has anyone seen Peter Thiel and Colonel Steven J. Lockjaw in the same room?

every emerging detail about the Trump/Pfizer deal is worse than the last. scammer government.

The agent admits he treats immigrants like "they're animals" and that he tells his kids that they are animals "all the time"

when I was writing Predatory Decarceration, I came across a published law review paper that said one thing prison abolitionism fails to consider is crime (lmao) and suggesting we could resolve this tension and do “abolition” by creating a bespoke cyber-prison for every person.

FYI for Philly people, PFS is hosting two screenings of a 4K restoration of the 1973 film The Spook Who Sat By The Door (tonight and Sunday). Rare chance to see an amazing movie you’ve either never seen or have only seen in a bad YouTube upload. filmadelphia.org/movies/the-s...

ICE is terrorizing my neighborhood (Pilsen) and so many others in Chicagoland. There have been sightings and abductions everyday. Please support our rapid response efforts: bit.ly/punofundraiser

some members likely struggling between morality and wanting to keep Israel around for the guaranteed W in Euro qualifier matches.

counterpoint:

If Georgia took the Medicaid expansion, 250,000 people would have been able to get Medicaid. This waiver program has never had even 10,000 enrolled. That’s why they are serious about seeing it as a national model. Because the money flows in, but not to poor people’s healthcare.

extremely upsetting to see this relative tied up and wrangled like this. the depravity of the circus that is college athletic departments with a gazillion dollars truly knows no bounds!

trying to prove a corporate conspiracy: your honor, it might seem preposterous but I may be able to prove the company was aware of and in fact played a prominent role in the activity of two of its wholly owned subsidiaries criminal/immigration cases: we all know what the Belgian waffle emoji means!

Politicians in Missouri hate their constituents so much they’re trying to turn the state into New Jersey.

The satellite image published here—taken this morning—is the most complete depiction I've seen of the extent of demolitions already inflicted on Gaza City's outer neighborhoods. To make it clearer: in black at right are urban neighborhoods the IDF has wholly razed. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...

Mind-blowing post detailing how xAI is not only building a massive new fossil fuelled power station for the second data centre to power X's Grok, it is doing it across state lines to avoid regulation Remind me again how it's all fine bc a single query is small... semianalysis.com/2025/09/16/x...

This week the House will vote on four bills attacking DC. Nine more are in the works. No one in DC wants these measures. They will not support our safety. We want every Democrat to VOTE NO on all of these bills. Make calls today and tomorrow to 30 priority reps: freedcproject.org/news/make-ca...

Israel’s military launched its ground assault on Monday “to occupy Gaza City,” killing at least 62 Palestinians, most of them in the city, according to Axios and the Wafa news agency. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/k3tiwn pic.x.com/GeRMd5IGJO

ladies love him. the CIA, the NYT, and car culture hate him.

Some 900,000 remain in the city amid reports that some who fled to al-Mawasi found conditions so dire, they moved back.

I am begging everyone with my heart and soul to read a fucking book. If you haven’t done it in a long time, you can still do it. A lot of people are investing in illiteracy futures right now, and they’re playing in your face trying to get you to pay for your own ignorance.

love to “trim Medicaid” (kick 1/5 of people off of it)

when a book starts like this I’m locked in. the incurious guys who write the pop psych behavioral econ race science NYT bestsellers by and for people who already think they know everything simply could never in their wildest dreams bring you along on a journey like this.

the most slept-on duo in the WNBA.

Today in international fascism... www.bbc.com/news/article...

IDF sniper from Chicago who says he killed Gazan teenager just for trying to retrieve his brother's corpse: “They’re thinking, ‘Oh I don’t think [I’ll get shot] because I’m wearing civilian clothes and I am not carrying a weapon' and all that, but they were wrong. That’s what you have snipers for.”

3/4 authors on OpenAI’s payroll explains why this is so bizarre and wrong. LLMs don’t hallucinate, they don’t experience uncertainty, and nothing they do could be described as guessing. They simply probabilistically produce a string of text that we (humans) might judge as correct by chance.

do not talk to me during the Free at Last Bail Bonds Clutch Free Throws.

Big tech has never had better friends than the corporate reformers who run so much of American education, which is a huge part of the reason we are where we are today.

trying to “lipstick on a pig” supply-side economics but forgetting the lipstick (the most important part).

some of us who just found out about and started playing Hollow Knight three weeks ago are in no hurry. sorry to the dorks and losers tho that sucks.

#SEPTA must reverse all cuts to services immediately, a #Philadelphia judge ruled Thursday. 🔗 inquirer.com/transportati...

RFK, Jr., the Baby Butcher

hmm, I’m starting to have some doubts about whether the only freedom being freedom of contract is working out as well as its proponents say it is.

Israel killed 5 children in Gaza today who were just trying to get water as Israel starves them. When this article was published, this morning at 11:30 am ET, nearly 80 Palestinians had been executed by Israel. By the end of the day Israel had killed 20 more. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

*Diana Ross voice* I’m crashing out! www.washingtoninformer.com/norton-bill-...

😑😑😑 www.newsfromthestates.com/article/trib...

The version of the NYT story on this that ran in the San Diego Union Tribune includes additional local reporting, which implies that Americans were pretextually moved out of the area before these strikes.

in the HEW archives: high-quality propaganda in favor of the concept of a collective responsibility of caring for all children and making sure they are loved instead of telling everyone to fuck off and die. clip from Head Start film “Jenny Is A Good Thing” (1969)

Mariam Dagga, an AP freelancer and mother, was among the journalists killed in Israel's "double-tap" strikes on the Nasser Medical Complex in southern Gaza. In a "double-tap" strike, Israel bombs a facility once and then strikes again... after rescuers and journalists have raced in.

state of the Mystics is for some reason we have Aces merch on sale at the game today.

women would rather have a transcendent and stirring experiencing re-reading Mason & Dixon than go to therapy.

post genre: Virgil-signaling

In organizing spaces, I aspire to the sense of calm Sandy Brondello exudes when laying out a frankly labyrinthine flow-chart of clutch time offensive options.

Seizure medication, wheelchairs, Social Security cards, dentures, urns of ashes, work uniforms — just some of what's been thrown away during cruel, degrading, utterly counterproductive homeless sweeps. A good time to revisit this gutting @propublica.org story:

Over the past 16 months, @thenation.com has published regular dispatches from Lujayn, a teenager in the Gaza Strip. Lujayn has endured huge loss and trauma. Now she, along with the rest of Gaza, is starving. But she is still writing. This is her latest. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

engrave this on my tombstone.

as to the “why now?” for erosion of the minimal welfare state (ie Medicaid) here, this is part of it imo. programs offer *real* benefits but people in power see them primarily as technologies for governing at a distance. less important if you go all in on overt surveillance, nihilism, detention.

COME AND TAKE IT

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