Nobody on here is prepared for the first presidential primary debate where Josh Shapiro calls AOC a Hamas militant on national TV

it goes without saying but I don't think the 3rd richest person on the planet is destroying the prestige newspaper he bought because of the finances of the newspaper business

the owner just spent 75 million on a film that opened with a 7 million take

remember the time Bezos personally took a single action and it cost the post well over 200k subscribers www.npr.org/2024/10/28/n...

One problem with billionaires is that they're so rich they no longer have rational incentives. To someone like Bezos, the financial performance of WaPo is wholly irrelevant, and so the only "incentive" is to satisfy emotional urges, such as breaking something just to show he can.

Sometimes the old ways are the best

My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

I should not have to say this but if you are a legal observer your job is not to go snitch on any and all illegal things. Your job is SPECIFICALLY AND EXCLUSIVELY to record law enforcement brutality, illegality, and overreach. It is ABSOLUTELY NOT to snitch on protests you find too spicy.

basic solidarity with your comrades involves protecting their privacy and limiting what you record to the bare minimum required to expose state misconduct while not showing anything that could allow the state to track down and pursue individuals on trumped up charges.

Exclusive: A U.S. official has alleged wrongdoing by U.S. spy chief Tulsi Gabbard in a complaint that is so highly classified it has sparked months of wrangling over how to share it with Congress, according to people familiar with the matter.

Dan Olson has some thoughts.

ok this is the second time I'm seen an apparent reference to that Werner Herzog clip about the insane penguin. what the fuck is going on over there

Lone penguin walking into the arctic interior to die was probably thinking about the Cracker Barrel logo and how it was woke now, and looking for fellow penguins to talk about this with

Anyone who has seen Con Air knows the DEA is the most corrupt and unprofessional of all of the federal law enforcement organizations.

“Very, very senior” officials in the Trump administration have had secret meetings with far-right Canadian separatists trying to shake the foundations of the country.

Okay so I was actually at this encounter, filmed the aftermath, and am briefly visible in this video, and I would point out that what he does here is briefly kick a car twice. ICE beats him up, shoots pepper balls into the crowd, and launches tear gas at everyone else before leaving.

Just realized I have a longer version of this video. At the start, you can clearly see the feds piling out of the cars to attack Pretti and then spray pepper balls, antagonizing the crowd.

As a Canadian, what I've learned so far: - Minnesotans are very nice and VERY organized - Mainers are aggressively xenophobic but in a way that lCE will not like - Philadelphians crave the blood of their enemies - LA is ground zero for chaos tactics that never lose - New Yorkers love gay hockey

F5: identified

that girl ain't okay

Currently working on one of my favorite pieces ever: The Hater’s Guide To Oracle. This company is so stupid and Larry Ellison has bet the farm on OpenAI having $300 billion to give it over five years. Larry Ellison is H.R. Geiger’s Jerry Stiller and he’s rigged his company to blow

Greg Bovino will return in AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY

Let him never know a moment’s peace.

Greg Bovino has reportedly had his access to social media cut off earlier today when an aide of the president put his phone on the top shelf

Well that was pretty interesting, huh? who’s ready to do this all again but in every state across the country when the economy implodes?

You’ll know they’re actually course correcting when Stephen Miller gets the boot. Until then, they’re staying the course, and we need to continue resisting every step of the way.

The killing of Alex Pretti and the grotesque lying was an overreach by the administration. They've paid a price and had to pull back a bit. But it's when there's some disarray that the democratic opposition needs to intensify the offensive, and turn a marginal tactical success into a major victory.

They must be giants.

We're gonna need a more prolific Seth Harp

“.. if you’re going to write a bad story about my health, I’m going to sue the ass off of ‘New York’ Magazine. There will be a time when you can write that story, maybe in two years, three years, five years — five years, no one is going to care, I guess.” @nymag.com nymag.com/intelligence...

“I was confused as to why the victim was on his side, because that is not standard practice when a victim has been shot. Checking for a pulse and administering CPR is standard practice. Instead of doing either of those things, the ICE agents appeared to be counting his bullet wounds.”

Even for them this is embarrassing

they are. but for some reason people think they're the good guys because they're stopping people from doing bad things like break a window.

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I'm only going to say this once because I'm too tired: ICE is a bipartisan venture. Fascism is just an empire's violence turned on its own people. Fascism has never been defeated in the voting booth, you have to dismantle it. You have to organize and fight. It is literally socialism or barbarism.

Further context: I have been organizing for 15+ years. I've worked with unions, reformist orgs, anarchists, and revolutionary parties. I have been tear gassed by cops while cracking the skull of a Nazi. And without a doubt yesterday was the strongest step toward revolutionary change. We can do this

did an ICE agent write this?

Going out on a limb, but I think it's bad for the world's richest man to have his own pet federal judge he can direct all his cases to.

This is going to be a snowstorm for the ages this weekend. Almost 2 feet in a long band from Oklahoma to DC. Well over a foot in most of New England.

Meanwhile, in the UK, JK Rowling, another billionaire bastard, has helped fund Sex Matters and a plethora of lawsuits seeking to push trans people out of society through lawfare. It's a tsunami of cash targeting a vulnerable minority while she publicly plays the victim like a pathetic crybully.

I don't mean to undermine the incredible community resistance being done in Minnesota. They've saved countless people from ICE through their efforts. They're doing incredible work. It's not stopping this horror though. I don't know what the answer is here. Electeds have abandoned everyone.