maybe the media can take five minutes off from warhumping to register that the president could very obviously not give less of a shit about The Troops

this is fucking shocking, and while i know politics journalists think it's cliché to point this out, a democratic president would be impeached for delivering this speech in this way, and rightly so.

yes, I've been saying this for a year: we could potentially be sleepwalking straight into another 9/11-level event, and we'd *never fuckin know until it happens* because the capacity of the state to monitor for & prevent something like that has been almost entirely eliminated.

This is an analysis very much worth a read: www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

I think bluesky would be roughly 300% better if people here were capable of reading “this is an assessment of the empirical reality of a situation” without assuming it comes with an implicit “and therefore I endorse the reality of that situation”

Cannot recommend highly enough making something with your hands to keep the despair at manageable levels

Social media erodes and threatens democracy worldwide, and it also gives us a venue for beautiful, amazing stuff like this:

We are only alive today to debate the Anthropic case because Stanislav Petrov decided to overrule a computer.🫡

We are really going to regret the technology we have built.

This helped me put it together Prediction markets are distributed bribery

JD Vance said there is “no chance” the US would be drawn into a lengthy war. But isn’t that what Bush thought before Iraq & LBJ before Vietnam? Wars are risky & unpredictable.The US should engage in them only if it absolutely has to. There is no reason to think this war is necessary. wapo.st/4seF5K1

The "this is just a distraction!" thought-terminating brainworm is one of the most infuriating holdovers from Trump's first term. Nothing is a distraction; they're not that disciplined or clever. Everything is important; their one strategy is to DDOS democracy and its mechanisms of accountability.

My statement on President Trump’s combat operations in Iran⬇️

free note to everyone: you can just say we shouldn’t be bombing Iran rather than pretending this would be fine if Trump explained himself better

What OpenAI just agreed to is positively horrifying, on an unimaginable scale actually

-Zero Congressional consultation or approval. -Zero preparation of public for need/consequences of war. -Zero evidence of thought about "OK, what might the other side do?" Next month. Next year. -Zero mention of anti-nuke agreement Trump voided, or Trump claim last year that nukes "obliterated."

Very very good important thread.

imo the threat posed by CBS News and CNN getting absorbed by pro-regime billionaires isn't that they're going to produce right-wing slop that convinces people to be right-wing, it's the dismantling of newsrooms capable of doing investigative reporting on the administration. Fewer eyes on the street.

That’s the problem, you can’t be, what we fight for compounds in ways we cannot even comprehend. This is the moment. And if it is not, then the next one. And if not, then the one after that. And so on, forever. Always has been, always will be. We’re stuck in this cage together until we’re free.

Good provocative thread and this is the key point at the heart of all of it. It’s epistemology, ethics, and political economy all wrapped together.

But when we crave power over life—endless wealth, unassailable safety, immortality—then desire becomes greed. And if knowledge allies itself to that greed, then comes evil. Then the balance of the world is swayed, and ruin weighs heavy in the scale.

this is a great brief and it appropriately ends with a killshot: the simple observation that if trump's meaning held, the birthright clause would not have overturned dred scott, the one thing it was absolutely meant to do.

The only joy in witnessing the billionaire coup of our media sphere is knowing how completely it will backfire. They can destroy WaPo, CNN, CBS & Twitter, fire truth-tellers, nazify entertainment, redpill our feeds... But culture will out. We'll tell new stories, write new songs, build new tech.

It's been 55 days since Donald Trump invaded a sovereign state, abducted its leader, and declared that the United States will "run" that state indefinitely. Still no member of the House has introduced articles of impeachment connected to these actions. Today would be a great day to do so.

donald trump is two quarters away from being completely neutered and hopefully the subject of bribery investigations by a dem congress looking into this shit and these ceos should keep that in mind

donald trump and his cabinet are using the power of the government to cover up allegations he raped a child

And this is true on a deeply ideological level. The “fasces” in “fascist” was describing the permanent binding and subsuming of the individual to the monstrous (and in-group supremacist) state/nation.

Fascism is fundamentally based on disregard for bodily autonomy and consent, which is why fascism is so hospitable to pedophiles, rapists, and transphobes.

I think the lesson in all this is that authoritarian movements succeed because they convince people they're inevitable. The reality is authoritarianism is a hollow ideology that attracts mediocrities and doesn't fully take root in the face of stiff resistance. Fight back is the only viable strategy

This stunt where ICE releases people far from home with no proper clothing and no way home should be treated as attempted homicide. In this case, actual homicide. These cases are not accidental or based on misunderstandings. They are deliberate attempts to inflict bodily harm.

"The president had DOJ illegally cover up documents about allegations he sexually assaulted a child after Congress specifically passed a law requiring they be disclosed" is, in and of itself, enough to merit rapid removal from office regardless of how true or credible the underlying allegation is.

This is an important thing to understand about the behavior that gets described as "AI psychosis"; people are using tools they were told would be helpful or useful, but the companies run by folks with the most experience in the world at manipulating billions of users have designed an addictive app.

Why are we asking a probabilistic word association machine to play out war games?

Thanks, @markjacob.bsky.social. The basic question is this: If they're really winding down occupations like the one in Minneapolis, and if they're really moving to a more "targeted" approach, then why the need for vast new prison camps and a military arsenal rivaling those of small nations?

Great @jamellebouie.net piece. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/o...

Great thread on a topic I’ve worked on some. Another issue is the affordability of CH4 mitigation varies widely by farm scale. Below somewhere around 500 milking animals, most digesters are uneconomical even with the available subsidies.

this is, to me, the strongest argument against the proliferation of easy gambling. the personal ruin is worth considering. it's nothing next to the erosion of public trust

democrats should internalize that this is what their colleagues think of them and act accordingly

trump going on about corruption and then slandering somali-americans makes my blood boil

The big difference between the US and Brazilian/Korean case isn't that voters care less about democracy. It's that American elites basically did not care about it after two weeks

Thread.

I mean, the scala naturae are way older than 1866 (weird claim tbh). Like, Aristotle old. And persisted all the way through Lamarck and right past Darwin. But yes, two things: 1) A better term than "primitive" is "ancestral". 2) "Ancestral" (vs "derived") refers to *traits*, not whole species.

If you hear people complaining, remind them that Dems offered to split out ICE and CPB and fund everything else, including TSA. Republicans said no.

based on some reading i'm doing at the moment, there is a book to be written — if it already hasn't been — on defense of apartheid south africa as the great international cause of the american right

Every single element of life is either more deadly, more expensive or more inconvenient (often all three) today than it’s been in decades & it’s purely because our robber baron overlords decided to dedicate the entirety of the US apparatus to doing barbaric & culturally suicidal white nationalism

Since I can’t sleep, here’s another hot take: The world would be a better place if everyone‘s science literacy was much better. There should be more emphasis on teaching basic science at all levels in school. Science isn’t just something nerds do, it’s the foundation of the modern world.

This is astonishing, a must read.

Vietnamese diplomat: So he rambles on a bit about how he definitely likes women and not handsome men then started blasting The Village People and dancing. But we might get some good investment deals out of it. Cost of doing business, you know? His dad: I fought in the jungle for six goddamn years.

Why isn’t the right excited about technology?