The "Great American State Fair" is such a bizarre name for an event put on by the federal government in one of the few places in the US that is not in a state (and whose residents are thus denied voting representation in Congress).

A President ordering the Justice Department to criminally investigate a woman who won a sexual assault lawsuit against him makes Watergate look like an unpaid parking ticket.

"This is genuinely not far from the Nazi approach to higher education." prospect.org/2025/09/12/2...

MIT closing three of its four libraries is shocking and appalling and underscores that the source of so much of the crisis in higher education comes not from attacks from the far right or the collapse of public trust, but rather from the university administrative class itself.

Campos: While I want to thank CBS news for funding this generous gift towards my education, I want to acknowledge how the recent direction of the outlet stains the legacy of Mike Wallace, the namesake of this scholarship.

1. Lead Left, a super PAC created on 4/24, purports to stand "against MAGA extremists." It has spent $3M+ in Democratic primaries. But it's funders and motivations have been secret. Until now. It's a GOP dirty tricks operation. 🧵

A gallon of gas was $3.10 the last time the Thunder made the NBA finals

I'd like to propose that we drain all of Sam Altman's blood and then offer to sell it back to him at cost.

"My 'I Am Not Antisemitic' website has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my website."

The way you know Bluesky is not a representative sample is several people are livetweeting their reading of an encyclical

if you ever find yourself saying, "yes Hitler was evil, but..." I'd urge you to stop yourself and just reconsider your life choices.

I must once again repeat this: Most people are on social media for hobbies, to be goofy and enjoy talking to friends. They do not need to be challenged or jolted out of their bubble or engage with fascists. Pundits desperately need to interact with normal people because they how no idea

My Dad's yortsayt began at sundown tonight.

An NBC News investigation finds dozens of examples of criminals imitating ICE to rob and attack people www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Trump's history of sexual assault accusations, and the fact that he was held liable by a jury for a violent, horrific sexual assault, is never mentioned by mainstream media outlets in discussions of the Epstein files. 1

It's like watching a car accident to see @tressiemcphd.bsky.social and I share the same experiences and criticism of exploitative and profiteering GLP-1 pushing and she gets piled on while I get... a few snide remarks

You might think it's racist to melt down about the appearance of a black woman in a movie, but have you considered that progressives do a totally different thing?

Guys is it bad that the National Science Foundation has been offline since last night?

The manifesto left behind by the San Diego mosque shooters dedicates only a few paragraphs to the shooter’s hatred of Islam but pages and pages to their hatred of Jews, which would seem weird if you were a newborn baby deer who knew nothing about Christian Nationalism

This new poll of American Jews finds 1 in 4 American Jews openly oppose Zionism, if you define Zionism as requiring a Jewish voting majority nation-state. The same number of American Jews voted Trump. Which group has representation in major American Jewish organizations, and which does not?

The day after Colbert’s final show, CBS Radio News signs off as well. The news program that became famous as Edward R. Murrow reported live from London rooftops during the Blitz, now silenced. Good night, and good luck. And Fvck you CBS.

They left out lining his own pocket and exacting revenge on his personal enemies, but yes... yes he does.

My favorite pro-AI argument goes like this: "In the past, other technologies have truly been transformational" and that's the whole argument

ai guys are like if somebody ran around talking about how the juicero was exactly like the invention of the printing press

generally think that if your response to "this is loser shit" is "are you triggered?!?!?" then you're just demonstrating the truth of "this is loser shit"

The NYT sees itself not as a defender of journalistic principles or a champion of democratic values, but rather a theater critic for political actors. There are no real-world consequences here, no pain or suffering for the common people who aren't in their social circles. It's just a parlor game

Funny how the all the people ransacking the Capitol on January 6 were liberals, plants, and ANTIFA—until there was money to be made from it.

Google search now treating search strings as interactive chatbot prompts first and search strings as an afterthought, then:

Reality bath from @gelliottmorris.com: Given Biden approval rating & inflation/consumer sentiment, "the surprise of the [2024] election is that Harris did as well as she did...the Dem nominee was on track to lose the popular vote by 4 points. She lost by 1.5." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-dnc-au...

Yup. Though I'd say it's more than just a matter of karmic dissatisfaction. A whole lot of people from the far left all the way to the center right are invested in arguing that if Harris had only run on _their_ agenda, she would have won.

In fairness, it appears the DNC Chair hired an incompetent friend to write the report and he appears to have never completed the task and done terrible work on the parts he got around to doing.

The NAACP’s Out of Bounds campaign is telling Black recruits not to send their talent to states that are stripping Black voters of representation while profiting off Black athletes every Saturday.

Kwaidan

Sadly, amid a whole host of better songs in this category, this is the first thing that came to mind: youtu.be/Ls4qXjZtZXI?...

For years I had a poster of the Creature from the Black Lagoon (I was really into old monster movies). One day, in the late '70s, I discovered that it was a double-sided poster, on the other side of which was a poster of Nixon with the words "Thanks, Dick!" on it.

wow, this updated “Cat’s in the Cradle” goes hard as hell in the extra verses the part where the dad goes golfing on the public dime instead of to the wedding is brutal

UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

So the DNC has finally released its autopsy of the 2024 presidential campaign. And it apparently says absolutely nothing about Israel/Palestine. I find this kinda funny. (And apologies for the length of this thread). www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...

This is how you deal with trash

OpenAI Announces Construction Of New Data Center On Top Of Sick Child

My favorite example from a few months back Nature magazine published an article on autism that was accompanies by this

A story about KY GOP Senate nominee Andy Barr: In 2019 he got mad at AOC and demanded she come to his district to visit a coal mine. She said yes, which he didn't expect, so he withdrew the invitation. Then it turned out there were no working coal mines in his district. Because he's an idiot. 1/3

Google Search was a wonder of the information age, our modern-day Library of Alexandria. By replacing links with “AI-powered interactive experiences,” they are quite literally burning a pillar of our society to ashes.

Genuine question: what exactly are we all doing.

This is Calarts. Arguably the best animation school in the US, its alumni include industry legends. The graduating class is booing school president Ravi Ranjan, he's been gutting creative programs and pushing Ai initiatives, corporatizing the school. His secretary is treating graduates like babies.