After a Wisconsin town did this, the mayor said: “The fact that they didn’t take the cameras down shows that we are the product. They were never really selling to us in the first place. They're selling to much bigger agencies the ability to spy on a ton of people.” (via boltsmag.org/verona-wisco...)

i just dont want to see democrats get roped into a “man off” in every competitive race, i want them to respond by pointing out you are insecure about your tiny dick if you tie your own masculinity to a political party

UPDATE: Mike Johnson said he has nothing to do with this dirty tricks operation. Which is interesting because what I reported was that it was linked to the Congressional Leadership Fund, the House Republican Super PAC. The CLF has declined to comment.

lol god I fucking hate it here

The other key point is that when they, or the IRS, say "income," it's not true income. Because true economic income includes unrealized investment gains. Which they borrow against to finance their lifestyle instead of taking taxable cash. @boblord.bsky.social explains the problem nicely here...

They should do that Jubilee show with the Pope. Like "1 Pope vs 20 Conservatives Catholics Who Just Converted."

American politics is bananas. I can’t believe there is a whole generation growing up to think that it’s normal for known criminals to win party nominations and public office.

TALARICO: I want Texans to be able to afford food and pay their bills. PAXTON: Talarico? more like Tala-freak-o and he's a vegan. The polls:

Donald Trump told Texas Republicans to turn back a four-term incumbent senator and to vote for a man who is basically a walking Thomas Nast illustration of corruption and the cult members said, yes sir, right away, sir.

An aspiring autocrat using the country's resources to build a golden ballroom and a gladiator ring next to the White House does feel like declining empire stuff

again, these people are pigs and a society of decent people would not tolerate them

People on here will post anything. "Rahm Emanuel is a plausible nominee for president." No he isn’t. That isn’t true.

Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.

I’m really worried that we aren’t internalizing enough what’s coming down the pike for all schools. Especially with federal funding—but even on the state side, too. We could be 3 years or less away from SCOTUS ending all Blaine Amendments. 1/3

You come to me, on the day of my son's wedding, which I am not attending

1/ “Human’s First” is a new coalition in MAGA that is promoting AI guardrails of the worst people on earth. America First spinoff branding filling the void where Democrats haven’t picked a lane. Amy Kremer Steve Bannon Ryan Girdusky Anne Vandersteel + a bunch of Pastors www.humansfirst.com

Worth noting that this is actually a meta-question-- it's not "what policy do you think is good?" It's "what policy do you think other, imaginary people would think is good?" This encourages the "Everyone Think Like a Pundit Rather Than as a Citizen" disease that plagues political commentary.

NEW: An $11,000 golf cart. More than $7,000 on TV subscriptions. $1.5 million in office renovations. Those were among the expenses that one sheriff’s office billed to a settlement aimed at rooting out racial profiling in the department. With @azluminaria.org

On the tube

You can never have as much disdain for Republican voters as their politicians have for them. It’s impossible.

CORRECT!

“I’m just a DC reporter” said the guy standing behind the Vivek for Ohio podium. Unprecedented shameless hackery

This guy is the “investigative reporter” that is the basis of all these “$6 billion in Medicaid Fraud” claims that’s about to be treated as a credible witness in the Medicaid Committee.

I asked Larry Obhof, the legal muscle at the Secretary of State’s office, if there was any chance at all Trump’s name would appear on this ballot initiative. “I don’t have an opinion on that.” Was noticeably not a denial.

BREAKING: The judge in the $1.7B slush fund suit has dismissed the case, but she says THERE IS NO SETTLEMENT OF RECORD. As I said earlier, the media must stop reporting that this slush fund is a settlement. It's just plain THEFT. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

the president is raiding the treasury to put your tax dollars into this mans personal checking account as a reward for what hes doing in this picture

The corruption is staggering in scale.

Sometimes, a scandal is so big you have to pick off one piece of it. So in the case of Trump's insane stock trading, pick this: He did 6 trades of Intel stock. That company now counts the US government as a $9 billion stakeholder, thanks to Trump's intervention. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

If your only argument is “that would never happen” then you have no actual position; be prepared for everything or expect to lose everything. Ideology without action is just political theory, and idealism without pragmatism or functional principles is just cosplay, make belief, thoughts and prayers.

AI companies are clearly fed up of simply waiting for the planet to become uninhabitable so are doing what they can to accelerate the process www.theguardian.com/business/202...

“Building bipartisan bridges” by letting the other party get away with crimes is not diplomacy, it’s neglect of duties.

A geofence warrant lets police sweep up data on every phone in a defined area during a defined window. Is that constitutional? The Supreme Court will decide in Chatrie v. United States. Tech Policy Press fellow Jake Laperruque talks with NACDL's Michael Price, who represents the plaintiff.

The result of AI boosters getting booed at commencement will NOT be them getting a wake-up call about AI skepticism. They will just stop speaking at commencements. But that’s a small win!

Birth rate discourse is like “It turns out if you give women more choices, they’re less likely to make ones that make their lives harder.” Which is really helpful in figuring out how we can improve society somewhat. But instead people are like wow giving women more choices was a mistake

There is absolutely no reason for prediction markets to exist. None.

Yes Barney Frank is bravely coming out as having the exact same opinion as all of his friends and colleagues. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Every week or so I think about the fact that the cops/government shot a white man, Alex Pretti, in cold blood and nothing has happened to his murderers. The murderers still have their jobs and the unarmed white man is a cautionary tale for white people to not challenge the white supremacist state.

“The increase in Black infant mortality, from 9 to 21 deaths per 1,000 births, means Black infants born in Hamilton County are more at risk than those born in Iraq, Iran, Guatemala, Honduras, Libya or Vietnam, according to the World Bank.”

Also, approximately HALF of the house members are MILLIONAIRES

Any President that sues his own government, while in office, should immediately be impeached.

Imagine a world in which no one has a job and 8 guys own 100% of the wealth. Doesn't that sound amazing, Class of 2026?

As a guy with half a trillion dollars, I have lots of options: 1. Enjoy a 100% stress-free life doing whatever I please in unfathomable luxury all over the world with people of my choosing 2. Have 87 meltdowns a day on a website

Stop. Rehabilitating. The. Enablers. Media has a fun habit of treating the last person to the party like the guest of honor just bc they got there last. The people who figured it out last should not be looked to to lead. Period.

Well, it happened. A client disregarded my advice about using generative AI and guess what? It gave them bad advice AND the judge ruled that by using it, Client waived confidentiality and ordered us to turn a bunch of private stuff over. STOP USING GENERATIVE AI FOR LEGAL THINGS. I BEG YOU.

again, staying completely silent on the actual merits of ai, the initial ai boosters basically campaigned on "this will eliminate your job, forever, and make me personally rich." it should not surprise *anyone* that this provoked a backlash.

Keeping this false narrative alive is a corruption of public office. Audits and lawsuits have already answered this question.

New technology must be embraced and worshipped without question, no matter how stupid or destructive it is, you luddite piece of shit

Should five or six unelected justices be able to override overwhelming bipartisan majorities in Congress? Jesse Wegman argues the Supreme Court should have to work harder to strike down federal laws. bit.ly/4ua4ciA