So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

Let me tell you a tale of how completely the normies have been mobilized. My 14 year-old niece has done School of Rock for the past 5 years; last summer she was part of their touring band, and the kids loved playing together so much that they decided to keep doing it. (1/?)

it’s breathtaking to see how this country is in decline by every possible metric

I'm the president of leaving half-drunk glasses of water around.

Gavin Newsom looks like one of the masks they wore in Point Break

got to visit with a friend who is thirtyseven weeks pregnant today and, gentlemen, appreciate how good we have it

“You want ICE agents to have to identify themselves before they try to kidnap or kill you, but you don’t want to have to present a birth certificate to be able to vote” I mean… yes

Oh, okay. I'll bite. The right to vote is enshrined in the Constitution. The "right" of armed federal cops to arrest, beat, and kill people with anonymity is not.

There is no constitutional right of law enforcement to detain me, throw me to the ground, and then put five bullets in my back while masked and unidentified. There is a right to vote.

Abortion rights and voting rights: two things that Republicans think are a Constitutional right for men but not for women.

"Hold on, we actually allow a failsafe" The failsafe: Having a birth certificate, ID, and being willing to sign an affidavit on penalty of perjury. This is what gendered administrative burdens look like. academic.oup.com/jpart/articl...

I guess "it's the fault of journalism professors" must be an easier cope for this guy than "I turned a venerable regional media outlet into a place prospective journalists straight out of college dismiss."

Chris Quinn: “Claude, I can’t believe that student turned us down. Write me an editor’s column on how the job market will eat them alive and, please, emphasize how their university degree sucks.”

Please tell all journalism professors that The Plain Dealer was the best outlet its size in the world until Chris Quinn showed up to dismantle it and ran us all off, and attribute it to a former assistant managing editor thx

I teach journalism at a university. I tell my students that AI can produce inaccurate slop, so they need to learn to do what AI cannot - high-quality, fact-checked, fair, well-written stories. They are not allowed to use AI at all because that's not how you teach students to do journalism.

“We plan to hire an AI rewrite specialist to ingest the reporting by Hannah and others and use AI to convert it into stories.” The editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer said it will use AI to ‘write’ its articles. www.cleveland.com/news/2025/10...

it's hard to process this level of cruelty to children

Gift article. Philadelphia Inquirer is well worth subscribing to. share.inquirer.com/wjEzal

Something like this might just work. Oh wait it’s been working for 5 years now! avivomn.org/avivovillage/

They've both been in jail since Monday. "State police said that a grand jury indicted the couple in late January for concealing the birth of an infant and reckless homicide, a charge used in situations where someone 'reckless[ly] causes the death of another person.'"

worth noting that police arrested a woman *and her husband* this week for reckless homicide related to a miscarriage. Yes, men: fetal personhood affects you too

This is called a community college and if we funded them properly we wouldn't need private individuals to offer these kinds of services.

Police lie. All the time. In paperwork. To prosecutors. To the media. On the stand while testifying under oath. And even when in the very rare case their lies are exposed, they get to keep lying with few if any consequences. This pattern isn’t just limited to ICE.

It's Mandatory Monday and AI is clearly the future. mandatoryrollercoaster.com/post/8081046...

Happening now on 50th Street in Minneapolis. Lined up over a ten block stretch.

The President, two of his current Cabinet secretaries, his former strategist, his biggest donor, and his pending Fed Chair nominee are all in the files of a pedophile who ran a sex trafficking ring, while the attorney general and a former Cabinet secretary let him get away with it. Seems kinda bad?

ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.

In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”

BREAKING: How the Trump administration will determine the “right” voters

…she will make sure they vote for “the right leaders?”

"Trump has become a parody of a 1980s televangelist, openly grifting his followers for massive amounts of cash. (His ballroom is practically his own Heritage USA.) But Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart put on a more convincing show." — @playtyperguy.com

Welp. Guess we're gonna see what happens

It's exactly this. Musk never gets called on the fact that he's been 10 years out from a moon colony for the last 16 years; Republicans never get called on anything; why wouldn't CEOs start testing out this new accountability-free zone and just say whatever's convenient to manipulate the moment?

Of course he did. Why did anyone believe him?

no, it simply isnt. People are talking about capital using gAI as an excuse to conduct mass lay-offs, about students losing learning because theyre being lied to about gAI in education, about the mass theft of the work of artists and authors to train LLMs, about CSAM and nonconsensual sexual images.

that's... not an election?

Just as ICE and CBP have no legitimate role in "election security" neither does the head of DHS. The mere existence of this press conference should be a scandal, much less this tone-deaf comment.

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

Happy 18th birthday, Blucifer! In some states, you are old enough to buy a gun... and with that thought, none of us are ever going to sleep peacefully again.

For the record, this is what the National Guard mobilizations were all about. It wasn’t about protecting the public; it was about sending a message to citizens. “If you don’t like what we’re doing with federal law enforcement in your city, here’s a taste of what will come next.”

NEW: State Rep Scott Bottoms (R) claims, without offering evidence, that there are pedophile rings involving elected officials at Colorado's Capitol. When the GOP candidate for Governor wouldn't agree to a scheduled interview, we met him for an unscheduled interview.

Trump posted a video depicting the first Black president and his wife as apes and his excuse for this is that it's a riff on The Lion King, a movie that does not feature any apes. Somehow this was a one-day story and we've already moved on.

I think the greatest gift college professors in the humanities can give to students right now is a seminar room where, for 80 minutes twice a week, nothing that happens to them is a sales pitch for an AI product.

Colorado joins multi-state lawsuit suing Trump administration for cutting $600M in public health funding www.cpr.org/2026/02/12/c... via @codaleynews.bsky.social #copolitics

30 countries use mail voting

This was the very thesis of a talk I gave at my own university last year. Guess how well that message went over!

There it is: one of the first times anyone in the Trump admin has admitted that protestors & bystanders are legally permitted to protest & document DHS activity.... Just two days ago, this same crowd spent hours claiming DHS agents have been "under attack" in MSP & beyond...

The damage done to Minneapolis is probably the clearest example of how Trump is simply not like other presidents. Besieging and occupying a city for weeks like that is nearly unheard of