ICE is bad. Deportation is bad. Immigration restriction is almost always bad. Armed masked men going into homes without warrants is so obviously villainous that the fact anyone approves it is a stain that will haunt even generous histories of our nation ever after. I am anti-ICE.

Once again, immigration is not even a problem. Immigrants are not more criminal, they don't cost jobs, they don't harm the economy. There is no reason for any of this. It is hurting ourselves to hurt them.

I wish that my rage about this could be turned into a source of energy to power the world because it is truly incandescent and limitless.

hi, cis folks! if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now. the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE. we need you to call senators: reps.fyi more info & script downthread.🧵

Wuthering Flats

When the dust settles, and if universities have meaningfully survived, it will be worth asking how institutions usually so resistant to thoroughgoing change chose to leap with both feet into an untested technology they didn't understand and didn't know how to use.

Slightly diminish a band: Ironeye Span

Smarmy PA Republican Senators are now proposing to rob SEPTA's capital budget to pay for highways to nowhere in their rural counties in exchange for not bankrupting SEPTA's operations. We are the economic powerhouse of this state and we are treated with profound disrespect. Absolutely disgusting

I really and truly need people to understand that a chatbot does not and cannot know anything. Like, I need them to understand that in their bones. It is very good at looking like it knows something, but it does not and cannot know anything.

I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.

I would like to be clear. My writing doesn’t have em dashes because I use AI. AI uses em dashes because stunningly effective writers like me use them.

A slow daily diesel train between Minneapolis and Chicago sees 100,000 more riders than it was projected to see when it opened a year ago, and you all want to tell me there’s no demand for fast and frequent trains in this country lol.

If you started paying attention to the US in 1960, this sure feels like the darkest timeline. But unfortunately, purges against Black & brown people are normal US behavior. You know what's NOT normal US behavior? This is the first time there's been a mass movement to STOP a purge in real time.

TIL AI is not only stealing our archives, it’s killing them. www.404media.co/ai-scraping-...

Our digital repositories team spends a great deal of their time now simply protecting our commoned public digital resources from bots. This insatiable, aimless, destructive desire to excrete novel slop is impeding our access to — and even damaging — our cultural heritage + vetted public knowledge.

The white house wants to cut off access to crucial records of the country's history these are archives created by the American public, and they ought to be much more reasonably accessible to the public

This really is my true form, thank you @makinaro.com for capturing my nerdful hauteur so perfectly 😂❤️

I commissioned Maki to do a snooty portrait of me to match the one he made of @colinfanning.bsky.social in his comic "The Hermit" (get it here: maki-naro.square.site/product/the-...). Maki not only knocked mine out of the park but insisted on touching up Colin's. He's the best!!! Look at us!!!

I keep thinking about how many things had to have gone wrong along the way in the 250 year history of this country for someone to buy the federal government with the money that they made in approximately 11 minutes.

“It is Orwellian, it really is. The fact that so many websites are being scrubbed, it is an alarming development and endangers public policy...” “Orwellian” isn’t strong enough. We’re beyond Orwellian. It’s more like Kim Jung Un-ian.

The insurrectionists have seized power. They are purging their enemies. Does the broader public have a sense of how extraordinary this moment is?

If you cannot call it what it is when all in a week: a government removes every mention of a group of people, destroys information about them en masse, bans their discussion in schools, restricts their ability to travel and starts seizing and refusing their official identification, when will you?

A rebuttal to the wrongheaded, outrage-fueled misreading of the NPG installation of Felix Gonzalez-Torres's "Untitled" Portrait of Ross in L.A., 1991-- disappointed to see queer folks taking the bait as HIV/AIDS funding is slashed and denigrated here + around the world. Calibrate your energies.

All I can really say at this point is if everyone isn't watching how trans people have lost basic rights and protections on a scale that hasn't been seen in decades in the span of 72 hours and realizing that even if you aren't trans there's nothing stopping it from happening to you, you're a fool

hi, cis folks! meet S.9. it's the senate sports ban for trans athletes—a big step to something making trump’s executive order federal law, which is much harder to undo. short call scripts for dem & GOP senators ⬇️. if you said you'd stand with trans folks, it's time.🧵 
legiscan.com/US/bill/SB9/...

I know there’s a lot right now. But folks need to understand what this means. A suspension this long would mean people living with HIV lose their medicine for months. People around the world lose their PrEP for months, putting millions at risk of getting HIV. Drug-resistant strains could emerge.

This is still one of my favorite outcomes of my historical career. @makinaro.com absolutely killed it. (Thanks for the shout-out, @nicolablack.bsky.social!)

Have you heard of Hermitages (type of folly)? They had actual hermits living onsite! It's so bizarre to me! This comic by @makinaro.com w/narration from historians, @colinfanning.bsky.social & Gordon Campbell may be relevant to your interests. Blew my mind. 🤯 maki-naro.square.site/product/the-...

More info about the exhibition here: www.brandywine.org/museum/exhib...

It features essays by @colinfanning.bsky.social, Emily Zilber who also edited the book, Ann Glasscock, Holly Gore and YOURS TRULY, with beautiful photographs by Joshua McHugh.

Need one more awesome last-minute Christmas gift? Or like, 10 copies of it? I recommend “The Crafted World of Wharton Esherick” from @rizzolibooks.bsky.social, the sumptuous catalog that accompanies a lovely exhibition on view at the Brandywine and Wharton Esherick Museums through 1/19/25.