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This was so incredibly helpful in the wake of all of the misinformation bouncing around today.

This is called “strategic defeat.” You have ended up in a worse position than before you began, with your adversary, while battered, emerging in a stronger position than before.

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Ivan Ehlers.

Fascist enabling neoliberal incumbent Jim Himes is running in the primary for Connecticut District 4 on August 11, 2026 and currently has no Democratic opponents. bsky.app/profile/dell...

Huh. So it's unclear who's funding this campaign to pay influencers to attack Kat Abughazaleh. But the guy coordinating also has a company called Advocators AI, which just won an award for work for…Daniel Biss — her opponent. One of the campaigns the company boasts about promotes trips to Israel.

hmm I wonder what might happen if this got a certain amount of shares

“The Justice Department has withheld some Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor, an NPR investigation finds.” www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...

Normies in tears is the needle in motion, y'all. Kudos to this gent. We've all been there a lot lately.

the people who want you to believe that generative AI can paint like Picasso tend to gloss over the fact that Picasso didn’t have hundreds of Picassos to learn from. He had to make something new, which a model trained on old art is definitionally incapable of doing.

This article is a very good example of why "more training" and "more vetting" isn't the answer. Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez joined Border Patrol in 2018 and 2014 respectively. These aren't new agents. www.propublica.org/article/alex...

DHS should be embarrassed that their ICE agent hires are so soft they can’t handle being videotaped, even while masked, so they resort to pepper spraying women at close range. And we should be proud of the Santa Barbara women who stood their ground anyway.

HARVEY LEVIN, with an impassioned response to Don Lemon’s arrest: “.. It is obvious what's happening in this country, people. LOOK at what is happening.” @tmz.com.web.brid.gy @meidastouch.com

The Department of Justice deleted this document soon after the latest Epstein Files release today. So I uploaded it s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Minnesota is the blueprint. Keep the pressure on Nationally.

The Nazi SA - Sturmabteilung, or Storm Troopers - were often recruited from the dregs of society: barely literate failures incapable of holding down a job and only fit for murder and terror. The scum of Germany. Hitler gave them free rein to vent their rage on their betters. Sound familiar, America?

Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump. Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.

It is a horrible thing but one of the *points* of non-violence is that state violence in response causes outrage to spread.

If you feel outnumbered and discouraged - watch a video like this and say out loud to each person you see in it, I love you. I love you. I love you. Just send that out into the world.

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Hey guess who owns the Graduate Hotels chain, you’ll just never guess

"It wasn't murder, and if you say it was murder we will kill you, which again will not be murder."

ISRAEL LAUNCHES STRIKES IN GAZA CEASEFIRE’S LATEST TEST AS HOSPITALS SAY MORE THAN 20 KILLED.

They run the White House. They run the Senate. They run the House. And some say, they run SCOTUS. And now the government’s shut down. Don’t let them gaslight you (and they are trying as hard as they can,) this isn’t anyone else’s fault. When you hold all the power, you own the consequences.

Not sure the folks at NBC/Peacock thought this one through

#NYC #NoKings 👑

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

Heh

Eagles beat the Chiefs so bad they had that man thinking about settling down and starting a family.

An executive for The Masked Singer snorts an entire rail in one go and prepares to make the pitch of his life

We’ve got a new show tonight at 11pm on HBO Max/11:10 on HBO! 10 mins late on HBO cause we’re airing after “The Yogurt Shop Murders” and we wanted to give you processing time in case it’s more about murder than it is about yogurt. Seems impossible. Yogurt is way better than murder. But just in case.

Using a loudspeaker to announce ICE ✊🏽

Superman. 1949.

“If you’re at home and you’re living on tips, YOU do the math…This bill is a deal with the devil.” She is fierce

My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com

I mean there’s only a handful of roads leading to the stadium. Clearly they intend to be there harassing people going to the game.

Every Minnesotan is yelling at all of you to knock this off. Not competitive districts. Lege is not in session. You don't even go here. This is bad enough without the rest of the country parrotting this. Just. Fucking. Wait. For. Local. Reporting.

Update in East Los Angeles - About 100 people protesting against federal detentions are now dancing to La Chona. I cannot stress enough how much people love this song within Los Angeles. Just saw two dudes in Bloc twirling with each other.

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

I am in downtown Los Angeles right now and it is completely surreal to hear that Trump is sending Marines here. We are listening to mariachi music. People have dogs. There are teenagers here. It is utterly and completely peaceful. Please tell your friends.

Fight the Empire.

In case you're wondering, authoritarians use this strategy of escalation to manufacture crisis, provoke outrage, then use the reaction to justify repression. It’s not about restoring order, it's about creating a spectacle of chaos they can claim only they can control.

just that period reminder that content posted to Bluesky is public to *anybody*. if you don't want to see it used in a court of law, don't post it here. and DMs here are not E2EE, they can be subpoened. a great use for bsky DMs is to share secure comms and move the conversation there.

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This analysis of the fraudulent MIT paper is fascinating, with evidence that the whole plausible-but-off thing could have been fabricated by AI. Raises serious questions about how we’re going to distinguish AI garbage from reality, in this and other fields

I realize I’m just shouting into the wind here, but: please, please, please stop posting screenshots without links, or summarizing breaking news events without links. There’s a serious problem with unsourced assertions all over the world right now, don’t be part of the problem.

Your kids get a max of two toys and then grow up to work in the same factory as their father and grandfather screwing in tiny screws. It’s called The American Dream.