This is one of the most important speeches I've given about our work, especially in a time of Orwellian falsity. If we don't demand courage and truth from universities, news media, legal orgs, etc., we will not survive this moment as a functioning society. www.youtube.com/watch?v=trck...

One of the most clarifying things I've seen in the past few weeks is "de-escalate all conflict that is not with the enemy."

A+ community note.

But now is a fascist tipping point. Any person of goodwill in these institutions needs to be organizing within them to prevent capitulation to fascists. The more who bend the knee, the closer it comes to being impossible to stop them. You must organize right now.

My friend and screenwriter @toddalcott.bsky.social wrote this, and it makes a hell of a lot of sense.

Is anybody going to ask the entirely relevant questions of Trump and his DEIA for incompetent Americans transportation chief Duffy if the freeze in hiring of these critical functionaries contributed to the accident?

Or is the mainstream “free press” gonna roll over for Trump like saps, again?

BREAKING: The Department of Veterans Affairs has CANCELLED SUICIDE PREVENTION TRAINING because it includes considerations for the LGBTQ+ community.

Veterans suicide.

One thing that shaped me was when I was writing my college thesis on health insurance I met with leading economists, lawyers, political scientists, and industry officials and no person could point to a single reason the private health insurance industry existed.

Join me tomorrow on the @dailybeanspod.bsky.social as I regale you with stories of stealing baby jesuses as a misguided teen. Also, the headlines. With swearing. Free wherever you get em. Please subscribe here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

THREAD. I've been thinking a lot about Matt Yglesias's comment below about how it couldn't possibly be that U.S. prosecutors would decide to ignore crimes committed by rich people.

And Josh's @laurajanegrace.bsky.social piece from his favorite albums of the year is a play on your fav hippie soap.

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