a most useful+dialectical philosopher, on shame +decency "seeing this kind of basic social norm enforcement as fundamentally at odds with living in a free country is deeply delusional...shame serves as a robustly liberal alternative to political violence." www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

ah shit, I had swapped lambda and coreweave around to make the diagram more sane and forgot to move the super micro funding arrow from coreweave to lambda. fixed

So ICE held a 5 year old girl hostage so that they could disappear her father (who has an active asylum case ongoing, which means he is following the law), and the police came in and rescued her from ICE? Abolishing ICE is a pretty moderate position.

Lord, I see what you’ve done for others

Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...

is this not just kidnapping?

instead of blue books, profs should circumvent AI with in-class stone carvings challenge

Fireworks for Trump at Charlie Kirk's memorial service.

elton john ft. forgiato blow - candle in the wind 2026

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

When he dies, a huge percentage of his supporters will instantly turn against him & say they never liked him & it will be hilarious

Just saw a guy wearing both a keffiyeh and a Gamecocks dri-fit polo because every combination of personal attributes is possible in Brooklyn. We have one of everybody

the administration doesnt have an economic policy beyond immigration enforcement

This morning's front page @chicagotribune.com. Photo by @staceywescott.bsky.social

People keep talking about tech firms in relation to the H1-B $100k fee but it’s gonna really sink universities.

Dr. Alanis Morissette 👩‍🎓

I’m still really, really mad about the War on Terror.

the hysteria has gone off the rails so far that the average american thinks 1 in 5 people are transgender. pure absolute insanity that is driving the current lavender scare

HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED

Just the paramilitary secret police manhandling an opposition political candidate.

I'd like to see your email try to find me

moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot. one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.

This is also what I cannot get over. It’s like Mr. Beast getting a state funeral.

1840s Steven Pinker: [chuckling] Well, the science is settled, of course. Drapetomania is real. It's just unfashionable to talk about

trump’s numbers are tanking and there is a palpable desire in the electorate for a real alternative and yet the only money in democratic politics is for doing starmerism

It’s wild to tell the people opposing the eliminationist political project that ‘we all have to live together.’

Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.

im glad that the hyundai factory incident is getting some real coverage on how ICE treats detainees but man, it is not lost on me that we’ve been doing this to latinos for months

what in the cloud computing

ezra klein went from "this is not normal" to "we need to normalize the extremist right" awfully fast, didn't he

My account - progressive Pritzkerist imperialism with Mongolian characteristics - is, of course, not parodic of these at all and fully sincere.

A very Shklarian day, I’m afraid.

what to do when a "let's all respectfully debate the intelligence of Black people" guy pops around is itself a political intelligence test and it's wild how poorly allegedly Serious Thinkers score on it

It needs to be said that by rebranding Charlie Kirk's views as moderate by both right wingers and liberal cowards resets the extremist views he held as normal and pushes the Overton window to the far right

i don’t want AI or colonies on mars i just want better packaging for flour

Looked at my data collections for state-backed activity. If the report were a picture:

stop! resisting! start! applauding!

repression isn't violence! only the inevitable backlash to repression is! and in fact the very backlash to repression justifies that repression retroactively!

Detroit, Michigan, September 2023

I said "pedocon theory" to my therapist right at the bottom of the hour a couple sessions ago and it has completely derailed my course of treatment

"hitler particles" and "groyped up" are the next phrases everyone's going to have to explain to their parents

currently imagining journalists covering the reichstag fire trying to decode the 1933 version of "notices bulges OwO" www.theverge.com/politics/777...

I put together a primer on Charlie Kirk — and paid some special attention to his relationship with Nick Fuentes and the Groyper movement. There's no hot takes or sweeping declarations. Just some useful background. www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/who-was-ch...

When I first heard the news about Charlie Kirk, I worried the Bluesky team wouldn't have the courage to punish his victims for exercising the right he pretended most to care about. Thank goodness those fears appear to be unfounded.

Day three of the media pretending that Charlie Kirk believed in free speech and failing to note that his signature political project was the creation of McCarthyite watchlists of college professors to harass out of their jobs and out of society. bsky.app/profile/nyti...

Lowering the flags on 9/11 at the Guantanamo Bay McDonald's for Charlie Kirk is the most dril tweet thing that's ever happened

*extremly gritted teeth*

i don't know what the source of this video is but I love it