If you want to read voices of young artists in Iran, please support the comics anthology "Young in Iran" published with @comicsworkshop.bsky.social It's 264 pages, 6x9 inches, and was censored by Kickstarter. Take a look: www.sequentialartistsworkshop.org/saw-shop/p/y...

every time one of these markets dissembles and parses and weasels their way out of paying people on a technicality my heart grows three sizes like the grinch. i love to watch these people get scammed on crypto and nfts and gambling. they deserve it and it's funny and it's not my problem at all

Incredible. Kalshi is not paying out "Khamenei out of power by [date]" contracts because he died.

"American innovation" now refers to making a kind of atrocity cronut by combining insider trading with war crimes.

Once again.

Sup chat this is Slouching Towards Bethlehem with your boy The Rough Beast, and it looks like today’s stream could be a big one, as some of you might’ve already seen there are rumors going around social media that the hour has come round at last, so we’re gonna get right into it

The only thing I want to hear from Chuck Schumer, by the way, is that he is preparing his caucus to process the articles of impeachment when they come from the House. Nothing else matters.

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

I can’t recall another politician ever expressing this direct of a sentiment before. (depressing! it’s so simple!) it’s difficult to explain how it feels to wake up and find your country is bombing the place your family grew up. again

“How many of these gentle people have I helped to kill just by paying my taxes?" June Jordan, 1984

You can understand the Iranian regime is oppressive and murderous and also understand that this war of aggression against it is illegal and immoral and that those who will suffer the most from it are the people of Iran.

if the media had any integrity — and it doesn’t anymore — they’d be pointing out on a loop that Obama made a deal with Iran, Trump cancelled it because Obama is Black, and then Trump started a war on the pretense there is no deal

Radiohead is demanding that the Trump administration take down a pro-ICE promotional video featuring a version of its song “Let Down” without permission. Full statement from the band:

Trump: We ended DEI JPMorgan Chase: No, you didn’t.

"As someone who grew up in a home with domestic abuse, I passed a welfare reform bill with the explicit purpose of destabilizing single mothers to force them to enter into marriage for basic survival." Walk into the ocean, motherfucker.

Claudine Gay was punished and lost her job for incomplete citations in her PhD dissertation.

"Just like the Forever Wars, this fiasco is also birthing its own captive constituencies... from contractors supplying it to MAGA-adjacent young (and not so young) men signing up for ICE, which Ganz describes as 'an employment program for the Trumpenproletarian mob." newrepublic.com/article/2069...

Every anti-vaxxer I encounter seems to love weird unregulated supplements. They hate Big Pharma but they love Little Pharma, Big Pharma’s younger sibling who grew up without any adult supervision.

BREAKING: We're suing Kansas for a law that invalidates transgender people's updated driver's licenses and authorizes anyone to sue anyone they suspect of being trans for using the "wrong" bathroom.

I think we need to take a step back and acknowledge the absurdity of House Republicans targeting their Epstein investigation on HILLARY CLINTON (who says she never met him!) while ignoring DONALD TRUMP (who Epstein described as his best friend!) These are not serious people or good faith actors.

Breaking news: A federal judge found that the IRS violated federal law “approximately 42,695 times” when it shared confidential taxpayer addresses with immigration enforcement officials last summer.

If your school or university canceled DEI programming as a result of the Dear Colleague letter last year, let them know there is no legal standing, and ask them when and how the canceled DEI programming will be reinstated.

Dilley is run by CoreCivic which is making enormous profits by helping the government round people up and deny their rights. And taking crayons away from children. www.corecivic.com

A nationwide book ban bill has been introduced in the House of Representatives. Here's what you need to know about HR7661, including who is behind it, the history behind such bills, and what you need to do to stop it. bookriot.com/hr7661-book-...

This is so dangerous. When people ACTUALLY need to enter due to emergencies, ploys like this make people less likely to cooperate.

If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. tcpipeline.org

JUST IN: Judge Murphy has ruled that the Trump administration's policy of sending deported immigrants to third countries without notice or a chance to challenge is illegal and unconstitutional. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

No yelling, but the point she's making is devastating. This person should not be confirmed.

Every major publication is reporting that the DOJ has spent over a year suppressing files that accuse the sitting president of the assault of a child take a moment and let that sink in

Why wait? Remove him now. Geez @harvard.edu really?

The thought lodged in my head — intrusively, as I’d rather not connect the names of these two people, frankly — is that Claudine Gay is owed _such_ an apology.

It’s both funny and cosmically correct that the U.S. men’s hockey chodes will have to sit through 2+ hours of rambling from their addled little king while the U.S. Women’s team gets to skip the speech and party with Flavor Flav in Vegas

This.

Any remotely real oversight ain’t going to go well for them www.ms.now/news/senator...

I think about this tweet every time I feel something online start to curl its annoying little grip into my head

NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.

I'm shocked that a man who hired a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law and then sent a recording of the encounter to his sister is not a good ambassador. www.france24.com/en/france/20...

Guinea-Bissau "terminated a contentious hepatitis B vaccine trial bankrolled by the Trump administration following a sharp ethical rebuke from the WHO, which warned the study risked causing irreversible harm to newborns" "It's not going to happen, period," said Foreign Minister Joao Bernardo Vieira

Nothing about this makes any sense unless you follow the money. They’re building for profit camps that’ll benefit Trump’s wealthy friends. It’s a pay to play resulting in no bid contracts to groups like CoreCivic and GEO. Check out their 2025 revenue. They donated millions to Trump’s campaign.

Normally a news outlet omitting the context of a person being quoted, in this case a torture fetishist who ties a belt around his neck while streaming abu ghraib dark web security footage on a jailbroken zune, would be an indicator of bad-faith media plants rewriting history. Here it is that exactly

Just curious how you keep a job as a law prof at a top school after a report concluded that you committed “intentional professional misconduct” by “knowingly fail[ing] to provide a thorough, objective, and candid interpretation of the law,” directly causing torture as a result.

One reason that we are where we are is that John Yoo is arguing his point from a cushy job in Berkeley and not a prison cell.

Some PBS News booker is resurrecting Yoo - but why? So he can update his infamous memo to now allow torture of Americans in America?

It’s really such a low bar when you think about it: Don’t hire lawyer who helped write opinion that torture’s cool or whatnot - really how hard can that be?

This is just what happens when you don’t ship your war criminals to The Hague so they can be permanently fixed

Shame on @pbsnews.org for treating this guy, who wrote the memo saying it was OK to torture prisoners of war, with any sort of legitimacy at all. He should be rotting in obscurity.

I just can't get past the brazenness of this Orwellian shit. I can't believe he just got right up there and said this and didn't immediately die of shame