Seen quite a few of these popping up in Pittsburgh this week as well.

People throughout history have been ignorant of all sorts of things, of course, but this is without a doubt the era with the highest level of *willful* ignorance. These guys relish in their stupidity.

Anyone who has ever worked on a project where AI has been introduced upstream knows that downstream it's a total shitshow where instead of creativity your hours are spent fixing the nonsense it's produced.

Not since Trump’s Covid superspreader event at the White House has there been a more obvious example of Republicans indignantly refusing to take their diarrhea medicine causing immediate pants shitting.

[checks calendar]

I've said it before but I don't think we as a country can possibly get out of the mire we're in until people, of all political persuasions, start recognizing and insisting upon their own self-worth. A government can only behave this way when its voters don't think they deserve anything better.

I know it's too much to ask but now that Republicans feel comfortable blatantly lying in public all the time it would be nice if the press decided they'd follow up with a question about evidence when a GOPer makes a falsifiable claim instead of just treating it like an opinion.

The forecast for the powerful and deadly storm that battered small communities in western Alaska over the weekend was likely made worse by a lack of weather data triggered by the Trump administration’s cuts.

“.. Fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone,” Dr. Kornbluth wrote. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

Doesn't have time to follow the "day to day" of which political opponents the leader of his party is threatening to imprison Does have time to have an opinion on which singer performs at the Super Bowl halftime show 👍

A traveler from an antique land--great guy--said to me with tears in his eyes "Sir, two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert." And I said wow, that's really something. But we'll be building a big beautiful statue to my hubris and it will stand for eternity

can you imagine sitting in that audience as a three-star flag officer — decades in the service, multiple post-grad degrees and a virtually unequaled level of command expertise — and being forced to watch this dunderheaded dry drunk give an off-brand jordan belfort seminar?

Senator: (posting on bluesky) The president told his supporters to prepare for the “Night Of One Thousand Screams.” Might I suggest he instead hold the Night Of One Thousand Bipartisan Discussions Of Job Creation Opportunities

Life altering (and potentially threatening) medical advice from a guy who thinks you are born with a finite amount of energy which exercise depletes.

This isn’t to say I’m surprised but it is remarkable to step back and recognize anew that saying something like this about a person, even one you don’t like, is incredibly cruel and mean-spirited. And by any moral standard ever conceived it would be judged as wrong.

Trump is aggressively ignorant. He does not learn, actively resists it, and has surrounded himself with people who enable his stupidity.

EXCLUSIVE: Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.

he was a champion of free speech and if you disagree youre under arrest

SPECIAL REPORT: A large swath of the U.S. currently does not have the basic, ground-level immunity necessary to stop the spread of viruses that had once receded into the past, a six-month NBC News investigation in collaboration with scientists at Stanford University finds.

My optimism here is limited, but I really hope centrist institutions like universities and major news organizations understand that the plan is for the govt to dismantle them. They do not care if you fire your columnists or discipline staff for accurately quoting Kirk. They just want us all gone.

I think one of the obscured things about Charlie Kirk's death is that, despite what you read in WaPo or NYT opinion sections, he wasn't really that...interesting. His business model was to game algorithms to have his videos go viral. But that's not a legacy. It's inherently ephemeral.

First?

dan bongino and kash patel lying unconscious on the ground after bonking their heads together as they both bent down to examine what is later determined to be their own footprints

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) on the shooting of Charlie Kirk: "Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it."

Violence begets violence.

What people of influence and democrats should be saying about this is that the worldview of conservative fascism is inherently violent, and in fact creates a recipe for even more violence in all directions. I think that's more helpful than lecturing a hypothetical liberal who is "celebrating"

Feel like one of the surprising things from all these letters is that for a group of guys I kinda assumed were incapable of loving anyone other than themselves they all seem to genuinely love each other and their shared interests* (*being monsters)

This is the scariest thing I’ve read in the new aggressive Bezos era of the Washington Post because once your paper starts running editorials like this they have fully checked out on doing worthwhile work

not sure where it will leave us when it happens and if we will ever be able to put the pieces of democracy back together again now that it's gone but the ONLY silverlining is that the Republican Party made a 79-year-old McDonald's fanatic their godking and presumably he dies sooner rather than later

“4th highest-rated movie in the entire Conjuring Universe” made me laugh out loud

So like as far as I can tell Fetterman does only two things all day: avoid his job and comment to reporters how much he likes Israel and Trump. Probably one of the most deranged dudes to ever hold office and yes I know that’s saying something.

AP live feed of the CDC walkout in Atlanta. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ7Q...

Love how the framing of this is that the views and ad money *affirm* that the “ai slop” has merit and never bothers to grapple with the idea that maybe it’s the inverse - the fact that this slop gets lots of views is a testament to “views” being a poor measure of value.

RKF Jr. is a dangerous man who is determined to abuse his authority to act on truly terrifying conspiracy theories and disinformation—leaving us unprepared for the next deadly pandemic and snuffing out potential cures while he’s at it. My full statement.

The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good

Too bad that our legal and institutional safeguards only work to prevent good policies. It would be cool if they also stopped the evil stuff

So if the COVID vaccine was called a government plot to keep Americans sick and helpless, what do we call this government plot to keep Americans sick and helpless? 🤔

Their memorials are history. Ours are political. Because as always, there are two sexualities - straight, and political. Two genders - male, and political. Two religions - Christian, and political. Two races - white, and political.

Do you know how insane and infuriating it is to live in a country where one party claims, with media and public support, the mantle of being the ‘tough on crime’ party while its leader openly calls for convicted criminals to be released from prison ‘or else’?

Sam Altman: I see humans achieving omnipotence using dark matter by… 2030 maybe? That’s if OpenAI is given a quadrillion dollars Theo Von: Yeah Altman: Or, we may become a race of slaves, genetically modified to be harvested by robot spiders. That’s if OpenAI doesn’t get the money Von: Right

hello and welcome to your first day of standing normal lessons

JAMES BOND (Tom Holland): (into smart watch) Alexa, I need your help! I can’t get into the Amazon fulfillment centre to save the Prime Minister! There’s a large group of pro-union protestors blocking the way! MILF YOUNGLY (Lauren Sanchez): Perhaps I could be of service, Mr. Bond. I am 24 years old.

I think something always left out in these articles (and the New York Times runs a variation about once a week) is that this group is by definition highly reactive, emotionally driven and above all else entirely ignorant. They are probably the group LEAST able to self-analyze why they do things.

it's pretty frustrating how republicans can just spew endless lies about city life with zero repercussions but the moment a dem disparages a pickup truck it's open season