Also, this is the calm discussion. It only gets more agitated from here.

They all have to go to prison.

This book has been on my desk, unopened, for damn near two years now. I don’t know why it’s taken me so long to pick it up, but I’m glad I have.

Pong? I played Parcheesi.

New scarf.

If I had more money than sense…

The first mistake was thinking you should do anything at all on your wife’s desktop. Don’t “organize” another person’s shit.

The first mistake was thinking you should do anything at all on your wife’s desktop. Don’t “organize” another person’s shit.

ICE has grabbed so many people from their vehicles that there are abandoned cars across Minnesota. This tow truck driver returns the cars for free as a public service, and he’s been getting death threats. They hate the helpers. Which is why must keep helping.

sportsbowl

Patton Oswalt and/or Janelle Monae

We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was

In the midst of a massive measles outbreak in South Carolina, Iowa Republicans are trying to get rid of vaccine mandates for K-12. I hate this so much I can’t even tell you. Thanks to @iowastartingline.com for the story

One must imagine Sisyphus rolling the boulder down into Plato's cave and everyone running Indiana Jones style

Thread. If you can, Beth is worth supporting. I do, maybe you can too!

I think it was Kaveh Akbar who wrote about this and I’m paraphrasing badly but basically what white people who do this are looking for is absolution, and it’s rarely for a moment when they did something racist, more for when they witnessed something and didn’t object.

Temps in the mid-40’s today and it’s getting wild out there. Just got accused of being dapper while walking the dogs. In fairness, I was wearing the sweater I just finished.

Beth is running for Congress, fyi. bethfordemocracy.com

The finding out portion of the lesson continues apace

Buda (Texas) police officers have arrested 45-year-old Chad Michael Watts, following a fight with student protesters near Johnson High School on Monday. He was charged Tuesday afternoon with two counts of assault causing bodily injury.

I want to see the follow up video with him in handcuffs being walked to a police car because I feel like it should already be available. What are the cops waiting on here?

This is who runs this account

This is not remotely the important bit but looking at the Epstein emails I now better understand the appeal to the “elite” of having a LLM write your emails.

On January 24th, my parents home burned down. They and my disabled brother escaped with only minor burns but they lost everything they've ever had. I'm running a GoFundMe to help them recover and rebuild. I would be deeply grateful for any donations but also for any shares!

Maybe one day this will be a place

i am a bari hater and take no pleasure in reporting this but nellie does seem to have been on the up and up re epstein: she contributed reporting to at least one story on him (www.nytimes.com/2019/07/08/n...) and also specifically wrote about him emailing her (www.nytimes.com/2019/09/14/b...)

They wouldn’t wear masks if they didn’t think they might face consequences for what they’re doing, whether it’s now or in the future when they’re looking for another job.

This federal regime is arresting journalists while they let murderers walk free. The resistance isn’t coming from our political institutions. It is coming from communities, organizing together. You can help me bring those tools to Washington. I will use them to #AbolishICE: bethfordemocracy.com

Every accusation is a confession with these people

🚨SCAM ALERT: THIS IS NOT ME SOMEONE IS IMPERSONATING ME ON VENMO. DO NOT SEND MONEY TO THIS ACCOUNT🚨

I hope that in support of the general strike today left-leaning organizations and Democratic candidates will pause their fundraising emails and texts for the day.

I call cleaning the litter box a “huge emphasis on scoops.”

I call cleaning the litter box a “huge emphasis on scoops.”

One of my students asked me in an anonymous icebreaker last week what my drag name was and I came up with Muffy Letta because of course I’m gonna name myself after a sandwich.

Read the whole thing

for the weekend crowd: I dug into a new podcast that pins a bunch of notorious murders on a long-dead Jewish man from San Diego. It's the ugliest true crime property in recent memory. [gift link] defector.com/michael-conn...

I’d forgotten just how much a single Serrano pepper can take over a pot of soup.

"Tonight an ICE agent took a photo of me next to my car, looked me in the eye & told me 'We’ll be seeing you soon.' Not metaphor. Not hyperbole. A threat dressed up in a badge & a paycheck. Unity isn’t neutral. Unity that refuses to name violence is just loyalty to the ones holding the weapons."

You could actually structure your moral code around the idea that law enforcement doesn't exist to execute people. You don't have to create perfect victim narratives, you can just refuse to accept that the state gets to kill people.

Probably not. I’ve come to grips with it, I think.

Not that I expect any of the federal officials responsible for this will lose their jobs but we should be clear that when we say they should be fired, we mean out of a cannon.

this PAC, “democratic youth wave,” has poured over $100,000 into a single delaware based corporation with a generic sounding name that came into existence shortly after the PAC was formed in 2024. they’re using this man’s murder to fundraise for some vague fucking grift.

It’s going to get ever more difficult to try and isolate what’s happening to this or that “bad apple” officer or agency.

ICE delenda est

ICE delenda est

it's why even at our worst, I can't hate this country. so many of us are awful. the people in power are so often awful. but we are a 287 different cultures in a trench coat and when those of us who love being in that trench coat with the gang rise up, we are fucking amazing.

Was digging through some old clothes and saw the SpiderMan costume I wore a couple of years ago and am now wondering how well it would work as a base layer.

This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.

For me it’s constantly reading that I need to teach my students how to use it when, if the prognosticators are correct (and there’s no reason to believe they are) GenAI will be doing those jobs independently anyway.

This graph suggests to me that C-suite people could be much more easily replaced by AI with little loss in productivity than your average employee. Maybe we could try that.