My cat is unimpressed.

When a president sends troops into American cities to “restore order,” what he’s really doing is testing obedience. Portland and Chicago aren’t war zones…they’re warning shots. Authoritarians don’t announce takeovers. They practice them. One city at a time. However, each practice destroys families.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Enjoy some truth about the #TrumpShutdown @markwarner.bsky.social

A VPN is not a tool for anonymity, and while it can protect your location from some companies, there are many other ways companies may track you. ssd.eff.org/module/choo...

I’m a sewage system. I also have a great personality.

Folks — this is not a normal government shutdown. Let me explain the stakes and how we got here.

Shameless plug. Check out my book Merged by Magic: A Meeting of Minds, available in paperback, Kindle, and on Kindle Unlimited. #booksky #writers #authors amzn.to/3KoR6MB

What the fuck?

More people should be talking about this.

My wife asked me late last night if that amazing statue was still standing. Welp… 📌 The Trump and Epstein statue, showing Donald Trump and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein holding hands on the National Mall, was toppled and hauled away despite a permit—after just one day.

Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets. • Joy Reid • Don Lemon • Melissa Harris-Perry • Tiffany Cross • Jemele Hill • Marc Lamont Hill • Karen Attiah • Amber Ruffin

A VPN is not a tool for anonymity, and while it can protect your location from some companies, there are many other ways companies may track you. ssd.eff.org/module/choo...

Good options: *BBC News / BBC World Service *Deutsche Welle (DW News) *France 24 *Al Jazeera *The Associated Press (although U.S.-based...it operates globally and is widely regarded as a fact/reporting wire service more than opinion.) *Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty *CBC News (Canada)

"Tor does have limitations like anything, but if privacy is your primary concern, Tor is the king of the hill." Thanks DW (@news.dw.com) for the shoutout! 💜 www.dw.com/en/anything-...

Some important findings in this paper: 1) Working with AI boosts the performance of people solving math, science & ethics questions 2) The biggest boost is for the hardest problems 3) High performers remain highest performing, but low performers gain more 4) People who are good with AI gain most

David Letterman is right: you can't appease a tyrant.

SCULLY: Do you know there’s a wiki page that said, “Obama tan suit scandal”? OBAMA: You know what? I’m rocking that suit… And the weird thing was that there were all these pictures of Ronald Reagan in a tan suit and George Bush in a tan suit. I thought I looked better than them in it

Today 31 Democrats chose to side with Donald Trump over DC. We did not ask for this. It will not make us safer. And fueling this fascist president's agenda is dangerous for our entire country. (🧵)

A third of American adults interact with AI “many times a day to almost constantly” & another third several times a week. I can’t usefully add much to discussions of possible valuation bubbles, but if “bubble” means a disappointing technology that is overhyped & not useful, that doesn’t match data

The jaggedness of AI remains even as models have rapidly come to exceed human abilities in many of the hardest timed math & science contests. Yet there is much less progress on good puns. True AGI would be figure out our limits in more than calculus (sorry, but also seriously).

Kroger will lay off ~1,000 employees. In December, it announced $7.5B in stock buybacks – which juice stock prices, enriching shareholders and boosting CEO pay. Just so happens that Kroger's last CEO was paid 457x its typical employee in 2024. Textbook corporate greed.

One sign of intelligence is the ability to say, “I don’t know, tell me more.”

A great deal of our problems result from not holding those who tried to destroy our democracy accountable for their actions.

Looked at my data collections for state-backed activity. If the report were a picture:

Thanks to everyone who entered the giveaway for my book, and to those who, amid everything going on in the world, marked it as “Want to Read.” I hope everyone who won a free copy enjoys it, here at the end of all things.

Much of our problems can be directly tied to THIS. And the super wealthy/powerful are delighted to divide us so we don't realize how much they are fleecing us. Let's unite and make this country a great place for EVERYONE #nokings #nopedophiles #Nofascissts #noguns #nobillionaires

We need your help. There is a new doxxing site circulating. A domain just registered through Namecheap (on Sept 10, 2025) and hosted on Squarespace is being used to publish private personal information.

1988 George Carlin is still relevant in 2025.

One of the things I have come to appreciate is that a good deal of Rome's success came from the fact that, as rapacious and opportunistic and bellicose as they could be, they mostly avoided giving unnecessary insult to their allies. A virtue rare in antiquity as today; we used to be good at it.

Got my covid vaccine, so I can... do... stuff... and junk.

Charlie Kirk said Martin Luther King Jr. was "awful" and "not a good person." www.snopes.com/fact-check/c...

Last chance to enter for a chance to win a free copy of my book "Merged by Magic: A Meeting of Minds". Giveaway ends September 13th! #booksky

No new pics, where are you mentally?

For the people in the back, bigotry is not an opinion…

Congratulations Microsoft! Windows 11 is now my least favorite OS.

Notice how the media is once again hyping the “Birthday Book” (great graphics for TV), yet not one mention of Sen. Ron Wyden’s letter to Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent...naming names, entities, and the financial transactions that actually matter. The WH has the networks scared shitless.

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“As a functional matter, the US government is simply out of the business of disaster aid globally...it’s done huge damage.”

i hate to sound like a lib but isn’t this, like, a super cool thing to see happen in real life

Slightly diminish a book: To Pet a Mockingbird

This is what happens when justice serves power instead of people. Banksy’s latest piece shows a judge beating a protester. They rushed to throw up barriers to hide it. We need this here because it looks a lot like our own Supreme Court vs. the people.

It’s been a month since I wrote this and I want to reiterate that as bad as things look now, Americans don’t understand how bad things are going to get.

Is your personal data being weaponized against you when you shop? Are you paying a different price for products than anyone else? You may be thanks to a shady practice known as "surveillance pricing." Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX) has introduced a bill to ban the practice.

The Supreme Court just ruled that ICE can target people based on their race. Can we get a “Fuck ICE” in the chat?