So this is setting up a high profile dispute in which almost everyone will (I think??) sympathize w the victim. But also it can fuel the administration’s anti-trans rhetoric, fit in with the “foreign censorship” story that Musk and Trump both love, and exacerbate US-Canada tensions. 2/

Ooof. I can’t believe X chose this case, and this place, to fight a global takedown order. Canada is the one country with a Supreme Court decision supporting global takedowns. The case came out of BC, like this one. It was about trade secrets. This is an ugly NCII case involving a trans person. 1/

ngl i clicked through to find out what the four word message was. i was sitting here working through permutations of "eat shit you bitch" while counting on my fingers

the thing about being an insufferable hipster in your youth who tells her peers that the 1990s were better is eventually you are in your 30s and the youngest person at a dandy warhols concert

"Here’s Jeffrey Epstein complaining about SEO" one of the more cursed @miasato.bsky.social posts in a while www.theverge.com/news/820165/...

how I came to be in the Epstein files

i think the ruling class is extremely concerned about opsec! they do not like their houses being photographed and resent their texts being leaked!

ok maybe the craziest thing about these epstein emails is how many of them are still emailing like this after october 2016 and the wikileaks dnc emails

Every single time! Epstein will write: "porsecters h4arrsed me w/ sbuopenas al bcuase tr4ificing myners .due porcess much???no" and then there's, like, the former president of a university or white house counsel or something replying: "You're totally right, and also I love you with all my heart."

i know this isn't important in the slightest but this pedophile sure can't type

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i mean it doesn't cause autism so in that sense it's basically useless

Just in case anyone is confused about the antisemtism crackdowns part.

on the other site, a magnificent post of extraordinary proportions

i am starting to think larry summers should not be listened to

Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat

"Everyone is 12" theory complicated by expectation that 12 year olds can read

ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy

As much as I find common cause with my more radical friends I (reluctantly) oppose the hardline proposals to summarily incarcerate every ICE agent. I urge everyone to consider the centrist compromise of abolishing ICE

where's the lie

scenes from a victory lap zeteo.com/p/senate-dem...

I think voters at large will very likely have trouble remembering details of chuck schumer selling out the aca by nov 2026. also I think in the next three months you're gonna see a lot of unlikely folks stopping by the dsa table at various no kings events

This one has both:

I wrote about Chuck Schumer newrepublic.com/article/2029...

Pretty much all affordability discourse could benefit from just posting this chart. If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.

seeing the responses to this has made me realize that if you are opposed to elon, you should at least remember the time he claimed that smartphone games were more intellectual than chess

About one in three registered voters participated in their local elections throughout Oregon last week. That’s according to preliminary election results from the Oregon Secretary of State’s office.

one time I pointed out that elon musk followed no women on twitter and he immediately followed caity weaver

books have no tech tree, no fog of war

wait until JCO finds out about how he doesn't even actually play video games

I, too, would like people to know I have read a book

THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY Please read this entire excellent piece by Caroline, which points out that a judge ordered the Feds (again) to stop doing **this exact kind of thing** and they are still continuing to do it all over Chicago

democratic voters wanted their party to shut down the government for myriad reasons — troops in american cities, masked thugs ripping families apart — but dem leaders insisted the wise thing to do politically was to stay hyper-fxated on this one thing, ACA tax credits. and then they just… gave up

Bitch please a lot of Americans barely even remember Jan 6th

The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it. Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.

The original Dem demands were: 1) Permanent ACA subsidies 2) Medicaid funding restored 3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission) They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today. The Senate Democrats!

A number of Western Allies like Churchill wanted summary executions, Soviets initially wanted straight show trials with predetermined outcomes. Compromise became trials but with an actual defense allowed that could be educational but still according to the rule of law.

Absolutely correct! And correct me if I’m wrong but I remember people like Churchill at one point advocated summarily shooting all nazi officers above the rank of colonel, which makes the Nuremberg trials seem like a mass amnesty project

been doing some light reading about the aftermath of the korean dictatorship and I think it's really important that we repeat this to ourselves, to our friends, to our neighbors, to our politicians

Bad news for human rights and national security, no matter how you spin it NSO Group has a new executive chairman, David Friedman, who's a former U.S. ambassador to Israel and onetime bankruptcy lawyer for President Trump. www.wsj.com/tech/israeli... via @WSJ

People need to understand that Chicago is a preview, not a culmination.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

lol, lmao

🚨𝗡𝗘𝗪𝗦 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘: Portland, OR (November 8th) — Nice hit piece, 𝗦𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗵 𝗝𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗴, the far-left “𝘫𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵” from 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘝𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘦, a struggling online outlet that can’t seem to get its facts straight. 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗷𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗮𝗱𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲: Try reporting facts next time instead of propaganda.

And the reason the first head got pushed out by Trump was that she was insufficiently hard-line on immigration lol.

The piece is about how the Trump administration had two consecutive illegally-serving heads of DHS. Like I'm not making this part up, they filed the wrong paperwork and literally overstayed how long they were supposed to be there according to statute. A level of irony that feels fictitious

OK this other thing is hardly the most important thing Chad Mizelle has done but I always recognize his name in the news because of this piece I wrote a few years ago looking back at Trump 1.0's DHS and its surfeit of Chads www.theverge.com/c/23172433/c...

lol. The "religious freedom" crusaders are literally trying to ban people from praying outside of immigration jails.