This is evil collective punishment.

"Meetings are held, emails are sent, phone calls are made, and something like 520,000 children die of malnutrition, diarrhea, tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV." prospect.org/2026/05/22/w...

They’ve destroyed the freedoms and dignities of the American republic we all enjoyed for the last 50 years. We’ll have to build something new in its place. And we’ll have to be willing to expand the court, add states, and send people to jail as part of that. www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-ne...

Even in terms of pure rhetoric I think the story of the year is that ordinary people--many of whom weren't previously very politically engaged--are furious, while professional politicians very much aren't. Just listen to basically anyone who lives in Minneapolis for 5 minutes

This is really worth reading

The President just threatened genocide. The Joint Chiefs of Staff must disregard any such military orders that violate federal and international law. Republicans in Congress can't hide anymore: we must consider all options – including impeachment – to stop Trump.

If Trump bombs power plants in Iran, the humanitarian crisis will be horrific. Experts tell me to expect water shortages, closed hospitals, many deaths. “We’ve never had a US president so proudly promise to commit war crimes," Sen Chris Murphy says. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2087...

ICE detention deaths are now occurring at a rate of roughly one every four days. Three weeks ago that rate was one every six days. The pace is accelerating, and Congress has not launched a single investigation.

Oh gosh what could Donald Trump have possibly meant with this Da Vinci Code-level cipher? Reporters will certainly not be able to just call this what it is because the euphemism is so intricate and complicated!

Misty Copeland comes out of retirement to put Timothée Chalamet in his place during a live ‘Sinners’ performance at the #Oscars.

Americans can all rest easy knowing that while this fresh Mideast war may lead to asymmetrical terror attacks throughout the world and on U.S. soil, and household budgets will be strained to a breaking point by doubling the cost of filling a gas tank, the suits at Exxon and Texaco will be just fine.

This is really interesting. I appreciate this insight

So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right

On @pablo.show I talked about the limits of generative AI, and why the brainstorming process—which LLMs mostly eliminate, imo—is fundamental to doing *good* work.

This is concerning

The more you learn about butterflies, the more your brain explodes in a good way, I am totally serious. You know how Moby Dick is basically one dude losing his shit about Whale Facts? That's me with butterflies. They do all this ⬇️ THEN FLY THOUSANDS OF MILES TO THE RIGHT PLACE FOR BREEDING WTAF

Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.

President Trump fully acknowledging that this is a “war” and that American lives “may be lost.” All done against our Constitution, against the will of the American people, and without Congress’ approval.

DO NOT LET ANY MEMBER OF CONGRESS WALK AROUND THINKING THEIR CONSTITUENTS DON’T CARE

I know this feels pointless but everyone has to call their congressional reps and say they oppose war with Iran and they oppose Trump illegally starting one without congressional approval — both congresscalllist.com

posting, once again, the well-established definition of the crime of aggression in the rome statute for the ICC

Well that sucks

Stop pre-negotiating. Stop telling voters they have to sacrifice minorities and the marginalized to have a chance of winning. Stop telling voters to settle, to not ask for everything, to be reasonable. Don't be reasonable. Demand the world. The world belongs to us. They don't have more right to it.

Mamdani's marketing blitz is not just because he's good at it, so why not. It's in service of the goal. As always: The style is possible because of the substance.

New polling from @indivisible.org tells us something we all probably guessed: having the least popular political figure in the country “lead” the opposition is bad politics. indivisibleteam.medium.com/new-polling-...

Now THAT is the kind of lead you need for coverage of a speech like Trump’s SOTU.

This guy gets it. Seriously though, this feels like a moment of transition from the post-911 era into something darker, more Torrian, and more focused on policing American citizens

I think the fun thing about the latest John Oliver episode is that he’s mainstreaming what has been common discourse here for months, in that if you’re a government official/reporter/someone who considers themselves a non-Nazi then what the FUCK are you still doing on X?

I think the president still, really doesn’t know what a tariff is

There is no threat that remotely justifies war with #Iran: ♦️Iran's nuclear weapons program was effectively halted by Obama: the best "deal" Trump could extort would be a resurrection of the JCPOA-- on which he himself reneged. It's all incredibly dumb. But there are real lives at stake.

Jesse Jackson died Tuesday at the age of 84. The civil rights icon always held America to account—and never stopped fighting to preserve what he knew could be taken away. I wrote about how he saw our future so well.

Things I hear on campus as we continue to adapt to AI. Plenty try to incorporate it. Others: - med school faculty going back to oral exams - comp sci faculty building no-network linux systems with IT for exams in programming courses

If you didn’t catch the significance of the exploding transformers in Bad Bunny’s halftime show, I gotcha. Here’s one of a bunch of pieces I wrote from/on Puerto Rico about the crisis—and Trump’s role in it. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Ok, you can stop texting me, I saw the Ring ad. Troubling things about it 🧵: -The long awaited (much warned about) intro of “AI” recognition. It starts w/ searching for a “brown dog” but means the tech is there for lisence plate reading, face recognition, searching for suspects by description, etc

"This tactic has provoked the ire of ICE and local police—an indicator of its effectiveness. In order that this model might proliferate, we present a how-to guide ..."

Worth a read

The deadliest antisemitic attack in US history, the 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, specifically targeted the Tree of Life synagogue because of their work with HIAS on refugee resettlement. Antisemitism and anti-migrant hatred are intertwined. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...

I have a riff in "The Infernal Triangle" about a Timseman writing around an obvious fact in so artful a way it's like he's mastered a journalistic version of quantum physics--all for the benefit of not telling the truth.

ICE doesn’t share its violent incidents with the public. So here’s our list. prospect.org/2026/01/29/i...

Legal asylum seeker, no criminal record, working two jobs, dragged out of smashed car and kidnapped by ICE as his US citizen newborn cries in a car seat in the freezing cold in Maine and his wife who barely speaks English pleads for help. WTAF

The Trump admin is scrambling because the secret police it sends out for kidnappings and rioting has been killing people on video then brazenly lying about it, but Schumer's instinct is to whip his caucus into taking a position *more conservative* than that held by the median voter. He's got to go.

The more I think about it, the more I’m convinced the Democrats have to push their hand immediately. The parallels with the delays and subsequent failures after January 6th are blaring warning signs about what will happen if they don’t go after the issues with ICE and CBP at the root RIGHT NOW.

I've been studying the history of US, and indeed, global policing my whole career and I can't make it more clear to law makers that this isn't a bastardization of policing, it is its purest form and logical conclusion. The impunity, militarization, deference, legitimacy, racial targeting, etc.

"Why are they dressed like that?" @captmarkkelly.bsky.social says of ICE agents. Full interview with Kelly here: open.spotify.com/episode/019T...

A major coalition is launching a general strike in Minnesota tomorrow, aimed at pushing out ICE. It includes: -Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005 -The MN AFL-CIO -SEIU Local 26 -UNITE HERE Local 17 -CWA Local 7250 -Saint Paul and Minneapolis Federations of Educators -Faith leaders And more. 🧵

Minneapolis CWA Prez talks about how they built momentum for the General Strike. Mobilizing non-union workers & small-business supporters to shut down the city through community & online tactics involves tactics unions normally don't use. Do read! paydayreport.com/minnesota-la...

ICE’s cruelty knows no bounds. Deporting children with cancer. Shooting moms. And now, using a 5 year-old as “bait” to detain his family. It’s far past clear: ICE must be abolished. Congress should not give it any additional funding. And the people responsible for its crimes should face charges.

This post by @pkrugman.bsky.social on "Sundowning" is worth reading. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/its-sundow... Agree with this conclusion: