Current status of the fundraisers for those killed by ICE: Renee Good: $1,499,580 Alex Pretti: $1,289,249 Keith Porter, Jr. $302,423 Parady La: $45,848 Heber Sanchez Dominguez: $47,991 Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz: $18,640 Victor Manuel Diaz: $2,538 Geraldo Lunas: $2,260 Luis Gustavo Núñez: $1,935

very funny republicans care more about confederate statues than bulldozing part of the White House

I remember a senior engineer at Twitter once commenting on how sf was lacking in strangers who would do you a random kindness. Glad to see it hasn't changed 🥰

Would love to blame solely situation bad republican governance, but unfortunately it is human nature to discount rare events and underprepare for disasters

Lmao republican cuts to healthcare cause voters to swing right, does this mean the Texas floods could cause a rightward swing too link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Reminds me of how potato graham said that we're going to fail the turing test not because computers get that smart, but because humans get that stupid

UH OH... ate an apple and found half a worm... time to drink bleach...

lmao zohran won with a wealthier whiter coalition and Cuomo had the unions and working class, Leninist vanguard theory remains undefeated www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The chenoweth stat makes no sense. So if 3.5% is militantly for something and 94% very against, how does the 3.5% win? Does the side supporting 1/6 not count as a 3.5% movement?

Revolting that students are cheating this much, but understandable. I remember one of the first books I had to read was De rerum natura, by Lucretius, and so obviously irrelevant to the messages I’d gotten about college being a ticket to a middle class life.

Amazing that Aaron Swartz caught a federal charge and committed suicide after downloading JSTOR’s archive, and OpenAI can scrape the whole internet and get away with it

This is pretty much the opposite of what happened during the Cold War, which was an outpouring of funding into fields like anthropology, so the us could better court allies against the Soviet Union. More proof America is currently ruled by idiots

First fruit fly of the season! Spring is here!!!

Can't believe orson Scott card was right about taking over the world by blogging

this is all very interesting in the same way that getting cancer is interesting

America voting for Trump… AGAINo mm

Guess where they got their weird trade deficit math from?

it's been years upon years of labored "campus culture" op-eds from salaried writers hectoring students about free speech, and now the state is kidnapping students for their speech in broad daylight

Yesterday & today’s anti-Hamas protests *in Gaza* have barely made a dent on news coverage. But they should be covered seriously & noted by every publication & person working on 🇮🇱🇵🇸. Here’s my best guess on why virtually every commentator on 🇮🇱🇵🇸 is ignoring this: 🧵

My daughter's daycare just sent out an email about potentially needing to layoff staff because new babies about to start withdrew because of parental job losses. So if you're wondering how government layoffs and mass contract cancellations will affect the economy, here's an example

I have many strident critiques of Signal (primarily around Moxie's decision to embrace centralized infrastructure that wasn't designed to be resilient and survive), but if you share that fucking Yasha Levine / Counterpunch drelk about Signal being a honeypot you're a fucking fool and doing cop work.

I feel the thing people don't get is that primaries are dumb but Democratic primary voters in high-salience elections are basically the optimal high-information voters in public choice theory. They will make the best decision possible, whether or not that's good enough is a different question lol.

B of A: “.. 2025 tax refunds are running 53% below 2024 levels through week 4 of tax season, per Treasury data." 🇺🇸

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

apparently the monsters in A Quiet Place are actually herbivores. so they kill humans just because they find us loud and annoying. relatable

Why are we talking so much about trump regretters? Why don't we talk more about ppl who voted for Biden, stayed home, and regret that decision instead? And why do organizers who should know better persist in mistaking shitposting online for campaign strategy?

Zelenskyy stayed in Kyiv while Russia was bombing the city and sending in hit squads to kill him. J.D. Vance fled to an undisclosed location because some peaceful protesters yelled at him while he was on vacation. This is why I believe victory over these people is still possible.

someone put their pronouns in their email signature in 2017 and now the world's most irksome Boer has my social security number

During Kendrick's halftime show a man unfurled a Palestinian flag and was chased off stage and eventually tackled and removed by security.

On senators falling in line because of death threats: My mom worked as a cook at a hospital where abortions are performed. People regularly tried to shoot her for "killing babies". She still went and did her job because it needed doing and she had agreed to do it. That's how it works.

True decadence looks like people who are three generations removed from the cultural memory of polio refusing to vaccinate their children against deadly communicable diseases because they don’t like needles and don’t think there will be any real consequences, not sexy queer goth dance parties.

I don't know how to say this beyond standing up to authority is a muscle and some of you have never exercised it

New — @indivisible.org is holding a protest at the Treasury Building 5pm this Tuesday to take action against Elon Musk's hostile takeover

Protest at the Treasury in DC Tuesday 5PM. Pass it on.

Many of us are familiar only with the very bottom rungs of the escalation ladder: "quietly acquiesce" and "complain", and the very top rung: "deadly force". This is a recipe for freezing up in a dynamic situation. The same could be said for how we think about activism and political resistance.

Hmm looks like conservatives touched the hot stove on the past and didn't learn. Is not boding well

The 82nd Airborne's 3rd Brigade Combat Team is preparing to deploy to the southern border, three defense officials tell me. Part of the 10th Mountain may serve as a headquarters element.

fossil fuels are proof that god loves us. how we've used them is proof that we do not deserve that love

So people just want to plug their ears and pretend none of this ever happened. I KNEW IT

Lol the xr soup throwers must be feeling so vindicated now

Lol they cut the fire dept budget in LA and increased the police budget. Wtf is up with our leaders, what's up with pretending climate change doesn't exist?

inside me there are two wolves. one says that people are responsible for what happens in their communities. the other wolf says that anyone who shows up to a weeknight public meeting to advocate for a vacant lot becoming affordable housing instead of a police station is a disgusting freak

NEW: I've obtained internal Meta docs revealing an array of sample posts that are now allowed under new hate speech rules. Examples include calling children "trannies," “Jews are flat out greedier than Christians," and “immigrants are grubby, filthy pieces of shit” theintercept.com/2025/01/09/f...

So damn true

I spent most of my adult life watching schools say they can't expel professors for sexually assaulting and harassing students and colleagues only to see how quickly they react over social media posts against genocide

this is alice munro to the life

sullivan really shouldn't have let this journo write this profile lmao