When people keep saying they'll leave America for Europe, I do not think they realize that Putin's desire is to destabilize all of Europe. They're next on the menu once they've finished with the Ukraine. He has stated that his goal is to restore Russia to its imperial borders.

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...

an extraordinary person with an extraordinary legacy who nevertheless didn’t take herself too seriously when Gary Larson published this cartoon, she was in Africa and her institute was horribly offended and drafted a complaint the whole thing was defused when she returned - she found it funny

This is a big concern for me about AI summaries at the moment. I can see errors and missing nuance in topics that I am an expert in, which leads me to believe that this is also happening in topics that I am *not* an expert in, but I can't tell what they are!

It is incredibly difficult to get folks to understand that there are literally 20-30 people in DC who could end all of this tomorrow, & all of them are Republicans in Congress, & no one in the National Conversation seems interested in paying attention to that.

My general belief is that Dems need to spend more time thinking about what they believe and less about what they think some imaginary swing voters want them to believe. Political strategy will stem from an authentic set of beliefs.

Your reminder that they cannot arrest millions of people no matter how hard they try. They lack the infrastructure, they lack the personnel, and the economy would straight-up collapse They are going to try to scare us by making examples out of a few people, and our job is to not fall for it

*Cynthia Erivo voice* NO GOOD DEED GOES UNPUNISHED

2/ In 2001, Borsook said tech "libertarianism" reflected an adolescent mindset, with a craving for unchecked independence & resistance to constraint. She warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer. From "Cyberselfish," a book based on her 90s writing:

Like, I remember discussing the Tylenol poisoning scandal as a use case in good corporate PR in my speech comm classes 20 years ago in school, and theyre just...not gonna say anything here?

How is Tylenol handling all of this??

Our history wont be told accurately here but the world will know.

“Hey why don’t you invest billions of dollars in a factory here, and every four years we’ll flip a coin and maybe a posse of mouthbreathing thugs will throw hoods over your employees’ heads and fly them to a foreign prison”

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

Watching the cable news commentary on the bullet engravings is wild because none of these people seem to realize that the content of the engravings are indicative of extremely online meme brain rot

Like, I was a Mellophone player in field band this would have been fun as hell

As a former marching band kid, im like 85% like hell yeah and liken15% so jealous of these kids 😆😆

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

The evil that men do lives after them

Jesus christ I won the #hamilton lottery AND LESLIE ODOM JR IS BACK JESUS CHRIST

Please post exactly correctly or the people who declared the ninth crusade against a restaurant chain for changing its logo two weeks ago may act rashly

rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words

This is a Melissa Hortman appreciation account for the next 24 hours.

Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.

/3 We can also call out who has encouraged and normalized political violence and made it government policy. We can note the irony of it in many cases. But celebrating it — yelling “hooray” — is like celebrating going to war. People will die and it won’t be fun.

When a right-wing man murdered Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota, progressives asked MAGA to tone down the rhetoric to prevent more violence. Within hours of Kirk’s murder, motive still unknown, the right is demanding that the government wage a campaign of violence against their enemies.

Let us hope Charlie Kirk does not become our own Horst Wessel.

The Emperor has no clothes

Q: but what if a full Epstein investigation also takes down Bill Clinton????? A:

I think Bill Clinton should be in jail for the BJ fiasco, even though he didnt actually commit a crime. I was 11 when he was last elected, I have 0 loyalty or positive investment in the man

I don't know why I'm even going to bother, but no it wasn't. It was hardly even brought up in the Federalist papers. The people who created the United States were almost pathologically fixated on the Roman Republic and Enlightenment-era Liberalism.

Immediately adding this into my lexicon.

had a conversation with a prominent pundit recently who did not seem to realize that the departments of the executive branch are congressional creations, so not surprised at this

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

Republicans: we break government and then blame government for not working

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.”

over over and over "The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity"

Here is Joseph Weizenbaum on the “hubris so bombastically exhibited by the artificial intelligentsia” who believed, even back in 1976, that the human (and animal) mind can be adequately simulated by machines:

Everytime public health takes a hit, I think of this quote and grow more disgusted by the MAHA, anti-vax crowd. I cannot believe what people are throwing away.

There can’t be any gun restrictions because we have to protect against federal government tyranny, and if kids get shot we just have to live with it. Also the President can send troops to cities because the federal government can do whatever it wants. These two ideas are consistent and reasonable.

idk, I’ve traveled alone around the world including in “scary” places since I was a kid, and I really can find nothing but raw, cruel contempt in my heart for little baby 6’2 white man MAGAs who piddle like cockapoos at the mere idea of using public transportation

"Where's the trophy, he just comes running over to me!" 🎶🎵on repeatttttt

💐🌸 when all you wanted was to be wanted, wish you could go back and tell yourself what you know now. 💕💍

people who think this matters have ignored how Trumpism actually handles inconvenient stories. They simply pretend awful things done by their supporters weren't awful, weren't done, or weren't done by their supporters. you never hand the enemy points by condemning your own side.

Honestly, I’m beginning to wonder how much of the Mamdani Hate is due to his actual politics vs the fact that he seems to embrace a politics of joy, in a country that feels almost permanently mired in a politics of self-reinforcing despair and fearmongering.

Of course not! That only sounds reasonable to you if you set out with the requirement that you *must* find some, any, reasonable explanation for right-wing behavior. You must explain it in a way such that it sounds sane, like a reaction based on actual facts & experience. But why that requirement?

Another possible explanation: millions of dumb, selfish people were deliberately lied to by a billionaire-funded right-wing propaganda apparatus with the explicit goal of enraging them & hurting the Dem administration. Dumb, selfish people believed lies. Doesn't that ring a little more true?