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If they actually want to get thru the next two years, there’s not really another choice

100% Gotta set the terms of the conversation rather than always responding to theirs

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

jfc

West Bank…

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did you know the IRS hasn't actually measured tax evasion in over a decade? due to lack of budget and workforce, the IRS is incapable of performing the random audits necessary to estimate tax evasion they've been forced to reuse the same numbers from 2016

"The rejection rate is at about 3% statewide, and two or three times as high as in some larger counties. “Potentially thousands of votes could be spoiled by this new guidance... This is a huge deal for North Carolina.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/u...

Ugh. Bad for all the reasons. But Spiegelman, of all people?!?! So disappointing

🧵🧵🧵 10 ways the planet’s richest person, Elon Musk, has been busy making the world worse. A thread. 1. Buying crooked politicians like Ken Paxton.

Also, studies show that when we improve a space or system for the disabled, the benefits actually spread to everyone. You’re not just helping yourself later; you’re helping yourself right now.

When the Dems return to power. they must say no to impunity.We need a moral and legalreckoning.

And so trying to separate the Affordability Agenda from the Accountability Agenda is dumb. Our economy is being wrecked by the Unitary Executive.

Something I wish more people would realize.

This is literally the end of the rule of law. If a President can pardon people committing crimes on his behalf - and the Supreme Court says he himself can't be prosecuted for crimes committed as part of his job - then the government becomes a lawless entity able to violate our rights without limit.

This is solid gold, y'all. "A.i." in education is privatized, predatory bullshit pushed by people who don't actually support public education. Thank you @naomiaklein.bsky.social and Arundhati Roy! www.instagram.com/reel/De4IE6H...

Toby has been so forceful in making this important point: look at what's happened to trans rights in the UK, and you see the end result of where moral compromise in the US will inevitably lead:

“We must finally confront and uproot the core of the U.S.’s anti-immigrant underbelly, which is largely reflected in the racially motivated notion of criminalization.” - Laura Hernandez in @truthout.org truthout.org/articles/cli...

the notion that there was an epidemic of people getting fired for honest pronoun mistakes is so divorced from reality it's difficult to know where to start with it

Really? There's nothing remotely "nasty" about El-Sayed's campaign, which offers a positive, upbeat, inclusive message. The nastiness resides entirely within the campaign of Mike Rogers. Indeed, "nastiness" isn't the word—it's brutal racism.

This feels right

You can skip the gender metaphysics debate entirely if you say, "I don't care about that. I care about the material consequences trans people experience for living the way they want to," and then hammer the point home that no amount of gender metaphysics can ever justify transfemicide.

I do think that a major failure point of a lot of mainstream trans activism is the focus on responding to attacks on trans people in the same arena that those attacks are being made, i.e., indulging the notion that this is a philosophical debate over gender metaphysics and trying to win that one.

there's a kind of vague received wisdom that counterculture is associated with the left, but a whole lot of it is just conspiratorial, anti-participatory, low-trust, and anti-institutional, and that applies especially to 60s through 90s counterculture whose descendants are the green party and maha

A new data analysis shows that delays resulting from the U.S. Postal Service’s cost-cutting measures have endangered the validity of ballots cast in rural areas across the country. The rates of primary ballots rejected for arriving late has doubled or tripled in some areas compared to 2022.

I said that this was a Russian trope at the time in testimony to Congress and am glad to see this excellent documentation of Russia’s use of Vance’s vocal chords.

I’m telling you that the extreme exposure to scams is a big part of the reason so many people are negative about our economic future.

In the past, the rich used to pay higher taxes. Now, the government pays the rich interest on a swelling debt, caused largely by lower taxes on the rich. It's a big switcheroo that we need to talk about if we're going to talk about the national debt.

In the wake of a bill that restricts access to bathrooms and invalidates state IDs, Kansans are organizing to support their trans friends.

In 2022, even before ChatGPT was publicly available, Jane Rosenzweig argued that the danger of AI writing was that we would “lose our commitment to the idea that we ought to believe what we say and write.” @janerosenzweig.bsky.social

"Live by the sword, die by the sword," says man who gleefully wielded a chainsaw on stage.

I'm out here sweating in the theory mines, discussing gender and race and tech, and these chucklefucks just tweet it out.

Glad to see CNN reporting on this. @jimacosta.bsky.social and I raised concerns about DHS potentially using a military-grade “heat ray.” After 20+ years in national security, I find this deeply troubling. A weapon designed to inflict intense pain. Against civilians? Why does DHS need this?

NEW DATA! We documented 902 cases where people were charged with crimes related to their pregnancy, pregnancy loss, or birth in the three years after Roe v. Wade was overturned. Read the update: www.pregnancyjusticeus.org/wp-content/u...

“Universities exist precisely because specialized knowledge matters. The further decisions move from those with the expertise, the more educational quality suffers, and the more students bear the consequences.”

About 7 years ago I went on a campaign to convince people that the CIO role was about to become the most powerful de facto academic officer at the university; should be subsumed to faculty governance. The LMS was their opening gambit, then brand cohesion & centralized syllabus databases. Now AI.

Juiceless. Still dereanged and dangerously desperate. But absolutely juiceless.

largest GOP donor in the universe btw

I never would've expected Americans to get so accustomed to fascist madness. Every day there are 5 new outrages that make me think I must be having a nightmare. Yet some people around me act as if it's just normal life. Frankly, a little more healthy panic would reassure me.

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