Blue states should prohibit the use of masks by federal authorities.

"To be white in America is not to have to think about it," R.W. Terry wrote in 1981. Everyone else needs to be attentive to their race — not only as they understand it but also as White people do. Gift link: wapo.st/40HTp2j

Franz is one of the most insightful chroniclers of music labor from the ground level. Always worth engaging with his insights, especially when they challenge your assumptions.

We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.

File impeachment articles that are just direct quotes from the Declaration of Independence

what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!

Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble. For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity. What will you do?

Trump's 3/27 executive order targets the Smithsonian for advancing "the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct." Trump argues that the exhibit's statement, below, is unscientific. He's wrong. As a biology professor and population geneticist, I agree with every word of it.

One of the defining feelings in American life, for decades now, is elites doing plainly criminal shit and nothing at all happening as a result. It is deranging in a way that virtually nothing else is. Media fixates on perceived street lawlessness but shit like this matters much more in my opinion.

The idea that people with humanities educations are ignoramuses pursuing meaningless debased fragments of what human knowledge used to be sounds more and more like projection from incompetent computer babies

Can we nominate a Facebook screenshot for a Pulitzer? I love this.

I texted @trufelman.bsky.social and we had a super-tiny chat about novelty, yet we managed to squeeze in Italian generals sporting jaunty little Tirol hats and nuns ditching their habits... europeanreviewofbooks.com/texting-with...,

If your excuse as an elected official, here in 2025, for not doing something that is in the interest of Dems who elected you is that Republicans might weaponize it, you are not living in 2025. They are going to weaponize anything you do, either way. They have demonstrated this over and over.

A collapsing Tesla stock genuinely erodes Elon’s economic power. If the stock is hurt enough, Tesla’s board will have no choice but to remove Musk as CEO in order to save the company. www.currentaffairs.org/news/boycott...

Everyone--EVERYONE--in higher education has to understand that this is Trump's plan for you, too: federal control over scholarship, curricula, discipline, admissions--everything. They want you to submit. Your only other option is to stand up, together.

30 years ago, we did. They were called "local newspapers." Then the Telecom Act of 1996 allowed essentially unlimited corporate consolidation of media outlets and they killed off local news in the space of a single generation.

Columbia University has caved to outside forces attempting to silence pro-Palestinian speech at every turn, and look at where it's gotten them: raided by ICE and defunded by the federal government. hellgatenyc.com/columbia-uni...

UbuWeb, an avant-garde #web #archive that has existed independently for 30 years, is adding new content again. No ads, no links to social media. Only #art (text, image video) for you to #discover. ubuweb.com

The NAACP is re-mixing 1930s-era "don't buy where you can't work" campaigns to confront the neo-segregationists targeting DEI. apnews.com/article/blac...

I can’t say I’ve thought about inflation that much since the US Attorney in the district you and I both live in had to resign because the President wanted to make a corrupt deal with the Mayor, backed by the threat of a dangling DOJ prosecution, to terrorize immigrants and people of color here.

The AP should stop covering Trump events. Instead send those White House reporters out into the field to report on the harms and repercussions of his policies. The U.S. public never needed coverage of pseudo-events anyway.

Signs. Of. Life. Protest outside Treasury Dept. tonight.

this is exactly what i’m getting at when i see these people have no understanding of civil society. they do not seem to conceptualize other people as having agency whatsoever.

aaaand now it all makes sense

The inability of the national media to understand this basic point ABOUT AMERICAN CIVICS is simply wild

I need Americans to hate this administration the way Kendrick hates Drake so they can actually stand a chance of surviving

Murphy: "This is a constitutional crisis that we are in today. Let's call it what it is."

Dante described a special place in hell for NYT headline writers, where they experience burning pain but there are no devils, no agents of torment, just weird ‘undercurrents’ like bad smells. Who is torturing them? No one in particular

The biggest threat right now is Musk taking over Treasury data & IT with an aim to usurp congressional power of the purse. This is a real constitutional crisis, a coup happening before our eyes. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Leticia James, NY Attorney General sends a letter to NYU Langone, the hospital refusing gender affirming care for children. To summarize: “Cut that shit out.” Will it help? We’ll see. Is it a welcome sign of someone doing their fucking job? Yes. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/n...

Senator Andy Kim just went to the USAID building, talked to the security guard there to confirm employees are being barred entry, and then did a press gaggle right there in front to call it out. This is doing something. This is making an effort on messaging. Other Democratic lawmakers: take notes.

Schumer is still talking about tomatoes in Park Slope probably, but at least others are waking up.

Giving access to SSNs, other data on government employees to non-employees like Musk is a violation of 5 USC 552a, and carries with it a penalty of $1000 per person whose data was accessed. We are building a case. Govt employees who want to participate should contact me directly

A guy with his mind fried by ketamine and a 24/7/365 diet of Nazi shitposts is inside the federal government’s general payments system canceling whatever he personally decides looks like fraud while taking legal advice from his own busted AI chatbot, that’s the status report?

they'll call it doxxing or whatever but you actually don't get to run the government on a first-name-only basis

Wired seems to me like the publication best equipped to report on this administration

We need TV news networks to run features on the Musk payment coup situation. There is no other mechanism by which most Americans will learn of it

An anon X account run by a journalist/activist dedicated solely to screenshotting and posting any such govt accounts on Bluesky would be a genuine public service.

“What’s needed is a Democratic Party that sweeps aside the pablum of past messaging and replaces it with an absolute and outspoken commitment to economic and social and racial justice that gives frustrated Americans something to vote FOR.” www.thenation.com/article/poli...

It's actually theft of taxpayers money when websites go dark. We paid for that data

“Trump gutted the Aviation Safety committee last week,” AOC wrote. “Air traffic controllers—already understaffed—got Trump’s ‘buyout’ this week with a 1 week ultimatum to decide. It’s not DEI—it’s him. And Elon too.”

again this is a full scale attack on constitutional government

I just want to say for the record that when the history books are written centuries from now, I believe the election of Donald Trump in a free and fair election in 2024 will go down as one of the most senseless and self-destructive own goals in human history

what Musk is doing is as close to the government being taken over by a hostile foreign power in our lifetimes, the coverage should reflect that

New - Elon Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

most evenings i open up spotify and mad abt how hard it is to discover new stuff on an app where everything is at my fingertips. feel trapped in my current listening habits, it's recommending shit i've listened to constantly. there's so much i like that i can't remember bc the platform has me stuck