Geoffrey Deibel

People who didn’t understand Kendrick Lamar‘s halftime show also don’t understand how tariffs work.

The list of grants cancelled in the name of stopping "woke" or "DEI" is absolutely outrageous. Each of them is critical science, funded through a meritocratic process, and following the law and according to rules established by Congress. Every researcher and every teacher should oppose these cuts.

Kolo Muani looks like the miss there, although it wouldn’t have necessarily prevented our current predicament.

Asking Dems to be strategic is a fools errand… this is a party who couldn’t even be bothered to confirm the Rep on the NLRB that would have maintained their majority and protected labor in the US. DON’T put your faith in the DNC. This has to be last time we let them abandon us.

Federal workers have filed a lawsuit to stop the federal government’s HR office from emailing all civilian staff simultaneously, citing privacy violations.

Tariffs are bad. Picking fights with allies and key trade partners is stupid. Appointing a violent drunk to a key cabinet position is outrageous. The president lives up to his reputation for being perhaps the worst possible American, and everyone who voted for him owns this.

Have that Michael Oliver you absolute melt. I hope your dinner gets burnt, your boiler breaks down, your garden fence gets blown down in the wind and your dog has a shit on the carpet and the robot hoover accidentally turns on and spreads it round the house. #arsenal

Let me just add:

Not only would it be wrong. It also would not be even slightly hilarious.

Today was the first meeting of my AI and music class, and in the first hour we drew a direct line from AI slop Xmas music to the wildfires raging in LA right now. If you teach AI and don’t discuss its immediate climate impacts, you need to start doing it. Every single day. Here are some sources (🧵):

Zuckerberg is gonna throw three sig heils now, just to prove he has masculine energy.

Fictitious MLK Jr. quote , this is not my dream.

Solidarity and resistance is the only way forward...✊

Sad but true, and particularly apt for today.

Of course he did.

🇮🇷 Parastoo Ahmadi live-streamed the concert on YouTube. There has been outrage over her arrest as women continue to defy regime’s harsh laws

Campbell’s witty response to this homophobe makes me want to enjoy some of their delicious chicken noodle soup right now! 🍜 🏳️‍🌈

I think the transgender kids are the bravest kids right now that we see; they're as brave as my generation was in breaking down segregation. They're breaking down-I don't have the word for it right now-but it's gender prejudice, and [the idea that] somebody has decided that they can tell you who you are, what your name should be, and how you should look. And those youngsters are saying, "No, I can decide who I am, what my name should be." Everybody's mad at me like, You should be a girl because we've decided you're a girl. And they say, "Well, who the hell are you?" I can decide that I'm a boy. And if it makes me happy, what does it mean to you? And I can decide that my name is John. And if you don't like that my name is Geraldine, why can't you name yourself? And if the people who know you and love you-or have to talk to you, maybe they don't even love you but they have to talk to you -you can tell them, “This is my name, and I would like to be referred to in that way."

This interview with Nikki Giovanni from earlier this year should be required reading. oxfordamerican.org/web-only/nik...

i had forgotten what it was like to watch comrades line up to defend the politics of the unabomber, a guy who flirted with leftist thought only to abandon it wholesale for rightwing reactionary violence

Don’t.

Wawww…thanks comrade!!

In other news, if you look back in history, segregation used to be legal.

anyone making the argument that there are too many humans or that humans are “the virus” can please feel free to take the One Conrete Step that will solve it and make an example of themselves

No, I don't want Hunter Biden to be in jail. My life is not improved either way if he's pardoned or not pardoned. Stop centering him.

I'm centering the 2 million+ people unfairly in prison and jail under racistly applied and excessively harsh drug and weapons sentencing laws put in place by Biden.

Maybe a little shameless self-promotion for my first post? Check out my solo recording on BC: geoffreydeibel.bandcamp.com/album/ex-uno...