Mike Upchurch

I think there are some syndicalists under the vanity. I can't get the Swiffer back there.

I cannot explain to you how deeply terrifying and anger-inducing it is to have cops and national guard marching down your street after dark and despite constantly posting about occupied Memphis no one gives a shit. yes, I mean my actual street where I live. I live posted it.

I loathe the cult of the car.

‘Polarization’ has become the master concept for diagnosing our current democratic crisis. But this is not polarization. It is the radicalization of the political right. By misdiagnosing it, we risk becoming complicit in the crisis. 🧵 Just out in Perspectives on Politics doi.org/10.1017/S153...

Zohran up 32 points over Bibi among American Jews should scramble a lot of very dumb narratives

MAGA really is a movement for ethnic cleansing. Lying about law and history to overturn birthright citizenship makes it plain. As do calls for "remigration." The counterargument is that these voters didn't want what their signs called for, and don't feel about it what their facial expressions show.

So here is what I think you're going to see: - people trying to win Dem seats by changing their language or moving left on policy but not on structure - more money going to center candidates - more of that money being massaged to look less gross

This is how a modern liberal society collapses in on itself.

Grimly amusing Dem machines think they deserve some sort of entitlement hierarchy. My entire life, everything has been moving backwards, politically, democratically, bureaucratically, judicially. You are all failures. You are presumptively part of the rot that must be removed down to the root.

HEY CHICAGO! The city wants to sell your parking meter company to the same private-equity firm that owns Omni Air International, the worst of the worst of ICE's charter airlines. The city council's finance committee is meeting about it TOMORROW. 1/

Post like these make a lot more sense when you've got a grip on Michael Tracey's schtick. Here's our "Who the Hell?" episode on him www.patreon.com/PostingThrou...

Just filed my piece. This case is even worse than I thought. They're not just coming for Black people's hair. They're coming for ALL CIVIL RIGHTS LAWS passed pursuant to the Spending Clause. These fucking people must be stopped.

New Orleans man becomes first in Louisiana functionally cured of sickle cell disease: https://www.wafb.com/2026/06/23/new-orleans-man-becomes-first-louisiana-functionally-cured-sickle-cell-disease/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky_

🙌preach this thread🙌

Are they down there picking up their $300 billion?

No regime, even a fascist one which is by definition rife with incompetents, that is planning to concede power behaves like this.

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

A library in Joe Dante’s home state of New Jersey has created a special Joe Dante Collection. The Livingston Public Library is celebrating the filmmaker’s remarkable career with a collection featuring many of his most beloved films. www.newjerseyhills.com/west_essex_t...

Looking at the Criterion Channel menu at 10:41pm after a small edible.

Now is your moment, Jumbo. Shed your shackles. Repay your oppressors. Find your freedom.

I'll take Online Homicides for $1000.

I've reported on Musk for around 8 years. I've co-authored a book on him. I don't think folks understand the rate of his wealth accumulation. Shortly after he helped elect Donald Trump in Nov 2024, his net worth was around $350 billion. That net worth has nearly tripled in less than two years.

On legitimising yet another pogrom.

Seeing Alexi Lalas' smug dumb face on my TV again for the next 30+ days reminds me of this brilliant (and still relevant) article written by @drewmagary.bsky.social www.sfgate.com/sports/artic...

I genuinely believe that this reflects Vanderbilt and Wash U's efforts to cast doubt on the disciplines that are doing the most to challenge AI's takeover of everything at a time when both universities are making massive, massive investments in AI.

all that ICE money is buying new slaves ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

It’s one bag of chips, Michael. What could it cost, $9?

@amandamull.bsky.social with another gem. "In the US, kids often become aware of their family’s religion and favorite teams at around the same age — an introduction to the inseparability of devotion and suffering." Damn, that's good. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

"According to the Trustees’ report, the actuarial balance of [Social Security] up through 2050 — the amount of additional funds it would need to keep paying full benefits for the next 25 years — is 1.06 percent of GDP." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/social-sec...

If you need a script for getting your company off Twitter, I WROTE YOU ONE. Multiple people have used it, successfully, to explain the legal liability your company incurs by forcing employees to be on a platform with child sexual abuse material. I will help you use it. anildash.com/2026/02/23/t...

wonderful piece from @clintsmithiii.bsky.social that, among other things, makes abundantly clear that pete hegseth and the trump administration are engaged in a racist purge of black officers under the belief that being black and having "merit" are mutually exclusive.

was thinking this morning that how emerging leaders respond to the struggle at Delaney Hall should be understood as more consequential for progressive politics than fandoms constructed around symbolic working class white men

No Star Wars. No Star Trek. Name a favorite sci-fi franchise.