Fantastic essay and a chance to once again say #metoo was as much a battle over whether women can ever have epistemic authority as to social relations as sex because *we can tell* even when the men have the luxury of feigning ignorance open.substack.com/pub/besskalb...

Sometimes it's the little things that bring joy, like Hacks using the Zohran colors in the title card of the episode where The Gang Goes to NYC.

someone on nextdoor made this AI slop making fun of people who support the proposed library at the plaza BART station and it unironically rules. @bart.gov please make this real

The popular pitch for LLMs has always been about restoring the male professional ego after women negotiated out of secretary status. (It is *also* a tool of capital against labor but this is how it's attempting a campaign of acquiescence) cooperativeoverlapping.substack.com/p/on-the-gen...

Hire a decades-younger research assistant?

As we wind up the third week of our Six Senses of Oakland membership drive, take a look at all the thinking-about-the-world-from-Oakland we've published so far: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/tag/six-sens...

School shooters are the stochastic terrorists of political misogyny, MAGA is the party formation of the same ideology, and the most brilliant rhetorical move the Democrats have made since Obama was Walz's use of "weird" to call out the connection cooperativeoverlapping.substack.com/p/our-very-o...

Dilley is evil and must be closed. It's a goddamn concentration camp. A moral abomination. People are going to Hell over this.

Everyone is going to jump on how un-credible Gallego is here but I think this speaks to a broader point. EVEN WHEN powerful men are forced to agree that sexual assault is disqualifying, it is the *sex* part that matters. The flirting was destructive of those women's careers, but that was forgiveable

One of the greatest minds of the twentieth century (and one of my children's [middle] namesake)!

THE DALAI LAMA IS WEAK ON MONETARY POLICY.

Finally read @zunguzungu.bsky.social's Freaky Tales piece, which performs itself by being both as specific and as omnivorous as the film itself. If you love a city, any city, it is worth your time (& stay for the stealth Sinners v. OBAA discourse) www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/freaky-tales...

One day I want to live in a world that values young women, their autonomy and careers, as equal to that of men.

Welcome back home to Earth, Artemis. It's not really any better than when you left, but your courage and competence and passion and wonder should inspire us all to make it better.

They just...tweeted it out.

A century of hair samples shows how sharply lead exposure fell after modern environmental rules took hold in the US. A PNAS study found that current lead concentrations in hair from Utah’s Wasatch Front are almost 100 times lower than before the EPA was established. buff.ly/odLXa0j #ShareGoodNewsToo

It's almost as if the panic over birthrates is a factually debunked trend operating as a thin veneer to cover up (a) gutter racism and (b) a desire to see women leave public life in favor of private subservience (a fate that economic independence helps older mothers at least partially avoid)

Good news is rare these days but Sierra Club beating Turning Point in wresting control of a publicly owned utility to hopefully accelerate coal and gas retirements is a delightful exception!

At my university the felony trial for five students who occupied an admin building in support of Palestine *just* ended last month (in a mistrial) and the school effectively banned protest on campus so, uh, maybe that's part of it?

"Black sonic politics in Oakland, in nine sounds," a playlist. By Alex Werth (as told to Tommy Craggs): www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/black-sonic-...

Guess what? I'm going to do it again tomorrow because genocidal *threats* are still an impeachable offense.

OK who wished for a carbon tax on a monkey paw?

Ooof, I'm a longtime Warren stan but this analysis is compelling. I will add that my fandom was based in part on her (perceived) role in pushing the gender equity aspects of Build back better (childcare) and the fact that those haven't returned as part of the left populism under Trump II is telling.

I have voted twice to advance articles of impeachment. We cannot wait. Congress must convene immediately and begin proceedings to remove this man from office for the safety of our nation, Americans, and the world.

Called my senators and rep. Woefully, woefully inadequate, but did it anyhow. You should do the same.

"This is a distraction" is just a lie. "They are taking your money and using it to commit criminal acts beyond our comprehension" is 100% true. I think we should tell the truth and not the lie. The latter also has the benefit of at least somewhat centering the issue of atrocities.

What a beautiful moment.

BREAKING: Another person has died in ICE custody, per required notification to Congress, marking 15 deaths in detention this year and 45+ since Trump took office again.

From back in 2020: After Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Beheading Holofernes, 1611-12, AKA home on Easter with two bored kids and a box of Peeps

After last Saturday republished (with an update) my "intellectual historian of early modern England who also happened to take some classes on the British Empire in grad school" take on #NoKings, in case anyone is interested: cooperativeoverlapping.substack.com/p/no-kings-r...

On the theme of "can't keep up with the destruction this administration is engaged in because there's so much," well yesterday while Trump tried to pressure SCOTUS into rewriting the 14th Amendment Vought destroyed the agency responsible for protecting US foresta.

Chag sameach! A good day to reaffirm that Jewish liberation and safety cannot be achieved through ethnonationalism but only through solidarity with the stateless and immigrants everywhere.

The thing about the data center/electric bills/emissions crisis is it's the *hype itself* driving so many of the problems as much (if not more than) any actual usage or construction. It is a perfect storm of the intersection of tech capitalism incentives & electric grid planning & markets.

There are few things in this world I love more than public transit, and so I loved this piece. I also love ORB (not just because it let me write 7,000 words on ways in which us coastal types are implicated in the coal economy even as we fight a guerilla war against it) and YOU SHOULD JOIN.

I remember when Meloni was elected and the consensus was this was the farthest right Italian PM since Mussolini. Does this mean she's not part of the transnational ethnonationalist Trump/Farage/Orban/Putin/Modi(?) coalition or even this is a bridge too far for the rest of the gang?

As I prepare to fly tomorrow thinking about how airports as chokepoints around which political possibilities open and the balance of power shifts has been an interesting throughline of Trump I and II. The airport protests to the Muslim Ban in 2017 made resistance visible and preempted...

Today's anniversary is a good reminder that women have always been leaders in the labor movement in this country and feminized labor has been and can be a site of collective action.

I have now achieved the apotheosis of parenting, as imagined by my younger, childless self: assisting in the production of a trifold science fair project display board (after some heated debates about the obligation to report null results). I am very proud of my kiddo.

The US government collected over $1 billion in immigration fees then refused to process the applications. No denials. No refunds. Just silence. This is the largest fee fraud in the history of the American immigration system. Here's what's happening. 🧵

I think this is correct, and my less-well-thought-out addendum is that I think the vulgar Marxist (must discipline 2021-22 labor market) and MeToo-backlash accounts are linked by the fact the labor getting more expensive during that period was itself gendered (particularly around food).

It is literally hard to keep track of the number of war crimes this administration has done, is doing, has announced they will do. Just unrelentingly horrific.

Really disappointed by the Warren endorsement of Platner. Get that it's a (needed) challenge to Schumer, but it doubles down on an anti-fascist strategy that has failed when you have the Minnesota model *right there* Older, longer thoughts here: cooperativeoverlapping.substack.com/p/on-wine-mo...

Four things to say after the past few days. 1. I am so grateful for all the messages of support, private and public. Thank you, truly. 2. I am humbled by those of you who have reached out to share your stories and horrified by what you have shared; I am trying to respond to everyone as I can.

Did your power bills go up last month? It might be because Donald Trump is forcing old coal plants to stay online, and making YOU pay to keep them running. Listen to Sierra Club Senior Attorney Greg Wannier answer how this is possible ⬇️

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

I've been getting quite a few questions from press, etc. and so wrote up something a little bit longer here: cooperativeoverlapping.substack.com/p/a-fuller-s...

If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.

“Since the full-scale invasion, Ukraine has added over 3 GW of new renewable energy capacity. Wind and solar arrays with independent transmission lines are scattered over the landscape, which makes them harder to hit and easier to repair”

More familiar with this problem in the energy sector context, where bondholders can convert "public power" to what is essentially a debt-investor controller utility, but the role of capital strikes in the loss of social services and just civic governance writ large is underappreciated

I know everyone is annoyed at how IL-09 is dominating our feeds but I get the special bespoke annoyance that 20 years ago one of the candidates decide it was a REALLY COOL idea to date his undergrad student (me) until actually wait no it isn't, which is (as you might expect) an unpleasant memory.