They hate us for our freedom

Goddam... Can you declare your candidacy today, governor????

Yeah not enough for me. I need to know what safeguards they put in place to prevent this from happening again. As others already mentioned, we overlooked a lot of hot garbage from Disney the last couple of years. So I want to see some good old fashioned introspection before I give you money again

super! now we know pressure from people who aren’t convinced “transsexual holds bud light for 00:47 is a civilizational threat” can work! so don’t stop! remember when disney yanked an cartoon that helped trans kids see they have a place in the world? or when washington post chucked karen attiah?

it’s very not new & surprise is not a prerequisite to disgust & i welcome folks telling them “eat shit” over the latest thing & love cancelled subscriptions but i *do* think if you cancel you should also bring up the time they yanked a cartoon about anti trans bigotry before trump even took office.

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The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased. Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power. Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable. But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

I cancelled my Disney plus subscription and so should you.

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

Once we go down this path, we have to acknowledge that being on the receiving end of this epithet necessarily means that a.) they aren't going to compromise with us and therefore b.) there's no hope of us compromising with them. The only path is escalation until something breaks.

Here’s a lot of the stuff about Charlie Kirk that the right is now currently engaged in a nationwide witch hunt to suppress. Share it, repeat it, don’t let evil win. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

Discussing "leftist cancel culture" in the 2010s without so much as acknowledging #gamergate #gg is certainly a choice. This is the definition of having an answer and then looking for a problem. Silly me, I fell for the troll.

When Minnesota Democratic State Representative Melissa Hortman was murdered in her home by a gun toting MAGA maniac less than 90 days ago they said nothing. Trump even skipped her funeral and chose to play golf instead. He had the chance to condemn political violent and did not.

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"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

In the last week of the 1936 campaign, FDR reminded a massive crowd in Madison Square Garden that "organized money" was "unanimous in their hate for me--and I welcome their hatred!" And then the country rewarded him with a 523-8 landslide in the electoral college. This is, in fact, good politics.

i need more than fiery rhetoric from gov pritzker why isnt he setting up roadblocks? cutting utilities to where theyre staying? pulling them over for traffic law violations? anything to make their lives goddam miserable

Time for democratic states to protect themselves with defense forces under their control. And I mean that literally.

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

lolol "Why should I debate Donald trump's puppet when I can debate Donald trump himself" 🤣

Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

And now we know...

Go get em @mayorwu.boston.gov !

We will not yield.

Murderous medieval Oxford is a great example of what can happen when everyone is armed with deadly weapons, especially when that population happens to be young and male. And what happened was... www.sciencealert.com/oxford-was-t...

So we're doing 'Death of Stalin' now. Cool cool... This will end well.

Yikes

“Let’s begin by saying that we are living through a very dangerous time.” So opens “A Talk to Teachers,” which James Baldwin delivered to a group of educators in October, 1963.

Netflix just gave Gavin Newsom 2 million for the redistricting fight and made a deal with Sesame Street. New episodes will air there and the backlog of old episodes will Be free to watch. Netflix picked a side. I will keep my subscription.

I appreciated the chance to talk with Kathryn Jezer-Morton for this article. It's unfortunate that we have to deal with Big Tech's messes everywhere, including in our own families, but given that, I'm glad for a chance to help people think this through. www.thecut.com/article/broo... >>

Read this @nytimes.com story from 1939 comparing Mussolini and Hitler's managerial styles, and it becomes strikingly evident that the times has been normalizing authoritarians for a loooong time. I loved the obligatory passing reference to persecution 😔 www.nytimes.com/1939/03/05/a...

In 1995, renting a room in SF for $200 was the only way I could afford to live there. Seems like a no-brainer. https://cville.online/@Lyle/115124427097944382

AI coding tools are how we are going to learn the hard way that the mere act of coding was never the biggest impediment to releasing faster and more often. The reason AI experiments are failing so often in enterprises is because we now have tons of code with nowhere to go.

not just that he has no constitutional authority, there isn't even any particular legal or institutional mechanism by which the president can make anyone treat this as anything other than a weird advisory opinion.

Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”

The Gilded Rage

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New interview! On Trump, all the terrible things happening, and the institutional complicity that made it possible: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CaI...

So @massgovernor.bsky.social - what do you plan to do about it?

Just read @nathantankus.bsky.social latest newsletter about Powell's fecklessness and this sentence caught my eye: "When your opponent is Donald Trump you escalate in response to threats; you don’t try to appease him." How is this very obvious observation so poorly understood by so many?

The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it. ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures. Losers with power become the most dangerous kind. (c/o Caroline Codsi)

Honey Don't!

Heard a lot of buzz about the death of James Dobson since last Thursday? Need a primer on the monstrous man and his malign influence? The latest Bugbear Dispatch (now on Ghost!) gives you that plus a case for speaking ill of the dead when they deserve it www.bugbeardispatch.com/lets-speak-i...

Our slide into authoritarian rule would not be possible without Trump's willing accomplices. William Pulte's corruption of the bureaucracy to single out the mortgages of Trump foes like Lisa Cook for "investigation" is the perfect example of this. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1996...

Excuse me - Mr Nazi? Would you mind if I punched you, pretty please?

To Donald Trump and his administration: If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me — not time or political circumstance — from making sure you face justice under our constitutional rule of law.

Still waiting for that apology @thehill.com

Kamala Harris nailed it. We warned everyone the stakes were too high to hand the guy built for Project 2025 another shot — but noooo. Ever have one of those mornings you just want to throw the window open and yell, FUCK YOU ALL? Yeah, that.