Rev. Dr. Everett Howe

Good. May it happen to all the fascists everywhere. I’m going to be especially grateful to see it happen in the US.

There's nuance here about "how do we use platforms owned by the fascists". You *have to understand the political purpose of the platforms* in order to use them to subvert authoritarians. For the most part, Americans simply do not. Centrists (including DNC consultants) do not. Major media does not.

My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

here's the way cars were forced on people > GM began by funding a company called National City Lines (NCL), which by 1946 controlled streetcar operations in 80 American cities. emagazine.com/did-the-car-...

I just want to name that people overcame this. Even against a stacked deck, the good fight is worth it. Win or lose, it's worth it. And sometimes the good guys win.

Any politician who’s willing to throw away one group’s rights is willing to throw away everyone’s rights. It’s that simple. Every single consultant, pundit and candidate who’s shown a willingness to abandon trans rights needs to be shunned from the party forever

Ultimately, if you only have time to know one thing about all of this, just know that not a single solitary tech oligarch, tech company, or tech-backed politician has a single solitary serious commitment to the existence of Black political power or economic security in their plans for the future.

You let an ounce of fascism in the door the whole thing crumbles

Josh Turek of Iowa, Democrat, comes out with one of the worst anti-trans ads yet. Not only is it an anti-sports ad, it proposes a ban on federal funding for gender affirming care. That would hit all medicaid and medicare patients, and any ACA federally-subsidized plans as well. Horrific.

“All Iowans.* *except for trans people.” Just saw your despicable anti-trans ad, where you have the gall to say that you oppose discrimination, and then immediately say you’ll take people’s health care away. You should know better. You should f*cking do better. Don’t throw people under the bus.

@olivia.science nerd-sniped me with this (yeah, I’m weak), definitely seems worth a thorough reading.

This is literally the end of the rule of law. If a President can pardon people committing crimes on his behalf - and the Supreme Court says he himself can't be prosecuted for crimes committed as part of his job - then the government becomes a lawless entity able to violate our rights without limit.

the example of uber is instructive. it was pretty incredible when the money cannon was firing. now that it's expensive we're stuck with an immiseration engine for workers who depend on it, that sabotages public transport and pours waterfalls of money into anti labor legislation

The Royal Society is hiding all posts that mention that they still refuse to remove noted White Supremacist Elon Musk from their number.

Pong. Pretty sure it was in a Sears, so possibly a display model for the home version they sold in 1975.

www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/10/22/m...

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

To reflect on how this plays out in mathematics: Editing, especially by a senior coauthor, should include re-thinking the content at a technical level and not just polishing tone. E.g. adjusting lemmas to the minimal hypotheses to show *why* they are true.

In the interest of closing some terrifying gaps in my budget I’m trying to sell some originals, so I’m on offering this piece for $75 plus shipping

In the interest of closing some terrifying gaps in my budget I am selling this piece, the limit does not exist, for $125 plus shipping

Repeated infections being a “fact of life” is a framing designed to make you think something is naturally inevitable rather than the expected result of a series of public health decisions designed with something other than your health and safety at the forefront.

Part of the answer to "how did we get here?" is that many major journalists—since 1998, Crawford has covered SCOTUS for PBS, ABC, and CBS—are lying bigots. Here Crawford is praising a guy who asked a dumb racist question, glitched out when asked why, then admitted he wanted a Christian theocracy.

This is such an excellent response. Worth watching the whole thing.

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

Drop a film you watched on a first date. (Sometime in 1989 the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley showed all six episodes consecutively, with a long intermission between the third and fourth.) (Reader, I married her.)

Short thread asking @nytimes.com and other MSM to stop interviewing the same small handful of people every time something math-related comes up. Mathematicians are dismayed when AI scoops them on the results? How about look for advice from someone familiar with getting scooped and outpowered.

Hello #portfolioday I’m Acid Lich and I make art for people, albums and games

The White House has reversed plans to livestream Nidal Malik Hasan’s execution, but the moral concerns remain. The proposal itself threatens human dignity, risks moral and spiritual injury, and furthers a culture of violence. Read our joint statement: https://bit.ly/4jr7ATJ #HumanDignity #UU

The catch-22 being that you’ve also shown a lot of people who are interested in deeper discussion that you’re not an appropriate person to have them with, because you make wildly offensive comparisons to slavery. Don’t know whether it’s worse if it’s clueless or if it’s “baiting.”

In short, I feel like the damages listed in the piece have already been done, and failing to reckon with the damage that has been done is just not a useful way to handle how to manage the Court.

Must-read from Arundhati Roy. “The trail of delectable crumbs on the shining sand is luring us deeper and deeper into the ocean [whose water has pulled back in advance of the tsunami]…” www.equator.org/articles/aru...

It is really chilling to see how quickly Black, Caribbean, and African writers and academics have become the global face of AI use and accusations of plagiarism. For such a serious charge, @vauhinivara.bsky.social's article rests on...a Pangram scan. www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/1...

Let's go, Sam Forstag! That's how you stand up for trans people on the national stage. If congressional candidates in western Montana—one of the most competitive House races in the entire country—can stand up for trans folks in every aspect of our lives, democrats everywhere should take note.

This is rooted in a certain kind of American Protestantism, going back to Norman Vincent Peale, an acknowledged influence on Trump. This is why we need religion scholars to understand our current age.

Normalize democrats saying abolish DHS as a first step

After another shooting and the raid on Ilhan Omar's home, Rep. Delia Ramirez says abolishing ICE isn't enough. She has introduced a bill to "dismantle" the entire Department of Homeland Security.