Charles Starrett (not the Durango Kid)
@cstarrett.bsky.social
@cstarrett most places. better.boston/@cstarrett on Mastadon. Facilitating leadership and well-being at work @ SoulCo. Practicing the Art of Possibility. He/Him. Former home dad, Harvard & NECmusic alum, 한국어 appreciator, Theory U, electronic music; TTRPGs
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Americans are fed up with the political establishment and an economy rigged against the working class.
Zohran Mamdani understands this well. Democratic leadership should be supporting him.
Zohran Mamdani understands this well. Democratic leadership should be supporting him.
What Zohran Mamdani Can Teach Democrats
Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
October 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Americans are fed up with the political establishment and an economy rigged against the working class.
Zohran Mamdani understands this well. Democratic leadership should be supporting him.
Zohran Mamdani understands this well. Democratic leadership should be supporting him.
Keep calling these “Kavanaugh Stops.” We have to push back on racist decisions and make SCOTUS own them.
Starting Point: The rise of the 'Kavanaugh stop'
mailchi.mp
October 7, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Keep calling these “Kavanaugh Stops.” We have to push back on racist decisions and make SCOTUS own them.
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Remember when someone got mad at me for calling the Post a Trump rag recently? Well.
Scoop: Status has obtained the termination letter The Washington Post sent to @karenattiah.bsky.social, in which it informed her that she was being fired for social media posts "about white men."
Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/karen-atti...
Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/karen-atti...
Fired By The Post
The Washington Post said it fired Karen Attiah over comments she made about white men in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s death, Status has learned.
www.status.news
September 16, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Remember when someone got mad at me for calling the Post a Trump rag recently? Well.
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/3 Previously it has been the Right that more reliably asserted that “hate speech” was not a First Amendment exception. But the Right’s pretense to caring about actual freedom of speech has been revealed to be sheer bunk.
September 16, 2025 at 1:06 AM
/3 Previously it has been the Right that more reliably asserted that “hate speech” was not a First Amendment exception. But the Right’s pretense to caring about actual freedom of speech has been revealed to be sheer bunk.
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Yale Law School never beating the “they don’t teach law at Yale” allegations
September 6, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Yale Law School never beating the “they don’t teach law at Yale” allegations
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Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing
Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing
LOS ANGELES—Responding to escalating clashes between civilian activists and militarized immigration authorities, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass publicly urged protesters Monday not to give the Trump adm...
theonion.com
September 6, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing
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"The problem with having a plan is that you can only plan what's already in your mind. So that's not opening any doors."
– Katrine Amsler, Episode 10 #Creativity #GameAudio
Photo by Alvaro Reyes on Unsplash
– Katrine Amsler, Episode 10 #Creativity #GameAudio
Photo by Alvaro Reyes on Unsplash
September 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
"The problem with having a plan is that you can only plan what's already in your mind. So that's not opening any doors."
– Katrine Amsler, Episode 10 #Creativity #GameAudio
Photo by Alvaro Reyes on Unsplash
– Katrine Amsler, Episode 10 #Creativity #GameAudio
Photo by Alvaro Reyes on Unsplash
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M8C (Dirtywave M8 Companion) a remote display app for your Model:01 and Model:02 is now available free to download on the iOS Appstore.
September 2, 2025 at 5:28 PM
M8C (Dirtywave M8 Companion) a remote display app for your Model:01 and Model:02 is now available free to download on the iOS Appstore.
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"Every tyrant falls in the end. What do you want to do that will outlive him? What part of your vision of the world will you work to build?"
I wrote about what happens when Trump is gone, and how remembering that he *will* be gone before you might help shape what kind of actions to think about taking today.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/when-trump...
degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/when-trump...
August 27, 2025 at 1:53 PM
"Every tyrant falls in the end. What do you want to do that will outlive him? What part of your vision of the world will you work to build?"
Apparently unpopular opinion: there’s nothing good about a dictatorship.
Related thought: I don’t want a dictatorship.
Related thought: I don’t want a dictatorship.
August 26, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Apparently unpopular opinion: there’s nothing good about a dictatorship.
Related thought: I don’t want a dictatorship.
Related thought: I don’t want a dictatorship.
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For the second straight day, Trump has mused about Americans preferring a dictatorship.
Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
August 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
For the second straight day, Trump has mused about Americans preferring a dictatorship.
Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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This is the second day in a row he’s said this. This is an intentional normalization effort.
Trump: "The line is that I'm a dictator, but I stop crime. So a lot of people say, 'You know, if that's the case, I'd rather have a dictator.'"
August 26, 2025 at 5:12 PM
This is the second day in a row he’s said this. This is an intentional normalization effort.
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This. A young person dies by suicide at the blatant encouragement of an Ai chatbot, and that parent company, OpenAI, has contracted with the 2nd largest teachers' union to provide guidance on Ai in schools?! It's outrageous. As an AFT member, I repeat my calls for @rweingarten.bsky.social to resign.
OpenAI is one of the monstrous companies @rweingarten.bsky.social has partnered with to push "A.i." into schools. INTO SCHOOLS.
Tell your schools HELL NO TO "A.i."
www.chalkbeat.org/2025/07/08/o...
Tell your schools HELL NO TO "A.i."
www.chalkbeat.org/2025/07/08/o...
August 26, 2025 at 5:19 PM
This. A young person dies by suicide at the blatant encouragement of an Ai chatbot, and that parent company, OpenAI, has contracted with the 2nd largest teachers' union to provide guidance on Ai in schools?! It's outrageous. As an AFT member, I repeat my calls for @rweingarten.bsky.social to resign.
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JUST IN: Kilmar Abrego Garcia has filed a new federal lawsuit in Maryland.
Since it's a habeas corpus case, the petition isn't public now, but his lawyer said it challenges the Trump admin's scheme to send him to Uganda. www.allrisenews.com/p/kilmar-abr...
Since it's a habeas corpus case, the petition isn't public now, but his lawyer said it challenges the Trump admin's scheme to send him to Uganda. www.allrisenews.com/p/kilmar-abr...
August 25, 2025 at 12:20 PM
JUST IN: Kilmar Abrego Garcia has filed a new federal lawsuit in Maryland.
Since it's a habeas corpus case, the petition isn't public now, but his lawyer said it challenges the Trump admin's scheme to send him to Uganda. www.allrisenews.com/p/kilmar-abr...
Since it's a habeas corpus case, the petition isn't public now, but his lawyer said it challenges the Trump admin's scheme to send him to Uganda. www.allrisenews.com/p/kilmar-abr...
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Today I wrote about a general tendency to accept atrocious premises, and the need to reject fascism's false choices in order to find expansive and imaginative paths forward.
Breaking the premise, embracing the obstacles, pursing everything.
www.the-reframe.com/there-is-no-...
Breaking the premise, embracing the obstacles, pursing everything.
www.the-reframe.com/there-is-no-...
There Is No Trolley Problem
We actually aren't constrained into atrocious premises by thought exercises. Obstacles are a reason to fight, not an excuse to quit. Our friends and neighbors aren't distractions..
www.the-reframe.com
August 24, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Today I wrote about a general tendency to accept atrocious premises, and the need to reject fascism's false choices in order to find expansive and imaginative paths forward.
Breaking the premise, embracing the obstacles, pursing everything.
www.the-reframe.com/there-is-no-...
Breaking the premise, embracing the obstacles, pursing everything.
www.the-reframe.com/there-is-no-...
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It’s wild, absolutely wild, how for EVERY. SINGLE. CITY. Trump wants to militarize I can post data showing how crime is plummeting in all of them without any federal invasion…
… and the press KEEPS stenographing the naked bad-faith claims about “fighting crime!” in the headlines.
Infuriating.
… and the press KEEPS stenographing the naked bad-faith claims about “fighting crime!” in the headlines.
Infuriating.
Giant YTD drops in Chicago for basically all crimes.
Huge 4-reductions in Chicago for all violence. Murders are down FIFTY PERCENT.
Property crimes are dropping, tho still higher than before. But MRAPs don’t stop theft.
This is all pretext. Yet the WaPo subhed frames it as a “crime” issue.
Huge 4-reductions in Chicago for all violence. Murders are down FIFTY PERCENT.
Property crimes are dropping, tho still higher than before. But MRAPs don’t stop theft.
This is all pretext. Yet the WaPo subhed frames it as a “crime” issue.
August 24, 2025 at 1:00 AM
It’s wild, absolutely wild, how for EVERY. SINGLE. CITY. Trump wants to militarize I can post data showing how crime is plummeting in all of them without any federal invasion…
… and the press KEEPS stenographing the naked bad-faith claims about “fighting crime!” in the headlines.
Infuriating.
… and the press KEEPS stenographing the naked bad-faith claims about “fighting crime!” in the headlines.
Infuriating.
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Dear @washingtonpost.com: these two paragraphs are absolute malpractice. Utterly disgraceful.
You use total counts, not rates … for the THIRD BIGGEST CITY IN THE US. Of COURSE it has a high total.
And rates “have come down” … with a link, but no number.
Down FIFTY PERCENT IN FOUR YEARS.
You use total counts, not rates … for the THIRD BIGGEST CITY IN THE US. Of COURSE it has a high total.
And rates “have come down” … with a link, but no number.
Down FIFTY PERCENT IN FOUR YEARS.
August 24, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Dear @washingtonpost.com: these two paragraphs are absolute malpractice. Utterly disgraceful.
You use total counts, not rates … for the THIRD BIGGEST CITY IN THE US. Of COURSE it has a high total.
And rates “have come down” … with a link, but no number.
Down FIFTY PERCENT IN FOUR YEARS.
You use total counts, not rates … for the THIRD BIGGEST CITY IN THE US. Of COURSE it has a high total.
And rates “have come down” … with a link, but no number.
Down FIFTY PERCENT IN FOUR YEARS.
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The US Administration is now deleting its internal communications, in brazen violation of the Federal Records Act, in order to conceal its other illegal acts.
Those entrusted to enforce our Congress’s laws sit, simply watching this happen, flaccid and impotent.
Those entrusted to enforce our Congress’s laws sit, simply watching this happen, flaccid and impotent.
Homeland Security Dept. Says It Hasn’t Kept Text Message Data Since April
www.nytimes.com
August 23, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The US Administration is now deleting its internal communications, in brazen violation of the Federal Records Act, in order to conceal its other illegal acts.
Those entrusted to enforce our Congress’s laws sit, simply watching this happen, flaccid and impotent.
Those entrusted to enforce our Congress’s laws sit, simply watching this happen, flaccid and impotent.
Why do we need to build hallucinating AIs when “think tanks” have been here the whole time?
August 24, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Why do we need to build hallucinating AIs when “think tanks” have been here the whole time?
Think Tanks as a rule seem to be, in the immortal words of the late 20th century philosopher and car mechanic, Tom Magliozzi, “unencumbered by the thought process.” It’s beautiful to see such a thorough debunking of this nonsense through actual evidence!
Hoping that @dcinbox.bsky.social, who probably has better things to do, will tell us if this is true or not. (I think it's true).
incredible that three overpaid consultants in a trench coat can get media play by urging democrats not to use words that literally no one in mainstream politics uses
August 24, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Think Tanks as a rule seem to be, in the immortal words of the late 20th century philosopher and car mechanic, Tom Magliozzi, “unencumbered by the thought process.” It’s beautiful to see such a thorough debunking of this nonsense through actual evidence!
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incredible that three overpaid consultants in a trench coat can get media play by urging democrats not to use words that literally no one in mainstream politics uses
August 22, 2025 at 3:52 PM
incredible that three overpaid consultants in a trench coat can get media play by urging democrats not to use words that literally no one in mainstream politics uses
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The other thing about it is that the entire world has been captured by a discursive framing, where EVERYTHING is about how you talk about issues and NOTHING is about what you do. It's normal for consultants, it doesn't have to be normal for you! We aren't all executing a PR strategy we're people.
August 24, 2025 at 12:32 PM
The other thing about it is that the entire world has been captured by a discursive framing, where EVERYTHING is about how you talk about issues and NOTHING is about what you do. It's normal for consultants, it doesn't have to be normal for you! We aren't all executing a PR strategy we're people.
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the reason this discourse will never end is because it is completely untethered from any kind of evidentiary standard. as long as there is a 19-year-old barista somewhere saying “cultural appropriation,” guys like nichols will complain that “democrats” use alienating language.
It would be a huge step forward for Democrats and for general clarity in political writing if these terms went away. These came mostly from academic hothouses.
August 24, 2025 at 3:06 AM
the reason this discourse will never end is because it is completely untethered from any kind of evidentiary standard. as long as there is a 19-year-old barista somewhere saying “cultural appropriation,” guys like nichols will complain that “democrats” use alienating language.
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Interestingly we have some empirical evidence and it doesn’t suggest that Democratic politicians are showering voters with off-putting academic language. bsky.app/profile/dcin...
August 24, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Interestingly we have some empirical evidence and it doesn’t suggest that Democratic politicians are showering voters with off-putting academic language. bsky.app/profile/dcin...
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*i* think that the issue isn’t the words, it is the substantive positions. no amount of language self policing will satisfy someone who just disagrees with, say, legal protection from gender discrimination
August 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
*i* think that the issue isn’t the words, it is the substantive positions. no amount of language self policing will satisfy someone who just disagrees with, say, legal protection from gender discrimination