immigrants score the lowest on tests, but they also take all our jobs, while at the same time taking all the welfare and buying all the homes

Buddy, if there’s a risk of the dude in the middle of the ocean running away across the water, your ass just bombed Jesus.

I used to think the cat was dumb for staring out the window, watching for birds, but I'd probably stare too, if occasionally a pizza flew by.

And they'd be right.

Here it is, the most damning academic figure in the history of all figures: Russian IRA accounts deeply embedded in both sides of the 2016 Twitter BLM "discussion" (by @katestarbird.bsky.social & team, 2018). THIS is what our information ecosystem supports. Twitter just made it 1% more visible.

Like, I get LLM-based tech that, say, tells a doctor "hey, you're the expert here, but this looks like cancer according to my database. I recommend giving it a second look." But I don't need a massive server farm to degrade friends at parties. Also, I don't want to degrade my friends at parties.

I’m still banned from the tanning bed place. You try to thaw a turkey one time and they never forgive you.

Billionaires are losing interest in generative AI. They must have found a younger technology.

Happening now: Hakeem Jeffries holds a press conference with Rev. William Barber and others, decrying cuts to healthcare and voicing concerns about expiring SNAP benefits. Jeffries calls healthcare cuts “policy violence.” Barber says they asked Johnson for a meeting, but he was “too busy”

Indicting anyone on pretextual charges like this is bad. I don't think the fact that one of the indictees is a minor candidate for U.S. House matters in the slightest.

Read every word! "You say you hate empire, but you only ever mean one. You rage at U.S. hegemony while excusing Russian conquest. You romanticize “multipolarity,” as if choosing a different empire were the same as dismantling one... dumplingradical.substack.com/p/a-letter-t...

life hack: set up a rule in your email app to automatically trash all emails containing the word "thought leader"

I’m running for the U.S. Senate. Billionaires have taken over Texas and taken over America — but together, we can take power back for working people. youtube.com/shorts/IpO0S...

Who made this? 😂

We’re six months in, and it’s already impossible to remember we’re in this mess because egg prices were a little high last fall.

Question: If a liberal President were acting as Trump is, ignoring law and custom in pursuit of some substantive policy goals that we like, what would you think?

I see all it took is one night and the Epstein story is all but gone, replaced with fascism-porn about canceling some public TV and radio contracts.

Ok so points to the Murdoch owned WSJ for hitting publish despite the threats.

I am seeing people suggest that nonprofits shouldn't work with other orgs or people who hold at least one (1) repugnant view, and I have to tell you that if everyone followed that advice then nonprofits couldn't work with anyone.

The only thing saving Hegseth's job right now is the White House staff's inability to think of a reason why appointing Hegseth in the first place wasn't actually Trump's fault.

Wishing a happy and meaningful Passover to all who celebrate. Chag Pesach Sameach!

VERY IMPORTANT: This is just a trick. It's a way for Democratic senator to say they oppose the bill while letting it pass. It's not much of a trick. I mean, everyone will see it. But still this is simply a way of hoodwinking constituents. If they want to vote for it just vote for it.

Been saying this a lot recently: it’s important to continue to assert existing legal tenets and protections. Just because the admin says something doesn’t make it true or legal. If your response is “nothing in the law matters anymore,” that’s not particularly useful, nor actually true (for now)

Everybody's upset abt this or that thing Dems did or didn't do at the faux-SOTU. Poor messaging, poor this, bad that. Very few of those things matter much or will be things we'll remember in a couple months. What they do on the CR really does matter. A LOT. That shld be 10x more focus anything else.

I say this as a former theater kid: There is an EPIDEMIC of flamboyant theater kids running our country. How is this not parody? How is this not a scene on Veep?

Zelenskyy is literally George Washington leading his men across the Delaware, while Trump/Vance are the royalists in their estates lecturing him about how George III was right.

Rules for Trump/Mush opposition: Don’t react to outrageous statements, only actions; don’t overreact to DOGE actions than don’t actually do much in the real world; do message like mad with everyone you know who isn’t already in the opposition. Never let anyone get fatalistic, which is their goal.

Wild that Trump, Musk, and the GOP in Congress have such varying incentives. What is going to happen, soon, if it hasn't already, is Trump and Musk will move forward to cause "pain" because they are unaccountable. But the GOP in Congress is gonna start seeing a bloodbath in 2026.

One of the more important pieces you'll read right now, from a former (maybe still) Tea Partier ... www.liberalcurrents.com/once-and-fut...

The fact that many in the media are reporting on the shuttering of USAID as a decision that has been made by Trump and Musk rather than an illegal attempt to dismantle an independent federal agency created by statue 60 years ago is playing into his perception of being a dictator. Do better.

The problem isn't a lack of voices, it's that it's impossible to amplify them because there are so many damn voices, and so many things to scream about. All by design of course. That's why "move fast and break things" feels so good. You end up getting away with shit, a lot of it.