Charles Starrett (not the Durango Kid)

Robert Reich What Zohran Mamdani Can Teach Democrats

Americans are fed up with the political establishment and an economy rigged against the working class.

Zohran Mamdani understands this well. Democratic leadership should be supporting him.

Keep calling these “Kavanaugh Stops.” We have to push back on racist decisions and make SCOTUS own them.

Remember when someone got mad at me for calling the Post a Trump rag recently? Well.

/3 Previously it has been the Right that more reliably asserted that “hate speech” was not a First Amendment exception. But the Right’s pretense to caring about actual freedom of speech has been revealed to be sheer bunk.

JD Vance & @JDVance • 1h Killing cartel members who poison our fellow citizens is the highest and best use of our military. • 2.5K 174.4K O 40K Ill 975K 企 Brian Krassenstein @ IK @krassenstein • 1h Killing the citizens of another nation who are civilians without any due process is called a war crime. @ 1.1K 2> 175 企 JD Vance v @JDVance • 1h I don't give a shit what you call it

Yale Law School never beating the “they don’t teach law at Yale” allegations

Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing LOS ANGELES—Responding to escalating clashes between civilian activists and militarized immigration authorities, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass publicly urged protesters Monday not to give the Trump adm...

Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing

"The problem with having a plan is that you can only plan what's already in your mind. So that's not opening any doors."
– Katrine Amsler, Episode 10 #Creativity #GameAudio

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M8C (Dirtywave M8 Companion) a remote display app for your Model:01 and Model:02 is now available free to download on the iOS Appstore.

"Every tyrant falls in the end. What do you want to do that will outlive him? What part of your vision of the world will you work to build?"

Apparently unpopular opinion: there’s nothing good about a dictatorship.

Related thought: I don’t want a dictatorship.

For the second straight day, Trump has mused about Americans preferring a dictatorship.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

This is the second day in a row he’s said this. This is an intentional normalization effort.

This. A young person dies by suicide at the blatant encouragement of an Ai chatbot, and that parent company, OpenAI, has contracted with the 2nd largest teachers' union to provide guidance on Ai in schools?! It's outrageous. As an AFT member, I repeat my calls for @rweingarten.bsky.social to resign.

JUST IN: Kilmar Abrego Garcia has filed a new federal lawsuit in Maryland.

Since it's a habeas corpus case, the petition isn't public now, but his lawyer said it challenges the Trump admin's scheme to send him to Uganda. www.allrisenews.com/p/kilmar-abr...

There Is No Trolley Problem We actually aren't constrained into atrocious premises by thought exercises. Obstacles are a reason to fight, not an excuse to quit. Our friends and neighbors aren't distractions..

Today I wrote about a general tendency to accept atrocious premises, and the need to reject fascism's false choices in order to find expansive and imaginative paths forward.

Breaking the premise, embracing the obstacles, pursing everything.

www.the-reframe.com/there-is-no-...

It’s wild, absolutely wild, how for EVERY. SINGLE. CITY. Trump wants to militarize I can post data showing how crime is plummeting in all of them without any federal invasion…

… and the press KEEPS stenographing the naked bad-faith claims about “fighting crime!” in the headlines.

Infuriating.

“You look at Chicago, how bad it is. You look at Los Angeles, how bad it is,” Trump said. “We have other cities that are very bad. New York has a problem. And then you have, of course, Baltimore and Oakland. We don’t even mention that anymore. They’re so, so far gone. We’re not going to let it happen.” Chicago, a city of about 2.7 million people, has had the most homicides in the country in each of the past 13 years, with 573 in 2024. Like D.C. and many other major cities, it had a spike in homicides and other violent crime during the covid pandemic, though rates have come down since.

Dear @washingtonpost.com: these two paragraphs are absolute malpractice. Utterly disgraceful.

You use total counts, not rates … for the THIRD BIGGEST CITY IN THE US. Of COURSE it has a high total.

And rates “have come down” … with a link, but no number.

Down FIFTY PERCENT IN FOUR YEARS.

Homeland Security Dept. Says It Hasn’t Kept Text Message Data Since April

The US Administration is now deleting its internal communications, in brazen violation of the Federal Records Act, in order to conceal its other illegal acts.

Those entrusted to enforce our Congress’s laws sit, simply watching this happen, flaccid and impotent.

Why do we need to build hallucinating AIs when “think tanks” have been here the whole time?

Think Tanks as a rule seem to be, in the immortal words of the late 20th century philosopher and car mechanic, Tom Magliozzi, “unencumbered by the thought process.” It’s beautiful to see such a thorough debunking of this nonsense through actual evidence!

incredible that three overpaid consultants in a trench coat can get media play by urging democrats not to use words that literally no one in mainstream politics uses

The other thing about it is that the entire world has been captured by a discursive framing, where EVERYTHING is about how you talk about issues and NOTHING is about what you do. It's normal for consultants, it doesn't have to be normal for you! We aren't all executing a PR strategy we're people.

the reason this discourse will never end is because it is completely untethered from any kind of evidentiary standard. as long as there is a 19-year-old barista somewhere saying “cultural appropriation,” guys like nichols will complain that “democrats” use alienating language.

Interestingly we have some empirical evidence and it doesn’t suggest that Democratic politicians are showering voters with off-putting academic language. bsky.app/profile/dcin...

*i* think that the issue isn’t the words, it is the substantive positions. no amount of language self policing will satisfy someone who just disagrees with, say, legal protection from gender discrimination

May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.

THIS is why leftists and activists are so angry when Dem candidates throw vulnerable constituencies under the bus in hopes of shaving off a few swing votes; they are not insisting on “purity tests,” they just recognize the craven stupidity of doing the reactionary right’s work for them.

Sometimes the sheer idiocy of this moment overwhelms me. The idea that our convicted felon POTUS who incited an attack on DC police then pardoned the attackers & who's the most corrupt official in US history is going on an "anti-crime" ride-along in a city w/falling crime rate is...(brain explodes)

I can only imagine the show federal officers are going to put on for Trump tonight. Stay vigilant out there. If you see anything, send to marisakabas.04 on Signal.

photo of my holding a copy of my book Authoritarians in the Academy

Pub day! My new book, Authoritarians in the Academy at @hopkinspress.bsky.social, is now officially out and available for purchase. www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...