I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

The actual conspiracy theory is that multiple women independently lied, with apparently nothing to gain, and much to lose, about Trump’s entanglement with Epstein. katemanne.substack.com/p/the-actual...

NEW from me: The sad, sad state of the New York Times: presswatchers.org/2025/07/the-...

So many more I could have chosen! The Florida Project. Both Kill Bills. I basically just picked what first came to mind.

They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida. If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.

While Trump wastes millions on a military parade in DC, we're mobilizing everywhere else to show that organized people power is stronger than his authoritarian aspirations. app.sosha.ai/s/aak1muKR

BREAKING: California Governor Gavin Newsom delivers a 'major address' in response to the Trump admin.'s actions in L.A. "Authoritarian regimes begin by targeting people who are least able to defend themselves, but they do not stop there," Newsom said.

State repression of peaceful protests can subject activists to injury and even death but—when broadcast to the world through media—often turns mass opinion against the state. bsky.app/profile/owas...

Again, this is finally some really good self-knowledge and we should support him in this insight and maybe help him find a job for which he is suited

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I don't 'refuse to use' AI, I just don't use AI; in the same way that I don't shoplift, or plagiarise other people's books - it requires no effort of will, it's just not something I would think of doing

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Bracing, from Die Zeit: “Thank you for Andy Warhol. Thank you for the Big Mac and the iPhone. Thank you, too, for Francis Ford Coppola, for Stanley Kubrick and Quentin Tarantino. Thank you for Angela Davis, Joni Mitchell and Susan Sontag. Thank you….also for Levi’s 501s. And now: Goodbye.”

Keep hearing people say protests against first Trump administration were ineffective. Evidence suggests otherwise.

It's late, but I was compelled to write this and share the amazing portrait: "The United States of Terror" Trump's Second Administration is transforming into a reign of terror for anyone and everyone who defies the MAGA agenda. open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

A French researcher was detained on arrival in the US and his computer and phone were confiscated. Texts criticizing Trump's cuts to scientific research were deemed by DHS agents as "hatred of Trump …described as terrorism." He was deported.

We've always been at war with Greenland.

Powerful remarks by Northwestern District Attorney David E. Sullivan in Northampton MA at a Patrick's Day Breakfast on March 17. 1/2

A really good discussion about why removing Section 230 would be extremely chilling to a lot of the internet communities, inarguably making them worse experiences and subject to the whims of bad actors.

Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away. They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.

Why can’t American businesspeople talk this way?

In Brooklyn the next few Saturdays!

🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

Word has it DOGE has terminated the five men protecting the cursed seal that holds the five dark sages in their slumber

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

Heroic. Wish we had someone like him.

Nic Juarez: "I’ve alienated my co-workers, friends, fiancé, and strangers at the coffee shop, asking them what they think a Lumon refiner’s salary is and pressing them when they try to change the subject or claim not to watch the show."

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

We could just be reading great books, watching good movies, and eating fruit. Instead we have to survive/fight miserable power hoarders. What a waste of limited time.

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The President is not in charge of AP style. www.ap.org/the-definiti...

Ed Zitron: “Things are being made linearly worse in the pursuit of growth in every aspect of our digital lives, and it’s because everything must grow, at all costs, at all times, unrelentingly, even if it makes the technology we use every day consistently harmful.”

Medhi Hasan: “Today, more than four decades later, DEI has become the new N-word; the new rightwing abstraction deployed by Republicans to conceal their anti-Black racism.”

Top-notch analysis and reporting.

Security expert Bruce Schneier & digital ethicist Davi Ottenheimer: “The U.S. government has experienced what may be the most consequential security breach in its history.” And: “This is beyond politics — this is a matter of national security.” (via @anildash.com) [foreignpolicy.com]

Elon Musk to reporter: “We post our actions to the DOGE website. All of our actions are maximally transparent. I don’t know of a case where an organization has been more transparent than the DOGE organization.” Here’s the doge.gov website IN ITS ENTIRETY. It’s literally a blank page!

“This anti-democratic movement has no interest in compromise. Any concessions will help consolidate the powers of a lawless presidency and entrench a new, kleptocratic, authoritarian form of government in the United States.”@katherinestewart.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/o...

Read this. “What we’re witnessing is an unprecedented concentration of power in the hands of a private citizen” — this is clear sighted, chilling, galvanizing.

Whole Foods, which is owned by notorious union-buster Amazon, is arguing that Trump's dismantling of the NLRB means the company doesn't have to recognize a newly unionized store in Philadelphia. Looks like Jeff Bezos's investment in Trump is paying off.

Many are asking: “What can I do now?” Here’s a revised and expanded list of actions you can take, in rough order of importance. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/more-on-what-you-can-do

Wow. it must feel terrible when someone takes something you made and uses it without permission or payment

Oh no, the Chinese version of the shitty plagiarism machine is better than the domestic one we also never wanted!

this is an illegal order. the president does not have the legal authority to discriminate against entire categories of americans on the basis of sex. this order is no different than if he had issued one reinstituting segregation.

Constitutional crisis. Say the words, Dems. Fight like you mean it. Business as usual is over. Act accordingly.

Trump is attempting to unilaterally freeze trillions of dollars in federal spending that’s been duly appropriated by Congress. This is completely insane and illegal. He’s seizing unlawful control over the constitutional spending power? Five alarm fire www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

john turturro just going from giving us one of the best performances of the last 10 years in severance season 2 and then casually walking the runway in milan is a serve that needs to be studied

This is just an awful insult to both the memory of Frank and the intelligence of users.