this is how i want politically ambitious dems to act. it is time. we are in a crisis. act like it.

this goes hard as fuck

The famous Andor line is that "tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle." Here is a perfect example of that through malicious compliance: Idaho forced the city of Boise to remove its Pride flags. So the city painted rainbows everywhere else.

We elected an administration on the messaging that all of society’s ills were a result of DEI & immigration. So we’re left with no choice when we look at all this immediate & staggering abject failure, death & unnecessary suffering around you but to understand that it is a direct result of whiteness

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

I have encountered and engaged with many Trump supporters, hearing them patiently out each time: and every single one of them, whether beneath a veneer of politeness or not, exhibited a fundamental spite and meanness about their fellow human beings that I found horrifying.

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I would read a content analysis of the way the Times. WAPO, CNN, Jake Tapper etc... covered Biden leaving Afghanistan compared to this absolute debacle of the War on Iran by Trump.

Also of note, Iowa paid Chris Rufo—perhaps the leading propagandist for the current assault on higher ed, an unqualified hack and admitted fabulist—$34,000 to speak. It's embarrassing that any higher ed institution would invite him, especially when they are cutting departmental budgets.

some people you can recruit, other people you have to simply defeat. politics makes more sense when you accept this

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just keep swimming army!

Take a screenshot to see your Hooligan for the day! 🥷

Yeah so he is just going to keep doing the thing where we are in a constant state of uncertainty, confusion, stress, and tension because that is what abusive people do and the people who are in a position to address this are asleep at the switch.

Donald Trump must be removed from office for threatening war crimes and genocide. Speaker Johnson: bring the House back into session. Invoking the 25th Amendment and impeachment must be on the table, but Congress should also move on a War Powers resolution to stop Trump.

Personally I think when a world leader announces “Tune in tonight at 8pm Eastern to watch the world end” like it’s the fucking season premiere of Roseanne we should have a different leader the next day.

another one bites the dust...

I'm sure there will be no long-term consequences to all of us veering between hypervigilance over potential nuclear war and trying to go to work because none of us can afford to pay our bills and may still be trying to recover from health consequences from the pandemic we're pretending didn't happen

Tucker Carlson made it his life's work to loose this monster on the world so I don't care to hear his little face saving pieties right now, I don't believe a word of it

How do I work through this unprecedented time I mutter to myself for the 20th time this year.

wondering if maybe elon was wrong about the relative danger of the woke mind virus

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

The rest of the world should probably collectively stand up to the U.S. right now, tbh

[Chuck Schumer scavenging through the post-apocalyptic rubble for scraps of food] He's gone too far. Someone should do something about this

It is extremely insulting that I still occasionally get told political beliefs like police abolition are "too risky to be associated with" but the republican party is out here trying to end all life on planet earth and that's an acceptable position within the Overton Window.

you have to get him out of office and you have to do it today even if it gets blocked you force an impeachment vote right now how else can you live with yourself if he follows through with this and you didn’t do everything you could to stop it

In two weeks the national press corps is going to laugh at his jokes and applaud him at their annual Hilton dinner for being a fun and interesting president to write about

Absolutely tf NOT. I will not be integrating the text-extruding plagiarism machine owned by misanthropic, world-destroying sociopaths and trained on my STOLEN BOOK into my pedagogy or research. Fuck off with this boosterism.

so the AFT is bending the knee to the people actively trying to destroy education... good to know...

New over here so introducing myself with some commentary on Artemis II!

is the GOP's mistake that they...won? And got everything they ever wanted in the process? Is that what we're worried might happen to Democrats or progressives?

oh good Lord Kentucky House impeached a judge, saying she abused her authority & was biased in favor of Black defendants their evidence? the judge's statement acknowledging the state's pattern of charging white defendants with lesser offenses and giving them better offers than defendants of color

Chapo Trap House: All politics are sexual pathology and the sexual pathology of the right is rape. The critics: PSHHHH that's too simplistic, this is a land of contrasted motives and complex individuals. Reality:

Damn Sam Altman is allegedly a sociopath? That’s crazy. You’d never be able to tell the second you looked in his eyes.

I am happy to allow a path to redemption. Call me the day a single one of these fuckers actually steps onto it instead of driving their dirt bike back through the garden and popping a vindicated wheelie.

… I’m not being funny. I’m being serious Something BAD is a foot because they spent the past four years insulting and degrading the public Using AI as a sifter for who deserved care ….. Them trying to be benevolent raises my hackles, my shields, my eyebrows and my pressure

The thing about there needing to be a path of redemption for people who have been “canceled” is: there already is a path to redemption and it’s called “redeeming yourself.” The path is open! No one is blocking that! You just have to do it!

Movements to shut down or ban data centers are amassing power and notching victories. Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content in articles. Publishers and entertainment studios are being pushed to reject AI-produced content outright. In other words: It's open season for refusing AI.

THE NUTELLA HAS COME LOOSE

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Y'all there is a woman and a black man circling the moon and NASA's mission control+ science teams are so diverse and people are nerding out about science and exploration this is all a gigantic middle finger to the stupid and hate and grotesque ghouls running our country

yes, I am still updating it, over 20 pages of problems with AI/examples of fails etc: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Realizing that some of my inexplicable sadness about the Artemis II stuff is that it feels like a trans-dimensional communication from an America that took a different path and chose joy instead of fear and hate.

i wonder if AOC’s early clashes with the democratic establishment PLUS the unhinged reaction to her from republicans have given her some of the “both sides hate her so she must be Independent” vibe that goes a long way with low propensity voters

the 'electability' question is increasingly clear www.sosavstate.com/p/gavin-news...

Everybody who read my last thread should know about this resource on all the problems with AI

all of these "everyone's using it" pieces about writers are there to make lazy/untalented people feel better about themselves and i just want to say that any "writer" who replaces themselves with ai does not deserve to say they are a writer and should feel bad about themselves

did i not say

The two truths: 1) There is nothing wrong with porn, let people safely make it, let people safely enjoy it. 2) If you let people define porn as bad, authoritarians will ALWAYS expand the definition until their hands are around your neck.