not sure any website is going to be able to withstand the internet joy when It Happens but this one is definitely not

Looking forward to my visit to DC next Friday to talk about Living in a DAISY Age! I'll be in conversation with Peggy Kyoungwon Lee at Rhizome DC.

Also debating ludicrous ideas saps up energy but a lot of people act like engaging these people is a priority.

Generally, the Calm Down Club is wrong on the facts on purpose because they don’t want you to stop them.

To be clear, the bad-faith right-wing attacks *are* real and have taken a toll on American HE since the 1960s, but they’re not the full story and the root cause of the legitimacy crisis in 2026 is driven by student debt and the sense that universities have betrayed their promise of social mobility.

This narrative—that the only reason universities are experiencing a legitimacy crisis in the 2020s is because of bad-faith right-wing attacks—conveniently ignores the neoliberalization of higher education.

The people who spend the most time obsessing over ‘conversations with those you disagree with’ typically have large gate kept platforms and are exceedingly insulated.

It’s a telling indicator of media desensitization that the US government’s ongoing program of murder on the high seas—which according to the perpetrators has killed fourteen (14) people this week— is no longer a subject for much serious or sustained news coverage.

This could apply to alot of things, but when people say "we want x" and politicians say "how about 50% of x, which won't really achieve anything, but it is half of what you asked!!!" it is not actually on those voters to clap

Hope he has a good dinner but I’m glad he’s finally facing the executioner

Worth thinking about how Schumer voted against the supermajority of his party in two back to back votes just now because he agrees with the Trump administration that Israel should be given unlimited, unconditional, essentially free military assistance.

I dunno. I think maybe shutting off people's power at home should be illegal.

members of the press, I too have a “feud” with the pope, in that I disagree with him about things and he does not care in the slightest

The contrast couldn't be clearer. This city's organic public safety uprising was a large-scale effort to make it safe for marginalized people to be out and about in public places; the MPD is publicly declaring its commitment to make it unsafe for marginalized people to do the same. This is policing.

An interesting question would be which of the two companies is paying and which of them is getting paid.

It’s hard not to see Vance’s criticism of the Pope’s theological bona fides as just silly hubris. But I also see it as a stress test of sorts — can they manipulate sentiment against a pontiff. Not for Trump’s interests. More likely for Thiel’s.

I would hope that outsiders could look beyond our current government when evaluating Americans, but I would also hope that they would not supply our current government with heavy weaponry. 🥰

One of the worst things about social media (and this has greatly influenced the form taken by the present crisis) is that it convinces you that "people that annoy you" are a political bloc. I shouldn't know what most people think and there's lots of partners in struggle who may annoy me.

Well everyone’s wages went up 500% so it’s fine.

National Popular Vote Compact is just as legal as our existing system (100% legal) and just as out of step with what the people who wrote the Constitution intended (100% out of step.)

As a former @cleanh2oaction.bsky.social canvasser, organizer, and communications manager – and as a longtime member & donor – I strongly support @cleanwaterunion.bsky.social and am thrilled to see the news about their campaign. The organization's leadership should voluntarily recognize the union!

Please help us spread the word.

People willing calling people by their chosen names of Clavicular or Sneako but complain about trans people pronouns. Get fucked

Honestly I think it’s fine to call ICE detention concentration camps. Also this country had thousands of them already. This is the reality of a country that depends on police, prosecutions, and prison to solve every problem.

free speech is when you're free to shut up and sit there while i give a speech

Tomorrow a new record of senators will vote in favor of blocking certain parts of military assistance to Israel

Bees just discovered 35,000 people above NY cemetery

While Hampshire’s case is in some ways unique, it is amazing to think that in a single lifetime - about 70 years - the US founded the greatest public and liberal arts college system in the world and then destroyed it, to build prisons, give tax cuts to the rich, and own the libs

you shouldn’t learn about bands from shady TikTok manipulation, you should learn about bands by hanging out with a girl you like but are also extremely afraid of

Imagine believing the New York Times editorial board wanted Trump defeated.

Congratulations to my pal @stschrader1.bsky.social! His new book Blue Power - which Ruthie Gilmore called a ‘tour de force’ - is out today!

JUST IN: Governor Abigail Spanberger last night returned this bill to lawmakers with an amendment request (rather than signing it). Her amendment would clarify that sheriffs/jails are allowed to honor ICE detainers, i.e. warrantless ICE requests to keep someone in jail beyond their release.

me: boss where’s the food coloring boss: what for me: toilet video boss: ah yes, show customers how a few drops of dye in the tank can help them identify costly leaks me: uh

You cannot shout "fire, fire, fire! the house is on fire!" in other words fascism/authoritarianism/DANGER and then do nothing to put out the flames or get the people out. What you do in always a louder message than what you say.

The Phanatic was thinking about baseball.

It’s alright, it happens to a lot of hot dog cannons

“Happy as a clam” makes some incredible assumptions re: clam psychology

I'd started saying on meeting invites that I will leave if there's an AI notetaker and the first time I made good on that threat felt so good, let me tell you. You don't have to accept this shit!

It’s the etymology of the word even! www.etymonline.com/word/tutor

Automation and tax cuts is a wild agenda for a union.

Real books are indispensable.

People like this should be stripped of every ounce of power they have. We don’t actually have to live like this.

more pocket-sized books. more books that fit in coats like contraband and can be taken out to avoid eye contact in any situation.

seems like every time a journalist gets caught doing something unethical a bunch of people are like “that’s common behavior” which would explain a couple of problems we are having in journalism

Notifications for deleted shouldn't remain in any OS notification database, and we've asked Apple to address this. In the meantime, you can prevent any preview text from your Signal messages from appearing in your notifications. Signal Settings > Notifications > Show “No Name or Content”

The message of an overturned charge for protesting isn't "the law was on your side the whole time," it's that the law can't save you from the cops even when it's clear you're in the right

Twist: So many university leaders took the bait because they agree with the right wing grift. They don’t think fascists or racism is bad & are annoyed by students, staff & faculty that say otherwise because it forced them to take stands they don’t believe in. Now they can ignore fascism & racism

Once again, it’s worth remembering that anxiety is not when something bad happens to you, it is fear of a bad thing happening to you.

It’s exceedingly frustrating to talk with regular partisan Dems who focus on how to win an election that in all likelihood Dems will clean up in and then have them insist a bunch of things Dems should do in office that they don’t want them to even talk about in the meantime.

Orban also started with purging books from library shelves.