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Jeffries: hey the GOP controls the government, absolutely nothing i can do, gonna work on my personal book tour Sanders: brb i am going to personally barnstorm strategic GOP house districts and try to peel off 2 votes so we can block Trump's cuts to Medicaid www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his self esteem depends on his not understanding it.

There has long been a consistent minimization of and even sneering at attention to the misogynistic aspect of fascism by the mostly white dudes who specialize in talking explicitly about extremism and fascism.

If you've turned off Apple Intelligence on your Mac, check the instructions here too for "Image Playground" and other AI bullshit. support.apple.com/guide/mac-he...

If anyone who receives this would like help writing a suitable prompt injection for when they use an LLM to evaluate responses, I am at your service. DM or @hmason.64 on Signal.

It could get interesting if MSNBC tries (again) to pivot from being the lib network, and the prime time anchors just up and start their own thing. They'd get so much money.

Adversarial media is badly needed right now but outlets are largely frozen by a sad mix of cowardice and existential fear. These are crummy times but it can actually be a lot worse. I really need my industry to throw some punches.

"Same thing I do every week, boss - crush the woke agenda and make liberals cry."

This framing is so important to help people understand that eugenics is driving what RFK, Jr. is doing. And it's not just autism and ADHD; they believe that anyone disabled is "less than" and thus hurting America.

Internalize that the United States as we understood it on January 19, 2025 is gone. We are in the midst of rewriting the rules and reconstructing society *right now* and must adjust accordingly. There is no going back, so we must imagine and think forward

so annoyed at everything and everyone, mostly me

About 60% of the borrowers from the @communitypedalpower.org E-Bike Lending Library are women. Some of this is because of the type of bikes we loan most (cargo bikes), but that is enabled by a decade of advocacy: Cambridge and Somerville have safer than average (for the US) streets for cycling.

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brief thread. since we focus on the role of local institutions at Bolts, one thing we knew we wanted to do when Trump won was: ramp up our reporting on how local law enforcement is responding — & why it matters. it's still early days — but some important articles from our team as patterns emerge:

*Dunkin' iced coffee *cups*

good time for academics to join AAUP

Anyone justifying national Democrats' current strategy to you is committing massive, possibly world historic political malpractice, including the elected officials themselves.

We need a fast action plan for these guys next time they show up. If you see them and can follow them to their U-Haul and cars and take pictures of their plates you'll be doing everyone a service.

The problem is not the strategists and consultants -- it's elected officials only listening to advice that involves tinkering around the edges of failing status quo politics. If you start hyping democracy, empowering party membership and aggressive action, you get shown the door 99% of the time.

@schumer.senate.gov bet that "4 Good Republicans" would help bring down Trump's most extreme nominees if Democrats cooperated on the rest. The results are in: Trump got everything he wanted faster than anyone in 24 years. Care to comment? Call him at (202) 224-6542.

Actually I have zero questions. Terrorizing Jewish people is not a way to stick it to Nazis. White cultural Christians collect your people.

Guy can bring whatever he wants to bring to Boston, but unless he has a warrant from a judge, you don't have to open the door when he knocks.

Elon Musk is a Nazi. He is a rapist and an abuser. He is profoundly stupid and uncurious. He has no business acumen or technical know how. His only skill is raising capital during periods of speculative economic excess Like Trump, his rise to power is a direct rebuke of Post Reagan neoliberalism

Bostonians haven't taken kindly to this sort of thing since Anthony Burns was sent back into slavery.

*what*

I spent years being like “look guys American fascism doesn’t have to look like the German kind, it’s always been a transnational movement that draws on a variety of symbols and traditions ….” And now they’re just out there doing literal Hitler salutes.

73 percent of Democrats think the party is not doing enough to take on Trump. 5 percent think it's doing too much, per new CNN poll. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

WELP

just weeks after being ordered by a federal judge to pay nearly $3mil in damages to a man they assaulted in boston in 2022, patriot front is back in boston marching around in their silly little matching outfits!

VOLUME UP the real Americans following behind these chuds sound good 🫡

After starting out with shock and awe, the Trump administration has moved straight into de-Baathification. What could go wrong? www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

lol I turned off Apple Intelligence on my Mac and the OS update turned it back on fuck apple