when a company announces they're going to start using Al in their products all I hear is "our stuff is about to get noticeably shittier, but you should be excited because it'll be cheaper for us"

My pet peeve with AI assisted writing is having to read content that the author hasn’t even read themselves. If you can’t put in the effort to read what you supposedly wrote, why should I?

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Never take seriously those who ridicule low income people for having a smartphone or laptop. “If they’re so poor how did they buy an iPhone???” Because they’re trying to escape poverty, not the 1700s, genius. If you think basic tech access is unnecessary or a luxury, survive a month without it.

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

remember what i said about RFK Jr. being a eugenicist first and foremost? www.marketwatch.com/story/agency...

Musk believes that people are being paid to protest Tesla because he's paying people to vote for a Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate. Every accusation is a confession.

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our history is gonna get disappeared because it tells a story some folks would rather not know and the folks with the resources to preserve said records aren’t motivated to do anything about it. but hey, the cassandra life is not new to me so ima keep pushing.

Yup 😞

NEW: White House says the arrest and deportation of student activist & legal US resident, Mahmoud Khalil, is a blueprint for more. The final line here is chilling. The White House specifically says Khalil was not breaking the law. No evidence, no due process, no crime. He was just disappeared.

some helpful reminders: -not all jews support israel -criticizing israel is not the same as being antisemitic -being pro-palestine does not equal being pro-hamas -arresting someone for being pro-palestine is a violation of the first amendment -violating someone’s first amendment rights is bad

The US was certain it could beat the Vietnamese into submission The Montgomery Bus Boycott looked for a long while like it wouldn’t work Napoleon had a better prepared army than Russia It really ain’t over until it’s over

If you’re feeling demoralized, know that psychological warfare is part of the enemy’s tactics and manage your PUBLIC response accordingly

"What if we combined the normal sociopathy of a GOP administration with the absolute destruction of your 401K?"

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If you miss Twitter just pretend this post is an ad for a race science blog that sells supplements

Last week: SpaceX ship explodes, shutting down a huge chunk of Florida airspace. Today: X completely down. The last month: Tesla stock price down by a third. Gotta hand it to Musk: He really is running the government like he runs his businesses.

“appear” lol

Hundreds of dining hall workers at Northwestern University walked off the job Monday as their union said it has reached an impasse with their employer after nine months of contract bargaining.

Hear the tranquility? X is down.

This sucks and the tariffs they are responding to were so unnecessary

lol

Hakeem Jeffries thinks Drake won

1856: SC Congressman Preston Brooks beat the hell out of Senator Charles Sumner with his cane so badly over the abolition of slavery that Charles had brain damage the rest of his life We are *soft* compared to how they used to get down in Congress smh home.heinonline.org/blog/2021/03...

Even antebellum American congress had its share of people beating each other with canes (I honestly thought the cane was meant to be a visual reference back to that)

"🤔My mom had me young, and I turned out okay?" Women and girls are incredibly strong and resilient. That doesn't mean that they should have to be. In 2025, we have a better understanding of abuse, consent, and situational power, than we did in 1945. Young girls are more informed and empowered.

"birth rate decline" discourse from fascists and eugenicists is really about "the wrong people are having babies." The increased birth rates can be seen among women in my age cohort, who were more likely to have kids a little later- after completing their educations and establishing their careers.

Other countries have politicians that get into full-blown fist fights during their events lol What Al Green did was *polite* compared to these other places and yet it is still being talked about on the weekend news

It’s never a bad day to tap the @meganhunt.bsky.social sign either

Accidentally left my Airpod case in my mom’s car and scared her because she started getting all these AirTag tracking notifications on her iPhone oops lmao (OTOH, I am always glad anything AirTag-enabled will persistently “introduce” itself to whoever is around)

BREAKING: Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk who refused to issue same-sex couples' marriage licenses, loses her appeal at the Sixth Circuit of a lawsuit she lost at trial that was brought by same-sex couples whose constitutional right to marry she violated. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

These kind of votes are born out of trans representation in government. Rep. Howell & I have built solid relationships with Republicans and those relationships change hearts, minds, and (eventually) votes. It is painful, grueling work. But it makes a difference.

The temptation to duck & cover & hope the attack passes over us can be strong. But ultimately, they'll come back around for all of us. They are out to destroy the American university, which they view as a threat. So we might as well stand up, speak out, & fight back while we still have the chance.

Cheating, fudging the numbers smmfh

i expect the markets to have a totally chill reaction to this

Department of Government Enshittification

The idea that a political party must do more dramatic things in response to defeat is not new to the social media age. New bio of John Lewis describes his approach to Newt Gingrich et al taking the House in 1994. Lewis applied Civil Rights era lessons and a willingness to burst norms to hurt Newt.

TLDR: New research shows that while Black Americans experienced huge gains in economic mobility after enslavement, Jim Crow reversed a good chunk of the gains. During the Jim Crow era, economic mobility for white folks exploded because of mass investments in education for white kids.

Yep. It's been indefinitely for me and my family since January. We don't shop at Walmart, Target, Amazon, nor any of the others that rolled back Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and/ or kowtowed to fascism in any way. 💯

NOTE: The opponents of DEI are purging anyone who is not a white man from military leadership This is not about merit; it’s about normalizing racism and misogyny

The image of Vance touching down in Vermont and immediately getting yelled at by the whitest people imaginable in puffer vests and Merrill boots with wall-to-wall lifetime Vermont Public Radio memberships is extremely gratifying

They really need a way of communicating to people who don’t read books:

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‘Move fast and break things’ only works for people who have never had to clean up after themselves.

It's been a long journey but I'm really thrilled that my book Coverage Denied: How Health Insurers Drive Inequality in the United States has an official home with Cambridge University Press, which will be publishing it through its trade program. Excited to see it in print & hopefully make an impact!

All I want is crowded town hall videos with people screaming at their reps. POUR IT INTO MY VEINS.