OpenAI exec James Dyett calling out the cowardice

Bookmark that Vice President and future presidential candidate JD Vance retweeted a post that said Alex Pretti was “an assassin who tried to murder federal agents.”

Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.

The rest of the world should absolutely boycott the World Cup and boycott the Olympics. At minimum.

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city. If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.

Stephen Miller cannot remain working in this White House. He will lead us directly into civil war. I do not see how he can stay. He is a danger to the republic.

🚨WHOA. The El Paso Medical Examiner says it will rule the death of a 55-year-old Cuban man at ICE's "Camp East Montana" tent camp as a homicide. He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a "struggle" after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.

Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now. If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.

FYI: Judge Ellis (Chicago ICE case) noted in November that video evidence shows ICE "brake-checked other motorists in an attempt to force accidents that agents could then use as justifications for deploying force."

Cops say ICE account of shooting conflicts with results of investigation. "The ICE spokesperson said agents fired their weapons in self-defense, hitting the driver. ....the spokesperson said another individual, Solomon Antonio Serrano-Esquivel, ‘was in the passenger seat’." wjla.com/news/local/i...

This seems really really bad

It's actually a good thing that previously apolitical normies are finally getting angry and starting to speak out. We need the numbers in the streets and at the polls. If your response to them is "no, fuck you, too late," then you don't actually care about stopping Trump. You're just preening.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

Weird to be commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Am Rev while living under a government that has a) sent armed troops to occupy cities perceived to be too rebellious, b) rendered largely irrelevant the representative branch of government, and c) claimed imperial right to rule other countries.

We've analysed this video of the shooting of Renee Nicole Good yesterday in Minneapolis frame-by-frame to highlight the positioning of the gun and phone in the ICE agent's hands. Video: @minnesotareformer.com with annotations by Bellingcat

J6 prosecutor: “It’s more maddening than it is anything else. I spent years of my life watching the events of that day unfold in front of me again and again and again. I spoke with dozens and dozens of people who were there that day and who are still dealing with the trauma.”

I've watched thousands of videos from the Jan. 6 riot as part of NPR's reporting and archive project on that day. Here are some of the lesser known videos that have really stuck with me. 🧵

What do Greenland, Honduras, Venezuela, and Nigeria have in common? The “network state” cabal—which includes Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, & Joe Lonsdale—has been circling them like vultures. 1/

Julie K. Brown is a reporter for the Miami Herald who did groundbreaking work on Epstein beginning in 2018, including groundbreaking work on the disgusting coverup by Alex Acosta. Her travel itinerary was released with some of the Epstein files. It appears the DOJ was monitoring her in 2019.

Look who’s hanging out at TPUSA today: it’s Jack Posobiec, the long time cohost of Charlie Kirk’s podcast, posing between a guy wearing a shirt mocking Holocaust victims (Myron Gaines) and a MAGA guy who was (temporarily) kicked off Elon’s Twitter for circulating CSAM (Don Lucre). Very wholesome!

No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.

I don't know who needs to know this, but Jesus is not everyone's savior in the United States.

We don’t spend enough time discussing how the entire MAGA movement is kept afloat by the constant threats of stochastic terrorism orchestrated by the president of the United States. Congress, the courts, much of the media … all kept in line by the mob boss and his army of anonymous goons.

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Remarkable story of a Georgia high school team who used CRISPR to make a rapid diagnostic test strip for Lyme disease, speeding dx from 2 weeks to days www.cbsnews.com/news/teens-m...

The Oregon Department of Justice submitted multiple video exhibits showing federal officers using extreme force against nonviolent protesters outside the U.S. Immigration & Customs Building. This is part of its effort to block the federal deployment of National Guard troops to Portland.

so i study fascist messaging for a living, like it's my job to do it Trump's messaging is an incredible combination of "so straightforwardly evil and cruel that it doesn't need much commentary" and "so convoluted and asinine that it'll take decades to decode"

America As No-Longer-Democracy and Not-Yet-Dictatorship Where does the country stand after the largest day of protest in U.S. history? Putting “No Kings” in perspective. Some thoughts from my new piece:

I just checked and this is real. It's on Border Patrol's official Instagram (I don't see it on Facebook) and is being celebrated by Nazis on Twitter, as you can see in the screenshot. The clip is just 13 seconds long too, so it's a very intentional thing. We've got a Nazi government.

This guy is in charge of US health care.

When a right-wing man murdered Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota, progressives asked MAGA to tone down the rhetoric to prevent more violence. Within hours of Kirk’s murder, motive still unknown, the right is demanding that the government wage a campaign of violence against their enemies.

We’re basically living in a government that is backed in a serious way by literally the stupidest cult that’s ever existed

Yeah, I gotta agree with the “SilkSong is too hard” crowd.

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A must read: The fantastic @katerqburns.bsky.social breaks down the controversy Christian Supremacist/Nationalist celeb Sean Feucht will try to manufacture in Seattle this weekend. You don't have to be a fortune teller to know what Feucht's up to. www.thestranger.com/news/2025/08...

All dictators are at their core petty, insecure people.

Fun fact: USB-A connectors are spin-½ objects.

MAGA is a death cult

This is just textbook 1930’s fascism

Pop quiz: what group of people is best described by the words “vicious, selfish, demanding, cunning, and destructive”?

This is the best product listing copy I’ve ever read

Oh my God

Breaking: Donald Trump threatens to withhold federal funds from North Dakota unless it changes the name of its capital back to Hitler.

Can we now stop dismissing the Jade Helm stuff as a silly conservative theory, and instead see it as an unintentionally revelatory form of projection by aspirationally authoritarian conservative, “freedom fighters” who were battling against tyrannical phantoms that existed only in their own psyches?