This is one of the most heart-breaking & important articles I have ever read - from someone whose voices are so rarely heard, a teenaged girl. If you want to understand online misogyny in all its devastating impact, please read this shattering piece. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A way I am (apparently?) weirdly wired is I can't imagine having the patience to be corresponding with some schmuck with an island. Even if I knew no details. I legit can't conceive *wanting* to trade note after note with some boring-ass fauxvocative dipshit who can't spell.

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now): -If you work for ICE. -If you vote for money for ICE. You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.

‘Don’t pay attention to the murder and kidnapping, it’s all a distraction from the Ep-‘ Shut the fuck up.

First of all, good for her for calmly standing her ground and ignoring all the empty threats -- "we're gonna put you in the car and ID you!" -- until these goons give up and slink away. Second, the irony of masked agents of the state with no name plates demanding *other* people identify themselves?

LOL. Got blocked for asking an LLM pusher to clarify their contention that, by any definition of consciousness, if all people are conscious so too must be every machine. Truly shameful the flimflam people will try to sell us in the course of insisting we must have moar chatbot.

Retired Army Sgt. Brian Wofford spoke to me this morning at the Oklahoma City #NoKings protest. Didn’t expect him to be carrying his DD214 so I asked some warmup questions like when he got out and whether his injury was service-related. He paused while describing the car bomb in Iraq to say this:

live your life so that when you die everyone talks about how hot you were and not how you were a hateful bigot

The 14th Amendment was ratified today in 1868—guaranteeing equal protection under the law. 157 years later, Trump’s trying to erase it like it was a typo. No birthright citizenship. No due process. Just Trump doing what he does best—breaking the law.

This video needs to be spread far and wide. We torture people in public now. Walmart let this happen in their store. (Time to boycott Walmart if you’re not already.)

If the city famous for having absolutely nightmarish garbage mayors can pull off an upset like this YOUR CITY CAN TOO.

Four years after Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo resigned in disgrace, New York City's Democratic voters should look elsewhere for leadership.

Posting this 1967 Birmingham News editorial cartoon for all the people who don't realize that this is how MLK was viewed by a big chunk of white America.

Raise a glass.

Woman from Haiti died in ICE custody at a for-profit immigration detention center owner by GEO Group 👇

Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

If you are National Guard or active duty military & you are ordered to violate the Constitutional rights of your fellow Americans, call the Gl Rights Hotline 1-877-447-4487 There is support, you don't have to go through with it.

Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses Grant at the Appomattox Court House on this day 160 years ago. I am thankful for Lee. His mediocrity as a general and arrogance as a strategist were of enormous benefit to the Union. I encourage all to shit on his grave if the opportunity is ever presented.

Our access media should reckon with the fact that the president is very suggestible, and they play an active role in creating his fixations. His behavior is on him, but his enthusiastic selling of US citizens to foreign slave prisons will be in part bc he was goaded into it by this sort of thing.

I owe you an apology, Ken. I wasn’t familiar with your game.

Seen enough of Howard Lutnick, thank you! No more of that guy is needed at this time. If I need some more I will simply go to Oyster Bay, find the most expensive restaurant, and look for the person who is being the most obnoxious to the servers. Do not need additional exposure at this time.

Elno big mad, gonna cancel some kidney transplants and call off christmas.

Well-meaning folks ask "why" the techreich seek to destroy biomedical science and patient care. Asking commits one to hearing the answer, which is: public health impedes their rule. We are ill, but not ill enough to maximize their power over us. So we must suffer. That is the whole sum of it.

Booker is modeling a generous patriotism, condemning the indefensible, but giving offramps to those in thrall of evil. It will not change votes. But! What he is doing is essential. It is a ghostlight, stubbornly illuminating the space where civic ethics lived, and will yet live again.

Hell yeah, Cory.

Here's the thing. Fuckups gonna fuck up.

From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.

one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much

I'd like to say my never-Newsom position is simply a moral stance, and it is. But also: we need winners. A person whose judgement has them lighting their credibility on fire for clicks is not a winner. Failing both the moral test and the stench-of-loser-shit test? It's gonna be a no from me.

This all day. Show some spine and win, or don't and lose.

Legend.

No, Jim, look: I don't want Tim Curry, or even Gary Cole doing Lumbergh. Get me the dampest, smarmiest, limpest pantload of an empty suit, where the slightest glimpse of his pasty visage tells you he is terminally full of shit, and if he says it's sunny out you pack a fucking poncho and galoshes.

Specific circumstances and wording aside, the thrust of this point is inarguable. It's a disaster to conceptualize one's vote as a sop to be thrown to the politician that 'earns it' most theatrically. In fact it is a duty, to be undertaken with the goal of maximizing good and minimizing suffering.

Over on LinkedIn, the head of the Executive Secretariat of the NIH -- a central part of NIH leadership 🧪🩺-- resigned with a lettter worth reading www.linkedin.com/posts/nathan...

Lawyer recruitment to assist illegally dismissed Federal employees 🧪

💥 🧪

Vance epitomizes the lazy cowardice animating so many of these clowns.

Some higher ed organizations who are loudly circling the wagons against federal funding cuts were oddly silent or circumspect about the earlier attacks on CRT and DEI. I wish there was a better understanding that these attacks are coming because we failed to repel those.

Dr Bill Jenkins had a long career in epidemiology, contributing through research & education. He created an anti-discrimination newsletter (The Drum), publicizing the Tuskegee experiment atrocities. Read about his achievements in epidemiology & public health here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Je...