andré crombie

Art thou a silk-worm? Dost thou spin thy own shroud out of thyself?

🛎️🛎️🛎️

I’d rather live in peace than rest in peace

it’s 2025 and i’m favorably quoting bill kristol favorably quoting the pope from chicago favorably quoting hannah arendt. strange times!

Wet the line! wet the line!

it’s ok to lose. it is not ok to lose to spencer torkelson or dillon dingler, who sound like bert and ernie’s attorneys.

The ruling class has correctly assessed public schools as a threat to them. Two reasons:
1. An educated working class is their worst nightmare
2. Public schools are one of the last places where working-class families mix across racial and ethnic lines

Good reporting, HOWEVER!!! I hate the phrase “school choice.” What it really means is “forced resegregation”

i have some quibbles with this thread (for example, republicans also spend enormous sums on highly paid consultants and TV ads) but the lessons for new approaches, new thinking, and new media are spot on.

this is a great piece with a quote i’ve thought of often this year — “If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?”

i was asked this question once on The Apps and my answer (live forever so i can read all the books lolol) was judged shallow 😭

I think it is wild that the Republican leaders of Congress are publicly delegating their branch of government's constitutional spending powers to the president. Why not just let him vote on Supreme Court cases, too?

damn. hoping it at least signifies something

taking seriously the question, what would jesus do?

thank you brett kavanaugh!

There is no budget "deal" to be made President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.

If appropriations bills are not seen as enforceable contracts, why should any Member of Congress vote to fund any part of the federal government under Donald Trump? You're voting to provide money for lawlessness. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

Donald Trump has heard all his most loyal voters' complaints about how health care sucks in their states, it costs too much and it's a pain in the ass to access, and he has a message for them: fuck you and die bsky.app/profile/murr...

ulysses grant is incredibly relevant for the moment we're in!

”I am heartily tired of hearing about what Lee is going to do. Some of you always seem to think he is suddenly going to turn a double somersault, and land in our rear and on both of our flanks at the same time...try to think what we are going to do ourselves, instead of what Lee is going to do.“

There is no steady unretracing progress in this life; we do not advance through fixed gradations, and at the last one pause

i'm seeing many folks arguing for why gifted education services are good, but i think that misses the point, not only in this nyc-specific case but more broadly. the issue at hand is whether we can fairly identify who is "gifted" at age four. this statistic would indicate we can't!

Pope Leo on 10th anniversary of Laudato Si: “There is no room for indifference or resignation. God will ask us if we have cultivated and cared for the world that he created…we cannot love God whom we cannot see, while despising his creatures." www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

The Dems breaking through right now are all treating Trump's consolidation of dictatorial power and his subjugation of Blue America as absolutely central facts about our moment.

Zohran highlights that regularly. Trump's threat to nix funding is a case in point.

newrepublic.com/article/2011...

I don't think that's America, I think it's just life.

As Auden put it: "even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course/Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot/Where the dogs go on with their doggy life..."

Trump gives the most dangerous speech in US history & Democrats scream "health subsidies."

Brian nails it.

"The confusion in their posture stems from the fact that the nature of public misgivings about the Trump regime stem from his dictatorial abuses, rather than quotidian policy disputes..."

Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance.

Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.

We have been sent here to fight for people.

my friends and colleagues in advocacy spaces should read this terrific piece — “They see themselves as being pragmatic in difficult times and willing to make difficult choices. They imagine that doing something unpleasant is the same as doing something effective. They think it will save them.”

After Volatile Summer, Trump’s Approval Remains Low but Stable, Poll Finds

perhaps instead of cowering under a blanket labeled "health care," democrats should respond and advance on the issues that move people. this, of course, would require a foundation of conviction and principle, which may be asking too much of the party's leadership and strategists.

“Today’s generation of comedians prefer to use their hard-won liberties not as a weapon against the powerful, but as a license to operate free of any ethical obligations whatsoever.”

“Anything that can't go on forever eventually stops.”