Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alice In Chains

What if we built a massive mutual aid system that we pay a certain portion of our wages into to help fund it and designated an elected entity to run it with oversight. We could call it something like a....'government,' maybe. The fees could be a 'tax,' as it were.

TIL that Miserilou is a cover of a Greek folk song: youtu.be/LW6qGy3RtwY?...

Hot take: Numerous DoJ folks must have known the redactions were done wrong, but kept quiet or even did it intentionally b/c they were ordered to redact but wanted the material publicized.

Anytime I hear ABA called "The Gold Standard" for autism treatment I want to ask "who considers it that?" What organizations authorized that. Also surprised to see no critical voices of ABA in this piece. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

So I hate to be That Guy, but we're entering into uncertain territory here with the Epstein Files, and it's more important than ever that we make sure we know all the facts before we blow things up. I'm talking now about the "tips" that DOJ is now releasing. They sound super salacious and evil.

"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025

"Because life is a gradual series of revelations That occur over a period of time It's not some carefully crafted story It's a mess, and we're all gonna die If you saw a movie that was like real life You'd be like, "What the hell was that movie about? It was really all over the place."

They want us dead, sure. They also want the door to stop squeaking but they haven't bothered to go get the oil yet

Your power bill has tripled and you can't afford new PC parts just to create this.

really wonder if there's a relationship between people who think white collar jobs are being replaced by AI and people whose job it is to emit plausible sounding words

keeping this around for the next time i'm asked what Bluesky is

Oh hell, it’s on. Ms. Weiss is suddenly learning what it means to contend with an extensive, entrenched bureaucracy who allegedly reports to her but Hates Her Guts. Not a skill she’s ever needed before!

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

speculating about the motives of people that are hurting you is something you do from a position of weakness. strength involves figuring out what actions can be taken to modify their behavior, with the knowledge of them you have today

Maybe the best piece I’ve seen on the topic.

Funny, after hearing this I really feel like I do

I’ve been a union man. Proud of it. Believing in the principle doesn’t mean you have to believe the folks running the machine are remotely up to the task. Similarly to the Democratic Party’s machinery - a whole lotta comfortably-ensconced dead wood need to be bypassed and then jettisoned.

“Uncharacteristic” is such an enormously revealing word about the Times here. It reveals what they believe to be the Republicans’ fundamental nature (strength, agreement, resolve) from which they can only temporarily deviate.

deadsimpletech.com/blog/politic... this is brilliant, and it's interesting that... she mentions this in passing but by and large / relatively speaking I think the Democrats do manage to escape a lot of the failure modes she's talking about - minority leadership speaking ex cathedra trends towards...

Why decline all these chances to defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate in the first place. Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.

I really feel like they could/should have worded it differently?

Idk, we've done a lot of bad things, as a country. But that kind of doesn't matter? The thing is always to do good things, henceforth

One big takeaway from Mamdani bringing YIMBYs into his transition is that advocates can often gain a lot of power by 1.) having useful answers to questions and accurate information 2.) being reasonably polite and pleasant to elected officials 3.) understanding the actual mechanics of government

it seems as if the admin has specifically unredacted certain individuals to damage them, which is not to say they’re not implicated - I have no idea, honestly - but should be some cause for caution, surely

The staggering mediocrity of our elites has been klieg-lit in public, and they are *desperate* to undermine everyone they’ve suddenly realized would out-compete them on a less-uneven playing field. The consequent death of the republic be damned. We have *standards* here.

21. And before team Yglesias responds by saying "yeah, but it's bad politics to run on climate and energy"... I'd point out that I've won 4 elections in a very purple district running on climate and energy. Pro-tip: leadership is possible! You don't have to be stupid to win!

While I'm thinking about texts on fascism, I think Toni Morrison's short essay is undervalued:

STRICKLAND: Participate in the UFC White House event? "Just to go hang out with the fucking Epstein list? I'm good, dude."

They fine-tuned an LLM specifically only by feeding it out-of-date bird names, and it started talking like it lived in the 19th century

The collective delusion here is useful in that it has provoked conservatives to dispense with decades of bootstrap rhetoric and reveal what they would say if they thought black people were people, that is to say, if these things were happening to them

A great deal of the Biden administration was spent in "the former guy" mode: get back to normal by calmly trying normal stuff, not by noisily and aggressively responding to all of the crazy and evil crap from Trump 45's term. In ways large & small, Trump 47 is making that impossible going forward.

Reminding everyone for no particular reason that Section 230 is one of the last things standing between free speech online and Trump having control over everything you see and say on the internet

Fuck any un-American motherfucker who cannot say with pride “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

There will come a time when people of good faith are empowered to uphold the law. When that time comes, Illinois will have the testimony and records needed to pursue justice to its fullest extent. The truth of what Trump and his masked agents are doing in Chicago will be told.

if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄

We've got to stop treating these things like they're real. This is graffiti on a monument. Cleaning the graffiti off is one of the things we as Americans are now charged with doing. But the vandalism still hurts to see.

The Vanity Fair photographer knew what he was doing. (I doubt I’m the first to notice this but it hasn’t graced my TL)

In Washington, bribes take ever-evolving new forms, including this one. www.ft.com/content/1e19...

Don’t let us get sick Don’t let us get old Don’t let us get stupid, all right? Just let us be brave And let us play nice And let us be together tonight.

This is in fact a delight of my life, [redacted]

A lot can change in an hour. 1:37pm and 2:30pm today.

Stephen Miller: “You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people.” @VanityFair photographer: “You do too.” 🔥 👀 (Also: He finds it “shocking” people think he should’ve covered Leavitt’s blemishes/injection sites) www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

“We must all hang together, or we shall assuredly all hang separately.”

I’d heard a lot of folks recommend Brave over the years as The Privacy Browser. But there’s some credible-seeming warning signs out there.

Oh yeah, no, Imma stop using Firefox for sure

I see the issue. When we said we would replace human workers with machines you assumed the machines would work. That's on you

@propublica.org Care to comment?