Or perhaps these media are not as credible and "across the political spectrum" as they would have people believe.

These are not trivial questions. They reveal the heart of the AI scam. Because the question they are asking is not, "how can we save lives", but "how can we use AI?" We already know how to save lives. We just choose not to. The real reason people are dying is moral rot.

Elise Stefanik is an absolutely hateful person who has done lasting harm to our country. I hope she never finds peace.

I left the Boston area in 2018 because I knew I could never afford to buy anything there. I could barely afford to rent there now.

In 2018, I got in a tiff on Twitter with NPR's lead political reporter because I said their March Madness-style bracket to pick the year's top political story was heartless and cruel, because it made a game out of tragedy. He said it was fun. Gambling on the news feels like the same terrible idea.

I don't care if a non-disabled person accesses a disability accommodation for the same reason I don't care if a child whose parents are rich gets free lunch at school. We don't need to means test being a kind person. I have better things to do with my time than be a cop over social services.

One of life’s persistent questions: WHY does the US insist on paying Ralph Lauren to design boring-ass aristocratic outfits for Team USA in the Olympics?? In a country full of embarrassments, this is a big one! I hate it.

i reject the premise that having drugs on a boat is deserving a death sentence!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime. If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder. It’s that simple.

I treat boycotts as personal blood vendettas. This is about me physically harming a corporation, not about me telling any other human how to live their life. I don’t have time to judge others while I’m digging two graves for me and Target.

This. To say nothing of the destroyed careers and livelihoods, the abandoned research, and the probably irreparable trust defect for anyone who *might* have been contemplating a career in public service. Please, stop with the DOGE failure narratives.

Another name for this would be "pre-existing conditions," a way used to exclude disabled people from health care for decades in the US. Understand, when you hear people talk about "rewarding the healthy" - these are policies that have a body count.

To be fair, it is absolutely true that sitting around doing nothing is, qualitatively, the best work of their careers.

If not guilty why guilty shaped?

This is the same guy who, when asked for his order at a donut shop, said "whatever makes sense." What a sharp, analytical mind.

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

I’m no longer solely self-employed, and I receive healthcare through my employer, but I’ll never forget how the ACA gave me an option I never thought I’d have. Not just healthcare options, but the freedom of time that allowed me room to do something like heal. That shit takes time.

Normal people are just sick to fucking death of the cruelty and meanness

I expect to see Schumer's resignation letter on my desk in the morning.

To quote George W. Bush after his party got shellacked in the 2006 midterms: "It was a thumpin'."

One small thing people can do is refuse to consume shitty art that isn’t made by people Interact with art made by real artists

Remember folks, it's not the switch back to standard time that you don't like, it's that your workday is so long it eats up all of the available daylight as the sun's appearances grow shorter.

No better place to stand while you're denigrating people in poverty than in front of an enormous gilded frame. A+ work by Rollins here.

Yet again i want to remind everyone that Bill Gates and several other billionaires have invested in mining projects in Greenland that are only accessible because of melted land and sea ice, he and other billionaires are essentially shorting the planet

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

its remarkable to see random suburbanites in their fucking PJs have more courage than the vast majority of america's political, social, and civil elites

I wish people defended smeared victims of sexual violence the way they defend problematic male candidates for office

I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak

One of my least rational beliefs is that if you pull off a heist without hurting anyone or getting caught within a day, that's your stuff fair and square.

When Mike Johnson or another national leader repeatedly claims they haven’t seen relevant things in the news, an appropriate reporter reaction would be “Holy cow, how do you not know?!? How can you do your job without knowing what’s happening? What are you doing to fix your ‘not knowing’ problem?”

Shoutout to the businesses that let me buy something from them without creating an account. I simply cannot create any more accounts.

Highly recommend this great piece from @rtraister.bsky.social from a couple years ago if you want to learn more about Tish James.

A lot of people can’t admit to themselves that NPR has been manufacturing consent for very bad stuff for many years. It used to be subtle, now it’s overt. I bet a lot of people that work there don’t even realize what they’ve been participating in.

Weird thing where people say “no one could have predicted it” when really what they mean is their political commitments and orientation were such that they ignored everyone who was predicting it Sorry but “no one could have“ and you having your head stuck up your ass are two different situations

Why do some of you still have a Ring?

And this is what I mean about white male mediocrity. Klein has been a legacy media elite since when—his mid-20s? What does he know that gives him such influence? How helpful is his centrist nonsense? He was rewarded for mediocrity and now his ass is hanging out because he doesn’t have the range.

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

AI is just microplastics for software. It's polluted every app and slowly killing them.

A thing I think about often is where our country would be if we simply elected our presidents by popular vote.

No more new apps and accounts for basic services. It is no longer a convenience. It is metastasized screen-based corporate bureaucracy and I HATE it. No thanks. I’m all full up.

Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us. We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again. That's the revolution.

This is why everything sucks. It's not trans people. It's not immigrants. You are being robbed blind before your eyes and those same people also own all the tech and media networks to tell you that the cause is not them

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

"...every ounce of my energy has been devoted to an active opposition to cruel bigotry, convulsive violence, and the sadistic persecution which has characterised the philosophy and practice of fascism...nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us."