The right to bodily autonomy includes trans folks, end of story. Trans rights is human rights, and for as long as trans folks aren't protected and have the same rights and freedoms as I do, I will continue to advocate and fight for my trans brothers, sisters, and pals.

I have spent the past several months studying the cutting-edge research on modern democracies that have defeated authoritarian leaders. I've learned that the conventional wisdom on the topic is wrong — in ways that have clear implications for the US going forward THREAD www.vox.com/politics/479...

this is an absolutely astonishing feat of independent journalism, top to bottom, and proves that the only way to truly fight billionaires is not being funded by them. just…read the whole thing.

Some bullet points that I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could our journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.

The ICE surge in Minnesota cost $280M, to detain 4k people of whom only 30 were accused of violent crimes. $9 million per capture of the "worst of the worst". Plus two citizens murdered. ~ Veterans for Peace

i am not on here for “influence,” I am on here to make my friends that live in my phone go “hehe” when they read the dumb little thoughts that i needed to write out and put somewhere

Rorschacestershire sauce

Is he proposing to save that energy by … not feeding the humans?

Americans really got bored with free trade, the best and brightest in the world wanting to come here, low corruption and childhood diseases like measles being eradicated. I guess things are definitely less boring now. Worse, but also less boring.

Had to be at least a decade ago that a NPR show hosted a historian who had published a book on the Stasi and the SS. It turned out the SS et al., had not been the magical intelligence machines at all but had relied almost entirely on neighbors lining up to rat out each other.

Look, now that we're trying for real consequences for the Epstein files, maybe we should also take another look at the Panama Papers

A lot of people have asked what this opinion means: Are ICE tactics likely to change because of the court's holding in this case? So let's talk for a minute about what the court is doing.

After the exuberance of Braydons and Keighleyshleys and such, I think the pendulum will turn toward short, brutalist names. The children of Gen Alpha will all have caveman names. Grog, Zub, Cronk, etc

Here is what I think. TPS status revoked? cool, you should get US citizenship Spent any time in Dilley or Whipple? cool, you should get US citizenship Someone took your bunny hat? cool, you should get US citizenship

Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

The Gen X urge to hate to look into your eyes and see an ounce of pain

this is the soundbite and we can make it stick

If a Prince can be held accountable, so can a President.

In blue jurisdictions, police leadership and individual officers are so often disaligned in this exact way. And it’s the officers who make the world we all have to live in

Throwing a smoke bomb in a zoom meeting and when it clears I'm just gone man, never seen again

I took everyone’s advice and ate the rich. They tasted like saddle leather and unpaid taxes.

A thought I had, as I was driving to work today, was that private prison companies are in a similar position now, as pharma companies were w/r/t opiates. The business model depends on a market that exceeds what could possibly be legal or safe. 1/?

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

“Readers should be able to assume that every word between quotation marks is what the speaker or writer said… The writer should, of course, omit extraneous syllables like ‘um’ and may judiciously delete false starts.” -NYT ethical guidelines

All I see on my Twitter timeline are reporters parsing every quote from AOC in Germany, trying to mock them for incoherence or inaccuracy, while a demented old man who can’t string sentences together or stay awake sits in the Oval, while the legacy media happily sanewashes his quotes.

Aubrey-Maturin but in space with mechs and also they're lesbians

His attacks on the midterms are real and dangerous… and aren’t going to work. Running down the case for an optimistic threat assessment @theunpopulist.net :

your wurlitzer bro. it's playing a song that has yet to be written about a time that will never come bro. its sad haunting beauty is making mockery of the trivial dramas and petty jealousies with which we fill our meaningless days. it's freaking me the fuck out bro.

“Buckle up, I’ll explain on the way.”

Never let the printer see that you’re in a hurry. Just act natural; it can smell fear.

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

Why is no one named Ichabod anymore?

🧵 on the ignorance on display. 1) Starting w/diversity. The US military should broadly look like the US as that keeps the military tethered to American society. If it's all just a bunch of door kicking rural white Christian dudes that's bad. It's bad for the military & it's bad for American. 1/

If we had continued on the road of the CHIPS and Science Act, we might have filled these warehouses with American green tech products. Instead, we decided to buy a jobs program for J6ers and store our neighbors in them. Good going, America.

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I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.

In ancient Byzantium, a kid ignored the great chariot race, disdaining alike the blues, reds, and greens - staying home to read Thucydides. Tonight, I am that kid.

I don’t want to read a generated book. I want to read a written book.

WaPo's editorial board pines for a world that no longer exists: one in which liberals can be cowed out of responding to GOP tactics by accusations of "hypocrisy." That time is over. No more unilateral disarmament.

i love european olympics opening ceremonies. the second the ioc names a european host city the prime minister calls the culture minister into their office and says "find me your strangest homosexuals. give each of them a period of our great nation's history, a kilo of cocaine, and Ten Million Euros"

Great thread:

Ossoff: We were told that MAGA was for working-class Americans. But this is a government of, by, and for the ultra-rich. It’s the wealthiest Cabinet ever. This is the Epstein class. They are the elites they pretend to hate.

It really pays to remind ourselves frequently that this whole immigration "crisis" is made up out of whole cloth. There was no emergency,danger or problem, only a demagogue stirring up racist grievances for political advantage.

The division isn't left vs. right. It's between those whose ethics are rooted in compassion, consistency, and the common good, and those whose ethics are a costume worn to justify cruelty, control, and the consolidation of power. 𝙊𝙪𝙧 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙖𝙜𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙥𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡. 𝙄𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙖𝙡.

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊