Conor P. Williams

Someone in the news media oughta cover that part of the narrative!

Note the pattern: anti-Trump events keep overperforming on numbers and enthusiasm.

Trump events (think military parades, inaugurations) keep underperforming.

"USA! USA!" chants and lots of US flags waving at what Mike Johnson claimed would be... "hate America" rallies.

Metro en rte to the Mall is absolutely overflowing. Barely squeezed on.

Loaf of rye bread

Might have to start selling these if they keep coming out so smooth.

once again wishing democratic politicians and pundits would speak out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns

cities are "real america" just as much as any twee main street or dying industrial town

to wit bsky.app/profile/tusk...

It's the absolute best way of Not Letting THOSE Guys Win

Correct. Smile as you go and see if your face can't lead your mood—joy really is rebellion rn.

Helpful (albeit depressing) answer

this is (one of) my fear(s)

siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh

However much those folks want to distance themselves from what their movement—and their party—has become, they've always been this way, as @owillis.bsky.social is constantly pointing out.

Perhaps it's an insane thing to wish, but the (imaginary?) thing I'm looking for would be an extension/app one could hook up to Google...and would scan all incoming emails to my account for AI-involvement.

Perhaps it's an insane thing to wish, but the (imaginary?) thing I'm looking for would be an extension/app one could hook up to Google...and would scan all incoming emails to my account for AI-involvement.

Feel like maybe @brooklynmarie.bsky.social would know of this sort of tool?

B/c when you search the web for this, all you get is a pile of apps offering to use AI to write emails for you. I don't want that. I want a red flag system that alerts me when someone wrote ME using AI.

I sometimes think about how the GOP styled its 2000 presidential campaign around "restoring dignity to the Oval Office."

Is there some sort of extension I can use for my email account to vet/flag incoming message for whether they were AI generated or not?

Barbaro is sort of a reverse Chotiner where every interview he does makes HIM look more stupid and venal

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He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

Just passing by to note that this is a reminder that we have also passed the end of the era of Old Guy (Nick)named something like “Sparky” managing MLB teams. The old world decays, new one struggling to be born, etc

lol dipthong sidequest wins Thursday night

A Post-Literate Society is a Too-Literal Society Directness is a virtue and subtlety is lost

"[D]enying that we are facing a planetary crisis of concentration while expecting us to soldier on stoically is not helping." open.substack.com/pub/musgrave...

USC rejects Trump education compact aimed at shifting the university to the right USC interim President Beong-Soo Kim said in a statement that he had sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Education turning down the Trump offer.

USC is the fourth rejection, no acceptances. I hope they have a safety school.

www.latimes.com/california/s...

Elite accountability: now being appreciated more and more bsky.app/profile/snow...

However much those folks want to distance themselves from what their movement—and their party—has become, they've always been this way, as @owillis.bsky.social is constantly pointing out.

A useful thing to remember whenever a "Never Trump" conservative is lecturing you on how THIS moment is an aberration in conservatism and GOP politics.

Any educators in Chicago who might be interested in writing a guest post for my Ed Week column about what it's like for them and their students during the ICE enforcement actions?