Excited to say that I feel halfway healthy for the first time in a few weeks AND my insurance has finally reactivated so I can get the many many lab tests my doctor ordered cause the last ones came back "oh that's not good." I'm gonna celebrate by doing way too much and overly exhausting myself.

how do you write this story without noting there was a campaign literally called SUBSTACKERS AGAINST NAZIS in…2023

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal? Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail… Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you. Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake.

I know we've all forgotten, but wasn't there a scandal last year because Trump reposted the full racist king of the jungle video that he posted a clip from? So he somehow didn't learn?

This, from today's column on Trump's racist garbage post, is a point I'd really love an answer to: (Full column here: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...)

Big congrats to the Trump admin for walking themselves into an order that they declare, under oath, what actions they have been taking to mobilize ICE in Springfield, Ohio and South Florida. Whoops.

Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...

I wish I could tell people like me, who first came to Bluesky and felt pummeled by performative scolding, that now it feels a lot less like that and a lot more like that brief window when Twitter was pretty good: useful, occasionally ridiculous, a place to discover new thinkers & writing

TRIGGER WARNING, because here is a US Marshal from Trump‘s Gestapo Force in Memphis kicking a puppy today in the Whitehaven neighborhood and breaking its rib. They were serving a warrant and I guess BIG MAN got scared of the schnauzer. (I didn’t take the video, the dog’s person did)

So…TrumpRx is powered by GoodRx. Interesting. (Your GoodRx screenshot made me do a double-take) www.reuters.com/business/hea...

they looked bad and now they're going to punish this little boy and his family for it the cruelty runs *so* deep

Diana is seven years old. She belongs in a second-grade classroom—not in a prison with inhumane conditions. I’m headed to Dilley, Texas, right now to see if she’s okay.

I'm sure I have friends who are working on this stuff, and in the olden days I would have said "let me know if I can help you make the case for why it shouldn't be on there" blah blah blah but at this point? I hope you fail and you should fucking know better and there's no goddamn excuse. Do better.

The fact that *not one* person in Harris' camp can explain why they shouldn't launch their fucking media operation on the Substack platform is... probably all you need to know about that endeavor.

I'm sorry Bitcoin is down how much today?

Retweeting this again, because I cannot overemphasize HOW IMPORTANT THIS IS. And how many MORE people signed up after each murder. I can't remember who around here said that they had learned something new in 2026, which was that it turns out there is something they are willing to die for. That.

Here’s the worst part about my name being in the Epstein Files: He didn’t even email his friend MY article. He emailed an aggregation of my article with my name in it. It's one thing to be the world's most evil pedophile, but at least read primary source materials when doing non-pedophile stuff.

The *only* extraordinary circumstances that would be acceptable is in the middle of a pandemic and we all know those assholes will refuse to wear masks then.

We have enough evidence for UBI in general that this policy should be a given. But the difference is, to understand UBI works is to believe that people are fundamentally good. And a big chunk of society is built around the belief, *must maintain the belief* that people are fundamentally bad.

Not all Chotiner interviews end up with the subject bleeding out on the floor Some, like this one, allow experts to enlighten us on something important www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.

Night, all, and let us try to be good to one another — and ourselves.

Genuinely curious: If your family is American, what brought them here? Mine: religious nuttery & primogeniture

Breaking NYT: Behind closed doors, Tulsi Gabbard met with some of the FBI field agents responsible for the Georgia election office raid. During the meeting, she called Trump. Trump addressed the agents on speakerphone, asking them questions as well as praising them for their work on the inquiry.

not that i think anyone needs to hear this but as someone who worked for this guy for 5 years pls do not trust ANYTHING he says

DHS said that the woman CBP shot in the chest in Portland was “involved” in a gang shooting. Her ~involvement~ was that suspected gang members sexually assaulted and robbed her.

I'm dreading what will end up happening with this case, but I applaud this judge for rightly pointing out the ridiculousness of the SCs unsigned without statements orders.

Jumping back to the beginning, Judge Reyes does a good job in the Background section of explaining exactly what TPS is, and what it isn't. I see a LOT of bad info about TPS on this site. Read this to learn the basics; the what and why. She lays it out well in this excerpt.

Wait, I'm sorry what? Noem seriously is saying she's willing to allow officers to wear body cams if they provide MORE money for ice and cbp?

Meeting in solidarity with Haitians in Springfield, Ohio now - over 600 people and still growing.

The Reconstruction II government should hire Chotiner for the limited purpose of deposing people

The increasing number of billionaires in every new release of the Epstein files are another reminder that billionaires shouldn't exist because they're immoral, exploitative hoarders and the world would be better if we abolished every one of them. Billionaires: the only minority destroying humanity.

After what I've learned today, it's not an exaggeration for me to say that I've been personally harassed by 4channers for over a decade now, across multiple platforms & that it was all part of a larger RW psyop funded by eugenic white supremacist pedophiles & I'm not exaggerating even a little bit

If Chotiner asks for an interview remember the two rules: - Ask if you are being detained. If not, leave. - Say you want to speak to your lawyer and nothing else.

This is heartbreaking and it's still happening. Remove the entire trump administration now.

I genuinely have no idea how to convey this to the American people, but I think the biggest impediment to any kind of immigration reform is that people are convinced that "legal" and "illegal" are immutable, intrinsic categories instead of a rapidly-shifting arbitrary constellation of regulations.

Just left an ICE Protest in Portland OR that started at City Hall and marched to the ICE building. Main demand was "revoke" the lease that lets the agency use their building. Crowd was 500-1000. They gassed massively after about an hour. Had to pull a lot of 16-17 year old girls out of the gas.

Ross, the guy who killed Good, is currently ICE but came from CBP. The killers of Pretti have been identified now as CBP. The guys who got a pass a few years back from SCOTUS when they shot a Mexican kid on ... the Mexican side of the border? CBP. And on and on.

But: CBP is uniquely lawless. As this piece by @vermontgmg.bsky.social points out, CBP has a LONG history of lawlessness--it's officers likely get arrested at a HIGHER per capita rate than undocumented immigrants ... and that's not taking into account our general unwillingness to arrests cops.

Not ICE, but CBP. ICE is terrible, but CBP is orders of magnitude worse. In many ways, abolishing or radically overhauling CBP is of greater urgency than ICE, but likely tougher to do. One can argue that ~all of ICE's duties can be reallocated. Harder to say that with CBP.

Chotiner: Tell me what you found interesting about these vampires. Documentarian: Well, it's just -- the group dynamics, I guess. Chotiner: I can see that. I can see finding Nandor, Laszlo and Nadia entertaining. Documentarian: Exactly. Chotiner: So. How many people did you watch them murder?

I can't stop laughing about how we wrote a trilogy about lady book nerds fighting tech bros with community organizing and 3d printers and 6 years later a bunch of lady book nerds Nick Fury'd the whistle avengers. 😂

Update on the OSS Simple Sabotage Manual. www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184

Isaac Chotiner is like a living thought experiment of What If A Mean Girl Chose to Use Their Powers For Good?

Hooray, I need a new Chotiner as a palate cleanse to this week.

I'm going to need @leahsottile.bsky.social's take on this. K? Thanks.

As a reminder, Anne Frank died of disease in a camp.

I'm guessing this is partial ego preservation and partial "dammit, old man is talking about bombing canada again, quick give him another building project!"