Author @gilduran.com was just banned from “free speech absolutist” twitter for criticizing the Palantir CEO’s manifesto— so here’s his upcoming book: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
wrote about one workplace here. harpers.org:2096/archive/2018...
I'm old enough to have faced a bunch of workplace and school and artist in residence sexual harrassment pre-Anita Hill, when no one was ready to respond in any meaningful way and you just coped.
I thought his sole focus was drinking with Olympic athletes in Italy, jetting to his girlfriend's events, going to the Poodle Club in Las Vegas, persecuting Trump's enemies, weakening the FBI, and making unsubstantiated claims that his employees have to walk back?
The Trump administration profoundly misunderstands power as being synonymous with violence, writes @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social. But we can learn a lesson about real power from a humble source — flowers.
The testimony should be fun. I think it extremely likely the Atlantic made sure the reporting was impeccable. (But there will a protect the sources issue.)
Not what the fossil fuel oligarchs had in mind, exactly. But very, very nice.
A magnificent essay by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, which every progressive mind should read RIGHT NOW.
I mean it: NOW!
THREAD: The IEA global energy review 2026
* CO2 record high, but growth nearly ground to halt
* Clean energy shaved 3bn tonnes off CO2
* Fossil-fuel power pushed into reverse
* Age of Electricity "confirmed"
* "Extraordinary" solar growth
* Batteries up 40%
* EVs up 20%
1/10
National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS) SEARCH Reports and Publications Per a court order, HHS is required to restore this website to its version as of 12:00 AM on January 29, 2025. Information on this page may be modified and/or removed in the future subject to the terms of the court's order and implemented consistent with applicable law. Any information on this page promoting gender ideology is extremely inaccurate and disconnected from truth. The Trump Administration rejects gender ideology due to the harms and divisiveness it causes. This page does not reflect reality and therefore the Administration and this Department reject it. WHAT TO KNOW The reports and publications on this page present the latest data on the national prevalence of intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and stalking among women and men in the United States.
CDC page: "Per a court order, HHS is required to restore this website to its version as of 12:00 AM on January 29, 2025.... The Trump Administration rejects gender ideology due to the harms and divisiveness it causes."
There's a lot of talk about leaving Substack & whether it will be the death-knell of your newsletter. I have been on Beehiiv for 7 months now & @tlpavlich.gay helped me run some numbers. So, was leaving Substack worth it? The answer, for me, has been a resounding "yes."
Here are the hard numbers:
Oh but I do. Read all the way to the last paragraph: "a grotesquely corrupted and unaccountable supreme court."
The men who are attempting to contextualize the horrific actions of Justin Fairfax are sending a clear signal that violence against women can be justified by supposed stress.
screenshot from linked to essay that reads: What is new is that, starting around 2015—in the wake of increased trans visibility in the media (sometimes called the “transgender tipping point”) and the Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell legalizing same-sex marriage—social conservatives began shifting their efforts toward targeting trans people instead. The attacks have since grown into a highly coordinated and well–funded movement that churns out both anti-trans and broader anti-LGBTQ legislation at unprecedented levels. This is the real reason why Republicans have become obsessed with “fairness in women’s sports,” “biological sex,” “social contagion,” “restrooms,” “grooming,” and other soundbites that didn’t exist ten or fifteen years ago. In other words, there hasn’t been an organic shift in public opinion on trans people but rather a massive astroturfing campaign against us.
...btw I link to evidence that the anti-trans backlash was a highly coordinated and well–funded (especially via right-wing orgs) movement in this essay: www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
A snarky twitter post of the Armenian embassy of Iran about Trump spending too much time with his phone instead of taking care of the American people.
Sometimes one has to agree with the Iranian´s opinion on the current occupant of the White House
The New York Times has a complicated relationship with telling the truth about the powerful, especially 45/47.
In its tech and in its eugenics, Silicon Valley has such a sad mechanical notion of what intelligence is, one bereft of moral beauty, emotional intelligence, intuition, etc. But in a more meaningful definition of intelligence the titans of industry would discover their own bereftness and dimness.
Schrodinger's strait, neither open nor not open.
Two striking things about the new surge of far-right ideology and activity inadvertently confirm that the changes over the past several decades have been immense and impactful. One is how these brutal politics are a backlash against the vision of interconnection. The other is in how the right sees the many elements—environmentalism, feminism, queer rights, equality, racial justice, and inclusion, even kindness—as related, as part of the same cosmology (or in their terms, agenda)—all part of the new world struggling to be born and sharing some ideological essentials. The dying old world is furious at all of it and lurches into monstrosity in reaction to it. I've often thought our enemies believe in us even when we don't believe in ourselves, and this is confirmation that they believe we've changed the world in consequential ways, and with a coherent vision.
The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change by Rebecca Solnit
"our enemies believe in us even when we don't believe in ourselves" @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Not new, but so perfectly put.....
I regret to say that real Sarah Palin has not really joined the rats abandoning the sinking ship named Trump, which has crashed into an iceberg named Trump, but can I still make my fracking/fractured joke with this apology about being taken in when I posted it before?
Thanks! Deleting....
Is corporate protection like that even constitutional? I guess we'll find out.
NYT headline that says “Mamdani Endorses Lindsey Boylan, Who Accused Cuomo of Sexual Harassment.” The lede says “the endorsement, in a special election for a city council seat on Manhattan’s West Side, comes as the mayor seeks to build influence within the Council"
First & foremost, @lindseyboylan.bsky.social is more than deserving of this endorsement.
Second & just as important, fuck this headline. Lindsey didn’t accuse Cuomo of harassment. Cuomo harassed Lindsey. Period. She is not an accusor. She is a survivor-advocate. Show some respect. Report the truth.
I think we call it popesplaining in this case, but I'm open to other neologisms. It is one of the most spectacular displays of arrogance (aka the deadly sin of pride) I've ever seen.
Hegseth devoutly stupid, devoutly vicious.
Can confirm
p.s. this comment on the low, low turnout for Turning Point USA / Vance yesterday....
Interview some kids aka young adults at the No Kings because there are bound to be some with different opinions than the ones he got. Also, just before March's No Kings, a sudden wave of apparently astroturf disparagement arose and had an impact, and the students he quote seem influenced by it.
