Got the stones to read this finally. Unsurprisingly, crypto plays a huge role in keeping the rape economy alive and thriving

Is “seeks to overthrow the Constitution due to deep philosophical objection to the idea of ‘We the People’” a good trait in a defense contractor? The sort the government should pay billions of dollars to and integrate into sensitive systems? Because that doesn’t seem like the most reliable partner.

Head of federal law enforcement stages authoritarian crackdown on political enemies in attempt to appease Trump because he's afraid the journalistic exposé of his uncontrolled alcoholism is putting his job in jeopardy

WATCH: Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.

“Between January 2025 and February 2026, STEM and health employees at science-focused agencies saw nearly 15,000 jobs cut. The rate outpaced cuts among other federal workers.” OPM data - Figure from Wash Post article 19 April. (Where US science has been hit hardest.) NSF at -42%!

New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally. It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

While the ultra-rich get even richer, families are getting squeezed by a rigged economy. It's time for the government to stop listening to the richest of the rich and start working for working people.

Next week: a fascinating talk by Prof. Aidan O'Sullivan & Dr. Brendan O'Neill, who will talk on how people in early medieval Ireland, AD 400-1100, made, used & discarded things. This FREE online event will take place on Mon 27 April at 1930. Make sure to reserve your spot here:

Happy 80th birthday to Tim Curry who has always, *always* understood the assignment.

I wrote a whole book about AI but I agree with this completely — and also the implication that there are countless other areas of research more important than AI.

Pope Leo on AI: “Within digital environments — structured to persuade — interaction is optimized to the point of rendering a real encounter superfluous; the otherness of persons in the flesh is neutralized, and relationships are reduced to functional responses.” This short thread is worth reading:

We already KNOW how to make super babies, you eugenicist creeps! And it's all the things you fucking fucks are fucking up! THREAD!

A VCR never sold my private info to a nazi

Pretty frustrating that the New York Times is crediting AP with uncovering the existence of Aadam’s archive when I reported on it 15 months prior. chicagoreader.com/music/gossip...

Oh the many realignments that have happened in my life, the truism that “people’s beliefs don’t shape their politics, their politics shape their beliefs” is maybe the most salient

NASA and Mamdani are proving that Americans are desperate to see their money spent in ways they feel good about. This, however, is not the same thing as simply spending the money on things we would feel good about but never know happened. People need to be able to see it.

These are going to come for the left too. They financially motivated — Macedonian teenager type stuff for the AI era. Scammers profiting off of easily enraged people. MAGA may be more susceptible to ragebait but worth understanding what’s going to happen in 2026 and 2028.

We have an apparent cure for most people with pancreatic cancer—a profoundly swift, deadly cancer—and the position of the U.S. government is that it should be banned. This is real fall-of-empire stuff.

In the second season of Beef on Netflix, Oscar Isaac's character references "Buy, Borrow, Die" — a tax-avoidance method used by the ultra-rich. As part of @propublica.org's Secret IRS Files series, we put together this animation back in 2021 to explain how it works:

That he was re-elected despite all the evidence that the corruption would be worse also shows we can’t rely on the voters to decide. Corruption must be met with prosecution.

Hahahahahahahaha Oh my! Is this an opening para or is this an opening paragraph? This alone should end any normal human cabinet secretary.

Unfortunately this is what the federal government used to be all about too before they stocked it with frauds and monsters, the idea that you were in a role with all its ethics rules and responsibilities

It's not longing for inconvenience, it's wanting to restore agency: newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s21e...

Kevin Warsh is refusing to disclose more than $100 million of his assets. Totally unprecedented. Warsh needs to release this information now. What is he hiding?

Right out in the open, Donald Trump is suing his own IRS to try to steal $10 BILLION taxpayer dollars. I just introduced a bill that would make this theft ILLEGAL.

It will never stop pissing me off how much trump is going to walk away from this presidency as a “real” billionaire in a way he never was before, and it is going to be solely because of the public office

First, he tweeted "RIP CFPB," the agency responsible for policing consumer financial products. Then he announced X Money, which is part of his plan to turn X into "the biggest financial institution in the world.”

Loving my hybrid. Didn’t like full electric for having to stop and charge on long trips.

i simply find it a little hard to believe that shortly after every website implemented ai code and fired a bunch of engineers they all started breaking constantly every single day but its not related to the ai code or the skeleton crew

Not only did the sons probably call ICE on her, the day after her husband died they took their dad's cars, leaving her housebound. Then they rerouted mail, causing her to miss a visa appointment & the utilities to be turned off. Tony and Gary Ross are going to hell. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/u...

Clarence Thomas ruled in favor of Citizens United. Harlan Crow's political contributions then went up 862%. Then we later find out Thomas let Crow take him on lavish trips, buy his mom's house, and help fund his wife's conservative nonprofit. But go on about how "progressivism" is a problem...

no one will ever throw people under the bus like this guy, the best ever to do it

I think it is preferable to have politicians who have, at some point in their lives, lived like a normal person

Really fascinating post from @charmainechua.bsky.social on the history of the warehouse, and what that means as ICE tries to turn warehouses into concentration camps.

All of these dudes need to be disbarred. I am convinced it’s the soft white underbelly of the white nationalism movement,

The 2019 ProPublica TurboTax investigation never gets old

That'll show em.

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces. Equals 10 nuclear reactors Reduces heat island, shades cars The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight. Why aren't we doing this?

ConservatIves used to call these kids sinners. And they’d punish them for being pregnant young. Surreal how they change once racist eugenics are what is valued.

I know elections are expensive, but we'd be better off as a society if less money went toward elections and more went toward any number of other things.

At Pentagon worship service today, Pete Hegseth again read a violent prayer to bless the Iran war. But this time his prayer was apparently borrowed from 'Pulp Fiction.' I promise I'm not writing for @theonion.com now: publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/hegseth-bo...

Just a reminder that JD Vance has been a Catholic for less time than Nacho Fries have been on the Taco Bell menu.

Devastated to hear the entire Marvel Studios’s Visual Development team has been let go. This was my old home but more importantly, the home of so many incredible artists and peers. Absolutely heartbreaking 😔 Sending all my impacted peers my love and support. Please reach out if you need anything!

It amazes me how joyless and fearful the fascist worldview is.

This show is really good so far. The animation style with the painted overlay is probably my favorite of all the animated Star Wars shows.

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and yet there are folks that are going to continue to swear up and down that this is their only choice for a newsletter platform

Oh shit. Substack are the Kik guys? Holy shit. We're talking Roblox level predatory shit on that app. Oh my goodness that's nutso. They're bad people fr

Now Oracle's AI play begins to make sense