OK tonight I learned that Gaspar Noe brought Dario Argento as his +1 to meet the Pope, and this is possibly the sweetest and the maddest thing to ever happen.

Hakeem Jeffries was literally voting for a resolution condemning socialism while this meeting was taking place

“Zohran, they said don’t mess with him, don’t mess with the Zohran but we were ready to, but we had a wonderful time quite frankly. And he said Mr. President, we need to seize means of production and we do, we need to seize them so badly.”

I WAS RIGHT, IT HAPPENED

"Dick Cheney was antifa" I announce to a room full of MSNBC libs, who all nod and mumble affirmatively. Aaron Sorkin taps something into his Notes app

isn't is funny how all of these jobs (besides engineering) are mandated reporters when it comes to child abuse? like every job that's obligated to report abuse of children has now been attacked by the DoE, isn't that wild?

When Trump was asked about the release of the Epstein files, he called one reporter "piggy" and said another was "being insubordinate." When Trump saw a video calling on the military to follow the constitution, he called for the death of the Democrats who made the video. He's a tyrant.

Alex Cox, adapting Gogol as a Spaghetti Western, with himself playing the guy buying the souls? Sure, why not! Bring it on!

Maybe the single most destructive, stupid, and dangerous piece of domestic policy put forth in the 21st century

Please understand that "reward people for being healthy", in health insurance, also translates to "punish people for being disabled." The people who are most vulnerable, most in need, will be asked to bear higher costs, in many cases, pricing them out of accessing health care, into early graves.

Always assume that disabled folx are part of any community to which you belong, whether or not we feel safe to disclose that information publicly. Normalize asking about access needs, and offering accommodations to make it less risky to share our disabilities. Understand that ableism is insidious! 👀

yeah I really don't even think we've started to sniff the impact of the GOP's complete destruction of federal consumer protection and public safety regulatory independence, and that's just the tip of the iceberg this stuff is going to come in concussive, brutal waves

my wife and her entire team were fired over Zoom from their program manager jobs at a local nonprofit Seattle hospital this Spring because Trump just stopped paying Medicaid reimbursements. and this is a relatively affluent urban center we're really not prepared for what's coming

It really needs to be reckoned with that, behind the "cool progressive president" aesthetics," Obama hired some of the worst people who led directly to where we are now, as much as Bush did.

I lost a job for calling Charlie Kirk a Nazi, but this is cool.

This is what guys like Yglesias, and everybody else making hay about Kamala supporting transition care in prisons, want to happen everywhere.

the world that was stolen from us is difficult to even imagine, for folks living now the cheapness of rent, the ability to support yrself and yr ambitions, or to go to school, on a single low wage job the sustainability of life that we haven't had in generations

You don't often see this at the end of a whistleblower story:

Nothing is a better demonstration of the anti-scientific nature of banning trans women from sports than the fact that the IOC's OWN STUDY found no evidence trans women have any advantage over cis women in sports, but they're planning on going ahead with banning us anyways

Good news, my Ko-fi was reinstated This is ONLY to support me as a journalist and is ONLY intended as such. I’ve even changed the PFP to my irl face ko-fi.com/acvalens

mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one

It has been super fascinating to watch the ways in which every organization in the west has contorted themselves to prostrate before King Baby though. Nothing has left me more confused. I am old enough to remember people genuinely asking 'What can Biden do? He's only the President' about everything

America's first ever esports champion was Rebecca Heineman, a trans woman. She went on to found some of your favorite video game studios and worked on your favorite video games. Next time you see somebody rail about 'woke' and 'DEI' Remember that. Remember her.

"Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: 'Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications.'" bro what-- what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?

Feels like it should be bigger news that a journalist known for being loud about her investigations into banks/payment processors appears to be getting financially stonewalled by the entire industry unaminously right now.

I can understand asking for nuance in these discussions, but deliberately muddying the water by bringing up automation tools that people understand are not generative AI and asking for a middle ground is disingenuous. The nuanced position is that people are roundly rejecting the tech, respect that.

Just heard re: some ICE agents who raided a Chicago taqueria, then went back to the same taqueria for lunch the following week and got confused when the owner kicked them out, and I realized "jesus these doofuses really do believe we're all living in a video game where the NPCs have no memory"

lmao im sorry for slandering you yoko taro i forgot you worked for square enix

This is the world we’re living in now, where the worst people believe that you need to ask for their favor in order to access the financial system. If you do anything even slightly outside the mainstream, incorporate a disposable LLC and keep it the heck away from your personal finances.

Absolutely excellent story whether you're a metalhead or not. Darkness heals.

That's gonna be a "go fuck yourself" from me, dawg

“For decades, the conservative movement has relied on plausibly deniable racism communicated through dog whistles. It is not surprising that eventually, a figure would tire of all the not-so-subtle bigotry and forthrightly claim the white supremacy their movement elders kept hinting at.”

This is why AI is so dangerous Financial institutions will use it to scrape the web to discriminate against you — yes, YOU — and debank you Today, it’s for being an adult VA Tomorrow, for being trans? Gay?

they can come into the tent when they admit they were wrong and change their views we all joke about Woke Bill Kristol but he is for the most part the perfect example - he has, legitimately, become much more progressive you can’t bring in people who are mad he’s not delivering on horrible shit

Y'all, its like I have been saying. This isn't a redemption arc, it's an attempted coup. She is setting herself up for when time, age or scandal takes him down.

I'm usually not 1 to fearmonger but this should scare LITERALLY everybody. Institutions used ai to target and debank a person BY NAME over PERFECTLY LEGAL CONTENT. EVERYONE needs to join the fight, b/c it does not matter if your content is SFW, IF THEY DO NOT LIKE IT OR YOU, THEY WILL DEBANK YOU.

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blowing up Praxis, A Self-Proclaimed Network State On The Greenland Coast, sounds like some armored core raven shit

If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.

I'm seeing people wonder why ICE is going after Charlotte. ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018. We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:

Always remember that Tarrio was an informant for the feds and local law enforcement too. Calling him a "prolific" informer, his own lawyer said in court that Tarrio's information led to the prosecution of 13 people on federal charges.

A lot of the (often quite powerful!) guys emailing Epstein were asking him for dating advice, which seems to suggest that they saw his own sex life as aspirational.

if you ever randomly get the urge to donate to the democratic party, feel free to venmo that money to me or another trans person instead - we'll make sure it doesn't get used to take away people's healthcare

GLITCH PRODUCTIONS paid me to rebrand Bloodborne Kart A SECOND TIME into the mini game GLITCH KARTS!!! im serious. its real. i made multiple cutscenes with their characters and everything. lol. play the game here: glitchkarts.com/474c49544348... check out the whole video here: youtu.be/pZsMHnTDytg

To me, there is no comparison between what happens here, and what happens in other countries. It is "America" that has proven itself incapable of not being a danger to the world. I do not wish to hear criticism from people who lack conviction.

steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back