It is the job of the Democratic party to sell and defend the policies that most Democratic voters want, not to present a candidate slate that is palatable to moderate Republicans who might switch if they hate their own candidate enough.

I have serious doubts as to whether, after all of its politically-motivated firings, the FBI has the capacity and expertise to actually investigate Kirk’s murder. The lawsuit filed today against Patel and the Bureau describes a complete clown show that leaves all of us less safe

Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

important thread. the idea of gearing an entire political party towards appealing to like 2% of voters with incoherent ideology, low engagement, in a handful of states and houses districts is both wildly myopic as a strategy and frankly offensive to democracy as a concept

The Onion News Network truck is currently stationed outside the Broadview ICE Detention facility just outside of Chicago.

It’s wild how everything with these dudes is just a lifelong battle with their fear they have small dicks.

Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's Space 1999 started 50 years ago today with 'Breakaway'! Half a century 🤯 Let's celebrate by dancing to disco music 🕺

seeing some "paying influencers is good, actually" takes and I sorta agree sorta disagree. i think good uses of money in social media would be to pay ratfuckers who find and mock weirdo right wingers (a ConsOfTwitter/X, basically) or infiltrate right wing orgs to be like "look at these freaks"

he's definitely warning congregations to avoid *something* but we're not certain if it's the devil or a particularly popular type of biscuit.

Aside from anything else, it is a national emergency that the president of the United States has lost his mind.

Words/phrases Democrats should never use: * bipartisan * my Republican friends * real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans) * yea (when voting on Republican bills) * distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did) * woke (in derogatory sense)

we're going to win

Ok - so I'm going to do a real context+write up but for now, here's what some of these things look like. To start my data reference is DCinbox which is ~208,000 official e-newsletters over the past 15 years.

Holy shit (It’s real: genai.umich.edu/resources/st... )

I think it’s high time we take back the national narrative. For centuries Americans of all races, genders, religions, and abilities have worked to create a more perfect union, and we should shout from the rooftops that WE are America. Not these idiot white supremacist authoritarians.

Ice agent struck by sandwich seeks counseling, says he can't even walk through deli without fearing for his life and has been diagnosed with BLTSD

It is increasingly clear that the majority of federal law enforcement officers do little or no real work, hence having the time and resources to do what they've been doing under Trump. Whole agencies need to be zeroed out, with employees sued to pay back salaries and benefits wrongly obtained.

By the way I know a lot of you think that's not a serious assault but I SAW the video of that CBP agent trying to catch Dunn after getting hit with that sandwich and he was STRUGGLING like when I try to climb a third flight of stairs, look up the eggshell skull rule

This is absolutely brilliant.

the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

Modern AI tools emulate the classic con-man tricks of mentalism, tricking people into believing that they’re far more clever - and sapient - than they actually are. Fantastic piece by @baldurbjarnason.com : softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...

The crime crisis in Washington DC is very real, but largely confined to the White House.

Listening to this press conference it seems clear that Trump is mentally gone and that his team is consolidating power for President J.D. Vance.

Wally Wood designs a pitch-perfect fake "Nancy" strip, then reimagines it in the styles of four radically different classic newspaper strips Oh Wally (MAD #32, 1957)

Google Gemini doesn’t appear to be doing too well: ‘"I am a disgrace to this planet. I am a disgrace to this universe. I am a disgrace to all universes . . . I am a disgrace to all possible and impossible universes and all that is not a universe," the bot continued.’

Fascinating thread

This is why Charlottesville melted down its Lee statue. If the statue is removed and simply put in storage, it remains what @artcrimeprof.bsky.social calls “America’s strategic racism reserve.”

Peth Hegseth has announced that the Arlington Confederate Monument - or, as I call it, the Monument to the Myth of the Loyal Slave - will be reinstalled after its 2023 removal. Here's why that's a huge insult to Black Americans, past and present.

Great thread!

I kinda think the way people use ChatGPT is sort of aspirational because it seems to emulate the way rich people have sycophants lying to them all the time until they lose touch with reality and also their entire minds

I cannot imagine anything less manly than the manosphere.

When I think about the stupid mistakes LLMs make with words sometimes, (cf. the strawberry problem, fabricating quotations, or mixing up terms etc.), there's a well-known Old English riddle that comes to mind. It's more than 1,000 years old but I think it has something to tell us about AI... 🧵

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

The actual paper is even worse than I expected from the title and the abstract. advait.org/files/sarkar...

This reminds me that I need to do more AI shaming.

Stephen Colbert has the opportunity to do the funniest thing

The #1 way to explain America working properly is by saying “comedians can make fun of he President on TV.” A good way to explain fascism is “the President forces companies to fire those comedians as a condition of allowing them to conduct business.”

We no longer have a functional Supreme Court and people (especially those in power and in the media) need to start plainly addressing that fact. The entire edifice, along with many other pillars of government, will need to be rebuilt from the ground up.

Got damn

Most useful thread ever.

I did this before in German but I guess today is a good day to compile English resources on why AI isn‘t actually intelligent and also a real danger: 🧵

So this phrase “able-bodied” has clearly been on the most recent list of R talking points. It comes from the first round of English labor laws, which were instituted after the Black Death. A mini medieval story time!

it is kind of interesting that the language-based instruction of LLMs may be revealing certain truths hidden in the way we’ve communicated for decades, like how “politically incorrect” is interpreted to mean “openly racist”

America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home. Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.

This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)

ICE *already* can't meet their detainment numbers without rounding up children, veterans, people born in the U.S., people with no criminal records, people at immigration hearings, plus academics and visitors with valid visas. So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget? The answer is: you.

A joy to march in NYC Pride with the people's champ Tish James 🏳️‍🌈

this technology that i cant even get my own employees to use without literally threatening them is definitely going to be profitable one day