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That’s also why Vivek isn’t exactly lying when he says he didn’t mean to say Acton lied about being raped as a child. He doesn’t think she lied; he thinks that being raped disqualifies her from office, because she belongs to the class of people power is wielded against, not the class that wields it.

I don’t think this is exactly what’s going on, or all that’s going on. It’s not that Republicans are constructing an elaborate psychological defense against evidence that Trump is a rapist. It’s that they like that he’s a rapist, and they like rape: it enacts the power of the strong over the weak.

Assaults are literally filmed or documented via text and no rapists or physical assaulters get arrested bc it’s not enough. But a black infant is murdered for false accusations of theft.

I need people to understand this selective good ole boy justice — the kind that protects abusers, rewards impunity, and openly flouts rule of law and equal protection under it — is Jim Crow shit, practically speaking. It's how Jim Crow terrorism FLOURISHED. Trump broadened the acceptable targets.

I rewatched the hbo doc about Elizabeth Holmes and they were listing ethically dubious Silicon Valley ventures that could harm people, like Theranos. And they showed footage of early Waymo’s.

The Good Guys www.the-reframe.com/the-good-guys/

New modern curses dropping

This is inspiring in the way that kids running a lemonade stand to pay for their friend's chemotherapy is inspiring: the kids are amazing but they should never have to do this. if this inspires you at all, let it inspire you to create a real right to vote so they can just vote on campus.

May every email you get have the whole message only in the subject line

“You suspect supporting the world’s most ignorant racist venal and corrupt man was a mistake? He might not be helping you as promised? Oh, do you think so, doctor? The anvil you’re using as a life preserver isn’t floating? The magic beans you bought didn’t grow a bean stalk to the clouds? Get OUT.”

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i'm definitely pro-abortion.

This does not feel terribly legal

I do not think being a Summers helps. If anything, the opposite.

This thought made my week

Every movie, song, and book that you love was made without the technology that people who don’t make art are now insisting is necessary for making art.

This is also just empirically untrue as a matter of reading consumption: women do, in fact, read books by men. It’s men who do not read books by women. I suspect the reason is not “biological.”

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

I could be wrong but pointing out that Republicans are, in fact, Nazis, and then explaining in detail why they are Nazis, might be an effective line of attack!

They don’t want the liberty of practicing their own religion/beliefs/whatever. They just about the liberty of discriminating against literally anyone.

one of the deepest sicknesses in the world are the people who feel personally attacked over other people getting the same rights as them

Revenge for MeToo (which severely constrained their ability to rape employees), Revenge for Black Lives Matter (which called out how racist many of them were) and most of all Revenge for the 2021 Labor Market where they suddenly had to compete for scarce labor instead of the other way around

Just generally the story of the last 5 years is Revenge of The Bosses, including Trump's win in 2024

And it is worth trying to avoid getting covid. I know that it’s near impossible for people with kids, or live in congregate housing, people with abusive spouses & abusive employers, a whole lot of factors. But take the steps you can when you can. Mask in an n95 or similar when you can. It ads up.

The president blew up over a lawsuit filed against him by media outlets he banned from the White House.

The AI industry wants you to say "the AI just did that thing on its own!" Like, United Health's AI that's denying a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate? They wanted you to think it's just the AI.

This seems like a very prudent course of action for the WHCA. I am not sanguine they will do any of this. bsky.app/profile/froo...

Gonna be a lot of ink spilled abt the President’s assault on the free press from the corp press and I wonder how much is performative For the last 10yrs, he put reporters in holding pens, called them piggy, debased them, called them enemies of the state, etc. & they kept coming back. Access. 1/

That he apparently missed that his backing band founded Irish Artists for Palestine is wild.