Why do reporters keep calling these boot licking Republican clowns “moderates”?

Don’t miss the opportunity to cast your ballot for Worst Person in Tech! Will Elon Musk and Peter Thiel find themselves facing off again this year, so will another asshole move into the top spot? You will decide.

seems like "painfully short memory" is a transcontinental issue for the americas

Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.

At SNL I worked with artists who made the funniest, stupidest graphics in no time flat. Some of my biggest jokes would have been impossible without these geniuses building an insane image or finding the perfect real-life photo of a politician. Sucks that their work is being pushed aside for slop.

There are many things you can lie about that people might have trouble fact checking, but the price of goods is not one of them

This is college in the United States. Video from inside a Brown University building shows the moment that police found a group of students who were sheltering after the shooting on campus. This isn't freedom.

Lawless, criminal behavior

Propaganda. We thought that it was gauche and problematic to have government propaganda about public accomplishments and so people forgot about them. People consistently like the military more than ‘the government’ and you know what a large part of that is? They have an advertising budget.

To give you a sense of how big a departure this year, the government doesn't do this for wanted criminals.

Look who’s circling Venezuela... During his interview of Maria Corina Machado, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale tells her: “We have a lot of friends here who’ve had to flee VZ & who are huge fans of yours, & we’re very excited to come back & invest & BUILD w/ u when u get to be a free country.” 1/

The Democratic Party's formula for the last 50 years has been "Let's be friendly with extreme wealth and maybe we can also get modest policy wins sometimes." The last 10 years and this year in particular should be conclusive proof of how badly this has failed. But we're stuck with it anyway

Super exciting news, mates! Lyvaren is now on view at @quirkyfox.bsky.social as a part of the Diamonds Exhibition! My first work in New Zealand! Hooray! 🍀🍀🍀

Everywhere you look there is an opening for leadership. What an irony that the Democratic consultant-pundit class fell into a poll-following Popularist obsession at a time of such volatility

Polling: "Do you think the rich have too much political power in the U.S.?" Yes: 80% No: 8% Independent voters are 81%/6% on this; even Trump voters are 68%/18%. Maybe a political party could lead on this issue. d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...

It's fitting that the cover on AI mindlessly apes an earlier creation and also displaces workers while elevating Silicon Valley plutocrats.

This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him. I don’t know how else to say it…

ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/3MTlm33

So happy that Bernie is on the AI case.

Two things about this EO are true: 1) it is a despicable, sloppy, and unacceptable act that reflects Trumps well documented affinity for his tech buddies 2) it does nothing by itself — CNN and the NYTimes get it BIG wrong here, giving Trump the headline he wants to scare states and create apathy

One under-appreciated part of this: note the bit below about “and their dependents.” Under the Trump admin’s new policy, dependent children of visa applicants are not allowed to have their social media set to private during the entire visa process. They MUST make their social media public.

They want to withhold federal money for a state’s infrastructure if the state has a law that protects its residents from the downsides of AI.

BREAKING: NY Gov. Kathy Hochul gutted an AI regulation bill awaiting her signature and replaced it wholesale with a weaker version sought by Big Tech firms. At least two of the groups lobbying on the bill held fundraisers for Hochul in recent weeks. prospect.org/2025/12/11/h...

Ten years ago.

It's been just over a year. But on occasion of Tony Dokoupil's selection as anchor of CBS Evening News, it *really* is worth watching these 5+ minutes of his exchange with Ta-Nehisi Coates. Especially for the quality of TNC's responses. Worth your time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgWt...

NEW: Doxing-for-hire services are using forging emergency data requests from law enforcement to trick major tech companies like Apple and Amazon into handing over people's private information. @davidgilbert.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/doxers...

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

Hail to the thief

“Somali-looking” man repeatedly begged ICE agents to check his digital passport ID as they tried to put him in a chokehold. They did not, and instead tackled him to the ground, and abducted him. They reportedly drove him 7 miles away before freeing him. Video: @LongTimeHistory via X

Trump’s racial profiling ICE goons to 🇺🇸 citizen: “Turn around or you’re gonna get the dog.”

They are going to do anything they want & the so-called checks & balances will empower them the whole way until there is a general strike I’mma tell you right now so if we ain’t ready to do that we just need to be prepared for anything to happen

People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!

There is perhaps nothing more "on brand" for Trump than using all of the power of the US government to coerce a sovereign, democratic nation into releasing someone accused of raping children and trafficking women. "Gift" article, so no subscription required to read. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...

Me to the AI industry

Street parking is tax payer subsidized storage.

The House just voted for a bloated $900B Pentagon budget despite the fact that the Pentagon can't even pass an audit and despite the fact that Trump is getting ready for a war on Venezuela and despite the fact that so many people are about to lose health care. Here are the 115 Dem YES votes.

Health officials say lower vaccination rates have contributed to the surge in cases.

WOW. So this is obviously a huge violation of this man's rights, and it illustrates a few things we're seeing broadly: - DHS officers are ignoring peoples' IDs and instead requiring screening through their own systems - Confirms @404media.co's reports of use of DHS's facial recognition app.

Whole of the American economy is now piracy.

An incredible admission at how top down the right is and how the oligarchs propagandists view their followers as lemmings to manipulate through social media rage bait. Now they're upset that they have lost control of the manipulation machine.

He's a shoe in to get the Nobel Peace Prize, don't you think? Or maybe to become a mob chief running an extortion racket.

Sanders: Mark Zuckerberg is building a data center in Louisiana that will use 3x more electricity than all of New Orleans. Oligarchs want YOU to pay for these data centers with higher water & electric bills. OFC, who’s going to process all the border crossing data?

Not sure what is more concerning. The breadth of geopolitical issues facing us. Or the quality of politicians we have to meet them.

the way that ai is being advertised now is that everyone has to pretend to be incompetent and incredibly incapable and useless at everything

The statistical probability of every high profile political case being assigned to Rao and Katsas, two Trump loyalists, is infinitesimal. Yet this is happening.

Fruits of having a former cop serve as mayor.

You will be visited by three spirits.

“I’d have no problem releasing the video” “I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.” 5 days apart 😬 (From @therecount.com )

Sure you do buddy. You’re twelve

no idea