It's official! I'm *permanently* banned from X for tweeting "TLDR: Fascism." (appeal denied) What an honor—and a sign that the Silicon Valley billionaires feel threatened by my book. (One of my final viral posts featured this cover.) Pre-order here! www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

Going to keep sharing this, because something I heard from sources is many felt like, after SNAP paused for the first time ever over the fall when the Trump admin refused to fund benefits, lots of people were talking about it. Now, people are still struggling but it feels like attention moved on.

And I thought Democrats were the communists. Talk about seizing the means of (re) production. Yes I know communism != fascism, but I suspect communist USSR and China are in many people’s initial thoughts when thinking about this.

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On episode 2 of @dreamingagainstthemachine.com, @chanda.blacksky.app and I talk about Star Trek, the power of labor unions, and fascist footwear. Check it out wherever you get your podcasts!

Just watched a video of Andy Weir describing neutrinos and he says they quantum tunnel through pretty much everything and I don’t feel this is an appropriate use of ”quantum tunneling” Anyway why ask a woman physicist when you can ask a dude novelist

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Why do we even bother with endnotes--this is my personal pet peeve as a historian, I need to read the spicy, sassy, whiny footnotes immediately

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To any Hungarians annoyed that Americans are placing the credit for your momentous victory on the shoulders of our stunningly repellent little weasel of a VP: you are correct to feel that way, I'm sorry, we just want to seize any available oppurtunity to humiliate him specificially

To be clear, these are what the presidential budget request is *trying* to terminate.... They tried this last year, and we fought and won. When we fight, we win.

"Donald Trump must be removed from office" is the correct response to all of this

If I even whisper something about being Jewish, I have people screaming at me about Israel (a country I have never even visited). But a gov employee talking about Jesus Christ on the job as the Christian Nationalists who run the US bomb Iran in a religious war? That's just life in America.

speak loudly and ask if you can borrow somebody else’s stick

They’d rather the country be poorer and whiter than rich and diverse. Of course when the pie shrinks, the rich will demand the same amount and will tell you the crumbs you’re left with are because of immigrants or trans people or DEI. bsky.app/profile/apne...

if you don't like the social issues conversations in star trek then you just don't like star trek

If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today. That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right

“The real question, the question almost nobody was asking, is not about Claude or any language model. It is a bureaucratic question about what happened to the kill chain, and the answer is Palantir”

It's been a month since NYU Langone ended care. Letitia James deadline came and went, NYU still has not restarted care. Mamdani refuses to answer questions from trans journos over the real steps he can take, like directing H+H to absorb patients or enforcing human rights law. Important thread.

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If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.

Donald Trump letting you know how the authoritarian capture of the media is going, in case you missed it. Unlike other authoritarians in places like Hungary and Poland he has no worries about advertising his authoritarian take over of the media.

I was just disinvited from the Air War College where I’d been asked to lecture on my book, which is a history of U.S. civil-military relations.

"AI" is not a stochastic parrot.🦜 I wrote this piece a couple weeks ago, but it was hard for me to finish up given AI's role in society and war over the past few weeks. I should share it at some point though. Not perfect, but here it is. medium.com/@margarmitch...

A reminder that the war against Iran is entirely at President Trump's whim and he refuses to explain it.

We need better Democrats. Not a single dollar more for Trump’s illegal war.

They are torturing and killing people in our concentration camps, and I wish more people were actively bothered by that

Dear Democrats Don't elect someone with a Nazi tattoo Thank you

I called the most on-message man on TV with some good news about private equity and housing.

If you currently use uv, please consider pixi instead.

So disappointed in the behavior of the US men’s hockey team disrespecting the women’s team like that. The fact that it’s been this long and NO ONE has apologized for their shitty behavior makes it even worse. Just another day being a woman in trumps America 🫠

Yep, this =>Team USA’s celebration was everything the NHL has been trying to push against, now it’s on full display. (NHL, how did this even happen?) www.sbnation.com/nhl/1104402/...

Disgusting display by the US men's hockey team as they laugh along with a violent misogynist as he mocks the women's team. No solidarity among Olympians with these guys.

these people treat being called racist like it is a slur, and treat slurs like they're mere differences of opinion

This email exchange makes me so angry that the only way I can cope is by focusing simply on the absolute murder being done to the innocent semicolon.

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

The FBI Director, everyone. You paid for it.

Where is Nancy Guthrie? Why has Lesley Groff not been indicted?

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I'D JUST LIKE TO INTERJECT FOR A MOMENT. WHAT YOU'RE REFERRING TO AS LINUX IS IN FACT GNU/LINUX, OR AS I'VE RECENTLY TAKEN TO CALLING IT, GNU PLUS LINUX. LINUX IS NOT AN OPERATING SYSTEM UNTO ITSELF, BUT RATHER ANOTHER FREE COMPONENT OF A FULLY FUNCTIONING GNU SYSTEM

It is hard to watch NSF bow so easily to their destroyers. Vannevar Bush formed the NSF out of the US response to the fascists in WWII.

For reference, building 8-12 new beamlines at NSLS-II over the next 12 years or so is also about 500M$

ICE officials under a judge’s order to clean up squalid conditions on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza detained migrants on a secret floor where they decided that ruling didn’t apply, attorneys for the Trump administration said Monday. www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/09/2...

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Same in Los Angeles, though the media doesn’t care to report on that at all

Tomorrow at @oaklibrary.bsky.social! This one will be fun. There's no better way to make a libertarian cry than to go to your local public library. See you there!

the Republican Party will get worse before it gets worse, but God willing it will also get a whole lot smaller

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