The New York Times, where the popular mayor-elect of their city is a fringe figure, but the QAnon podcaster who asked him a racist question comes out as a "winner" This newspaper hates its readers as much as Republicans hate their voters. And if you're still supporting either, you deserve it.

Breaking: Guillermo del Toro tearfully disowns Frankenstein upon realizing he forgot to cast Doug Jones as the Creation.

A lawyer I know is trying to help an abuse victim client relocate to get away from their abusive ex. They have an infant child and they're really struggling due to SNAP being cut. Would be really cool if you're in a position to help a stranger out.

As we’ve been saying for months, X’s new location feature is exposing what we’ve been warning about, many of the loudest MAGA accounts aren’t even in the USA. We’ve been tracking this behavior and helping people learn how to spot bot activity, and this update has made it easier than ever to see.

A federal judge has dismissed the criminal charges against former F.B.I. Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, ruling that the prosecutor Trump handpicked to pursue the cases was illegally appointed.

Happy to chat with the administration about the Nuremberg tribunals. Including about the crime of enforced disappearance and the limits of the defense of superior orders.

Income inequality is higher in the US today than it was in 1774, even if you factor in slavery.

This is a data point for how easily Greek mythology can become science fiction. Sailing ships become starships, legendary monsters/tribes on scattered islands become aliens on distant planets, gods become hyper-advanced beings, and the theme of exploration is universal. #MythologyMonday #WriteSky

Does he look like a bitch, Charlie Brown!?

🎶 First you get down on your knees, fiddle with your rosaries, bow your head with great respect and... genuflect, genuflect, genuflect! 🎶 #RIP Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025

seen on WT Harris in E Charlotte

Say what you will about Larry Buchanan as a director, but the man had a clear vision of what a swamp monster looks like.

Home Depot could implement a policy requiring ICE to present a judicial warrant before operating on its property. Businesses are fully within their rights to decide who is allowed on their premises.

If you’re seeing these, know that they are showing proof that much MUCH of the rightwing propaganda we are seeing is from abroad. Know also that this has been the case since 2016. The public square has been turned into a superfund site.

X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand. The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.

Kristi Noem and Kash Patel were out last night enjoying the Las Vegas F1 race at taxpayers’ expense. This is exactly the kind of fraud, waste, and abuse that deserves a full investigation.

All this to say that Elon is a white supremacist mass murderer and DOGE was not a failure. It functioned as designed. I wish people would cover this accurately. It's not difficult.

The manliest flower is the bro'meliad. #SundayPunday🏵️👬

Fast and furious? You mean hangry? #SundayPunday

Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait. My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.

My midnight thoughts are never insightful, but they are—on occasion—hysterical.

Warning for North Carolina: Scams are increasing, and the confusion is being made worse by ICE agents failing to properly identify themselves and wearing masks. As a result, residents are becoming targets of immigration fraud.

I can't draw either, but I can use GIMP badly... which is good enough for my stupid purposes.

This matters urgently in Charlotte, where there are multiple reports of ICE agents targeting people who film their operations. Regardless of what ICE claims, recording federal officers in public is legal. Citizen journalism is not a crime.

You absolutely have the constitutional right to record ICE, Border Patrol, or any law enforcement officer in public, and with everything happening in Charlotte right now, people need to understand that clearly.

Pardoning Nixon, moving beyond Watergate, brought us his henchmen for decades. Democrats aren't being magnanimous about letting bygones be bygones. They are being cowards. Holding people you know to account takes bravery, that they lack. So we need to make them do it kicking, dragging, & screaming.

There are going to be prominent Democrats and mainstream media voices who insist that we have to "turn the page" and "forgive and forget" and they should all be roundly ignored, if not mercilessly mocked.

You've heard of DINK (Double Income, No Kids), but my home is a DITCH: Dual Income Two-Cat Household. #Cats #Caturday

We don’t need to reform ICE. We don’t need alternatives to ICE. We don’t need to engage in dishonest debates wondering what the U.S. would do without ICE. ICE isn’t even 23 years old. Most adults know a world without ICE. And the billions used to fund ICE can be used to meet people’s basic needs.

Blep from the Void. #Cats #Caturday

We’re excited to see everyone at the Remove the Regime main rally today in Washington, D.C.! It kicks off at 12:00 PM at the Lincoln Memorial, followed by a march on Washington, with headlining speakers and live performances from Dropkick Murphys and Earth to Eve!

However horrifying you think this article will be, it’s worse. These woo groups, from “freebirth” to antivax to “unschooling” to MAHA, all take advantage of legitimately traumatic interactions with healthcare and educational systems to con parents. It’s snake oil, and children die.

Although I wish they wouldn't, Hollywood loves making classic villains the protagonists of their own movies, usually self-titled origin stories (e.g. Maleficent, The Joker). I think the Bond franchise's most iconic henchman is overdue for his own film, and I've already got the perfect title in mind.

A win! A federal judge has halted a Trump administration plan that relied on confidential tax records to target migrants for deportation. In a ruling issued today, the judge said the IRS improperly shared the tax information of several migrants earlier this year.

Another win!

Tonight's aesthetic is... whatever happened to the mummy? 🧟‍♂️🐺🧛‍♂️

This young man has it exactly right.

A quick reminder about tomorrow! Thank you to everyone who’s shown up over the last two days to lobby Congress! Let’s keep it going!

Together, let’s flip Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District. The special election is coming up fast voting day is December 2.

It is not treason or sedition to remind our military to follow the law and their oaths — it is patriotism. That Trump called for the deaths of Democratic officials in response underscores the need for such warnings.

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

If you want a sense of how far the surveillance state has expanded inside the United States, look at what federal authorities are doing on our highways.

It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.

We're two third of the way through #Nanowrimo, and I'm proud to say I've finally finished my first draft of Chapter 1! 🥳 #WritingCommunity #WriteSky 😜

I quit the former Twitter two years ago this week, and I am here to tell you that my online life got a lot better for having left it. In two years I've not been tempted to go back, and I haven't felt any penalty in either career or community for not being there. It's nice to be here and not there.

The rhetoric Trump is pushing is extremely dangerous. He has now reposted a comment from a user that said: “HANG THEM GEORGE WASHINGTON WOULD!!”

Now it’s on the official CDC site… they really are losing it. The statements shown directly contradict: - The NIH - WHO - American Academy of Pediatrics - National Academy of Medicine - Every major medical and scientific body in the U.S. and worldwide