Why the fuck would anyone want to reform this agency???

No another dime

"wages have been flat for decades" is an extremely simple, obviously true concept that explains about 80% of all handwringing op-eds and for some reason they just won't say that

It doesn’t appear as though the law requires Gavin to say nice things about Reagan.

You know, I don't know that I feel safe flying if we've got a government that is shooting down random stuff in the sky because they can't tell the difference between a threat and a party balloon.

We stopped Platform Ventures KC from selling their $80,000,000 warehouse to DHS to create a new concentration camp in South KC, we can also stop CoreCivic.

The Georgia, Kansas, and Upshur intersection is a dangerous design for all users. We need safer streets that prioritize safety for everyone. #RethinkGeorgiaAve wjla.com/news/local/p...

I have the best union siblings 🥹😭

I don't know why Newsom's 2026 Ronald Reagan Day proclamation is suddenly going viral but for the record he has done this every year in office and I have the receipts for you. (I make this thread only to further point out that Gavin is a shitheel but also proclamations like this are widespread.)

There have been hugely successful campaigns to fight prison and jail construction across the country, especially in rural areas. These bring together hunters, environmentalists, Indigenous people, prison abolitionists, and immigrant advocates as well as people concerned about land use.

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If they already have the money than why give them more money???

I think it would be easier not to fund them to do it then to hand them more money but beg that it all be double checked.

Anyway yeah happy Black History Month and fuck Gavin Newsom

Governor Newsom proclaims Ronald Reagan Day

This trip to Maine has been really fascinating and I'm so excited to write about the way queer communities and organizations have stepped up to support anti-ICE efforts.

This is worth reading, but read it with both your eyes open: it’s clearly coming from ICE’s Lyons, CPB’s Scott and Tom Homan to preserve their secret police while marginalizing their bureaucratic rivals

It annoys me when people write analyses of the left where they criticize the strategies/tactics they think are ineffective, but they don't lift up any strategies/tactics that they think are effective and should be scaled up.

bro this lady on Jeopardy was deep in third place going into Final Jeopardy, and she didn’t know the answer so she just wrote “i hope they both bet it all” and the other two guys fucking bet it all and got it wrong and she won

Congressman Jim McGovern, longtime advocate of normalization between the US and Cuba, today introduced a bill in the House to officially repeal all of the legal pretext for the American blockade on Cuba.

It would be embarrassing under any circumstances to spend a year on this reactionary horseshit, but to have spent the year in which graduate students were sent to concentration camps for op-eds and the federal govt launched a no hold barred attack on academic freedom is just beyond

The question of legal authority is important but it is a separate one from whether someone has the power to do something.

Serious question: did all of the men have a group chat poll about ai this week or something?

Man I'm so goddamn sick of ai. "Wahhh you can't have a reasonable conversation about ai on here," yeah maybe be mad about the two year parade of scam artists and financial charlatans and environmental ruiners who have radicalized everyone against the spell check that agrees with you

renewed my library card and checked out a book the book is fantastic and if you're doing any kind of movement work, i highly recommend it thank you, @mskellymhayes.bsky.social

Some personal news

I gotta say, "the Pentagon uses a high powered laser to shoot down a party balloon" feels like enough symbolism for awhile. all full up thanks

I'm pretty good at operating tiny buttons in response to predetermined environmental stimuli, in case any scientists out there are looking to hand out small cheese rewards for that

sigh

I don’t really pay attention to charges of doomerism. I don’t know what it means offline. I do know that refusing a version of how the future will unfold forecloses on the power that actually shapes that future. That’s not disavowing that tech changes are happening but they are in now a given.

We have created an impunity machine, and invited and incentivized terrible people to join it. Abolish the whole damn thing.

Many analogies made btw resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act & popular resistance to ICE. One analogy not often made is that it literally took the creation of a new political party to get the “opposition” to stop compromising w the slavocracy

"These are the times to grow our souls. Each of us is called upon to embrace the conviction that despite the powers and principalities bent on commodifying all our human relationships, we have the power within us to create the world anew." --Grace Lee Boggs

Generally, i.e., by definition, hype isn't true tho

the giant amounts of money being kicked around back and forth like a ball in midfield should be a sign that nothing is actually being produced

One reason I think we should dismiss AI hype tout court is because the people pushing it are 1) blatantly lying about it’s current capabilities and 2) often trying to keep a bubble inflated.

A.I. needs to watch its back, I'm coming for its job. Borrow tons of money with no chance of ever making it back? Kid shit. Lie that I'm good at stuff that I'll never be good at? Doing it now. Always be 5 years away from meeting my potential? Buddy, that's my life story.

"Only two English words rhyme with culture, and these, as it happens, are sepulture and vulture. We don’t yet call museums or galleries or even universities culture-sepultures, but I hear a lot, lately, about culture-vultures (man must rhyme)." Raymond Williams

7. Political messaging is lagging regular people’s sense that tech has gone rogue. There is an opportunity to tap into fear about government overreach and economic insecurity. That would tie together several threads of political structures of opportunity — from occupy to environmental racism

The “TikTok-pilled Gen Zers” queueing for the expensive grocery store in Manhattan are likely not the same individuals who will struggle to purchase property. Hope this helps

Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.

I remember thinking surely there would be at least some effort to address this stuff when Biden took office.

“New lease on life“ implies that you’re renting your life from someone else who owns it

Unfortunately, me spending nearly 10 months reading watching, and listening to work on the Red Scares is really paying off

You cannot leave shit like this on the books.

My god.

Yes, kidnappers tend to do this

I saw a post from someone that said they believe negative posting on Bluesky will affect turnout for less engaged voters and buddy there ARE no 'less engaged voters' on Bluesky and if you think faceless rageaholics on a tiny social media site influence election turnout, they absolutely don't.

It’s been predictable but still fascinating to witness the Final Form of these folks just being an evolution into the exact people they did a Revolutionary War to get away from