and with that, i'm going to try to log off for a good while for self-care reasons. my main mission is to survive until november '26.

if you want people to like you while you break things, you need to bribe them, instead this administration thinks people will like you if you punch them in the face

you think you're using AI to lift up your community, but you're really just stealing from artists to give money to billionaires while polluting marginalized neighborhoods, while training it how to be more influential to your community. hmmm.

Solve Climate Change Build Housing Stop The Genocide Protect The Dolls I guess what this leaves out is continuing police reform and probably something about AI/Silicon Valley Fash but like seems like a neat enough summary of left-liberal American political priorities, no?

I’m sick of being lectured about “demanding purity tests” and being “uncompromising” when the actually existing Democratic establishment is demanding purity tests and being uncompromising *for* genocide, not even against it.

jfc merrick fucking garland? nobody is talking about that guy. people are on some shit. have you noticed how terribly fucked everything is? might want to change the strategy a skosh.

Life isn’t a fucking debate club, ideas exist in context and the idea that it’s a sign of enlightened thinking to hear out things that are clearly bullshit from people that are clearly being dishonest is poison.

con law prof here. Wut.

Yup. Right before our eyes in broad daylight. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

the science is “this is the single best set of interventions against teen and also adult suicide we have for affected populations”

waking up everyday is giving me brain damage.

I agree with this. The problem is that this is in fact the country that the elites want and also regular people haven't built enough power to overthrow the current order. The elites support fascism.

Look at this shit! If Dems lose the messaging war on which party is full of pedos, it's their own fucking fault. There are mountains of evidence to point to. Why does shit like this not get factored into the overall narrative? Are the managing ranks at the papers full of pedos too? What's going on

While we often talk about America as a nation that has racially progressed, the truth is that there have always been two concurrent movements, one advancing civil rights and liberties, and the other seeking to diminish them.

millennials what are you doing, man

So.. officially, I'm the last Black staff columnist left in the Washington Post's opinion section.

Republicans stay screaming about law & order…But won’t release the Epstein files. They sit up here posting conspiracy theories all day…But won’t release the Epstein files. They’re quick to call a hearing or launch an investigation on some BS…But (say it with me) won’t release the Epstein files.

Related, if any harder evidence of Trump's pedophilia comes to light house democrats should introduce articles of impeachment against him for it and make every Republican in congress have that vote on their record

Indicting Obama for treason would definitely not backfire

Trump Approval - White Americans: February 7, 2025: 🟢 Approve: 61% 🔴 Disapprove: 39% July 18, 2025: 🔴 Disapprove: 50% 🟢 Approve: 50% - YouGov -

"We are very powerfully releasing the Roswell files, the long form Zapruder film and the extremely suspicious Hillary email investigation and we demand nobody ask about our files connecting me to Epstein and the Pedo flights, thank you for your attention to this matter!"

You cannot believe that LLM AI is going to become an epoch defining technology and then do a surprised pikachu face when every major LLM company becomes a DoD contractor that helps drone operators bomb weddings in Yemen

Head of FEMA Urban Search and Rescue branch resigns. He told colleagues that TX delay was tipping point after months of admin efforts to dismantle the agency. DHS Sec Noem took 72 hours after TX flooding to authorize the deployment of FEMA’s search and rescue network www.cnn.com/2025/07/21/p...

Top 10 House Dems on 🇵🇸: 1. Tlaib: 97% 2. Omar: 93% 3. Ramirez: 89% 4. Lee (PA): 88% 5. AOC: 86% 6. Pressley: 82% 7. García: 77% 8. Jayapal: 71% 9. Casar: 71% 10. Watson Coleman: 63% Senate Dems: 1. Sanders: 100%* 2. Merkley: 83% 3. Welch: 75% 4. Van Hollen: 60% 6. Warren: 54%

i wish we’d have a real conversation about how helpless we feel about gaza about how it is easier to try and ignore the desperation than deal with the fact that we can’t help everyone, that we don’t know how to stop the genocide how it’s easier to talk about scammers than actual starving people

Say his name: Tamer al-Za'anin, a journalist murdered in the line of duty. About 250 journalists have been assasinated by US-Israel

so, like, best case is he dies today.

Even assuming an LLM stumbled into a revolutionary scientific discovery, it would only be an untested hypothesis. A lack of hypotheses is not science's problem - it's $$ for the research to test those hypotheses that's sorely needed. And, that's being cut to fund LLMs.

a refresher for the uninitiated. "Pedocon theory is a theory like gravity is a theory." white supremacist culture is rape culture.

I think one categorical mistake that some government-watchers make is to say "Trump is at least moving fast and shaking things up. We need more of that." No. He is breaking things, not building them. And in many cases pouring red tape into govt systems in ways that causes them to fail.

yessum, i'll have the nazi burger. standard issue. with the crunchy edges. im not queer.

55 year old man: I will have one Philosoraptor Burger with Grumpy Cat Sauce The most depressed 17 year old in the country: *reads from script* your bill…identifies…as costing 28.35 55 year old man: *laughs for a complete minute*

Excited to get the worst fucking hamburger anyone has ever experienced delivered to me by a piece of shit ass robot

wish there was an easy way to upload gifs. oh well. glonzo!

Sanitation workers should be paid more than cops.

it would be SUPER COOL! if we had a government that was accountable to its people.

we are gonna glonzo the fuck outta this shit. amen.

if only we had snap elections.

They do realize this is the single best way to *encourage* Dems to triple down on the Epstein shit, right?

I too think that Mamdani should win and that Jeffries should not become Speaker of the House.

In a habeas corpus suit against DHS, Lionel Flores was arrested at his ISAP check-in. When he ask ICE agents why he was being arrested they, said "judges orders don't matter, only the President." After telling them he had a lawyer, they replied "that doesn't matter either."

if only we had a recent example of what it looks like when the mainstream media decides the president's mental state leaves them no choice but to bury him in an avalanche of negative coverage.

background: an allegedly feminist group got payment processors to strongarm steam into removing porn games. that group turned out to be a sockpuppet of conservative christian groups fits into two broad patterns: (1) payment processors policing porn, sex work, etc (2) TERFs/SWERFs as RW camouflage

The MAGA world does and says so much crazy shit everyday that we barely have time to process the absolute batshit points they make before needing to respond to the next bit of insanity. It's exhausting

controversial take: nyt heds are platforming fascists as much as that hassan vid making the rounds, as is sharing screen grabs from the bad place. context is the key.

this is straightforwardly a violation of the Eighth Amendment

i have been stuck on JD Vance's claremont speech for almost two weeks now because it is structurally identical to roger taney's opinion for the court in dred scott

does anyone like this thing we do where we have to compete to survive? i can't seem to find my way out of here. like, i dunno man, i think you being brought into this world is justification enough for you to be able to thrive without hesitation.