I’ve got this not-COVID respiratory thing going around and it just will not let go! I need my brain back.

I remember in the 1990s, you know, back in the last century, when people were talking about how the Internet was so amazing because we could stop using paper and save all the trees. Ha ha, we thought the Internet was an environmentally positive thing.

If LLMs designate the end of “authorship” as we normally conceive of it, then we must teach why ownership of one’s own beliefs & values nonetheless matters. And it’s all about values, what you live and die for, what makes you smile, who you love. LLMs can never tell you these things.

Would you like spies with that?

ICE agents tear-gassed a baby. These are people who have sacrificed their own humanity for what? Guns? Revenge? Spite?

Imagine being so detested, and deserving it.

Technically we all have internal bleeding.

The next century is going to be rough for humans, whether living in what is called America or not, whether they are stupid rich or not. We are living at an edge, and we can only hope to learn to love each other better to ease the changes. Even the earth will hold us more gently if we let her.

This film will give you hope. "We need to be kind to those people even more."

It’s Alan Kurdi, every day now. And still, shame is not enough. I am ashamed. And it is not enough.

Our choice is less between evil and good than between apocalypse and hope. Moral ground isn’t absolute, though care for others ought to be. My moral foundation depends on seeing how my choices shape the right of others to breathe. All people deserve breath, not bullets.

What if, instead of shouting back at them, we fall to the ground in grief and weep— oh America, what have you done to bring yourself to this, to monsters shooting people in your streets? But we already know, oh yes, we know.

We stand on holy ground. Remove your shoes and feel the earth demand the truth. America, your sins are foaming at your mouth. The cure is finally to spit them out for good. Not us, not them. The battle calls us from, not to, repentance. Instead, collapse and grieve at last.

Apparently now he’s pardoned and an ICE agent.

So annoyed how people keep saying agents are “just trying to do their job” when that job is violent and even murderous. They’re not mopping floors or pulling weeds.

This is probably obvious but I realized today schools are killing religion programs bc they don’t get students in the door as majors so don’t contribute to institutional survival. Tho they are absolutely necessary for understanding today’s world. But schools have to care about impact more than $$$.

Sitting in a faculty meeting and watching them talk about biginterview.com, a tool that "teaches" students how to interview well. In other words, the A.I. TRAINS THEM for interviews. Yikes.

I think I'm finally beginning to appreciate Derrida. Whatever that means.

So I guess right out of college Jim Jordan was an assistant wrestling coach working with people mixed up with Epstein and also presumably aware of a head coach’s sexual abuse of wrestlers. So even though he was young, it’s possible Jordan really is mixed up in that poop.

This is appalling: Top DOJ officials are actively pushing for a criminal investigation into the widow of Renee Good, leading prosecutors to quit en masse, NYT is reporting. Who in the White House ordered DOJ to do this? That's the next thing to establish.

Have you seen the white nationalist donk the US Dept of Labor has been posting on X? This is all from the last few days. More in comments.

So all the bad right wing movies depicting the horrors of government overreach (like Amerigeddon for example) were actually fantasies about doing so.

Rest in peace.

I just learned that Stephen Miller and Richard Spencer worked together at Duke as students organizing anti-Islam events.

I’m seeing right wing evocations of Jimmy Carter on Iran. Could Trump’s team be setting him up to bungle international decisions to get him out on their own terms?

I’ve been reading Eli Saslow’s Rising out of Hatred (2018) and found out Black recently published a memoir and she is now trans.

Masks turn them into avatars, quasi-anonymous embodiments of alternate selves adhering to rules distinct from ordinary life, morality optional. It makes the gun part of a game. What you do in-game has no bearing on your “real” life. This is how videogames are trouble—if they make you want this.

Is there a big sportsball thing happening?

It’s embarrassing being a white American because you know people are suspicious of you because they should be, and you have to just deal with it because so many other people like you have acted like jackasses and that’s real.

I think many of would have done what Renee Good did—get in the way and make some noise. That means what happened to her could happen to any of us. That means we have a choice—to cower or to embrace the risk.

I have no words. Love to my Jewish friends.

I read ICE agent as ICE age because of a line break and now I think that should stick. Time to get out of the ICE age.

I still think what’s at stake for them is the demand to define “self defense” and present themselves as attacked and persecuted as white men in every aspect of life—the sole belief that really matters to the dinosaur and his would-be successors.

I wonder how it feels to be a gun. To be Trump’s trigger and just amplify what a hateful, declining man thinks. To swallow incoherence whole for the sake of what? I don’t even know what they think they’re getting. A claim on truth? Some money? Hate ‘proven’ right by death?

Another mass shooting in Mississippi and another one thwarted in Colorado. America is made of guns, of death, of force.

I keep thinking about her face. Imagine her kids growing up in a country that blew their mom’s face off. Inconceivable.

I remember Bush “winning” but not winning in 2000 and the cheats they pulled to steal the presidency and the sinking feeling in my stomach that democracy wasn’t working and boy has that feeling settled in.

“IT WAS MURDER” Several hundred people have formed a human banner at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach today (Sat Jan 10, 2026) 👏👏 (📸 Erik Castro)

If given the real choice to live now or in a time of peace, presuming this time of challenge were to come no matter what, wouldn’t you want to be here now where your voice can make a real difference? Where you can be the ancestor your descendants need?

I propose a new form of pig Latin in which the ending is “epstein.” Isthepstein eansmainstein atthepstein otnepstein uchmepstein etsgepstein aidsepstein.

Trump is “not guilty” BECAUSE he is the apotheosis of privileged white men. His toadies are not guilty BECAUSE they represent him. What is being protected is white male supremacy. This has always been so but BLM and others did a ton of work to expose the narcissistic lies. And the work continues.

My book becomes more relevant every day. ICE is being marketed as the way to become a cowboy messiah refreshing the wild frontier by clearing it of “savages” again. Guns as redemption. Murder as salvation. Killers as God’s own agents.

Oh my God. More evidence affirming my thesis in Cowboy Apocalypse. ICE as vigilante cowboy messiah.

What can we learn from Iranian women? No, Donald. That’s what.

Noem, Trump, Vance: We *will* live in a new Wild West and ICE dudes *will* be self-declared vigilantes and you *will* be seen as varmints or bad guys and we *will* dehumanize all of you, no longer just the ones with extra melanin. Because this is the story we’ve always wanted to tell.

Noem: “Our officer followed his training, did exactly what he was trained to do.”

I wrote a thing.

What if nobody deserves to be shot? What if guns are a problem always, because of the way they make murder easy? What if snap judgments shouldn’t be able to lead to snap executions?

My undergrad mentor died yesterday. From a sermon of his: “You can't love from a distance. You can't help, you can't heal…That was true even for God…If you're going to make a positive difference in someone's life…you have to…leave your zone of safety and get down to where the hurting is going on.’