Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

I believe that Tina has discovered toilet paper

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

If you're one of my New York City friends who's watched my election blog posts about downticket races in Minneapolis & St. Paul go by and muttered "I wish someone did that here," BEHOLD, SOMEONE IS DOING THAT FOR NYC!

Because President Botstein understands the job of a university president. Protective your students.

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

Reporter's notebook: I actually began working on this story shortly after footage of the incident showed up last month. But by the time I finally got ahold of folks, the story grew: 2 *other* faith leaders I spoke with *also* reported being shot w/pepper balls while protesting this ICE facility.

GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN EXTENDED TWO WEEKS TO HIDE EVIDENCE THE PRESIDENT IS A MAJOR PEDOPHILE

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

The kitten dreams of devouring the world

'out of the three mass shootings today'

UK's Labour Party abandoned transgender people. The gambit to pursue rightwing voters by abandoning a targeted minority failed, and now they're facing the prospect of a historic loss. US Dems could learn a lot from their failure. Great piece from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

ChatGPT Edu is built for conning education executives into subsidising and edu-washing planet-burning slop machines via non-consensual access to young people’s creativity AND DATA while attacking their ability to learn. At a university.

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

I haven't had time to read up on the latest shooting, but I'm going to post my incredibly radical position that a shooting is bad no matter who did it and no matter who was shot. Stop trying to crack the code of a shooter's motives and focus on the one thing they all have in common -- the guns.

Q: Do you think it would've been fitting to lower the flags to half staff when Melissa Hortman, the Minnesota House Speaker, was gunned down by an assassin? TRUMP: I'm not familiar. The who?

Right now I’m mostly concerned that his death will be used as an excuse to go after trans people

The combined worth of the tech bros who prostrated themselves before trump at that dinner is $600B. Not one of them *needed* to do it; they're just selfish, greedy men who care more about wealth than human life. So disgusting.

Only 40 days have passed since Democratic lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband were tragically killed by an unhinged Trump supporter, yet this story has largely faded from national awareness. We must not allow that to happen.

This needs to happen in every single blue state...in every single state, for that matter...every state that actually values human life.

Hegseth is now the Secretary of War, which is fitting I guess as RFK jr is basically the Secretary of Pestilence. We just need Famine and Death to round it out.

This photo was taken of miners at the end of their shift during the Gilded Age before they were unionized. A Labor Day reminder of the blood, sweat, and tears that those before us paid to give the working class the basic rights that Trump and his thugs are trying to strip away.

Yes x 1000

On this Labor Day, let us remember that it wasn’t the CEOs and billionaires who saved us during COVID-19. It was the janitors, nurses, cleaning crews, grocery and food workers with their hard, often invisible labor.

Republican governors have sent National Guard troops to Democratic-led Washington, D.C., even though cities in their states all have higher rates of violent crime than the nation’s capital. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...

This was an excellent essay I commend highly to you all about the Minnesota mass shooter and the deeper questions it raises about morality and identity.

Yessssss

What Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told the Senate Finance Committee as its members considered his nomination:

Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day. Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day. It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

“We came up with a plan to compromise with the Gestapo” That’s what you sound like.

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

‘Israel’s daily cruelty in Gaza that we’re witnessing, and the political class in most of the Western world just cheering it on, is the darkest thing I've seen in my whole life.’ -Holocaust survivor Dr. Gabor Maté

HEY friends: recently seen heaps of "disclosures" from AI companies of the energy cost per question you type into chatbots (most recently from Google)? Presenting per-query 'efficiency' is part of big tech's efforts to hide its extremely real and happening-right-now climate impacts! NEW POST -->>>

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EXCLUSIVE: The new State Department human-rights report drops all mention of Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Act... ...which includes the death penalty.

Tibbs the cat is officially getting along well with Tina the new kitten

Something that I have been thinking about with attribution of "PhD level intelligence" or "PhD level expertise" to a machine is that it reflects an increasing trend among these AI bros and their sycophants to want the products of highly skilled training without actually doing any of the work.

Think back just a few years ago. Would the American public have accepted the president refusing to rule out a pardon for an imprisoned felon who raped children as young as age 14? The Republican Party has brought our country to this.

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

PLEASE SHARE: Missing Child - Victoria Alexandria Jackson. The Minneapolis Police Department is asking for the public’s help in locating Victoria Alexandria Jackson , a missing 12-year-old girl. VICTORIA was last seen walking from Minnehaha Falls on August 2nd around 8:00 p.m.

“Some of us aren’t creative enough to brainstorm without ChatGPT!” Well then maybe you should sit this one out.

This past week, the 79-year-old president announced he’s ended six wars (some that have been going on for centuries), asserted that windmills drive whales insane, called for Beyoncé to be prosecuted, claimed Obama committed treason and complained a convicted pedophile “stole” teenage girls from him.

There is absolutely no excuse for any Democrat asked about trans athletes to ever respond with anything but “why are you wasting my time asking about FEWER THAN FIFTEEN CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS IN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY WHO WANT TO PLAY GAMES WITH THEIR FRIENDS. What is wrong with you?”

Tina has joined the family. ❤️❤️❤️

I just made a unilateral deal with my employer that they will triple my salary

In response to White House staffer Stephen Miller’s comments, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said: “If we wanted a white supremacist’s opinion, we’d ask. But we don’t. So we won’t. Also, Minneapolis is great.”