Just left a show at the #Wilbur by the incomparable #VirDas he’ll be in London at Royal Albert Hall on the first of April, if you are on that side of the pond, just go see it

Free Mahmoud Khalil and protect students exercising their First Amendment rights! Sign the petition to demand Mahmoud Khalil be immediately released and threats against his legal status be dropped! And call on members of Congress and university leaders to protect and defend the rig...

Sign the petition to demand Mahmoud Khalil be immediately released and threats against his legal status be dropped! And call on members of Congress and university leaders to protect and defend the right for students to organize and protest. sign.moveon.org/petitions/fr...

The Experiment We Didn't Show YouTube video by Vsauce

An interesting idea that makes the current political moment make a little more sense.

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Today is Thursday, 30 January, 2025.

It has been ten days since inauguration.

The order for the first concentration camp has been issued.

I thought it would take longer.

Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:

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A screenshot of two tweets about NATO. "Republicans against Trump" (@Republicans) expresses shock that Senator Mike Lee is advocating for a U.S. withdrawal, calling it "absolutely horrifying." Below, Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) asks, "If you could snap your fingers and get us out of NATO today, would you?"

I wish I could snap my fingers and get Mike Lee out of the Senate.

Paul Krugman confirming what has been increasingly obvious to readers for years: New York Times editors are becoming increasingly indifferent to facts and obsessed with mollycoddling the right.
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We are currently being asked to choose cowardice over bravery. Cowards all die on their knees. Choose where you will make your stand.

Luigi's Manifesto Exclusive: read Luigi Mangione's 262-word manifesto on the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO

I got the Luigi Mangione manifesto. The real one, not the forgery circulating online. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/luigis-man...

I will keep saying this until I have no more voice:
DEREGULATION IS DOMESTIC TERRORISM!

"262 word manifesto" that's shorter than a high school English essay. This is what focusing solely on STEM gets you.

As people become more desperate the power of weak men to project strength improves. If those with money and power object to recent events, you can fix this, by making people less desperate

Ok Bluesky, I’m pretty sure more than half the accounts following me are bots with a specific focus, can I report them?

I’m still in the camp of you shouldn’t need to murder people to enact change. Sadly UHC is not. Also it seems Schadefreude is the most common emotion in the US today.

You may not understand why, but the healthcare insurance and PBM contracts YOU have signed for Tesla, SpaceX , @X, along with CEOs of other big companies , have more impact on healthcare costs and quality of care in this country, than anything you can do with DOGE

The Pitchforks Are Coming… For Us Plutocrats A memo for my fellow filthy rich who live in our gated bubble worlds: Wake up, people. It won’t last.

I remember reading this article 10 years ago (August of 2014) by the prescient @NickHanauer and it could not be more accurate today.

www.politico.com/magazine/sto...

The weirdest take away from this is that CEIs need more armed security.

NOT

Our business practices are pushing people to the breaking point.

I live in such a weird timeline.

Screenshot of a tweet from user Covie, handle @covie93.bsky.social, which reads: pete hegseth doesn’t want women to serve in combat roles yet he has his mother out here fighting his battles....

Oh, that’s just too good.

When a fried egg just slides off with no encouragement, you know the seasoning is going well.

Violence is a solution, never the best solution. I can’t imagine what it takes for someone to plan a murder so meticulously. If the story about the casings is accurate it shows a level of planning and messaging that involves deep, personal, pain. I fear people will take the wrong lesson

a martyr and there will be protests supporting him. Those protests will lead to more death. That should frighten everyone, but if I were a CEO, it would frighten me more. 6/6

would have given up and my family would have paid the price in worse health outcomes. Somehow the US is the only developed nation that can’t seem to solve this problem.

The part that frightens me most, is that if law enforcement finds this guy, which is by no means a certainty, he will become 5/6

and dehumanizing more often than not. There is a larger discussion about the privilege it takes to be willing “to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them” (Hamlet). Without my knowledge of healthcare and sheer white man certainty of my rightness, there are many times I 4/6

company in their industry. It’s tragic a man lost his life. It’s more tragic both companies and the media seem to be ignoring this primal scream of rage against a system that profits on human suffering. I have fought for a lot of insurance claims in my life. The process is demoralizing at best 3/6

customer, the first thing to do is understand why someone was so angry at a person who is chief administrator of a company they not only shot him but wrote words like ‘denied’ on the bullet casings*. This is very clearly a shot at United’s policies that make it deny more claims than any other 2/6

I’ll admit some schadenfreude upon reading about the murder of the United Healthcare CEO. I am equally certain he was a compassionate and decent human. I read about concerns over CEO security this morning. This is absolutely the wrong lesson to take from this event. If it was a disgruntled 1/6

It’s snowing, which marks the earliest we’ve gotten snow since we left Florida

It’s still a predictive model based on probability. Which means to the extent the prompt fit the model it responded with the model.

In addition to the gaming industry there seem to be system wide layoffs. It’s interesting that we were at full employment. We elect a guy who runs on deceptive business practices as a brand and now layoffs happen like they were planned by Ebenezer Scrooge. Who fires people in early December?