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Writer, literary critic, and game developer in the United States. Avowed anti-fascist. DM me at your own risk.
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Enjoy the tariffs. Enjoy the fake tough talk from your cosplay dictator. Enjoy the economic collapse. You broke it, MAGA. Now choke on it.

What’s the statute of limitations on market manipulation and insider trading? Asking for 75 million friends!

My law firm is currently litigating 49 voting and election cases in 21 states. States with the most cases: AZ, GA, NC, NV, FL, LA, PA. I expect new cases will be filed this week.

0. Vought, Vance, Rufo, and those attacking academia see scientists as bureaucrats—in the most pejorative sense of the term—who they can "put into trauma" and drive to quit. They don't understand that science is not just a job. It's a vocation, literally, in the original sense of *a calling*.

We stand by our reporting.

I once saw a guy get fired at a pizza place I worked at for giving a customer 8 breadsticks instead of 6, and it actually fucked up his life pretty badly. And yet these guys can just light enormous piles of money on fire and they’re still the most powerful and influential people on the planet 🥴

The danger of people using and accepting chatGPT style AI this whole time is that it has never been effective, never been ethical, and now it’s going to be used by the government to harm people at scale

“what would you have done?” is no longer a hypothetical thought exercise. if you’re not doing anything, there’s your answer.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is one batshit crazy SOB.

Just going to break up the timeline with some actual good news. Fear not, normal service will be resumed in 3…..2…..1….

Hours ago, @politico.com revealed that DOGE is working with DHS on automating mass deportation efforts — likely explaining why many US citizens, green card holders, and even a Canadian (in Canada) got threatening emails last night terminating “your parole” and telling them to leave the US in 7 days.

In russia, neighbors, co-workers, & friends are encouraged to report on each other for anti-government behavior, leading to false claims. Now our state department is doing the same thing - ordering employees to report “coworkers displaying ‘anti-Christian bias.’” 🤮 www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

Someone set up a google doc list of all the academics that have been snatched by ICE. 11, so far, in just the past month. That's over 2 a week. Terrifying to think what this list will be like after 3 months, 4, 6.

Iranian mechanical engineering PhD student at The University of Alabama. Valid visa. No crimes. No protests. No op-eds. They just snatched him at his home at 5 am. We used to condemn Iran for doing this.

If the system actually worked, Marjorie Taylor Greene wouldn’t have a seat in Congress — she’d have a bunk in federal prison.

The GOP doesn’t want secure elections. They want silent voters and rigged outcomes.

What the fuck is going on in this country? No. Don't answer that.

Federal Funding for Libraries and Museums GONE www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

The Academy was founded by John Adams during the American Revolution. Every institute should be fighting back. Millions of Americans stood at the barrel of a gun to help protect what Trump is destroying now.

But trans people in the bathroom are the problem.... This serial rapist wants rape and sexual assault to be easier.

In case you haven't been paying attention for the past two decades and some, Erik Prince is a threat to liberal democracy and human rights on a global scale.

It’s liberty or death-time and everyone seems oblivious to the actual stakes required to wrest it away from a traitorous demagogue. Stop acting like you’re going to get away scot-free, unblemished and unharmed, from a totalitarian dictator and his murderous lackeys who all want to fucking kill you.

Palantir has been using social media information to help the Israeli military target drone strikes at Palestinian journalists. Over 150 Palestinian journalists have been killed in Gaza. A company willing to enable war crimes is now helping DOGE build a mega API with IRS data.

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This story is hardly unique. The capriciousness and malevolence of these ICE and Border Patrol agents underscores the impunity with which they are acting. DHS is a horrible agency that has grown into a monster. And they are upending peoples' lives on a whim. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...