like i was saying

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

taking my old grandad out onto the f-zero course in his wheelchair and running along the bit that repairs the cars and seeing if it makes him better

Speaking of Watergate, just this accidental DM/post is a bigger scandal than what took down Nixon’s presidency.

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

All hype about the power of facilitating "human-AI collaboration" aside, we don't quickly implement extremely strong norms of disclosure around AI use, science is cooked. From arxiv.org/pdf/2509.12282, one of many many efforts in this direction.

What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?

Hakeem Jeffries voted for Charlie Kirk Day but still isn’t sure if he’ll endorse Zohran Mamdani. This is why the approval rating of the Democratic Party is lower than Trump’s or the GOP.

"Fascism is a temper tantrum disguised as an ideology" is a great line

Killmede-“so true, Cardinal. In a way, we are all like St Paul, as he also wanted to have all the homeless killed. Isnt that right? Back me up on this, Cardinal “

Sucker nation

Drive a Kompressor / Rate My Professor

Instead of the angry finger-pointing, can we just for one day agree that it is horrible and monstrous to shoot another human? On behalf of my family, we send love to the Kirks and to all the children, parents and innocents who fall victim to senseless gun violence.

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

It is illegal to criticize the right.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

“Comedy is legal again”

Dem voters: We need strong leadership and we need it now. Because we're scared and we fear that if something isn't done, this country is going to become a nightmare with no end. Chuck Schumer: I'm going to work day and night with my Republican colleagues to lower the price of licorice candy.

We are witnessing a swift and sweeping consolidation of media (traditional and social) into the hands of a small number of billionaires who are actively aligned/aligning (both via free will and coercion) with Trump and his right wing political party. This is (I’ll say it) a fascist project.

long day working at the vats where we grow grinch candidates for christmas. they kill the old one in january as a sort of sin-eater thing so we get started around september to make sure we have a few viable grinches. the habitat where we harvest wild grinch sperm is shrinking due to climate change

A friend reposted this by @zellieimani.bsky.social from 2020 and it remains apt: “For the oppressed, peace is the absence of oppression. But for the oppressor, peace is the absence of resistance."

looks like perhaps bsky.app/profile/adam... left?

This has been coming from the beginning. All major democracy-supporting NGOs and foundations have their legal complaints already drafted. And in time, perhaps not even much time, they will win their cases. What is needed most in the meantime is courage. Keep saying what you think, doing what you do.

I dunno, I try not to be hyperbolic but what else can you say about the headline "Regime Plans Persecution of Regime's Political and Ideological Opponents."

This admin hates America. It hates American people. It hates American places. It hates American culture.

It is going to soon become necessary for everyone to post a fairly consistent set of critiques of Charlie Kirk, because they’re trying to come after everyone who does, and the only answer is to make them come after us all. We need to pick standardized language, and then get loud with it.

I think this point is far more important than we realize. The fact that we consume completely different media showing us completely different things is a huge driver of division.

wow

It will never not be amazing to me that journalists and other people in positions of public influence willingly stay on a site that is being openly manipulated on every level by one of the worst human beings on Earth.

I like when you register for a website and then it takes you to a login page instead of just signing you in. That’s right, good point, I might not have wanted to log in right now. Maybe I signed up today so I could log in sometime, some other day.

IMO this is still the correct take.

Many believe Nano Banana is what’s taken Gemini over the top to beat ChatGPT as the top iPhone app in the U.S. Its ability to edit images without losing consistency and maintaining a character’s likeness are unparalleled in free AI apps.

know who else has a medal of freedom? www.c-span.org/clip/white-h...

This is one of the weaknesses of civility politics, it falls for the form. That humiliating content farming is debate-shaped, we have to treat it as legitimate! Fox News is news-shaped, we have to treat it as legitimate! The Free Press is newspaper-shaped. etc etc.

The killer himself and his affiliations are not mentioned until graph 27 of 30 of this article. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/u... The connections to the online Groyper community, or the Nick Fuentes / Kirk ideological divide were included not at all

Normal people know nothing about Groypers because the captured right-wing billionaire-fellating media DOES NOT COVER NEGATIVE THINGS ABOUT THE RIGHT WING. Captive. Kneeling. Shameful.

Tolerance is a peace treaty- not a moral precept medium.com/extra-extra/...

Confidence to believe *what*? Confidence to believe *what*, motherfucker!? /goose_meme

*extremly gritted teeth*

Information environment has reached its grotesque conclusion in that there is a very real killer out there who has not been identified, apprehended, or investigated, a detail practically inconsequential to nearly every commentator’s purposes.

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

"Manosphere"... you mean this thing?

Masked ICE agents pulled back from a raid in Rochester, N.Y. on Tuesday as about 100 protesters crowded the street outside the location shouting “shame” and “Gestapo." www.huffpost.com/entry/federa...

In this battle between an orca and a pride of lions, home-field advantage will be key.

Pritzker should order state police to follow ice around and arrest them when they break state law

At this point abolishing ICE and reforming the Supreme Court have to be non-negotiables for every 2028 Dem.