BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

one of the primary tactics of narcissism and yes fascism as fascism is large scale cultural narcissism IS THE USE OF SOCIAL DYNAMICS TO AVOID BLAME based in keeping the social players silent by TARGETING different people/groups

Some people who identify as smart (and it’s important to note they IDENTIFY as smart as if is an ethnic group), are angered beyond reason by the fact that there is knowledge that can not be acquired by reading about it. Angrier than they understand or will ever admit. And they think we can’t see it.

My god. “Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

What I know from being Black my whole life, and poor for the majority of it, is that politely ignoring a root issue to attend to one closer to the surface is like robbing Peter to pay Paul. It’s a band-aid on a gaping wound, and it will not hold your flesh together for long. The US needs stitches.

It’s obvious to me that he resents the places his theories cannot reach. And this resentment invokes a profound lack of curiosity, an intellectual eye-roll, for the stories of those who have always had to know what he can’t fathom. That’s why his analysis is flawed. And why he won’t see that.

What Klein couldn’t seem to admit was that his core political analysis is born of his personal experience, and nothing about his personal experience prepared him to face the complexity of the current moment. What he could not cope with acknowledging, is that he never thought that would matter.

The conversation between Klein and Coates showed me that a lot of people who screech about “infighting” on the left aren’t aware of the fact that marginalized people have been forced to learn how to regulate their emotions during conflict, and so, are better able to hear what’s actually being said.

In the Trump regime, every accusation is a confession. The terrorism is coming from inside the White House. www.theverge.com/policy/79051...

Donald Trump shut down the government because he doesn't want you to have healthcare. But this isn’t just on him. Democrats MUST use their leverage to protect our rights, but it can’t end there. Schumer and Jeffries can’t just go on TV or write letters, they need clear demands. We need action now.

feels like we're living through some kind of cultural gas leak

My full statement regarding the last day of service for federal employees who took the Deferred Resignation Program (DRP): hoyer.house.gov/media/press-...

There have been two hosts in the history of Reading Rainbow. The Legend of Literacy, LeVar Burton! And... me, Mychal Threets, a librarian 🥹🤯 I am a reader, a librarian because LeVar Burton and Reading Rainbow made us believe and see we belong in books, we belong everywhere ✨ youtu.be/e7es7qdWVnU

This is the USDA.gov homepage. Everything is spectacle and spin

There’s no place for hateful rhetoric encouraging political violence — especially from the mouths of elected officials. The calls to executute my colleague & dear friend are unacceptable. This isn’t respectful difference of opinion, this is dangerous violent rhetoric and a threat on someone’s life.

Neguse: "I would challenge anyone to make sense of the rantings and ravings you just heard from the president. These are not serious people tweeting out offensive videos last night on Truth Social ... I think it's important for all of us to acknowledge what we see with our own eyes"

Overnight, Trump and Republicans in Congress shut down the federal government. They shut it down because they’re determined to strip healthcare from millions of Americans, to enrich the billionaires they serve, to continue the assault on our rights. We must fight back.

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

Okay, so apparently I was wrong about the loyalty oath, so far

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

“I’m resigning from my position as Democratic leader and retiring from the Senate.”

"Can you imagine a masked marine? It is a matter of honor -- and honor still matters. To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police." /2

Also he bookends the opening:

I hope the DNC is listening, because here is something very important: you don’t need to hire a bunch of high dollar consultants for “messaging.” Talk to voters about prices and why they are so high. My MAGA mom just told my stepdad that prices are high because of Trump‘s tariffs.

Look at that huge jump in Trump's wealth in 2025. Americans can't afford groceries or health care. But the Trump presidency is working out great for Donald Trump. www.forbes.com/sites/danale...

Every ranking military official in attendance today should stay in their positions. Force Trump, Miller and Kegseth to "purge" them. Make it public. Each episode will be a disaster and rile up veterans and the majority.

If mil leaders don’t buy the message, they can keep quiet or self-select out. Those who don’t want to be part of politicized military (or agree w/ the ideology) leave. This aims to weed out committed professionals who strongly adhere to norms of nonpartisanship. 6/

White pride????

People of Illinois, we need your help. Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

Mike Johnson is a terrorist.

Mike Johnson just sent the House home for the day. The shutdown starts at Midnight.

While my husband was surprised about this outcome, there was never any doubt that this officer’s violence would be rewarded. When killing police officers on the steps of the capital is called patriotism, no amount of violence against the leader’s enemies is too much.

Does anyone know how to relax

Hakeem Jeffries has been such a glaring disappointment. Just a mess of a man and a shit terrible politician. Too busy trying to triangulate palatable pablum to honestly hone an authentic agenda. People deserve someone who cares more about them than about the pretense of decorum in the face of fascim

…& should be framed less as "how bad" or even "are we heading toward an AI bubble," but rather "here's the most solid indicator yet that this current paradigm of AI doesn't live up to the hype." Because the study in question (👇🏾) finds "when developers use AI tools, they take 19% longer than [w/o]"…

So I'll be honest, i'd seen this article floating around, but hadn't clicked through because the headline doesn't actually give me reason to expect anything I haven't already said elsewhere (in some cases, almost 2 yrs ago). But the METR study at the heart of the article is honestly kind of crucial…

…Coders who were, in fact, working slower w/ "AI"? *Reported Thinking They Were Working Faster*. …I mean just holy shit. If these results hold (& I mean multiple cohorts, controls, peer-review, &c), then *all* the self-reported gains in workflow productivity/efficiency are *At Least* questionable…

I won’t say “I told you so” when Trump tries to make all the generals swear an oath of loyalty to himself, personally, as the commander in chief of the US military. But I told you so.

We got enough coders… we need the yearners!!!!

It’s Monday, the gyre is widening, and I am once again asking for your support. My Republican opponents have loaned themselves $50k and $100k respectively, trying to make it look like they have large support. I believe a candidate should be for the people. www.efundraisingconnections.com/c/Kluwe/

why not opt-in? just ask permission first if this is truly a positive feature then surely copyright holders will be happy to participate and have their work included if asked just ask permission first

You know who needs to come to his senses? Desperado.

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I will read a transcript of a video, I will read the captions with the sound off, I will spend many precious minutes looking for a text alternative source. I do not want your video.

*slapping the side of my head* This baby can hold SO MUCH anxiety

This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.

you ever have one of those weeks where 100% tariffs are added to Rx drugs, 100k federal workers are terminated, top generals are commanded to return for a meeting in DC, lethal-force military are deployed to Dem cities, dissent is outlawed, and the federal government shuts down?