America: where you can sell a random “wellness” drink at CVS, claim it “may” somehow “reinforce” your immune system, and literally call it “The Flu Shot.”

btw continuing to read One Piece and reached chapter 600 today! Still really enjoying it, it's a lot of fun.

My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

NEW: Abigail Spanberger this afternoon ordered that all state agencies leave ICE's 287(g) program. This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE. Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.

NEW: since last year, a pair of "highly trained" feds have been involved in an array of incidents attacking crowds with chemical weapons. We used public records and open source analysis to identify Edgar Vazquez and Michael Sveum, alongside some other members of their tactical team. Read more:

Find you a newspaper that loves reporting as much as The New York Times loves lionizing fascist propagandists and terrorists.

They do this because they can aftermath.site/washington-pos...

The Washington Post lays off a third of its workforce, is dead:

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

Journalism is a great industry to go into if you want to become speedrun becoming a Marxist.

“Bezos has so far remained silent throughout the process.” What a disgraceful coward

ICE has been holding a disabled double amputee named Rodney Taylor in a camp for a year. He’s been in the US since he was two years old. It’s all he knows. When they detained him, they denied him access to new prosthetic legs. His health is declining.

Solidarity with the staff at WaPo this morning. I've been working in advocacy media relations for nearly a decade and have watched as countless journalists of the highest integrity are treated at best like cattle and at worst like pests in the homes of their billionaire employers.

Good that theyre backtracking but at the same time this whole fiasco is a great example of why its probably best to start working your way out of the adobe ecosystem sooner rather than later

they are breaking and we can break them

NYT, once again, humanizing the worst people on this planet. Never learned from the Tony Hovater incident. The time spent on this article could have been spent featuring the people who actually care about their communities instead of people intent on destroying them for clicks and clout.

jeffrey epstein's apparent association with the likes of bobby kotick, steve bannon, and peter thiel – and his fascination with game design as a means of controlling others – paint an unsettling picture

Biden elevated this deranged, disinfo-spreading bigot to the role of Special Envoy on Combatting Antisemitism. We did it Joe!

uBlock might be the single most useful thing in modern internet.

🤔 It’s definitely not suspicious at all to have people point out your common Twitter sign off is in the Epstein files and ten completely delete your yacht’s logs right?

An administration filled with sieg-heiling Nazis continues to lie about Jews in order to plunder and destroy higher education in the US:

exactly. this is not difficult. as.ft.com/r/58ed1b23-d...

in a month, it won't be possible to purchase or download the software that opens thousands of beastieball's most valuable, labored project files. 😅 i was going to make a joke but all i can think is "why"? a generation of artists grew up with flash... what a profound waste...

The photos from a UN fact finding mission to northern Gaza which were part of a diplomatic cable suppressed by the US Ambassador to Israel, Jack Lew, have been released by Drop Site News. These are the genocidal conditions in Gaza that Lew specifically tried to hide from the White House and public.

i met this guy on Saturday. he was engaged in the devious business of walking a kid who'd just been maced back to his apartment and washing out their eyes.

Haiti’s TPS continues for now!!!!! And zowie: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.283214/gov.uscourts.dcd.283214.124.0_1.pdf

neil gaiman is straight up giving pathetic. if all the stuff about you is a fake news conspiracy why was i receiving warnings about you in private from other people in books years ago? hm? seems like a weird thing for people interested in clicks to do!

The rampant sexual violence, the rape apologia in response to MeToo, and the fostering of misogynistic hatred under the guise of "populism" are all part and parcel with the Epstein Class's fear of democracy. It's an abhorrence for the very notion of consent, be it of the raped or the governed

i guess my cartoon cartoons short came out! i finished it in 2021 when i was still very new to blender...but i still like it! youtu.be/WAnzOHcOl_g?...

fun fact the military didn't look into this at all when they were studying tear gas back in the 1960s but in addition to stuff like irregular periods, there's evidence tear gas exposure can be linked to miscarriage more than enough data to suggest caution share.google/SoozTodiv791...

Also, @ziibiing.com has updated the standwithminnesota.com site to facilitate donating your unused Delta Skymiles to bringing people home after they’ve been kidnapped and dumped out of state

If you ever wonder why I often say Western analysis of China is misleading, it's because a lot of China experts (even the liberal ones) are primarily motivated by ideas of Western superiority to the point they end up projecting This is the first time this leading China expert has mentioned Epstein

House Democrats must vote ‘no’ on DHS funding tomorrow. Our country is in the middle of a five alarm fire, and we must act like it. While ICE agents are killing Americans in the street and using five year old children as bait, we should not give that agency another dime.

people say these guys want feudalism, but even that gives them too much credit, because kings and queens and lords in feudalism had substantial obligations to the peasants, and worried about being disemboweled by the mob if they shirked those obligations for too long

This most recent Onion is my favorite one yet and, despite a million newsier things (Pedotopia, JK Rowling breaking out of an insane asylum), this is my favorite headline in it.

redacting the perpetrators and doxxing the victims

The thing where ICE parks masked men in school lots is something I would not have believed unless I saw it with my own two eyes. They do it constantly. It’s purely a terror tactic and they’ve done it to schools over the region. Our schools are collapsing - often at 50% attendance or less.

i hope everyone's staying warm! here's the piece i made for my print mailing club this month, which you can now find in my shop! ko-fi.com/s/745d0d2ae3

Anyway, it is Groundhog Day, so please enjoy an apple

read theory (specifically, @bretdevereaux.bsky.social 's series "The Queen's Latin")

Of course the worst people in the world influence paleontology (and many other sciences). Do you know how many fossil halls are named after the Koch brothers? With museums shrugging “Well where else are we going to get the money?”

ICE was stealing equipment from the Islip Long Island fire department and a Islip Forward member documented it. ICE tried to arrest the community member but the firemen said “I don’t think so” www.islipforward.org

Ancient history is fascinating, but modern history is important, too. A good chunk of the scientists who shaped our modern institutions were racist as hell and based their racism on what they thought was science but was actually their own biases tainting their “evidence.”

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

For my followers who are not in Minneapolis, this is a very accurate portrait of what daily life is like, right now.

The 3 minute barrier has finally been broken 🎆

Kitty. :)

the funny thing about this redaction is that you can google the title of this talk and the first hit is the guy who gave it