Folks look at you like you’re crazy when you say we’re in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then something else happens:

All hell is about to be unleashed on people utterly unprepared to discern truth from falsehood.

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OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...

Sincere question: Does this come with any consequences? If they keep violating the law and all that happens is they get scolded by the court, why would they stop? Judge Rules Trump Unlawfully Targeted Noncitizens Over Pro-Palestinian Speech www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...

I very much recommend reading the ever wise Cory Doctrow's very clear explanation about why A.I. is a bubble and it's about to pop. "AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations." 🔌💡 pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

i wrote about atproto and why it matters

There is no world in which masked and armed agents of the state running down delivery drivers makes us safer. That our information environment and political leaders have convinced people otherwise is a massive failure.

we are gonna win the intra-party battle on the need for broad-scale democracy-enhancing reforms, the only question is whether we do so soon enough for it to matter

Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance

The house is on fire. And on November 3, 2026 we’re going to decide whether to put it out by asking everyone in the country their opinion.

Pritzker: "One of the reasons Trump wants to send troops into cities is bc he wants to be able to take control of the 2026 elections...if they've got troops in cities, & it becomes a kind of norm for people, then it won't be abnormal for them when they're going to vote having troops at ballot boxes"

Trump: don’t take acepitoemponoene RFK Jr: *moth crawls out of mouth* A nude man is in the background, only referred to as “the colonel” Person watching on tv: well if they say so

Don’t forget to leave milk and cookies out for Earth, Wind & Fire tonight

We're at the point where the Trump does something worse than Watergate daily, often multiple times a day. And none of it makes news; it's just normal now.

this charlie kirk deification is some of the weirdest shit i have ever seen

My bones, Erin. They scream “run, run like your grandparents did, run before the shooting starts.”

JUST IN: Bureau of Labor Statistics postpones key inflation data report

When JD Vance brags about the U.S. blowing up alleged drug boats and says, "I wouldn't go fishing right now in that area of the world," he's really saying: "We're so reckless and dishonest that fishermen should worry that the U.S. will murder them and then falsely accuse them of drug trafficking."

How Do You Stop A Serial Killer? - defector.com/how-do-you-s... ”Monday, on social media, President Donald Trump announced that he had murdered three people…“

Q. Why is there a special election in the Minnesota House tonight? A. Because the Democrat who held the seat was assassinated in June. www.the-downballot.com/p/morning-di...

1/2. Charlie Kirk frequently called for other people to be killed. Remember that time when Charlie Kirk called for Joe Biden to be executed? I do. He didn't even bother to posit any particular crime.

We would have been done talking about it on Thursday.

we're 235 days into "ending the war on day one".

State Department to ban immigrants speaking ill of Charlie Kirk. VP to fly his body to Arizona on Air Force 2. Trump to award him the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Journalists getting fired for asking the right questions. We are spiraling into a dystopia beyond our imagining.

MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence

“We hate this shooting as much as conservatives do. The difference is we hate all the other shootings, too.” www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words

The truth of the matter is that if anyone but Charlie Kirk had been killed at today’s shooting, then Charlie Kirk would be out there right now using the shooting as pretext to deliver arguments designed to make sure that the next shooting would happen, and the next one, and the next, and the next.

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.

why is it called AI generated and not slop-motion animation

wait what? published september 8? two days ago? www.jezebel.com/we-paid-some...

It is incumbent upon us to display the grace, humility, and empathy that the deceased displayed throughout his own life right now.

When a right-wing man murdered Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota, progressives asked MAGA to tone down the rhetoric to prevent more violence. Within hours of Kirk’s murder, motive still unknown, the right is demanding that the government wage a campaign of violence against their enemies.

AdMiN dID tHiS tO dIsTrAcT fRoM tHe FiLeS

Dude's last words on earth were trying to troll someone asking about gun violence and mass shooters by saying "Counting or not counting gang violence?" under a banner that said "Prove Me Wrong."

The only question I have is: Where was all of this concern trolling about political violence after sitting legislators was assassinated in Minnesota by a far right member dressed in police cosplay?

They lied about kidnapped children.

Apropos of nothing

a government of republicans, by republicans, for republicans. exclusively. everyone else can eat a dick apparently. “conservatism consists of exactly one proposition: there must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

This is the official spokesperson for the White House, stating that the President hopes to deploy the United States military to occupy every city controlled by the political party that opposes him. Explicitly.

To put this into context, the judicial warrant for the search at the Hyundai plant named just four people. Relying on that warrant, ICE detained nearly 500 people. DHS admitted that included U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and people lawfully here on visas.

This is darkly mesmerizing. kottke.org//15/08/the-t...

Why doesn’t SCOTUS just dissolve itself, with a ruling that transfers all of its powers to the “unitary executive”?

Centrists “Karl stop being so hyperbolic the republicans aren’t waging war against the population stop telling people the republicans are gearing up to wage civil conflict”. The republicans :