I’ll admit my macroeconomic outlook didn’t include a Leeroy Jenkins bombing campaign against Iran with no plan whatsoever for securing Hormuz. And you know what, that’s on me.

Octavia Butler on Clarence Thomas: But Thomas was not an Igbo slave trader in the 1700s. He was a Black man from Pin Point, Georgia, who grew up speaking Gullah … Thomas spent his life buoying the very structures of white supremacy that continue to oppress marginalized people.

The criminality of Nixon! The moral void of Ford! The senility of Reagan! The dubious post-conspiracy pardons of Bush I! The Middle Eastern quagmire and economic crisis of Bush II! The Trump of Trump I! Through our powers combined we become POTUS-47, the ultimate Republican administration!

Better have your lawyer accompany you and your OB/GYN to labor & delivery…

wut?

If anything needed James Tiberius Kirk’s Kobayashi Maru solution…

The way hospitals choose to respond to ICE’s actions will determine whether or not the estimated 11 million undocumented people living in the U.S. continue to get medical care in the coming years.

Well, on Kalshi, obviously.

Much like no one cares that the average Serbian Orthodox congregation in suburban Chicago probably has, on average, unbelievably awful opinions about Bosnia and Kosovo, no one should care one way or another about American Jewish opinions on Israel.

This is misleading. Here's how much the MA Millionaire Tax raised vs the most generous possible assumption of how much combined revenue was lost from millionaire movers.

Remember Perry is a former brigadier general who is only NOT in prison because he claimed the speech & debate clause covered his part in planning the 6 January attack & because Merrick Garland’s DOJ & a federal judge accepted that argument.

I get why big accounts disable quote posting, but it genuinely discourages me from reposting them. Most of the time, all I want to do is add context. Ah, well.

Prepare yourselves for more gambling scandals.

I'm doing something a little crazy: I'm recreating OpenClaw with Claude Code and its new Channels feature in Telegram. Surprisingly, it all works. Here's how I'm doing it: www.macstories.net/club/opencla...

I heard there was a secret cord that David kept in his cable hoard but he can never find it when he needs it

I can’t believe how many of these people were just hockey #fancystat accounts doing cool stuff in public that I used to follow on Twitter

Every day a bunch more of these on this scam vector. Doesn’t feel like Bluesky’s getting ahead of this, either.

great reporting here. basically yes DLSS 5 is running a gen AI model on the 2D output and nothing more. it doesn’t know anything about the 3D scene, textures / models / lighting / PBR other than what the model infers by looking at a frame. TL:DR, they sped up slop. youtu.be/D0EM1vKt36s?...

#$UAL *would* drop this on a Friday night wouldn’t they.

I wouldn’t bet on it.

this is the ultimate turducken of the Trump era. *bill hader stefan voice* it’s got everything: Epstein, sexual assault, corruption, and ICE

Well, that’s a small measure of justice.

I guess the plan is we'll just stop bombing, declare victory, and hope that Iran reopens the Straits, and if they don't, say it's somebody else's problem.

Hines sucks ass on surveillance, which is why he’s the ranking member on House Intel.

if only there were some kind of way to figure out why no one in the room said, “hey, what if they do this…”

A Georgia woman is facing a murder charge after police say she took pills to induce an abortion in violation of a law that prohibits most abortions.

There are two types of people who know a lot about war - those who glorify it and those who study it to try to have it happen less, like an oncologist studying cancer. Edgelords and students. X kept the former, the latter moved over here.

Because sending 8,000 soldiers and three more warships to the Gulf and asking for $200 billion more is EXACTLY what you do when you’ve already won…

The anger I have right now is unreal.

This might be the most honest he has been.

OH. MY. GAWD.

next time someone from the Trump administration says "no one could've predicted this" remind them that the dumbass trump take egg guy from bluesky predicted this

Poilievre appears on Joe Rogan podcast after accidentally polling too well with women

Republicans at the state level are no longer even pretending to care about judicial independence. Instead, all they care about is power, showing utter contempt for checks & balances and the rule of law: ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

lol what J Allard?

Some context: the last time Amazon tried to make a phone, it made it into this article:

Chuck Norris is dead. He was really shitty but Conan playing this clip from Walker Texas Ranger lives rent free in my head forever tbh so there's that.

80 days ago:

Within just 48 hours of the Tories refusing to sack Nick Timothy for his Islamophobic comments, the far-right is circulating a list of MPs “of foreign descent” trying to “silence” him. [1/2]

Leave Benevolent Tech Giant Alone, Sources Say

Interesting so every descendant of slaveowners might as well have owned a slave themselves and bear the responsibility for that crime? bsky.app/profile/evan...

Just days ago, Witkoff told us on @cnbc.com that Putin said he WASN'T sharing intel and that we had to "take him at his word."

And then here comes Neil Gorsuch adding insult to injury: The Supreme Court justices don't typically give a reason when they override lower court orders. But recently, they've been giving trial judges a talking-to, reprimanding them for not being mind-readers ballsandstrikes.org/ethics-accou...

‘In 2022, I published an essay endorsing Donald Trump for the 2024 Republican nomination.’ These people really are a joke

Meh, “cleverness.”

I keep comparing the timeline for troop movement to the timelines from the energy knowers on when things get super fucked and my conclusions are not optimistic ones, even assuming sending in the Marines works, which it won’t

Tired: We’re going to build a U.S.-Mexico border wall and make Mexico pay for it Wired: We’re going to bomb Iran and make them pay for it

Also against white men running things.

o no way what a shock