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Note that this is local police not ICE or CPD attacking these young people. Local police are working overtime to distance themselves from ICE/CPD. Don't buy the hype.

I will go to my GRAVE cackling over this Marlon Brando anecdote Please engrave it on my tombstone

Last year I traveled all the way to rural Vietnam to officiate a friend's wedding. It was a beautiful ceremony that mixed cultures and language, and was a celebration of the best of humanity. He just sent me this post and said "this is how you lost the war."

A year ago, everyone was doing the “Trump dance.” Now the president is too scared to show his face at the Super Bowl, and the right’s “alternative” halftime show features the cringey, washed-up Kid Rock. trib.al/znWq6YC

Again I can’t count the amount of times I have to explain if someone actually discovered the trick to getting rich forever with no effort THEY WOULD NOT TELL YOU ABOUT IT

A few weeks ago I saw a commercial for like genAI or sports betting or something and it was like “don’t bet against the underdog” and one of the examples they depicted was the Spartans at Thermopylae. And like… my brother in Zeus, they lost. The were the underdogs and they FAMOUSLY lost.

When I was 10 I wrote a letter to the kid’s section of the Chicago Tribune, that was printed, extolling the virtues and sophistication of Magic The Gathering over the pogs fad and look where we are now. You guys should really be listening to me about crypto and chatgpt.

The hellish call centre I worked in would have absolutely used these to recreate the scene from the Wicker Man remake if we didn't hit our pointless daily call targets.

Except you can’t write a book in a day. You can generate a load of garbage with thousands of errors, and continuity problems. And then spend six months revising it, if you want it remotely readable. Which sounds like a slog, but the point of AI is to remove pleasure in both making and experiencing.

Never happen. This is the blessing and the curse of the fantasy writer - such is the sheer, uncontrollable *power* of their imagination, the moment they sit down in front of a keyboard, they immediately start thinking about what they want for dinner tonight.

Plot point: the muppets mistake Zizek for a muppet they’ve never met before

When TPUSA decided to do this show last fall they were sure that Kirk would be a beloved national martyr by February of 2026, but in the ensuing months Kirk and Mandatory Mourning of him has become a huge internet joke to children. TPUSA is grimly moving ahead with this broadcast out of pure spite

When the freelancing payments arrive early: youtu.be/eBtn2NQ5k58?...

Pictured: a small landlord

classic Loony Tunes have much to teach us about class solidarity

Defund the CIA and use the money to make more Muppet retellings of classic literature

I hope the person who made this pot felt as pleased with themselves as their art suggests they did.

Luigi Mangione is at the Winter Olympics opening ceremony

cool world (dir. ralph bakshi, 1992)

"Tenant-friendly policies" [sound of thunder and dracula music]

"Natalia Bonanno’s family owns 200 apartment units"

Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum. Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.

You know he'd do it.

Somebody got Will Stancil mad again, now look at him

if only italy had a strong tradition of iconic visual art in like ten separate eras to draw on. they could have been doing that instead of pouring slurry from the big slop machine into our eyes for the zillionth time. damn too bad too bad

the generative images during the olympics opening ceremonies when the country is ostensibly showcasing its unique culture is so fucking bleak man

“fuck ice” chant at AEW obviously great, we love brodie king, but it feels very retro that ppl are like “wow the right even lost the dumb wrestling hicks!!” when every wrestling fan i know is a gay anarchist who fucking hates the government lmao

Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams

CHICKEN, MCFLY

Never before has there been a candidate so exclusively liked by journalists and consultants but absolutely no-one else as Wes Streeting.

My latest for @theintercept.com, explaining why Gavin Newson is not, despite what you may have heard, a wild-eyed leftist radical.

outsold by Nuzzi, a thing that’s nearly mathematically impossible

The Labour Together thinktank paid a PR firm at least £30,000 to investigate journalists from The Sunday Times, The Guardian and other outlets that were looking into its funding, Democracy for Sale has revealed democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

You guys this is what they do. They drive around in circles in parking lot. Ice has to be the most dip shit inefficient organization on the planet.

people who think the count of monte cristo is just a straightforward tale of a dude escaping a prison and revenging himself miss out on quality subplots like "the count is foiled by the power of lesbianism," "the case of the serial domestic poisoner" and "let's talk shit about italian food"

Pivoting my national newspaper to fash opinion sludge and some AI-related handwaving, on account of economic headwinds and also because neither I nor anyone in my cohort of elites knows how to read.

chat if it takes two Serious Legal Scholars to refute a statement from a pop star are you winning or losing

There are more hardcore communists in each individual tendency in America than there are Douthatians. There are more Bob Avakian followers. There are more LaRouchites. There are probably more people still alive who voted for John Anderson in 1980 and don't regret it

Found myself thinking again about why the NYT employs Douthat at all and the arguments that their op-ed page is trying to represent a wide range of viewpoints. They're not, but also, are there even ten people in America who believe Ross' weird mix of Catholicism, Francoism, and monarchism?

I’ve spent years believing public debates were a waste of time but if you body your opponent so badly that their employer has to pretend it never happened that’s actually cool as hell

Wonder if I should send this back

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

yeah no guys we are in fact not

For those who didn't know that there's a 90s romance movie where Vincent D'Onofrio plays Robert E. Howard... there's a 90s romance movie where Vincent D'Onofrio plays Robert E. Howard. youtu.be/bHvOeMRgPuw?...