Yeah, this was set to "Hide" in my settings. Fuck right off with that.

"should women work" but it really means "should men have to ever answer to or even encounter women who are not their wives, offspring, and/or other servile figures"

This is chilling. "Ya’akub isn’t being accused of breaking immigration law — his DACA protection doesn’t expire until May 2026. In fact, Ya’akub’s lawyers say he hasn’t been accused of any crime. Rather, the Trump administration is alleging he’s 'glorifying terrorism' via social media posts."

…New Yorkers paid the price in both freedom and in cash, as prices rose to reflect the white-collar crime economy. The New York I loved was vanishing. It was destroyed not in a day by the 9/11 attacks, but over years by post-9/11 greed: the soaring costs of rent, public services, entertainment...

SCOOP (free, as it's FOIA-based!): I obtained 1,665 pgs of documents about "Bicken Ben," a growing private school the Zuckerbergs ran illegally out of their Palo Alto compound Neighbors complained the school for years. Then, in 2024, they reached their breaking point: www.wired.com/story/mark-z...

I feel silly boosting this because encouraging people to back this kickstarter is roughly akin to encouraging people to continue breathing. This is not just an unabashedly good thing, it is a whole stack of huge, unabashedly good things. It is so evident that I just assume everyone *knows* this.

Every month for the last 77 years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has estimated Americans' unemployment rate This streak dies tomorrow Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months This blind spot will remain forever

Excellent piece and worth reading. They’re serious about wanting to repeal the 19th Amendment, and things to look out for along the way include efforts to control access to contraception and to eliminate no-fault divorce, both of which are widely discussed on the right even away from the fringes.

The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.

I don't understand why they need a socialist solution when they could surely qualify for many loans with Silicon Valley Bank.

Abolish. Fire. Prosecute.

I listened to the Supreme Court's oral argument today so you dont have to With the notable exception of Alito & Thomas carrying on like 'what if aliens were gonna destroy the world and the only thing that could stop it was a tariff,' the Court seemed Not Into It ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/learn...

Heartbreaking: Under Trump's ICE terror, a 2-year-old Chicago girl was tear-gassed while walking with her mom-burning eyes, screams of 'Ouch! Mommy!' This isn't enforcement; it's state-sponsored child abuse.

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

Mamdani Created a Left-Liberal Coalition on Israel/Palestine The surprising story of the New York mayoral campaign is not liberal Zionist opposition to Mamdani’s campaign, but their support. jewishcurrents.org/mamdani-crea... By @peterbeinart.bsky.social

If only Gorsuch had that realization roughly about the time he thought presidents should have immunity from everything. #SheShed

“.. Nearly half of young men have an active gambling account. .. Less than 5% of gamblers withdraw more money from their apps than they deposit. “.. as the NBA’s dustup shows, this experiment is turning out to be a terrible bet.” @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Stills from redjack: the animated shorts, an ongoing series that exists because I couldn't afford to put together a team of pro animators so I did it myself. I taught myself what I didn't know. do not wait for permission if you want it in the world, get off your ass and put it in the world

a mom in a Chicago Bulls t-shirt and a messy bun stood in front of a bunch of TV cameras to rail against masked goons taking teachers from babies and the ruling consultant class in D.C. does not understand the level of radicalization happening here. And they'd be well served by connecting the dots.

This is a a critical conversation about the existential crisis of the sociopaths who run fentanyl capital a.k.a. venture capitalist. They are not offering a financial model that will improve any of our lives, look what they’ve done to our country & to democracy with the help from other sociopaths

IT'S NOT AN "IMMIGRATION CRACKDOWN" IF THEY ARE HARMING AND KIDNAPPING AND TERRORIZING PEOPLE REGARDLESS OF THEIR IMMIGRATION STATUS. IT'S RACISM AND INTIMIDATION.

They did NOT have a warrant If state charges aren’t brought I don’t know what tf Pritzker is doing

"'They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,' [Mamdani] said in an interview with MSNBC last week." This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.

Democratic leaders should not rely on litigating their way out of this. Take action now. Arrest these guys. Throw them in jail. Make *Republicans* file the lawsuits. Make *THEM* argue before a judge or jury why they were justified in kidnapping a preschool teacher in front of her children.

If I were the mayor or governor, I would simply not allow masked, armed men to kidnap preschool teachers in front of their children. If this isn’t a red line for you as a leader, then I don't know what you think your job is. Arrest them. Cut power to their facilities. Send out protection patrols.

Okay I need to learn how to set a wager on Polymarket because I think “will they 25th Trump before the 2026 elections” is now a viable bet.

Direct File had tremendous potential to make tax filing less expensive, faster, and easier for millions of Americans. What stands in the way is a tax prep industry that makes billions from being the middleman between you and filing your taxes.

The New York Times quickly sending out Douthat to argue that Mamdani’s victory doesn’t really matter is so predictable it borders on self-parody. Remember, folks: Every time the Right wins an election, it’s an undeniable expression of the will of the people. If a lefty wins, it’s just a blip.

A great episode, although longtime readers know I’m a soft touch for this book. You have to read Theory of Moral Sentiments and Wealth of Nations together to get Smith, who was co-opted in the early 20th century to put a patina of intellectual respectability on Chamber of Commerce capitalism.

Since Trump took office, virtually all CFPB investigations have ground to a halt, including three probes into Andreessen-backed companies, according to the records and the people familiar with the cases. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Abolish. Fire. Prosecute.

NEW: We reviewed 700+ videos, hours of footage from ICE protesters and counterprotesters in Portland. In 2 months before Trump said he was sending the National Guard, federal officers fire on, grab, pepper-spray or tear gas people 20 times -- without charging anyone. "Gratuitous," one expert said.

They also believed he was innocent of crimes because the DOJ never prosecuted him in a meaningful way, including for sedition. In early 2021, most Americans DID think he was guilty. That changed over three years thanks to DOJ inaction. They thought "If he were really a threat, they would stop him."

If there’s one room in America that you absolutely know you’re about to enter it’s, it would be the Oval Office. Were tourists wandering in? Was Door Dash getting confused? Was Trump having a hard time re … ooohhh.

we can chalk it up to youth and inexperience but the biggest mistake the mamdani campaign made was winning by 8.8% and not 1.5%, which is the margin needed for the media to say it’s a total mandate

This explanation is ridiculous yet likely true. Millions of people did not conceptualize Trump the way we do (e.g., "bad person who did a bad job and wants to do bad things like X, Y, Z") but rather as a TV character, an avatar of prosperity who would somehow bless them economically.

This may interest some of you: The first space opera by a Black Author, John P. Moore's THE MARTIAN TRILOGY, is now available, thanks to the work of Dr. Lisa P. Yaszek and others. Originally published in THE ILLUSTRATED FEATURE SECTION in 1930. www.amazon.com/Martian-Tril...

The ADL has decided to treat fascists as allies and progressives as enemies. For a group that is tasked with protecting American Jews, that is a world historic fuck up. I will never forgive these people for their moral decrepitude.

A reading recommendation by @jesspish.bsky.social on Sherriff's in the US and why we should pay more attention to them. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Abolish. Fire. Prosecute.

In the name of God will someone after almost 12 years of this idiocy ask him on a live mic what he means by “you have to present ID to go to a grocery store.”

Not shocking, to be honest.

Next year’s gonna be fun.

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

Ding ding ding .

whatever you think of Spanberger, the fact that her opponent ran a campaign based almost entirely on transphobia and is on track to eat shit in the biggest blowout the state has seen since 2009 is unambiguously a huge win

Democratic party leadership has been on autopilot for ten years, they weren't losing to fascism, fascism isn't popular enough for them to lose to fascism, they were allowing it to fill the void where their leadership should have been. Tonight we're seeing that we have other options. They should too.

I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.

Cosign.