Anthropic is very much not our friend.

An audience member asked me about leftist pronatalism.

A very easily overlooked aspect of the Panthers. Hoover said the Free Breakfast Program was the biggest internal threat to the US.

The fact that Nyong’o’s beauty is causing a war between two rival cultures in America right now is proof enough that she is the perfect Helen of Troy.

I mean, cmon.

The core problem with "surveillance pricing" isn't the pricing, it's the *surveillance*, and the way to fix this is to ban most forms of data collection. There's simply no good reason to allow companies to build highly detailed dossiers full of our personal information.

“You cannot be an artist if you strive to please. It’s just the most boring thing to please, & I don’t please, I try not to. Maybe it’s a disaster, maybe it is not, but that pursuit, that way, is something you have to go on. Because to pursue art is to be ruthless.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/w...

“Grief is a part of love, & love isn’t just sadness — grief can be full of life.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/w...

Israel’s holocaust of Palestinians reached a horrific new low today. No different than trains heading to gas chambers. Shame on everyone silent about this.

we’re at over a trillion in new borrowing by trump. we could have EASILY wiped out student debt

If we had ten more of this guy, we could fix this country

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

I'm tired but you know what may actually get people to realize that there's something wrong about catching COVID? Talking about its effect on driving. That resonates because a lot of people are seeing a lot of aberrant driving. Now I just hope they can translate that to not wanting to get sick.

Vast concentrations of wealth have sometimes - but not always - generated political pushback. In some cases, the very wealthy tolerated higher taxes or committed to philanthropy to offset populist dissent. Now they pretend to be the populists, and keep the money. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/b...

I want to say that if this dragnet snags enough white people, we might finally get meaningful action. But I am pretty sure the elites have already called off even the pretense of caring about poor white people AND they’re actively making middle class white people poor. Sooooo…

“…as the virus continues to circulate, more people are being forced to reckon with a life-altering yet often invisible disability whose relative newness offers few answers for the future and few avenues for support.”

I'm sure this regime change will go just as well as the last one, where we spent billions of dollars and destroyed thousands of lives to replace the Taliban with the Taliban

It's time! Nominations are now open for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which will be given to a work of imaginative fiction, published in 2025, that reflects the concepts and ideas that were central to Ursula’s own work.

“I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven’t lived in blood and bone. That doesn’t mean I want my people bombed, killed, their homes in ruins.” - Sahar Delijani

When it finally happens:

she said what she said

Jeff Chang points out that “cultural change precedes political change." I think about this all of the time.

“As we prepare for more waves of bad news, I’m remembering that there is always a next right thing to do, that I am never alone in my despair, and that when we come together, we can create new worlds that are kinder and more of what we all deserve." - B Loewe

“Hope expands the space of the possible and becomes a way of recognizing and naming the incomplete nature of the present.” Henri Giroux

DOCTOR Rümeysa Öztürk has earned her PhD!!

Ramadan Mubarak

Matching funds on all donations up to $50,000 for each of these Minneapolis area rent relief funds this week. www.standwithminnesota.com/keepmnhoused

Welcome, Ramadan. 💛

Forget about the Ramadan moonsighting wars—Netflix casting Rufus Sewell as Mr. Bennet is creating fitna amongst the Colin Firth as Darcy madhab adherents. www.netflix.com/tudum/articl... 📚

Made some light lamps for Ramadan ✨️ #b3d

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

In all seriousness, I see the UK arresting a MEMBER OF THE ROYAL FAMILY for Epstein ties and here we sit, our thumbs up our butts, in the country where our 6th grade social studies teachers smugly assured us this kind of lawlessness and nepotism could never happen

from the family of Virginia Giuffre: “At last. Today, our broken hearts have been lifted at the news that no one is above the law, not even royalty.... He was never a prince. For survivors everywhere, Virginia did this for you.”

“Don’t be fooled by those in E’s circle who say they didn’t know. E not only didn’t hide what was happening, he took a certain glee in making people watch.& people did watch-scientists, fundraisers from the Ivy League & other heralded institutions, titans of industry. They watched &they didn’t care”

Of all the things we are doing in MN, this one is just beyond. Imagine being released from hell alone in the cold. And a total stranger has waited all night with a blanket just to be ready to hug you and carry you home. Every job we do is crucial, but this one is what restores humanity and dignity.

I wrote about how there are no pure platforms or publishers and how there are very few ethical media diets. Which leaves those of us who know we can’t consume ethically but still want to try, left to navigate what feels right, or, at least, less bad. lithub.com/what-do-you-...

while I wish we too had Consequences For Horrifying Crimes over here, Andrew and Trump are like the two most famous, powerful and well-protected men in that whole file and it’s impossible for this not to change the math completely. other men will be afraid today who weren’t yesterday

Find your tree 💛 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/r...

We didn't say body cams on ICE. Their murders are already on video. We said no more ICE.

"We are bearing witness to what fear can do to the health of a community" A poignant piece @NEJM about the Minneapolis devastation "We care for our patients because they are human beings. Our patients are being harmed. People are dying unnecessarily." www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

BREAKING: Bernie Sanders is introducing an amendment to cut ICE’s $75 billion funding increase, and to use those funds to restore the federal cuts to health care.

We will not free ourselves from fascism without taxing billionaires out of existence.

"It is long past time to rein in not only counterterrorism, but also the concept of terrorism that fuels it." My op-ed in today's SF Chronicle on how Trump draws on a concept of terrorism that has been racialized & selective from the beginning. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

lots of good info here!

Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics

Remember the other day when I was saluting my friend Greg Ketter, owner of Minneapolis’ DreamHaven Books? This is him the following day. Greg will never say this, so I will — now is a great time to buy books from DreamHaven. Support Americans who stand up vs. 🧊. dreamhavenbooks.com

CALLING OUR COMMUNITY: Minnesota has called for a national action training so communities everywhere can be prepared to defend our neighbors AND join the fight for the Twin Cities. RSVP now to join us! #TeslaTakedown act.womensmarch.com/signup/mvmts...

tomorrow, StandWithMinnesota.com will hit a million site visits and over 650,000 unique visitors. i made it 10 days ago with $600 from you guys for hosting and cloudflare. thank you. thank you.