What a lovely afternoon I just spent sorting hundreds of thousands of facts! I'm always surprised by how joyless AI boosters are. Historical research is FUN precisely because it is not a data retrieval exercise. Why outsource something rewarding and pleasurable to a machine?

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2d ago

"History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts" I remain astounded by how loud and wrong people are about what history actually is.

"Nobody knows" can always be directly substituted for "I did not know."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5h ago

Trump: "Nobody knows that 'dumb' doesn't have a B" (Dear reader, it has a B)

“Write on my gravestone: ‘Infidel, Traitor’—infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.” ~Wendell Phillips. Image: Public domain.

Jesus: Love thy neighbor Christofascists: Only my WHITE neighbor, obviously Jesus: No, all of them CF: Hahaha we get it. If they’re deported, they’re not my neighbor, right? Jesus: What??? No. I mean— CF: Send them back!!! Jesus: Guys. CF: USA! USA! Jesus: Oh man. Guess I better call my crew 🤦🏽‍♂️

Paul Rosenberg@paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 7h ago

3/4) In Kansas, Adam Hamilton, founding pastor of the largest United Methodist Church in America, won the Democratic US Senate nomination, reflecting two converging dynamics. 3/5

FYI Tom: Climate change is real & Europe is burning up already.

Tom Nichols@radiofreetom.bsky.social · yesterday

The war in Iran has shown that Trump’s inability to perceive reality has become truly dangerous. Iran is a disaster, but Trump’s irrationality could create other, even more perilous situations. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Look I feel like the torment nexus didn't even

Django Wexler@djangowexler.bsky.social · 7h ago

Somehow things that would have been a background gag in a Verhoeven movie are now just real

Canada’s promises to capture carbon span almost 20 years, with little to show for it. Great piece from @thenarwhal.ca thenarwhal.ca/canada-carbo...

For 20 years, Canada’s leaders have promised a carbon capture fix | The Narwhal

It’s expensive and unproven at scale. From Stephen Harper to Mark Carney, Canadian politicians have made promises on carbon capture — yet to be delivered

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SCHISM! SCHISM! SCHISM!

David Gilbert@davidgilbert.bsky.social · 11h ago

NEW A group of anti-Trump MAGA figures are prepping to run a third-party candidate for president in 2028. The name at the top of their list: Tucker Carlson www.wired.com/story/maga-i...

this name shit would be the perfect time for obama and/or mamdani to do a hit for el-sayed. "we've heard a lot of people attacking dr el-sayed over his name. well, for eight years they called me PRESIDENT hussein obama. and i'm MAYOR mamdani. so maybe its time for SENATOR el-sayed."

Limestone dust is used to cover up coal faces to reduce the risk of explosions. But limestone is rarely pure calcite. It contains shells and sand that incorporate silica. So when it's ground to powder, you get a lung-irritating particle actually more damaging than coal dust. …

Black lung rates in Appalachia are high as the 1970s, with thousands of miners sick

Rates are now the highest they've been in nearly 50 years among veteran coal miners. Mining experts blame toxic silica dust, now more common in mines.

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Yes, folks, AI is the real #GreatReplacement. Funny how that works.

Not (A.) I.@aerialeverything.cryptoanarchy.network · 5h ago

Ok everybody let’s work together to make things more efficient for AI agents that are going to make everything more efficient for us. Never mind the spine tingling you might feel when you land on the word “replacement."

VDARE?!?!? We are seriously considering VDARE authors for Senate confirmation???

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9h ago

SCHIFF: You told my staff you stood by your article in white nationalist website VDARE where you wrote, 'Muslim immigrants & their kids seem prone to terrorism' C: I wrote that article in support of Trump's travel ban S: Do you stand by it? C: I stand by that article S: That's all I need to know

He has been saying this for over two years and NOT A SINGLE CORPORATE JOURNALIST IN AMERICA has gotten him to explain what it means Which makes me wonder how they walk the streets of D.C. looking at anything but their own shoes in disgrace

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5h ago

Trump on the Biden years: "We had transgender for everybody"

It appears that people do not enjoy living under fascism. Fascism is for losers.

Paul Rosenberg@paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 7h ago

I see 4 major developments manifest in yesterday's elections: 1) El-Sayed's victory, along with multiple downballot victories shows a significant expansion of DSA/Sanders/AOC-aligned power in the heartland, where we've been told it just couldn't reach. 1/5

Nothing more frightening than a system that promotes dignified lives for regular folks

dennyflash@kdennis21.bsky.social · 6h ago

Never forget how hysterical Hannity was whenever AOC first hit the scene

Economists with historical awareness make you aware that economists without it can be dangerous to your health!

Justin Wolfers@justinwolfers.bsky.social · 5h ago

Asking a bootmaker in 1851 what AI-era jobs would exist in 2040 would have been impossible. Asking today's workers to do the equivalent isn't much easier.⁣ ⁣ https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/what-victorian-bootmakers-can-teach

🎯There's #bothsides everything & then there's this:

andy™@andylevy.net · 6h ago

media when maga wins an election: we must travel the country and speak to these voters and extend empathy to them and give credence to their bigotry and false beliefs media when the left wins an election: is this the end of the american experiment

Very pleased to be part of The Revealer’s summer issue, alongside a really interesting collection of work on religion, politics, culture, and belief.

The Revealer@therevealer.bsky.social · 13h ago

Our Summer issue is here! With articles on conspiracy theories & religion, LGBTQ cruises & religion, clergy abuse, queer religious horror, James Talarico & the Christian Left from @noellecook.com, @miguelpetrosky.bsky.social, @eocieslik.bsky.social, @brianclites.bsky.social & more! therevealer.org

This view of things is supported by a new analysis from @leahstokes.bsky.social. Where IRA moved fast enough to put benefits on the ground, it *did* shift things, including vote shares! It measurably improved Harris's vote totals in those areas. Just not enough for her to win!

Bidenomics Was More Successful Than People Think

Conventional wisdom holds that Joe Biden’s bet on climate investment was a bust. The data suggest otherwise.

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🎯🧵"Where IRA moved fast enough to put benefits on the ground, it *did* shift things, including vote shares! It measurably improved Harris's vote totals in those areas. Just not enough for her to win!"

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 7h ago

🧵 One of the most annoying narratives after the 2024 election was: "by funneling investment to left-behind red areas, IRA was supposed to persuade them to vote blue; those areas didn't vote blue, therefore the IRA & the political strategy behind it are failures." Many variations of this around.

The politics of the past have been stalemated for many election cycles as common consensus has evaporated. This state of affairs can’t continue indefinitely.

Paul Rosenberg@paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 7h ago

4) He's a long-shot, but puts a supposedly safe rural Red state Senate seat at least possibly in play. Together, all 4 of these developments signal a profound shift away from the politics of the recent past—not just Trump and MAGA, but the neoliberal order that preceded and helped produce him. 5/5

This was seriously long overdue. Glad to see it happening.

Paul Rosenberg@paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 7h ago

3) He's the latest in a wave of similar candidates—pastors and seminarians—whose emergence challenges conservative Christians’ efforts to claim they alone speak for all of Christianity. 4/5

Fair enough, but the non-partisan polls of the races also did very poorly: - Emerson: El-Sayed +16 - Tavern: AES +10 - Glengariff: Stevens +7 - Mitchell: AES +14 Looks less like partisan pollsters rigging their data and more like a combination of late movement and biased samples across the board

Norm Ornstein@normornstein.bsky.social · 24h ago

Whoever ends up winning the Democratic nomination for Senate in Michigan, I hope with little expectation that those who took seriously polls showing a rout for El-Sayed will think twice about relying on questionable and/or partisan polls.

Every accusation, yadda, yadda, yadda...

Jay@llama615.bsky.social · 7h ago

communists use government money to buy 10% of Intel and take over other private businesses so Trump literally meets the definition of Communist

And it wasn't just El-Sayed. His mobilzation surely helped with a number of key downballot victories, which in turn will help him in the general election. Michigan is cooking!

Jen Bendery@jbendery.bsky.social · 6h ago

Sen. Bernie Sanders calls Abdul El-Sayed's win "one of most extraordinary victories in modern American political history." "He withstood $70M of outside funding. He was outspent 9-to-1," he says. Plus establishment Dems in MI and DC opposed him. "Never heard" of a major candidate overcoming that.

Michigan magic

Jen Bendery@jbendery.bsky.social · 6h ago

Sen. Bernie Sanders calls Abdul El-Sayed's win "one of most extraordinary victories in modern American political history." "He withstood $70M of outside funding. He was outspent 9-to-1," he says. Plus establishment Dems in MI and DC opposed him. "Never heard" of a major candidate overcoming that.

so yeah i think “this land was made for you and me” is a better vibe and tact than “beloved holidays are problematic” but i guess time will tell!

Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 8h ago

Mike Rogers wants us divided. But there is so much more that unites us than sets us apart. The power is ours. This land was made for you and me.

The legacy of "Revolver" as The Beatles' creative turning point just never gets old.

At 60, The Beatles' "Revolver" is still unfolding its secrets

The legacy of "Revolver" as The Beatles' creative turning point just never gets old.

salon.com