It’s extraordinary that Biden’s main weaknesses were inflation and cognitive decline and now America has inflation and cognitive decline as well as tariffs, authoritarianism, blatant corruption, etc

Along with the Antifa nonsense, the goal here is to reclassify any dissent as dangerous. Which is not something elected officials in a democracy do.

Listen I love the em dash so much and this stuff is such a transgression. If AI also comes for the Oxford comma I'm just going to have to personally find the king robot and put a stake through its heart

The Speaker of the House is telling the Fox News audience that a peaceful demonstration by Americans on the National Mall will actually be a gathering of organizations the administration has designated as violent terrorists. Seems bad?

"Should I buy an inflatable duckie costume to prepare for the Philadelphia invasion? Should I do it now, before tariffs drive up the prices more?" - my internal monologue in this, the very normal year of our lord 2025

A master class from MIT in responding to authoritarian overreach: Your “premise … is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone. … America’s leadership in science & innovation depends on independent thinking & open competition for excellence.

You see this and think "What happened" and the answer is one old asshole posted a tweet. Healthy political and economic system

honestly things could realistically get incredibly funnier

I feel like we should see clips of Milei's concert in attack ads - just name anything he cut funding for and show Milei rocking out at his vanity performance when it comes to 'what did we use that money for instead?'

these people are stealing from you and laughing at you

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

I've just spent fifteen minutes on a 150 word section describing the crime scene photo of Mary Kelly's dismembered body. It was legitimately some of the least pleasant writing work I have ever done. At exactly zero points in the process did I think, "gosh, I wish I could get AI to do this for me."

This is particularly bizarre because it kind of relies on US Americans not knowing that circumcision isn’t normative elsewhere, because if they knew that they’d wonder how this could be true given rates of autism elsewhere are consistent with the United States

That barely took three months. The same politicians who wanted age verification on all social networks are also telling your it's okay to break e2e encryption on messaging services.

I just…

One big change from the great depression is that soup lines are illegal in around 39 cities now, to punish the unhoused.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News. Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios. www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

I can't stress this enough: opposing birth control isn’t a fringe position in the anti-abortion movement—it’s the norm. 'Mainstream' groups like Students for Life say so explicitly on their websites! But because mainstream outlets don't report on it, most Americans don't know

So yesterday a reporter asked Donald Trump about the writ of habeas corpus, and he had no idea what it was. "I don't know," he said. "I'd rather leave that to Kristi." Well, It turns out Sen. Hassan asked Kristi Noem about it in May, and this was Noem's response:

Is it a small victory? Yes, but there's so little good news these days that I'm willing to take "the craft world is not completely collapsing under the weight of end stage capitalism" as good news worth celebrating.

"Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are pepper ball proof"

Oh — new reporting on Pope Leo from El Paso Matters, citing footage they have of yesterday's meeting. Sounds like the pope was even *more* forceful in urging U.S. bishops to speak out about immigration than first reported. I mean, that's…not subtle. elpasomatters.org/2025/10/08/e...

As general fan of Taylor Swift and fellow artist I think this is a good piece ! Perhaps the people commenting will read it

Just openly cheering the destruction of any representation of gay people in public space. They think their power is totally unrestricted, and the entire country will support them rolling back society to the 1950s, or maybe the 1850s

they don’t want you to know how they treat prisoners because it will grieve you to know it, which is natural and human, and because of your normal human reaction you will want the system changed. It’s important to them that your natural aversion to how the system works not be engaged.

It is the last arguably warm day this week (& hopefully this season), so I brewed some of my really high-quality black tea at double strength to make an iced tea. But now I'm just drinking what didn't fit in my tumbler and there are FLAVORS I didn't know this tea had!

Remember this when they tell you that arts degrees are worthless.

We already had "American DOCTOR WHO". It was called THE BLUES BROTHERS

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

fucked up that this is all just landlords swatting their own buildings to get rid of all the working class residents so they can raise the rent or sell to a developer who'll flip them into high end condos or w/e like it's a real estate scam! it's a fucking land grab! a fire for the insurance money!

This South Side Weekly report on the Chicago building raid is well worth reading. Most striking to me are the indications of collusion between federal authorities and the building owner and management to effect a mass eviction at the blighted property. southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Bloomberg research found wholesale electricity up ~270% in areas near data centers It doesn't seem like nearly enough people are taking it seriously One A.I. image isn't too much energy, but 5 million videos? Per day/hour/minute whatever. It's not sustainable www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

i think it is cool that a government run by fanatical bigots is on track to plunge the economy into a mountain and cause a food crisis

this is wonky stuff and is also really important

For folks who are worried about the reverend: he's okay. He was cared for by folks on site.

CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat. For the crime of … complaining about government policy. Core 1A speech. With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Every part of this sentence describes an abomination before God. People are going to hell for this.

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here. Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Every major city in Texas has a higher murder rate than Chicago

This little twerp, who’s been there a few months, axed two of the lions of WaPo?? Fisher is an investigative champion and had been at The Post for 39 years. Hoffman had been there for 42, and he won a Pulitzer LAST YEAR.

Prime Day falling on a date that isn't even prime is the sort of abomination that shows why billionaires need to be stopped

CNN: Trump says violence on streets of Portland is rising

Like knowing a dragon's true name, knowing a person's middle name gives you power over them

Hey CNN why are the gas prices on this photo so low? Ohhhh. I see. You're hoping no one notices this photo is from before the internet fucking existed. You shitheads.

Feel free to attribute the following to a former OMB General Counsel: The supposed "new legal analysis" is, to use a technical legal term, horseshit. What the law actually says is that when Congress enacts a law ending a lapse, furloughed employees get paid at the earliest date possible. Period.

I enjoy how people with lists called "leftist pigs who deserve helicopter rides" are ignored so the devs can focus on what's *really* important, defending digital cancer

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

i have been threatened with a good time