This is a problem. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Irony only works if the person you’re being ironic with is on a similar power level . Other wise it’s just a power flex The entire tech/ arts space even my beloved massive attack keeps missing this It just feels exclusionary and cruel

You'd think a nearly $2000 "article processing charge" would help prevent a manuscript from being "lost," but here we are....

Not sure what’s worse about @schumer.senate.gov: The brainlessness or the spinelessness

Our three leading news organizations are wall-to-wall on the Charlie Kirk memorial service _instead_ of any of the stories that SHOULD end a presidency. One of them is an impeachable offense!. Their print editions do have these storie on the front page, but more people read web.

The president ordering the murder of 3 more human beings on a boat didn’t even make the list

We haven’t seen the text of this yet, but to be clear, the president has literally zero legal authority to impose a $100,000 fee on visas. None. Zip. Zilch. The only authority Congress has ever given the executive branch here is to charge fees to recover the cost of processing the application.

Matthew 25:35-40 (revised version): “For I was hungry, and you cut off funding to feed me, and then decided not to even study how many people are hungry you greedy, miserable bastards.”

FBI has been steadily diverting resources away from domestic terrorism investigations, decimating specialized units & discontinuing tools used to track extremism. the admin also gutted millions in federal terrorism-prevention grants. it's effectively abandoned the fight against homegrown violence.

My conversation with @amorrow.bsky.social: There may still be liberals in media, but the American media industry is now controlled by the right. The trope of ‘liberal media’ is finally dead. www.cnn.com/2025/09/20/b...

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

When you see stories about how the northern border is to be militarized like the southern border, see it for what it really is: mass surveillance for millions who live nearby, attempts to geographical curb civil rights, and BILLIONS of dollars in contracts for right-wing surveillance tech CEOs.

I wrote about what the desperate attempt to find a trans connection to the Charlie Kirk assassination tells us about the deep psychological impulses at work in Trumpism. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/o...

A judge just struck the complaint in Trump's suit against the Times because, and I am not exaggerating at all here, it was so shittily written

I know everyone is focused on the demo failures during Zuckerberg's Connect 2025 keynote this week, but his best line was "There is no eight-bit Eiffel Tower here" when describing the Hyperscape updates.

On this week’s Optimizer, I talk about how accessibility is the strongest use case for smart glasses — and that we need to keep this aspect in mind as we debate the extremely valid concerns people have about privacy in this category. www.theverge.com/column/78177...

We are so screwed. Kennedy’s Advisory Panel Votes to Limit M.M.R.V. Vaccine for Children Under 4 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/h...

The Third Reich didn't last 1,000 years. Pinochet was ousted with a referendum. And the US isn't exactly dealing with the smartest, most competent fascists. Those of you insisting that 2025 is forever need to read a book, touch grass, go to therapy, anything other than trying to make others quit.

Btw very important to say that the FCC has not at all said what Kimmel said that was so objectionable! This is classic chilling effect - there are no rules so everyone stops talking www.theverge.com/news/780471/...

By the head of the Federal Communications Commission, in 2022:

Have to admit I would never have predicted that the era of state media censorship would officially begin with the firing of a late night talk show host who made some milquetoast comments about Charlie Kirk

We posted this at 9am today

Hard to think of a more on-the-nose encapsulation of how far the online speech wars have swung in the year of our lord 2025 than major U.S. corporations racing to fire people whose tweets offended Milo Yiannopoulos

From April: The FCC has been converted from a media and telecom watchdog into a bizarre, rights-trampling grievance machine built for one purpose: to coddle and protect the ego of President Donald J. Trump. Read more from @karlbode.com: www.theverge.com/tech/656653/...

Carr's views as of October 2024:

HHS: “It’s like we don’t even understand our own mandate, we’re run by morons, and we’re picking the wrong fights.” FCC: “Hold my beer.” 🍺

👇🎯 Folks look at you like you’re crazy when you say we’re in the midst of the worst Article I constitutional crisis in 🇺🇸 history, & then, well, 👇🤷‍♂️

“what of the writers, the thinkers, and the pundits who cannot separate the great crime of Kirk’s death from the malignancy of his public life? Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize?” - Ta-Nehisi Coates archive.ph/2025.09.16-2...

One of these rich dudes invested in a food company with all proceeds going to kids in need. The other started Sundance Institute, boosting the lives of countless artists. Hey modern rich dudes, don't be a typical greedy AI crypto-prick, be like these two.

You know the brand is strong when even the gotdamn SpaceX coke bricks managed to blow up and crash

New Tyler Robinson posts leaked to me tell a very different story than you've heard before: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

Meta created its own super PAC to politically kneecap its AI rivals

Hold on, these are the "we don't have to bake your gay wedding cake" people?

from my latest: "The trans-shooter myth largely began circulating in 2023 around the Nashville shooting, 'as the right began rolling back LGBTQ rights in earnest'... Two years later, and just a decade after the so-called trans tipping point, anti-trans harassment and violence is all the rage."

My graduate training was rooted in philosophical and critical-interpretive methods, which made it challenging to articulate a “methodology” when I first went on the job market. Over time, I figured it out. 1/3

All y’all thought Biden was too old and replaces him a despot who can’t remember anything.

Yet another example of journalistic malpractice, reporting Cox's framing of "leftist ideology" as fact. thehill.com/homenews/sta...

This you? Just two hours later?

So Brian Kilmeade gets to keep his job after suggesting “involuntary lethal injection” of the unhoused or mentally ill, but others are getting fired for saying Charlie Kirk was a bad person? I’d say it’s a double standard, but we don’t actually hold the right to any standard at all.

Ridiculously vague headline and reporting, feeding the irrational anti-liberal backlash. If early indications are correct, his critique was that Kirk wasn't far-right enough. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

The WSJ carelessly spread anti-trans misinformation www.theverge.com/politics/777...

Listen to @drewharwell.com — all we know right now is this was a fucked up young man from a conservative Mormon family who likes guns a lot and seemed to be extremely online and therefore attracted to some heinous stuff.

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Just a few short hours ago, the right in the USA were ready to take violent revenge against all and any on the left... until we found out that the killer was a white, Christian, Utah resident who certainly wasn't any kind of leftist. Suddenly, he's just a "lost individual" who we should pray for!