Brian McCammack

Somehow missed that George Saunders’s newest, VIGIL, is basically existential climate fiction. Not my favorite of his but still very good, and would love to teach it someday. Check it out! #booksky #cli-fi

also: there is no shortcut to doing the work. You want to use an LLM to do a literature review? Ok, but then how do _you_ understand the literature? How do you know what your contribution will be? How will you know what you're building on? Scholarship is not built on tl:dr, sorry to inform.

Receiving unsolicited texts from politicians greatly increases the odds I will never vote for them.
Knock it the fuck off already.

See, the thing is we haven’t been—not because past presidents were perfect angels or thrilled with Iran, but because they didn’t want to close the Strait of Hormuz, evacuate American civilians from the whole region, and set the world economy on fire.

More of this please

There’s a lot to be said for Booker T Washington & education but OF COURSE they chose him and not Du Bois

Post See new posts Conversation Laura Rozen @lrozen · 2h From US admin official background briefing recording listening to, seriously question if US negotiators understood what Iranians were proposing. One official keeps saying acronym for “IAEA” wrong. They seem astonished Iran would not agree to the US supplying them nuclear fuel Laura Rozen @lrozen · 2h They took as suspicious proposals that Iran saw as concessionary. Laura Rozen @lrozen · 2h Explains why Oman FM tried to come to DC to explain what US negotiators may not have fully understood Laura Rozen @lrozen Am not saying what Iran proposed would have been enough, I dont know, but it seems US negotiators did not have the expert guidance to understand it correctly

On top of all the reporting that this war of aggression was planned well in advance, it seems that the reporting also indicates that the US political leadership are quite literally too stupid to understand basic diplomacy. I mean literally not smart enough.

Our baby has been alive for two deadly, illegal campaigns by the U.S. to remove a foreign leader. She’s 7 weeks old.

thread of IL-09 candidate statements on Iran strikes here (will update as I see them) 🧵

+ Follow Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social 265.1K followers 3 following 400 posts Brooklyn Congressman. Democratic Leader. Work hard. Stay focused. Deliver results #ForThePeople. WINDY MES ง Followed by Windy City Times, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and 73 others American Israel Public Affairs Cmte Lawyers/Law Firms Paul, Weiss et al Pro-Israel America PAC Retired Donors Securities & Investment Posts Replies Media Videos Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bs... 3d American Israel Public Affairs Cmte Lawyers/Law Firms Paul, Weiss et al Pro-Israel America PAC Retired Donors Securities & Investment The President announced a war on fraud. You can begin with the most corrupt administration in American history.

And speaking of pressuring members of Congress: if you subscribe to @us-gov-funding.bsky.social the affiliations of top donors are labeled at the top of their posts.

Or non-posts, as the case may be.

It's clarifying enough.

Evergreen

Not a moment’s fucking peace with this fucking administration

Everybody was at my local bar instead…

you think you've seen the whole movie, and then the alt text reveals you haven't even finished act two

Meanwhile DePaul announced that it's closing its art museum yesterday.

Chicago sports team owners pitch public subsidies for new stadiums For decades, team owners have used their power and resources to reshape Chicago suit their desires. Will we ever learn?

with talk of public funding for a new bears stadium yet again ramping up in springfield, perhaps it’s a good time to revisit this piece from @joeengleman.bsky.social that explores who actually benefits from publicly funded stadium projects (hint: it’s not us!).

SCOOP: IL-9 congressional candidate and current state senator Mike Simmons had police called on him in Buena Park while canvassing for votes. No arrest was made. Here’s the video of the interaction @senmikesimmons.bsky.social recorded and shared with me.

Historian here. You know what would also be “a return to previous norms”? Plenty of things previous generations collectively decided were fucked up and we should never return to

Held for no reason in a detention center for six weeks — for no reason — and even after signing self-deportation papers.

Based on comments from agents and guards, Newton says she was imprisoned so ICE agents could collect incentive bonuses.

OMG. One of these terminated grants was mine

Just finished @ajagabel.bsky.social ‘s LIGHTBREAKERS coming off one memorial service weekend and going into another. Highly recommend! Beautiful prose ruminating on parenthood, grief, and memory, all while blending the worlds of fine art & sci-fi. Maybe sounds a little weird but it totally works

My kid just found $20 in the streets of Detroit on the way to a great coffee shop and it made her day, maybe her year. And I indoctrinated her by saying multiple times THIS IS WHY WE WALK AND DON’T DRIVE

This is exactly the lesson I’d expect The Economist to draw from the Epstein files

Fuck the Cubs

Yeah I’m all for NIMBYism when it’s not wanting fascist concentration camps in your backyard

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It's time to CHECK YOUR JUDGES BAYYYYBEEEEE!!!!

Unbelievably excited to share our team's labor of love for the 2026 primary election. There are some doozies in here. Don't vote without it!

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pro tip for sharing extremely fucked up climate news: if you don’t include a doable action step, it’s just gonna burn people out

I got about a bajillon of em. how bout: find out when your local planning and zoning people meet, show up and support clean energy projects and dense housing

VACCINATE YOUR CHILDREN

Anthropic AI safety researcher quits with 'world in peril' warning It comes in the same week an OpenAI researcher resigned amid concerns about its decision to start testing ChatGPT ads.

Anthropic head of AI safety quits, warning of "world in peril" & announces plan to study creative writing, as my college charges ahead in deal with Anthropic, which trained its tech on at least 25 books taken without permission from our Creative Writing faculty. www.bbc.com/news/article...

easy slogan for the next democratic presidential candidate is “i will reform the corrupt supreme court and repeal citizens united”