Leigh Honeywell
@hypatia.bsky.social
Security, diversity, housing, Canadian stuff 🇨🇦. Cofounder and CEO of @tallpoppy.bsky.social; more at leighhoneywell.com
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Quite a world when a federal judge has to call in a federal official to specifically tell him he can't use tear gas on children in Halloween costumes
October 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Quite a world when a federal judge has to call in a federal official to specifically tell him he can't use tear gas on children in Halloween costumes
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the stadium stopped selling alcohol seven innings ago. everyone at this game is sober now
October 28, 2025 at 5:31 AM
the stadium stopped selling alcohol seven innings ago. everyone at this game is sober now
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The reason they're coming after this place is because they can't control the people on it and it drives them nuts.
October 17, 2025 at 11:16 PM
The reason they're coming after this place is because they can't control the people on it and it drives them nuts.
My mum is knocking it out of the park as a grandmother in many ways, but one of them is that she has wildcrafted two nice strollers from the curb just in her regular travels, not even looking for them on garbage day or w/e
October 3, 2025 at 5:46 PM
My mum is knocking it out of the park as a grandmother in many ways, but one of them is that she has wildcrafted two nice strollers from the curb just in her regular travels, not even looking for them on garbage day or w/e
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I said for years that the only way to permanently reduce migration to the United States was to destroy the vision that the world had of this country as the land of opportunity.
That wasn't a goddam suggestion!
That wasn't a goddam suggestion!
"'My main takeaway is that America is not a safe place to work,' Mr. Park said. 'I don’t think I would go there again to work.'" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/w...
South Koreans Describe Fear and Anger After Georgia ICE Raid
Some of the workers arrested this month at a Hyundai-LG factory said that although they had entered the United States under murky circumstances, they had always planned to return home.
www.nytimes.com
September 25, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I said for years that the only way to permanently reduce migration to the United States was to destroy the vision that the world had of this country as the land of opportunity.
That wasn't a goddam suggestion!
That wasn't a goddam suggestion!
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i've been studying the right-wing for over a decade
what is happening now in online right-wing spaces is fucking me up in ways that i'm currently unprepared for and don't know how to cope with
what is happening now in online right-wing spaces is fucking me up in ways that i'm currently unprepared for and don't know how to cope with
YouTube removed a channel that was dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being shot in the head following 404 Media’s request for comment. The videos were clearly generated with Google’s new AI video generator tool.
🔗 www.404media.co/ai-generated...
🔗 www.404media.co/ai-generated...
AI-Generated YouTube Channel Uploaded Nothing But Videos of Women Being Shot
YouTube removed a channel that posted nothing but graphic Veo-generated videos of women being shot after 404 Media reached out for comment.
www.404media.co
September 23, 2025 at 10:48 PM
i've been studying the right-wing for over a decade
what is happening now in online right-wing spaces is fucking me up in ways that i'm currently unprepared for and don't know how to cope with
what is happening now in online right-wing spaces is fucking me up in ways that i'm currently unprepared for and don't know how to cope with
If our little guy ends up somewhere on the spectrum, I’m sure it will be all the Tylenol I took during my pregnancy, and not the fact that both of his parents have ham radio licenses 🤪
September 23, 2025 at 2:54 PM
If our little guy ends up somewhere on the spectrum, I’m sure it will be all the Tylenol I took during my pregnancy, and not the fact that both of his parents have ham radio licenses 🤪
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once again, if tylenol caused autism, america would have a better rail system
September 22, 2025 at 11:16 PM
once again, if tylenol caused autism, america would have a better rail system
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I took Tylenol as needed throughout my pregnancy. I am a doctor. I order Tylenol for pregnant women regularly. Tylenol is safe in pregnancy. RFK Jr is ignoring a huge recent well-done study because he doesn't like the answer it gives. There is no causality between Tylenol and autism.
You have no idea how much I despite these anti-science dipshits for making pregnant women terrified of taking (safe, mild, proven) pain relief.
September 22, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I took Tylenol as needed throughout my pregnancy. I am a doctor. I order Tylenol for pregnant women regularly. Tylenol is safe in pregnancy. RFK Jr is ignoring a huge recent well-done study because he doesn't like the answer it gives. There is no causality between Tylenol and autism.
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One reason I do not think Trump is going to create a 1,000 year reich is because he failed to cancel a middling funnyman and immediately pivoted to trying to outlaw not having a headache.
September 22, 2025 at 10:18 PM
One reason I do not think Trump is going to create a 1,000 year reich is because he failed to cancel a middling funnyman and immediately pivoted to trying to outlaw not having a headache.
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This isn't about antifa, this is about the NGO's. The goal here is to eliminate philanthropic support to major liberal groups through intimidation. They're going to starve liberal groups of funding while hitting them with millions in legal fees from investigations.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Trump to sign order designating antifa a terrorist organization
U.S. President Donald Trump will sign an executive order as soon as Monday designating the antifa movement a "terrorist organization," the White House said, after promising actions targeting left-wing groups following Charlie Kirk's assassination.
www.reuters.com
September 22, 2025 at 8:56 PM
This isn't about antifa, this is about the NGO's. The goal here is to eliminate philanthropic support to major liberal groups through intimidation. They're going to starve liberal groups of funding while hitting them with millions in legal fees from investigations.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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i usually hate it when business types come up with business neologisms for the noble art of shirking.
but i think i'll let them have "workslop". when your coworker gives you AI work pseudo-product that saves time for him (consistently a him) and takes up yours instead.
hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...
but i think i'll let them have "workslop". when your coworker gives you AI work pseudo-product that saves time for him (consistently a him) and takes up yours instead.
hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...
AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity
Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appea...
hbr.org
September 22, 2025 at 10:35 PM
i usually hate it when business types come up with business neologisms for the noble art of shirking.
but i think i'll let them have "workslop". when your coworker gives you AI work pseudo-product that saves time for him (consistently a him) and takes up yours instead.
hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...
but i think i'll let them have "workslop". when your coworker gives you AI work pseudo-product that saves time for him (consistently a him) and takes up yours instead.
hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...
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Remember when I said Trump’s H-1B policy sounded like a distillation of viral tweets?
September 20, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Remember when I said Trump’s H-1B policy sounded like a distillation of viral tweets?
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The defining lesson of this first year of Trump authoritarianism is that kowtowing & capitulating yields zero permanent benefit and only emboldens the admin to come after you more.
This critical lesson was first documented in the landmark political science treatise “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.”
This critical lesson was first documented in the landmark political science treatise “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.”
Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."
So, a university president fired a professor because they taught a course that discussed there being more than two genders, and now the university president is being fired for not having fired the professor quickly enough, is where we're at. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...
September 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The defining lesson of this first year of Trump authoritarianism is that kowtowing & capitulating yields zero permanent benefit and only emboldens the admin to come after you more.
This critical lesson was first documented in the landmark political science treatise “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.”
This critical lesson was first documented in the landmark political science treatise “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.”
Having been in the US on one of these visas… lol, lmao
President Trump plans to add a $100,000 fee to H-1B visa applications in the administration’s latest crackdown on a system it says is used by tech companies to avoid hiring American workers.
Trump to Add $100,000 Fee to H-1B Visas
The move, expected as soon as Friday, would upend a program for foreign workers that the president says tech companies overuse.
on.wsj.com
September 19, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Having been in the US on one of these visas… lol, lmao
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The thing Eisner identifies that so many have missed abt the dangerous & escalating 1A restrictions is that the overwhelming majority of us do not have the resources to challenge the state in this way. If our key institutions cave in this moment, that opens the floodgates.
Michael Eisner, who served as CEO of Disney for 21 years and acquired ABC while he was in charge, slams his successor Bob Iger for bending the knee.
September 19, 2025 at 7:06 PM
The thing Eisner identifies that so many have missed abt the dangerous & escalating 1A restrictions is that the overwhelming majority of us do not have the resources to challenge the state in this way. If our key institutions cave in this moment, that opens the floodgates.
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I find this extremely chilling:
I spoke w a reporter this morning about Kimmel. (Reporter was / is great) They got back to me a short while ago to say they sought White House comment & WH demands to know first which experts they spoke with. I told reporter I'm happy to be quoted IN THE STORY but 1/x
I spoke w a reporter this morning about Kimmel. (Reporter was / is great) They got back to me a short while ago to say they sought White House comment & WH demands to know first which experts they spoke with. I told reporter I'm happy to be quoted IN THE STORY but 1/x
September 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I find this extremely chilling:
I spoke w a reporter this morning about Kimmel. (Reporter was / is great) They got back to me a short while ago to say they sought White House comment & WH demands to know first which experts they spoke with. I told reporter I'm happy to be quoted IN THE STORY but 1/x
I spoke w a reporter this morning about Kimmel. (Reporter was / is great) They got back to me a short while ago to say they sought White House comment & WH demands to know first which experts they spoke with. I told reporter I'm happy to be quoted IN THE STORY but 1/x
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I experienced this last week & refused, saying I had never before been asked to provide the names of any analysts I was planning to quote to get a comment. Spox replied that maybe they were D donors. (In that case, it was 3 retired top military JAG officers.) I guess that was not a weird oneoff.
we wrote about this WH tactic recently. they’re asking journalists for expert source names and then using them to look up political donations in FEC records to try to discredit those sources as biased.
www.npr.org/2025/08/18/n...
www.npr.org/2025/08/18/n...
I had this exact same experience this morning. Same reporter as Heidi.
This is *not* normal.
I have spoken to the press on these issues for two decades. No government official has ever demanded to know my identity in order to give a comment on a story.
This is *not* normal.
I have spoken to the press on these issues for two decades. No government official has ever demanded to know my identity in order to give a comment on a story.
September 19, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I experienced this last week & refused, saying I had never before been asked to provide the names of any analysts I was planning to quote to get a comment. Spox replied that maybe they were D donors. (In that case, it was 3 retired top military JAG officers.) I guess that was not a weird oneoff.
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Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.
September 18, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.
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It’s weird that “euthanasia” is how this is being described when what kilmeade actually suggested is an execution.
In a sane world, Fox host Brian Kilmeade would be fired and shunned for his depraved comments that homeless people should be euthanized. That’s sick (and deeply ignorant), but sicker still is that it’s tolerated.
September 13, 2025 at 7:20 PM
It’s weird that “euthanasia” is how this is being described when what kilmeade actually suggested is an execution.
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as noted in the @ifbookspod.bsky.social episode on his book, TCW has no theory of mind for the right and does not regard them as individual actors with agency. the right is merely a reactive force responding at all times to progressive excess
I regret to inform you that Thomas Chatterton Williams is at it again.
Chris Rufo is "learning" to use cancel culture. What the fuck do you think his entire career is based on?
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Chris Rufo is "learning" to use cancel culture. What the fuck do you think his entire career is based on?
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Christopher Rufo’s Cancel Culture
The right-wing activist is learning from his enemies—and changing the rules of the culture war.
www.theatlantic.com
September 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
as noted in the @ifbookspod.bsky.social episode on his book, TCW has no theory of mind for the right and does not regard them as individual actors with agency. the right is merely a reactive force responding at all times to progressive excess
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Today in unhelpful AI suggestions
September 13, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Today in unhelpful AI suggestions
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![Leonard Bonarek @lennibug.bsky.social • 3h
Why does it have to be an Asian guy? The menswear guy with a rare case of bad taste
derek guy
@dieworkwear.bsky.s... • 4h
the year is 2050. you ask Al how to wear a suit. the computer spits out info framed as objective facts, even though these are totally made up rules invented by an asian guy in 2025 while he was sitting on a toilet
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social • 57m
me breaking it to you that im the asian guy
[photo of a man gently placing his hand on the shoulder of another man]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:g2p3bnbzcvcbohfpvjxfazqv/bafkreiarzesusysqamavud4ekg6wkamx2uzt5ua4nmiee77cweodbmedkm@jpeg)
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Includes a good explainer on why actual “burner phones” are impractical overkill for the vast majority of people, and *not* equivalent to “secondary phone you only use at protests or in emergencies” (which is what most ppl seem to mean when they say “burner phone”)
I wrote a bit about options for phones at protests, explaining the benefits and drawbacks, and added some security tips at the end.
Options for Phones at Protests
Simply showing up to a protest leaves you susceptible to all sorts of surveillance, including cameras, drones, facial recognition, and more. There's not always a lot you can do about pernicious street...
blog.yaelwrites.com
September 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Includes a good explainer on why actual “burner phones” are impractical overkill for the vast majority of people, and *not* equivalent to “secondary phone you only use at protests or in emergencies” (which is what most ppl seem to mean when they say “burner phone”)