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I think attitudes towards government employees are a bit like attitudes towards race and religion and sexuality. Plenty of people are unregenerate bigots in the abstract but have That One Black Friend who They Don’t Think of As Black. There are exceptions in the particular, unreconciled. /1

submitted 70 days ago • 32 comments

I was at the National Archives in November & took this photo of my favorite inscription, showing the relationship btwn studying our past & our pursuit of democratic institutions. The illegal GOP destruction of our public resources & institutions relies on the suppression/erasure of our shared past.

submitted 76 days ago • 2 comments

Good morning! What hot fresh hell awaits us today? Has Musk stolen all our dogs overnight? Does your toothbrush now have AI in it, and is suddenly racist? Has Trump thrown Santa Claus in an El Salvadoran prison? Why is everything sticky?? Tune in to the SERIES FINALE OF AMERICA to find out!

submitted 79 days ago • 51 comments

I don't know if this is literally true. But it helps to clarify some arguments that @mcopelov.bsky.social and I are pulling together about the political economy of crypto and state power. If tech billionaires are massively overleveraged on two products that nobody wants, only the state can save them

submitted 80 days ago • 15 comments

i watched this 1997 TV special on "what if the US became a personalist patriarchal dictatorship" and it's not good, but it is striking. i might write about it or better make a video about it this week.

submitted 81 days ago • 43 comments

I could try to explain part of the response and why I think this is wrong but people would just get mad and ratio it so I do not think I will

submitted 83 days ago • 134 comments

Take this advice now pls. Below is a taste of how reality should be conveyed by the press. It’s beyond brilliant; it activates your internal alarms. Sample below. bsky.app/profile/asha...

submitted 83 days ago • 4 comments

Here are the options on the table (which are not mutually exclusive): 1. House Dems bring articles of impeachment* 2. Senate Dems play constitutional hardball and obstruct everything 3. State AGs litigate (and prosecute) everything they can 4. Citizens march en mass

submitted 83 days ago • 4876 comments

In case it helps someone: The phrase “We don’t do / say that here” is immensely useful in managing people who feel emboldened to try to push boundaries and test behaviour norms in your spaces. It’s a bland statement of fact, doesn’t contain an accusation, and can be used by anyone including peers.

submitted 83 days ago • 27 comments

This administration is finding ways to upset me I didn't even know existed

submitted 84 days ago • 4 comments

I've watched this video maybe 20 times in the last day

submitted 86 days ago • 96 comments

It would be difficult for America’s enemies to execute a sabotage operation that compromises U.S. governance, security and prosperity more than this administration is doing of its own accord.

submitted 87 days ago • 2 comments

Truly the 🦅 represents us all

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment

This is the video this is it

submitted 89 days ago • 4 comments

submitted 89 days ago • 916 comments

Now that's a shot.

submitted 89 days ago • 3 comments

A 2-part series of interviews I conducted with Chris Squire of Yes is live on YouTube. We discussed Yes projects including Keys to Ascension, Union, 90125 & Fly From Here, XYZ with Jimmy Page, creative process & bass gear/techniques.  Pt. 1 youtu.be/6fqITcYdYoc?... Pt. 2 youtu.be/CyiyLHhAhN0?...

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

as we’re seeing the endpoint of the anti-DEI hysteria is just opening the door to rampant employment discrimination

submitted 92 days ago • 209 comments

Imagine spending your life being a second-generation NASA employee — she was running NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center before this week — and having it come to this. A lot of people are making a lot of decisions already this week that should stay with them for life.

submitted 92 days ago • 66 comments

Staff on an Australian cruise dressed up as snow cones…except…

submitted 93 days ago • 35 comments

I can excuse jingoistic nativism, but I draw the line at ruining steaks.

submitted 94 days ago • 17 comments

That’s such an “awkward gesture.”

submitted 94 days ago • 58 comments

Saw Melania's hat yesterday, and kept expecting Roy Thinnes to pop up.

submitted 94 days ago • 1 comment

Occurs to me that there’s a similarity between these politics grifters & fundamentalist apologetics: Their job isn’t REALLY to make an argument that holds up to reflection or scrutiny. It’s to deliver a performance of “erudite person who agrees with me” so you have permission not to think too hard.

submitted 99 days ago • 58 comments

Der lästige Kavalier (The Annoying Gentleman) — Berthold Woltze, 1874.

submitted 99 days ago • 1 comment

Trump Burger at his golf course in Palm Beach.

submitted 100 days ago • 749 comments

I'm not afraid of Trump. I'm afraid of all the people who refuse to do anything about him.

submitted 100 days ago • 6 comments

Power lines. Altadena in the wake of the #EatonFire

submitted 102 days ago • 474 comments

“We’re going to be the social network that lets you - encourages you - to say slurs”

submitted 105 days ago • 268 comments

Is this horse…Murderbot?? @marthawells.com

submitted 105 days ago • 2 comments

🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug! - "All the President's Billionaires" Fearless journalism in the age of Trump - Brought to you by the Inner Hive, including longtime member the Dread Pirate Joseph and new member Rob S. (bit.ly/theInnerHive) READ THE COMIC RIGHT HERE👇

submitted 106 days ago • 2 comments

At this rate it’s going to be an America pile-on.

submitted 106 days ago • 43 comments

So much of the trolling by Trumpists about Canada/Greenland/etc. just reflects their empty howling fury, unquenched by victory. They know they are held in contempt and they will keep trolling until somebody loves them.

submitted 107 days ago • 143 comments

Everyone must wear their underwear on the outside

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

Mad King phase

submitted 108 days ago • 5 comments

I feel like I'm losing my mind- guys, haven't we been over the fact that LLMs don't actually know anything? it doesn't have any knowledge about the X algo whatsoever, it's making shit up, and it would have said the same thing before Elon announced anything. Why are we treating this as real

submitted 109 days ago • 13 comments