Get bent you anonymous fuckers. The constitution does not care about your stupid strong man optics. Take your oath seriously or resign.

Just have to primary them all

With friends like these...

The explosion of popularity of LLMs — and the trust people put in them — indicates that the claimed death of expertise is overblown: people really do want (perceived) expertise. They just don’t like the experts. They want experts who will agree with their priors, and chatbots are the perfect vehicle

I keep reposting this but www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

it certainly does not mean I secretly like the roaches and want them to carry on infesting my house if I were happy with the roaches infesting my house I wouldn’t be mad at my shitty exterminator

Term limits allow lobbyists to run the show even more than they do now. My answer is to end the influence of lobbying by ending the private funding of campaigns. Just go all the way. These are public offices. They should not and cannot continue to be privately owned.

It's this but then the exterminator sends you text messages asking for more money every 3 hours for the rest of your life

NYT gonna NYT: "Both Mr. Mamdani and Mr. Maduro identify as socialists, though they have no relationship.” — would be funny if they did this every time you write about two capitalists. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...

Imagine being the person brave enough to leak this in the hopes that media attention could stop it and then the media just……buries it.

God, we hope so.

I expect evil people to do evil things I also expect people selling themselves as a bulwark against those evil people to fight tooth and nail against the evil things evil people do only one of these groups is currently performing according to expectations

the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches

Not since Dred Scott and Bleeding Kansas has the writing been so on the wall before taking office and never since the secession crisis has anyone fucked up this badly.

Oh 100% this. "Biden was the most progressive president of my lifetime! So good!" That's nice; he fucked up real bad by not doing ANYTHING to make sure Trump never made it back to office. Any progressive actions he took will be dismantled.

absolutely unbelievable

don't forget that a lot of democrats see AOC and zohran as threats because they make them look ineffectual, cowardly, and unprincipled. which they are!

babe wake up, they're doing insider trading on war crimes

Can't help but feel like this is one of the reasons why the Constitution says If a dude in office does an insurrection, don't let that motherfucker hold office again Bc clearly they cannot be trusted with power & control over the levers of government, & they do not care about democratic constraints

as a member of congress, first I’d like to say that what happened was bad. things like this should not happen. in summation: someone should do something. thank you and god bless america

Seeing statements from members of Congress that say “Congress must act,” which sound forceful and good until you remember that they are Congress. Where are the statements saying “I will act?” Why the passive voice?

if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live

On the "boots on the ground" question and Trump saying that it will mainly be about protecting oil operations. Given this framing, we should expect a massive payday for politically connected mercenary companies, who will use this to expand their private armies.

A college sophomore at an Occupy rally could not have generated such a grotesque outsized caricature of US imperialism

Donald Trump must be impeached and removed from office for his egregiously illegal behavior. It is the only way. Both parties must find their spines. We have said that from the start and we will continue to push for that up to and until it happens.

and the practical problem with that is also, well, by 2006 everyone forgot about saddam hussein, they did remember who voted for iraq or publicly supported it

don’t do the “maduro is bad, but…” thing. the defensive crouch won’t help, it muddles the message, and the important thing is that this is immoral, illegal, and idiotic. the three Is

it is incredible that the entire high level legal apparatus of the United States is "anything that helps people is impossible, anything that kills people is permitted"

We have to remove Trump from office. It's that simple. We won't make it through another year of this. I want to win the midterms, but I also want them to happen. And this just isn't sustainable.

The court’s rationale was that because in the wild west in the 1800s they carried arms in the saloon therefore people in 2025 cities also have a constitutional right to carry in a saloon. This decision is radical & dangerous.

It's rare for a company to sign a contract with the US military AND get caught generating CSAM in the same two-week period. Grok is just built different

This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc) #1: Reuters

It’s no guarantee but the first thing you should do if you see an outrageous story that’s just an image or screenshot or video with no link to a reputable source is to check the replies and see if someone is saying “that’s an AI fake.” And then don’t spread it either way because it’s not sourced.

NEW: People are using Elon Musk's chatbot, Grok, to alter images to depict real women being sexually abused, humiliated, hurt, and even killed. futurism.com/future-socie...

The number of people who understand that it's not cool to be on Twitter but who insist on being on substack is fucking bizarre

elon made his bot make kiddie porn and its ridiculous to pretend otherwise

The way this headline is phrased makes it sound like the bear has invoked squatters rights and the guy is trying to take him to court

A lot of people are noticing the spread of AI sexual abuse material on X now, but it has been happening for years. Young actresses like Jenna Ortega and Xochitl Gomez fled the platform. Even celebrities say there’s nothing they can do to stop it. Misogynistic violence is the main reason I left X.

I do not understand the point of setting reading goals unattainably high if the only way to achieve them is to read all sorts of random shit you have no interest in just to hit some arbitrary goal. You read 500 books and you hated half of them? Congrats, I guess? I

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

Having Grok issue an “apology” is not just insulting and stupid (obviously Grok cannot actually “regret” anything, deeply or otherwise) but cowardly: It asks us to assign responsibility to an unconscious piece of software rather than the humans and institutions who should actually be blamed.

The two things I think are funny about this are that 1) SF has the most moderate obviously-not-socialist government in decades at this point, yet the discourse remains unmoved 2) the idea of “tired of lefties and immigrants? Have you considered moving to Austin or Miami?”

This would be so popular at the national level if centrist Democrats let us use those words in that order

We deserve to know the identities of the ghouls running social media for DHS

2026 off to an auspicious start as I just got hit with my annual migraine

Every “gift link” for that wsj article has required a subscription. How is that a gift link?

I strongly disagree with this characterization. To me, leaving (or never joining) Substack is consistent with why millions of scientists, academics, journalists, and allies are leaving Twitter/X: it is not a safe space, and continuous exposure creates harm and trauma to your own supporters

We just cancelled all federal funding for foreign language & area studies at America’s universities to “save”…$86,000,000: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Eric Adams is going to use cryptocurrency to fight antisemitism. Eric Adams is going to use samurai swords to fight food waste. Eric Adams is going to use 100 rubber duckies to fight prostate cancer. I would believe literally any combo of words hellgatenyc.com/eric-adams-s...