“Great Man” theories of history may have been wrong but “That F*ing Guy” theory looks increasingly plausible.

2026 Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina, four former University of Michigan men’s hockey players are on the United States Olympic team roster: Kyle Connor, Quinn Hughes, Dylan Larkin, and Zach Werenski.

My heart is with Ruben Ray Martinez’s family tonight. We have no idea how many people ICE has killed. Kristi Noem has been clear that they plan to kill more. In Congress, I will abolish ICE and ensure the killers face trial. Together we can stop this: bethfordemocracy.com

The only tools in the centrist toolbox are “tax breaks” and “whatever the Republicans said, but slightly less”. Neither of those can solve this problem where a hostile army is kidnapping people off the streets. Third Way’s cowardice got us here. Now it is time for courage.

This is our local mall. Lololol

I am never going to get over the fact thar so many Americans died that corpses stacked up in nursing homes and hospital morgues, that refrigerator trucks had to be brought in for the overflow, and that the big takeaway from Important Pundits is there should have been *less* mitigation.

It is crucial that Democrats read such things as they consider DHS funding. It is an affront to the entire idea of America. Operating like the secret police of the worst totalitarian societies. Unless it completely changes, funding it is an abdication of their Constitutional duty.

"No one is free until everyone is free" Also means "No one is safe until everyone is safe."

Affirmations from the world's greatest detective.

Over a million views in 11 hours. Guess the bad guys trying to silence this Colbert interview with @jamestalarico.bsky.social really didn’t work, huh? Such a shame… #StreisandEffect @colbertlateshow.bsky.social youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...

This is correct. They can pay TSA whenever they want! They have arrogated the authority to do that to themselves. If they don't want to fund TSA out of the big slush fund they passed, it's because they want to shut the airports down.

Despicable.

NOPE. When humans make mistakes, they can be HELD ACCOUNTABLE. Uber's CEO makes this argument because he doesn't want to be held accountable.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Um. This is nuts! Why are we creating a society like this?

It’s a small, select group on here who are privileged enough to share the talents of their parents to a wider audience. Today I get to join them. telly-visions.ghost.io/nuremberg-20...

Yes! What if we treated extremely normal human variation as something other than a "disorder"??? www.positive.news/society/yout...

Thread up and down. What should Dems do when we win.

“care is not private property”

Heartbreaking thread.

Bitter Medicine is indeed glorious. I also enjoyed many of the other choices -- and have increased my TBR pile by *mumbles* books.

10. You?

Good morning! This man is a fucking liar.

"I am frightened by a woman in slippers" is a weird thing for all these master race alpha male warfighters to say but they keep saying it.

Harold and Maude is a goated romcom. I will not be hearing disagreements

A lot (a LOT) of good folks out there are looking for work, and I have done resume review for many, many friends and family in the past six months and, friends, I need to stress this as much as possible, because it's the note I give literally everyone: BRAG MORE ABOUT WHAT YOU'RE GOOD AT.

THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY. I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.

I do not want ICE reformed. I want it destroyed. Delenda Est.

“Researchers from Johns Hopkins, Georgetown and Yale universities recently found that 60 FDA-authorized medical devices using AI were linked to 182 product recalls, according to a research letter published in the JAMA Health Forum in August.”

You ever think about how many kids could have been fed on even _half_ of the money spent building ICEstapo “detention centers”? (The regime just bought a warehouse in Pennsylvania slated for that purpose, for $87.4 MILLION, to give you some idea)

Thread. Why we need @beth4ma.bsky.social in Congress!

It's pretty clear most of the people with power aren't gonna show up for us. But we can show up for each other every day, and we don't have to wait for them to give us permission. And I can't tell you how much hope you can have when you're talking to organizers kicking ass every day.

Wrote this about UBI and homelessness just recently:

To the phones!

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Thread. If you can, Beth is worth supporting. I do, maybe you can too!

If we want people to follow the rules the rules should be easy to follow. I have decades of experience building software people actually want to use. We all have to deal with the government. It deserves the same care. Together, we can build a future that doesn't suck: bethfordemocracy.com

‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." … She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’

Part of the joy of books is sharing them. It’s not just a personal treat. It’s shared culture. You might read a book and, decades later, bond with someone because you both loved the same cultural artifact. Coverage of books in national media fuels that cultural conversation.

i keep seeing "protestors" referred to again and again in ICE coverage and I wish the media would understand that is right-wing framing and just call them what they actually are which is *residents*

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

France is investigating Twitter/X for political bias, misuse of user data & generating pornographic images of minors. America's Justice Department is looking the other way. Just like it is with Epstein's co-conspirators. But the French Public Prosecutor isn't in the pocket of Trump's donors.

Honestly, the smartest thing tech companies can do right now is treat AI like New Coke. Start releasing AI-Free “Classic” versions of their products.

I know this is a radical idea, but: what if we helped everyone?

And not just have the power, but the obligation.

How men feared women! she thought, walking among the late-flowering roses. Not as individuals, but women when they talked together, worked together, spoke up for one another - then men saw plots, cabals, constraints, traps being laid.

Until 9/11, you could cross into Canada from Detroit with a driver's license. You're supposed to show your birth certificate or passport, but 9 times out of 10, they'd wave you through. 9/11 and the Bush admin's "War on Terror" changed everything. Can't remember the last time I've been to Windsor.

Listen to Calvin's Dad, folks.

Union workers solved the trolley problem, you're welcome