"Fascism is a temper tantrum disguised as an ideology" is a great line

The billboards on the way through SF to SFO are like a parody of the city. “Wooza can push to Splorg. Can your TSMP?”

covered a lot of topics in this one but i really cannot overstate how much this single sentence derailed my week type-click-type.ghost.io/the-five-spo...

Filing: Nvidia reveals its top two customers accounted for 39% of its Q2 revenue, up from 25% in Q2, 2024 (Kif Leswing/CNBC) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

graph of intense pain & suffering

Next they'll be helping with the potato harvest

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

The CEOs of the country's lowest-paying large companies made $17.2 million on average last year. Their workers made $35,570.

Key question from @laszlobock.bsky.social: "whether AI’s productivity benefits [will be] claimed by capital — feeding through to bigger profits or higher executive pay — or shared with labour, in the form, say, of shorter working hours or higher salaries" on.ft.com/41cuDrw @andrewtghill.ft.com

How Trumpism is like Stalinism. A thread. 🧵🧵🧵 Many people make valid comparisons of Trumpism to Nazism. But I think MAGA authoritarianism bears more similarities to Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union – ruthless, paranoid, dishonest and determined to climb into every aspect of the lives of his people.

This is why I don’t spend much time on Meta’s Threads. So beyond repulsive.

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand: $678M raised through those spam tactics $282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies. $11M to actual campaigns (1.6%) The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

Hello Mr. Leopold, I’m Zach, a high school journalist. I just published an exclusive investigation into how 193 Trump donors funneled $2M through Guam, raising quid pro quo and campaign finance concerns. Would be grateful if you gave it a look or shared it: open.substack.com/pub/zachkahn...

Trump today: "I'm surprised he [Jerome Powell] was appointed. I'm surprised frankly that Biden put him in." Trump in November 2017: "It is my pleasure and my honour to announce my nomination of Jerome Powell to be the next chairman of the Federal Reserve."

"Whether it's Bongino, Patel, Bondi, Habba, Trump spent all of this time promising their supporters something. They used it to gain power for themselves. And then the moment they can substantiate the very claims that they were making, they do an about face and leave their supporters high and dry."

🚨BREAKING: Cal State LA just moved classes online and let faculty work remotely, not for a storm, not for COVID, but because ICE is in the area. Let that sink in, an entire university is treating immigration enforcement like a public health crisis.

Once again, marginal tax rates are too low & this poses an existential threat to 🇺🇸 society & democracy

Fuck ICE and anyone who helps them Always be ready to stand between an ICE gestapo thug and their target. And business owners, know your rights and never let ICE in no matter what: www.nilc.org/wp-content/u...

Someone (@lewfoo) posted a long thread on the THREADS app about this. I’m posting the @npr.org story on which her thread was based here. PLEASE READ & SHARE. It’s so important. @cbsnews.com @nbcnews.com @abc7.bsky.social www.npr.org/sections/the...

By @tomking.bsky.social and Jeff Spokes.

Always bothered by the “what are we, China” discussions of surveillance, because Americans have done a bang-up job of creating their own expansive surveillance state, it’s just that lots of people are just beginning to notice.

Good morning. We knew the answers to questions like these when the JCPOA was in effect. Again, in a more serious country, unilaterally withdrawing from that agreement would have immediately ended Trump's first presidency & destroyed the GOP's reputation on national security policy for a generation.

for context here’s a map of greater Los Angeles and the protest is the roughly the red circle

once again I must tap my own sign

MERZ: Tomorrow is the D Day anniversary, when the Americans ended a war in Europe TRUMP: That was not a pleasant day for you? This is not a great day MERZ: This was the liberation of my country from Nazi dictatorship

The opening is chilling:

This graphic is terrible - trillions vs. billions doesn't register. A better version from o3:

63% of American adults had unfavorable views of Martin Luther King Jr in August 1966, per Gallup surveys 46% of Mississippi GOP voters said interracial marriage should be illegal in a 2011 PPP poll to push w/e is popular instead of trying to popularize justice is to admit you lack moral leadership

Berkeley's NIMBYs on Nextdoor: we must carefully study this zoning proposal to ensure equity for the disadvantaged. Berkeley's NIMBYs on Airbnb: $50/day to sleep in my yard.

whats wild is that our political opposition is a bunch of punks who spiral out quickly if you mock them and we on the left keep operating like we're in victorian high society when we're really in the high school cafeteria and we should just shove them inside their lockers

This man is not a New Yorker. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/n...

I... oh my god. amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

A million years ago, this was a national scandal. Today, it is just an every day occurrence that we all tacitly accept.

lot of research that various welfare state programs have a marginal effect at best on birthrates. but I bet banning the internet would have a pretty large effect

After resigning from Michigan and bending over backwards to try and appease them, "The Florida Board of Governors voted Tuesday to reject Santa Ono as the next president of the University of Florida" www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

the fact most reports are leaving out that he was killed protecting his husband during a homophobic hate crime where his dead dog's skull was placed in their mailbox as a threat is leaving some important details out i think

"The bottom 40 percent of Floridians pay almost exactly the same state and local taxes as a percentage of their income as the bottom 40 percent of New Yorkers." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/hating-new...

The use of inappropriate clothing and weaponry that makes them look more like military cosplay terrorists than actual government agents performing a garden-variety low-risk domestic police action is both intentional and incredibly dangerous.

Judi Dench-backed rebels seized a nature site 250 miles north of the capital today.

every article about politics in every mainstream publication is flat out lying to you if it does not emphasize that our government has been taken over by freaks and lunatics

“The cuts will derail hard-won progress against H.I.V. over the past few decades, public health experts said.” Trump and RFK Jr. either don’t care or affirmatively want people with the H.I.V. virus to die. Seems a harsh verdict? Maybe, but unavoidable. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/h...

“This is a self-defeating strategy, if you can call it a strategy. These students fill our labs and they perform all the research.” They’re “among the smartest, most talented scientists in America.” It’s unclear how these labs are going to operate without them. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/u...

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

Scoop: Texas police used Flock's license plate cameras to search *nationwide* for a woman who had a self-managed abortion. Claim it was "about her safety" www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...

The position of the camera and the perspective makes the difference in size between these guys extra hilarious

Does it work with Black folks or nah.