I wrote about how the Hasan Piker drama serves as a proxy fight between centrists and the left, and how it exposes the real priorities of Democrats like Cory Booker.

so, i wrote up a piece about how Hegseth (calling for religious violence) and Pope Leo (rebuking him) were pulling from the same tradition within Christianity. Unsurprisingly, Leo's is a more subtle, interesting history lesson though... Read and share --> www.ms.now/opinion/pete...

Highly suggested: Clare Forstie on “Embracing the AI Grouch”

Highly suggested: Clare Forstie on “Embracing the AI Grouch”

I'll be speaking at Princeton on April 14th. If you're in the area, please do come on out. cdh.princeton.edu/events/2026/...

“This is a billionaire’s war, waged at everyone else’s expense.”

And what I’m calling “opportunity theft” is the theft of someone’s future and their potential by means of robbing them of appreticeship, menteeship, and experience now. Using AI to perform the tasks that students and trainees do in the early phases of training and education is opportunity theft.

An author writing for Science is realizing precisely what the Bloomberg piece predicts at its conclusion, namely that by manufacturing the inevitability of AI replacement people have ”created a futures market in excuses.” Here’s a prof blaming boogeyman exogenous pressures for opportunity theft.

Who’s Winning from Trump’s War on Iran? Follow the Money. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-follow-the-war-money

When I give talks about the exploitation of GLAM by the AI industry I’m always asked “how can we defend ourselves from bots scraping our metadata?” I have no idea. That’s a question for an engineer. What I can and do say is that we shouldn’t be supporting this industry in the first place.

it's also revealing that we're attacking a country to "liberate" it while we're abducting refugees to put into concentration camps

The first deaths announced from the US-Israeli strikes on Iran: dozens of school girls. They hit an elementary school in Hormozgan.

On this day in 1965, Malcolm X was assassinated. A year earlier, his Africa-Middle East tour sought solidarity but drew him into rivalries he didn’t fully grasp, writes @alexjwhite.bsky.social 

*snort* Because whenever I'm reading a book I make sure I have a stack of four other books stacked just so off to the side

Not that it would redeem them if it were otherwise but the cultural ignorance of the largely monoglot defenders of "western culture," and their refusal to be patrons of culture, or to do anything that challenges their brains is: whew

interesting that these people — and fellow travelers like bari weiss — insist on large, expensive security details. they are status markers, i suppose.

I'm fascinated that this cat has never had any interest in screen media but she's obsessed with Koyaanisqatsi

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

we should not refer to federal officials as "czar."

Abolish ICE. There’s no reforming it. There’s no compromise. There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.

“Gramsci used to say 'Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will'. What he meant is: understand how the bloody system works.” - Stuart Hall, born Feb. 3, 1932

“All over my neighborhood we keep finding empty cars, the glass shattered into diamonds on the snow, the people missing. Tiny private automotive kristallnachts, everywhere and ongoing.”

For decades Republicans have pulled this bad faith who me bullshit We simply don’t have to accept this

Do people understand that some version of this is currently happening at EVERY university in the US?

My therapist: Don’t worry, Merovingian cursive is not real, it can’t hurt you Merovingian cursive:

Can confirm. Nothing has changed on the ground. ICE still attacking people, kidnapping, all that stuff—and the city is still out protecting and helping neighbors

Abolish DHS. If you can imagine a world before Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, you can imagine a world without the Department of Homeland Security. My latest at @startribune.com. (gift link)

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."

This angle is so reminiscent of the death squads many of us studied and fought against in the last century. Slave catchers and death squads, here we are.

it's domestic terrorism to film the fascist paramilitary

As someone who has spent over 35 years trying to explain that violence is inherent to policing only to have most people be OK with this, I could be excused if I decided to just give up. But I'm not. I knew we would be where we are today. I still think that we do not have to live like this.

I know this country has always been fucked up, but I still didn't foresee government thugs murdering VA nurses in cold blood on the street.

It is hard for me not to regard the failure to recognize that the AI boom is inextricable from totalitarian creep as willful ignorance, as either the delusions of those who believe they are immune or an endorsement that doesn’t require a vulgar red cap. But AI boosterism is Trumpism now. Full stop.

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

“No one knew this was coming” bsky.app/profile/blac...

I started as a “what do you mean syllabus day I’m not wasting a day of instruction on that” teacher and now I have lost it entirely and we spend a full week at the beginning of class analyzing syllabi as a genre

The reason MAGA thinks this video shows Renée Good‘s murderer as justified is found in the Margaret Atwood quote: "Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them." In their minds, these two things are equivalent. #3E #EndImpunity #GoodVsEvil #RenéeGood

I think it's a bad sign that every major news media outlet has spent days asking whether or not murder is bad and how much child porn is an okay amount

It’s hard to know if people outside MN understand how much of life is grinding to a halt here because of Trump’s occupation. Schools have shut down, businesses are scaling back hours or closing because their employees aren’t safe. The whole city is weighted down.

there is strange insistence — an implicit one — that fascism must be a coherent system

From an email to one of our faculty members.... Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!

This from @johntrterry.bsky.social in @liberalcurrents.com is really good www.liberalcurrents.com/to-my-studen...

This should have been the argument all along. Abortion is healthcare. Full stop. Thanks to @jessicavalenti.bsky.social for this news today.

unhappy 5th anniversary of unpunished unprosecuted undigested televised live heinous crime against democracy day to all who celebrate

goddamnit, your email found me.

If your position is that regime change should be forced on countries where the president does not respect democratic norms and regularly kidnaps opponents using an officially sanctioned paramiliatary, have I got news for you about your position on the United States

What a time to know anything about the history of American imperialism and its consequences