An audience member asked me about leftist pronatalism.

That's right, folks: God has a massive dong. Ted Cruz can confirm it.

Good lord, I am laughing crying, and hope "board member" former PM Orban did not pay a thing into this through far-right cadet school MCC or one of the fake foundations stealing public funds via the Hungarian National Bank.

In a proper decaying empire, two copulating black snakes biting the degenerate emperor’s loathsome vizier would be taken as the powerful and perilous omen it is

This is so shortsighted. Groups like this think that if they defeat Mamdani, they can defeat anti-Zionism. But anti-Israel politics are so dominant among American youth that without Mamdani, anti-Israel politics could be claimed by someone actually antisemitic. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

Or one could keep it simple with The Beach Boys rule. If you experienced the Beach Boys as: - Groundbreaking music, then you’re a Boomer - a gimmick band, you’re GenX - a John Stamos vehicle, you’re a Millenial - who the hell are The Beach Boys, you’re GenZ #BeachBoys #GenX #Boomers

We are not a serious country

Dear CEO, rollin' up on a graduation like, "Enjoy the robot uprising and 20% unemployment." Stop actin' surprised when your ass gets booed and whatnot.

I keep catching strays from "technology is neutral" people, so let's set things straight. 1) Technology is not neutral, especially the subset of technology called "algorithms" 2) The form-factor that makes a technology into a tool is not neutral 3) How tools are productized is not neutral [rant]

The tech bros gave us crypto currency that isn’t currency, artificial intelligence that isn’t intelligence, and prediction markets that are inside-trader scams. On the other hand, they have given us gigantic data centers that employ no one and destroy communities. So there’s that.

a good portion of what people mean by “crime” is “visible homeless people, some of whom are behaving erratically“

Data isn't the new oil, it's the new oily rag: locusmag.com/feature/cory...

It shouldn't come as a surprise to learn that a company that uses dishonest tactics to spy on you for profit will also use dishonest tactics to sell the resulting surveillance data. 1/

Data is the new oil, they said. It shouldn’t come as a surprise either that companies capturing any data for personalisation (sentiments, consumer journey, online/offline behaviours) also sell it as a commodity.

We aren’t being governed. We’re being looted. @anntelnaes.bsky.social

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I wish terrible tidings upon this individual.

Paying for parking at a hospital really ties the whole American healthcare experience together.

Do you know I actually think that these people are so inoculated from any public sentiment that they are legitimately shook by a handful of boos at commencements this week?

daaaamn london

The next James Bond should be Gary Oldman in his Jackson Lamb persona.

Greater harms would come later but the entire reason for being of the Biden Administration was to 1) prevent Trump from getting a second term and 2) punish him for the harm and corruption of the first one, and it was such a failure on that front that now this is happening x.com/KFaulders/st...

ABC News just casually erasing the entire body of work of FiveThirtyEight from the internet, or as one response on the other site said: "Burning Election Twitter’s library of Alexandria"

REP. @votegloriaj.bsky.social: “I was like this can’t be real, but it is. I went to the website… House Republicans are just big ol’ racists and don’t care who knows it.” Gloria confirms what we said — White male Dems (except Powell) still have committees, Black & Female Dems were removed.

This mass courtship event typically marks the beginning of Waymo mating season, and the general public is advised to avoid approaching them or their young and maintaining a safe distance at all times as they can get even more unpredictable in their behaviour towards humans at this time

This is awful. Jesus. These funds have saved people from getting evicted, fired, and losing custody of their kids. (Also, just to be clear, it doesn’t criminalize the funds’ existence, but it makes them subject to federal insurance regulations, which will effectively kill many of them.)

Remember, Elon Musk is an INVESTOR, not an INVENTOR, and he doesn't HAVE good ideas, he BUYS them.

The crazy thing is that they have to know what people have been crying out for: - An EV that’s a car and not a computer - a pickup with an engine, 4 wheels and a decent size bed. No extras necessary. Isn’t that hard…unless part of your profit margin includes selling data or planned obsolescence

Billionaires should not exist. Well said, @aoc.bsky.social www.facebook.com/share/r/18VV...

Absolutely this! If they carve Memphis into three districts, fine. We’ll win two out of the three. And those newly diluted 55% GOP districts in TX? We’re gonna take a few of those as well. Same in LA, SC, AL, and MS. And if they steal it anyway? Civil Disobedience becomes a moral imperative.

Not since Reconstruction ended in the 1870s amid white-supremacist terrorism and voter suppression has Black electoral influence declined so suddenly in the American South. trib.al/huKmBtq

REP. @jrclemmons.bsky.social : “If you solely relied on census data, I’m confused about how you knew partisan scores when drawing this map.” Rep. Jason Zachary: “Did you have a question?”🤷🏼 CLEMMONS: “If that’s your answer, that is all I need.”😬 (From @heartlandsignal.bsky.social )

They definitely used race to draw those districts! Census data includes race and gender but not partisan affiliation

Some of y’all are going to pro-norms & anti-precedent us right out of our democracy.

We've reached the point where one party has so obliterated the rule of law that everyone else continuing to abide by it will only hasten the end of our democracy. That's a recipe for chaos and violence. It's terrifying, and I don't know what we do about it.

Virginia Gov @abigailspanberger.com and Democratic legislature should pass immediate legislation to redistrict anyway. If the old confederate states can do it post Callais - so can Dems in Virginia if they care about saving our democracy.

John Roberts OWNS every decision from his disastrous Supreme Court. I HATE him so much

Powerful speech by Justin J. Pearson You spoke truth to power until power had no choice but to listen.

Disappointing read, it picks up news selectively: e.g., Orban's gasfitter is moving assets. He transferred billions of euros of companies value items, selling of what moves, haven't been paying invoices for weeks, emptying out ledgers. Service providers near bankruptcy due to unpaid invoices.

I'm sure there are millions of lovely, decent people in Indiana but it does pay to remember that In the 1920s, Indiana had the nation's most powerful KKK organization. A whopping 30% of native-born white men were members. There's a history there.

This is for *your* kids, you understand. The tech elites send *their* kids to private, screen-free Montessori schools. They know exactly what they're doing.

Tony Kornheiser & Mike Wilbon shoutout @pablo.show for winning the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in Audio Reporting

We are meaningfully post scarcity on a technological level in a way that makes the inequality of distribution only more of a crime. We live in a time when every famine and starvation event is purely political.

I see your 9yo and my husband shop on the same website.

We needed a new shower curtain for the guest bath and let the 9yo pick the replacement, no regrets whatsoever. It brings me joy every time I walk by and we’ve named the kitten Catney Spears.

omfg

Perhaps they should first consult with other countries the US has already liberated the living shit out of.

Israel 'intercepted', near Crete, a peaceful flotilla taking food to the starving people of Gaza and detained 175 activists. To be clear, they were abducted in international waters. It was piracy and a flagrant violation of international law. Under Netanyahu, Israel is a rogue, terrorist state.