She was shot because a core policy of the Trump Administration is: "Who does this bitch think she is, telling me no? I'll show her what happens when you say no to me."

i love the idea of a guy who’s still been on the edge of getting into jeopardy after 61 years of it airing

Apple already has this and it is one of the worst AI-based features I've seen yet. What makes it so terrible is that it sees the urgent words used in phishing scams and flags them as priority items. That makes it *worse* than useless. It's dangerous for those who fall for scams.

Lying poisons your brain the same way that irony does. When you lie all the time, you stop being able to see what’s directly in front of your eyes.

We have a system of policing that requires the policed to behave perfectly while the police are given permission to treat any divergence from their on the fly expectations as a transgression worthy of death

one thing i have noticed is the number of public commentators who can do nothing but play word games

“'The guy, I’m telling him like, "Please step off the school grounds," and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he knocked me down,' an official at Roosevelt High School said. 'They don’t care. They’re just animals. I’ve never seen people behave like this.'"

It’s easy to think that schools in Minneapolis are closed because the Feds murdered someone in the street but no, the actual reason is that while that was happening, the Feds were busy doing other heinous shit across the city like tear-gassing a school

This obviously secondary, but why are government agents talking like this to a person who, at most, was passively causing them a temporary inconvenience? I'm supposed to believe she was the aggressor here?

The headline really should read "After 25 days, ICE releases US citizen." There is no claim about it.

no one actually believes this. no one would say this if the person in question were someone they loved. it’s the worst kind of lie.

Clips like this underline that many of the regime’s boosters believe if you don’t subscribe fully to their ideology, you deserve to die.

in what the fuck way was ordering that lady to get out of her car "immigration and customs enforcement" in the first place

its reprehensible. its blatantly illegal, reckless to the point of outright depravity, for the government to reflexively defend every outrage committed by its personnel prior to gathering the facts. to spit in the faces of its citizens and blame the people it mows down in the streets. fucked

remains striking the extent to which trump quite loudly does not see himself as president of the united states and more as a clan leader for his supporters

The president called this grieving woman and her murdered wife professional agitators. The federal government called them terrorists. We are ruled by irredeemable monsters

Non-cops saying things like "weaponized the vehicle" is so viscerally repulsive to me. Like picking your soul out through your nose.

small-government conservatism is when a guy in a mask who won't show you his badge shoots you through the window of your car while you're driving away from him

Renee Nicole Good was identified as the woman murdered by ICE. www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...

They spent all that time complaining about crime in cities so they could implement their solution of killing people in cities.

Anti-depressants save lives. We live in a world where most people are completely unaware that depression can be a terminal illness - and not just because of suicide. This is a very good thing. The rarity of depression at that level of severity is entirely due to modern medicine.

Intolerable to spend even one more minute under this, to see my neighbors grappling with living under this, to make the little practical concessions and plans it requires. countless little tragedies all over the city

I have to say, I’m really not thrilled that my country is devolving into a lawless gangster state abroad, and at home, one officially dead set on destroying science, art, and any shared feeling of common humanity

"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato." surreal times dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...

Part of police reform in the country needs to be when you arrest people on clearly spurious reasons, the police get immediately charged with 'kidnapping + abuse of authority', which bare minimum results in them never being a police officer again + restitution and jail time.

Félix Hernández is making huge jump in HOF voting. If you're wondering why, I broke down his case last year & it totally turned me around. tldr ⚾️Best P in MLB for a decade ⚾️As good as CC thru 29 ⚾️Koufax & A. Jones gave you nothing in 30s, either --> www.mlb.com/news/the-hal...

every one of these people would drop their jobs in a heartbeat to take over charlie kirk's show

The author of a viral Reddit thread alleging fraud at a food delivery company tried to back up his claim by sending me AI-generated documents. Today I'm publishing those documents in the hopes that it helps other reporter see what we're up against in the age of AI www.platformer.news/fake-uber-ea...

This ESPN piece mentions Tom Brady 47 times and never once is any possible conflict between his very hands-on ownership and his commentating publicly on the people he might try to hire (among dozens of other issues) raised (Also, Brady wanted Geno Smith over Sam Darnold, which LOL)

Republicans were very clear during the election that this is what they believed, & that this was what they would act upon when in office. Editors & tastemakers discounted it all, because it was ridiculous. Everything was fine. No one would blow everything up for the sake of delusion. Now here we are

Also love how social media grants them a level of access to the Pope that kings used to literally fight and die over and all they can do with it is insult him like he’s the manager of an Applebees

we need news updates when he's not receiving medical attention, honestly

When I lived in Istanbul the sidewalk outside my apartment was torn up one morning with workers digging a hole. "Great," I thought, "I'll have to deal with this shit for months." I get back that afternoon - work's done, workers gone, sidewalk patched. Genuinely changed my outlook on government.

This is something Dems should legit shut down the government over. If he wants to destroy NATO, he can do it with zero dollars and zero cents in government funding.

This is basically the view of the world that Plato sets out to refute in the Republic. One of the core questions asked therein is: why do powerful people think the mere fact of them exercising dominion makes it good for them to do so? Sure, you *can* get away with stuff if you're powerful - so what?

it is fairly amazing how clear it was, at the time, what was happening. so much chaff has been thrown into the air since then, of course, that most coverage takes a "whomst amongst us can say what happened that day?" approach (stole this image from @joshsternberg.com's post)

"This isn’t the same as calling this a “war for oil.” It’s more an invitation to oligarchs to join in his conception, such as it is, of the future world order" ^^ a very important distinction

Greenland news — marine biology edition.

Fascism is like if you gave hungry ghosts a political movement. Nothing ever fills the void.

RFK Jr is a fucking monster pauloffit.substack.com/p/rfk-jrs-tu...

peek = 🫣 peak = 🗻 pique = 👀

your mileage may vary but my experience on here improved pretty noticeably when I stopped offering explanations to people whose questions sought conflict rather than answers

If ilhan Omar had a "favorite philosopher" who said something like this, the media would literally hound her into resigning. But they don't even report on the fact that the sitting vice president loves this guy, a disgusting anti-semite

There’s so much Miller on the timeline, cleansing with Dolly Parton and a cat ✨

It is perfectly fine to use dish soap to clean any cast-iron skillet made after, like, 1950.

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

It throws away decades of effort that was stunningly successful where we took it seriously, i.e. in Europe. A world that works this way is a terrifying place, and we and the Europeans somehow managed to replace it in a large and previously violent continent. And this idiot wants to throw it away.

It’s unspeakable to have an anti-vax regime in the United States. But that it came about from, and in reaction to, the largest & safest drug rollout in human history (that saved many millions of lives) is pretty tough to swallow.