Today once again proved that everyday citizens protesting their government are braver than the titans who own the largest media corporations, run the biggest law firms and lead the most powerful technology companies.

I need people to wrap their minds around the fact that here in Minneapolis, ICE broke the window of a vehicle yesterday, pepper sprayed the occupants, and arrested them, and shot another observer in the face today, and OBSERVERS ARE STILL GOING OUT TO PROTECT THEIR NEIGHBORS AT MASSIVE PERSONAL RISK

to give ICE the benefit of the doubt is to be an agent of ICE — that’s what benefit means

Saving this screenshot from Threads as a new reaction image

Fuck off, 2025. But huge high five to everyone who pushed back against fascists and bigots and will continue to do so in 2026 and beyond! We are going to win. All these fascists bound to lose.

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

Holding my trans friends and family especially close today. You deserve to live with dignity as your full beautiful selves, and may the ghouls who are trying to vote and bureaucratize you away never find peace.

My big tent doesn't include transphobes who want children to die. Sorry, not sorry, throw them all into the sun.

There's a joke about the origins of many Jewish holidays: "They tried to kill us, they failed, let's eat." But some of us *were* killed in those days, and some were killed today. This is a holiday about hope, persistence, and light shining when it shouldn't be possible. May all the killing end.

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

I have been thinking about this line today, on the value of editors, from the late great John Bennet, for no reason in particular.

I’d like to please juxtapose Jill Lepore’s complaints about how whiny #MeToo students made Harvard a miserable place with the former President of Harvard’s texts to Epstein seeking advice on trying to date a student.

Just thinking again how Democrats asked people to accept short-term suffering in order to give space to prevent long-term, worse suffering and then said, "Thanks for suffering in the short-term. You'll get to suffer long-term too so that our Thanksgiving plans don't get disrupted."

Absolutely correct

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

There are issues we can compromise on! But if you let bigots into the “big tent” you’re actually shrinking it because you’ve just told whole demographics that they’re not really welcome.

Retired Army Sgt. Brian Wofford spoke to me this morning at the Oklahoma City #NoKings protest. Didn’t expect him to be carrying his DD214 so I asked some warmup questions like when he got out and whether his injury was service-related. He paused while describing the car bomb in Iraq to say this:

Merry Wives @shakespeareindc.bsky.social was so much fun. If you need a break from scrolling and the doom of DC, go see this show. 10/10, just a room of joy.

I know it's ethically a no-no, but I still think the New Yorker could make a fortune if they had a Cameo-like service where you could pay for Isaac Chotiner to call a friend saying he'd like to schedule an interview to ask them a few questions.

beautiful

I Am An AI Hater. “But I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.” [anthonymoser.github.io]

"Recently I took a friend in a pink shirt to lunch. Insensitively, I led him into a gourmet sandwich shop. Suddenly I saw his face light up as he was confronted with sandwiches named “Padrino” and “Pomodoro” and ingredients like soppressata, capicollo and a striata baguette....

The worst single-day crime spree in modern Washington history, of course, took place on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump issued no order to the National Guard to intervene -- Mike Pence did -- and later pardoned the perpetrators.

Jesus Christ, these people are just so goddamned scared and weak all the time.

I literally sent my children (14 & 11yo) on a scavenger hunt around D.C. last week BY THEMSELVES. They walked, they took the bus, and they took the metro/subway. These folks are either the biggest liars for their own political purposes or the biggest bunch of sheltered wimps on the planet. Or both.

My brain has responded to today's news by deciding that I need a mental loop of Rage Against the Machine's "Killing in the Name of."

None of the problems DC has, not a one, wouldn’t be improved if DC had statehood.

Outside of a Dog was kind enough to arrange all the books and sales for a mini-tour I did in Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota last year. I bought the store's t-shirt in gratitude-and also 'cause it was awesome-and will now also wear it in solidarity. Vermillion lost a great place and amazing people.

If someone is being targeted any human being it's my responsibility it's my obligation even if i'm safe forever because someone needs to do something and I'm someone

That photo of those people pointing at a sign celebrating the time when alligators will tear into human flesh reminded me of this photo (which I’ve cropped) of the 1930 lynching that inspired the song “Strange Fruit.” The man with the tattoo is pointing to a person who he’s just helped murder.

This merch is the stuff people are going to find in their parents’ basements in 50 years and go “god, I know it’s important historical context but I just don’t want to touch it, do you think a museum would want it or should I just burn it”

It’s hard to overstate how angry rank and file Dems are at the Dem establishment right now. And if I were a self-preservationist incumbent I would take note.

Part of Zohran’s strength was a positive vision rather than an alternative to something worse but I think a lot of awful people were really banking on a result that allowed them to definitively close the book on the idea that MeToo shit is disqualifying, I wish them a harrowing night

Womp womp. The wompest of all possible womps.

NY Democratic machine genuinely befuddled after the charismatic, talented person with good ideas defeated the sex pest fuck-up with name recognition

Trans people deserve dignity, joy, health care, and love. Especially trans kids. I will die on this hill forever and anyone who disagrees can fuck off into the sun.

i just find this so bizarre. searching through texts and doing the reading for myself is how i actually think through ideas! trying to put together a sentence is how i figure out what i actually want to say!

Please read and share this statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman, children of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark. (via WCCO reporter Caroline Cummings on X)

I hope your biggest takeaway from today, whether you were in the streets or practicing self-care, is that we are not alone in this fight and we cannot act like we are

DC weather tonight #nokings

Remember: every day is shut the fuck up Friday. You do not need to speak to law enforcement. you do not need to identify yourself to law enforcement. if the cops come to your house, if the cops come to your car, if the cops come to your protest, shut the fuck up. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWEp...

#noking protest in Riverdale Park, MD

Best book of the year so far is @shaunwalker7.bsky.social's "The Illegals." I got it from the library, but have already bought two copies to share because I NEED people to talk to about it. It is BUCK WILD. Amazing storytelling, great history, makes me want to watch "The Americans" again. 10/10

The average American has three friends.

Elder millennial and Gen X: Ask your doctor for a Titer test to check your MMR antibodies. I was good on measles, but had no immunity left for mumps, and was able to get a full booster for all three.

As a script, this was a page-turner. In person, it was even better. What a miraculous work of theater. I only wish I'd had more space to gush. On "Here There Are Blueberries" at Berkeley Repertory Theatre: www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

For about a year, I worked with a retired British academic named Alasdair Spark to solve a mystery: where did the original photo from the end of The Shining come from, and where/when was it captured? Last week, we finally found the answer. www.instagram.com/p/DID43LBNPD...

"If America hasn't broken your heart, you haven't loved her enough." Corey Booker, just now.