I’d like one day, just one damn day, without accidentally learning the opinions of some halfwit billionaire.

To become dependent on ChapGPT is to evacuate yourself from your own life. YIKES, no thanks. I’m gonna be alive inside every damn thing I do, even and especially the ish I don’t wanna do.

Damn. D’Angelo.

With receipts! www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

All respect to my former home city.

100% this:

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

The sort of people the administration calls 'terrorists' : "[the 84 year olds] were rushed by federal officers “for no apparent reason.” She said her husband was leaning on his walker and wearing his Vietnam veterans cap as he was pushed to the ground."

The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session. Want to know why? Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out. Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.

I need to log off for a long while but having reread this for the first time in a long time I can say: as good as people say it is, it’s probably better. Rest easy, Kaleb. Thank you.

Civility.

Put together some thoughts here. In an earlier time he would have been the kind of writer being paid $5 a word by magazines to go write about whatever he pleased. And no one would be pissed off or jealous about it either. www.welcometohellworld.com/life-is-a-pr...

Portland is "war ravaged" in the same sense that Pete Hegseth embodies a "warrior ethos"

‘Sometimes you need to see what you hate to remember what you love and why you love it.’ I really just hate we’re not going to get to read any more of his stuff. RIP, Kaleb.

Heartbreaking.

Remember when this same body wrung its hands over whether the President overstepped letting people to shop for health insurance?

What in the absolute FUCK. The only words I have right now are F-bombs.

Concerning

This man is one of the campaign’s super volunteers, the nicest dude you’ll ever meet, wildly dependable, and apparently capable of taking the coolest photo of 2025.

From Wired a few weeks ago. A lot of the people who I was told for years were the adults in the room are being asked how they want to be remembered, and that answer is very clearly "cowards." www.wired.com/story/uncann...

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

The transition to multiple state media outlets was faster than I expected.

Check out this story from @makenakelly.bsky.social & @megannicolett.bsky.social, two great reporters who know their memes, video game cultures, and what Helldivers 2 is: www.wired.com/story/charli...

Meanwhile … “The 16-year-old boy who shot two students and then himself at Evergreen High School this week appeared to espouse white supremacist views online …”

the maga constitution doesn’t allow any institution, public or private, to explicitly work to ameliorate racial inequality but allows the government to racially profile

This is censorship from an authoritarian regime that wants to project the illusion that they face no internal opposition or dissent. No other way to describe it.

The Speaker of the House has learned that the President worked for decades behind the scenes on a secret strike force to take down the world's most notorious pedophile. He planned the announcement for maximum impact: responding to a guy yelling at him in a hallway with at 5:30 p.m. on a Friday.

Nothing matters given (gestures broadly) but Sorry, Baby was a wonderful movie. You should see it.

bold of UNC to hire a first-time college head coach but maybe they should have brought in somebody with more experience to help them cut down on simple mistakes and maintain discipline

Let them know you're filming them and keep asking the key questions: "Do you have a warrant signed by a judge? Show me." "Do you have a badge? Show me." "Do you know how pathetic you are? You showed me."

Some of the world's smartest people are deeply invested in the idea that LLMs are actually creative forces. They are not. They are vacuum cleaners attached to a firehose.

Trans people are worth protecting. Not because we are amazing people (although we are) or because we offer a great deal to society (although we do) or because we are fine as hell (we are). We are worth protecting because we are HUMAN BEINGS, and it’s amazing how often that simple fact is forgotten.

We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.

Genuinely incredible that she's saying this with 2 accused rapists on either side of her

it’s basically trite to note at this point but if this were any other president, and certainly a democrat, spending a ton of money to gild the white house would be a legit scandal

What a time for CBS to cancel Stephen Colbert’s “Late Show” and blame it on a “purely financial decision”: variety.com/2025/tv/news...

I'd just like to point out how weird it is that places with hundreds or even thousands of reporters — the NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC, AP, etc. — are all getting pummeled on every major story by the dozen computerboys at Wired. To fumble the bag this consistently is, at some point, cowardice and a choice.

When everything is really working, I could listen to only Nala Sinephro’s music for the rest of my life.

Zohran Mamdani’s win has inspired over 3400 young people to raise their hands to run for office just since Tuesday. It’s now @runforsomething.net’s biggest candidate recruitment moment since the election. A new generation of leaders is here.

you can't draw a lot of conclusions from a single race. there are external factors, flawed candidates, the right political climate. but one conclusion you can absolutely draw is that all of the people who tell you that there's only one way things can be are fucking wrong

New. York. City.

NEW YORK (AP) — Andrew Cuomo concedes New York City Democratic mayoral primary to Zohran Mamdani.

The GOP tax bill puts public lands for sale. Its effects could be irreversible.

Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.

Whose streets? #NoKings #SFPol

Also, it's amazing but not at all surprising how much of the media has uncritically parroted Noem's line that Senator Padilla "lunged" at her. Again, without noting that THERE IS CLEAR VIDEO EVIDENCE HE DID NO SUCH THING. This isn't only bad journalism; its a racist trope that KILLS men of colour.