They're the Klan, they're Nazis, they're Putinists, but they're also the Taliban.

This is really unfortunate: "First Monday will cease publication, after 30 years, with the May 2026 issue, volume 31, number 6, scheduled for release around the first Monday of May, 4 May 2026."

"I asked ChatGPT what Fanon would say about AI and it said he would love it and also that you should get fucked."

The previous, less racist things have not been worth tweeting about.

This is a remarkable @nytimes.com split screen: A huge 3,526 word + photos profile on Sen Britt who "can't stop thinking about the boy ICE detained" But Rep Jaoquin Castro- who actually got Liam Ramos out of detention & back home- gets no interview, no pix, just 116 words inside a story. WOW.

Why do otherwise rational people disagree about the same evidence? Our new paper finds that group membership is a deeply rooted influence on how we form beliefs, leading even preschoolers to bias their evidential standards and form inaccurate beliefs. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Rarely do you see someone fail to read the post in such a complete and perfect way.

As always, the answer to "what should I do if I'm worried about Rs loudly announcing their aspirations to try & ratfuck elections?" is go volunteer to be a poll worker or an elections observer. That is, if you actually want to so something beyond just wallowing in despair & untreated anxiety online

Happening literally at the time this post was made:

Yglesias conceptualize the idea of uncertainty: challenge rating --- impossible

There's something to be written (and maybe someone already has) on how the democratization of statistical analysis out of the academy has coincided with the rise of stats as a rhetorical tool representing scientific certainty – exactly the opposite of what they are. See it a lot in sports, for ex.

This guy has spent his entire life watching period pieces of that era in which the streets are not filled with horse shit and everyone has a full set of straight, white teeth.

From "unitary executive" to "independent state legislature" to "constitutional sheriff," conservatives' only consistent theory of state power is that it is located in offices they hold, without oversight.

[death drive theory intensifies]

The University of Illinois revoked the student org status of Students for Justice in Palestine over their anti-genocide protests and forced leaders and most members to attend mandatory "trainings."

About 60 people and growing for #ICEOut in Lake Worth, Florida, despite it being fucking freezing (that is, 61 degrees and windy). Very high honk density.

When the coasts send their people, they're not sending their best.

Screening for some colleagues on Monday.

Having been around for 2000, when the press had to make up Al Gore lies to smear him with, it's pretty cool to see that no journalist cares at all that the president, VP, every cabinet member, speaker of the House, etc., constantly lie about everything.

i think this is exactly right. fascism is the Death Drive as ideology. it's why the catastrophic end of the Nazi Party does not deter people from worshipping Nazis. that the Nazis destroyed Germany along with the rest of Europe is part of the appeal.

Catherine O'Hara could've made an actual The Crows Have Eyes franchise good.

Live look at Rufo interviewing New College applicants:

Dirty Dancing: Sausage Nights

When I went to Perth last year, I asked locals for driving advice. They told me not to drive outside the city after dark because I'd hit a kangaroo. Driving out of the city during the day I saw a dozen dead roos on the sides of the highway. These things are fearless, powerful, and stupid.

I would like for just one of these morons to be asked on camera what communism is.

my increasingly curmudgeonly take is that we all, in fact, have responsibilities. politics isn't an arena for self-actualization. it's an arena for public service. this is as true of voters as it is of politicians.

#20YearsAgoToday, I shot this clip of Feist in Madison. This was a hot ticket and a hell of a set – I had no idea what to expect of her show, but it was a lot more lively than I'd've guessed, even while being largely solo. Here, though, she was joined by her opener, Jason Collett, and his band.

Miami Herald quietly breaking some news about the cold snap that's coming this weekend.

Our book, Catching Fire in the News, is out!! 😅 By Amber Boydstun, me, @dallascard.bsky.social & Noah Smith! Will do a longer thread soon, but so over-the-moon excited!! Thank you to @snsoroka.bsky.social! Online appendix: www.amber-boydstun.com/catching-fir... www.cambridge.org/core/element...

My New One at @slate.com on the 50th Anniversary of the Buckley v. Valeo Decision: “One Supreme Court Case Is Most Responsible for Our Oligarchy. It’s Not the One You Think.” slate.com/news-and-pol...

Mike Johnson getting that bag.

Next "No Kings" march is set for March 28, with a flagship event in Minneapolis www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol... by @natashakorecki.bsky.social

Bari Weiss is a right-wing propagandist but she's first and foremost a troll, and it would be cool if people could stop feeding her.

This is, IMO, modern midwestern urbanism in a nutshell and it is great. I've just finished a documentary that's partly about not being comfortable in Boca Raton, and the screaming lack of this is a major contributor. Heard it even from interviewees who love Boca!

This is a good launch and probably about as a good a candidate as we could get (at least two DOA Dems already running). Highlighting the $40B to a corrupt Latin American bustout regime is a good move.

Stratton is JB Pritzker's lieutenant governor and has his endorsement for Senate, if factional positioning is something that interests you.

What they mean by this is that, rather than dressing like an Oberführer in the SS, he dresses like an executive at Volkswagen.

Watching Étoile and only realizing after 25 years that Amy Sherman-Palladino is a crypto-Calvinist.

An important implication here is that a dropbox exists somewhere with terabytes of incriminating evidence in it, and next year's Democratic majority in the House should subpoena it on day one.

Send whoever's picking the music going to commercials to the Super Bowl.

Didn't hear about it or see video 5% | 16% Didn't hear about it or see video ...

Brett Kavanaugh and the justices who joined his opinion should be impeached, removed, and disbarred. Unrelatedly, their brazen financial corruption should be thoroughly investigated.

Condoleezza Rice is in the Broncos owner's box if you're curious what happened to the last group of rank criminals to take hold of the US federal government.

Every one of the factors that now convince him Trump is fascist was present in the first term (even if unsuccessful). Lots of folks who accurately described Trump as fascist were called unserious. I'ed much rather someone admit why they were wrong (left-punching, bias, etc.) than this. Gift link

The buck stops literally anywhere else.

This was a bigger failure than Garland's, or at least a less understandable one. This movement blew up a federal building and three successive administrations basically did nothing about it. The fourth was theirs.

For what it’s worth, current events seem to vindicate the most strident “no platform for fascists” activists who argued that allowing their bile in the public square is inherently corrosive. The square is amply corroded, and we should shunned and shut down the fascists at the start.

This thing that we've said is happening literally any time people oppose us is unique to Minneapolis.

Yeah. But the problem with any demand is you're negotiating with a plague of liars. Something like a leadership purge is at least hard to undo, but the purged will be replaced by equally bad people. Pull out of MN to get yeses and go into PA next month. They still haven't released the Epstein files.

This is important. And partly why the entire rightwing infrastructure from GOP to Heritage to Manhattan to ALEC were so terrified of 2020. Millions of the folks marching for racial justice and demanding a racial reckoning were *white*