For those parents of late teens, early 20’s kids, ever have a moment where you get a glimpse at what your adult relationship with your kid might be and just melt at how great they are?

It’s bizarre that the press hasn’t noted this more. Turning the Butler attempt into a big show at the convention was practically inviting more people to give it a go.

The core problem with "surveillance pricing" isn't the pricing, it's the *surveillance*, and the way to fix this is to ban most forms of data collection. There's simply no good reason to allow companies to build highly detailed dossiers full of our personal information.

Old Twitter when it was at its best, gave access to three levers of power. Audience, access to decision makers, and community were all accessible there. And that is EXACTLY why an oligarch destroyed it and why the rest of the oligarchs cheered when he did.

Amen.

Fighting and theorizing about epistemic bubbles when the entire material basis for epistemologies has been captured and deliberately fractured is just grief. Annoying but grief nonetheless.

Let this haunt you. The month after Gamergate started, Reddit raised a round of funding. This is who backed it. Series B, September 30th, 2014. Sam Altman. Peter Thiel. Marc Andreessen. Joshua Kushner.

One of the things I’ve been thinking about is how similar the language the plutocrats use is to the language used by monarchy. “Our bloodline chosen by God to rule the people” is not different from “My brain has gifts that make me chosen to rule the world”.

When Rep. Ro Khanna began pushing to release the Jeffrey Epstein files, his own party thought he was wasting everyone's time.

Less blaming people just trying to make ends meet, more blaming the billionaires and CEOs paying us all so little we can barely get by.

Jeff Bezos went on TV to whine about Zohran Mamdani to stop demonizing billionaires. The very next day Mayor Mamdani responded by forcing Amazon to pay $9M in fines accrued by Amazon delivery trucks for illegally idling. This is what happens when we elect a mayor for the people—not the corporations

Whenever I come home from a business trip, there is a ritual baby boy invokes by sitting and laying on me for a time.

I’m devastated to hear about the oil spill into the LA River. Before colonization happened this river connected all the peoples of Los Angeles. It was the first thing colonizers attacked to separate the indigenous tribes and the robust network they had created.

If what the lead up to midterms is a bunch of politicians positioning themselves to be seen as the just fighter that should be President — I’m here for it. Try and top each other. Out-due the competition. Get shit done. Demand accountability and actually provide it. Miracle of all miracles.

I was going to say this is crazy but it’s not. There is a book by a medical sociologist called Dying of Whiteness about the supremacist politics some voters choose over their own lives (literally) & now we have a government that is using the same logic to make national policy.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Everything out of this man’s mouth is some version of “I want to be popular and I want what I like to be popular.”

Tech press always falls for Musk’s PR posts. There will be no crewed mission to Mars bsky.app/profile/gizm...

I have struggled to get competent healthcare my entire life, across my lifetime's various income brackets. GLP-1s are the first and ONLY drug that every doctor, NP, phlebotomist, facialist have pushed on me. No info-seeking from me. No appointment. Just constant offers to give me GLP-1s.

absolutely evergreen.

I’ve said it before and will say it a few more times. When Trump 2.0 came for accreditation I knew we had crossed into a different era of white reclamation. Precise, focused, stealth. Anyway, you probably don’t want these reforms.

This man is responsible for a Trump presidency. He is one of the most effective fascists the U.S. has had in power.

They pioneered this on people you don't care about so that it was perfect it when it got to you

In the early organizer life of my 20’s I knew 23 noodles of spaghetti was enough to get full 😂

The feds harangued Kat and my family over bullshit charges for a year. They tried to beat her down, bankrupt Kat and her codefendants through legal fees, and a defeat her spirit. They fucking lost. They will continue to lose. Fuck ICE forever. To this criminal gang of a government: stay losing.

there is literally nothing a candidate can do to make me want to vote for them less than sending me unsolicited texts

"Sanctuary cities" hosting the World Cup this summer: New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Boston, San Francisco, Seattle, Atlanta

Zohran got more votes than 50 sitting U.S. Senators did.

Miserable theme and variations: My variation is "10% of voters have 40% of the Senators."

I feel like this has been part of this last decade of life’s work. To focus more on being good than acting good and understanding the punishment for that is part and parcel to being true to myself.

Whew. A word, sermon, and scripture.

"They leaked his tax returns, they tried to destroy him." If revealing your official tax returns -- something every single president and VP for forty years before Trump did voluntarily -- could possibly "destroy" you, that is the scandal.

Huge shift among Hispanics in primary voting in Georgia. In 2022, 47% Hispanic voters picked a Democratic ballot. In the primary this week, 72% percent of Hispanic voters picked a Democratic ballot. ¡Dios Mio! www.ajc.com/politics/202...

A strong contender for best casting in history.

As a parent, I need to scream this from the rooftops: Gender care for your child will keep them alive. It could even mean that you do not have to suffer the EXTREME pain of having a suicidal child. Get fucking real, people.

Calling Public Historians!

Stephen Colbert’s last episode of The Late Shiw is tonight. This morning, NPR aired my story on his legacy as a performer and host, with commentary from Roy Wood Jr and Hasan Minhaj. Read and listen here: https://loom.ly/bQGGsVU

it is truly absurd that this lawless attack on the rights of trans kids succeeded the conservative legal movement runs on bigotry and unchecked audacity ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

News Analysis: If President Trump's arrangement of a $1.8 billion fund to dole out to his political allies is allowed to stand, experts say he will have simultaneously managed to thwart Congress’s power of the purse and the ability of the courts to police the separation of powers.

I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.

There’s a massive immigration operation in Memphis right now, but you may not have heard about it. Why? Community members face retaliation for trying to spread the word out, a lawsuit alleges.

They're stealing billions of your money to pay off violent right-wing psychos while doing everything in their power to spike gas up to $5 a gallon, make groceries into a luxury and hand the country over to the oligarchs who want to permanently replace you.

We're devastated to hear about a shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego. As details emerge, we are mourning for the victims and sending love and healing to the Muslim community. ❤️ No one should ever experience violence in their place of worship.

written by the CEO of an aviation company. you can't make this shit up.

If ours was a world where AI (the ideology, politic, and tech) were, uh, asking these graduates to shape AI this might resonate. But it’s not. Look, you cannot go out and market your new corporate monopoly widget as the death kneel to American workers and then ask new workers to be excited.

So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count

Watched House of the Spirits on Prime and it was tremendous. More than anything though it made me reflect on the book and how tremendous it is. There is a simultaneous economy and beauty to the words in that book that are aspirational for any writer.

An attack on Black America is an attack on all of America. Remember: if they come for us, they’ll come for you next. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/u...