“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.”

Bullshit Jobs is really two types of Gender: -jobs typically held by women are Bullshit Jobs -jobs that don't give me masculine fulfillment are Bullshit Jobs.

The problem with TACO is that TACO is a product of Trump's low pain tolerance. But all options involve lots of pain now, including any attempt to back down. He's lashing out this way and that looking for a low-pain option and getting ever angrier. Just like during 2020, amid COVID and unrest.

A candid defence of the AIPAC tracker thing for indiscriminately targeting Jewish orgs and politicians: Zionism is fascism and all Judaism is Zionism. Ergo, ipso facto....

“but those diasporas don’t use their (((lobbies))) to bribe politicians into supporting their views!” yes they do! they all do that! why the fuck do you think we still have an embargo on Cuba?

AIPAC has spent money *opposing* both of these senators, while J Street has contributed to both of them guess which senator is jewish

Ex: Delia Ramirez (who’s Methodist) and Daniel Biss (who’s Jewish) both took money from J-Street employees and neither took money from AIPAC. Guess which one gets the red background with flames and a black & white photo, and which gets the green background with normal colors.

Here's my rep who has called Gaza a Genocide and voted against military support. Somehow they came up with "individual donations" as the window into this, with no sourcing. Probably searching !berg and !stein

All you people ever fucking talk about any more is the Jews. How am I supposed to think you give a flying fuck about lunches in schools or climate change or whatever

Cynicism is stupidity. It's cunning without the strategy. It's all just bitterness.

Joe Kent is neither the worst person you know making a good point nor a broken clock; he’s a notorious antisemite and white supremacist who is blaming Jews to get out of a real job that’s quite difficult right now as we increasingly explode the world and create the conditions for terrorism.

And if you're jumping right to a very high office, that's worth worrying about. Again, I'm sorry, I know it's not cool to say so on this site. But these are important, huge offices and candidacies for them should be treated with a degree of seriousness.

Actually, Americans are just like you. ~20-30% of them genuinely support fascism, as in ~every 🇪🇺 country. You are just more fortunate to have political institutions & a multiparty system that prevent that 20-30% from fully capturing the center-right party, becoming 51%, & controlling the government.

Sad to see the Ides of March becoming commercialised like this. I really feel like we're losing track of the true spirit of the holiday. It's not about how many knives you can stick in a tyrant all at once, it's about the whole community coming together to stab the tyrant as many times as possible.

An explosion damaged a Jewish school in Amsterdam early on Saturday, in what the city's mayor described as "a deliberate attack against the Jewish community". www.nbcnews.com/world/europe...

"the intentional conflating of antizionism with antisemitism is responsible for-" No. Going to stop you right there. I really need supposedly principled antizionists to stop coming at this from the perspective of "obviously we are correct and it is The Enemy's fault," and do some self-critique.

BREAKING: The UN refugee agency says up to 3.2 million people in Iran have been displaced by the ongoing war. Follow AP’s live updates.

I will reiterate that some women genuinely hate men for doing horrific stuff to women. Most men hate women for existing as people with autonomous thoughts. Like, I guarantee at most moments we are actively underestimating the degree to which they hate us.

Dems aren't lost - white men and my demo are, and they're pissing me off. Always looking for the next great white hope, and then do this shit.

that I lived in Texas. This lady asked me to show her a bill in my name… then she asked me for my passport. I was like “Ma’am… I’m fully aware that it doesn’t take all of this for me to vote”. She then all of a sudden found my voter registration in her system.

Graham Platner, the guy who had to cover his Nazi tattoo to save his senate campaign in Maine, went on the YouTube channel “Valhalla VFT” in January where he said he’s a “longtime fan of the show.” Check out these vile racist thumbnails from the channel & reporting on the antisemitic host.

Awesome to see and happy for the Iranian people. Hopefully everybody packs up and goes home now, and the Iranians segue into a peaceful democracy with full control of their natural resources. Hang the "Mission Accomplished" banner, folks!

NEW: Profs. Martha Jones and @brennancenter.org Historians Council Member Kate Masur filed an amicus brief in the upcoming Supreme Court case involving Trump’s attempt to unconstitutionally strip birthright citizenship 🧵

I'll be honest with you. I see stuff like Platner QTing a holocaust denier and Ana aggressively posting "goyim are waking up," and I try to spin it into something satirical and humorous, but I think of the lovely and vulnerable, completely innocent Jews of this country, and I'm filled with terror.

For the many Platner fans here, Peters is a white supremacist, Holocast denying / antisemetic, virulently anti-trans anti-gay right-wing influencer. There's no lack of people making similar points that Platner could be reading and promoting who are not nazis.

"The 45-second film, made around 1897, was the first appearance on film of what might be called a robot" HELL. YES.

Know what else you can't do without a valid licence? Get on a plane, rent an apt, apply for a job, volunteer at your kids' school, any banking, ship a package at FedEx, get a library card, vote (in many states), stay in a hotel, check in at the doc office, pick up your held mail or prescriptions...

Relevant to today's conversation about AI's inherent sexism, here's an email from cognitive psychologist and early AI theorist Roger Schank, arguing to Epstein that women can't be truly intelligent, because they care too much about what other people think.

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2 candidates in the primary were born in another country: Hoan Huynh & Jeff Cohen. More candidates with at least one immigrant parent: Bushra Amiwala, Mike Simmons, Daniel Biss. People don't say they're not from here because they actually live in the district when they announced they were running.

However bad we think chattel slavery is, it was worse.

This thought experiment where the DNC chooses a candidate based on a negotiation with progressive commentators is fiction. I’m engaging with the grim reality of the American electorate. Look who they just put into office again. No one’s waiting on my permission to run.

Yes he was handsome. But give some credit to the meticulous attention his wife Anna Murray Douglass paid to his care, his home, & the presentation of his garments. It was Anna, a free woman who he met in Baltimore, who out of her meager savings gave FD the money for his train ride to escape.

The total lack of explanation or comprehension from all sources contacted I this article is really unsettling - nobody has any idea why a major city was just suddenly grounded - with lethal force authorized against any aircraft that didn’t get the memo. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...

Sometimes very hard not to feel like the rest of the country has abandoned Minnesota. We STILL have ICE everywhere. Our schools, businesses, and economy are in profound crisis. But without Bovino here throwing tear gas, much of the country seems to not care at all what’s being done to us.

Well luckily no one gives a shit about this any more.

The Heritage Foundation has released a 250-year roadmap to “save America.” The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there. jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...

Incarcerating babies is an evil, morally bankrupt practice that calls into question any commitment our nation claims to have about the preciousness of children, the sanctity of family, and the importance of community.

I say this regularly. People use performative as a substitute for 'inauthentic' and we could all just say the words we mean to say. Erving Goffman helps us to understand that we perform all of the time in real life. Life itself is often a performance of self.

Why did the white working class abandon the Democratic Party by 1968? Did something major happen in between 1964 and 1968?

A lot of people are rightfully outraged that famous, important people continued to hang out with Jeff Epstein after he was convicted of serious sex crimes. I would posit, though, that 'maintaining social and business relationships with sex criminals' is extremely common behavior, regardless of class

The judges were already complaining about the DHS/DOJ orchestrating their "surge" without allocating resources for the lawsuits that were destined to follow. Seems that the Trump administration couldn't find any Proud Boys who were licensed to practice law.

The thing about all of this is that we women have no idea how many men have the capacity to do terrible things to us. We don’t know whether there’s a percentage of men that just like hurting us and a society that ignores them or whether every man would if they could. We don’t know.

I’m in leadership in my local Democratic Party in interior and every seat I wasn’t sure about recruiting for I am recruiting for. These numbers are the type of trump +n districts we see all the time. It’s exciting

I think it is OUTRAGEOUS that people are LEAPING to the conclusion that some our post prominent Americans are child rapists when it is EQUALLY PLAUSIBLE that they are simply indifferent to whether other people are child rapists so long as those other people can offer them access to power.

I'm thinking of the women who had to suffer professors like Noam Chomsky and Larry Summers. Dime-a-dozen misogynists.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

It’s common and sort of understandable to see Miller as this evil genius. Important to remember he’s actually a complete fucking moron who, when he got a chance, immediately engineered a PR disaster that shitcanned Trump’s best-polling issue. Always the way with these types.

gee whiz it would be really great if the opposition party smelled blood in the water right now and went on a full offensive to harness this spark of momentum

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.