“Wokeism“ (2026)

Of course, "Abolish ICE" won in a walk in the Chicago snowplow-naming context, but "Pope Frío XIV" is pretty good, too. Maybe we should go for that one next year.

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There seem to be 2 paths here: (1) Class becomes a conversation between LLMs (2) Digital tools are removed from the classroom altogether

Wow, good for Jan Schakowsky, pulling her endorsement of Donna Miller in IL-02 after she got propped up by AIPAC $ chicago.suntimes.com/elections/20...

"With the help of the peerless detective work of the sickos who were posting in a DCS forum thread in 2015, I was directed to a 2003 Avionics International article describing Lockheed's plans for the F-35's electronics suite (...) In my book, the odds seem pretty good."

A crab walks in

That kind of coordination you see there is what the Epstein story is actually about at a macro scale

I see they settled on a framing in the donor group chat

Wishing a meaningful & reflective Mark Wahlberg 40 Day Challenge to all who observe.

So it seems like my once radical position of “the existence of a border implies the violence needed to defend it so in order to end all war we must abolish all borders” is becoming mainstream

notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

Frederick Wiseman changed the way we see the world.

From the classrooms of High School to the corridors of Hospital, he turned his camera on the institutions that shape us — inviting us to look closer, sit longer & confront truth with empathy. 

May his memory be a blessing.

About to pull some crazy shit at the doctor's office

Wow.

Uh, yeah, that's one way to describe the neoliberal development-driven university. The whole point was to de-democratize these institutions and restore them to the control of elites.

I tell this story all the time, but I met a dude at a party at a friend's apartment in San Francisco maybe 15 years ago who, after a pleasant chat, handed me a business card that had his name and contact and "Videographer / Beekeeper / Merchant Marine."

I dream of a Massachusetts whose identity is more closely tied to the polar seltzer family of delightful products than Dunkin

Tintín 007

Chinese astronauts become the first to grill wings in space, paving the way for future uncstronauts

The stories weren’t played together on A1, but they probably should’ve been. We’ve come a long way as a planet from the Arab spring days when tech bros touted themselves as harbingers of freedom.

Editing XML files wearing a version of my normal work clothes with a grapefruit embroidered on them.

hold on i gotta take this

Jeffrey Epstein to Bill Gates in December 2016: “come to visit the island. new adminstration people visiting” (www.justice.gov/epstein/file...)

I have a new piece out today in Phenomenal World, on the economics of a freeze in NYC regulated rents. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/aft...

It goes back much further. This is a common practice during worksite raids. This happened during a 2018 raid in Trump’s first term, and the Biden DOJ ended up settling a lawsuit about it.

Tech executives have finally amassed their ultimate, long dreamed-of power: to summarily fire anyone who speaks ill of their desire to have sex with robots

Georgy Kurasov

Artist Isabel Quintanilla (Spanish, 1938 - 2017) "Glass", ca. 1969. Pencil on Paper, 34 × 25 cm. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet

Mongolia and Haiti correctly identified that the Winter Olympics are primarily a chance to design baller cold weather uniforms

There was a lineup change in my band recently, and the new member is a schoolteacher. One of his kids came up to him and said “you’re in Hidden Fountain” and he was like “???!!?!?” The kid explained, “my contortionism teacher told me” and this is the most Somerville story in the universe.

Reviews from China are in on the National Prayer Breakfast:

Sometimes the LAX Harley-Davidson store (?!?) presents you with a very rich text.

Steven Sinofsky still being on the board of Andreessen Horowitz with his name all over the Epstein files and being a close friend of Epstein himself is in no way surprising, but it is fucking wild

losing my mind at this photo, it's literally the 'my t-shirt' meme

All these ICE prisons in warehouses have me thinking about the late Josh Clover’s Riot Strike Riot.

Berks County PA as well. www.spotlightpa.org/berks/2026/0...

Feds getting ready to do a Kavanaugh Kristallnacht

There is a case to be made that any board of a university that signed an agreement that required paying a fee has breached their fiduciary duty and I think somebody should explore it

Okay, how many major US airports *aren’t* in sanctuary cities? DFW and…?

BARI WEISS: I think it's so telling. Liberals only want to talk about the bad bunny. Whereas rational people like you and me, I think, people who can agree to disagree, we want to talk about the good bunny. BILLIONAIRE CHILD RAPIST: [nodding]

Some jawdropping CBP crime statistics here...

Liam is home now and we are grateful to @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social for traveling to Minneapolis with him and his dad. Welcome home Liam ❤️❤️

Larry Summers complaining to Epstein that his kids admire Bernie Sanders too much

10/10 ICE protest sign

“Trumpism is Israeli, Trumpism is Peronist, Trumpism is Nazi.” You are all wrong. Trumpism is Dubai

Wake up, workers of the world, a new second-person plural pronoun dropped.

(extraordinarily laudatory)

In today’s least shocking news, Bovino is ALSO reportedly an antisemite.