Nancy Jane Moore

What's weird about my take on Newsom? It's a pretty common one in Oakland.

Pritzer seems promising, since I don't see a bunch of Illinois people jumping in to tell us he's bad, unlike Newsom, where I guarantee you that Californians are saying don't vote for him. I don't buy the centrist argument that Dems can't be too bold. Anyone who isn't compromising has a shot.

Efficiency
is designed to trap folks like us
not to help us.
#zentao

Really. Cool. I've been president of more than one co-op board in my time.

How Trump's ICE Is Locking Up Longtime Texans with Paths to Legal Status The case of one Houston man, nearly deported to India after a quarter-century here, shows what happens when prosecutorial discretion is abandoned.

“That facility is, like, terrible, horrible. There’s a lot of people in there. A lot. Each room has like 45 capacity. And they’re putting like 60 people in each room. The restroom is a mess. Dirty. People are sleeping on the floor, people are sleeping in the restroom.”

No. The people who actually have something to offer shouldn't troll like that. It's useful because it gets under the grifter's skin, but leave it to someone who enjoys those games. And then don't take him seriously as a presidential candidate.

I think she's staff, not an intern. My point remains the same: he's a lousy governor (better than the Republicans who wanted to recall him, but that's a low bar) and he'd be a terrible president, especially in a time when we're going to need major change. The trolling is all he's good for.

Gavin is good for one thing: trolling trump. Otherwise, he is an example of every reason we don't want to go back to the status quo once we wrest the country back from the fascists. So appreciate what he does well and look for better candidates.

We'll be immortal then.

The key to defeating Trump? Mass non-cooperation | Mark Engler and Paul Engler Our studies in civil resistance offer insight into the level of popular organizing needed to repel assaults on democracy

The kind of civil resistance we need: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

There's nothing so good
that some fool or con man
won’t get it wrong.
#zentao

How many times, in how many contexts, in how many ways am I going to have to say that this is what "AI" does— what it fundamentally *is*— before it sinks in? That all Bullshit engines do is statistically correlate training data & inputs via their weights to produce outputs you are likely to accept…

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

three panel webcomic 1st panel: one man says to another "we invented a robot that answers questions" 2nd panel: he continues "we just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a day" 3rd panel: the other man asks "but it answers the questions correctly?" and the first man replies "oh my goodness, no. no no no no no."

It's Mandatory Monday and AI is clearly the future.
mandatoryrollercoaster.com/post/8081046...

Thanks once again for reading this crap so we don't have to.

To develop a place
move with it, sleep with it,
know it before changing it.
#zentao

Opinion | I Trusted Jeff Bezos. The Joke’s on Me.

As the media moved "from deferential stenography and toward fearless investigation, that led to declining trust in the news media. Aggressive, probing and accountability-oriented journalism held up a mirror to American society — and many Americans didn’t like what they saw." @polgreen.bsky.social

How the Democrats Can Play Offense on Immigration Typically, Democrats run for the hills when immigration comes up. But as two blue-state governors are showing, the winning play is actually to confront ICE and MAGA xenophobia head on.

The extraordinary courage of people who are documenting ICE atrocities in places like Minneapolis, at great personal risk, are also achieving something else: They're changing the public's mind about immigration. We have a rare opportunity here. 1/

(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2059...

Yes, it does. And while I don't get to mine every morning, I have learned to do it reasonably often because it works. Also, I will tell you that about 25 years ago, when the knee formerly known as good stopped being good, PT was nowhere near as useful as it is now, so I am so grateful.

Yep. That's what my sweetheart finally had to do, because I was missing all the clues. So grateful that he did.

Yep. The "AI" isn't conscious and won't be. What they're calling AI is software that might be useful for some things once they get the bugs out, though not writing. And it's not useful enough to support all the investment, thus the hype.

I've been reading Vanessa Chang's The Body Digital, so I shared some of her ideas related to writing over at the Treehouse Writers blog. The book's about way more than that, though. treehousewriters.com/wp53/2026/02...

So many new things,
but we have to adapt to them
rather than adapt them.
#zentao

DID YOU KNOW

that if an AFAB person (including teen) goes on Accutane for acne, they must join a federal program called iPLEDGE (because the meds are "potentially harmful to fetuses")

wherein they must get bloodwork & a pregnancy test

each month

& fill out forms re: what birth control they're on

Protests matter. And people are turning out and doing things right. @chenoweth.bsky.social has the data.

. @nisishawl.bsky.social and I are so lucky to have this gorgeous cover by @katherinelam.bsky.social for our collaboration.

So glad Katherine enjoyed our collab, too. Just what we want :D Hope you enjoy it, as well.

It appears that in planning for Operation Metro Surge, the government failed to plan for the constitutional rights of its civil detainees. The government suggests — with minimal explanation and even less evidence — that doing so would result in "chaos." The Constitution does not permit the government to arrest thousands of individuals and then disregard their constitutional rights because it would be too challenging to honor those rights. 14 At this preliminary stage, Plaintiffs have made a clear showing of likelihood of success on their Fifth Amendment claim.

BREAKING: Judge Nancy Brasel, a Trump appointee, has issued a TRO in the Minnesota access-to-counsel case about treatment at Whipple.

"It appears that in planning for Operation Metro Surge, the government failed to plan for the constitutional rights of its civil detainees."

BREAKING: The Trump administraiton has committed a mass violation of ICE detainees' constitutional rights in MN, effectively blocking their acess to attorneys in the Whipple building, a judge ruled tonight.

The judge: Trump appointeee Nancy Brasel

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

There is No Scientific Justification to Revoke the Endangerment Finding The U.S. EPA's decision to repeal the Endangerment Finding will limit the government's ability to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.

As I say here, there is no scientific justification to revoke the engagement finding. In fact, over the last 15+ yrs, the evidence of how climate change affects our health has only grown. Higher risk of allergies, dementia, fertility, heart disease, and death: that’s what’s on the line. @nature.org

The Save Act is a full frontal assault against our democracy and we must defeat it. It’s time to light up your senators’ phone lines.