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Last year, CNN ran a “fact check” of Kamala HQ that claimed we were lying for saying Trump’s plan is Project 2025. Now Trump is outright admitting it’s his plan. Legacy media failed the country.

This is it, and not just for higher Ed . Zero long-term planning, a society full of institutions run on a toxic combination of individual self-interest and pursuit of instant gratification. “This will be gone soon, how much of the copper wire can I get my hands on as it’s stripped from the walls.”

This is the kind of government you wanted, assholes! This is what crony capitalism does! It fucks with *everybody*! I wish you weren’t wasting my taxpayer dollars!!

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

We need clear communication with the people. And if the government won’t meet people’s material needs during this shutdown, the party should. It’s time to use our resources to help others, not just get candidates elected. More food banks, less fundraising.

"single-use plastic of the mind" had me GAGGED

When you always imagined yourself doing the deadly serious business of the hallowed White House Press Corps and instead you're taking dictation from an adolescent groyper who's somehow in charge of Treasury payments, it has to mess with your head.

According to IREC there are almost 450,000 Americans working in the solar, storage, and renewables industry. According to BLS, 42,000 people work in coal mining. There are 3.8 million public school teachers and 2.7 million cooks, kitchen staff, or food servers.

I wonder if it’s bad that Congress is full of adults you wouldn’t trust to feed your cats while you went away for the weekend if they were your neighbors.

Real “but for Wales, Richard?” energy. Imagine selling your soul and helping ruin people’s lives for a billionaire’s couch change.

update: no rapture yet

Much needed bit of levity. defector.com/the-not-so-g...

I wrote about the experience of government of, by, and for people who have been driven insane by screens. (This is a gift link, please Consider Defector if you are interested in subscribing to a website) defector.com/the-united-s...

I wrote about the leveling and deranging effects of the Trumpist snitchscape, and the awful content creation imperatives governing this awful moment. defector.com/the-united-s...

I actually spend a lot of time doing science! Here are some lessons learned from applying a risk framework to uncertainty buffers for U.S. West Coast Groundfish. I feel so lucky to work with such an amazing group of humans and scientists. 🤩 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Whether it’s Fox News’s Brian Kilmeade advocating killing homeless people by “involuntary lethal injection” or MSNBC’s Matthew Dowd bringing up things that Charlie Kirk said, both networks have crossed the boundaries of decency.

You know who was also a young husband and father—not to mention ex-Marine—who died, not attacking others to make himself rich and powerful, but to save the lives of others? David Rose, the officer killed by the anti-vax domestic terrorist who attacked the CDC. apnews.com/article/deka...

It’s gonna be so weird watching establishment dems be performatively sadder about this than they were about the colleague and her husband and dog who got shot and killed

On March 27, 1981, 13 million Poles (effectively every adult worker in the country) failed to show up for work at 8 AM after union activists in Bydgoszcz were beaten. In the face of that kind of solidarity, the state could do little but sputter. Anyway, thinking about Texas A&M.

Sure seems like Big Pharma spent way way more energy, money and lobbying capital on fighting Dems on prescription drugs than doing anything about the Secretary of HHS casually, and without any real evidence, telling everyone their products kill kids and give them autism.

they ought to be saying "Justice Kavanaugh, a white man born into wealth who has been credibly accused of sexual assault, says having brown skin is sufficient to be arrested even with no accusations of criminal behavior at all" celebrating "the majority says [untrue thing]. we disagree" is weird

I wrote about how I am not buying the narrative that the anthropic AI settlement is good for authors: defector.com/if-the-thiev...

Whether it's Obama wearing a tan suit or Trump declaring "Chipocalypse Now" and pledging to unleash "the Department of WAR" on America's third largest city, leaders of both parties have shown disregard for presidential norms.

And yeah, they'll be back. It's going to get a lot worse. It's going to suck ass for a long time in America, but they aren't invulnerable, they're just empowered bullies and like all bullies, they can't handled working harder than they're supposed to and they can't stand being thwarted. 10/

So, Chicago, it's your turn now and man, I am so so sorry. Nobody should have to go through this. This is awful. This is fascism. Organize. Step up. Don't think other people will do it -- the might, maybe even they will, but they need you, too. Be like LA -- be sand in their gears. 9/

This is a beautiful thread and you owe it to yourself to read it

it's really something to witness a person with this level of cravenness. like do you think he can even imagine what it's like to have self-respect? does he assume it's just some made-up bullshit like the easter bunny? i want to truth-serum him and find out

I do think people on here sometimes get a lot too precious about how the sausage is made, but there's no point sacrificing principles if there's not gonna be any sausage.

So the U.S. military just blew up 11 people on the open sea in an extrajudicial massacre, saying they were dangerous drug traffickers but offering no court prior evidence to claim such. And other military units are patrolling U.S. cities with guns and no training in criminal procedure. Cool, cool.

College football is the ultimate Hater culture. It’s 10% joy at seeing your favorite team do well and 90% joy at watching Bama and Notre Dame eat shit.

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

The only thing surprising about this ruling is that the courts actually followed the law. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/b...

Our comment on the DOE CWG report is done. It tips the scales at 439 pages, approx. 3x longer than the DOE report. This is related to Brandolini's law: The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it. Example: refuting one sentence.

Bonta is the fighter everyone seems to think Newsom is, only without all the grotesque ego or transphobia

On the one hand, I guess that's good news. On the other hand, I was looking forward to packing on 25 pounds for health reasons.

remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature

“Our new plan is the same thing we’ve been saying for 40 years.” “So it has worked?” “Oh good lord no.”

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

Repost for the evening crowd! We’ve had a great first day of support, and this train’s just getting started. If you want to send a message to cowardly Republicans and Dems alike, well, I’m all out of fucks to give. Let’s win this race and actually fight for our democracy and *everyone* in it.

Love to watch our ancient ruling class visibly rot before our eyes. Even the Andropov/Chernenko analogies come up short; their limbs were not disintegrating like they just chose the wrong grail.

i am so sick of the dumbest people alive being in charge of everything and the second dumbest people alive writing opinion columns about how it's good

So much time stolen marshaling proof. And more proof and more proof and more proof and another study and another study and another study. obviously, it is not about proof, but power. as it ever was

gift link bc this shit is delicious

A fascinating study, showing that reliance on AI, or even just exposure to AI assistance, makes doctors less able to diagnose cancer after just a few weeks. A huge piece of evidence that the main effect of AI on humans is skill decay. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Here is some important context

What a complex problem 🤔….

So like the whole point of the thread is that this paper does show instead of just telling. If you’re expecting some new statistical test, you’re going to be disappointed. But that’s bullshit. More important than a test is a conversation that no one had thought to have.