It takes a certain kind of…narcissistic nihilism to look across the country at people self-organizing against something that is generally a fairly good material symbol of the intangible class warfare that has alienated them and say, “what a silly distraction from what *really* matters.” And yet…
My god this story.
“We’re seeing the stock market over one Tom Homan bribe.”
going to take the brave public stance of saying that we don’t need a profile on a minor bret easton elllis character
6. I worked in this column while also finishing the final stages of our documentary on the Black Panther Party. It wasn’t hard to imagine COINTELPRO with an algorithm in a post citizens united landscape. Hoover would be vibrating at this kind of power.
Great writing as usual! I'm doing some research for my job on data centers and EJ concerns. Did you come across any scholarly articles about that in your research for your option piece?
4. I’ve spent some time tracking and attending local populist responses to ai data centers. Despite some critiques from left that it’s all repackaged “nimby bullshit” (as I’ve been told), I have seen organic multiracial coalitions on this issue. Esp. in places with strong environmental racism orgs
3. Some of the superpac organization around Ai is just about having too much money to burn.
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
2. You aren’t crazy. Your local and state elections do seem even more supercharged than usual. Speculative finance means donor class has more money to spend while their national voter suppression means there are fewer races to influence.
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Thank you, Victor. I spent a few weeks on this. As usual, it’s always a negotiation with length. So a few other bon mots:
1. The admin has issued DOJ guidance to challenge state laws that would regulate AI
www.wired.com/story/ai-sup...
You just know that the new Kennedy Center in two years is going to be fucking ugly and gilded with gold and who knows what else
BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
“Independent” is doing too much work in this first wave. They are arresting journalists and just like everything else they’ve done, they’re testing the limits of our resistance by starting wt vulnerable margins.
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Plan your exit strategies if you haven't already.
Another thing my rep kept emphasizing is that congressional Dems can't do much if they can't get Republicans in board and that we should be calling them too
I'm going to count Fetterman as someone who should also be receiving lots of angry phone calls and correspondence bsky.app/profile/chad...
throwing this here as well
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Indivisible has a tool here with a call script:
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The choice is impeachment and removal or calamity for the United States. I don't see how anybody watching Trump's speech in Davos can draw any other conclusion. He's a senile madman.
I hope Jaboukie is having a fantastic day.
"There comes a point where we have to start questioning whether or not he’s actually aware of what’s happening around him & the harm he’s doing. It’s similar to historical figures like Nero or Caligula. Their madness took over & they started doing wildly destructive things. Trump is in that place."
"We're the hottest country in the world."
Can you even hear yourself, man? Do you not have any self-respect left at this point?
In 1943!!!
“Nobel Literature laureate Knut Hamsun famously gave his Nobel medal and diploma to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels as a gesture of admiration for the Nazi regime, following his support for the occupation….”
I can’t trust politicians who are anti-trans. Not because of perfection. Because my friends are trans. You can’t be anti-my-friends. That’s not gonna work for me.
The Minneapolis AFL-CIO calling for a general strike is a big deal and we should treat it like a big deal.
Also it's a good idea. LFG
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My friends local to Minnesota, whom I trust a great deal, would like to share the following resources that could use support.
PowWowGrounds - Native American Coffee Shop doing direct food and supply aid to their communities-
Venmo @powwowgrounds
www.powwowgrounds.com
The part of you that believes non compliance is justification for murder … is addicted to the lies of liars
The protestors in Nepal were flying Straw Hit Pirates flags. Fandom is a much more powerful motivator than political theory these days because we exist in a realm of politics that is essentially a form of fandom. Sorry but Marx and Lenin are dead; long live Luffy and Luthen.
i think this professional liar is one of the most disgraceful people in media
if you tried to do this in the us, you'd have a billion dollar conservative moms group lobbying against it 12 hours later and credulous news articles taking their claims seriously in 24 bsky.app/profile/davi...
