When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”

When I explain that boycotting an election over an issue has never once forced a politician to embrace that issue, I'm not "scolding people to vote." I'm explaining reality. Feel free to sit on your ass! Just don't pretend that your lazy apathy is somehow going to advance your agenda.

This whole Nazi tattoo dude in the Senate nonsense is revealing of a lot of white folks. Oh your friends have Nazi tattoos too? Oh it doesn't bother you at all? Oh your whole crew you been rolling with has them & y'all are all perfectly democratic? Fascinating. Taking notes.

No the fuck there is not.

Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!

This is sometimes read as "look 'AI' isn't working". But the opposite is true. _This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure. https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/

I think a lot about the chance we had at the start of COVID to finally become a more compassionate, collectivist nation, and how profoundly we were failed not only by the sociopathic greed of the ruling class but by each other. It doesn’t mean we won’t get there, but the lost opportunity haunts me.

It is wild to me that the Dems/ Leftists are putting out more energy for a white man who’s a whole year out of his primary …. Than in seating the actually elected Latina

Exclusive: The White House fired all of the members on the independent federal agency that had expected to review some of President Trump’s construction projects, including his planned triumphal arch and White House ballroom.

People are so fascinatingly stupid about Mt. Washington. “Oh, it’s not that tall,” they say, little knowing it is haunted by Weather Demons

The Founders knew Congress - especially the House - was the backbone of U.S. democracy. It should be a huge story that Mike Johnson, serving Trump, has all but shut it down From the Reichstag Fire to Putin's toothless Duma, this is what dictators do. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

"average person takes 1 dementia test per year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person takes zero dementia tests per year. Alzheimers Georg, who lives in white house & takes over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

Here's the thing. If Kids eat free because of SNAP at your restaurant, please feed their fucking parents too.

My cousins are my kid’s aunts and uncles. Their kids are his cousins. My aunts and uncles? Also his aunts and uncles. My friends? My partner’s friends? Also aunts and uncles! Firmly convinced being an aunt/uncle is one of the highest honors in human life.

This is the sort of feature of normal American family culture you can lose sight of when you staff your newsroom exclusively with people who have been banned from attending family Thanksgiving bsky.app/profile/deli...

This morning federal agents arrested two hard working immigrants on my street because they didn’t have their papers on them, and tried to arrest my neighbor because his green card was in his house rather than on his person. We are now a “show me your papers” state, and it is outrageous. Get angry.

15. It’s the Republicans, not the Democrats, who need an off-ramp. They risk revealing that Trump’s power is more important to him, and to them, than the health, well-being and freedom of their supporters.

In the U.S., we use prisoners as a source of income for the powerful, because our prison system originated with our chattel slavery system. This rate increase approval is the intentional result of that system, fought for by sheriffs and wardens and state legislators and huge corporations.

There was a great conversation about the part of town the highway ran through when I was living in Durham, and why it killed the once bustling neighborhood.

I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering

I need a button that opts me out of all AI unless I ask for something. No more fake artist mash-ups or fake movie trailers on YouTube. No more fake animal videos on Facebook. No more every software shoving AI into everything I try to do. I would pay good money for this. /curmudgeonly rant

I've talked before about power struggles within hardening authoritarianism. Usually, regime supporters fight over using rule-of-law in crackdowns (with massive abuses, of course) vs. completely embracing extrajudicial methods. Here, we see the latter dominating. Which is very bad news going forward.

E-bikes are the closest humans can get to being able to stick out their arms and start flying. Just amazing.

Sweet Jesus, do not donate seeds to your food bank in October. Honestly, don’t donate seeds to your food bank unless you are specifically asked to, and even then I would think REALLY HARD about whether that’s regionally appropriate. When I needed food donations, I was in student housing.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this

We have discovered a planet. It is under my pillow. A bat-like creature lives there and dreams of its next meal.

Hurricane Melissa which is en route to decimate Haiti and Jamaica rapidly intensified to category 4 storm. Rapid intensification is a hallmark of climate change, but that category is only a measure of its wind speed. It is also expected to bring up to 40 inches of rain

Not only is it going to be a hunger crisis, it's going to be a farm crisis. All those gallons of milk bought from dairy farmers, all the produce, all the on sale ground beef and packs of chicken that are paid for by SNAP are subsidies to farmers who don't qualify for commodities subsidies.

i really resent the continued assertion that there’s so much anger on both sides, as if the causes of the anger are equally legitimate. we’re angry because masked maniacs are violently snatching our family and neighbors off the street, and they’re angry because we’re calling them out for it.

I really think that we need to talk more about the fact that Republicans have basically quietly abolished the House of Representatives

"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness) As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)

Introverts don’t need big plans to be happy. Just give them an empty house, snacks, their favorite playlist, and a blanket. They’ll spend the day avoiding people and half-starting five new hobbies. Pure peace.

right. given the numbers, “how to win back the working class” should be as much about care and service workers as hard hats. and yet.

Apparently some folks are playing real dumb about skull symbols so let’s play a little game I like to call “Nazi skull or not a Nazi skull” First up, the Jolly Roger. This is a pirate skull, not a Nazi skull. It means you might get robbed, but prolly not genocided. With me so far? 1/x

if you want to defend the working class? buy out a street vendor’s cart so they don’t have to choose between their income or kidnapping by ICE

All other points aside, if Graham Platner gets elected - the Republicans will get the talking point "Democrats elected a Nazi, so don't you ever call us Nazis" and they will never shut up.

So, Graham Platner is the George Santos of John Fettermans?..

starting to realize how difficult it is to avoid all the nazi discourse i think it is because of all the nazis

It's not lost on me that the part of the White House we are destroying is the part that has to do with women's history in the White House.

Halloween costume ideas for birders.

SNAP benefits expire in one week.

This is what it used to look like inside the lobby area.

I have never, ever EVER had a canvasser show up in my neighborhood until some Zohran folks stopped by last week.

The DNC needs to stop worrying about winning conservatives, and start worrying about enfranchising black southerns, and getting them registered and getting them to the polls.

he's knocking down the literal white house and illegally murdering people by dropping bombs on international boats and the government has been shut down for weeks and it's just like....yep

Worse lies than got us into Iraq. Almost as bad as the lies that got us into Portland.

As a reminder, just like in TX and Missouri, North Carolina's Trump congressional gerrymander isn't targeting a *Democratic member of Congress* -- it's targeting *the people and communities who live in that district*

Just so I’m clear, you can tear down the White House, but you can’t tear down Confederate Statues. Is that correct?

Look, I don't live in Maine, and don't know Platner....but I do know that the USA has a MASSIVE hero-worship / saviour complex. No one person can save you, and it's 'ok' to stop following someone when it turns out they have a Nazi SS tattoo for 15 years.