New from 404 Media: here is the user guide for ELITE, the tool Palantir made for ICE. A map shows people on a map; ICE clicks them, brings up their dossier. ICE uses to find which neighborhoods to target. We obtained it, you can now read the document for yourself: www.404media.co/here-is-the-...

Here's a look back at the dozens of restaurants that opened in Milwaukee this year. Give them a visit and a warm welcome if you haven't already! www.jsonline.com/story/entert...

RIP San Onofre nuclear power plant domes. You were my greeting back to San Diego for many years. You will be missed 😓🕊️✝️

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

Woke up today to the news

we don’t talk enough about how much Target and other companies who stopped diversity, equity and inclusion programs are suffering from their boneheaded decisions to prioritize placating MAGA over sound business decisions…FAFO

From Wired a few weeks ago. A lot of the people who I was told for years were the adults in the room are being asked how they want to be remembered, and that answer is very clearly "cowards." www.wired.com/story/uncann...

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

🏆

The point of putting the military on the streets in cities isn’t to “clean up” those cities, it’s to heighten tension in the hopes that somebody takes a shot at them and gives an excuse for invocation of the insurrection act.

I would rather die than create an account to continue

on the last day of the United States, when this country has finally descended into civil war, i will do a thread on how to dress for summer

Zohran Mamdani's victory wasn't a one-off for progressives. I'm currently polling just single digits behind the lead, even though I was a "long-shot" candidate 3 months ago. That's because people-first politics WORK and we can't do it without you:

Zohran’s results so far just show how tired Americans are of the status quo, how we need creative, people-first campaigning and governance, and why positive, progressive politics are the future. Hate to get ahead of myself before results are called but I’m so freakin happy right now.

not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates

worth remembering that when Trump announced a travel ban in 2017, people literally went to airports to protest. Eight years later, Trump announces a new one and it's not even front page news. We're the frogs and the water is getting awfully hot.

GET EM BOYZ

“WHO YOU CALLING A BUNCH OF PANSIES?!?”

I keep getting asked if it’s legal to spend our campaign funds on food drives or our high school public service grants and the answer is YES. It is. Politicians and Democratic organizations need to use their coffers to help people NOW and fill in the gaps that Trump has created.

bring back dramatic singing under the rain

"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty." -Hannah Arendt

merch coming soon...

One of the worst things about Ken Jennings owning you on Bluesky is that this is a website where 45% of the userbase have personally been on Jeopardy and have that as their profile picture

🤌

Cardinal Passed Over For Pope Devoted Life To God For Nothing theonion.com/cardina...

gender reveal, the baby is goth

You know how you can hate a photo of yourself and then see it five years later and be like oh damn I actually looked pretty good? That’s how I feel about the United States of America

Sometimes I feel like society converged to make everyone insane and millennials were the most prepared for this development

Did you know the “weekend” and working only 8 hours per day used to be considered a radical, liberal idea? 139 years ago today, in Bay View, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 7 workers (including a 13 yo) lost their lives to advance this revolutionary idea. A 🧵

gnawing my leg off now so i won't have to do it in a big panic after getting caught in a snare

I’m really only just getting into it but I genuinely love birding as a hobby. The entire goal is to look at the bird. Is there a bird? There is a bird! Look at the bird! If you are very keen you can learn what to call the bird so that you can properly thank it for the joy you feel when you see it. 🪶

They talked him into giving them a lift across a river

the best way to get your writing done is to have an unrelated but very important work/school deadline that needs immediate attention. your writing will become your brain’s main target really fast for some reason.

A reminder that LLMs (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini) are basically Nick Miller. They know words, they can tell you what's most likely next based on all the words and word patterns they know. But they don't actually *read*. They've just memorized words.

Me on Independent Bookstore Day

This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.

michelle williams meeting michelle williams is so important to me as a fan of michelle williams and michelle williams

happy ten year anniversary to this post

The more books and courses about a thing, the more likely there’s a way to do thing, it’s just hard and takes a while and everyone is just trying to sell shortcuts. See: weight loss, marketing, getting babies to fall asleep.

I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.

Honored to watch my friend and the icon and female sports legend and activist Billie Jean King receive her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame,!!

They said my artisanal hand-carved semiconductor business would never be viable but who’s laughing now?

I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I'm running for Congress.

society erred when we removed the computer from its honored place in the home and ushered it into every part of our profane world. we must rebuild the temple of the Computer Room

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

The largest office-to-residential conversion in American history, at 25 Water St., is almost done. (1,300 units!) Includes affordable apartments. Rents as low as $1,166 for a 2-bed. HPD lottery open now: housingconnect.nyc.gov/PublicWeb/de... We need to do this in many, many more buildings.

I don't care if it's cheesy I need a Roy family cameo to happen in White Lotus. Just Shiv ignoring her toddler at the beach or Roman meeting up for nefarious biz deals.