"What motivates Trump? The answer is simple: racism...Trump is not profound. He has been the same person this whole time. The question is why so many others have refused to see what he has never bothered to hide." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/o...

#FavoriteSongFriday www.youtube.com/watch?v=n37b...

While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.

The lesson we should be taking from Moltbot: If you don't know how to code without AI, vibe coding is like giving a loaded gun to a toddler

Proof Without Content xkcd.com/3201/

The president has openly called for the Republican Party to "take over" elections. Is that sufficiently unconstitutional yet, or are we still "overreacting"?

#FavoriteSongFriday Kate Bush's first single - the label was very reluctant to single something that was at the time incredibly weird, but in the UK it hit #1 for four weeks www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk-4...

It’s a 15-minute recipe if you have a sous chef handing you prepped and measured ingredients like an OR nurse

Firearms belong to liberals now.

Trump Administration: "You think Democrats are suppressing evidence of pedophile crimes? You're worried Democrats will come for your guns? Well, anything they can do, we can do better."

Let me make this point again (different killing, same point): No one telling the "self defense" story about Pretti's murder believes it, and they don't expect anyone else to believe it. They are not covering up the crime, they are sending the message that ICE thugs can murder with impunity.

#FavoriteSongFriday www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NA4...

I keep reading about how embarrassing Trump's speech in Davos was. That is the very least of it. No country in the world will ever trust us again, and rightly so. They were willing to give us another chance after electing him once; surely we had learned. We learned nothing. We elected him again.

"...one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up... This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive." pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

Is it just me, or does Bovino look like a central casting movie villain?

Listening to "Carmen" being broadcast from the Met, and there was one line in a sung dialog - I do not know what the actual words are, my French is terrible - but I heard, "I could go for a meal of praise."

"We shouldn't even have an election." ~Donald J. Trump He seems maybe not well-versed in the Constitution he swore to preserve, protect, and defend...

#FavoriteSongFriday Here's a Beatles cover you don't hear a lot www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp0n...

#FavoriteSongFriday www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HL-...

Make it viral.

Fuck Bari Weiss, fuck bootlicking regime propaganda

Does anyone actually believe a conflict between the US and NATO would not become a world war that would include nuclear exchange? Remind me again why we want this?

They missed an opportunity here, not calling it octarine en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olo_(co...

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Vaccine delivered by drinking beer: That's what I call progress www.sciencenews.org/article/vacc...

here’s an Elon Musk Christmas Tale. Merry Xmas everyone ❤️

Even if you can document that you were born here, if they don't want to let you go, they just say it's fake www.huffpost.com/entry/us-cit...

Some very smart people share my concerns www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/t...

"A new study has found that eating 50 grams (1.76 ounces) or more of high-fat cheese a day correlates with a lower risk of developing dementia." www.sciencealert.com/cheese-linke...

Wut www.koin.com/news/food/wh...

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller December 16,1946

Labeling is censorship. Fact-checking is censorship. Since the EU fined X, transparency & data access are censorship too. Anything that moderately inconveniences a right-wing populist is censorship — even as MAGA increasingly realizes that X is riddled with scams. open.substack.com/pub/agentsof...