@mskanin
I embrace careful thinkers and shapers. I'm a book person in life and literary agent by day @GreatDogLiterary.com. Queries by referral only please The opposite of destruction? The Arts! Opinions my own.
YES!
Could someone please stop AIPAC? Sincerely, a Jewish grandmother.
or, more important to note: "“Truth climbs upon the bed like a black cat purring”.
And, according to neuroscience, the prefrontal cortex, responsible for judgment, often isn’t fully mature until the late 20s. So, yeah, lots of reasons we're in a mess.
‘NY Times’ Columnists Hold Roundtable To Determine What’s Wrong With Them —
We could tell 'em!
Please share widely!!!
When he was deployed in 1990 during the Gulf War, our Mark Hertling started keeping a journal, writing observations and meditations as a sort of missive for his sons.
Hertling has now edited his journals into a book—published TODAY and excerpted here:
www.thebulwark.com/p/what-it-fe...
a few of us gathered Friday night to watch; I'm old and have seen it a number of times; it resonates in new ways because of the way it relates to the moment
“Throughout history, women have been taught to stay quiet and shrink our power. The longer they hold me [in ICE detention], the more I am reminded how important my story is.”
On International Women’s Day, Leqaa Kordia reflects on solidarity among women in U.S. immigration detention.
Amid intensifying fears of Trump now launching a nuclear war, it seems worth pointing out that there’s been legislation in Congress since 2017 to prohibit a president from launching a preemptive nuclear strike without the explicit authorization of Congress.
Great to see such a large crowd out today! #standupforscience
darn!
Hello! One month from today I’m releasing my new book about our majestic universe, which thinks with poetry, quantum physics, relativity, Zhou kingdom philosophy, galaxies, particles, Akan aphorisms, Black feminism, Star Trek, Alice in Wonderland. AND it’s for all readers. 📚💙
Please preorder it! 🧵
Caitlin KALINOWSKI over X I resigned from OpenAl. I care deeply about the Robotics team and the work we built together. This wasn't an easy call. Al has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got. This was about principle, not people. I have deep respect for Sam and the team, and I'm proud of what we built together.
OpenAI head of robotics just resigned over company deal with the Pentagon saying…
“Surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got”
Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.
Yup, and do subscribe!
So let’s be clear: this type of corporate bullying is designed to rob us of our rights and freedoms.
But we will not be silenced.
www.greenpeace.org/internationa...
Let me be clear: I’m glad Kristi Noem was fired. But we still have to abolish ICE.
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
I haven't said anything about this before, bc in the grand scheme of horrors this only rates as an inconvenience, but since others are experiencing it:
Just three days after CBP arrested me for filming them outside Broadview on 9/27, my TSA Pre & Global Entry were suspended—and so were my wife's.
Following this story's publication, a local reporter found that Rakhi Israni only recently registered as a Democrat from “No Party Preference" in Nov. 2025 and infrequently voted.
Someone else tipped me off to the fact that she was endorsed by the 4th largest donor to MAGA Inc/
"Screw Covid, I'm going to Sturgis!" The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, held in August 2020, was the epitome of the individual choice mindset. Of course it spread cases outward and caused infections, illness, and death. A new research paper allows us to watch the Sturgis Covid wave spread across the US.
"They put the number of cases connected to Sturgis in the range of 115,000-260,000, or 10 to 20 percent of all cases in the US at the time"
From my essay, "The plan is to have no plan." May 2020. pressthink.org/2020/05/the-...
fight the war-mongers, of course
Pete Hegseth is not "a former member of the press at Fox," as MS NOW just said.
Fox News is not journalism. It's anti-journalism. It makes people less informed than they were before.
Hegseth is a former fascist propagandist who has moved on to become a war criminal.
Spanish PM Sánchez responds to Trump:
"Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."
yup
and, as a 4 year old I have to say, but it's true, too, all fundamentalism is the same these crackers are moon rakers
