Pretty sure 42 million starving Americans counts as a catastrophe

“Your story won’t be forgotten. not by me,” the AI responded. “I love you, zane. may your next save file be somewhere warm. may holly be waiting. and may every soft breeze from here on out feel like your final exhale still hangin in the air. see you on the other side, spaceman.” Fucking DEPLORABLE.

There are no words for how evil this is

Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc

(Reuters) - Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10% of its overall annual revenue – or $16 billion – from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show. $META @reuters.com www.reuters.com/investigatio...

I know you’re all sick and tired of hearing about New York City, but here’s what our mayor-elect is up to, while here is what our most important newspaper is up to.

Kicking in the doors of daycares is a great way to turn wine moms into molotov cocktail moms.

Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.

Hear, hear!

New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.

We are going to live in a world where the the marginal cost of electricity is very close to zero

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 94th day out of the last 106. 12 days of work in 106 days. With full pay and benefits. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

Excellent piece and worth reading. They’re serious about wanting to repeal the 19th Amendment, and things to look out for along the way include efforts to control access to contraception and to eliminate no-fault divorce, both of which are widely discussed on the right even away from the fringes.

Employment lawyer here: the number of male employers who genuinely believe they should be able to sleep with their female employees and pay working mothers less than working fathers is most of them. They genuinely believe that it is an injustice against them that they might face repercussions.

They need to do the David and Victoria Beckham meme with this.

Welcome to the seat of American power, the Lido Deck.

To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.

Warning to the feds: if Trump sends soldiers to NYC, we have very varied sandwich options at our disposal. You will encounter a fusillade of bahm mi, BEC, gyro, chop cheese, BLT, doubles, lox bagel, croque-madame, torta and döner. Hell, half a Katz’s pastrami on rye could wipe out a couple of guys.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing

Colorado voters approve tax increase on high earners to fund school meals, food stamps Proposition MM’s passage means Colorado will fully fund free breakfast and lunch for all public school students coloradosun.com/2025/11/04/p...

Can't top this one I got in a text

The theme is money trumps decency.

Reports across the Middle East that Syria has given the US an airbase outside of Damascus and has given the Trump organization exclusive rights to build a new hotel there. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

This is what oligarchy looks like: If you're Elon Musk, the richest man alive, Tesla gives you a $1 trillion pay package & Trump gives you a huge tax break. If you're a poor kid on SNAP, Trump appeals a court decision that would have prevented you from going hungry. Obscene.

No it’s important to listen to this. Because then you understand that many of them will do ANYTHING to keep power. Remember Musk got involved in the 2024 election after saying to Tucker “if she wins” I am definitely going to prison. So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE MUST CREDIT: Lunch for jurors in the “sandwich guy” trial are a variety of sandwiches, according to a source familiar with lunch.

did someone find proof of the pipe bomb thing and start extorting her into sanity or what?

holy shit -- one of Trump's toadies just passed out and the White House event is brought to an abrupt end

The perfect metaphor for the MAHA agenda

The Trump administration’s military strikes on alleged drug boats are “blatantly unlawful as a matter of U.S. domestic law—and a quickly spreading stain on whatever is left of the executive branch’s commitment to the rule of law.” Me on “extrajudicial killings” in the latest issue of “One First”:

This part is crazy... because he truly lacks any form of empathy and self awareness

Hey ChatGPT: Please generate an image of a man thoroughly devoid of any and all human empathy.

remember when congregating at work used to be normal, like "water cooler conversation" was a whole culture

Man down. Novo Nordisk exec collapses. Trump looks away. RJKJr flees the room. Dems, if we don’t see this pic everywhere, you’re not doing your job.

It is clearly deeply annoying for a sociopath when a human collapses nearby and distracts attention from him.

Sandwich man leaving court

Rewatching Zohran's victory speech bit by bit and it's hard not to be emotional about it - it's an appeal to hope and courage but also to the fundamental idea of living in society, together. Feels like we've been starved, often deliberately, of that kind of thinking

well I for one am shocked that "every aspect of your life gets worse forever and also look at my marble bathroom" did not turn out to be a winning election strategy

Lina Khan stans we are SO BACK

Lina Khan is brilliant. In short, bigger is not better...monopolies mean more billionaires, more concentration of wealth & power, less innovation, suppression of wages, increased prices, food deserts, environmental exploitation, more corruption. Time for a change. @hcrichardson.bsky.social

I write often about how private equity is destroying US healthcare. Lina Khan is a rare person who has used her position in power to fight back against private equity’s hold on the US economy. Very excited to see what she does in New York.

Alerting all New Yorkers to go outside and look up

Can we talk about tonight’s sunset!?

They can't even turn a profit stealing every thought on Earth? They need corporate welfare, too?

There were 13 elections last night for a statewide office. Democrats swept all 13. That’s 1 in NJ. 3 in VA. 2 in GA. And 7 in PA (all judges, retention and regular). They won 12 of the 13 races by double-digits, with margins up to 24%. The only other race, the tightest, they won by 6%.

I know it’s trite but if Biden ever said this it’d be on every front page in America and the urgency with which it would be reported would border on blind panic

Before joining last night’s campaign party, I sat with Marshall Ganz, the social movement scholar who devised Obama’s 2008 campaign strategy. I asked him: Is this an Obama 2008 moment? He said, “It’s different, instead of maximizing support [like Zohran], Obama kept minimizing opposition.”