Marion Teniade Johnson

On empathy Who demands it, who denies it, who deserves it.

“We operate in a society that demands that we empathize with the people who have and harm the most.”

Terrific read from @marionteniade.bsky.social.

This is surreal because my answer to this question is literally Shea Serrano

Thank you for tagging me in this!

The undying relevance of the Alien franchise A funhouse mirror version of our world.

The Alien franchise had maintained one ongoing narrative for nearly 50 years: how a megacorporation keeps feeding its workers, soldiers, and prisoners into a grisly machine to keep the gears of colonization and capitalism moving. It’s ruthless…and oddly comforting.

The war of the worlds is over. The oligarchs won. A red-pilled War of the Worlds.

Grateful to @marionteniade.bsky.social for this. This is the future of art under capitalism: movie-length ads for tech corporations.

Also there's no need to obscure US history of barbarism. Some folks always want to reach for Holocaust comparisons like there's not a guard tower from Angola in the Blacksonian, like camps used to hold Japanese Americans were a picnic.

They gave detainees wormy food. The facilities were filthy.

A dapper tuxedo cat sitting on a tv stand in front of the tv. Projected on the tv screen is an episode of the podcast “If Books Could Kill”

Raising my sweet girl Sesame to be a podcast bro, I fear @ifbookspod.bsky.social @notalawyer.bsky.social @michaelhobbes.bsky.social

Tucci’s final scene is genuinely iconic

Southern Baptists Adopt Effort to Overturn Same-Sex Marriage The nation’s largest Protestant denomination was motivated by conservative Christians’ success in reversing Roe v. Wade.

Breaking News: Southern Baptists voted to call for the reversal of the Supreme Court ruling that legalized same-sex marriage, spurred by the end of Roe v. Wade. https://trib.al/BtObJR8

How Congress Quietly Made It Nearly Impossible for Borrowers to Escape Their Student Loans The story begins in the 1970s.

About 5 million borrowers are at risk of having their Social Security checks and tax refunds taken as well as their wages garnished over defaulting on student loans.

Go, Elon, and Never Darken Our Doors Again The worst ultra-billionaire on Earth says he’s leaving government. Let’s hope he actually does it.

"Roughly 1,500 babies have been born HIV-positive every day since January 21, because Musk cut off their mothers’ medication." prospect.org/power/2025-0...

Tapper soft launching the flip

I love this rebrand honestly. “Babes, I’m not unreliable, I’m mercurial 😏”

Donald Trump's decades-long obsession with eugenics A timeline of the president's thoughts on "good genes," IQ, and which disabled people should "just die."

Donald Trump has long-espoused eugenicist and ableist beliefs.

For @motherjones.com, I put together a timeline of some of these greatest (or worst) hits, which shows a pattern, starting back in the 1980s. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

These various initiatives and policy changes are often regarded as discrete problems, but they comprise a unified assault. The Trump administration has launched a comprehensive attack on knowledge itself, a war against culture, history, and science. If this assault is successful, it will undermine Americans’ ability to comprehend the world around us. Like the inquisitors of old, who persecuted Galileo for daring to notice that the sun did not, in fact, revolve around the Earth, they believe that truth-seeking imperils their hold on power.

The Trump administration is engaging on an all-out assault on the institutions, workers and standards that make learning and knowledge production possible, in the hopes of securing political dominance forever. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Tom Cruise thinks that he's Tom Cruise Reckoning with how Ethan Hunt saved his creator.

If the Mission: Impossible movies have been successful at one thing, it’s rehabbing Tom Cruise’s public persona.

(If they’ve been successful at two things, it’s that and convincing me that Tramell Tillman needs his own submarine movie.)

@realDonaldTrump I am considering taking Three Billion Dollars of Grant Money away from a very antisemitic Harvard, and giving it to TRADE SCHOOLS all across our land. What a great investment that would be for the USA, and so badly needed!!! 2.14k ReTruths 8.64k Likes May 26, 2025, 8:27 AM

FYI to media outlets, you're misleading your readers if you repeat this at face value.

There's no lawful way for him to redirect these grants elsewhere. It's a lie to distract from how the GOP budget guts educational funding, including Pell Grants at trade schools.

Dems trying to make a Joe Rogan of the Left :: DC trying to make an Avengers.

very cool that for ten years people at the heights of political commentary insisted to the point of rage that the paramount threat to free speech was “censorious” college students

i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet

Trump’s racist trolling of South Africa’s president today is perhaps the most racist WH moment since Woodrow Wilson screened Birth of a Nation there in 1915.

F.D.A. Poised to Restrict Access to Covid Vaccines Agency leaders said there was evidence to justify approval only for older people and those with medical conditions. Many others may not be able to get the shots.

Under its new leadership — who spread misinformation throughout the pandemic — the FDA announced it will limit all Covid vaccines to adults over 65 and those with certain medical conditions.

Covid continues to spread and cause harm. This an anti-science move that will kill more Americans.

the moral and creative vacuousness of having AI generate this stuff is less surprising to me than the prevalence of people who use AI constantly without the slightest understanding of its limitations

There is a false dichotomy drawn between "the ivory tower" and "the real world," and I'm here to report that in a post-industrial society, your real-world economy absolutely hinges on the university.

University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.

US Customs and Border Protection Quietly Revokes Protections for Pregnant Women and Infants CBP’s acting commissioner has rescinded four Biden-era policies that aimed to protect vulnerable people in the agency’s custody, including mothers, infants, and the elderly.

US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has quietly rescinded several internal policies that were designed to protect some of the most vulnerable people in its custody—including pregnant women, infants, the elderly, and people with serious medical conditions.

Overheard at the park today:

“I can’t that pope is from…hold on. There’s a guy clearly eavesdropping on me. Excuse me? Yeah he’s just staring at me and typing into his phone. Sir? This is a private conversation? He’s just ignoring me and typing. Wait are you typing what I’m saying?”

Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk ordered freed from immigration detention Rümeysa Öztürk, a Tufts University doctoral student, was ordered released by a federal judge in Vermont in the latest setback for the Trump administration's effort to deport noncitizen activists it ac...

Rümeysa Öztürk was ordered released by a federal judge in the latest setback for the Trump administration's effort to deport noncitizen activists it accuses of antisemitism.

“IF YOU DONT USE AI YOU WILL FALL BEHIND!!”

Dear god how far back can I fall?? We talking Black Michael Jackson or white Michael Jackson??? Do I need the actual Delorean or will the AI spin up the flux compacitor in my laptop?

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