“Many of them know what they’re a part of is wrong. And the sooner they feel they might have to answer for it one day, the sooner this house of cards will fall.” youtu.be/WK6kRaBzbg4?...

If they are doing this to white people in broad daylight imagine what they are doing to non-white people in detention facilities.

“ICE acts more like a Gestapo than it does any kind of legitimate law enforcement agency.” Amen. youtu.be/lERS4kJIQR8?...

Alrighty then

Ahem

“Not since the ransacking of the library of Alexandria have we witnessed such a wanton, intentional assault on scientific knowledge.” youtu.be/yxi8WBhc3BE?...

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

I delivered the Post when I was a kid (decades and decades ago). It’s not at all what it was. We now live in the Age of the Onion (i.e., interesting, cursed times). (Subscribed)

Is there anything better about aging than moving up to less competitive age groups?

Trying to decide whether to snort this or mainline it

‘Tis the year for lying liars who lie www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...

🎁 link www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

Three shots instead of one: little kids gets pricked thrice, not once. It’s almost as if the cruelty is the point.

I’ve been meaning to rewatch The Death of Stalin www.imdb.com/title/tt4686... for a while now. Guess I better hurry…

I feel seen

I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.

The print edition A1 headline is “White House Calls in Reinforcements for Siege on Wind Energy” which is a *little* closer to the Cervantes (gift link 🎁) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/c...

As a DC resident I do feel that the city has been overrun by "violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals" and I would like them to leave the White House and stop destroying the federal government.

Timeline cleanser: apnews.com/article/john...

The Trump GOP, staunch ally of murderous, racist thugs: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/u...

All I’m asking, as an American, is for another set of Americans on a hill to have the moral courage and tenacity to fight for the Republic At the end of the day, this is the experiment of democracy

NYT print edition, page A5 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/c...

#NoKings Belmont MA

Ours is the “interesting/ignorant” age

Worst. Episode. Of. Black. Mirror. Ever.

Hardcoded credentials in the Signal archiving tool used by the White House is a five-alarm security dumpster fire.

“If this were a side project, it would just be bad code,” the reviewer wrote. “But if this is representative of how you build production systems, then there are much larger concerns.” krebsonsecurity.com/2025/04/doge...

Read/listen about Mohsen Mahdawi 👇 www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2...

I would not have predicted that large universities would show more courage than either Big Law or corporate media. Good for them.

More of this, please

That's... a lot of iPhones www.reuters.com/technology/a...

Oh he blinked

“Look at the joy and abandon with which Musk and Bezos and Zuckerberg have jumped into fascism. They’re completely happy to be there. In fact, they’re quite proud.” youtu.be/hh7Cxt_PKqw?...

Al Franken would like a word

This is how we do it!

HAPPENING NOW: An aerial view of the MASSIVE protest today in Boston, MA for the "Hands Off!" movement against Elon Musk and Donald Trump

Murphy: "The vast majority of Republicans, their number one priority is Trump seizing power, and the Trump family and the MAGA universe holding power forever ... with the exception of maybe 20 Republicans in the Senate, the GOP inside Congress is done with democracy."

Murphy: "It's not designed as economic policy. It's designed as political policy. Because Trump gets really excited when people have to come to him, petition the king for relief. That's what he's doing with law firms, doing with universities. That may be what he's doing with businesses."

THREAD: Last year, ProPublica started receiving tips from an unusual kind of source: flight attendants. They said they'd worked on deportation flights for ICE, and they could tell us what it was really like on board. 1/

Fake it ‘til you break it?

This is literally all that matters to the atmosphere. It doesn't give us points for producing more renewable energy, or walking more. All it cares about is whether we Actually Cut Fossil Fuels that crank out carbon, and stop chopping the old growth forests that capture it.

My friend Dr. Joanne Liu, former international president of Doctors Without Borders, was cancelled at NYU. The vice-president in education asked to see her powerpoint, prior to her lecture. One slide showed the number of humanitarian workers who died in Gaza. NYU cancelled the event.

Canadians continue to (justifiably) FREAK THE FUCK OUT youtu.be/S74Z5sc5l3Y?...

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

You know, I'm just a lowly tech comms flack, but there seems to be one faction of Dems being screamed at/in hiding, and one faction pulling crowds like this. Maybe the latter should be in charge?

Canadians are freaking out. Justifiably. youtu.be/8feB6F7Vyfc?...

I'm waiting for this administration to criminalize climate scientists claiming that we defrauded the US by receiving government grants to conduct fraudulent climate research. I'm not even kidding.