When Mike Johnson or another national leader repeatedly claims they haven’t seen relevant things in the news, an appropriate reporter reaction would be “Holy cow, how do you not know?!? How can you do your job without knowing what’s happening? What are you doing to fix your ‘not knowing’ problem?”

You can talk all you want, Gym, but this is BS.

I say it all of the time because it's true. On the whole, we aren't brave as individuals. But there's strength in numbers.

They also cancelled government data collection about hunger to minimize evidence about their policies

do you guys ever think about how in a better world José Andres could just like. have some restaurants. and instead he’s consistently doing the work we’re supposed to have governments for

I hope people remember that the @nytimes.com has actively worked to try to sabotage Mamdani at almost every single turn. ACTIVELY. They've been the NY Post.

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it. The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait. At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

This is NOT me saying that you have to be a "good" homeless person to get compassion. But if your understanding of homelessness in this area is "none of them want to help themselves" you are not qualified to speak. Sit down.

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

We had Angela Davis speak at my university a couple of years back. One of the many insightful things she said - protest in the way that aligns with your passion. If that’s poetry do poetry or music etc. Because then you will be able to sustain it. If naked bike rides are your passion, 100% do that.

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry. The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

The Treasury Secretary declares himself to be pro-monarchy, and promises to punish the entire country if the people exercise their First Amendment rights.

Boston judge orders release of 13-year-old held at ICE adult detainee facility

As Israel govt gives a a standing ovation to Donald trump, I’d love to hear even one journalist ask how many meetings he sat in to make this happen. Or simply- tell us basic outline of cease fire plz.

Shout out to the Naked Bikeride who today ran hundreds of naked people directly through the line of federal officers and effectively blocked them from assaulting demonstrators. Being naked on a bike goes on the list of effective tactics if you get at least 500 of them and the city loves you.

Unfortunately the warnings were ”being cops” and “having tear gas”

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

Or as the New York Times puts it: “Mr. Trump's budgetary maneuvering appeared unorthodox…”

Outside of the Broadview ICE facility, a state trooper tells the delegation attempting to have communion with detainees that ICE has denied their request.

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

All you peacenik liberals wringing hands over what to do: Yes, of course, vote. It's your primary responsibility as a citizen. But now more than ever, fulfill your second civic responsibility: Serve on juries. Never has it been more imperative to thwart rogue injustice.

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

Amazing

"So it is clearly better to present the Supreme Court majority as the face of an enigmatic and unpredictable god rather than to tie ourselves to a fixed principle someone might expect us to apply to all cases, including when we hate someone."

Don't forget to spend your FSA money. Lots of things that you can purchase using those funds will be of great use and interest to places like homeless shelters, domestic violence organizations, mutual aid groups & more. Consider buying menstrual products for one thing.

Pope to Chicago Labor Leaders: “Please know of my appreciation for your welcome of immigrants and refugees, especially your support of food pantries and shelters….I encourage you to continue to advocate for society to respect the human dignity of the most vulnerable.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

IMHO, LLMs will be an economic negative for years. They'll do a worse job than humans, but will still replace humans because they're cheaper for employers, but really they're costlier, it's just that lots of costs get externalized to society by our horrible energy/tax policies. Lose-lose-lose.

We are not trivialising LLMs. Copyright theft is not trivial. Environmental damage is not trivial. Unreliability is not trivial. Risk to human cognition is not trivial. Ignoring consent when shoving it into every fucking thing while making us pay our hard-earned money for it is not trivial.

as the person who kicked off a lot of the modern "civil war 2" discourse i don't think we're past the point where that can be avoided. i do think we are already in a state of mass civil conflict. but many nations (see: Italy) have been through similar upheavals without war.

they don’t want you to know how they treat prisoners because it will grieve you to know it, which is natural and human, and because of your normal human reaction you will want the system changed. It’s important to them that your natural aversion to how the system works not be engaged.

"Some Republicans on Capitol Hill have suggested that Vought’s threats of mass layoffs have been unhelpful to bipartisan talks." Yuh think? apnews.com/article/gove...

@andrewti.bsky.social @tawnynewsome.bsky.social Loving the Trek pilot podcasts. Thanks!

ICE went after rideshare drivers at O’Hare today, according to statement from Illinois Drivers Alliance

No more fucking heroes we cannot be creating more heroes I don't want to see another person hitting a school shooter with a chair I do not want to see another person hiding a child from an ethnic cleansing I don't want to see more heroes Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents. Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time. He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone. Houston, Texas

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

Writers Guild rightly tells members not to respond to Bari Weiss

@thecroftonshow.bsky.social I'm very much enjoying hearing you on Creature Feature.

The problem with “virtue signaling” as a rhetorical framework was always that it pressed you not toward deeper and more sincere acts of virtue, but away from goodness as a goal at all.