I have the audiobook on hold at the library. I always look forward to seeing @chanda.blacksky.app’s thoughts come up on my feed, and I can’t wait to grab this in hard cover to loan to friends.

Wow. "Five countries including Germany, Italy and Spain call for a common solution to the energy crisis - a month ago they spoke of shock, now it’s crisis - starting with the introduction of an EU windfall tax on energy companies" @isabellamweber.bsky.social www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

I joined Amanpour & Company to talk about why "working homeless"—a term that should be a scandal—has become an ordinary fact of American life. 40% of officially-counted homeless people have jobs. And that's before we get to the millions who are rendered invisible, who are never counted at all.

the hope to help destroy the power of a bunch of child molesters running the United States is the Catholic Church…another institution that’s known for molesting children and hiding it and subjugating women’s health. I’m all for Pope talking trash, but get real.

What’s wild is people will get snitty if you point out there hasn’t been nearly enough pushback on this.

Kind of transparent to drop the blackmail material the second it’s no longer useful

Years ago, back in grad school, I wrote a paper on how the same consultants advising American cities on responding to deindustrialization were simultaneously working with other countries to position themselves to accommodate the fleeing industries.

the next big AI company will claim it can use AI to fix AI vibe coding bugs, and it will raise $400 billion dollars because everyone needs something to invest $400 billion dollars in

If you get unfollowed, just unfollow back. Simple. We do not know each other to get offended.

Yes *of course* it should be free for them too. (Can you imagine someone raising this question for public K-12 schools?!) And if you're so worried about childcare adding to the "major budget deficit," then raise taxes on wealthy people—parents and nonparents too. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/n...

That is the obvious answer to anyone complaining about the wrong people (too rich) getting something they don’t deserve. Just tax them more, it’s fine. A clean example of this was when the Covid checks were sent to everyone. People who didn’t really need them paid more in taxes later. It’s fine.

Red Lobster went bankrupt because of private equity, not shrimp.

uhhhhhhhhhhhhh browsergate.eu

Red States: We're going to cut all the programs that don't support our theology Blue States: We're going to cut the same programs, but because they don't support the business school

The West is appalled by the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. Couldn't care less about the blockade of Cuba, the invasion of Lebanon or the continuing Genocide in Gaza.

“It is about whether a first-generation student can afford to enroll. Whether a program that reflects a community’s history is allowed to exist. Whether research can challenge power without consequence.” Let that last one germinate.

Yes, we want a society where middle-income and rich people value government services. Elderly rich people value Medicare - because they get to use it. Cutting Medicare is toxic across the political spectrum. Many rich people don't value Medicaid - health insurance that only helps low income folks.

Waiting for the AI bros to come in and well-ahktually this one. It's bad to burn lots of carbon for absolutely no benefit, period.

they call it “means testing” because bringing it up will test how fucking mean i can get at whoever is doing it,

I keep saying it but the oil industry HATES this. They know the gig is up when it becomes too high, too unpredictable, for too long. Some more illustrations of this below 🧵

177/ We will all be hearing a lot about Iran's new "Toll Booth" at Hormuz. It is now the regional hegemon Great maps by @jane.inurhead.lol: "Vessels that have exited the Strait do so through Iranian controlled waters and are subject to tolls/fees and military escort." bsky.app/profile/jane...

Columbia University Libraries is hiring an Instruction & Research Librarian! They will be a key contributor to reference and instruction in the Humanities & History unit. I'm on the search committee and can answer questions or point you to the right person. academic.careers.columbia.edu#!/180613

This is so, so well-articulated.

Who profits from an energy crisis in the wake of the war on Iran? The 1%. Thanks @nytimes.com @hclairebrown.bsky.social for covering our research. Link to coverage: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/c... Link to our article:www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

If you're a baseball player who can catch, slide, and run, but you can't hit the ball, you can: a) Practice on your own (teammates, ball machine) b) Hire a good coach c) Switch sports Notice how there is no d) Put your jersey on a robot every time it's your turn at bat (then lie about it)

"Put simply, 'child care or war' is a false choice. The U.S. has the money to pay for child care, even if we are also funding a costly, unpopular and arguably unconstitutional war. That money is just stuck in the wrong hands." My latest for @ms.now : www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

Lately I’ve been thinking that understanding the multiple ways abuser-logic DARVO is deployed by the Right might be the best broad tool for analysis for our contemporary moment

How much of how we got to where we are is because of politicians who were in it for their egos instead of for the cause? I’m so glad to see more politicians who really are about the cause.

When you throw in the towel after a campaign loss or failure, you lose momentum for your cause. Remember, you're never building your own thing. You're building a means for others to move forward. You're part of things, not the culmination of them.

Post something random or yall will have a crappy April

if you invented public libraries today, every opinion page in the country would be arguing for means tested subsidized Amazon Prime memberships

This is quite something from Singapore's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vivian Balakrishnan, in an interview with Reuters. The end of the post-war order, diagnosed in technocratic language. www.mfa.gov.sg/newsroom/pre...

this is completely insane: since when is it acceptable for a tech company to rewrite news outlets' headlines without their consent? especially at a time when audiences are sensitive to how stories are framed in headlines? (ie Israel/Palestine, the Trump admin, ICE) www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

“The last night I was a pediatric resident, a child came in with Hib and promptly died by the next day. I didn’t work for 50 years to have everything destroyed by one man.” -Dr. Kathryn Edwards, Vanderbilt University This is what RFK Jr. and the anti-vaxxers have wrought.

"Among young American men, the strongest predictor of support for the tradwife lifestyle was not gallantry but hostility towards women" Apparently this is not what researchers "expected". Which makes one wonder: had these researchers thought about it for 30 seconds? www.thetimes.com/life-style/s...

“Of course, in the real world, LLMs aren’t trained on a relatively ⁠limited set of words but effectively on the whole internet, which means hallucinations are likely an even bigger problem in reality than in this experiment.”🧪

These are the same assholes who say that affirmative action and “DEI” aren’t necessary. THEY ARE MAKING THE FUCKING CASE.

yes you fucking morons free preschool for everyone or it becomes just "free preschool for the poors" and then you call them leeches and ask for tax breaks when really we want free preschool for everyone because we want smart well adjusted kids why is this so hard? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/n...

It’s not just Ms. Rachel. The biggest names in children’s educational programming are coming out in force to call for kids to be freed from ICE detention. Here’s “Reading Rainbow” host @mychal3ts.bsky.social outside the Dilley Immigration Processing Center.

Once upon a time, I believed that the NYT was a credible, reliable source. That seems like such a simpler time now.

I have watched this like four times and I cannot stop laughing

It's this little gem and it's not up for debate

Picked this up today from @violetbfox.bsky.social and just always love to see movement-oriented communication (including radical zines) that are inviting, that open doors rather than close them, that are colorful!

I've seen people trying to defend it today by saying "No, no, I just use it to brainstorm, bounce ideas, I do the actual writing" and with all the kindness in the world I need to tell you: if there is a stage of writing you are not good at, you need to get good, not use the plagiarism machine.

She may be fired, but she is not above the law. Bondi must still comply with our subpoena and testify before the Oversight Committee about her criminally botched Epstein Files release.

Pam Bondi helped carry out the most egregious cover up in American history. That’s why I introduced Articles of Impeachment against her.

Nazis are assholes, including to each other. They will never love each other back lol www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

after hours ULSD (diesel) in the U.S. up some 30c/gal- I avoid hyperbole, but it is quickly becoming possible we see new all time records for diesel ($5.86/gal) in the days and weeks ahead everywhere. I don’t like any of this… at all.

Imagine how excited and 24-hour newsworthy a trip around the moon would be if the world wasn’t being destroyed by America’s, Israel’s and Saudi Arabia’s religion fanatics.

172/ "We can't take care of sick people or kids because we'd rather use the money on war" is a hell of a midterms pitch -@jeremiahDjohns x.com/JeremiahDJoh...