The post I left pinned when I abandoned X-dot-com, the everything app:

who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there

In a better society, all the men in those Epstein emails were taken out to the middle of the ocean and given a fair opportunity to swim home

Historically, is it a good idea to starve your military? Just wondering.

"You’ve been given an app for reluctantly volunteering to run the book fair, an app for viewing your kid’s hastily prepared report cards, and an app for lodging complaints about our apps. Now, we’ll also be tracking your child’s whereabouts on three additional apps."

“oh so you think the east wing being demolished is worse than-“ it’s a synecdoche, man. a visual metaphor. there’s a reason the aliens in Independence Day don’t aim a huge laser at SNAP benefits

So much for that Peace Prize nonsense.

In St. Louis it rained. Dipshits on the Bad Place chimed to actually dunk on themselves.

Our federal tax dollars are being used to fund a network of government social media accounts that pump out disinformation 24/7. Even during a government shutdown. It’s definitely not essential work.

There's literally no reason for Congress to exist if any random freak in the presidential orbit can nullify laws and seize federal funds. All of this is plainly illegal, but Mike Johnson leads the most corrupt Congress in US history (and by a wide margin.)

Or is this just the madness of King Donald playing out in public without any substantive action besides Gruppenfuhrer Miller's standard abuses?

I'm just an unfrozen caveman, but it seems to me that this might be an interesting petard for the current debauched SCOTUS. Any lawyerly person care to opine? Tell me I'm wrong? @kenwhite.bsky.social

Nice to see where I lived stand up to thuggery and thinly-veiled racism.

Since immigration judges are by definition administrative judges, how does Loper Bright affect them?

It would be nice if you could limit the feed to like 1 in 4 posts for some people.

This sums up this ghastly Colossus and where the ill-spent and ill-gained money behind came from: "His license was revoked in 2018 after he pleaded guilty to insurance fraud..." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/r...

"US sets $10 million on fire for vibes." x.com/Reuters/stat...

And to think that we could have just arrested this criminal idiot maniac for sedition back on January 7, 2021 and then tried and imprisoned his ass and none of this current insanity would be happening. Lesson learned I hope.

Evergreen

So it's good that these fascist pricks are also spectacularly incompetent, right?

People don’t need to “learn to use AI”. They need to learn how to think and make connections themselves and thus will facilitate their efficient use of whatever technology comes along. Crafting the right prompt for AI doesn’t take AI training, it takes liberal arts training.

Legalized open bribery.

As if @mcsweeneys.net wasn't already among the last remaining good websites, they're doing this. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/les...

Trump holds meeting with General Zod.

They're not Republicans anymore, they're Royalists.

When the relief wears off, markets will decline again. This was the nothingest of burgers. A global kayfabe.

Orange Monday

Trumpression inbound. Really the dumbest thing in American history. So far. Stock futures plunge as ugly stretch for stocks looks set to worsen: on.mktw.net/3XMCydk

The body language of all the regime sycophants pushed on the air today is that of a corner lot used car salesman trying to flog off a flood salvage beater for twice market rate.

Time for a Business Plot with a more reliable Smedley Butler.

"Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate farmers, liquidate real estate. It will purge the rottenness out of the system. High costs of living and high living will come down. People will work harder, live a more moral life." Andrew Mellon, 1929. How'd that go again?

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

Got himself arrested on purpose while telling his city council to not put a MAGA plaque on the library because MAGA = Nazis. It worked, producing media coverage. Baller. ✊ www.latimes.com/socal/daily-...

Since the Washington Post didn't want you to see the anti-Musk ad with your newspaper, please check out this website and share it around www.commoncause.org/work/fire-el...

More than 60 actions taken by President Trump during his first month in office bear the fingerprints of Project 2025, the right-wing blueprint for overhauling the federal government. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

this is the story of both Musk and Trump. they discovered semi-accidentally that the establishment is too blinkered and chickenshit to enforce the laws as written, and kicked through that rotten door. but it's given them (particularly Musk) Mad Emperor Syndrome

USAID’s inspector general—presumably operating from a remote base in the mountains—has just released a report on the staggering effect of the Trump Administration’s assault on the agency. oig.usaid.gov/sites/defaul...

Iconic that a shitcoin launch and dump that enriched him and some Chinese sharps. Early Crypto Traders Had Speedy Profit on Trump Coin as Others Suffered Losses www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/u...

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This is going to end very poorly. Shutting down these systems created at the behest of "shrink the government" conservatives back in the 1980s is going to hurt millions of people regardless of their political inclination.

Spiegel reports that Musk now also has access to sensitive data of competitors with regard to their financial dealings with the government.

When you elect a chaos candidate allied with corrupt sociopaths expect corrupt sociopathic chaos. gizmodo.com/the-faa-has-...

Nazi salutes? Check. Concentration camp in a grey area outside the law? Check. Folks, we've got a fascism here.

Central feature of the chaos is that the OPM memo requires agency lawyers to, inter alia, review programs to see if they "advance Marxist equity". But since that phrase has no meaning in law or reality they can't. Might as well as be talking about orcs and warlocks or Wizard Thought.

Great... Debaathification by dipshit kids coming up. That went well.

Uh, hey, this basically is a dictatorial grab that turns Congress into not much more than a rubber stamp body...