THIS MAN CREATED ICE

I knew nothing of snake charmer Rob pre-traitors but holy mother of god

NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note: Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”

Go live??? I’d rather go dead

Always nice to chat with a fellow traveler 💕 @melissapetro.bsky.social askasoberlady.substack.com/p/addiction-...

would love if the takeaway here was people realizing "wow there IS money for political parties to pursue policies they believe in!" then reconsider the last several democratic administrations through that lens

*my biggest and most exhausted sigh* "As AI Enters the Operating Room, Reports Arise of Botched Surgeries and Misidentified Body Parts" www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Imagine writing the lyrics “Bawitdaba, da-bang, da-bang, diggy-diggy-diggy” and then complaining about not understanding someone’s song

It's so funny how many people have had their brains pickled by X and Fox News and can't believe that SF remains one of the most amazing cities in the world.

This is the guy who nerfed Tumblr’s usage with the porn ban btw.

“Renee was not the first person killed, and she was not the last,” Becca Good said. “You know my wife’s name and you know Alex’s name, but there are many others in this city being harmed that you don’t know — their families are hurting just like mine, even if they don’t look like mine.”

combining my two loves: talking about drugs and watching tv askasoberlady.substack.com/p/introducin...

I genuinely believe we need to do a hard cultural reset about encores. All bands should stop planning them, and only relent if the crowd sounds like they’re going to destroy the venue otherwise.

every democrat should be talking like this. all of them.

Image-forensic expert Hany Farid confirmed it's a fake. @donmoyn.bsky.social told me this moves us "closer to the Stalinesque manipulation of images that we think about with authoritarian propaganda, where you really cannot trust materials the state is putting out" Gift link: wapo.st/4sUEnmr

The cute version of the post got labeled as adult content, so maybe just do me a solid and read it/subscribe to my lil, profoundly unhorny newsletter? open.substack.com/pub/askasobe...

incredible stuff

RFK Jr. update

Getting some supremely weird emails over this one 🫠 open.substack.com/pub/askasobe...

Grok stands as the clearest example of an AI that is both ideologically aligned and operationally embedded in a social media platform, says @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social. "Its mechanisms should be taken apart under bright lights, in much the same way people learn how to defuse a bomb."

The ICE agent who killed Renee Good called her a “f*cking b*tch”. Now agents are saying “do you think this is a game? That’s how that lady got hurt the other day” She didn’t get “hurt”. She was murdered. This is blatant intimidation & illegal. They want you afraid.

I don’t think we need to detract from the specific terror that ICE inflicts on immigrants to acknowledge that a big part of their purpose is to enact violence on those American citizens perceived to be Democratic voters in retaliation for their failure to support Trump.

Will never not be jarring to see armed goons demanding people’s papers on the street in the United States of America like it’s Nazi Germany. Fuckin nightmare scenes.

what are we doing here

I don’t always post on nextdoor, but when I do, my posts get two automated warnings about inflammatory language

this is all it’s really about for them. Not domestic policy, not “economic anxiety”, just an endless desire to punish stand-ins for the Mommy who forced them take a bath, even if it tanks their own quality of life.

Coming back to this photo because it is Art. Anyone that’s worn a uniform and done a Cool Job knows it is VERY ANNOYING to have media and observers follow you around on shift. At least in part because they will absolutely film you doing something wrong or embarrassing.

If we are splitting hairs, I can think of someone besides Good whose actions led to her death …

The average American gets more protein than they need because we are a country of meat eaters and meat is delicious. We do not need more protein. We need fiber. We're literally in a colorectal cancer crisis and while the reason is not fully understood what IS understood is fiber cuts your risk

The Felon is throwing a tantrum about the massive protests to support Renee Good/anti Ice protests. @hcrichardson.bsky.social noted he bulldozed the East Wing 2 days after the international “No Kings” Protests. Same pattern. Always a juvenile azz.

Congratulations to all the bankers, hedge-fund managers, private-equity honchos, tech titans, corporate executives and op-ed writers for backing the man who will do more to undermine the system that made them insanely wealthy than any other presidential candidate in their lifetimes.

If you like receiving presents at unexpected moments, I suggest putting a bunch of bestsellers/popular books you want to read on hold at your local public library. The thrill of a Libby notification is a genuine beacon of hope in these dark and fucked up times.

this is one of the more infuriating addiction-related stories i’ve read in a long time. what a great example of how the medical establishment is failing the most vulnerable and those who treat them like human beings kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

I can't say this loudly enough: THEY ARE TRYING TO NORMALIZE THE KILLING OF CIVILIANS FOR PARTICIPATING IN FIRST AMENDMENT PROTECTED PROTEST ACTIVITIES.

ICE could start by taking a harder look at its own ranks. Here’s a thread of CBP/ICE officers who have been arrested for sex crimes while serving as federal law enforcement. bsky.app/profile/paca...

Remember when they wanted federal government so small you could drown it in a bathtub?

Historically, we've focused a lot on the brutal actions of authoritarian regimes, and today is no different.

My whole life republicans have cried and screamed about “government overreach” and “tyranny.” And here they are saying federal agents get to murder you for any reason at any time. I feel the freedom coursing through my veins!

Excellent, clarifying piece on the (real) legal pathway that Minnesota has to prosecute the ICE agent who shot and killed a woman today. No, federal agents do not have absolute immunity from start charges, no matter what the Trump administration claims.

The sheer number of videos of the shooting is horrific, but in the vein of what @prisonculture.bsky.social has been saying, it proves how many people cared enough to show up where ICE was and record them. It wasn't just one or two legal observers, and when Good was shot, they didn't abandon her.

Every single action this administration takes needs to be examined for potential self-interest and self-enrichment and I do not know why we cannot learn this fucking lesson: bsky.app/profile/joaq...

keep thinking of a vocally anti-woke reporter who insisted that the term "environmental racism" was nonsense

@jaredlholt.bsky.social also wrote this comprehensive @dfrlab.bsky.social report on the online aftermath of January 6, as extremists fled the major social platforms into a broad ecosystem of emerging alt-right platforms.

I know this is not what this is about, but all I can think is “bc of mass casualty events?”

Imagine having your parents brutally murdered and then having to do this because the fucking President of the United States is so disgusting.

No actress on earth does ‘mentally unbalanced woman hanging on by a rapidly fraying thread’ better than Claire Danes

Every fucking time. But ok let’s continue to learn nothing

Introduce yourself with what almost killed you. Hi, I’m the “floating colon” that twisted into a knot, cutting off blood supply to the organ and thus developing gangrene.

I know it was not remotely a *good* book—that it was an unequivocally *bad* book—but it’s still wild that Olivia nuzzi claims to have written a book on her phone. I can write a grocery list and a half baked skeet on my phone but that’s about it.

Not you, probably open.substack.com/pub/askasobe...