Building the camps The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.

When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

I saw an analysis somewhere that amounted to, “it’s a sign of relative power that you don’t have to bother spelling things correctly when talking to somebody”. They’re all well enough educated so it makes sense as a way to distinguish themselves from the servants of the professional class.

They retweeted me, called me a bigot, and then accused me of saying that the British “treat BAME like property.”

Which I feel is simultaneously a misreading of what I said and a funny thing for a Brit to take offense at given, y’know, British history.

There’s probably some truth to that. I think we default to “American” as well for the most part but I don’t want to speak to the experiences of PoC which are likely pretty different from mine.

Ah, what an intolerable slur to the famously kind and fair-handed British Empire.

I think I hedged my response as best I could to show I don’t really know the answer. You’ll notice key words like “shot in the dark” and “nominally” scattered about.

This is a complete shot in the dark but I feel like it might be because the British Empire defaults to owning its subjects and uses corresponding language while the US nominally treats folks as different kinds of citizen.

I like to imagine that we have a sister universe somewhere where the US president is still a wildcard idiot who ignores all the norms but it’s an Airbud situation and he keeps dunking.

I have to assume @nbcnews.com uses an LLM to generate its news summaries. #charliekirk

Cygnus Wall, part of the North America Nebula in Cygnus. Imaged with APM 140mm, asi1600mm, and ZWO SHO filters. 3.5 hours integration.

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has anyone actually read the imperial presidency

Feels like it might be worth going over again given the whole endless war thing

If you don't know Blair Mountain, kindly shut the fuck up about "rednecks" or "hicks", or really any broad, sweeping dismissals of the South as uniformly Red State ignoramuses in general.

This field is *so* broad and rich. I read way too much golden age sci-fi as a kid and there’s so little I’d bother recommending to anybody but a scholar.

Does feel like after a certain point you’d rather buy bullets.

that the phrases “intentionally destroying the economy” and “worst economic president of our lifetimes” arent being said everywhere right now by dem politicians makes my head want to explode

Honestly I always figured Congress would be more resistant to the president trying to nationalize municipal police. I guess that just shows the benefit of purging all dissent in your party.

"if men pay a bride price, they treated women better, because you value what you pay for."

No, when you pay for it, you believe you own it, and can do whatever you want to it

Fam, let me tell you about slavery. 🤠

(This was from the audience, not the panel, at least)

#worldcon

The WHITE HOUSE The White House V* @WhiteHouse X.com OPERATION MAKING D.C. SAFE & BEAUTIFUL ARRESTED CARRYING A PISTOL WITHOUT A LICENSE The WHITE HOUSE 2:01 PM • 8/11/25 • 1M Views

The White House’s official X account has a long thread in which they’ve posted pictures of people arrested during the feds’ occupation of the city. Every single person in the thread is a person of color.

If you know me at all - here, elsewhere, or irl - you know how important I believe it is to understand history. That it’s being perverted in this way and for this reason is obscene.

Free Access to New Cambridge U Press Book: "The Future of Press Freedom: Democracy, Law, and the News in Changing Times" #ELB This is a great collection edited by RonNell Andersen Jones and Sonja West, and even better that it is open access. I’m honored to have the final version of my chapter here, “From Bloggers in Pajamas ...

Free Access to New Cambridge U Press Book: “The Future of Press Freedom: Democracy, Law, and the News in Changing Times” electionlawblog.org?p=151397

A tragic role-playing story game about the heroic women spies of the SOE in WW2 France.

Together as players you tell the lonely stories of these brave women through their deployment, missions, and eventual capture, and discover their lives through flashbacks.

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My wee cousin is having an ongoing meltdown and my uncle comments on what I must think and what I’ll tell people when I go back to the states.

Meanwhile I’m just reflecting that, somehow, 30 years later I’m still being used as a goad for misbehaving children.

This is what I really needed in middle school to captivate that table of adolescent murder hobos

My favorites would have to be:

Mage The Ascension - Coming out of D&D, the flexibility of the magic system and reality itself was exhilarating.

7th Sea - Hands down some of the most entertaining games I ever ran used 7th Sea. It had a way of encouraging people to stop fearing death and have fun.

“We’re the good guys,” I tell myself as a 6-year-old leukemia patient pees his pants in fear. I adjust my black mask and sunglasses in the mirror, making sure to hide my identity. “I am not evil,” I whisper.

Just out of curiosity, what parts of STEM do you think Dune and Foundation convey?

Nope, that's basically it.

So the latest sign of aging is that when people see me reading in public they’ve started asking if I’m a teacher instead of a student. I’m sure my thoughtful demeanor is also a big factor they’re failing to mention.