Exactly.

Apparently, the Right is losing their minds over Rama Duwaji's boots. Perhaps they need a gentle reminder that when the rich are taxed fairly they are still, in fact, super rich. That bit doesnt change. They just pay more in taxes, as they should. And will still be able to afford $600 boots.

classic mom

The Morning News asked me to contribute to its annual "most/least important things" package. Here's part of mine (click through for the rest). Community. Now more than ever. ❤️ themorningnews.org/2025-the-yea...

I mean. Several things.

No cheating, reskeet with the most recent photo of your pet. (Though obviously you can't see the cat. He is invisible in his personal forest)

Wall Street Journal ⁦ @wsj.com << Central Intelligence Agency found no attempted attack against Putin had occurred, according to a U.S. official briefed on the intelligence. CIA declined to comment. >> www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

I hope his female colleagues take turns punching him in his dumb fucking face

Me too

To be clear, Trump saying that the release of the Epstein files will hurt his friends is an admission that there is no hoax and that he knows what's in the files.

Everything in those Epstein files must be awful and true. Rep. Lauren Boebert 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Yup

Not to engage in tone policing or anything, but "very disappointing" are not the words I would use, my friend.

This is Trump’s long game. We’ve spent years cracking down on fraudsters. It’s a serious issue - but this has been his plan all along. He’s politicizing the issue to defund programs that help Minnesotans. www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/hhs...

This is going to culminate in Pizzagate-style vigilante violence if we do not protect our neighbors www.startribune.com/police-inves...

omg

Lol. Bondi deleted that post crediting the Trump admin for ending overdose deaths after @tedlieu.bsky.social pointed out that the chart's data ended during the Biden admin, showing the decrease was under Biden.

Somalis!?!? www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

BREAKING The Trump administration says it has frozen all childcare payments to Minnesota in the aftermath of allegations of fraud by some in the Somali community. Important: allegations along these lines have existed for years, which has resulted in prosecutions starting with the Biden DOJ.

Well this is fucking dark.

Okay Minneapolis frends, what are your favorite spots for a really excellent burrito? Bonus points for vegetarian. I'm having a hankering and I kinda want to try someplace new

I miss a president who cares for all.

Among the groups suspended: World Vision International (an evangelical Christian org), American Friends Service Committee (a Quaker org), Caritas Internationalis (Catholic, based at the Vatican) and the Near East Council of Churches.

A summation of the current nonsense

Some good news: “This year, 422 newly opened stores joined the American Booksellers Association — nearly a hundred more than joined last year.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/b...

Harvard ditched DEI to promote free speech. Instead, it’s enforcing a new conservative orthodoxy: mandatory bias training, vague antisemitism rules, and speaker cancellations. Same censorship, new politics. Academic freedom? Still MIA. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...

There is nothing good, honorable or redeemable in jd vance. Nothing at all.

Yup.

I think just worse and it’s why I focus a lot on enablers They can read The choose not to But ultimately it doesn’t matter because their real goal is to make the conditions that prove they are “special” and deserve control rather than any real creation

Vance is poison. Pass it on.

Sums it up.

This is just getting embarrassing. Either techbros are unable to read for comprehension, details, nuance, synthesis and understanding, or they think we can't.

Yes sir! And, to reinforce a little, this guy -- famous for shorts making him $$$ -- is betting on it! www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...

That line is written by the AI every time.

Of course they didn't read the story. They fed it into their buggy AI product and it spat out a completely wrong summary.

I mean.

“Inevitable” is taking advantage of the common misconception, the common manipulation of our understanding of history. There is no such thing as inevitable. It just doesn’t exist. The manipulation of “inevitable” is about removing agency, and installing the sense of a larger power of control.

Exactly

They cannot allow the genie to go back in the bottle, otherwise they lose much of their wealth. Its existential for them now to hype the bubble, and they will do it right up until the moment it pops. Meanwhile, the genie appears to be getting sucked back into the bottle, somewhat painfully.

Metaphors matter, is what I'm saying

And making a goddamned mess and getting nothing out of it

I'm starting to think this is the central problem.of every techbro's utter misunderstanding of the literary works the purport to revere - from Tolkien to Asimov to the friggin bible. They don't read, they just have ill formed summaries read to them.

Why is it that tech and AI boosters keep saying "you can't put the genie back in the bottle" when making arguments about AI's supposed inevitable dominance? Did they not read the story? The genie does, indeed, go back in the bottle. Maybe we should start there.

What is her whole deal?

Agreed

they didnt just lie about the election, they were caught saying they were gonna spread lies bc its what their viewers wanted to hear and it would be good for ratings insane that anyone with any self respect wouldnt turn on them after that

So, Twincy friends, are we all just going to be buried today? Is that the plan? Glad I bought milk yesterday.

Posting shitty AI slop is anti-creativity, anti-education, anti-environment, anti-art, anti-justice, anti-humanity, and, crucially, anti-union. Any educator or union boss (or in this case, both) doing so should be ashamed of themselves.

Hasn't Thiel been threatening to leave the country to create a floating fiefdom in the sea for like three decades now? Seems to me he just likes to keep threatening us with a good time. Why won't he just leave already and leave the rest of us alone?