He’s just fucking sad no one wants to sit next to him at the Nazi bar. Ok. That’s a you problem.

Everyone using a text based app thinking it's the "commons" could use some perspective. Most of America is watching videos, all of us reading text are in small echo chambers and personally I don't see the need to be in one with a bunch of Nazis.

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

Like, I don’t blame journalists for still having a Twitter account. I do blame them for <checks notes> RTing Nazis and whining about people being “surrounded by Rothschilds” which is, yes, a loud dogwhistle.

staying on the Nazi site apparently results in great journalists with righteous politics retweeting racists, though, so doesn't seem like a great idea.

Some day we'll all regret this & we'll hold hearings & rend garments & pledge "never again" & we'll be just as full of shit as we were last time.

The time to prevent the thing from happening is *early*, as it is gaining steam. These things always start small, with efforts to weaken the norms against discrimination, with casual, unreflective slurs. They start with wedge policies (not gays, just gay adoption! not trans, just sports!).

But here's what I keep returning to: by the time the gov't is organized, tyrannical, & rounding up the marginalized, it's pretty much too late. By that time the remedies are often armed rebellion or invasion by another country or, at the very least, extended general strikes. Cat's out of the bag.

Welcome to the Dollhouse. It was an uncomfortable watch. I understand why it got a fair amount of praise. I certainly don't need to see it again. (Second place: every other Todd Solondz movie.)

When you put it like this, a $75 million bribe to Melania and gutting the Washington Post seems like a small price to pay.

Port wine cheese spread.

something abled people don't get is you can have just one day a week where you are too sick to work, and that's enough to disqualify you from nearly all full-time jobs. it doesn't take a lot

Here's a thing I learned though, you know how models with periodically get "hospitalized" for "dehydration" or "exhaustion"? sometimes that was simply because they had gotten it into their heads to speak out about this mess

In like 2019 I was working on a story about how people like Jean-Luc Brunel (rot in piss) mainstreamed the "waif look" in order to provide cover for his human trafficking of teenagers, with the help of Epstein. No one would pick up the story and now I am the Joker

To my mind, this is the single tweet that explains 95% of the energy behind the MAGA movement.

I was Today Years Old when I learned that you are allowed to throw away twist ties.

lol bush's first reelection policy was privatizing social security, which was a bigger policy failure than even the iraq war. i dont understand the need to keep rewriting reality.

It's rough out there. But... you made it to Friday youtu.be/A5U8ypHq3BU?...

In the 1800s, a slave owner purchased over a dozen people in Georgia and set the foundation for his family’s generational wealth Generations later, a railroad company owned by one of his descendants is using eminent domain to seize land of Black farmers

all I can add is Epstein apparently knew something about law enforcement and who they really serve

“my children might see the children I voted to put in shackles, how shall they grow up”

You know AI is really good at replacing hollywood when they fail to replace hollywood and resort to a traditional hollywood pipeline to continue bragging about AI replacing hollywood.

I learn more here when Nick is on X too because then he isn’t here

DC Statehood yesterday

My guess is that the goal here is not only to punish the children for turning more people against ICE/DHS, but also to make news outlets think twice about reporting on kids' suffering at the hands of ICE/DHS, out of concern that doing so might lead to retaliation against the kids.

Lots of things are terrible of course. But this is okay.

Well which is it? Are you for birthright citizenship or against?

Wow. I hadn't even heard that Putin had withdrawn from Ukraine.

Every day reveals a new travesty caused by DHS “ICE has blamed Castañeda Mondragón for his own injuries, saying..[he] ’fell and hit his head against a concrete wall’” “A CT scan showed fractures to the front, back and both sides of his skull-injuries a doctor [said] were inconsistent with a fall”

"self-induced trauma"? oh, you mean "paying attention to everything going on in the world"

ProPublica published children's letters and drawings documenting their sadness and suffering at Dilley. And Dilley staff are now retaliating by confiscating kids' letters and drawings. www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...

“The left is missing out on AI!” YEP. Most of us want to miss out! If it ever proves its actual usefulness to our actual lives, stops plagiarizing, and is no longer an environmental disaster, maybe we revisit. Burden of proof is on the industry. So far they’ve done the opposite of that!

Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

The left tried for decades to pass green energy subsidies, passed them, the subsidies worked, and now literally the entire planet's electricity grid is going to convert to solar+battery. It just doesn't feel like "tech" because it mostly produces kinda boring blue collar jobs instead of billionaires

It's kinda annoying how solar panels were hung around the neck of the left as impractical pie in the sky treehugger shit *right* up until it started outcompeting every other energy source. Then suddenly, instead of going "hey the left was correct about solar" it's no longer a "left" idea!

I’ve got turkeys in western Pennsylvania. I suspect that’s not a huge surprise. A couple months ago I had one just walk up the driveway until it got to a ground platform bird feeder, where it bullied all the doves away and then camped out until it had eaten all the seeds.

Bet?

5 PM eastern deadline today.

i would like to read a deeply-reported, 10,000-word investigative piece about the procurement process that ends up sourcing a luxury 737 for the head of DHS which only seats 17 people

Apparently, I used the phrase "out of spoons" when talking to my mother. Apparently, she wasn't aware of the metaphorical use. I just got these in the mail.

I think you'll find that this isn't true.

I’m irritated that I’ve seen Gavin Newsom’s name often enough to know how to spell it correctly.

75-year-old with more money than he could possibly ever spend retires.

Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?

USAID absolutely was imperfect and had a lot of problems: we are also now witnessing the utterly unfathomably evil consequences of taking it out back and shooting it.

I am willing to accept some deeply sincere apologies and profound genuine remorse from people who have finally realized how cruel and evil “lol let’s get rid of USAID” was as a political position. But we can and should demand that process of apology first.

this is exactly why I am absolutely not willing to overlook anyone who was once “advocating for ending USAID” as merely committing a little oopsie-daisy-booboo, by the way