If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this:

America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.

What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵

So many things are bad right now, but I interviewed @maggietokudahall.bsky.social about painting pigeons and small acts of survival. 📸 by @estefancy.bsky.social

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.

This could be you.

a few thoughts youtu.be/lERS4kJIQR8

a horrid beast. a rancid, screaming infant.

By any reasonable historical standard — including that of the technology industry! — ChatGPT should be pulled from the market and its product managers and executives held accountable for creating a product that ROUTINELY tells teens to kill themselves. This is a basic, common sense standard.

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide.

As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.

End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

Every time your electricity bill goes up for the next 10 years, it can be traced back to this Administration’s actions.

They are making solar and wind power illegal to build in the United States. They are artificially restricting supply while demand is going up.

Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns

When Amazon launched in 1995, there were 5,500 indie bookshops in the U.S., with 7,000 locations. By May of 2023, that number had decreased to 2,185 indies & 2,599 locations.

When you purchase audiobooks via Libro.fm vs. Audible, you directly support indie bookshops. Let's make that number grow ❤️

The Dragon

The police work for billionaires.

They’ll attack a strike, they’ll arrest protesters, and they’ll devote themselves to making CEOs feel safe.

Not only do cops defund our cities, they work overtime to stop us from building a better world.

My latest: www.jphilll.com/p/the-cops-w...

Everyone keeps saying bad politics means good art. That died in the late 90’s with skyrocketing rent. Your landlord killed it. Another reason to hate the bastard.

Where’s the next great music movement? At their day job on their third coffee with a mind full of hate but no energy to create.

when I first got The Internet, one of the main things to do there was dig into archives of material you'd never been able to access before, thinking about the past and its relationship to the present. now people get dumped into the churn of endless, urgent present, and that's the entire experience.

Judith Butler, philosopher: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’

A leading figure in feminism and gender studies, now voted one of the most influential minds in the world…

english.elpais.com/culture/2024...

Le Guin on the very real "literary author who thinks they've invented sci-fi" and "guy who's never read children's/ fantasy before"

See also any time a prose-book reviewer reads a comic like "Wow, did you know these could be GOOD?? And different GENRES??" please. Please. yes. we all knew this. help

Corporate media, a play in 3 acts