An exciting snapshot of the complete moral failing of US foreign policy over the last 20+ years. And everything our government is doing in response to the DC shooting is making that failing worse.

Well, there goes my kids’ hopes for running for office. We call my wife’s best friends their “aunts.” I’m sorry for this terrible lie.

12 Monkeys or 28 Days Later? Here we go!

Just sitting here in 2025 getting updates from our school district on whether or not the military will be showing up in town this weekend.

Every fucking generation, the one that was labeled as “lazy” points at the next one and says, “no those guys are.”

Anyone who says the left has to abandon protecting the trans community in order to win votes is simply surrendering, and it immediately undercuts the legitimacy of any other “resistance” rhetoric they spew. Trans right are human rights. It’s that simple.

Honestly, I look at the responses to this and really wonder if our society as a whole is so far gone we shouldn’t try to save it. He’s not praising the guy, he specifically says his ideas were terrible. That doesn’t mean his murder isn’t a tragedy for his family. Both points can be true.

Hard to overstate the harm done to society by shutting down so much of the reporting and research on online extremism. Just as with refusing to allow research into guns as a public health crisis we are knowingly, but blindly, walking into a very dark moment.

Please please please please please please please please please please please please

I don’t know, maybe he didn’t know what Pritzker was going to announce. But even so, holy shit do look inept suggesting there’s common ground with someone sending troops into cities and states that don’t want them.

Even if true, the maniacs around him will continue their work and … I’m not confident the Dems will do what’s necessary to fracture his base. He’s a folk hero to them, Vance can’t hold it together with his damp paper bag personality. But “civility” will get in the way.

Saying this as a former (and maybe future) consultant, the best step the Dems could make is to … Fire all the consultants.

This is all correct. The only thing I’d add is that some states have literally made it legal to run down protestors with your car. For a nation that likes to wave the First Amendment in everyone else’s face, we’ve done a terrible job actually protecting it in the last decade.

Who is writing this crap? It’s unbelievable to me how they continue to deliver such limp corporate-speak messaging right now, especially given how much that contributes to their deep unpopularity with even their core voters.

Every day, a new opportunity to be deeply disappointed in our media as someone who believes they have a critical and fundamental role to play in our society.

Ugh. I guess I have to begrudgingly appreciate that Newsom is stating the reality so plainly. Since the rest of them seem stuck in a past that no longer exists.

Maron gets it, and not just because he was a podcast pioneer. People want to feel like you’re talking with them not at them. That you have a POV you believe in, not a set of talking points. Breaking through is not that hard, you just can’t seem like you’ve been media trained to death, just be you.

Man, if the generation of consultants who insisted on putting Walz in a box got out of the way, some good things might happen.

The second time I’ve had to like Billy Long. The first was when he shut up a Laura Loomer protest in a House committee meeting by going full auctioneer.

I remain flabbergasted that Dems aren’t out there talking about this administration being pro cancer. I mean, every health decision they make results in … more cancer and more death.

The New York Times Style section remains the greatest blemish on the face of American journalism.

Why again should Democrats not fight for transgender rights? How it’s a “side issue,” a “distraction”? Transgender rights are a civil rights issue. And if you wish your political leaders would just stop talking about it, then know where you would have stood on civil rights issues in 50’s and ‘60s.

Where’s the media machine? Run ads in these districts right now. Your Rep sold your healthcare for a signed MAGA hat. Because the king means more to them than your family does.

This is the inside of a Japanese internment camp in California during WWII. It looks shockingly like the camp in Florida, but with more space and light. We are repeating one of the most shameful and horrific mistakes our nation has ever made with Alligator Aushwitz.

You don’t actually have to point to Nazi Germany as a prior example here. We, the US, have done this before. To Japanese residents and citizens of Japanese descent in WWII. We should know better than this because WE’VE already done it. We’re just too ashamed to remind ourselves.

This is madness. I don’t know how you defend this. This is MSNBC now. A bill that will fundamentally reshape the US government and its relationship to the people is getting pushed through at the last moment and this is what you focus on. Not the content, not the impact. Unbelievable.

If the Dems were smart, they’d reach out and post to push this video out all over the place.

When I was at United Airlines, the pilots ran a work slowdown because the company started giving million milers old pilots wings. “They didn’t earn them.” Can’t imagine this going over much better with people who earned the rank.

The takeaway from the Tucker Carlson Ted Cruz interview is that the American public has been so badly cheated for so long by the people pretending to be the political media that when anyone asks a basic follow up that an 8th grade schoolpaper reporter would it feels like cutting edge journalism

This could have been a really ugly day for the US. Instead, it’s full of community, hope. Rebellions are built on hope.

This is why Jony Ive’s “I need to address some of the problems the iPhone created” is well-meaning BS. The success of any device, regardless of its design, will be determined by user engagement. And it points them to a machine that puts engagement above all else. It only accelerates the problem.

"Per the study, one glaring safety gap is the bots' inability to respond appropriately to users clearly at risk of self-harm or suicide." Trump's budget bill, currently in the Senate, would impose a 10-year moritorium on AI regulation. They have so little regard for human life.

1. Disgusting. And exactly where all of this was going. 2. There needs to be more of this. Leaders showing how far it’s gone by putting themselves in the crosshairs. 3. Note the complete silence from free speech “absolutists” when a senator is arrested for trying to ask a Q.

Where’s Snake Plissken when you need him?

Further to this, right now, with the WH Federalizing and deploying 2000 troops in LA, MSNBC is talking about the Trump/Musk BS. Nero fiddles.

The next 24 hours are really going to be a litmus test for our political press. Are they going to be direct about what’s happening? Or will they equivocate and claim “balance?” So far, not looking fucking good.

This is what you get when deprioritize humanities and art. A generation of technologists with no creative instinct desperately jealous of those who have it. So they build machines to generate the creativity they themselves don’t have. The exact opposite of Iain Banks’ Culture novels.

As always, our “elites” are following only the deepest, most rigorous of intellectuals.

This is a bad framing. It’s showdown between the CBS News division and the corporation’s board and executive leadership, not Trump. The corp wants to get a merger passed and is willing to harm journalistic standards to do so. Don’t let them off the hook.

Kind of incredible how the GOP just keeps killing incredibly useful and popular programs and people just shrug. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Adding yet another one to the growing list of “being rich seems boring and sad as shit” examples. This guy’s worth $3B+ and he still has to debase himself and do this frat-pledge-suck-up crap. We’re all gonna die because these schmucks don’t wanna believe money can’t buy happiness.

If only there were an organization that had the money to fund an AI-based VC startup to test this premise …

Gavin continues to read the room masterfully. 🙄

We’re reaching a new bad phase with the current big AI players. The pressure to generate revenues and profits is naturally translating into another round of enshitification. Look at the ChatGPT and Perplexity Reddits. Unprompted shopping recommendations. Undisclosed model switches. It all repeats.

Literally the topic of 50% of Bruce Springsteen’s oeuvre.

Oh lord. I keep trying to watch the rest of the Cavs game at 2x speed. This is so awful.

Truly the best thing written on the subject of SINNERS, Ryan Coogler, and the business of Hollywood to date. If you read one thing, read this. If you read two things, read this a second time.

Have spent my morning emailing Congress, my insurance company, therapists … all in an effort to try and keep my autistic child’s information out of a national registry.

“Protest don’t work.” “Boycotts don’t work.”