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Educator, poet, punk, feminist; author of Songs Are Like Tattoos, co-editor of Can I Teach That; anti-white-supremacy; pro-climate action, -reproductive justice, and -preserving democracy; 1/3 of Motes; private citizen, She/her, opinions my own
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Editor creates an AI executive who is "an expert at building and scaling digital media companies." Decides within minutes that the AI is "one of the most knowledgeable and energetic colleagues" he's ever had. Asks the AI to create a headshot of itself. It does. He sexually harasses it immediately.

NEW: Here is Harvard's lawsuit against the Trump administration, filed today in federal court in Massachusetts (Docket No. 1:25-cv-11048): storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Latest podcast is out: Get in everyone, we are going to Resistance Summer School! Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101. Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

This should be the headline tomorrow @nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com @latimes.com @inquirer.com @theguardian.com

I am being told that wearing an AR-15 rifle lapel pin is indicative of Tren de Aragua membership.

There's only one command stated twice in the U.S. Constitution: no one shall be "deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law." (5th & 14th Amendments) And here is the U.S. President now openly saying "we cannot give everyone a trial." Time to invoke another amendment...

Nailed it. 🎯🎯🎯

“Made in America” American-owned businesses that manufacture here are still getting crushed because packaging and supplies come from China. If their shipment sits at the port, they’re bleeding storage fees they can’t afford. Trump is pricing small businesses out of existence.

*Of course* advance information on US combat operations is classified. Pretending otherwise is an insult to our troops, who all know this. The Secretary is unfit to lead.

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Raskin: The president derives his powers only either from the Constitution explicitly or from an act of Congress and Congress certainly has never given the president the power to relocate prisoners to foreign countries and there's nothing in the constitution that remotely vests that power…

“The Pentagon is in ‘total chaos’ and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is unlikely to remain in his role, according to its former top spokesperson, who painted a scene of dysfunction, backstabbing and continuous missteps at the highest levels of the department.”

When I say he’s an incorrigible yapper, I mean that, in 2019, Pete Hegseth voluntarily admitted on-air that he hadn’t washed his hands in a decade.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u... A stunning security failure by the Sec Def. His personal almost assuredly targeted by foreign intelligence. His wife not cleared for attack plans. He places US Navy pilots at risk.

“Unlike the chat in which The Atlantic was mistakenly included, the newly revealed one was created by Mr. Hegseth. It included his wife and about a dozen other people from his personal and professional inner circle…”

Chris Krebs is America’s next profile in courage. The entire nation should support this honorable and courageous fellow citizen.

Tubi is really getting aggressive with the ad breaks where Pete Hegseth tells you classified information

I'm thrilled to have my poem "Prayer to Somus" in the most recent issue of Notre Dame Review. It's a particular honor to be published in the same issue as Dorothea Lasky, whose poems in the issue are striking and complexly evocative.

Don't think you have to hand it to him, but it's notable that just weeks after a full-court press effort to convince everyone libs had lost the culture and that being anti-woke and pro-Trump were going to be cool, we're hearing Joe Rogan talking like a grade school civics teacher about due process.

From the Book of MAGA: For I was hungry, and you closed my food bank and eliminated food safety inspections; I was thirsty, and you cut clean water regulations; I was a stranger, and you arrested me with zero due process, flew me to El Salvador, and imprisoned me indefinitely.

Gavin Newsom, a schmuck who has spent every waking moment the last 10 years of his life thinking about political optics, getting dogwalked by a guy half the country didn't even know existed like 5 days ago

“The major questions doctrine, a potent brand of judge-made law that coalesced in Supreme Court rulings in recent years, requires the government to point to a ‘clear congressional authorization’ when it makes decisions of great ‘economic and political significance.’” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/o...

The FSU gunman was known to “go on diatribes about how he hated the feminist movement, members of the LGBTQ+ community, people of color and immigrants.” www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Thanks to my friend Harriet for pointing out that the women went to Christ's tomb and saw he was not there, the angels showed up to describe what happened, & the women then told the apostles, who dismissed them. A Biblical account of women not being believed.

Many things have contributed to this terrible moment but perhaps chief among them is the historic cowardice of Thune, Johnson, and other Congressional Rs who have the power to stop the madness and refuse to use it on behalf of the American people. It is a Great Betrayal. bsky.app/profile/mona...

NYT actually published this sentence, which asks us to take baseless moral panic bullshit seriously as a reasonable position. Supporters of the Holocaust considered Jews to be subhuman saboteurs of German society, too. So fucking what??

All kinds of woke. And wonderful.

Part of resisting: Learning how to stop waiting for permission to do what needs to be done.

The Michigan Supreme Court ruled this month, “The impulsivity of the late-adolescent brain is transient and capable of change, making imposition of mandatory [life without parole] on this class of individuals particularly cruel.”

Again: Erdogan did it. Putin Did it. Orban did it. Using the tax system to go after political rivals is authoritarianism 101.