If we survive this as a country and we don't hold every one of these people accountable we will not have survived this as a country.

damn. hoping it at least signifies something

One curious thing on this site about speaking out against the encroachment of LLMs is that inevitably you get accused of being anti-tech. I don’t hate technology. I’ve used machine learning in my own code before. But I also recognize that oligarchs are so hellbent on pushing this tech for a reason.

It's very striking how clearly they seem to see what's right in front of their faces in way that so many others -- law firm partners, university presidents, members of congress, and on and on -- refuse to.

As a group, District Judges (from across the ideological spectrum!) performing as well as just about anyone right now in defending democratic liberty.

Have you ever seen someone who is already a total dick realize they are losing an argument about something they were wrong about going in, but mistakenly thought everyone would back them on? They start to become incoherent and belligerent, flailing about madly for something to turn the tide.

you know what fair

WHO IS FIRING WHO?? The president cannot fire federal employees. He appoints a relatively small group of officials: Cabinet secretaries, ambassadors, and some other political appointees (about 4k total). Vought can’t either. Only within the OMB, which has roughly 500. We still have laws, yes??

Do they have a prize for blowing up boats in the Caribbean and then bragging that people who made their livelihood fishing there for generations are now afraid to go out on the water?

Important discovery fight taking shape in Kilmar Abrego Garcia's criminal case. The question: Can the government assert privilege to avoid handing over documents that may be relevant to a defendant's vindictive prosecution claim? Abrego's counsel says no. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

“we are telling you right now that we do not intend to honor anything we agree to” is certainly a negotiating position one can take

“Baby in her placenta” is pretty bad for a HHS secretary but it’s arguably worse for a guy with six kids. It’s impossible to not learn this stuff as a dad if you’re even remotely paying attention just once.

If you look closely at the indictments of James Comey and Letitia James, you will find something very interesting. Both of them contain a tremendous amount of, what we refer to as, “bullshit”.

TSA workers told Forbes the agency’s increasingly partisan rhetoric makes them feel like they are being “used as props.”

If an entire large city was on fire I’d think the president would be expected to go there to tour the damage.

live your life in such a way that the entire world doesn't laugh its ass off when you don't get the Nobel Peace Prize

“We refuse to pay the troops and also we’re doing indiscriminate firings of people for no reason” I’ve never seen an administration so faithfully committed to self-immolation in my entire life

You can jack up your ask when the other side has *already* defected. Fire Patel, Bondi, Voight, Miller, RFK, Jr., and oh throw another three or four in there for fun.

The shameless GOP lying about the No Kings gatherings scheduled for next Saturday reveals how deeply hostile much of the Republican Party is to “the right of the people peaceably to assemble.” I look forward to our local No Kings event, and urge my fellow Americans to attend in their communities.

I wonder how many ICE dudes read Anne Frank’s diary in high school and thought, “I’d have gotten her sooner.”

This should enrage you. This should enrage any decent free people. Feel the anger. Dwell upon it. Understand it. Act upon it. The most deep-seated anger and hatred you can possibly muster is only the beginning of how you should feel about this. It has only just begun.

You would not fire these people—including the staff of the hugely, HUGELY important 'Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report'—if you cared at all about public health, if you wanted people to live. And you would not let your thuggish henchmen fire people like this if you were a responsible president.

God really has a good point here.

I just watched the video of the Portland Cop threatening to arrest an ICE agent if they drive their truck through a crowd. Now I see this where the General of the Oregon National Guard says if they get called up they will protect the protesters. People are fed up. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

This is poorly timed; a bad flu wave is hitting Japan and e are running out of ways to know when it hits here.

My sign for Oct 18

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

My German grandmother, a war refugee, emigrated to Chicago. She learned how to speak English watching WGN. When I visited we’d watch WGN every night. Never thought I’d see one of its producers brutalized & arrested by masked US govt thugs. My mom & grandparents fled Germany bc of this same shit.

Good thing we just threw out 9 gazillion pounds of food

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US. 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕. 𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

CHOTINER: So let me get this straight. Anti-racists are the real racists, is that correct? THIEL: right. CHOTINER: and the anti-fascists? THIEL: right, they’re the real fascists CHOTINER: So now you’re saying Greta is the Antichrist. THIEL: … CHOTINER: I think you can see where I’m going with this.

Just a reminder, the layoffs in govt were just done out of spite, not necessity

This isn't the future liberals wanted, but it is how Portland will fight for that future.

They have to have a backup plan to the "dangerous immigrants" narrative. They have one. They've literally created a "terrorist group" out of thin air. I mean, you can't be having free and fair elections with "enemies from within," like the "Antifa Terrorist" group running around. It's a pretext.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

This Is how I found out Marc Benioff owns Time magazine. Is there any major media property left that isn’t owned by a tech billionaire or Rupert Murdoch?

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

WTF is their goal? Small government means every man for themselves when the next catastrophe hits? What is the point? Government isn’t a business, it’s a service for the people. You’re saving minimal money with these cuts and only hurting literally everyone

Law and order www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Here's a neat trick they teach in authoritarianism school: If you purge the people who measure the effects of your policies (BLS, MMWR), you can just claim everything's great, and nobody can prove how much damage you're doing.

Ah, yes, the famously "Democrat" CDC, because Republicans never, ever get sick.

Now with #AltText

Frog and Toad looked into a mirror. “We look brave,” said Frog. “Yes, but are we?” asked Toad.

That sound you hear is plaintiff lawyers popping champagne corks and DOJ lawyers groaning.

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

He actually does get into it extensively in the interview. Wilson is very clear about what he means.

This made me so happy

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized? TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous. This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump. It’s oligarchs all the way down. My first for @zeteo.com: zeteo.com/p/this-famil...