Mark Grueter

This is an amazing achievement, because the sociopathic exploiters who run gig driver companies have enormous power

At what point do companies realize that "new and improved with AI" is not actually a selling point but something that actively repulses their current customers?

The supposed independent thinkers have gotten absolutely dog walked by the fascist right for years—and they just *will not* see it. Conspiracy theories as religion.

Vile stuff. Perfectly clear that Robert Kennedy Jr. is a fascist and trying to position himself as Trump’s heir apparent. I just want to take this moment to shout out all the post-left contrarian types who embraced him as some kind of independent voice for truth. Good job, losers.

Trump is BIG MAD about Obama saying the White House now looks like Saddam opened a Cheesecake Factory: "He's not a smart guy. He's not smart at all ... for you to say it's a Cheesecake Factory, that just shows why you were a lousy president"

I don’t think we should get used to a man this wealthy, this full of hate and this willing to demonize a small minority having so much power in our economy and in our politics. To defend democracy, we must defeat the oligarchs.

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

Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

treason, treason everywhere www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

My exchange with a former top Trump adviser who says it is totally "inappropriate" & "irresponsible" to use the word fascist when talking about Trump. Then I reminded him of his own use of the word. Watch/enjoy/share: (Full 'Head to Head' show with Steve Cortes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLJV...)

Main takeaway from the NYT Iowa focus group is that none of these voters really know what’s going on and they barely know anything about the candidates running in either statewide election lmao

Joined @stephruhle.bsky.social on MSNOW to talk about the AI bubble, its differences to the Dot-Com Bubble, and how if AI "doesn't work out" it's everyone's problem, with retail investors making up 20% of the market's volume and having over $4.65tn in direct exposure to AI stocks.

Hate on billionaire industrial capital all you want but even in places where Democrats totally control state government, they are not making investments in the humanities in public higher ed.

Do Democrats not see that the effort to build civic centers using taxpayer dollars and private funding at public universities is an effort to shape future voting preferences against them? Why aren’t rich Democrats counter the Right and funding normal humanities departments?

In my most curmudgeonly moments, I don’t see why presenting the prose output of a machine built on mass theft as your own scholarly work should be evaluated less harshly than old school plagiarism. Traditional plagiarists at least had to identify and evaluate the works they were going to copy.

The sad thing is that historians both in and beyond the academy desperately need powerful institutional advocates, including scholarly associations that actually respond to the needs of their discipline and merit the trust of their members.

Public discussion of Christianity is often caught between New Atheist dismissal and sweeping, transhistorical assertions of its universal value. A new book sidesteps the culture war, revealing a Christianity indebted to the Roman world of Virgil and Augustus.

You know, we've actually had long periods in this country's history when we taxed the very wealthiest at high rates. This isn't some uncharted territory. You might want to look at what happened to the rest of the economy. Sounds like you'll be surprised!

Outstanding. More of this, please. Elon Musk is a white nationalist troll using the billions he made off government contracts to destroy this nation. Light. Him. Up.

Democrats need to be ready to hold hearings and inquiries into the assault that Musk, Zuckerberg and other tech bros are making against democratic institutions at home and abroad.

Yeah, not the same. He'll say otherwise because he writes about 1A topics and SCOTUS has said they're the same. But SCOTUS says a lot of shit, such as an insurrectionist that violated A14S3 can still hold office despite A14S3 saying such a person can't. Fuck all of that. We'll decide, thank you.

www.chronicle.com/article/harv...

Closing message from Republicans being straight up Islamophobia is a terrible choice. Calling Abdul Mohammed, saying he’s Muslim brotherhood, saying he may have assimilated but so was the Fort Hood shooter is disgusting.  And Jews - even ones who won’t support him - aren’t interested in that crap.

The World Bank is bullish on AI. The gig economy’s track record suggests that optimism is unwarranted without strong regulation.

When we talk about "returns" on investments of taxpayer dollars, we need to emphasize that there are vital non-monetary returns that need to be thought about here. Many of those returns actually come from giving people the resources to think about history, culture, literature, art, etc.

Will any reporter ask the President of the United States to name the five specific states where he alleges that public school teachers are deciding -- all on their own initiative, over the objections of the parents -- to force their children into gender-affirming surgeries? Seems like a big story?

Trump and the GOP's real base of support — billionaires, Big Oil, Big Tech, Crypto, and Wall Street — know that the midterms may limit what they can get away with in the future. Vote accordingly. https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/16/republican-super-pac-donors-musk-uihlein-yass-01122941

The American Enterprise Institute is the most pernicious force in education policy in this country, from K-college. asheeshksi.substack.com/p/introducti...

I wonder why they bother. Is this really the best use of their time? Don't they have better targets? Don't they see that everyone might benefit if they read the thing they claim to be responding to, and sought to understand what it says before wading in? But hey-ho, life's great mysteries ...

I’ve seen this pattern many times. You write a nuanced thread about a complex issue. The first responses are thoughtful and interesting. Then someone on another forum extracts a sentence and deliberately misinterprets it. Then your timeline is flooded by trolls all saying exactly the same thing.

Wide majority of Americans oppose livestreaming Hasan execution: ABC/Post/Ipsos poll abcnews.com/Politics/wid...

Supplemental Security Income is designed to prevent poor Americans from falling into destitution—but the program disqualifies recipients for saving even a dollar more than $2,000. trib.al/pwzHZBq

One of the largest right-wing-extremist conspiracy accounts on X is the prediction market PolyMarket, and it really makes you wonder how this may affect the accuracy & calibration of their prices.

No doubt this has occurred to other bystanders as well, but it would seem that a handful of billionaires dropping $150 million into a single state's election in an attempt to defeat a wealth-tax initiative just about makes the entire case for a wealth-tax initiative.

El-Sayed’s response to Kennedy:

Weird that Donald Trump's message is that people who are being assaulted can stop it all by giving up and submitting to the aggressor, so weird, so so weird

My man looks like he carries a prescription towel

My man looks like he secretes a special slime to ward off predators

OpenAI know that one of the biggest criticisms of ChatGPT is how it undermines learning and is destroying education. They've come up with "ChatGPT for teens" that is "built for learning" The tl;dr is all of this is marketing until it's validated by independent research. openai.com/index/chatgp...

This is excellent publicity for New York's mayor. As long as the all-or-nothing demagogues on both sides of Israel-Palestine -- those who make a shared future for the great mass of sane Arabs and Jews impossible -- feel betrayed by Mamdani then de facto, the man is about where he ought to be.

Remember: Wealth cannot be separated from power. We're seeing in real time how the extreme concentration of wealth is distorting our politics, rigging markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people. Taxing the rich isn't just an economic issue, it's a defense of our democracy.

If Democrats want to regain working people, they must disavow Big Money. They must hammer economic populism — and have a laser focus on the cost of living crisis in America. There’s no way the party can speak for or represent the working class in America if it's beholden to corporate interests.

This is a community note for the ages.