Senators Ron Wyden, Ben Ray Lujan, and Ed Markey just published an open letter urging Apple + Google to remove the X and Grok apps from their app stores: www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...

For those wondering why I spam my feed w/ Blue26.org fundraising links: —I’m not a soldier. —I’m not a lawyer. —I’m not a strategist. —I don’t have political influence. —I don’t like phone banking. —I’m bad at canvassing. I have one useful skill in the battle to save America: online fundraising.

Patrick Chappette, Le Temps de Genève

So do something about it

Writing about Musk’s world wide CSAM generator I’ve gotten the response, “What is CSAM?” I know it’s the preferred, non exploitive term, but I wonder if the outrage would be louder and the pressure on Apple and other carriers stronger if critics used more tabloidy descriptions of the product.

/8 A huge part of what makes it very hard to convict Jonathan Ross for murder was baked into America generations before Trump was President. That’s the primary factor that lets law enforcement kill with impunity, not Trump. Dick Wolf has killed more black men than Leopold II.

/7 Prosecuting a cop for misconduct, let alone murder, is the hardest prosecution you can do in America. Thanks to America’s culture it’s like trying to convict a fucking kitten for high treason. It’s like trying to convict Jesus. You just cannot rush over confidently into that.

Here’s a comment for the people who are upset that MN hasn’t charged Jonathan Ross already: If you just Leeeroy Jenkins this shit you will lose and you will empower fascism and murder. It is indescribably hard to prosecute cops for murder. It is even hard when the murder is ON VIDEO. /1

When people taunted Proud Boys at protests, I would always tense up a bit. They are weepy, easily-triggered, prone to absolute rage at the tiniest ego slight. And now these same sorts of men are staffing death squads that the Vice President of the US claims have "absolute immunity."

True. But before dementia, when he was just an ignorant, narcissistic sociopath, he did a better job when in public of hiding his intellectual, moral, and emotional deficits from the majority of people.

Pretty in pink #realSF

Can you imagine wanting a freeway here? @sunsetdunes.org

News alert: The midwestern white diner voter you're wedded to chasing doesn't have a single clue about judicial votes. They're not following. The people in these political weeds are the engaged base who are choosing between you and the couch.

You cannot tell voters that this regime is an existential threat one day and aid and abet it every other day. Either you're lying or you are complicit, neither of which makes you fit for office.

The saddest part is that he will probably stab her in the back anyway.

“a Mexican couple in San Bernardino made plans to self-deport — & leave their children behind. Rosalinda & Manuel spent most of their lives in the U.S. and had three American children. But they were never able to gain legal status. Can they elude ICE for 1 more year, until their youngest turns 18?

No other city in this country comes close to SF imho

These bastards never, ever get to use “treatment of women” as an excuse for their Islamophobia again.

New from @kattenbarge.bsky.social: X influencers are using Grok to unveil Muslim women in hijabs and show them being beaten by men. Women in sarees are also being stripped: www.wired.com/story/grok-i...

Oh dear, is that Sunset? Looks harrowing. Thoughts and prayers 😉

It's a regular hellhole here in #realSF

Point one: dipshits. Point two: it is a miracle that no one got shot from that unsecured rifle.

Here is a thread about a true police-shooting incident that I'm going to use to pose a fun little thought problem for anyone anywhere who think there ia a single justifiable reason to ever allow a law enforcement officer to use force on a citizen and remain anonymous. From my back pages:

Trump's Venezuela focus frustrates top aides worried about midterm elections - www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

The US Department of Agriculture suspends all federal funding to Minnesota, effective immediately.

Everyone should talk about Vance like this constantly.

DHS Releases Watchlist Of Mothers Driving Cars https://theonion.com/dhs-releases-watchlist-of-mothers-driving-cars/

US oil giant ExxonMobil tells Trump Venezuela is ‘uninvestable’ ft.trib.al/ZkznmTx

Debate over the fatal incident quickly spurred divisions nationally about who was at fault. Closer to home, it became a key proving ground for Democrats running for U.S. Senate.

ICYMI: WaPo, on why ICE always has phones in their hands: to feed the social media beast. @drewharwell.com www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

be free, Washington National Opera

The administration clearly wants people to feel like they could absolutely do nothing wrong and still be executed.

It's a goddamn beautiful day.

Trump’s so-called “Golden Age” is seriously screwing American workers, according to the latest jobs report. trib.al/HVFpzpJ 2025 was the... → worst year for hiring since the Covid-19 pandemic. → weakest annual job growth since 2003.

CNN posted a new video of the Minnesota shooting but missed its bombshell. ICE agent Jonathan Ross heads to his own car, turning his back on the supposed "terrorist" (L). He then walks back, filming, into the path of her ALREADY moving vehicle, stops and fires (R). Insane. 1/

I sat down on the bed & kind of lost it; imagine being the man who LEADS the US health system & deliberately doing this—committing a barbaric act that will mean the most vulnerable kids will be made MORE vulnerable to sickness, suffering, distress, & death It’s intolerable to think about 3/n

There are wonderful people doing astoundingly important work I want to thank 2 of them—they give me hope There are some news stories about Trump or RFK Jr that hit you especially hard—sometimes so hard that you’re in tears This was one of those stories 1/n www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

Once Again, a Newfoundland Town Rescues Stranded Passengers www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/w...

Stop falling for the “untrained” narrative.

Not everyone believed me when I wrote that Trump wants Greenland becuase it would make him feel important, but that's what he told the NYT: When asked why he needed to possess the territory, he said: “Because that’s what I feel is psychologically needed for success" www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...

So a CBS Evening News reporter actually did a pretty solid breakdown of the ICE murder video, talking to a former agent who details all the ways Ross messed up. And yet: It didn’t air on the actual show tonight. CBS did post it to YouTube—and it has nearly 800k views already youtu.be/6ywLEESFDu0?...

We got AI slop Letterboxd actor profiles now too It's a ChatGPT ass mistake to say someone played the main role when they were a supporting character but this one's hallucination is pretty easy to spot

Vice President JD Vance’s comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His Catholicism seems to be little more than a political prop, a tool only for his career ambitions and desire for power. My latest for NCR.

Reporters didn’t have to be “mind readers” to report the legislative accomplishments and executive actions that happened the last few years. But they’d rather openly tell us that it was unknowable unless they were spoon-fed that information like suckling babies.

These are amazing exchanges. A Times reporter hypes Trump’s deranged NYT interview by complaining about the access they got from Joe Biden and then when faced with what he’s admitting, he pretends he’s not saying what he’s saying. Access journalism is cancer. Reporters shouldn’t be groupies.

Agent who killed Renee Good is a firearms trainer www.wired.com/story/ice-ag...

06:41 Friday 09/01/26 I see no snow from the window. Just the soft glow from slow cars. Their lights turn the roundabout in to a merry-go-round. Goddam beautiful day.

These moments really make me wonder how some Americans can see him as heroic, effective, a man with keen faculties, who will use all his energy and wits on their behalf. It's not like - oh, whether a cousin hates cream cheese and you love it. Both are sane opinions. But this - this is madness.

Vivek has proven...he's got actual brain cells. Not a lot, mind you, but he has 'em.

The German Workers' Party became the Nazi Party in 1921. It's believed the first killings directly at their hands were in 1933. Twelve years. Donald Trump took the oath of office in 2017. It's 2026. Nine years. If nothing else, today's Republican party is very efficient.