Late prehistory is so interesting, man What do you mean the Shandong and Korean peninsulas were populated with Japonic-speaking peoples What do you MEAN that all Austronesians/Polynesian languages came out of Taiwan

Elected officials aren't expected to just post through it fwiw.

The men who put them back in shackles after those two women saved their comrade's life should heavily consider their honor and that the price of redeeming it is much cheaper on Earth than it is in Hell.

to any politicians out there: the only metric by which i am deciding my votes in any future Democratic primary is how far they're willing to go in punishing this administration and i am far from the only one

Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.

it probably shouldn't make it worse that Renee Nicole Good was a pretty fine poet but it does

a few thoughts youtu.be/lERS4kJIQR8

ICE shot and killed a woman on camera today. We all saw the video. The Trump administration is lying.

A US citizen has apparently been shot by ICE agents in Minneapolis. I’m gathering information, but the situation on the ground is volatile. ICE should leave now for everyone’s safety.

some thoughts on all of this madness from earlier in the morning youtu.be/-yUi-0vNlDA

I DECLARE A PROVISIONAL AUTHORITY

So like…now what? Is there a plan here exactly for what happens when you decapitate a government overnight? Or is this just the “Jesus take the wheel” school of military planning?

"Get the principals on camera" is such a telling phrase here, because it tells us that for Weiss there's no world in which the victims of these horrific actions can actually be seen as the subjects of the story: They're background noise, and the people who matter are the ones sending them.

I’m sorry but ‘heritage American’ makes you sound like a tomato

get his ass, Sean

lol lmao

The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.

Calling on my ancestors for guidance but the only one who answers is a weird eutherian rodent-mammal from the early cretaceous period. "EAT BERRY SLEEP UNDER ROCK" it says. Pretty good advice

Somebody shit my pants and I think we all know that’s the work of The Establishment

ordinary americans are filming ice agents and trying to save their neighbors. for all the hemming and hawing during 2024 about how democracy was an elite concern, the elites gave up far more quickly than average people.

England had the Short Parliament. The Empty House is a strong too early contender for what to name the current moment

Vibe shift in the culture towards earnestness

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”? anyway that’s why these events are important

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

God, a run on the first cool night of the fall hits so hard even if it’s just a couple miles. Go do it.

Speedrun the English Civil War but make it dumber

this piece has been in the works a while but honestly i could not have asked for a better foil than ezra klein's interview with ta-nehisi coates. klein longs for peacetime--but you don't get to decide when you're in a fight. www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...

@patrickwyman.bsky.social's Dumb Guy Theory of History remains undefeated

I wrote about the take-home essay and whether it has a future in the age of AI. What are we actually testing when we assign them? What alternatives do we have? You can read my thoughts here: lucaspoy.substack.com/p/the-last-d...

damn :/

they think liberalism is a set of rules for a discourse game, and not a fighting faith and a vision of the good

@massgovernor.bsky.social @massago.bsky.social please take note

Political violence is bad because civil conflict is absolutely fucking terrible for everyone. It empowers the worst people within a society and feeds into endless cycles of escalating violence that get harder and harder to stop.

It is encouraging to see some institutional checks working as designed. And it’s notable here that everyday citizens seem to understand what many of our government reps and media do not— the Constitution is not self-enforcing

@massgovernor.bsky.social this but for Massachusetts and Boston

from chandra manning's wonderful book "what this cruel war was over"

"Not if I had a hundred tongues, a hundred mouths, a voice of iron, could I tell all the forms of wickedness or spell out the names of every torment."

Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations. The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.

great take!

We are a mongrel nation, and so long as we remain so purely impure, we will continue to eat the world's lunch

every single day I log on and see Takes

I am against robot Hitler and think the decision to create him was bad.

I think it's really important to mock and ridicule the people responsible for all these American crimes. That's not because what they're doing is funny or lighthearted; it's because poking at their deepest insecurities and exposing them to public shame is absolutely essential to winning this fight.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

1) it was always fascism and fascism was the right word to use 2) they are building concentration camps and concentration camps are the right words to use 3) they are banning books and book bans is a fine way to describe the myriad ways they are banning them

the stories that come out of the ICE camps are going to look like the stories that come out of every camp system; rampant corruption, epidemic disease, physical and sexual abuse on a vast scale, a death rate far higher than normal, and medical abuses.

Oh hell yea!

one of the most incomprehensible to me things that a lot of people appear to believe about pop culture is that a bad movie can be made good if its supplementary material is good, or that it is somehow OK to make a movie that demands you to watch hours of other material to make sense

Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop! Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels