"Christians United for Israel, the evangelical Zionist group founded in 2006 by Texas pastor John Hagee, claims 10 million members, more than the entire population of 7.5 million Jews in the United States." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This is a beautiful journey.

Diane Keaton in her Manhattan apartment with Buster, an Abyssinian, photographed by Jill Krementz in 1977

Inge Morath Arthur Miller & Pablo Neruda at a bookshop in Greenwich Village, 1966 #BookshopDay

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists. I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

Even in blue, affluent localities, most people have to work hard to advocate for their children and make the school do what they’re required to do. The end of federal enforcement means a lot of kids will go without the accommodations that can make them succeed.

One time I looked out the window of the thrift store I worked at and saw a beautiful woman hopping down the street on one leg. A second later she burst in the front door and it was Diane Keaton with a broken high heel in her hand. You’ve never seen someone get served by half the staff faster

This was my first thought too. When the military became reliant on the leader and not the state, the republic died.

I was already a hard AI-skeptic but this cements my long suspicion that there is no feasible path to anything close to return on invested capital for these data centers. Tech would need 15 to 25 times current AI revenues within the next 2-3 years just to break even. Not financially viable.

What Thiel is saying about tax havens = what Altman is saying about copyright: "I can't be rich unless you let me steal from you." This is how Broligarchs differ from oligarchs of yore: the latter tried to hide their thievery; the Broligarchs trumpet their entitlement to steal as a natural right.

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

This isn’t funny. Judges only speak to the press when they’re in extreme distress

maybe some of these guys just *like* extra innings it is just an observation if i loved doing something i would also not want it to end

A few minutes ago in the House: - Speaker Mike Johnson officially cancels votes next week, extending the House recess through a fourth week - House Republicans block Democrats from passing a bill to pay the troops during the shutdown, ensuring they will miss paychecks next week

this is a recipe for a four year government shutdown you simply cannot make deals with people who are telling you up front they are going to break those deals and claw back everything you won in them

damn. hoping it at least signifies something

Tzfardeah. Arov.

We’ll always have our Phanatic mocking Tommy Lasorda tho 😔 Go Phils

I like a Halloween costume that comes with seating.

JVP and IfNotNow, two Jewish groups principally committed to nonviolence, are both on the government’s list of left-wing violent extremist groups

"we are going to murder americans without due process" ~pam bondi, US attorney general

That’s horrible

There is zero possibility that a federal government campaign against circumcision, even if in theory it is applied neutrally, is not going to result in more Islamophobia and antisemitism.

Illinois judge blocks ICE from using force against peaceful protesters, clergy and journalists. Also requires visible ID. An overdue victory for the First Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Whenever anyone says how much of the U.S. economy is tied to AI right now, I'm like...damn, what if a single rich person had any idea other than "try to zero out labor costs through theft."

The president has been promising a plan to overhaul the ACA for literal years, people’s premiums are going up NOW.

This is my new favorite review of Godot.

“I'm optimistic that, you know, five years from now a majority of kids are going to be in a private school choice program.” www.propublica.org/article/educ...

I have a bunch of friends around the world that I wouldn’t know without it. A group chat that was a lifeline during the pandemic. A community of camera nerds in a new city where I didn’t know a ton of people.

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

This is all bullshit, by the way. There is no imminent risk of rotting crops, according to experts and farmworker unions. It's a ploy to cut wages (even below state minimum wages) for foreign workers, which will eventually hit U.S. workers too. So much for America First!

Young pregnant women don’t trust Republicans to do shit for them because you already took their reproductive rights away.

This very very very bad. I cannot stress this enough. I said that they crossed the Rubicon with arresting Ras Baraka several months ago. This is very bad and portends more bad things for regular people.

I feel personally targeted.

The AI industry is pledging to spend trillions in the next couple years on infrastructure and engineering. But won’t pay for the data that makes the rest of it work.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Self-Portrait in a Mocking Pose, by Joseph Decreux, 1793

can we get a folk singer on "the ballad of sandwich guy and the inflatable frog man"

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

hi, cis folks in california! this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out. he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841 want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

this is literally stuff King Charles did, like not only did the American colonists have a revolution to not have this happen, but they did so in the wake of the English revolution, which was about not having stuff like this happen

🔥 As you may have seen, in recent days, I've been going to the Broadview ICE facility near where I live. For @vanityfair.com I wrote about those protests & the hell that the Chicago area is being put through thanks to ICE/DHS. I hope you'll read this & share it. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

Is everyone in this regime doing 12 jobs because he can’t find enough morally bankrupt individuals to do all the jobs, or is it just a grift?

This is the kind of thing that happens all over DC during a shutdown, and it’s nice to see restaurants elsewhere support federal employees in their own communities

Ellison's CBS brought on the two editors that got NYT to publish Tom Cotton's 2020 op-ed calling for soldiers to shoot protesters in the streets. Hard to find a clearer editorial throughline than "anyone protesting murder by the state should be killed for it."

These two things are of a piece, even if the motivations and details differ. Trump’s justification for his authoritarian crackdown is an America that doesn’t exist. @lizzieohreally.bsky.social

Oh I was wrong, in 2019 Trump signed a law that made the back pay automatic.

A new White House memo says that furloughed federal workers aren't entitled to back pay. This is clearly against the law, which guarantees furloughed federal employees back pay for the duration of a government shutdown.