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CHOTINER: Just once I wanted someone to interview *me* DOCTOR: Oh I know just the person, the interviewer Issac Chotiner is in town, I have his phone number right here CHOTINER: (sobbing) but doctor, I *am* Chotiner

This is a horrifying travesty. Mario is a journalist who was covering No Kings protests; his detention is an outrage and we are hearing reports that he may be deported imminently. Raise your voices here: action.aclu.org/send-message...

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...

My 4 year old on the playground: “my pink laser killed Joker” Me, in Batman voice: “We don’t kill Joker“ Her: ”Why?” Me: Uh, well, that’s a good question actually

Tonight is a perfect NYC evening/night. The weather is gorgeous. I walked out to get a slice of pizza and my guy Frank added a sicilian for free. Meanwhile I walked by a new place that just opened called Common Country and there are a bunch of people line dancing on a Tuesday. Love this city.

Yet another masterclass in framing a persuasive advocacy message from @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social - it’s about mental health, not police reform or homelessness - grabs the viewer with a New York City history lesson - anchors in shared values before getting into policy details This man is a genius

Coates nails it with the Lost Cause analogy. "The rewriting and the ignoring were done not just by Confederates, but also by putative allies for whom the reduction of Black people to serfdom was the unfortunate price of white unity."

This is the mugshot of a literal political prisoner, arrested, thrown in jail, then expelled from a public university, for yelling at Charlie Kirk supporters

Banger of an obit by @espiers.bsky.social, seemingly the only one willing to do Kirk’s legacy justice by quoting his own words

Talk about a day of mixed feelings

Misinformation campaigns funded by right wing dark money are not a form of persuasion even if you constantly debate (repeat talking points) on whatever platform misguided liberals give you. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...

In another era (this morning), I wrote about how institutions are again doing the hard work of validating the administration’s intimidation tactics. www.pbump.net/o/the-climat...

While we're all discussing how it's wrong to murder someone, let's not forget this:

Dude's last words on earth were trying to troll someone asking about gun violence and mass shooters by saying "Counting or not counting gang violence?" under a banner that said "Prove Me Wrong."

the people who mocked and made up shit about the attack on paul pelosi have thoughts about decorum and we should definitely take them very very seriously

first walk home on a day under 70 degrees

Bird dog this man to the grave. No retreat, no surrender

Age verification? I learned to code BASIC on an Apple ][e

this bread is terrible. but the circuses? also really terrible

Incredibly, I’m in this for a technical book I coauthored over a decade ago

Don't feel like doing a repost that puts the murder video on the timeline yet again but do feel like repeating the point that the president just straight-up assassinated 11 people for supposedly doing something that wouldn't be a death-penalty crime if they were caught and convicted

On this Labor Day, let's remember that today isn't likely to offer a respite for those--disproportionately women, and especially women of color, immigrant women, and low-income women--who do the unpaid and underpaid labor of care. In fact, that labor may even be greater on days "off" like today. 1/🧵

Been saving this one open.spotify.com/track/6tYSqt...

Theres really no point to scrolling your phone waiting to hear about the day it happens, if you are a Real American and live in a decent sized city you'll know from horns honking, fireworks, people spontaneously hollering, passing out drinks, etc

theyre calling it the last great adventure folks, can you believe that? well we’re gonna do it better than anyone has ever dreamed before. theyre saying theyve never seen anyone heading toward the light quite as quickly, the biggest beautiful light theyve ever seen

“Drive the car like you stole it” is such a simple, effective mantra and I hope some in the party listen www.elizabethspiers.com/why-dems-kee...

can calculators get horny for big naturals? big tech wrestles with the “80085” question of our time

“They claim to read the same books” is such a multilayered burn, I LOVE it

Abundance but for bees

To my 10th grade English teacher, who said, “Make the conclusion count.”

Once you understand that a driving principle of American politics is there is no such thing as a compassionate solution that's cheap enough or a cruel solution that's too expensive, a lot of things click into place.

CHIEF: I’ll need your badge and your service weapon. ME: [puts a badge and a Quiznos Turkey Ranch Swiss on the desk] CHIEF: Both of ‘em. ME: [hesitates then bends over and unstraps a McRib from my ankle]

“using real concerns to put reactionary political views in the mouths of people i am not actually going to speak to or give the dignity of their own voices” is a classic move for this clique

Occurs to me that Trump's entire regime consolidation strategy is to persuade everyone through displays of force that the regime is already consolidated and there's no point in resisting. Which I don't think will work, but also shows how important public acts of noncompliance are.

Excellent statement from @dredf.bsky.social on Trump’s authoritarian attack on DC. I appreciate the direct links both to his executive order calling for detention of people with mental health issues, and to last year’s Grants Pass ruling. This is about removing “undesirables” from public space.

Reading this @gqmagazine.bsky.social profile of Hasan Piker and oh my god this paragraph just made me feel like the cryptkeeper www.gq.com/story/hasan-...

The summer of 2012 TikTok filled with filtered shots of hipsters broke me into a thousand tiny pieces

As a kid I always wanted be a Nintendo game counselor when I grew up, it seemed like the best possible job until I learned how to program and realized I could MAKE the games aftermath.site/guides-writers

“Four Al Jazeera journalists killed in Israeli strike near Gaza City's Al-Shifa hospital” — www.bbc.com/news/article...

I feel like I have to say this bc many people on Bluesky have no experience with political or community organizing irl: a lot of it is eating shit day after day to achieve a goal and do some good in the world! It is decidedly NOT an exercise in feeling superior and exacting revenge on your enemies!

Ons thing that's really bugging me about the "PhD level intelligence" is that a PhD isn't a measure of intelligence, it's a measure of commitment to study and specialisation in a narrow field (and opportunity to do so). "PhD level intelligence" isn't really a meaningful phrase

Salt is brightening and pepper is deepening, btw

ugh I hate payday so much it makes work feel so gross and transactional

Went back to using RSS with Reeder app a couple years ago and cannot recommend it enough

In Barcelona for the next couple of weeks and this place feels like someone built an entire city around little treat culture

Here's a photo from Jordan. Chris Smalls will be flying into Newark Friday morning

My 8-year-old made their own version of the game Life, and it's way more accurate than the original. The path is convoluted. The rules change on a whim (but always in favor of the game's creator). The real estate is outlandishly expensive. The jobs pay either $9K or $999,999K. The goal is unclear.