Question: how many states remain members in the Union, and have yet to be swallowed up by the new Confederacy? This flag spotted in a local bar seems to get the number about right.

The East Wing Desecrators Given the extraordinary and unprecedented destruction of the entire East Wing, built in 1942 for the Office of the First Lady, it’s important to note who enabled this. In this thread, I run through the companies and organizations involved and provide contact info. 🧵

The last time progressives cheered on a guy who looked like a bit of a thug that guy turned out to be John Fetterman, and I don't think we need to repeat that experience in Maine.

Overstaying its welcome. Making New Yorkers’ days grimmer. Something we should relegate to the past. No, we're not talking about Andrew Cuomo. We're talking about scaffolding. Today we released our plan to take it down more quickly.

With the AWS outage, now‘s as good a time as any to post this old strip.

An OpenAI executive said GPT-5 found solutions to 10 "previously unsolved" math problems when in reality all it did was find online references to places where people had already solved them techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/o...

Building more computing centers is not going to solve AI's stupidity and hallucination problem any more than making every highway ten-lanes wide would solve congestion.

Abolish Profa.

If I could offer students one bit of…advice: be brutally traditional about what is printed on your degree. If you are first-gen or in any way non traditional, this goes double. Let rich kids get degrees in AI. You get something called “English”.

Let's honor Columbus' original intent and rename America 'China'.

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations. She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly! Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

Good work, Barry Wiess.

Today, the US federal government honors a Genovese man who did his own research.

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin. When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

In the battle of frog mascots, Antifa has now caught up with Fa, tying the score at 1-1.

This is a really good article, and as an inveterate shitposter, I keep asking where the adults are. I don’t *want* to be protesting! I don’t *want* to be arrested for standing up to oppression!! I want a boring government that works and takes care of everyone and I can go be stupid online!!!

Just realized I have no idea what my elementary school teachers' first names were.

All diseases are fake, except the woke mind virus, which is real.

How is the War Against America going? Have we won yet?

My god. “Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

now where i am from when someone in your office has an accuracy rate of 57.2 percent in editing spreadsheets we call them "fired"

Zohran Mamdani calling it a genocide on The View and getting applause.

A pal sent me this, along with his excited announcement that he's planning to open a movie theater that will show movies he's downloaded with BitTorrent but the film studios can choose to opt out if they want by filling out a form each time he shows one of their products.

Which war did the US lose because the soldiers were bearded and woke?

Prometheus Playoff Bound

My most controversial post-ejection take is that treating voters as adults with agency and telling them the truth isn’t looking down on them, while telling voters things you know to be false to validate their feelings in an attempt to manipulate them is considerably more condescending.

"Napa Retreat" describes the modern Democratic party's modus operandi to a t.

The current silence of the Republican party regarding the achievements of their one-time heroes Reagan and the Bushes could fill an entire John Cage album.

Some big implications for journalism, too, where reporters often mistake trending posts as a reasonable reflection of public opinion.

Results of WWIII: EU defeats Russia, China defeats Taiwan, and, in a real upset, Venezuela defeats the US in overtime. www.nbcnews.com/politics/rcn...

Joey Ramone's writing a song about financial reporter and current regime defender Maria Bartiromo was the first clear sign to me that a deep crack had opened in our culture through which it was possible for demons to pass.

Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance

For @motherjones.com, I wrote about the political pressure & coercion faced by teachers & staff at Success Academy. "They explicitly started with naming Mamdani and how he is the villain in our story," one teacher told me. "It makes me feel like we will be fired if we don’t participate."

Odds of a kind of WWIII - with less trench warfare and more drones than the previous WW's - are steadily rising.

Italy has moved me to tears for 3 days straight. Bravo ❤️

They hired a guy to make these number look good. And behold, they look good.

I guess I just don’t understand why an anti-ICE sniper would aim at immigrants… And why are so many people engraving bullets these days? I have questions.

Nation’s 56,000 Acres Of Spinach Crops Cooked Down To Single Half-Cup Serving

Big news for They Might Be Giants fans.

BREAKING A federal judge found it "appears ... that multiple employees of the Department of Justice may have violated" local rules in SDNY guaranteeing Luigi Mangione's right to a fair trial. Full order here storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Having Trump and Putin be simpatico at least kept the chances of a nuclear war low. While I support Ukraine, having this madman egg NATO into a shooting war is very dangerous. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

It is fully irresponsible to argue for an American return to global leadership. This country is deeply unwell and has no business leading anything until that's no longer the case. There's a whole world out there capable of tending to the world's problems. We must tend to ours.

US Envoy to Syria Tom Barrack: Peace is an illusion. There has never been peace. There will probably never be peace. Somebody wants dominance, which means somebody has to submit. There is no Arabic word for submit. They can't wrap their head around submit.

"The interviews were often described as aggressive and demeaning interrogations."

LOL oh wow the anti-vaxxers are mad that RFK Jr is saying Tylenol causes autism instead of vaccines. “We didn’t wait 20 years for Bobby to finally speak and then get served Tylenol as an answer.”

I have taken the Tylenol that was in the medicine cabinet and which they think probably is the reason you like trains forgive me but that’s bullshit you got autism from your dad

Columbia University, main campus. Once an open thoroughfare, shaded by tall noble trees. Now closed to the public, the big trees torn up and replaced by stunted exemplars of other species, planted deep in the summer vacation, and yellowing, dying. In an novel, the metaphor would seem heavy-handed.

Look at academia giving me a little hope

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

I logged onto see Academia.edu had profiled my papers with "Ai audio summaries" that were unauthorized. So I deleted my account. You should, too. #academictwitter #ethics