M. D. Silverman
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She's making six figures right now, but that's on hundreds of books. She's not making huge amounts of money on any one book. Mostly, she's just marketing shit barely well enough to fool people into thinking she has a real product, and then not getting them to stick around.
February 8, 2026 at 1:56 PM
She's making six figures right now, but that's on hundreds of books. She's not making huge amounts of money on any one book. Mostly, she's just marketing shit barely well enough to fool people into thinking she has a real product, and then not getting them to stick around.
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Like, it's just really easy to see that I am not going to be able to keep up with the LITERAL REST OF THE WORLD in output. Even without AI.
The way people like me win is by writing memorable books that relate to the human experience.
The way people like me win is by writing memorable books that relate to the human experience.
February 8, 2026 at 1:54 PM
Like, it's just really easy to see that I am not going to be able to keep up with the LITERAL REST OF THE WORLD in output. Even without AI.
The way people like me win is by writing memorable books that relate to the human experience.
The way people like me win is by writing memorable books that relate to the human experience.
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The Supreme Court settled this in 1954 (Accardi): immigration judges are supposed to be neutral. If they bend to the executive's whims instead of acting neutrally, deporting people bc the President dislikes them, the deportations are unlawful. supreme.justia.com/cases/federa...
Accardi v. Shaughnessy, 347 U.S. 260 (1954)
Accardi v. Shaughnessy
supreme.justia.com
February 4, 2026 at 8:14 PM
The Supreme Court settled this in 1954 (Accardi): immigration judges are supposed to be neutral. If they bend to the executive's whims instead of acting neutrally, deporting people bc the President dislikes them, the deportations are unlawful. supreme.justia.com/cases/federa...
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Within a month of our President calling all Somalis "garbage," saying "they contribute nothing" that "they come from hell," "I don't want them in our country," the DOJ appears to be creating a separate process for deportation proceedings based on nationality just for Somalis.
February 4, 2026 at 8:05 PM
Within a month of our President calling all Somalis "garbage," saying "they contribute nothing" that "they come from hell," "I don't want them in our country," the DOJ appears to be creating a separate process for deportation proceedings based on nationality just for Somalis.
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It’s currently operating totally outside of our constitutional rules. Habeas corpus , due process of law, equal protection, freedom of speech, 4th amendment protections against search and seizure, are all not being enforced in any common sense or meaningful way.
January 22, 2026 at 2:17 PM
It’s currently operating totally outside of our constitutional rules. Habeas corpus , due process of law, equal protection, freedom of speech, 4th amendment protections against search and seizure, are all not being enforced in any common sense or meaningful way.
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It’s hard to accurately describe what is happening in Minneapolis without sounding crazy.
Unmarked rental vans all over the city, with people in military gear and no id jumping out of them to take captive anyone who looks nonwhite or who makes political speech they disagree with.
Unmarked rental vans all over the city, with people in military gear and no id jumping out of them to take captive anyone who looks nonwhite or who makes political speech they disagree with.
January 22, 2026 at 2:12 PM
It’s hard to accurately describe what is happening in Minneapolis without sounding crazy.
Unmarked rental vans all over the city, with people in military gear and no id jumping out of them to take captive anyone who looks nonwhite or who makes political speech they disagree with.
Unmarked rental vans all over the city, with people in military gear and no id jumping out of them to take captive anyone who looks nonwhite or who makes political speech they disagree with.
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There is a picket line the entire length of the departures terminal.
January 23, 2026 at 4:19 PM
There is a picket line the entire length of the departures terminal.
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Thousands outside Terminal 1 at the Minneapolis airport now.
January 23, 2026 at 3:59 PM
Thousands outside Terminal 1 at the Minneapolis airport now.
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A major coalition is launching a general strike in Minnesota tomorrow, aimed at pushing out ICE.
It includes:
-Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005
-The MN AFL-CIO
-SEIU Local 26
-UNITE HERE Local 17
-CWA Local 7250
-Saint Paul and Minneapolis Federations of Educators
-Faith leaders
And more. 🧵
It includes:
-Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005
-The MN AFL-CIO
-SEIU Local 26
-UNITE HERE Local 17
-CWA Local 7250
-Saint Paul and Minneapolis Federations of Educators
-Faith leaders
And more. 🧵
January 22, 2026 at 2:30 PM
A major coalition is launching a general strike in Minnesota tomorrow, aimed at pushing out ICE.
It includes:
-Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005
-The MN AFL-CIO
-SEIU Local 26
-UNITE HERE Local 17
-CWA Local 7250
-Saint Paul and Minneapolis Federations of Educators
-Faith leaders
And more. 🧵
It includes:
-Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005
-The MN AFL-CIO
-SEIU Local 26
-UNITE HERE Local 17
-CWA Local 7250
-Saint Paul and Minneapolis Federations of Educators
-Faith leaders
And more. 🧵
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Nasra Ahmed, a 23-year-old US citizen, was arrested and detained by ICE. She was held for TWO DAYS.
ICE agents handcuffed her, called her a racial slur, and she was knocked to the ground so hard she got a concussion.
This cannot continue happening. ICE needs to leave.
ICE agents handcuffed her, called her a racial slur, and she was knocked to the ground so hard she got a concussion.
This cannot continue happening. ICE needs to leave.
January 22, 2026 at 1:42 AM
Nasra Ahmed, a 23-year-old US citizen, was arrested and detained by ICE. She was held for TWO DAYS.
ICE agents handcuffed her, called her a racial slur, and she was knocked to the ground so hard she got a concussion.
This cannot continue happening. ICE needs to leave.
ICE agents handcuffed her, called her a racial slur, and she was knocked to the ground so hard she got a concussion.
This cannot continue happening. ICE needs to leave.
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Highlighting America's lib-left eras has a major 2nd benefit:
It shows our politics is "normal". We were always here, in tens of millions.
People called us crazy radicals. We won. Now our wins -- 14th Amendment, Social Security, Civil Rights law -- are overwhelmingly cherished.
It shows our politics is "normal". We were always here, in tens of millions.
People called us crazy radicals. We won. Now our wins -- 14th Amendment, Social Security, Civil Rights law -- are overwhelmingly cherished.
I've said this before, but "america was always fascist" is simply not an effective messaging strategy for fighting an american fascist movement. you should not cede them control of the national identity! that's what they want!
People who say this are clearly speaking aspirationally about a shared American creed they hold dear. “Have you heard of the Trail of Tears?” is not a very helpful response, because they probably have and the priority right now is moral opposition to fascism and not fake-educating each other.
January 22, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Highlighting America's lib-left eras has a major 2nd benefit:
It shows our politics is "normal". We were always here, in tens of millions.
People called us crazy radicals. We won. Now our wins -- 14th Amendment, Social Security, Civil Rights law -- are overwhelmingly cherished.
It shows our politics is "normal". We were always here, in tens of millions.
People called us crazy radicals. We won. Now our wins -- 14th Amendment, Social Security, Civil Rights law -- are overwhelmingly cherished.
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i am begging people to understand that "America is ontologically white supremacist" is also the neo-Nazi point of view
stop endorsing their world view
stop endorsing their world view
January 22, 2026 at 2:43 PM
i am begging people to understand that "America is ontologically white supremacist" is also the neo-Nazi point of view
stop endorsing their world view
stop endorsing their world view
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I think any straightforward reading of the foreign emoluments clause forbids the president from personally taking a lifetime office and title like this without Congress’s consent fwiw.
I think the Board of Peace is one of those things that’s not unconstitutional, but anti-constitutional.
It is not clear to me this org obligates the United States to do anything like a treaty. But, entering a multi-national working group where Trump is chairman for life violates enduring values.
It is not clear to me this org obligates the United States to do anything like a treaty. But, entering a multi-national working group where Trump is chairman for life violates enduring values.
US law requires 2/3 Senate approval for international treaties
January 22, 2026 at 1:14 PM
I think any straightforward reading of the foreign emoluments clause forbids the president from personally taking a lifetime office and title like this without Congress’s consent fwiw.
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AOC: The president has been acting in increasingly erratic ways. It is really damning when we think about the degree to which media outlets reported on Joe Biden, yet we are seeing behavior from Trump that is alarming and everyone is pretending this is normal.
January 21, 2026 at 10:49 PM
AOC: The president has been acting in increasingly erratic ways. It is really damning when we think about the degree to which media outlets reported on Joe Biden, yet we are seeing behavior from Trump that is alarming and everyone is pretending this is normal.
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fwiw this is the kind of stuff that is going to get us through, not playing rambo
Minneapolis and Saint Paul have basically mobilized into a war economy of mutual aid and non-violent defense. I’ve never seen anything like it, even during Covid. People who barely vote are guarding their schools from ICE and doing the shopping for neighbors in hiding.
This is so smart. I’m so impressed with all the different ways you’re helping your neighbors.
January 20, 2026 at 1:34 AM
fwiw this is the kind of stuff that is going to get us through, not playing rambo
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People in Minnesota are now using their key fobs to trigger their car alarms from the safety of their homes when they see ICE walking around.
January 17, 2026 at 9:08 PM
People in Minnesota are now using their key fobs to trigger their car alarms from the safety of their homes when they see ICE walking around.
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Once again, we do not believe that turning over "lists of Jews" is ever helpful to the fight against antisemitism.
UPenn faculty condemn Trump administration’s demand for ‘lists of Jews’
Groups say EEOC demand for names and personal details echoes dark history and threatens safety and civil rights
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Once again, we do not believe that turning over "lists of Jews" is ever helpful to the fight against antisemitism.
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Dartmouth College, where I teach, is offering faculty grants to *incentivize* adding genAI to courses. Doubly-depressing, because in addition to the pro-AI stance there’s an astonishing failure to recognize that AI is already on courses, that cheating is incredibly common.
January 14, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Dartmouth College, where I teach, is offering faculty grants to *incentivize* adding genAI to courses. Doubly-depressing, because in addition to the pro-AI stance there’s an astonishing failure to recognize that AI is already on courses, that cheating is incredibly common.
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RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'
![You’ve got super fans pausing and zooming in on individuals frames of your documentary. One allegedly shows one of the Duffers with a ChatGPT tab open on their computer. In your presence, what did they use ChatGPT for?
I mean, are we even sure they had ChatGPT open?
I’m personally not, but the internet seems sure.
Well, there’s a lot of chatter where [social media users] are like, “We don’t really know, but we’re assuming.” But to me it’s like, doesn’t everybody have it open, to just do quick research?
I do.
How can you possibly write a storyline with 19 characters and use ChatGPT, I don’t even understand.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7t2urmt3i33jl6tjgiolio6g/bafkreidw2tmcr2ayq74oqmjm5pn2tdox6hlxnpqevhuqqj6oa7nsslx3oi@jpeg)
January 13, 2026 at 8:45 PM
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'
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HAPPENING NOW: In federal court in MN, DOJ is struggling to articulate why a person following an ICE vehicle — so long as they are obeying traffic laws — can be stopped for "reasonable suspicion" of a crime.
Judge Menendez sharply questioning that contention.
Judge Menendez sharply questioning that contention.
January 13, 2026 at 4:28 PM
HAPPENING NOW: In federal court in MN, DOJ is struggling to articulate why a person following an ICE vehicle — so long as they are obeying traffic laws — can be stopped for "reasonable suspicion" of a crime.
Judge Menendez sharply questioning that contention.
Judge Menendez sharply questioning that contention.
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Again, what prevents Russia or China from taking Greenland (apart from geography, logistics, etc) is a NATO alliance that includes the United States, the thing that Trump already has but is determined to destroy
Trump: "If we don't take Greenland, Russia or China will take Greenland, and I am not going to let that happen…One way or the other, we're going to have Greenland."
January 12, 2026 at 4:29 AM
Again, what prevents Russia or China from taking Greenland (apart from geography, logistics, etc) is a NATO alliance that includes the United States, the thing that Trump already has but is determined to destroy
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January 11, 2026 at 10:02 PM
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Infuriating. Heartbreaking.
January 11, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Infuriating. Heartbreaking.
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the power to declare war is vested in Article I. For it to be anything other than a formality, it necessarily empowers Congress to constrain the president's power to wage non-defensive war.
Article 1's declaration of war is meaningless verbiage if the president can simply wage undeclared war.
Article 1's declaration of war is meaningless verbiage if the president can simply wage undeclared war.
Putting aside Lindsey Graham’s eagerness to undermine his own institution, after Nixon vetoed the War Powers Act in 1973, Congress overrode him.
House vote: 284-135
Senate vote: 75-18
In both instances, the majorities were bipartisan. (Many liberal Dems balked and said it didn’t go far enough.)
House vote: 284-135
Senate vote: 75-18
In both instances, the majorities were bipartisan. (Many liberal Dems balked and said it didn’t go far enough.)
January 11, 2026 at 8:19 PM
the power to declare war is vested in Article I. For it to be anything other than a formality, it necessarily empowers Congress to constrain the president's power to wage non-defensive war.
Article 1's declaration of war is meaningless verbiage if the president can simply wage undeclared war.
Article 1's declaration of war is meaningless verbiage if the president can simply wage undeclared war.