I honest to Pete don’t understand the aversion to saying he lies. (Don’t give me the whole oh-we-don’t-know-his-intent malarkey)

The author of that piece wrote a response to me that was *also* full of factual errors. TFP never issued a correction. Recently wrote about a PirateWires writer's many factual errors. Also no correction. The heterodox types who bitch about arrogance in legacy media just never, ever admit mistakes.

This is the thing: who trusts Big Tech anymore? With a long history of being some of the most maleficient actors in the world, like all capitalist hell entities, why would any of us trust that Big Tech is concealing their water use numbers for any kind of benign reason?

again thinking of when The Free Press ran an article alleging that George Floyd was not killed by the cops, and @radleybalko.bsky.social proved beyond any question that the article was bullshit, and instead of retracting it Weiss asked him to come on her podcast

Henry Cuellar, Don Davis, and Vicente Gonzalez joined Republicans in voting to criminalize trans health care. The bill passed only 216 to 214. 4 Republicans voted no. If they did too, it would have failed. clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...

one upside of trump insisting on a "presidential address" is it interrupted programming on every major broadcast network. so a whole bunch of normies who only see sanitized versions of him were treated to live video of a rabid fucking hyena behind the presidential seal.

Omg. Ppl keep saying this and need to stop. It’s not its own legal system. It’s an arbitration system that remains subject to SKN law. We have these in lots of places. And it just shows how weak these guys are. They aren’t creating libertarian nations. They’re building HOAs.

“The wounded child lay bleeding, with no one able to reach him due to continuous gunfire. Minutes later, a military bulldozer advanced towards him and deliberately ran him over while he was still alive on the ground, splitting his body in two and tearing it into pieces.”

If you want to know what it was like for Jews to be kidnapped in broad daylight by their governments and that then to become just normal life, now you know.

California judge rules that Tesla engaged in deceptive marketing around Autopilot www.cnbc.com/2025/12/16/c... “.. Tesla Robotaxis are crashing once every 40,000 miles, whereas the average human driver in the US crashes about once every 500,000 miles.” sherwood.news/tech/teslas-...

What would be great is if Dem members in multiple states showed up at multiple ICE facilities at 10 a.m. tomorrow armed with this injunction.

Why do these articles never ask the basic question of "does the president have the power to do that?" because the answer is obviously and clearly no.

things are bad but, at least there will be a day in the future where everyone was always against this

cackling at Drew's take on the Bartesian (also, he's spot-on)

Border Patrol called cops on this man and claimed he was trying to ram them. The man denied it to CPD and in a Tribune interview. He was let go. The livestream video doesn’t show the man attempting to ram anyone on LSD

We need to rapidly increase state capacity and fix what MAGA broke, all while instituting democratic accountability. At the same time, we need to recognize that simply restoring previous accountability mechanisms won't work; their weakness led us here in the first place.

This is so fucking shameful @propublica.org

"People like Susie Wiles are a terrific example of how something as bad as Nazism actually happened." On the pod, @swin24.bsky.social and me on the darker story behind the Wiles mess: People like her know how lawless the Trump project is but are going along anyway: newrepublic.com/article/2045...

This is actual anti-semitism, and whether he knows the origin of “covetous Jew” or not he needs to apologize and put in the work to realize just how harmful something like that stereotype is

Combating the dangerousness of the right by constantly writing about how conservatives are correct and their critics are hysterical.

Surely this is a one time thing right? Ken Houston isnt serially committed to violating the ethical requirements of his position or anyth-- oaklandside.org/2025/11/25/o...

A hedge fund manager can buy you a city council seat, but he cant buy you the ability to conceal your multiple blatant ethics violations! Guess the old saying is true - you can lead a clown to water but you can't make him competent 😔

The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.

Sharp point from @donmoyn.bsky.social in here: Trump's immigration agenda is in no sense efficient management or successful crime fighting. It's massively wasteful, undermines public safety and harms the national interest in addition to being cruel. Read: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/democrats-...

It really is fascinating for people to say "yes, we were immigrants but we believed in America, not like today's immigrants" - based on what? How do they think a 1930s or 1950s Fox News would have portrayed their families?

"I’m telling you reality, all right? In my opinion" is an amazing summary of a worldview here. He says this while defending a rumor he can't support that the Mamdani campaign got foreign money.

I recall that over a decade ago, @barackobama.bsky.social put out a vaguely favorable statement regarding net neutrality, and the Ajit Pai/Brendan Carr folks in the FCC absolutely lost their minds, screaming "WE'RE AN INDEPENDENT AGENCY, HOW DARE HE TRY TO INFLUENCE US."

If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...

Unitary executive theory assumes that the President is not just a King, but has deep knowledge of the working of agencies, or delegates to people who will act consistently with his preferences to the point that they should be allowed to ignore the law. USAID illustrates why this is nonsense.

Heavily underwater in her attempt to become NY governor, Rep. Elise Stefanik is trying to erase her history with the NY Young Republican Club entirely, after they invited both overt racists AND German white supremacists to their annual party. That's sweet. The internet, however, doesn't forget.

Hey look, it's the Trump administration's unqualified former nominee to head the Bureau of Labor Statistics not understanding how employment statistics work again

Find him.

"To see those... those... monkeys from those African countries... Damn them! They're still uncomfortable wearing shoes!" - Ronald Reagan

After ICE did this in Illinois, the Secretary of State revoked the plates, sent a cease and desist to ICE, threatened to suspend rental car licenses for allowing ICE to swap plates and set up a tip hotline to report plate tampering. MN deserves the same action. www.ilsos.gov/news/2025/de...

I wrote about Yglesias “defending liberalism” by joining a right wing moral panic over critical race theory. His vision of liberalism has room for bigots, but no room for scholars concerned about structural racism.

Here's Councilman Houston flipping off the group of 12 speakers who all made a joint statement against Flock. Real mature shit.

a guy I was friends with on facebook for horror stuff posted a Sora AI video he made and I commented "ew" and I just saw he unfriended me and now he's been sadposting about how mean people are being to him for experimenting with it bc it "isn't going away" Everyone keep being mean about AI

This is 100% incorrect as the explanation for why someone obsessed with Roman *military* history is not being hired.

Yep. And I can say from personal experience that several experts within the tech justice space have patiently sat and explained to CCDH why this is a) not true, and b) a position that endangers human rights and each time they have been like "great points, thanks" and then kept pushing the lie

I see this argument made all the time and it's embarrassing for CCDH to keep making it, because it's a lie. Section 230, what they're talking about, does not give anyone a "get out of jail free" card. It simply puts the liability on the party who actually engaged in the violative behavior.

Just decline the peer review invitation. What are you people even doing?

Hegseth repeatedly misled the public about this strike. The boat was headed for Suriname, not the U.S. It wasn't carrying fentanyl. The survivors didn't "radio for backup." This strike was illegal, and Hegseth is trying to cover up what happened by refusing to release video.

Mozilla has a new CEO and he just announced that Firefox will evolve into a modern AI browser. This is a good example of how management doesn’t understand its own user base and why they go out of their way to install Firefox on Windows, Android, iOS and other devices blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/l...

This is a harrowing account of city under siege www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

very grimly ironic that our government run by podcasters sucks at true crime

The funny thing about this is that Vance is literally just a bunch of writhing, hissing ethnic grievances in a trenchcoat, it’s the only sentiment he ever expresses bsky.app/profile/dmsi...

self-driving cars do a couple of things that shouldn't be discounted: - systematizing certain behaviors, ie making it common to crash into hard-to-model users of roads - creating a single stakeholder with overwhelming incentives to reshape laws to shift responsibility onto those users who get hurt

This article quotes Jason Lee Van Dyke, a self-described fascist who I found participated in a Patriot Front private chat room, to say he is not a member of Patriot Front and to defend Patriot Front's reputation. The article does not mention his fascist beliefs or his participation in the chat room.

I am losing my mind DO ANY OF THESE JOURNALISTS KNOW THAT VENEZUELA IS NOT ON THE PACIFIC THAT THE CARIBBEAN SEA DOES NOT TOUCH THE PACIFIC THAT IN FACT THIS IS WHAT THE PANAMA CANAL WAS BUILT FOR WTF IS THE EASTERN PACIFIC PLEASE LOOK AT A MAP