The Virginia Gerrymander Disenfranchises Republicans Republicans seem to have expected that Democrats would continue to follow rules they had long since enthusiastically abandoned.

Republicans loved gerrymandering as long as their opponents were committed to fair maps. Now that Dems are responding in kind, conservatives aren’t having as much fun. But the only thing worse than constitutional hardball is unilateral constitutional hardball. (🎁) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The international boycott of ChatGPT has absolutely exploded.

2.5M people have already joined, and this is just the beginning.

Go to quitgpt.org.
Cancel your subscription, delete your account.
And tell at least one person why.

My op-ed: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

All of this thread.

I understand the self interest that AI salesmen have to push their product, but the grasping way they’re doing it — the internet version of a traveling salesmen putting his foot in the door so you can’t close it — is only going to drive more people away.

I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking. "Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."

To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”

www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.

Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

Mississippi Governor Declares April Confederate Heritage Month Gov. Tate Reeves declared April 2025 as Confederate Heritage Month in Mississippi, keeping alive a 32-year-old tradition that began in 1993.

NEW: Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has declared April 2025 as Confederate Heritage Month.

He did so at the behest of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, a neo-Confederate organization that espouses “Lost Cause” ideology, which whitewashes the role of slavery in the Civil War. 🧵

No, they actually do suck and aren’t useful.

The stunning grift of Trump’s inaugural fund | Will Bunch Newsletter Plus, why young people aren’t out protesting

The gobsmacking grift of the $239M slush fund that Team Trump created around the inauguration should have been Page 1 news, but too many are too numb to such corruption

Join me on a tour of sold ambassadorships, sleazy corporate favors, and more! My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly. Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.

A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond.

I hope you’ll read and share the piece.

stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

Just a reminder that Trump/DOJ continuing to let Abrego Garcia sit in CECOT is *a crime*. Deprivation of rights under color of law is a crime. Was it an "error" at first? Maybe. But once they were aware of the error, and ordered by a judge to return him, and then refusing, it's willful 1/

Trump Is Sending People To The Camps “More than a prison, El Salvador’s CECOT has many if not all...

Sometimes it is important to say things very clearly and directly, so I wrote this.
talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

Revised National Parks Webpage Describes Harriet Tubman As Human Trafficker WASHINGTON—As the Trump administration continues to alter the version of American history that appears in government publications, sources confirmed Monday that a page on the National Parks website ha...

Revised National Parks Webpage Describes Harriet Tubman As Human Trafficker

These Are the 381 Books Removed From the Naval Academy Library The office of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the college to adhere to an executive order from President Trump banning educational material related to diversity, equity and inclusion topics.

“And are we to have a Censor whose imprimatur shall say what books may be sold, and what we may buy? Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched?” Thomas Jefferson, 1814 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/u...

Glenn Youngkin’s father was 11 when the first Black student enrolled at Mr. Jefferson’s university. Youngkin’s father attended Duke when it was still an all-white university. This is not ancient history. uvamagazine.org/articles/des...

On this day 12 years ago, @kcg.bsky.social posted the “This is Fine” comic.

can’t pay teens for sex and become attorney general anymore on account of woke

Trump saying that he never really knew Gaetz and him being AG was someone else's idea in 3, 2, 1 . . .

Disgusting.

Musk's Twitter is not the first time the nation's richest person (who also is a terrified reactionary with a childlike understanding of history, culture, & political science) devoted a big chunk of his fortune to creating a right wing propaganda machine. americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-...

The Heritage Foundation's 2022 Founders CHAIRMAN'S CIRCLE The Diana Davis Spencer Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Richard Gaby The Lloyd & Vivian Noble Foundation Pharos Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Len Robinson Sarah Scaife Foundation Mr. Henry D. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd H. Smith TRUSTEES' CIRCLE Mr. Gary Coats Mrs. Noni J. Fischer Mr. Kenneth C. Hill Mr. Mark A. Kolokotrones Mrs. Katharine Philbrook Dr. and Mrs. Michael E. Reif The Roe Foundation Searle Freedom Trust Mr. and Mrs. Daryl D. Smith Mr. Ray Stata Lillian S. Wells Foundation FOUNDER W.L. Amos, Sr. Foundation Amway Joseph C. and Elizabeth A. Anderlik Charitable Trust Dr. Patricia Bilden and Mr. Philip M. Bilden Lynde & Harry Bradley Foundation Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Theodore W. Brickman Dr. and Mrs. John H. Bruning Mr. and Mrs. David W. Caldwell Challenge Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Gary Cooper Dr. Garner H. Downey and Mrs. Mae Frances Mr. William K. Engel William Howard Flowers, Jr. Foundation, Inc. Mr. Robert G. Fuller, Jr. Mr. Alexander Gaston Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Giles Gleason Family Foundation The Gardner Grout Foundation Mr. Lynn Hall The Haller Foundation Mr. and Mrs. John N. Hanson Dr. and Mrs. Hal B. Holmes Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Holten Ms. Ann Hyden Mr. and Mrs. Hank Kuchta Dr. and Mrs. Charles Lederer T.W. Lewis Foundation Mr. and Mrs. George L. Mayer Martin and Janet Michel Mr. and Mrs. David Moore Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Inc. Mr. Norman Novello Dian Graves Owen Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Tassos Paphites Charles Maxfield and Gloria F. Parrish Foundation Mr. Jack Perrin John William Pope Foundation Mrs. Eileen Pratt-Pringle Miss Lenora Raia Mrs. Carolyn Randall Mr. Jerry S. Rawls Mrs. Barbara Richardson Dr. Patrice Richardson Mr. and Mrs. John Rigsby Mr. and Mrs. Henry Saad Mr. and Mrs. Anthony J. Saliba, Sr. Mr. Steven M. Sass Mr. Walter Schmid Mr. Robert W. Schneebeck Mr. Richard Schulze Mr. John J. Sieffert, Jr. Mr. Mark J. Smith Sorenson Legacy Foundation Mr. John L. Sprock Mr. James E. Stephenson Mr. and…

Nothing says “anti-establishment populist outsider” more loudly than a billionaire POTUS, assisted by the world’s richest man with a VP handpicked by venture capitalist P Thiel, who will implement the plans of the Heritage Foundation, a 50 year old DC institution funded by the nation’s plutocrats.

I still think this could explain a great deal about our timeline

A thread on democracy and "memory work" inspired by this excellent 2-part podcast on a Marine involved in January 6. Nations are defined, to a great extent, by the stories they tell themselves about their past. How we remember (or forget) Jan 6 will shape our future. www.npr.org/2026/01/01/1...

I guess it's time for everyone to re-learn the word kakistocracy.

15 years of learning on Twitter down the drain. Ready for BlueSky. Let's do this.