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The thing about America today is that if you just describe what is happening objectively and unemotionally you sound hysterical and partisan and what you have to remind people is that the reason for that is not you, it's the people doing the things you are describing

I don't know what other analogies to make at this point OTHER THAN Nazis and Hitler.

“The best thing you can do is to build cities that work, and love those streets and those citizens above any ideology.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/o...

The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social "There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”

There has been a rush among centrists like Gavin Newsom and Ezra Klein to brush over the hateful life of Charlie Kirk and valorize the man. Let me be clear, killing Charlie Kirk was wrong and abhorrent. We must condemn murder without sanitizing a man who built his empire on hate. My latest piece.

i just sent this email to @ezraklein.bsky.social

I think the last day has show just how much damage has been done by the relentless rage machine of the modern media age. It’s been dialled up to max and there’s steam coming off it.

Article 8 is anti-fascist. It is not vague. It gives legal force to the deeply human instinct for private and family life. Only a fascist would want to take that away.

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

as someone left very confused by that debate, i was glad to read this piece

1:00 am laying in bed failing to make sense of politics *how is she so pathetic*

I will live in spite of this Administration. I will live in spite of this court. The work goes on, and I will not stop fighting for us.

As someone who uses historical training to inject context into contemporary debates, I often have to make my point by assembling documents that are indicative but inexact as evidence of my point. Other times I get a big freakin' nail to hit right on the head. Trans rights are gay rights, c. 2003

if anyone thought they were safe from the trump regime, just because they live in ca ...

finished reading a book, that means i am allowed to buy 5 new ones, right?

I hope everyone knows that it's very easy for any social content platform, including Bluesky, to be a misery machine and that if you aren't intentional about it, they will absolutely decrease the positive impact you have on the world while making you less happy.