All of this was today: -the US seized 2 Venezuelan oil tankers -Rubio said the US will sell 50M barrels of Venezuelan oil and dictate who profits -Trump withdrew the US from more climate agreements -RFK Jr. flipped the food pyramid -ICE killed an unarmed citizen observer -Noem blamed the victim

Among the many essays I'll never have the time to write is one on how the "kitchen table" thing from obsolete politicians exemplifies how a focus on the nuclear family instead of community has rotted our culture from the inside out

There is an essential & extremely generalizable point here. Critical thinking is a team sport. We all need metacognition buddies because human brains. It doesn't matter how quote unquote smart you are. Especially in the slop times. The most pernicious aspect of ChatGPT is how it isolates minds.

Make it viral.

Q: After you told ICE to get the F out, Republicans are criticizing you for escalating tensions FREY: I'm sorry if I offered their Disney princess ears, but if we're talking about what's inflammatory, on one hand you got someone who dropped an F bomb & on other you have someone who killed someone

We need to get it lodged more firmly in the discourse that Trump and Stephen Miller are prioritizing removing nonviolent immigrants over public safety. They are sinking so many resources into their ethnic purification project that they're putting us in more danger. newrepublic.com/article/2041...

So deeply disgusted by bootlickers.

i think it is ok to reiterate that the victim as a us citizen. yes, noncitizens are equally entitled to human rights. but also, it's important to illustrate how ice isn't about immigration at all

It's so fucking convenient that they get to "fear for their lives" anytime they want to absolve themselves of anything and when we actually fear for our lives because of them and do anything a scared person would do it's justification for our death.

After the assassination of Melissa Hortman it’s not hard to understand why a woman in Minnesota would be afraid of a man in a mask who says he’s a cop.

I refuse to stay silent while Secretary Noem breaks the rule of law and terrorizes our communities. I am introducing Articles of Impeachment against her for violating the public trust, obstructing Congress, and self-dealing. Read my full statement: robinkelly.house.gov/media-center...

I sat in on a court case where an off duty police officer shot and killed a man and then tried to prevent him from getting medical attention from nearby medical professionals. Guess where the police officer wound up? Prison. That does not play well with jurors or judges or any other human beings.

You know that thing they do in parliamentary democracies, where they can call for new elections when the time seems right, instead of being locked inside a runaway train with a drunken conductor for exactly four years? That seems like a healthy practice.

My kitchen table issue is “don’t shoot people at their kitchen tables”

Tim Walz has issued a warning order and is prepared to bring out the National Guard re ICE. Walz reminded everyone they are their National Guard, not Trump’s.

ICE’s public violence should be a reminder that they commit brutal acts in private facilities too. Every report has been horrific and we only have the smallest glimpse into the horrors.

An institution’s function is what it does. You can’t train ICE into being more humane when its entire purpose is brutality. Abolition is the only way to end the violence.

they ran on no more wars and are now pitching global conquest. they ran on protecting kids and are now paid subscribers to a deep fake kiddie porn generator. a competent opposition party would find a way to use this to their advantage

My periodic reminder to NEVER donate money to candidates in a primary outside your state. Locals will know whom the strongest candidate is. Outsiders throwing money at candidates b/c of social media are how we got Amy McGrath, John Fetterman and others, while locals wanted other candidates.

Absolutely horrific details about an ICE shooting in Minneapolis. A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times." Bovino was there. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

On NY12: There is a clear front-runner for the seat, who has already hoovered up a huge amount of support from in-district politicos. Somebody might get past Micah Lasher, but it won't be Conway.

The Trump administration’s lawless attack on Senator Mark Kelly is part of a much broader project to turn the US military into a partisan militia and silence veterans who might speak out against that by threatening their pensions www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

one of the things i hate most about this persistent line of argument is the implication that any of these actions would be fine if groceries were cheaper

Once upon a time, no one would have taken a kid like Nick Shirley seriously. Kid knows nothing. I have never liked podcasts, I think, even less of them. Make a slick video filled with lies, and people will lap it up. Give em a book with truth or the blueprint to survival. Oh, they don't read.

A probabilistic pattern-matching model can never be guaranteed correct 100% of the time. The best that's been done so far to try and address this is basically stacking models on top of one another to fact check each other before giving you an answer.

A Washington Post article suggests that, beyond a certain threshold, larger homes don't make people happier. Instead, well-being is correlated with affordable housing in walkable neighborhoods where they feel socially connected. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

It is incredible to me that the Democrats in the House and Senate are not collectively and systematically calling for Trump’s impeachment and removal over his actions toward Venezuela and his threats against Denmark/Greenland. 1/

Tired of seeing people bend over backward to say Greenland is a ‘strategic interest.’ There is zero military threat to Greenland or from Greenland by any other country. The US already has ABO there (access,basing,overflight). There is no realist argument for annexing Greenland.

Like saying a guy burned down the apartment complex to distract investigators from finding the body parts in the fridge. OK yes and we will still deal with the murders but we do have to address the fact that the building is now on fire, and that is also going to be a crime requiring our attention.

I don't think starting World War III should be considered "a distraction" from other things even if it does distract from other things.

See how it's done, @pettersen.house.gov . Support this. Go and do likewise.

Telling isn't it that all the "protect our girls" people are still on X despite what Grok is doing.

The thermostat on my 5ish year old instant pot died, so I had to replace it. Another instant pot is obviously out, between private equity and them instantly and reflexively going full nazi. www.eater.com/news/886762/...

So, hear me out on this, I want my taxpayer dollars going to feeding, hungry people, educating kids, and building better roads. I have no desire to buy Donald Trump an island, & last time I checked, the power of the purse, still belonged to Congress.

WOW!!! 🤩 “An ‘extraordinary’ iron age war trumpet that may have links to the Celtic tribe led by Boudicca in the period they were battling the invading Roman army has been discovered by archaeologists in Norfolk”. www.theguardian.com/science/2026... #Archaeology

I bought a laptop at Costco last week that was half the price of the “AI” models. The salesperson seemed genuinely surprised that anybody wouldn’t want those features.

If child sexual abuse material generation isn’t the last straw for X users, what is?

From what I can see, George Conway’s support is coming from people who don’t know the district he’s running in, don’t understand primaries, and don’t see who Conway actually is. Anti-Trump ≠ progressive Democrat.

If you thought Elon Musk's “Grok” chatbot couldn't get worse, read my latest article: Grok isn't just undressing women, it's now putting swastika bikinis on them. One woman who was targeted is a recently-deceased Holocaust survivor.

No one *licensed* anyone to make CSAM of their kids, and the tech company that provides both the production technology and the distribution system should be prosecuted out of existence.

In case anyone needs it for their syllabi, my statement in gen-Ai from the minicomic I made as a syllabus for class last semester. All online and printable here spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...

I know Courtney can more than handle herself, but she's getting people complaining in the replies that he's running as a Dem, and we need every seat. So, a reminder: Conway is running in a VERY crowded primary, where there's a literal Kennedy running too. There is zero reason to support Conway.

If Conway were running in a red district, we could talk. He is literally running to replace a very progressive member of Congress.

Bloomberg's X account has more than 800k followers. Their most recent post was shared five times It would basically come at close to zero cost for outlets like Bloomberg to delete their X accounts, and "We don't want to use a non-consensual deepfake abuse app as a comms platform" is a fine excuse

They're doing this so they can call any government program that isn't ICE or the military "rife with fraud" and thus illegitimate. They are trying to manufacture consent to say any entitlement — from Medicare to social security — must be canceled because of extreme edge cases. Don't fall for it.

you studied defense procurement, seapower, sociology of the military......but its secondary to the fact that a likely dying old man has been hypnotized by the mercator projection into wanting greenland

This sucks but I think non-Americans being justifiably angry at Americans for what the American government is doing and threatening to do, and Americans experiencing that anger and frustration personally in ways that are unpleasant, is probably an important part of any path back to stability

In 1916, the United States signed a document stating that Greenland was Danish. Here is the document

btw for those who don't know why Americans with chronic illness got like 75% more stressed on Jan 1st, it is not just because all the insurance rates blew up. On 1/1, deductibles reset. which means you have to spend some amount of money (up to $10k sometimes) before your insurance COVERS ANYTHING

cbs news is giving us a great natural experiment into what happens to your business if you marginalize your existing consumers to go after a new market that hates your product. interesting strategy