Colin Gillis

If you created a Kickstarter or something equivalent, I would donate to it and I suspect many others would too. Your perspective on gun violence is so much smarter than anything else I've encountered. I don't think I've ever mourned the absence of a book like this before.

So grateful for this kind of conjunctural analysis from @thedigradio.bsky.social It is both inspiring and useful. Don't know if I could keep doing the work organizing without it.

Let’s hope new pope also hates Illinois Nazis

“Do you even own a suit??”

Instead of stealing Greenland from Denmark, let’s steal some of their policies.

In Denmark:

- Health care and college are free.  

- The starting wage is $22/hr.

- Paid parental leave is 1 year.

- Paid vacation is 6 weeks.  

- All workers get pensions.

Wow. Watch this from Zohran Mamdani. It looks like the exact "fight" and "conviction" people are hopelessly asking for from the people in charge of the Democratic party:

Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.

Our dog Winston looking out the porch window of a cabin facing away from the camera lying on the floor with paws crossed.

While there is much doom to scroll, Winston and I are doing our level best to focus on rest and relaxation this weekend.

Post from NLRB Union: Yesterday, the NLRB’s Buffalo office (Region 3) received word from its landlord that GSA—acting on behalf of DOGE—had unilaterally cancelled the Region’s five-year lease, without any prior notice to the Agency. The Region has been given 90 days to vacate the building.

In 2024, the NLRB filed a complaint against Tesla for interfering in a union drive at their Buffalo, NY assembly plant.

Today:

The Path to American Authoritarianism What comes after democratic breakdown.

Every sentence of this:
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Vance Says ‘Judges Aren’t Allowed to Control’ Trump’s ‘Legitimate Power’ The declaration by the vice president came as court orders have temporarily blocked parts of the Trump administration’s agenda.

We all need to start using the word "coup." They're well past the point where Hitler starts dictates his Enabling Act. I talk to Very Serious People who actually believe courts telling Trump that they he is breaking the law will stop this. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/u...

Hey Canada, are you accepting new provinces?

I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.

NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.

A case study about pain, part 3 This week we discuss King Lear. Much suffering takes place in this tragedy, and it includes some of the most powerful representations of pain and anguish in the English language. Insofar as we can exp...

Thinking with King Lear about pain and silence.

We Choose To Fight: Action Call · Indivisible This Sunday night, February 2 at 8pm ET/5pm PT, you’re invited to join Indivisible, MoveOn, Working Families Party, and a coalition of other organizations for an action call. During the call, you will...

National call this Sunday to strategize with Indivisible, MoveOn, WFP, and a ton of other groups. We choose to fight. www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

Really hope there is a "find out" that follows this "fuck around."

Hope those unpaid Medicaid bills get the same "Thanks to President Trump" banner that TikTok used.

The dominant response to catastrophe in US culture is to focus on how we respond as individuals, to mitigate our natural stress response. In my experience, the only thing at truly helps is to fight for a better world. You can do both. Practice mindfulness *and* join a national organization.

YouTube video by ONEST NETWORK Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde appeals to President Trump to have mercy upon immigrants and minorities

If you watch only one short video today, make it this one. Remarkable bravery, and the looks on the various faces could be material for a dissertation on gender, the family, and authoritarianism. youtu.be/gVInX42IQD8?...

Hi @nytimes.com can you guess the meaning of the hand gesture I am making right now

Immigration Policy Tracking Project A comprehensive and dynamic catalogue of immigration policies issued by the Trump administration since January 2017.

Sharing an incredible resource for people looking to follow the legal changes on immigration under Trump. A law professor and numerous students at Yale Law and Stanford Law will be tracking and summarizing every change in immigration policy. immpolicytracking.org/home/

WOW 👀 — A journalist is removed from Secretary of State Blinken’s press conference after asking questions about Gaza.

“Why aren’t you in the Hague?”

Everyone should watch this.

A case study about pain, part 2 The second day of the unit on pain and representation focuses on bearing witness.

TL;DR: I wish I was as good at loving delirious strangers as Walt Whitman.

Is it just me or did the enshittification of the once kinda cool world wide web accelerate one hundredfold in the last week or so?

I'm also an AFT member, but I was wearing my SEIU hat at the time.