One of the natural consequences of blurring the line between state censorship and “cancel culture” was making it easier to engage in state censorship. I leave it to your imagination whether the people who did that intended that result or were merely recklessly indifferent to it.

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

*extremly gritted teeth*

One of the major problems of our age is that Ezra Klein ascribes to Charlie Kirk a shared commitment to a free exchange of ideas which Charlie Kirk manifestly and expressly did not hold.

Was just called a "wallaboo" for how much I talk positively about Australia This is perhaps the most devastating insult ever levied against me, and also a word I will immediately be appropriating.

Jesus Christ

It's almost as if something had given them an inaccurate idea of how xenophobic Americans are and how popular Trump is

a lot of people seem to conceptualize what happened to Twitter as “they stopped censoring the Nazis” but what actually happened is they rebuilt it to create Nazis

my roommate was trying to find the menu for a nearby bagel shop and instead found some of the most iconic slop I've ever seen. thanks food! :)

May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.

The NYT could have had *anyone* with a child with similar needs write this. The facts would be the same, the horror of what's coming would be the same. The pleas for readers to use their voices on the child's behalf. From the essay, we don't know what being "conservative" has to do w/ her position.

I suppose the New York Times will run daily stories on this until he resigns, unless Secretary of Defense is a less newsworthy job than a college administrator?

reskeet with a tweet you still think about

David Byrne came to my band’s show at a gay bar in Bed-Stuy and sang This Must Be The Place with us and I still haven’t processed it

the way you actually fight fascism is by locking up as many of their leaders as you can as quickly as you can, and identifying all their sources of power and influence and breaking those. they control the courts? break their control of the courts. crush fox news. destroy the federalist society. etc

Emil Bove openly bribed the mayor of New York City.

One of my favorite stats that blows people's minds is that tax revenue collected per dollar of state GDP are identical in TX and CA. California looks like a "high tax" state mostly because its wealthier

Unless you're in the top 1%, Texas has a higher effective tax rate than California, when you consider the consumption and property taxes. So it might be a good deal for Rogan himself, but definitely not many of the comedians in his orbit.

more evidence for “a bunch of AI cultists dismantled large parts of the federal government because they believed that their LLMs were intelligent and could do the work better” thesis

“the party being led by jeffrey epsteins best friend wants to repeatedly examine your childs genitals” is a true statement

I wrote about how Geoff Lewis, one of OpenAI’s long running investors, has sparked concern among peers who believe he may be facing a public mental health episode brought on by ChatGPT. futurism.com/openai-inves...

This is literally what we reported would happen. www.status.news/p/skydance-c...

Apparently, Abbott signed this bill. It is now illegal to talk, after sunset, on a college campus in Texas.

If you grew up in a household with an evangelical right-wing parent, as I did, you already know that the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education, like the reversal of Roe v. Wade, is the culmination of a 50-year project.

this should play in every ad

In 2021, Biden admin awarded Kerr County TX $10m in American Rescue Plan Act funds, which could have been used for flood prevention infrastructure. But commissioners, facing political pressure from conservative residents, opted not to pursue warning system. www.texastribune.org/2025/07/10/t...

This is exactly what the internet is for.

Less than a year ago @nytimes.com was sent hacked data about Trump's vetting of JD Vance, which they refused to publish. But Mamdami's hacked college application gets an exception because of interest from random online Nazis and Chris Rufo, the NYTimes' de facto executive editor.

the silicon valley technofascists are the definition of good times breed weak men

propaganda works. biden doing everything he was supposed to after helene didn't matter because biden's enemies controlled the information environment and spread lies about it instead.

why Richard, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world, but for WHALES?

I genuinely believe the only way we smash fascism is if the next Democratic administration is willing to use prosecutions and investigations in aggressive and norm-bending ways that make a lot of bien pensant legal academics extremely uncomfortable.

THIS BEAR WAS LOOKING FOR ITS FLIGHT IT IS EVERY AIR TRAVELERS RIGHT CASE CLOSE

i don’t practice trans sharia i aint got no crystal ball

the Biggus Dickus scene from Life of Brian but it's an ICE agent showing foreigners at a port of entry this picture of jd vance and deporting them if they can't keep from laughing

Teach how lawlessness has been, is now, being legalized. And how that is not a contradiction.

Indeed, that's how law should be taught. A smaller version of this occurred in Constitutional Law classes when I went to law school because Bush v. Gore was simply indefensible. There are historical parallels to draw from when discussing legalizing lawlessness, but they make conservatives mad.

there are still a bunch of plain facts you can't publish in the newspaper, such as "the Federalist Society is a conspiracy by fascist billionaires to overthrow American democracy and reinstate Jim Crow."

yeah -- ground beef hit an all-time high last week, and nobody appears to be reporting on that www.bls.gov/charts/consu...

If you knew Mike (well first you’d be laughing because he was just so funny) you’d know he would be so pissed at these cuts to scientific research and the peddling of magic & mysticism to good people yearning for control. I hope he knows his story continues to matter: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/o...

everything that's happening now is the predictable result of this gargantuan mistake.

Give the photographer the Pulitzer Prize

Everything except rape and murder somehow ended up being female coded with the enthusiastic backing of guys who complain about society being feminized.

The next president needs to take her shot and declare all corrupt Trump pardons invalid, and re-imprison all of them. There has been more abuse of the pardon power in 4 months than in 200 years. We're not losing anything by either destroying it or fully enabling it.

and before you get hot under the collar about that statement: it's 4AM in Gaza right now and I am watching two separate accounts post their gofundme in somebody's thread every 10 seconds. as @rahaeli.bsky.social notes: it's 9AM in Southeast Asia, though. people are being had. I'm sorry.