It’s getting grim out there, folks. Here are the safety precautions people should take in advance of the No Kings protest on October 18.

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It’s getting grim out there, folks. Here are the safety precautions people should take in advance of the No Kings protest on October 18.

Trans rights are civil rights. If you aren't willing to die on the hill of trans rights, then you aren't willing to die on the hill of Black rights. Of Jewish rights. Of disabled rights. Of gay rights. Of anyone's rights. Human rights.

Scam alert: there's an IngramSpark impersonator at ingramsparkbookpublishers dot com. Part of a wave of publishing/ghostwriting scams from Pakistan that hijack authors looking to self-publish--they often "borrow" well-known publisher names but this one also "borrows" the real IngramSpark's logo

ooh, this is a nice cheat sheet.

My in-laws are vegan and always operate on the logic of "convincing 7 people to do Meat Free Monday has the same impact of convincing 1 person to go fully vegetarian"

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

if you work for a publication that does this and have any idea how much $$$ your outlet makes from affiliate sale commissions on prime day, DM or signal me: jason.404 also interested if you are a journalist who is asked to do these deal roundups as part of your job

I've been collecting articles on the negative productivity impacts of "AI" for a while, and Philipp Markolin finally got me to gather them up and write a post about them. This is mostly about the productivity claims for "AI;" the technology has other problems, but I'm not addressing them in the post

I’m worried about Theo …

The world would be a much better place if people admitted that chance (or fate or whatever) shapes our lives. That doesn't mean hard work doesn't matter, it just means it's just one factor.

I think a lot about how if I had tweeted about "Open House on Haunted Hill" one hour later, or if exactly the right people didn't see it and boost it in that moment, it never would have viraled. Without that, the rest of my career probably wouldn't happen. It's that fragile.

If you want me to stop calling you a Nazi, you are going to need to stop doing Nazi s***. Simple as. acoup.blog/2024/10/25/new-acquisitions-1933-and-the-definition-of-fascism/

I want to read this book.

1000%. Social science suggests, in fact, that cultural change is most often made, not by changing people’s beliefs, but by changing people’s actions in just this way. ninelives.karawynnlong.com/toward-a-spi...

Science is dominated by male native-English-speakers with elevated affluence. It's a demographic that makes up less than 3% of the total global population. If someone wants to keep politics out of science, they are comfortable enforcing the status quo that benefits them (a small privileged group).

Just over on @cnn.com leaning into #newspeak But enlighten us. What exactly is a “chief loyalty enforcer?”

Gonna say this very very very slowly The main issue with putting your name on a protest list is not whether the government has your name It is you providing information about where you are/will be That is *legally* actionable

For real, if you've ever been considering reviewing / interviewing / etc. someone but stopped yourself because the book was released months ago... do it! We love getting coverage after pub day.

Trump is getting trolled hard in the UK.

TIL that a curfew is also a literal object! the word has its roots in the French couvrefeu - "cover fire" - and was used to denote a bell rung to warn people to cover their fires overnight to prevent the outbreak of flames between wooden houses. a curfew was a bell-shaped cover for embers!

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It’s 6pm on the East Coast, so you’ll go straight to voicemail! It took me 6 minutes, start to finish, to call both of my senators and read this message. This is the bare minimum you can do to be an ally for trans folks in the US. Go go go!

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You are not Making a Difference there. You are not Fighting the Good Fight. You are not even Maintaining a Community you couldn't easily replicate elsewhere. You are propping up a right-wing site and, worse, you are being warped by your constant exposure to it and you don't even realize it. Leave.

I also tried to counter Klein and others’ characterization of Kirk as a model of commitment to debate and persuasion—a bizarrely revisionist account of his work.

Reporters on the ground in Chicago are screaming to be heard over the false narrative that Pritzker defeated Trump there. PLEASE listen to them.

Fractions. Percentages. What are they? What do they do? 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

Yes. My teens were the 80s, but it was almost as pervasive then. (And like Molly Ringwald, it took me *decades* to reframe things.)

Do it. Alex gives fair and good reviews, and unlike many, understands the cultural context of marginalized imagination.

Again, the exhausting thing for me in the current era is not only being treated like fucking idiots by actual idiots, but the mainstream press position that treating me like a fucking idiot is in fact the reasonable position.

The retort of "but what if [literally anyone] is in the Epstein Files?!" is so funny to me. I chucked one of my all-time favorite writers out of my heart and mind this year, you think I wouldn't do it in a heartbeat for a politician or billionaire?

Horrors of Trump detention centre: Lisburn man tells his story after arrest for 'looking like a Mexican' Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping. Here, he tells us his story.

I see some of you dragging a shit take from the fascist site over here to dunk on it, a) why are you still on the fascist site to find that shit, b) why are dropping shit onto this site, c) when you dunk on it you just give it a new audience. Leave shitty fascist takes on the shitty fascist site.

a friend and I went downtown this evening to scream in the streets with thousands of our neighbors. @theonion.com was also at the protest this evening and they were pulling no punches

happening now: hundreds of people are marching through downtown chicago to protest president donald trump’s deportation blitz and his threats to send in the national guard

Happening now: ~13 miles away from the Broadview detention center, hundreds hitting the street in downtown Chicago in protest of ICE.

I think he’s running against Susan Collins

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More people in DC than in Wyoming or Vermont. Coming up on Alaska and North Dakota. Per capita, we pay more federal income tax than any of the states. (Incl NY, CA, CT, etc.) Voice in Congress: Zero. Have never before felt as much DC-specific patriotism—across race and class—as now.

Today's #WeAreAllDC protest in downtown Washington, D.C. demanding an immediate withdrawal of federal troops from the District and an end to the federalization of the local police department.

Our lab at Yale literally studies government suppression of outbreak reporting. Please: don't promote unverifiable reports from anonymous accounts. They're very likely to be false, and it boosts unreliable actors. (If this is happening, I suspect CDC sources know how to text a journalist just fine.)

Hegseth is now the Secretary of War, which is fitting I guess as RFK jr is basically the Secretary of Pestilence. We just need Famine and Death to round it out.

Alright alright alright. @schumer.senate.gov says he’ll force a vote on tariffs amid today’s ABYSMAL jobs report. This will get senate republicans on the record ahead of the midterms so guys like Platner can say “Susan Collins voted to keep tariffs” when he’s campaigning. 1/

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I am once again asking you to stop sending us money. But we do need your time. ⏰ zohranfornyc.com/events

October 18, 2025. Mark your calendar: No Kings 2.