There are so many immeasurable consequences to having someone like trump in the white house. For example, Stress is deadly, and many of us have had significantly elevated stress levels this entire term.

Every time he says “they killed protesters” someone is morally required to say “YOUR regime kills protesters.” Every time no one in his presence speaks truth to him, another light of justice goes out.

The best argument for abolishing DHS is that Kristi Noem and Markwayne Mullins are both seen as people fit to lead it. If they can lead it, we don’t need it.

AOC: We rely on hundreds of thousands of home care workers across the country. This labor force is going to expand a lot as more of our parents reach older age, and these folks need to be paid a fair wage.

These are some of the most exploited workers in the country.

I am willing to prosecute people for no reason or to overcharge them is a weird flex for someone who is presumably not actively striving to be disbarred.

I sincerely pray that I never do something so dumb that Coach Tommy Tubs ever correctly corrects me.

As it relates to current news,

I don’t know what to say.

Keep screaming. Keep fighting.

Protect your loved ones. Protect humanity.

Vote. Vote. Vote.

Refuse to roll over. Refuse to give up.

They cannot win. They simply cannot.

Not true! He promised he’d be a dictator. Promise made, promise kept.

If I had hired the lawyers he has, I might crowdsource too.

I hope that when I'm 86, I too understand that, particularly at that age, $1.9M is more than enough to constitute “fuck you” money.

I keep thinking that I couldn't get a book published if I wrote him as a character as one-dimensional. Any responsible editor would ask, “But how would a person with such poor social skills that he appears to have no friends manage to get elected?”

I don't want anyone to have to work THAT hard. We would need an army of Mr. Sandman's just to deal with the president and his cabinet.

The combination of BHM & this post reminds me of this MLK quote about the white moderate (fits just as well for liberal/progressive today): "Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will."

I have considered it & think it's deeply concerning & wouldn't want to compound it by giving it more PII. Although, I had also considered maybe the government has already used AI just not for the purpose you described. I regret that you thought my intent was to argue. I was actually curious.

I hope Nancy Guthrie is found soon and is safe.

Also, her abduction has got me thinking, what’s the point in letting cameras, geolocation on my phone, and other surveillance tech watch me all day, every day, if it can’t deter or help rapidly solve a case like this?

I’m genuinely curious. If what is put into ChatGPT is likely also informing the model’s future outputs, why would feeding unfathomable amounts of child sexual assault and the names of those children into ChatGPT be a good idea rather than human rights violations?

I'm having the biggest case of FOMO. Someone needs to convince Princeton that public lectures should involve streaming. They should at least try it out in Feb and Mar.

Look at the @chicagotribune.com really leaning into the sympathizer aspect of Nazi sympathizer.

I don’t wish any harm on this baby, but I absolutely refuse to be happy for the despicable, soulless, hateful adult Vances.

And if there social media is just them talking at people with no responses to questions or concerns then I might even work to recruit those opponents.

Any elected who represents me & isn’t about abolishing ICE (training, reforming or guardrails is mealy mouthed bs) & isn’t committed to holding these criminals against humanity accountable no matter how long it takes is gonna see me volunteer & max out contributions to their opponents who will.

Klobuchar: "Somehow 50,000 peaceful protesters in 10 below weather were able to march without any problems, and then the next day half a dozen ICE and CBP agents couldn't handle a guy with a cell phone taking video of them and shot him. I think it's pretty obvious what's going on here."

I know I don't have a ton of media followers, but I'll put this out there anyway: if you need someone to comment/offer context on the removal of the slavery exhibit at the President's House site in Philly, get in touch. I just finished an entire book on Americans' fight over Washington and slavery.

I met an absolutely lovely academic who asked whether my department back home is affected by ICE -- a question dramatizing how little info is getting out.

For the record, the small example I chose:

My dept has a carpool to pick up grad students of color who can't safely commute to campus alone.

Chrome new tab that says "Press tab then enter to ask AI Mode"

i am very close to quitting Chrome entirely but just discovered that you can hard-disable this slop prompt by going to chrome://flags/#ai-mode-omnibox-entry-point and choosing 'Disabled' on the drop-down menu

I wish all it took to defeat bigotry was to connect bigots to someone in the demographic. The number of disowned queer folks and the slavers who sold their children proves otherwise. In my experience, proximity is neither necessary nor sufficient for decency and respect for human rights.

And the truth is. Police have always treated Black communities the way they are treating everyone right now. When we are learning our lessons from this moment, I hope one is trust Black folks when we tell you what oppression looks like.

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All day I’ve been reading posts and watching video of local police fucking over the residents of their cities to the dismay of many “reasonable” people who chastised people like me when we said defund them. My purpose isn’t to say what popular it’s to say what’s true.

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Of course the Mango Mummy said something stupid. The epitome of nastiness, mediocrity, mendacity & malfeasance is scared of Putin so he sends Americans to fight elsewhere so he can feel tough. Threatening Denmark & Greenland is so sad and weak. I don’t know if it’s more enraging or embarrassing.

Diana Ross & The Acceptables

Interesting to sub Trump for Maduro & adjust for the fact that Trump fails more.

[Trump] destroyed his own legitimacy by (attempting) rigging elections, (threatening) jailing opponents, censoring media, and ruling by force while millions fled the country (self-deportations, ring a bell?).