gen z's aspirations are changing. yahoo/yougov did a new poll that found the celebrity they most want to be like isn't elon musk, taylor swift, kylie jenner, AOC, mrbeast or beyonce ........... it's zendaya :) www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/fa...

I used to be a WaPo Opinions video editor, and if a video didn't have 100 views within the first five minutes of publishing on Youtube, I would've considered it an embarrassing failure. Fortunately didn't happen much!

It is wrong and criminal for government agents to kidnap someone, send them to die in a concentration camp, and disappear them, regardless of immigration status. But it's still worth noting she has a green card. The government doesn't even pretend this is about deporting undocumented people.

I’m staking my claim for the Gen Z song of a generation early. Old Town Road

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

If we actually want to appreciate moms, we should be providing free childcare, healthcare, and guaranteed income for stay-at-home parents to put more money in families’ pockets and ensure no SAHP is reliant on a partner for their economic security. Idk I think that’s better than 15% off a vacuum.

Marjorie Taylor Green isn’t a known antisemite because she criticizes Israel, she’s a known antisemite because of all the talk about secret cabals, Jewish space lasers, Great Replacement theory, and Jews killing Jesus. Hope this helps some leftists who are mad at AOC for being right about her today

I opened Threads, scrolled down, saw someone accusing Olivia Rodrigo of glorifying pedophilia because of recent outfits she’s worn, and closed Threads

I'll just note that critical race theory predicts quite a lot about the current racial retrenchment and for being *correct* it was pilloried in the press and by some academics.

Apparently there are real people arguing that AI will IMPROVE our idea of a “shared reality” because they think AI tells everyone the same things. People have no fucking idea how this technology even works (or, I’d argue, doesn’t)

“We’ve just pushed 4.5 million people further into poverty. Congrats to us”

Why accountability needs to be one if the core agenda items for any Democrat running for federal offices in 2026, 28 and beyond. ↘️

When abusers aren’t held accountable there’s an obvious benefit to being abusive and terrorizing people to get what you want. The Trump administration is far from the only example. This is why stuff like deplatforming and removing abusers from power is important and not just a trend or a catchphrase

Trans folks: as best you can, tune out the headlines, spend time with one another, build friendship and community. This wave is going to break: their political projects have never been less popular. Were gonna make it through this year and on the other side all our enemies will fall. Stay alive

Aha, I've just read a nasty review of my new book, Feminism for a World on Fire. Kathleen Stock takes umbrage at my argument that feminists should be 'pro-immigration'. Yes, I do believe that if you call yourself a feminist but you are prepared to strip refugee and migrant women of their rights

"Musk pledged two years ago to build a state-of-the-art water recycling plant in Memphis to guarantee that his xAI servers wouldn’t deplete the city’s groundwater" "Now that Musk’s first data center is up and running, construction on the recycling facility has come to an abrupt halt"

regulatory capture phenomenon also affects individuals because if they are associated with Institution and Institution does Bad Things surely that doesn't mean they are bad, that means the people attacking the Institution must be bad, and furthermo

The feeling of watching powerful people normalize and protect Trump is felt by a million survivors when they watch their institutions and communities protect and reward their perpetrators. To the survivor’s detriment, but also the entire community’s. Even people who say they dislike the perpetrator.

Holy shit. We hit our first goal in 6 hours. I’m speechless. This will still cost a fortune but I feel like I can breathe a little for the first time in weeks. I can’t thank all of you enough. I don’t know how much we’ll be able to raise but oh my god, thank you.

This week the New Yorker & NY Mag competed to out-disaster-pr0n each other w the genre of "students using chatbots to college." Yet over the last 3 months alone students from Oregon to MA reached out to me to help them fight AI at their unis & high schools. Journalists should write that article.

the government coerces people daily by either jailing them pre-trial and/or by making it extremely expensive for folks to fight their cases.

Put another way, gutting the Voting Rights Act was to gut Black representation in the government. Proposed solutions that don’t center that representation aren’t really getting at the problem at hand.

Yup. Your job as regular person is not to parse whether particular policies are 'realistic' or 'possible.' You are supposed to actually demand what you need to live a dignified life.

Rest in Power to Laura Sennett, a longtime photojournalist and antiracist activist with @onepeoplesproject.bsky.social who spend decades documenting, tracking, and countering the racist far-right. Knowing her was a blessing, and her memory will carry on with all of those she spent her life helping.

The reason why you can't post your way out of being harassed is because posting explanations assumes that the people who are harassing you are acting in good faith and are genuinely interested in understanding your perspective and here's the thing: that's basically never the case.

I continue to think that "backlash politics" is the wrong frame. There has been a counter-revolution against the Black freedom movement for generations. It is a FRONTLASH and I think that not thinking of it this way has done a real disservice. It's been PERMANENT WAR.

I understand why people say Jeffrey Epstein didn’t kill himself. I personally think he did, in large part because I think he knew his time was up. No more life of luxury or sweetheart deals or work release deals. No release on bail. Plus, sex offenders are more likely to attempt suicide in custody.

In a world full of depressing news it’s nice to see a brown recluse spider enjoying a good meal

Earlier today, it was revealed that DOJ was investigating this reporter for her previous unflattering expose on Patel’s drinking. This is the best possible response: another expose of his embarrassing behavior. Kick his ass, Sarah.

Rutgers School of Engineering canceled a commencement speech by Rami Elghandour—an alum and executive producer of an Oscar-nominated film about Hind Rajab, a Palestinian child killed by Israel—because "some" students complained: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... His response (via X):

If you have nothing to do tonight, I’m co-hosting a virtual workshop about survivor-informed journalism and storytelling and would love to see you there!! www.eventbrite.com/e/sharing-yo...

I think it’s bad that the social internet has been reduced to short clips of the full version of things, and creatives will suffer even more because of this demand.

That they are breaking the law cannot be the rallying cry. Slavery was legal. Every person who freed themselves and others was breaking the law. The law will not save us.

When someone I admire wins a Pulitzer: Ah journalism's highest honor, and well earned. When someone who sucks wins a Pulitzer: Clown show award for phonies. Total cash grab.

This is the first time in @texasmonthly.bsky.social’s history that the Pulitzers have honored its work. This announcement made me emotional with relief. A lot things feel unfair in this industry these days, and nobody deserves this recognition more than Aaron. www.texasmonthly.com/press-room/s...

We fought. We won. Others can too. www.mediamatters.org/angelo-carus...

Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni have settled her workplace sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit two weeks before it was set to go to trial. I’m relieved we don’t have to do Depp v. Heard again and I’m glad that her suit exposed a Hollywood smear machine that also influences politics and beyond.

I’ll be damned. The Pulitzer board did it. Good on them

Imagine if bipartisan education funding met the most basic needs first. Imagine if it prioritized students being fed and clothed and learning in schools with fully-functioning plumbing and heating and A/C. Imagine if we fully funded and implemented K-12 sex ed before funding AI training.

if y'all have a stake in this you'll want to get involved with yr local public library & represent a demand for this type of AI education over free marketing & propaganda for tech billionaires. library execs & city/county officials are as susceptible as school admins to insidious tech pressure here

I’m a President now. @acog.org @acogd2.bsky.social

Kids should be learning that AI output isn’t trustworthy, where it really comes from, and how it’s disrupting our ability to tell what’s real. They shouldn’t be learning that AI will make them more efficient or do their work for them because it can’t. That would be propaganda, not education

What’s so brazen is that the subhead literally spells out the travesty. It says that tech industry lobbyists have convinced congress to pay for their products to be made a compulsory part of public education so that when the industry wreaks havoc on American workers it can be blamed on educators.

Assume AI training for K-12 is a good idea. Schiff's bill, the LIFT AI Act, is a grant program for the National Science Foundation. The NSF has no director. The nominee is a Thiel acolyte with no science degrees. Trump just fired the entire Board that oversees NSF. No. Absolutely not.

Good spicy wontons

Great credit is due to the Bard College community of undergraduate anti-rape activists—organizing as “Take Back Bard”—who insisted on Bostein’s resignation even in the face of widespread indifference from the faculty and sneering mockery of their efforts in the New York Times. I admire them.

Aaaaaaah! Meg has seen my book.

They’re gonna try to ban Bluesky

People expect you to implicitly trust the results of a legal system that operates in service of racism and misogyny. If this results in blatant corruption at the highest and most visible levels of the system, why would we trust and assume it does right by everyday people