@joeldick.bsky.social
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I do not fear the Menswear Guy. what's he going to tell me about myself that I am not already acutely aware of. "you dress like you don't respect yourself" good eye ace
The fact the Menswear Guy is actively dunking on the Bsky user base now instead of just cross-posting the threads where he does that to Twitter users should terrify all of us.
true. that's bc you've allowed your sense of style to be narrowly defined by fashion brands, instead of thinking about it in terms of cultural history. over the course of the 20th century, many groups have dressed well, even if they didn't conform to fashion trends or bourgeois respectability
December 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I do not fear the Menswear Guy. what's he going to tell me about myself that I am not already acutely aware of. "you dress like you don't respect yourself" good eye ace
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Two things are true.
1. American prisons are horrible, filled with human rights abuses and outright torture.
2. CECOT is others of magnitude worse.
1. American prisons are horrible, filled with human rights abuses and outright torture.
2. CECOT is others of magnitude worse.
December 23, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Two things are true.
1. American prisons are horrible, filled with human rights abuses and outright torture.
2. CECOT is others of magnitude worse.
1. American prisons are horrible, filled with human rights abuses and outright torture.
2. CECOT is others of magnitude worse.
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It may well be worse now than in the past, but this is extremely typical. I’ve had clients detained by ICE, and it’s like they fall into a black hole. Getting in touch with people in state or federal prison, or even county jail, is easier by an order of magnitude.
They are disappearing people. Listen to this. Nightmare. (And the longer they stay the more money core civic makes)
December 19, 2025 at 3:18 PM
It may well be worse now than in the past, but this is extremely typical. I’ve had clients detained by ICE, and it’s like they fall into a black hole. Getting in touch with people in state or federal prison, or even county jail, is easier by an order of magnitude.
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ICE and CBP, among others, have violently retaliated against ICE Watch in part because the agencies correctly understand what many do not: Organized neighbors are mounting an effective defense, and an organized movement is a formidable adversary. My new feature: newrepublic.com/article/2042...
Inside Chicago’s Neighborhood ICE Resistance
Residents have organized a formidable network to protect immigrant communities from Trump’s brutal deportation program. Their efforts are making a genuine difference.
newrepublic.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:07 PM
ICE and CBP, among others, have violently retaliated against ICE Watch in part because the agencies correctly understand what many do not: Organized neighbors are mounting an effective defense, and an organized movement is a formidable adversary. My new feature: newrepublic.com/article/2042...
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Next, we tested the effects of sycophancy. We find that even a single interaction with sycophantic AI increased users’ conviction that they were right and reduced their willingness to apologize. This held both in controlled, hypothetical vignettes and live conversations about real conflicts.
October 3, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Next, we tested the effects of sycophancy. We find that even a single interaction with sycophantic AI increased users’ conviction that they were right and reduced their willingness to apologize. This held both in controlled, hypothetical vignettes and live conversations about real conflicts.
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I wrote about Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein, why swallowing live frogs is a bad idea, and how context and history can release you from bright-kid syndrome, the illusion that you yourself are going to have every answer or fix the world.
You don't have to swallow frogs
Klein and Coates show that if you don't know what your core beliefs are, you're going to get played.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
September 30, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I wrote about Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein, why swallowing live frogs is a bad idea, and how context and history can release you from bright-kid syndrome, the illusion that you yourself are going to have every answer or fix the world.
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hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.
September 30, 2025 at 1:43 AM
hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.
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I'm skimming, but this paragraph stood out:
September 30, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I'm skimming, but this paragraph stood out:
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korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in
September 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in
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We're living in a darkening age of epistemological neoliberalism...by which I mean that each consumer of knowledge is left entirely up to their own devices to try to figure out which bits of data are reliable & which ones are not. All of the institutions which used to help us do that work are dying.
August 5, 2025 at 7:54 PM
We're living in a darkening age of epistemological neoliberalism...by which I mean that each consumer of knowledge is left entirely up to their own devices to try to figure out which bits of data are reliable & which ones are not. All of the institutions which used to help us do that work are dying.
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It also raises the other question that was raised in multiple cities in 2020 in response to the murder of George Floyd and the accompanying uprising across the country. Who controls the police forces in large democratically held cities do the mayors have the power to actually stop the police?
A lot of blue mayors and governors know the "don't give an order you don't expect to be obeyed" leadership maxim but interpret it as "I guess I can't order the cops to do anything" rather than as a crisis of insubordination.
One thing I have not seen much grappling with: the Trump Administration has acted illegally with respect to the National Guard & Marines in LA plus the whole parade nonsense is a federal show of power, but cops ostensibly controlled by local governments in blue cities attacked protestors yesterday.
June 15, 2025 at 6:57 PM
It also raises the other question that was raised in multiple cities in 2020 in response to the murder of George Floyd and the accompanying uprising across the country. Who controls the police forces in large democratically held cities do the mayors have the power to actually stop the police?
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One thing I keep thinking of is that Republican policies are making it harder for women to live safe, prosperous, dignified, and independent lives—and that Trump’s cuts have targeted the bodies whose work would track women’s disappearance from the public sphere and make it quantifiable.
This is a fantastic piece, to which I would add: the Trump admin is also making it much harder to assess how they are changing what the public sector looks like open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
June 6, 2025 at 6:13 PM
One thing I keep thinking of is that Republican policies are making it harder for women to live safe, prosperous, dignified, and independent lives—and that Trump’s cuts have targeted the bodies whose work would track women’s disappearance from the public sphere and make it quantifiable.
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Immigration court has always been the one place I could tell people they could feel safe from ICE enforcement... until today.
I have one trusted report of FIFTY ICE officers swarming a CA immigration court. This hasn't hit media yet but advocates have been hearing reports from around the country.
I have one trusted report of FIFTY ICE officers swarming a CA immigration court. This hasn't hit media yet but advocates have been hearing reports from around the country.
THIS IS NOT NORMAL: Plainclothes ICE agents are inside the Immigration court buildings at 26 Federal, 290 Broadway & 201 Varick St, harassing people for their paperwork & detaining them. ALL OUT TO VARICK STREET DETENTION CENTER NOW 2 PM TILL LATE: meet at the garage on the West Houston Street Side
May 21, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Immigration court has always been the one place I could tell people they could feel safe from ICE enforcement... until today.
I have one trusted report of FIFTY ICE officers swarming a CA immigration court. This hasn't hit media yet but advocates have been hearing reports from around the country.
I have one trusted report of FIFTY ICE officers swarming a CA immigration court. This hasn't hit media yet but advocates have been hearing reports from around the country.
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Pretty cool guy if you ask me
Stanislav Petrov, the man who saved the world, died on this day in 2017. If you don’t know the story, just read this www.theguardian.com/world/2017/s...
Soviet officer who averted cold war nuclear disaster dies aged 77
‘Gut instinct’ told Lt Col Stanislav Petrov that apparent launch of US missiles was actually early warning system malfunction
www.theguardian.com
May 19, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Pretty cool guy if you ask me
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NEW: Newark is just the third city in the country to lower the voting age to 16 — for school board elections.
So teens are getting to vote for the first time... this month!
And there's a tremendous amount of energy to get students to turn out.
boltsmag.org/newark-teens...
So teens are getting to vote for the first time... this month!
And there's a tremendous amount of energy to get students to turn out.
boltsmag.org/newark-teens...
Newark Teens Gear Up for School Board Elections After Voting Age Extended to 16 - Bolts
This month for the first time, 16- and 17-year olds will help decide Newark’s school board members thanks to a measure passed last year, just the third reform of its kind in the nation.
boltsmag.org
April 4, 2025 at 2:54 PM
NEW: Newark is just the third city in the country to lower the voting age to 16 — for school board elections.
So teens are getting to vote for the first time... this month!
And there's a tremendous amount of energy to get students to turn out.
boltsmag.org/newark-teens...
So teens are getting to vote for the first time... this month!
And there's a tremendous amount of energy to get students to turn out.
boltsmag.org/newark-teens...
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imagine explaining to someone in 2016 that Bill Kristol had united in a AOC/Bernie popular front against fascism
March 22, 2025 at 11:16 PM
imagine explaining to someone in 2016 that Bill Kristol had united in a AOC/Bernie popular front against fascism
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"The biggest obstacle to reporting abuse in prison is getting someone to actually file your complaint. Nepotism is rampant, and many guards aren't willing to report their friends and family. ... In the hole, guards use a variety of methods to retaliate against women who complain about their abuse."
Why Solitary Confinement Is a Safe Haven for Sexually Abusive Guards
After eight years in “the hole” at Texas’ Lane Murray Unit, Kwaneta Harris documents the “daily reality” of staff sexual exploitation and violence.
www.themarshallproject.org
March 11, 2025 at 1:56 AM
"The biggest obstacle to reporting abuse in prison is getting someone to actually file your complaint. Nepotism is rampant, and many guards aren't willing to report their friends and family. ... In the hole, guards use a variety of methods to retaliate against women who complain about their abuse."
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Donald Trump is lying to you.
March 5, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Donald Trump is lying to you.
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Kristi Noem told attendees at a CPAC dinner Friday that Trump directed her to launch a taxpayer-funded ad campaign and demanded she thank him in the ads.
No other outlet bothered to write about this, despite the admin blowing up to $200M on these ads
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
No other outlet bothered to write about this, despite the admin blowing up to $200M on these ads
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Kristi Noem Says $200 Million DHS Ad Campaign Thanking Trump Was His Idea
Donald Trump’s Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said he instructed her to make ads that “thank me for closing the border.”
www.rollingstone.com
February 23, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Kristi Noem told attendees at a CPAC dinner Friday that Trump directed her to launch a taxpayer-funded ad campaign and demanded she thank him in the ads.
No other outlet bothered to write about this, despite the admin blowing up to $200M on these ads
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
No other outlet bothered to write about this, despite the admin blowing up to $200M on these ads
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Costco, which has come out saying it supports DEI, will make no changes to its existing programs, AND pays workers a minimum of $30/hour, is up 15% YTD.
Target, which announced it is ending all DEI programs and has a minimum wage of $15-$24/hour, is down over 4%.
Keep voting with your wallet.
Target, which announced it is ending all DEI programs and has a minimum wage of $15-$24/hour, is down over 4%.
Keep voting with your wallet.
February 8, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Costco, which has come out saying it supports DEI, will make no changes to its existing programs, AND pays workers a minimum of $30/hour, is up 15% YTD.
Target, which announced it is ending all DEI programs and has a minimum wage of $15-$24/hour, is down over 4%.
Keep voting with your wallet.
Target, which announced it is ending all DEI programs and has a minimum wage of $15-$24/hour, is down over 4%.
Keep voting with your wallet.
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Crisesnotes.com got 105.8k unique hits so far today, finally just checked. was 50k Monday, 75k yesterday
Notes on the Crises
Until Further Notice, Comprehensive coverage of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025
Crisesnotes.com
February 6, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Crisesnotes.com got 105.8k unique hits so far today, finally just checked. was 50k Monday, 75k yesterday
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Decades of Central Bank Independence bullshit & none of you mainstream econ motherfuckers ever thought about "huh,the Bureau of the Fiscal Service should have the same degree of operational independence as the Federal Reserve's payments system". Rohan Grey, Raul Carrillo & I fucking thought about it
February 4, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Decades of Central Bank Independence bullshit & none of you mainstream econ motherfuckers ever thought about "huh,the Bureau of the Fiscal Service should have the same degree of operational independence as the Federal Reserve's payments system". Rohan Grey, Raul Carrillo & I fucking thought about it
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When he was in the Navy, Jimmy Carter’s submarine was once docked in Bermuda. Some British officers invited only the white crew members to a cocktail party or something like that, and Carter said that if the crewmen of color weren’t invited then nobody was going. This was in the 1950s.
December 29, 2024 at 9:25 PM
When he was in the Navy, Jimmy Carter’s submarine was once docked in Bermuda. Some British officers invited only the white crew members to a cocktail party or something like that, and Carter said that if the crewmen of color weren’t invited then nobody was going. This was in the 1950s.
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AI data centers are multiplying across the U.S. and sucking up huge amounts of power.
New evidence shows they may also be distorting the normal flow of electricity for millions of Americans
New evidence shows they may also be distorting the normal flow of electricity for millions of Americans
AI Needs So Much Power, It’s Making Yours Worse
There’s a strong link between proximity to AI data centers and higher levels of distorted power in residential areas
www.bloomberg.com
December 27, 2024 at 8:30 PM
AI data centers are multiplying across the U.S. and sucking up huge amounts of power.
New evidence shows they may also be distorting the normal flow of electricity for millions of Americans
New evidence shows they may also be distorting the normal flow of electricity for millions of Americans