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War, robots, & bad futures but imagining better. I edit @cipolicy.bsky.social's International Policy Journal, opinions my own. Unitarian Universalist. He/him. Husband to @alymay.bsky.social & father of 2. Front takes towards enemies.
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In case you were looking for this tonight … How The 25th Amendment Actually Works — And What Nobody's Ever Figured Out www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chri...
@newyorker.com : I have found an incorrect fact in your article on fact-checking. P. 26 of the paper edition: "a reactor that enriched plutonium." Reactors breed or produce plutonium. Enrichment is a different process. It is never applied to plutonium.
bought gruet and sparkling cider just in case
Mamdani on Nadler: Just read that last sentence. Perfect.
Everyone expects it's him going into hospice but I bet it's a new war and maybe also that there will live executions on the White House lawn
Important to remember that during COVID a lot of people primarily experienced the world online and so when you hear them resurrecting their gripes it’s actually just them getting mad again about the things they saw *on social media*
the virgin common sense rationalist: erm, everyone knows that the universe is a cold and uncaring structure of blind chaos the chad aperture of the universe witnessing itself: wow, i live here? splendid
The bank app is telling me to "tap & pay like a boss😏" and "rally my crew". I am 37 years old and you are the bank. Don't talk to me this way.
it is nice to dream
[Wonderwall playing over a montage of people smashing down the border barrier]
The Lord The Of The Two Rings Towers
This is one those things you see and you think "how much longer can @schumer.senate.gov let this guy go on?" but I actually think it's too late to stop him.
Touchgrassism
When unions are strong, workers are strong, our economy is strong, and our state is strong. I’m thrilled that labor has such strong connections across our state and I will always work for our working families. Happy Labor Day, everyone!
[small domino] consumer choices have a politics [big domino] Imaking lists of people to harrass for posting elsewhere
yeah, Nate Silver. I sometime use it for other people who have media-adjacent careers and are primarily defined by posting
100% guaranteed that a discourse elemental saying the phrase "blueskyism" on X meant a full day of debate here
Boomers around me in the crowd gave some polite applause, seemed a bit unsure whether they should clap for somebody w “socialist” in his title. DSA Sean seemed to win them over with lines like “The ruling class is organized, and as long as we are not, we’re going to see another Trumpian president!”
Fear of crime: an unholy alliance between politicians that need a cudgel, local news that needs clicks, social media's ability to share viral anecdotal crime stories, police that need justification to exist, and the fact that police/surveillance tech is a multi-billion dollar industry, and racism.
If Silver has a point (I'm not giving him much of one) it's "sincere campaign leftism is better than posting cringe" which is so common sense that even he could get there. But *defining* cringe is tricky, as for Silver it's all of this site & for me it's the people saying slurs in his replies on X.
My hottest take about politics is that while basically everything matters in an election — message, policy, outreach to various groups, campaign organization, etc. — what matters more than anything isn’t whether a political ideology is “appealing” but whether a *candidate* is good.
✅ Purple state turned blue through diligent work ✅ Speaks rural without sounding yokel ✅ By necessity mastered coalition work ✅ Quiet advocacy for federal jobs outside the DMV 💣 Do not ask what most of those jobs are ✅ Green transition as vital while built on a fossil fuel economy
precision targeted to exactly people like us and what a blessing
The Defenestration of Brad
he's activated Clausewitz
beat me to it
Extremely tricky to match the material conditions that suggest otherwise with the immaterial landscape of fear in which especially the oldest, best-off generation lives
The thing that often blows by is not only is crime the lowest its been for any non-senior citizen's life, it has been roughly that safe for *fifteen years*. We have had fifteen years of steady, low crime while the irrational freakout over crime has relentlessly grown to a fevered, disordered pitch.
Illustration by Ernst Schneidler, from Deutsche Märchen seit Grimm (1919). Source: University of Connecticut Libraries / Internet Archive https://pdimagearchive.org/images/d453cb25-5adf-4859-ae72-5c1552133526 #initials #torches #lamps #typography #design #walking #lettering #art #publicdomain
The Pilgrim — 🖼️ Prints www.inprnt.com/gallery/helv... 🃏 The Wormsong Oracle Deck helveticablanc.bigcartel.com
MAHA’s central thesis is that modern medicine is bad, unless it’s gear
Anglo-Saxons, 1067: Hwæt is happening Normans: Nous avons un mot pour cą
They put a hat on a random Earthworm Jim individual found at the bottom of a keg and you’re making jokes about it? They’re controlling him with a Neuralink paired to a Motorola Razr via Bluetooth and you think it’s meme time?
Every Labor Day I celebrate the work of Ben Shahn, friend of the labor movement and workers everywhere.
isn’t this a Wilco song?
and that is beautiful bsky.app/profile/athe...
happy labor day everyone. now more than ever we got to remember what it's about.
Dreaming of the day the Hague Invasion Act is repealed and we make handcuffed war criminals our greatest export. (thanks @mauditanglais.ca for the juxtaposition)
We back at the International Criminal Court in The Hague ⚖️ 🇺🇳
I realize cruelties have always abounded and it's not like this is a profound revelation but there's something of a real suckerpunch to checking the news after the kids are asleep and learning of another set of fresh horrors inflicted by choice upon others by our government for the sake of cruelty.
LCD Soundsystem Your teens have been innoculated from the 'Indie Sleaze' revival because they grew up with "Someone Great" as a lullaby. When you talk about your youth, you mention concerts more than protests, but only because you're embarrassed you attended the Rally to Restore Fear And/Or Sanity.
I've had it since I was like 15
Okay, here's what I know and don't know* about the planes that were supposed to take children to Guatemala today. *None of this flight tracking would be necessary if ICE Air didn't keep its operation secret and if Drew Ensign didn't talk to the court in riddles. 1/
Carlsbad Caverns is unbelievably good, and once again I am furious at the Trump administration for cutting funding and staff at the national parks.
Tonight while delaying bedtime my toddler held a $10 Ukulele and strummed as he shouted "Triangle man! triangle man! triangle man! triangle man!" because he heard Particle Man once this morning and wanted to sing it. I'd be lying if I said this wasn't everything I hoped for about becoming a dad.
"would the Baileys defect to the GOP or back Zohran through the DSA, the longest debate inside Schumer's mind"
Going to send this chart on a postcard to Schumer and sign it from The Baileys to see if he has a pulse
right well yes that's what would have ruled. He's a minor warlord who is more capable than the Alliance at the start of Andor and completely outclassed by it at the end. I want the moment where he walks away & where his outfit is crushed by its smallness before the events of Rogue One
well in fairness they started with the movie
[I'm sorry about this] Where we go one we do go gentle into that good night
Bad Batch Saw gets a little closer to S1 Andor Saw but still very early in his arc
My strongest take on Andor S2 is that Saw was done the dirtiest by having to fit the rest of the show into just 12 episodes, leaving Rebels Saw (genocidal against separatists, reckless as well as paranoid, cartoonishly violent compared to Mon Mothma) as the contemporaneous portrait without depth.
The East Coast was not one big "wild" forest but a carefully and intentionally managed landscape of excellent grazing and medicinal plants in oak, hickory, and longleaf pine savannahs Native people created with prescribed fire. Only damp areas stayed unburned. Amazing bison and elk grazing.
as neutrally as possible: she has met the moment
a real, ahem, mask-off moment
a shame that the highest profile reporter on online culture has been cooking in poster's madness for at least 5 years, almost certainly longer
do think in one way 2024 is kinda ominous for the GOP because they had a 6 point national swing, a swing so wide that basically only a dozen or two counties even slightly swung left (and all those pretty mildly), and that put together a shallow EC majority and very sketchy House majority
Anna has had excellent coverage of this developing case in which the Trump administration tried to use the holiday weekend to secretly and illegally deport children.
Howdy im the sheriff of Duplos
MLG is the best governor NM has had in my lifetime and, while she's had stumbles, she'd been incredible on public health and managed to steer our (poor! rural! vast!) state through the pandemic well while neighbors keep inflicting own-goals that bleed over onto our population.
consider it public domain, all the better to ensure Altman fanboys and the like are publicly owned
You can't have a slur against AI, but you can against the people who believe in AI personhood, and that one is "botlickers"
Wide Awakes in the tweets, Zouaves in the streets
the energy here reminded me of this old gem
My manifesto of sorts for what the world needs from US foreign policy in this moment: “repudiate hair-of-the-dog logic in global affairs. If militarized geopolitics is a problem, its solution will not be reducible to still more militarized geopolitics.” www.un-diplomatic.com/p/peace-and-...
it's either a sign of my broken brain and/or how rough transit is in the rest of the country that I keep seeing posts of the National Guard stationed in metro stations and my second reaction (after "well that's a little much") is "gosh I miss the Metro."
Fojol Fusilade
I firmly believe that "hey man look at all this delicious food immigrants have made and keep making" is a really powerful weapon for pro-immigration advocacy.
(as best I could find, DC didn't raise its own Zouaves in the Civil War but if I missed it I'd love to be proven wrong)
[Edward Sharpeshooter and the District Heroes] Home rule is wherever locals are sovereign too
Revitalization of nostalgic jugband styling in the wale of stomp-clap-hey? Irregular formations with anti-neoconfederate intent? Combat fashion as contrast and spectacle? Oh band of brothers, where art thou? It's time for someone in Washington to found the District Zouaves.
Robin Eisenberg is a delightful artist, been meaning to get in since it was announced she did design for it.
"God knows what the algorithm wants from you on any given day. What you need is a scene." open.substack.com/pub/mattdpea...
It’s really not great that Newsom is literally running the entire set of tactics for conspiratorial influencer driven fascism
Seen on my run in Rock Creek Park today. Parking lot near Beach and Tilden. Paper taped on over a Harris 2024 sign.
Daniel Tiger is Mister Rogers' Byzantine Empire
Can't afford to care for your kids; can't afford to care for your parents; can't afford to care for yourself—America makes it hard to care for each other, yet we have unlimited opportunity to be selfish or cruel. Demand a system with less friction and bullshit—it's "unrealistic" or "impractical."
Folks,,,,, www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/622555...
They Might Be Giants (For Kids) You sung "particle man" as a lullaby & think "Ana Ng" would have been your walk-on song. In the part of the city that used to be a suburb you put out lawn signs for WFP-endorsed candidates & eagerly point out anarchist stickers to your tween bsky.app/profile/ianb...
We support the plural and singular They Might Be Giants
Also, “crime” would be way down but theft, violence, and murder would all be common, except it would be the state and well-connected actors perpetrating it and there would be no recourse
They Might Be Giants KEXP set!!
In Kochi City Station there’s a statue of Berobero No Kamisama, a nude, pink, spiral-eyed figure who is the local god for drunkards.
The national security mindset ends at the place where all crime requires military occupation. This was a big part of my book. When petty crime is perceived to have been done by a foreigner, suddenly the federal government gets involved because it’s not just petty crime, now it’s national security.
glad you're okay man
what is to be done, etc
it's not unrelated at least
replacing Batman fight onomatopoeiae with old midwestern brewery names
Time to share my favorite Machiavelli, from the cartoonist Don MacDonald's book of the same name
I'm riffing on @lastpositivist.bsky.social here without the deep grounding in the material, so forgive me if I'm getting this wrong, but this distinction is not about how evocative the writing is (dull poets & lively bureaucrats abound) but how they intend to see the work implemented & to what end
Second reconstruction? Second reconstruction tonight, queen?
I don't have an ounce in me of what you would call patriotism but it makes me fucking sick to see neoconfederates controlling everything.
Worth thinking about how Chris Van Hollen, hardly a ultra left-wing firebrand, has accumulated a ton of credit over the last few years from the growing pro-Palestine constituency of the DP by simply 1) Demanding that there be justice for Shireen Abu Akleh, 2) Demanding that US law is adhered to.
oh that rules
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