This is the most loser-coded image imaginable, big "villains in an '80s breakdancing movie" energy

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9h ago

JD Vance: "We don't want the next administration, whoever -- god forbid you're gonna have President El-Sayed in three years ... "

“While el-Sayed’s candidacy might carry a bit more downside risk than Stevens, he also runs with a lot of upside risk, too. He’s benchmarked a 7-percent margin of victory for himself, predicting that he’d beat Republican Mike Rogers by slightly more than the state’s current generic-ballot margin.”

Brian Beutler@brianbeutler.bsky.social · 10h ago

Twenty-seven thoughts on the Michigan race, and the unofficial end of a brutal primary season. www.offmessage.net/p/27-thought...

Zirin on Zinn.

Truthout@truthout.org · 2d ago

A new book explores the remarkable life of the late historian, teacher and activist Howard Zinn. He’s best known for writing A People’s History of the United States. For Zinn, says Zirin, “being an academic was always secondary to being in the streets and making history, not just studying history.”

The “get politics out of sports” crowd is sure having a normal one

Holy shit, y’all… this is real… 🤡 😂😂 Rogers’ post: www.facebook.com/reel/1045105...

"Our time will come, and when it does: no amnesty." Great, important piece from @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/tru...

Truth Without Reconciliation

Why did Brazil’s democratic institutions hold firm while those in the United States so quickly wilted?

bostonreview.net

“AI is the asbestos we're shoveling into the walls of our technological society…. Our descendants will spend *generations* digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage.”

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 4d ago

As ever, the most important fact about a given technology isn't "what it does," but "who it does it *for*" and "who it does it *to*." 77/

But the evidence for this "changing everything" thesis is thin on the ground. Despite a global mania that has reduced the real, pressing need for digital sovereignty to the imaginary need to create "sovereign AI," no one can really articulate the case for "sovereign AI." 3/

That was fast. Google sent me a statement saying it is now “rolling back“ this AI feature after our demonstration and others from OSINT researchers www.404media.co/google-earth...

I used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:

How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran

The question is: what on earth is Google doing?

digitaldigging.org

Senator Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social

This is the new climate obstruction. It doesn’t loudly deny climate change. It simply ignores it, while convincing people that every solution is more corrupt, dangerous, and destructive than the fossil fuels it would replace.

The influencer teaching millions to fear solar

Alexandra Fasulo says she’s protecting farms and wildlife. Her campaign is becoming a blueprint for the fossil fuel right.

heated.world

“Even before Children’s Health Defense existed, the anti-vaccine movement had vehemently defended parents accused of killing their children, sometimes aided in their efforts by shaky science or faults with a murder case.”

Vincent Zimmerman@zimmermanv66.bsky.social · last wk.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The resistance isn’t a moment, it’s millions of everyday people refusing to stay silent.

Actually, I said progressive Democrats, too. Until I hear someone talking about 92% tax brackets, we're nowhere near the 1956 Republicans.

Brad Lander, who calls himself a liberal Zionist, isn’t losing his head over this. It’s the usual suspects: the Trumpers, Greenblatt, the American Netanyahu allies

From Mitch’s hometown paper: “McConnell is every bit the detestable figure that Nixon was. But…McConnell never paid for his sins that have damaged our nation’s trust in government, destroyed [our] meaningful dialogue… winning is the only thing that matters.” www.courier-journal.com/story/opinio...

Gerth: My too-early 'tribute' to Mitch McConnell | Opinion

The reaction to Sen. Lindsey Graham's death tells us we shouldn't speak ill of the dead. So I'll tell you what I think about Sen. Mitch McConnell now.

courier-journal.com

Just as people stay on FB because they love their friends more than they hate Zuck, the nations of the world let the US control their systems because they feared the cost and difficulty of building new systems more than they resented letting the US dictate and tax their politics and economies. 7/

brilliant

McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net · 2w ago

"Honestly, he was more upset about the whole thing than I was. I’d had plenty of friends get abortions, and I told him as much, to which he replied by mansplaining the procedure to me. Oh, okay, thank you for informing me about my own goddamn body."

RIP

New York Amsterdam News@nyamnews.bsky.social · 2w ago

Denise Oliver-Velez, the first woman elected to the Young Lords' Central Committee and a Black Panther Party member, has died at 78. She later spent nearly two decades as a contributing editor at Daily Kos. #DeniseOliverVelez #YoungLords #BlackPantherParty

"People are getting disappeared. People are losing their lives. This is not something to stay quiet about, even as one of the intended targets."

How can higher education better withstand political attacks? In a new essay, @bakerdphd.bsky.social argues that power must be shifted away from governing boards and governments, and toward faculty, staff, students, and accreditors.

Reducing the Concentration of Power

knightcolumbia.org

england and france in the third place match… we call that the 20th century

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

“Remember, the heroic symbols that Ronald Reagan deployed so effectively were swiped from liberalism’s salad days in the Thirties and Forties. Surely the trick can be played the other way around.”

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3w ago

Thomas Frank: “As Trump has aged, the precise object of his politicized nostalgia has receded ever further into the historical distance.” harpers.org/archive/2026...

If Jared Kushner paid €110m to buy an island in Albania that has no fresh water from a guy who did not own it, it would help explain why his negotiations with Iran on behalf of the US have not been entirely successful

Shibley Telhami@stelhami.bsky.social · 4w ago

Businessman who sold land for Kushner resort in Albania suspected of faking the deeds www.reuters.com/world/europe...

our obsession with white male redemption arcs is going to kill us all.

Finland President Alexander Stubb: "Trump, don't ask us anymore — you go into Venezuela & Iran, you don't ask. You make claims on Greenland, you don't ask. You think you can run the show in the Middle East, like Iran? Not without us You will lose. Every time."

Area Writer Cannot Read the Room

may it be mcconnell's legacy that reconstruction includes a whole raft of metarules: when in congress, show up to your job when there is a nominee, there must be a vote when a bill passes, it must in fact be advanced for either signature or veto when congress allocates $ it must be spent

Jill Weinberger@jillybobww.bsky.social · last mo.

Imagine if there were some kind of rule that if you're in Congress, you need to show up for work & be reachable when you're not at work, and if you're not, you need to explain why and where you are and when you'll be back. You know, kind of like a real job.