I hate AI with a fiery passion and I resent all these companies attempting to push it down our throats. But you have to admire on some level their ability to create products that literally no one wants. It’s an incredible commitment to failure.

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It may not be as personality-driven as the hot stories, but I think people should read this article about the "conversion therapy" case. The right is recasting child abuse as autonomous kids making their own choices. It's vile. It's victim-blaming. www.salon.com/2025/10/08/s...

Donald Trump is calling for the jailing of his political opponents in Chicago. His DOJ lackeys have already indicted a NJ Congresswoman for conducting ICE facility oversight and James Comey. John Bolton's house was raided. We must treat these latest threats seriously and all stand up against them.

October 7, 2025

I refuse to let hopelessness prevail. This may just be one essay, by a lawyer few have heard of, in a newsletter read by a fraction of the public. But I will not stay silent. Will you? www.democracydocket.com/opinion/i-re...

Grijalva: The frustration for me is that it seems as if Speaker Johnson is not willing to swear me in because our politics are a little different, or because I’m going to be the 218th signer—he can just continue to drag this along with no end in sight. That is not a foundation of our democracy.

The subhed here is a master class in corporate journalism rewarding malfeasance via semantics Bondi didn't valiantly fend something off, she refused to answer legitimate questions before Congress because the answers would be horrifying and politically inconvenient And that's a profile in cowardice

Phang: How are these Epstein victims supposed to feel about closure when you see Blanche meeting with Maxwell and then giving her a minimum-security camp move? And now, conversations allegedly that Trump is going to have with the DOJ about pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell. It is an abomination

With apologies, because it’s scary, because it really is scary: latest in my project of messing with stills from ICE vids. Stylizing them to sharpen the focus on the aesthetic project of fascist terror. Chicago today, aiming at a protester named Jess, for documenting him.

The reason this therapy is used on kids is because it's often abusive, coercive, manipulative and dangerous—no kid would choose it if they had adult faculties, making Justices' claims that the therapy is "voluntary" profoundly misleading. And the idea that therapy has no medical component is insane.

Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back https://theonion.com/health-experts-recommend-standing-up-at-desk-leaving-o-1819577456/

IN HONOR OF FRIENDSHIP MONTH: djt: "We have certain things in common, Jeffrey." Epstein: "Yes we do, come to think of it." djt: "A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy Birthday- and may every day be another wonderful secret." And by "wonderful secret", he means raping children. #PedoPrez

Jack Smith didn't "tap" anyone's phone. He got phone records of potential insurrection suspects via lawful grand jury subpoenas. Just so happens some of those suspected of participating in January 6th were republican members of congress. If you don't want you phone records subpoenaed...

Gallego: If you’re a Republican in a swing district, why are you falling on this sword for a guy who’s checked out and probably needs to be put into some kind of treatment program for whatever dementia he has? Or for Johnson—who comes from one of the safest districts and is covering for pedophiles?

Pam Bondi wasn't going to answer any questions today. We all knew that in advance. People can watch the hearing if they want to, but the idea that this is an Attorney General testifying before Congress is laughable. This is just a Trump personal lawyer putting on a performance for her client on TV.

wild @MarshaBlackburn & Hagerty are making a big deal of this. calls from WH/Giuliani to Senators after 1/6 to halt certification is described in the Trump indictment By all means let’s see every doc/grand jury testimony mentioning them to confirm if phone records were relevant!

So the American taxpayer eats it twice, once on tariffs and again on a second farm bailout. I’m glad farmers are getting help, no one should lose their farm, but it’s remarkable how fast “socialism” stops being a dirty word when the checks clear in red counties.

PBS: “2/3rds of 🇮🇱 says it’s time for the war to end… more and more IDF reservists are refusing using to show up, saying it’s a death sentence for the hostages…”

October 5, 2025

It seems clear—I think to everyone, now—that a false and illegal invocation of the Insurrection Act is coming before the end of the year. Media outlets should be telling us how they will prepare for this potential Treason. State governments should be telling us. Activists should be developing plans.

Good piece here by Clara, and obviously I’ve been banging this drum for a while now, but unfortunately we’re at the point where we have to have these kinds of discussions. I want California (and other states) to be part of the Union, but I won’t allow us to be whipping boys for a tyrant.

This, to me, is so telling. When proven wrong, Bari Weiss invites her critic on a podcast. The rotten fruit of the "debate" tree, the fetishization of debate as a conversation in which one "wins" or "loses," "owns" or is "owned." A side-effect of capitalism's anti-intellectual higher ed arms race.

Mike Johnson says “Republicans are the ones who care about healthcare.” Meanwhile, 40% of his Louisiana district relies on Medicaid and he helped pass the OBBB, which made major cuts to it. Republicans don’t care about healthcare, they care about empty talking points.

Start with yourself. Be kind, be generous, be giving and most of all be patient.

We are one people living on one magical, mystical, miraculous planet. We are cosmic travelers spinning around an atomic fireball through the void of infinity. We must work together for the benefit of humanity, the environment, and all life on Earth. This shouldn’t be that hard to understand.

As a Georgia voter would absolutely love to see her run and lose her seat in congress.

Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."

Today would be a great day for slimy Mike Johnson to finally swear in Adelita Grijalva so her district can have representation in Congress for the first time in 7 months. All this just so Pedo Protector Mike can hide the Epstein files from the American public.

It’s been a chaotic, lawless weekend in America — caused by Trump’s goons. Authoritarians love to generate instability to justify further crackdowns.

More messaging like this please

Princeton For All! www.tapinto.net/towns/prince...

It’s just after 1 a.m. The South Shore neighborhood is swallowed by darkness, sprinkled with the faint hum of distant traffic and the occasional siren in the far distance.

Republicans like to claim they aren't actually cutting Medicaid. Which is an easily disproven lie.

After 45 years of supplying free cattle feed from distillery leftovers, Jack Daniel’s is cutting the program and livestock farmers in TN fear for their livelihoods. JD is partnering with an energy company instead who will pay for the runoff. Who can afford generosity anymore?

"State Terror: A brief guide for Americans" Revisiting a piece I wrote in April 2025 "In the history of state terror, the escape from law into coercion takes three forms... the leader principle; the state of exception; and the zone of statelessness." snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

Medicare for All is a fundamental human right. Full stop.

Weird Relative At Family Reunion Knows How Everyone Related To Each Other https://theonion.com/weird-relative-at-family-reunion-knows-how-everyone-rel-1819579336/

Can't stop. Won't stop. RELEASE ALL THE EPSTEIN FILES.

“Our opsec is clean”

October 3, 2025 heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-3-...

$200k to hang out with dogs. amazing IG gabriel.desanti, barkandburn

A 9-year-old describes how her class had to say a painful goodbye to a classmate who wasn't returning after his dad was deported

Meiselas: Another critical reason MAGA Mike is telling Republicans that the House is officially closed is because he’s trying to avoid swearing in Democratic Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva.. She would be the 218th signature on the Epstein discharge petition.

The House has chosen not to work and is withholding the swearing-in of newly elected Democrat Adelita Grijalva. She still hasn’t been seated, and it definitely feels intentional since her signature would provide the last vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files.

For our entire lives the state has been slowly conditioning us to accept dehumanization and unrestrained violence. It's the carceral state. Intentional scarcity and poverty. The exploitation of people around the world and within our borders. Designations of "criminal" and "terrorist."