayed the entire restaurant, my mom, me and our foster dog. If you see

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A gentle reminder: libraries are still here, still free, still open to everyone. No appointment required. No subscription fee. Just walk in.

It has been really GOOD that for the last week or so the general public has gotten an education about the complexities of our food systems and the political power of MASSIVE farming companies. It’s really BAD it happened this way. At the same time I hope everyone will keep educating themselves!

Feces often contaminates food when workers are 1) not provided proper toilets 2) not allowed to take breaks 3) using untreated waste water near/on crops (very bad!) 4) not provided adequate bathrooms in on-site housing 5) not cleaning workspace properly All of which is NOT on workers.

oh, fuck this six ways from sunday

This and the repeated Boar's Head contamination events make it clear that public safety cannot be entrusted to wealthy self-interested individuals, because without an outside party forcing them to not be a goddamn sociopath they will prioritize money over society.

I did some digging in this and thread below on places you might encounter Taylor Farms in addition to lettuce -- they sell onions and cilantro to restaurants so don't order dishes with those raw. The other big one is unlabelled grocery store deli fruit and veggie snacks, or cold sandwiches.

Yesterday, WIRED learned that Madison Square Garden was suing us for our accurate reporting. We stand by our work. That’s why we’re removing the paywall from two of the MSG stories they don’t want you to read, making them free for everyone.

if you “used ChatGPT as your search engine”, you did not in fact “check” anything

More than 100 of Governor Abbott’s buoys broke loose during deadly floods in Texas. Buoys with sharp razors are now causing damage to neighborhoods and have shut down a bridge that transports thousands of vehicles a day.

The allergy to religion that somehow still persists in various social sciences and humanities is itself a critical data point in understanding how we got into this mess.

So often I've had my fellow American Studies people look at me like I have face fungus for my fascination with religion. Somehow they don't think that religion is involved in both all the very best and very worst of all USA stuff?

As someone who was 19 that summer I just want to assure you that for a while we were all turning towards our friends with a death glare and going "Not GAY... Not STRAIGHT..."