so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

A playbook for the aspiring tyrant.

She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse. ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.

We’re being governed by monsters. Just absolute monsters.

kristi noem as porta potties: thread

Lots of discourse on "what's the deal with men?" Here's another perspective - progressives need to give men a righteous cause to fight for. wattmind.substack.com/p/the-honor-...

"The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism." - Hannah Arendt

Why young men are drawn to the right, and how the left can fight back. open.substack.com/pub/wattmind...

BIDEN'S CANCER DIAGNOSIS: shock, plus the trivia: Tapper, Politico, others exploiting his health can go to hell TRUMP THREATENS SUPREME COURT and justices HE appointed, re-posts call for 'Military Tribunal' for Obama GET THE ALL-NEW COUNTDOWN PODCAST: tinyurl.com/mut9xyxx

haha, if i’m supposed to be at work right now then how come i’m receiving last rites from a priest in this denny’s parking lot because i ate some clams that i found at a bus stop?

what is fascinating to me is the number of people whose “knowledge” of government appears to just be an accumulation of cliches and stereotypes + an inchoate sense that if something is big and costly then it must necessarily be “wasteful”

Trump is now going after Energy Star. This program and others like it are extremely valuable to everyone and should not be cut. Here's why. wattmind.substack.com/p/more-than-...

Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

Thoughts on Abundance, and how proceduralism threatens Democracy and empowers authoritarians. Shout out to @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social and @dkthomp.bsky.social for the thought provoking book.

These people are assholes. youtu.be/_65n6zJfgO4?...

Setting fire to your house then putting it out before the entire thing is in ashes, insisting you thank me for my expert firefighting skills.

Son, if you work hard, stay in school, and get good grades, one day you too can realize the American dream - 16 hour shifts at the textile factory berating unvaccinated children for their poor sewing skills. 🇺🇲

Seriously, what in the actual fuck is this?

Shitty tariffs or not, batteries are changing the game in energy. And it's happening faster than you realize.

Feel like maybe @booker.senate.gov read The Sirens’ Call? Or at least he got the gist!

Who did Mike Waltz intend to add? Obviously it wasn't Goldberg. So who was it? Someone with initials JG?

EXPLORER 1: what should we name this new land we found EXPLORER 2: how bout Newfoundland EXPLORER 1: damn that’s fucken good

It's time for the machines to take over.

It's 2029. POTUS.exe has made human politicians obsolete. Susan Collins is very concerned.

If you were trying to tank the economy, I can't think of doing anything different than what the administration is doing now. Seems pretty clear they want a recession.

I wrote about the attention economy and the inescapable gravity of our modern, digital world. I hope you will give it a read. Shoutout to @chrislhayes.bsky.social and his amazing book 'The Sirens Call' that put a lot of my thoughts into words.

“In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients.”

I wrote about the attention economy and the inescapable gravity of our modern, digital world. I hope you will give it a read. Shoutout to @chrislhayes.bsky.social and his amazing book 'The Sirens Call' that put a lot of my thoughts into words.

Come on Google...no reason this obvious phishing scam should make it into my inbox. Do better!

This is every film festival though.

Okay but hear me out: A nighttime bookstore in which the only lighting comes from lanterns, tea is served to all who enter, there is an emotional support owl in each section, and a buy one / get one free sale occurs during every full moon.

The Gaetz pick is another example of how easily Trump can be manipulated. It wasn't his pick to start, but Gaetz had his ear on a plane and convinced him. Wiles was out of earshot. Whisper sweet nothings to Don and he'll give you what you want.

Hello there.

everybody atheist till they gotta update a bios

High resolution image of a planet 3 billion km away and its rings. Uranus by JWST. 🔭 🧪

not saying anything groundbreaking here, but I really think "politics as a form of content to be served up and consumed like all other forms of content" has been an enormous, underrated disaster in terms of giving folks the illusion of being informed while essentially being gamed like a drug addict

Roy Haynes :( Another great one gone. open.spotify.com/track/3RiUlq...

The storm has passed and the mountain is glorious!

For those of us working on climate change, and for all the journalists our there - don't lose track of all the investments made under the Biden administration that take years to come to fruition. Republicans will take credit for the growth. Remind them where it started.

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