At this point there's really nothing new to say.

We've been doing this for years, it's aggressively clear. She's the world's most prominent transphobe. Engaging in Harry Potter as a franchise supports her. She has explicitly said that she views that support as approval of her views.

Dems should be pushing this hard. It's the exact sort of thing Fox and Newsmax et al will never report on.

I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.

I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012.

Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place.

A thread.

I will occasionally encounter students and colleagues who think that America doesn’t have colonies, and I tend to remind them of this fact.

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Lesson 1: Do not obey in advance.
Thread of lessons from my book #OnTyranny. Written in 2016.

One thing I think people talking about the threat of authoritarian creep have gotten, if not exactly wrong, not quite right either is to frame discussion in terms of various European precedents.

Those are relevant to be sure, but we also have an American precedent - namely the South before 1965.

I've been thinking about this poem by Langston Hughes recently and although it was published in 1931, it remains relevant as ever.

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AOC comes out swinging against a Nancy Mace for targeting Sarah McBride.

"They're doing this so that Nancy Mace can ... fundraise off an email. They're not doing this to protect people. They're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kinds. And everybody should reject it. It's gross."

One annoying thing about historical research is looking up how long it took to get from A to B in the US by train in 1880 and then looking it up now and realizing it was faster in 1880.

“the American obsession with seeing oneself as a victim devoid of any agency is rotting us from the inside out.”

i really thought this country would say no. instead, it shouted yes

until the day I die I will never understand why he was even still allowed to run after this

my take in the times debate round up

Is there a bob ross equivalent for watercolors?

I saw someone who works search and rescue once say that as humans our number one survival skill is asking for help. So much of our society tries to fetishise the idea if rugged individualism ignoring how much we all need each other.