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We’re human beings not human doings whose existence is justified by our utility to the fascist oligarchy. We can let them harness our collective energy, or we can turn it against them. Their system doesn’t work without us. Temporary comfort isn’t security.
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Friends don’t let friends participate in AI “art” trends without giving them at least a little shit. If your friend had spinach in their teeth you’d tell them. This is the spinach-in-teeth of art. Also? AI art is BAD for the environment, in terms of energy use, water use, and other resources!!

In the midst of shittiness, I’m grateful for the comedians. #MomSky

🚨 🚨 🚨 The science is in on Head Start. It improves cognitive and social-emotional skills, and promotes school readiness. Not to mention working parents need some kind of preschool as a tool in their child care toolkit. What’s “great” about dismantling a program that’s a proven success? #MomSky 🚌

Eighty years ago, my grandmother and mom were liberated by the US Army from a Nazi concentration camp. I remain grateful to those who served. We need to tell their stories, including those often forgotten Black, Latino, Asian American and Native American soldiers. www.axios.com/2025/04/06/h...

“Greenland is for Greenlanders, not for anybody else,” says Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen, responding to President Trump's remarks that Greenland should be part of the United States. https://cbsn.ws/44mA1um

A few years back I had a chance to contribute a few words for the opening pages of Gene Krantz’s new book Tough and Competent. Seeing Apollo 13 at 11 years old was a hugely formative moment in my life and made me fall deeply in love with space. This was both humbling and mindblowing.

Has it occurred to anyone that Trump‘s been watching too much Cobra Kai and that’s influenced his approach to tariffs?

🧵I get a lot of questions about what will happen to Social Security payments. The way I see it, there are 3 factors that will impact payments, all of which will feed off each other to exponentially increase the likelihood that SSA will miss payments: backlogs, error, and system failure.