ah, well, nevertheless

How much more in your face can it be? "Why are you asking me for my paperwork?" "Because of your accent." "You have an accent too." "Where were you born sir?" "Where were you born at?" "Put your hands behind your back."

Yesterday, Coinbase withdrew its support for the crypto market structure bill. Hours later, the Senate Banking Committee canceled the markup hearing. They’re not even trying to pretend anymore that this bill isn’t written by the industry, for the industry.

UATX: "we're the school for free speech." Faculty member: "the rich should pay their fair share." UATX: "you're fired." It's truly a distillation of the reality that the entire "anti-cancel culture" project was just a bunch of rich people who hated being criticized or held accountable.

Apropos of nothing, let's check in with how things are going at Bari Weiss's free speech university. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

extremely cool info environment to tweet something and a half hour later once it’s riled everyone up to be like “no haha jk it’s the opposite actually”

Why do people keep citing figures like "90% of code at Anthropic is AI written"? It's possible to have 100% of the code be AI written but the non-code parts (initial prompts, tweaks/fine tuning, etc.) are still nontrivial Better would be "how much time was saved?" and "was the output (as) correct?"

Another data point indicating that Polymarket is not a “prediction market” but a public persuasion operation—here it spreads disinformation about Minnesota and DHS signals boosts the disinformation:

important history www.eschatonblog.com/2026/01/the-...

NEW from me: Towards the end of Trump's interview with 60 Minutes in November, Bari Weiss rushed into the room to introduce herself and the pair exchanged kisses on the cheek, leaving 60 Minutes staff stunned at the "overly chummy" embrace. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars. ictnews.org/news/north-c...

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Tony Dokoupil: "Mr. President, thank you very much. For the record, I do think that I'd have this job even if the others guys won." Donald Trump: "Yeah, but at a lesser salary." [Dokoupil then giggles as they wrap up the segment.] A CBS News staffer merely reacted with this: "HAHAHAHAHA"

Fox News' Will Cain: “There's a weird kind of smugness... in the way that some of these liberal white women interact with authority”

They are unlawfully detaining people for First Amendment protected activities, as far as I can tell. Dragging people out of their vehicles absent witnessing a crime and without a judicial warrant is repugnant to our constitutional order.

F.B.I. Inquiry Into ICE Shooting Is Examining Victim’s Possible Ties to Activist Groups www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...

I’m reading a 2012 book about YCombinator and keep reading passages that are just a quilt of red flags.

Love that judge box of wine was behind this

Right wingers: I’m a “I hate my wife guy”

Mississippi’s largest synagogue was set on fire before dawn Saturday. Fire department ruled it arson, and a suspect has been arrested. It is the same synagogue that the Ku Klux Klan bombed in 1967 because the rabbi supported civil rights. mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...

checking in to see what the libertarians at reason.com have to say about government thugs harassing innocent people

If there are *any* Democrats in Congress who will still vote to keep funding this administration when it is using that money to terrorize our cities and refusing to allow congressional representatives their clear right to observe their activities, then those reps need to be primaried into retirement

Hard to find any outlet than more propagandistic about supporting ICE and smearing its victims than the NY Post , owned by an Australian who lives in the UK.

actually laughed out loud at this part (from Chain of Title by @ddayen.bsky.social )

NYC to quadruple intersections with red light cameras by end of year, officials say https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-to-quadruple-intersections-with-red-light-cameras-by-end-of-year-officials-say

A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

not that far off from an act of war

I kind of think the most revealing thing about Trump and his advisors’ view of the economy are the (false) “it’s fine, the economy is doing well in red states” lines from the CEA report that he posted on Truth Social

What a bunch of worthless pieces of shit This momentum is going fast if it doesn’t stop soon it’s not going to without collateral damage on both sides

basically; “the summary execution of americans on the streets is a land of contrast” this guy is a true airhead. just nothing between those ears.

I am begging Democratic leadership to recognize that funding and legitimizing your authoritarian opponent’s secret police is a bad idea. This should not be a difficult concept.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

For me, labor market story of 2025 is that, since liberation day, 121% of all new private sector jobs have been in health care. During that same period 161,000 blue-collar jobs (@josephpolitano.bsky.social's definition) have been lost. Whatever tariffs were meant to do for workers hasn't happened.

this is your mission. roll up to this daycare in full tactical gear to harass some kids and teachers. when you get spooked by your own shadow like a panicked horse and start shooting your gun, our pedophile president will call the person you shot a terrorist. good luck soldier

not saying it can't get worse but this week really feels like a straightforward depiction of what worst-case 'post truth' information apocalypse ppl were warning of in the late 2010s

an ordinary person "would already be facing approximately 500 quadrillion years in prison. Yet as usual, Western democracies have not yet attempted to punish Musk or Twitter/X in any way." prospect.org/2026/01/07/e...

just a reminder of the initial, in the moment, right wing reaction to jan 6 my favorite is greg gutfeld saying republican condemnation of the jan 6 rioters is an example of their moral superiority over the left www.mediamatters.org/media/4018641

If you made a Venn diagram of every weird person I knew in Silicon Valley during the first dot-com boom, centrifuged it, extracted the pellet, and re-suspended it in high-proof eugenics with a splash of AI, you'd end up with something like this. It'll take a strong stomach to read this "gift" link.

"Venezuela raid enriches MAGA billionaire" @juddlegum.bsky.social for @popular.info

Guess who wants a pardon, but can't afford the $ ticket.

I wrote section 230 to protect user speech, not a company's own speech. I've long said AI chatbot outputs are not protected by 230 and that it is not a close call. Given that the Trump administration is going to the mat to protect pedophiles, states should step in to hold Musk and X accountable.

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

US views on foreign policy can be summed up by this Matt Walsh tweet

One of most remarkable US presentations at UN Security Council I've ever seen. - No reference to UN Charter legal justification - Claims Panama as precedent (which the UN condemned) - Energy reserves ⤵️ as justification is illegal - Sharp contrast with US Ambassador Pickering presentation in 1989

Nothing says "strong" like complaining off the record to a Beltway reporter

I was wondering how this might all turn out to have been my fault

the news story that associated zohran mamdani with nicolas maduro because they both identify as socialists appears to have been edited to be slightly less insane www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...

They want more crime and mass shootings. They like that stuff and want to make sure we can't pass laws to stop it from happening

Incredible. CBS Evening News announces five new “simple values” — instead of their “38-page handbook” — as they roll out Tony Dokoupil is lead anchor. One of those values is simply: “We love America and make no apologies for saying so.”

This is so perfect. In 2012 CPAC banned the John Birch Society. In 2023 they were welcomed back into the fold. And now here they are working together with TPUSA.

trumpcard.gov is live and the million dollar fees are all referred to as “gifts” or “contributions” to an undisclosed party lol