Someone near me is trying to sell these “fish sandals.”

so, to be clear: ICE has been doing neoStarlight Tours, if instead of taking natives a three hour walk out of town in -40° and ditching them there without their personal effects, to kill them, they drove folks hundreds of kilometers away and ditched them without their personal effects, to kill them.

We talk a lot about getting people to consume historical content or to pick up employable “skills” for other uses

We talk a little about alt-ac, as an excuse for keeping grad programs going

We don’t talk about the fact that soon, nobody is going to be around to produce new knowledge in our fields

3 tickets left Portland 💟

AI as a Fascist Artifact (This is a bit of a merger of two talks I recently gave about fascism and AI. One was in German at the Cables Of Resistance conference, one in English at the Milton Wolf Seminar on Media and Diplomacy. I added some shots of the slides I used as a structure for the text which […]

In which I argue that "AI" as we understand it today is a structurally fascist artifact.

https://tante.cc/2026/04/21/ai-as-a-fascist-artifact/

Seattle Times lifted my story, and a screen shot that I took at a specific time—of an IG story THE REPORTER WHO WROTE THEIR PIECE mentioned today was no longer available by the time he looked—and did not credit me.
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Shameful and heart-breaking

every one has two eyes and is probably a little bit gay and this movie is about us

Remember, Democrats have repeatedly advanced measures to ban partisan gerrymandering and Republicans have voted against them time after time.

This is the game Republicans wanted to play. OK, then.

People forget when it was first proposed Prop 50 was WILDLY UNPOPULAR and by the time of the vote we could have banned the GOP from California and it would have passed.

"what do you want to be when you grow up" an anarcho-syndicalist

The Justice Dept’s theory of the case— that the group that single-handedly disassembled the Ku Klux Klan defrauded its donors by concealing that it was using paid informant to do that work and more— has about as much merit as the now-dismissed charges against Jim Comey.

The Supreme Court found that a school acknowledging the existence of LGBTQ people was such a violation of freedom of religion that they had to allow opt outs but now the 5th circuit says kids being exposed to the ten commandments isn't. The law is such a joke.

No we should definitely tilt the playing field against the fascist party. There's a pretty strong case that we should de facto ban the Republican Party.

its absolutely incredible watching people not realize the stakes watching DOJ being weaponized against SPLC and not realizing that its basically an existential fight for the republic now

"Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Republican party?"

from the AP Lit FB group, this kind of thing happens across states—

Trump is within sight of an under 30% overall approval rating.

One of the most important causes right now is to establish a media narrative and popular support behind severe punishments and consequences to our present criminals running things.

Critics of new bill say Ohio women would be banned from sports bras, bikinis in public 'The peak of fear mongering.'

Media needs to stop with "critics say" and just quote the actual language of the bill.

HB 249 creates a new category of "seminudity" which can be used to arrest women who aren't nude, but are wearing clothing — leggings, t-shirts without bras — that religious groups feel is too provocative.

“I asked how can you ever be sure
that what you write is really
any good at all and he said you can’t

you can’t you can never be sure
you die without knowing
whether anything you wrote was any good
if you have to be sure don’t write”

—W.S. Merwin, from “Berryman”

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Being a professor has to be the only job in the world where having zero experience in the day-to-day responsibilities of a job makes someone the most qualified candidate and having 2+ years experience makes you an unqualified failure

This is so monumentally fucked up on every level I feel sick to my stomach.

A Year After U.S.A.I.D.’s Death, Fired Workers Find Few Jobs and Much Loss

"The District of Columbia currently has the highest unemployment rate in the nation, at 6.7 percent, in large part because of major reductions in the federal work force, including U.S.A.I.D., and cuts to government grants and contracts." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/u...

This would be horrific no matter what it was referring to. But "cleaning up the risk pool" by eliminating vaccines just means you kill a bunch of people WHILE ALSO creating a whole new "risk pool" of people with post-viral issues.

CDC pauses testing for rabies and other serious infectious diseases Disease tracking is also temporarily halted for mpox and other common viruses, such as Epstein-Barr and varicella zoster.

www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Thiefs

See you in a bit 🖤

I work too much to be this broke

Ive got to publish more and worry less, look at this dude in the screenshot