Popping this on my cheery 'to read' list, @graceblakeley.substack.com always offers thoughtful and well researched insights IMO. I'm just reading her Vulture Capitalism book, which is marvellous and reminds me that we are all truly screwed by Capitalism - unless you are a very rich tech bro.

OTD in 1991 Ukrainians, including those in Crimea, voted overwhelmingly for independence from USSR. I don't like that vote result, so I am changing the voters and having new votes.

go Seahawks! Damn!

Reporter: No, what part of the body was the MRI looking at? Trump: I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and aced it. I got a perfect mark which you would be incapable of doing. Good bye everybody.

Reporter: Governor Walz called for the release of your MRI results Trump: They were perfect like my phone call where I got impeached. Absolutely perfect. If you want to have it released, I’ll release it.

The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time." Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...

And there's no real encouragement to continue to read about journalism, like as a field of study. It's either how to report better (so techniques etc) or the business of journalism. Very little on what the fuck is our actual impact on the world? What are our norms doing?

Would it have been a cool twist? Yes. Did I think it was a bad idea knowing most people don't read to the end of the story? Yes. He refused to let me do it my way (the ETHICALLY CORRECT WAY), so I pulled the lie.

I did a story once that introduced a lie (it was relevant it was in the news a lot). I wanted to correct it right away - because I'd been trained if you have to introduce a falsehood correct it right away. My editor wanted to save it for the "kicker" as a big reveal

A lot of editors don't even know about media magnification. One of the shocking things - to me - when I left journalism school was how little editors knew about like the study of journalism as a discipline. It's a profession based in norms even if those norms are harmful.

As I said to Onion members: "We’re an independent company, we don’t use AI to write headlines and make art, and we’re one of roughly three publications who are up for the fight. Unlike other places, The Onion is quadrupling down on being a pain in the ass, politically." So help out! Grab a paper.

Let's just say that Harlan Ellison would *never* have liked Elon Musk.

@bencollins.bsky.social Is Kim Kardashian's publicist ripping off old Onion articles?

Korean-owned coal mines were stopped in NSW by local groups. Korea is now phasing out coal. This is why stopping coal and gas projects in Australia is so important! IT WORKS!! My piece on @thepointau.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/news/251126-...

Erik Prince, Blackwater founder Anne Wojcicki, 23andMe founder Jared Leto, actor Sophia, simply getting a driving lesson Just some of the thousands of people in 100 countries we discovered were targeted by phone-tracking tech sold by a secretive firm called First Wap.

One reason we failed in the past is bc we didn't build up popular opposition to the crimes, whether it's torture or drone-killing or even attacking Congress. Now is the time to do that, not after Dems retake power.

Yes! Get ahead of this. This AI bubble is going to burst. These assholes are WAY out over their skis on this technology. They’ve made a lot of promises but have delivered little more than slop & environmental damage -things that turn off consumers. #NoBailOutsForAI #FuckAI #LetThemFail #OurMoney

This is why AOC is very smart to get out ahead of the impending collapse of the #AIBubble w her #NoBailOutsForAI bill. These billionaires are their own! They have over sold this shitty product to investors but consumers are not buying. #FuckAI #LudditeUprising www.windowscentral.com/artificial-i...

OpenAI has coders who could write code to raise red flags when suicide or self-harm is mentioned in the chat.

i’ve said this before but lemme say it again. it makes absolutely 0 sense to talk about “misuse” of llms because there is no clear use or purpose for llms to begin with. genAI is a purposeless tech floating around looking for uptake 1/

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what the “misuse” framing does is shift the onus on individual users when shit goes wrong leaving AI developers and vendors off the hook 2/

Sulzberger wants Trump to win and American children to get sick and die of preventable diseases. That is the sort of man that Sulzberger is.

Oklahoma's Number One Coward... Markwayne Mullin.

Someone needs to say it. Trump 2028 isn’t happening. We know the presidency ages you, and we’re witnessing his rapid decline. His approval is buried in the 30s, and his stamina is gone. He won’t be able to vigorously campaign. He can pretend 2028 is inevitable, but everyone can see the truth.

Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.

Sort of a deconstructed Anita Bryant-ing

The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...

Melania’s question

🧵This 58-year-old nurse from Maryland is seen being violently dragged along the ground by officials in Ghana. Trump deported her there. This abhorrent & disgusting abuse of a woman who saved American lives and cared for injured and ill Americans for 30 years. All the details below are worse.

As the parent of a kid applying to colleges right now, I’m just gonna highlight that he’s tracking who is capitulating and CROSSING THEM OFF HIS LIST. We can’t be the only family thinking like this. (Northwestern, Cornell, Brown & Columbia are on his ‘have capitulated’ list; Harvard’s on ‘watch’).

"Homelessness today isn't just the person sleeping outside a Walmart. It's often the cashier or worker stocking the shelves inside." I joined @pbsnews.org to talk about There Is No Place for Us and the staggering rise of the "working homeless": www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

It must be a high priority of the Democratic Party to stop the death penalty. Kudos to President Biden for commuting death sentences.

Since 1973, at least 201 people on death row have been exonerated—meaning cleared of any responsibility for a crime. Eighteen of those people were in Texas. A recent report reveals how racist the ultimate punishment really is:

Drugs, a land of contrasts.

agreed. this is why:

Offering the survivors of a missile strike no quarter and then ordering a second strike to finish them off puts Hegseth in deep, deep water. He gave an illegal order. This is either murder or a war crime. It doesn't matter what your title is, Secretary of Defense, or Fox Talk Show Host. It's murder.

If you're out celebrating the excesses of capitalism, or taking advantage of the steep discounts to get needed items, DO NOT patronize Starbucks. Your pumpkin spiced abomination is not worth crossing the picket line.

True.

Says the guy who auto-penned nearly 1600 pardons for January 6

Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.

Simon Jenkins is not worth reading. www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/the-...

If moods were weather, Trump would have a permanent tornado watch on him.

For context, Trump is just 2 (yes, two) points higher now than he was in the Gallup poll conducted almost entirely after the Jan 6 riot. news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...

If the U.S. was at war, Pete Hegseth's order would be a war crime, a military lawyer said. Instead, it might just be murder. wapo.st/49KbUJ1

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