Dave Herman

YES! And there’s always that split second of hope when the music cuts out and I think I’m finally going to get a human (which is then immediately dashed, and I feel stupid for falling for it again). Grrrrr

to Jews, on the Gaza famine an open letter: we have been commanded

I just sent this out.

The Jewish people have moral frameworks for this moment.

It is a choice not to heed them.

Please let us meet this moment, let us see the shattered Temple around us, right now, and our responsibility to it.

Gaza is starving. Where are the American Jewish leaders? A fear of being labelled antisemitic still deters American Jews and Jewish institutions from taking a position that is morally correct.

forward.com/opinion/7575...

(My thoughts in the Forward about why anyone who cares about Israel or the Jewish people should be speaking out on Gaza)

"voters are why I lost" is the funniest possible thing for a politician to say.

“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.

"This narrative of human suffering, set in 2025, is filled with tears and resilience. It is a story of women. It is our story. It could very well be your story too."

A stunning essay from Rümeysa Öztürk on the 45 days she spent in an ICE detention center just for speaking her mind

Tommy Lee Jones does not approve

Honest question - is there a *single* Times article where they advance/defend the perspective of socialist young people the same way they routinely advocate for the right?

I am genuinely curious.

my regular reminder that many of the wealthiest and most powerful people in this country very plainly believe in eugenics

photo of Jaime Alanis

Our hearts are heavy for the grieving family of Jaime Alanis, who died from injuries sustained during a chaotic raid on Thursday.

We will do everything we can to support them. We continue to work with the hundreds of farm worker families navigating the aftermath of this violent raid.

I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.

It’s also what held me back for a while from jumping into this whole space. Once you realize that you can adjust as you go, you stop trying to perfect your technique up front and just try things.

YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz The End of Learning As We Know It?

“The end of learning as we know it” by @taylorlorenz.bsky.social and @kattenbarge.bsky.social. I always appreciate any analysis that starts by assuming that kids are human beings deserving of respect, not the adversary of a threat model. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm5J...

"Help Me Think This Through" Context builds through conversation, not perfect engineering

“Help me think this through” by @wycats.bsky.social — using AI as a collaborative partner instead of crafting the perfect a priori context wycats.substack.com/p/help-me-th...

These people are… evil. In a self-conscious, gloating way that we don’t like to imagine exists outside comic books or history’s darkest chapters.

ya'll, i say this with love: don't get too doom-and-gloom, okay? Native people are still here. we. are. still. here. even after everything we've been through.

if we're still here, you will be too. 🤍 have faith.

Tiny Chef was too good for this world

Ask yourself why Rolling Stone is the only outlet performing this obvious public service.

Do you hear yourself?

"This word has a specific connotation to me (& other Jews), so he needs to change how HE, a Muslim, thinks and engages with an Arabic word that has multiple shades of meaning, so that it suits the least comfortable among us,"

even as other NYC Muslims are literally jailed

Servo is a web rendering engine written in Rust, and adaptable to desktop, mobile, and embedded applications. Its goal: empower developers with a lightweight... Servo - an embeddable web rendering engine - Josh Matthews

Servo - an embeddable web rendering engine
by Josh Matthews at RustWeek 2025!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd4Q...

#rustlang #RustWeek

Glad to see Van Hollen choosing to oppose racism. More Democrats should try it!

If and when America finds a way out of authoritarianism, not only will ICE have to be abolished: All these people will need to be held accountable in a court of law for the monstrosities they are committing - those who are ordering them as well as those who are carrying them out.

Every single one.

We've gotta bloody the likes of Gillibrand, Gillen, Suozzi, Goldman nice and early over their Islamophobic Zohran bullshit and it's gotta leave a mark. The fash is going to be beyond vile during this race, and squishes on the blue side of the aisle have to learn what happens to traitors

Primary every one of them.

YELLING

STILL

WORKS

thanks to Daniel for posting the transcript, which I had been looking for all over

and yeah, it is ridiculous to twist this into whatever people have been twisting it into

An important addendum to a recent episode of If Books Could Kill (attn: @michaelhobbes.bsky.social @notalawyer.bsky.social ) www.instagram.com/reel/DK9rt12...

We could avoid all these annoying debates about whether Fahrenheit or Celsius is better if we just abolished numbers like I've been arguing for for some indeterminate amount of years

When I was a newborn I saved up and bought my own basket. We all did. This generation just wants a handout

The night this article was published, the most explicitly pro-trans candidate in NYC history pulled insanely huge numbers across the board and is set to win the Mayor race.

Supporting trans kids is just good politics.

Fighting fascism is good politics.

Capitulation sucks--Cuomo was anti-trans!

the thing with Mamdani is that he’s obviously an incredible political talent - the campaign he’s run has been extremely impressive even if you don’t like his policies

the party should be delighted, and that they’re instead pulling out all the stops to beat him speaks volumes