Can’t forget Padma Lakshmi

I STRONGLY recommend people read "Blood in the Machines" by @bcmerchant.bsky.social on better understanding what actual Luddites were like, which will arm you better for understanding one possible way this transition could go--and how it might go better this time.

I’m about halfway through this book and keep recommending it to everyone!

“There’s no single answer that will solve all our future problems. There’s no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answers—at least. You can be one of them if you choose to be.”

― Octavia E. Butler, A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay

Judge in Minnesota Says ICE Has Violated Nearly 100 Court Orders

What makes you think they’d care what the law is? www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...

Birtherism, but make it administration policy.

Beyond XX and XY: The Extraordinary Complexity of Sex Determination A host of factors figure into whether someone is female, male or somewhere in between

Seems like a good time to reshare this resource: www.scientificamerican.com/article/beyo...

Giving the gift of independent journalism: a guide The Handbasket has subscription suggestions for almost everyone on your list.

NEW — I put together a list of independent journalism subscriptions that would make great holiday gifts. From music to politics, astronomy to alcohol, tech to social justice, there’s something for [almost] everyone. Support indie media *and* surprise and delight your loved ones!

My guide:

I’ll never forget the time I got into a dumb twitter fight with him back when he was still a congressman.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.

Epstein Files Reminder: USA has a child marriage epidemic—it's even worse than you think Despite more than 300,000 documented child marriages since 2000, Republicans are fighting to keep it that way

DOJ estimates Epstein trafficked at least 200 children.

And, experts estimate ~2600 minors were forced into a child marriage in the United States in 2025—a trend expected to continue in 2026.

Here’s how bad the situation is, and what we can do to stop it.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/epstein-fi...

I have a friend who flew from NYC to SC last week and she said her flight maintained 6,000ft the whole way.

Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix.

Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!

An election mailer against the DSA in NYC

An election mailer against the DSA in NYC

We got a 2nd one too

My wife and I got them. I’m white and she’s mixed Afro-Caribbean and white.

I’ve been thinking about your book a lot these days 😔🫠

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The social and environmental costs of private car ownership captured in one screen grab.

From the intro to @thewaroncars.bsky.social Life After Cars book

Cool yes what fun to do this with Marilyn, a woman definitely not famously abused & exploited by an exploitative patriarchal system

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

“A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore a computer must never make a management decision."

- IBM training manual, 1979

Absolutely been said before but if you’ve got an AI agent that is 57% accurate you have an AI agent that is 0% accurate

SHUT IT DOWN THEN

Ezra is right. In 2010, 1/4 of the House Dem caucus was pro-life. Without those votes Dems cannot build a strong majority.

AND THEN THEY LOST. THEY ALL FUCKING LOST TO REPUBLICANS. IT WAS FIFTEEN YEARS AGO AND THEY NEVER GOT ELECTED AGAIN BECAUSE PEOPLE JUST VOTED FOR THE REPUBLICAN. DO ACTUALLY NOT FUCKING COMPREHEND WHY THAT HAPPENED

This is something the Republican Party has been working on for some time. I first tracked it in Florida where a bill gained traction that would have taken away nonprofit status from lgbt nonprofits.

Even wrote a story on it.

We are very much at increased risk of these kinds of fascist crackdowns.

This is the bill to call your reps about and the relevant text in it

New Bill Would Give Marco Rubio “Thought Police” Power to Revoke U.S. Passports Secretary of State Marco Rubio has already sought to punish immigrants for speech. New legislation might let him revoke passports from U.S. citizens.

This text is buried in a larger bill. Don’t want Marco Rubio to be personally responsible for revoking people’s passports based on thought crimes? Call your reps about it!

this is seriously a very good question.