Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"

One if the toughest things to judge when considering a new job or a new role is, basically, “Will this crush my soul?” Here’s a simple list of questions you can ask to help improve the odds that your next gig will be less soul-crushing: anildash.com/2026/01/12/w...

Yes, but...um...all of that is true.

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Introducing the Astro 6.0 Beta. - Redesigned dev server: run against the same runtime you deploy to - First-class Cloudflare Workers support with workerd - Stable Content Security Policy and Live Collections It's never been a beta time to try Astro 👀

Reminder why I’m not in Threads either.

💯 I think calling it X also removes any pretense that there is anything left preserving there.

FEDWATCH: “.. The standoff between the Fed and the President has reached a new crisis level .. an unprecedented attack on the Fed's independence, which risks undermining the stability of the dollar and Treasuries, and may lead to a significant flight out of dollar assets.”

X ceased being a public square years ago, and over the last month, it’s degraded even further. A platform that enables the creation non-consensual sexualised images of women and children cannot be treated as neutral ground - and governments choosing to stay are endorsing it. Enough is enough.

Something I always wondered is how it would be covered if America became a dictatorship This is it

So basically that's a no

Narrator: They will not. Speaking of X, I will keep insisting that the folks still on that site are unconvinceable regardless of how much evidence we compile.

It’s easy to think that schools in Minneapolis are closed because the Feds murdered someone in the street but no, the actual reason is that while that was happening, the Feds were busy doing other heinous shit across the city like tear-gassing a school

US government killing Americans in broad daylight, kidnapping foreign leaders, threatening allied territories and dictating corporate capital returns. But “invest in America.” 🤡

It has been an obvious, sometimes even almost stated project of Trump 2.0 to engineer a redo of the post George Floyd protests of 2020, this time with much more state violence. And now a federal agent has shot and killed a woman in a car at point blank range a mile from where Floyd was murdered.

ICE has only existed since 2003. A Bush-era creation, it is a militarized federal secret police that has been imbued with the Supreme Court with the unconstitutional power to ignore the fourth amendment. Abolishing it and salting the earth where it grew is the moderate stance.

The idea that anyone left on X has the ability to be convinced to leave based on the daily horrifics on that site should have long been discarded.

BREAKING: X’s chatbot Grok isn’t just making AI porn deepfakes, it’s now making Nazi AI porn deepfakes, undressing women and showing them wearing “swastika bikinis”. Many of these women are Jewish, including a recently deceased Holocaust survivor.

So @tobymorton.bsky.social is a national treasure and Hilton is fucking up royally with this nonsense. www.hiltonice.com cc: @kenwhite.bsky.social

Astonishing how weak-kneed these companies are. So it is Hilton's stance that franchises are now required to let ICE and DHS run their brutal kidnapping campaigns from their hotel?

A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:

I love posts like this about building something with code just for fun. Rachel Kaufman built some code that can be added as Jekyll plugin to procedurally generate OG images using Truchet tiles to create unique designs. www.readwriterachel.com/things-i-lea...

A long read but a history of American involvement with the narcotics trade in Latin America, mostly through the CIA. It shows how we've used the narcotics trade to undermineleft-leaning governments while installing narco-friendly dictators and how it relates to Venezuela prospect.org/2025/12/23/n...

This is just like that time when the Avengers went to the Black Order and asked them to pretty please tell Thanos to unsnap his fingers

UPDATED LIST of countries the Trump administration has threatened to invade, annex, or otherwise attack in the 85 hours of 2026 so far: 🇻🇪 Venezuela 🇨🇺 Cuba 🇬🇱 Greenland 🇮🇷 Iran 🇨🇦 Canada 🇨🇴 Colombia 🇲🇽 Mexico Insane.

Chris Murphy: "Clearly this is wildly illegal. This is a president who has been operating illegally since he was sworn in -- stealing from the American people, seizing spending power, now dragging America into a war overseas ... Donald Trump's entire foreign policy is corrupt."

Imagine you could travel back in time to the early 80s and try to explain that in 40 years we'd elect someone (twice!) who is clearly a Russian asset...and that he's a Republican!

The Dean Who Loved Me

This photo, file 468, from the Epstein files that includes Donald Trump has apparently now been removed from the DOJ release. AG Bondi, is this true? What else is being covered up? We need transparency for the American public.

The White House has been caught. The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims. In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.

I think this is a great idea! It could help people realize that they actually don't give a shit about Facebook (and haven't for years) and finally walk away.

"In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In Washington DC, the dedicated Trump administration operatives who help cover up his vicious sex crimes are members of an elite squad known as the Special MAGA Propaganda Unit. These are their stories."

When Pokémon cards might be a safer bet than US stocks and bonds...

I just don't understand why those legal missteps won't quit dogging the poor, helpless JD. On a related note, did we stop teaching journalists to avoid passive voice? It's use when talking about this admin is rampant to the point that I think it's a fully intentional choice.

BREAKING on MS NOW: Jack Smith, in his opening statement to House Judiciary, says: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."

Trump is often discussed as one of the worst presidents in modern American history, but it’s important to remember that such a categorization is far too narrow. Donald J. Trump is one of the worst people in modern American history.

I'm not even going to repost a screengrab of his post about Rob Reiner but man it really needs to be said every single day: Trump truly is the biggest piece of shit in the world, a man of absolutely no good qualities and seemingly limitless bad ones. Support for him is just so damning.

I knew his response to this was going to be one of the worst things he ever posted and somehow, it was even worse than I imagined it could be.

please take a moment to appreciate Tesla's epic accomplishment of coming dead last in the auto industry in reliability, despite making relatively expensive cars with a tiny fraction of the moving parts www.consumerreports.org/cars/which-b...

This look at the state of the US as we head towards the 2025 exit manages to be both realistic and optimistic. Worth a read. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/donald-tru...

I'm gratified to see so many folks enjoying this talk, and maybe you will enjoy it too! www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2tJ...

My talk, "Bring Your Stream Overlays to Life with Web Tech", from Pixelpalooza 2025 is up! youtu.be/4XXNJ6jzWyQ?...

Original photograph was a depiction of construction workers—blue collar people who built New York City but were rarely acknowledged & were certainly underpaid—while this one is a depiction of well-known billionaires whose AI empires are built on stealing the intellectual property of everyone else.

Thinking this is wrong isn’t radical. Thinking it isn’t is.

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Today's the day we officially say goodbye to CFE. I've learned so much over these 9 yrs of running virtual events – especially from my amazing speakers. We'll be hosting a goodbye stream featuring my regular hosts/co-hosts over the years. Join us live at 1pm ET (UTC -5) youtube.com/live/trlXshz...

Happening today! Come hang we say goodbye to @cfedev.bsky.social at 1pm Eastern/10am PST 🥲 cfe.dev/events/goodb...

“You’re the most obnoxious reporter in the whole place. A terrible reporter.” Trump again attacks a Black female reporter, ABC’s Rachel Scott, for asking about releasing the full boat strike video - which he said he would do 5 days ago And the other journalists stay silent🐔

The LocalStack team is LIVE at AWS re:Invent 2025! We are absolutely buzzing to be here in Las Vegas this week! 🙌🏿 Day 1 at the Expo booth was an absolute blast. We captured all the energy and excitement in our latest YouTube video! 📍 Booth #1626 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0Tz...

"The business model [of OpenAI] seems like a bit of a negative feedback loop, at least on the face of it." www.windowscentral.com/artificial-i...