if we can afford to sustain ai and venture capitalism we can afford UBI and housing and groceries for everyone

3,437 bound volumes. 17,000 pounds of documents. 1,400 victims. Tomorrow at noon, I'm standing at a podium in Tribeca and reading the Epstein files out loud for 24 hours straight. Please join me. Subscribe here: www.youtube.com/@eliza.orlins

2026 and news outlets are still blithely reporting cop lies, that contradict all available scientific evidence, as fact. a cop steals fent from the evidence lockup to get high and is secure in the knowledge that it will be reported as an accidental OD just from being in the same room.

unfurling a "white replacement" banner should get you permabanned from MLB stadiums

President Zelenskyy: “Our responses to Russia’s prolongation of the war and its attacks on our cities and communities are entirely justified. This time, Ukrainian long-range sanctions reached the Moscow region, and we are clearly telling the Russians: their state must end its war… Glory to Ukraine!”

"It [the Constitution] is intended to be the charter of a self-governing and free people, not a secret code that can only be interpreted by those who have been read into the proper mystery cult. The Constitution belongs to us, more than it does the faculty of Yale Law School."

“Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents are being told to find a new power provider because the grid is being re-routed to A.I. data centers.”

In May 1940 the Germans invaded the Netherlands. After the surrender Dutch troops were ordered to hand in their weapons and vehicles to the Germans. When the commander of the Hussars got the order he said "Never". They gathered their 30 cars & 150 motorbikes on the Malieveld...

Musk needs to lose US citizenship and be put in prison. Then, Trump needs to be held accountable for his massive amounts of crimes, then, his kids. Next, his entire treasonous GOP party.

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

I live in the greatest country in the world. I pay $450 a month for health insurance so I can pay $250 to go to a doctor who prescribes me a medication that I can't afford because it isn't covered by insurance.

This is one of the wilder satellite animations I've seen in a minute... Wildfires produce their own thunderstorms while smoke wraps around a low pressure. What a fascinating view out of southern Kansas this evening.

It was in Project 2025 to destroy Medicaid. The Republican Bill signed into law in July 2025 already enacted 1 Trillion in Medicaid cuts. Now they are just nailing our coffins shut.

Trans people are facing a decades-long, escalating, international effort to drive them out of society supported by some of the richest, most powerful people AND governments in the world and you are right that a few of them being snippy with you on social media is, essentially, the same thing.

Time to make Section 4 of the 14th Amendment famous, which explicitly bars the U.S. government from paying out or owing anything to insurrectionists. The text instructs that “all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.” constitution.congress.gov/browse/amend...

i’ve been thinking of what could even be said about such a tragedy. someone said it best that trans people are “born so late and die so young”. we uproot our lives and transition and live more life than anyone else ever does and society punishes us for it. we deserve better

This November, Voyager 1 will reach a light-day from Earth. From that distance, our world (the pale blue dot) will appear as it was yesterday and over time, drift further into the past.

My thesis remains that Trump's information environment is primarily sycophantic right-wing media, lies from his advisors, and AI slop his staff create to show him the world he wants to see. And anything that challenges that picture, he assumes must be dishonest or fake.

For as long as I live, I will never understand how January 6th wasn’t the end of Donald Trump. I will never, ever understand it.

A video analysis of the difference between dog joining cat and cat joining the dog. Original post

Q: Would the US defend Taiwan if it came to it? TRUMP: I don't want to say. That question was asked to me today by President Xi. I said, 'I don't talk about it.' (That's a no!)

THURSDAY NIGHT BREAKING NEWS: This $1.7 Billion Trump Settlement Is the Most Corrupt Thing I Have Seen in Forty Years of Practicing Law You need to read what is actually in this deal before it gets signed. open.substack.com/pub/mitchthe...

This nomination should be rescinded.

GILLIBRAND: How did we bomb 22 schools? COOPER: There's no indication we have G: So how do you explain publicly available information that 22 schools have been hit and multiple hospitals? C: There's no way we can corroborate that G: Have you investigated those claims? C: We have not

term, how he has been paid for those pardons, and how much money has likely flowed to him and his family in the process. Let’s begin. cmarmitage.substack.com/p/untangling...

Cool, so NSF is now going to be used to essentially launder money to tech bros because universities are just too cumbersome and disciplinary oversight and regulations and accountability are all just too stifling for innovation. $1.5B for “X-Labs.”

Layers of Tuscany… #photography #art #nature

Hitler did not destroy Germany in a day. He destroyed the idea that Germany’s rules were binding. Once the Reichstag fire happened, The emergency decrees were signed, The courts didn’t stop him, the system was finished—even though the formal collapse took another twelve years and forty million lives

California-based artists and creatives, the California government is asking for public input on AI's impact on our work. Please fill out this survey, it'll just take a few minutes: join.engaged.ca.gov/en/projects/...

I’m a broken record, but it’s facially insane that the SCOTUS’s position is that the interest of a political party—an entity with no special constitutional protection—in gerrymandering is more important than black people’s right to vote, which we have several constitutional amendments addressing

Absolutely fuck you, Amazon. When I bought this device there was no mention of my purchase being time limited at your discretion. It does not require software updates, so the only "support" necessary is that kindle books are available in a format that can be sent to it. This shouldn't be legal.

There are few things more difficult than departing from meeting with a client in I.C.E. detention. Wasn’t even permitted to speak with her because I didn’t have the funds to pay associated fees beforehand. To be clear, this is illegal. The Right to Counsel is clear. But the Rule of Law is dead. 🇺🇸

Zbigniew Ziobro was one of the authors of the attempt to transform Poland into an authoritarian regime. Ziobro is a wanted man with no passport. The Trump White House just went to a good deal of trouble to bring him to the US. snyder.substack.com/p/copycat-ty...

The totenkopf tattoo, bad as it is, has sort of overshadowed the fact that whenever Platner talks policy it becomes obvious he has no idea what he's talking about. Remember when he said big pharma is closing rural hospitals?

As the U.S. starves it of oil, Cuba is pulling off one of the fastest solar revolutions on the planet — with China’s help

At some point we're all going to have to admit that universal basic income is very much needed in the US and we CAN afford it.

The Senate fell one vote short of formally shutting down the war with Iran, with John Fetterman casting the decisive vote.

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Trans rights are human rights. Feel free to send your bitch army to my house.

sure gas is headed to $8/gallon but at least cornell got rid of their gender studies classes. or at least i think they did, i haven’t checked and if im being honest i wouldnt really know if they had or hadnt because it doesnt affect me but it makes $8/gallon gas all worth it

Hire me to illustrate the cover of your fantasy novel

Benjamin Netanyahu should not be on CBS's 60 Minutes. He should be standing trial at The Hague for his war crimes!

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

WE DON'T NEED PETROLEUM-BASED PLASTICS ANYMORE! "The [bamboo plastic] outperforms most commercial plastics and bioplastics in mechanical and thermo-mechanical metrics while maintaining full biodegradability in soil within 50 days and closed-loop recyclability with 90% retained strength."

Stoking and channeling boiling contempt for the ultra-rich is a pretty essential element of what needs to happen if we're gonna get out of this. And folks, they've given us a lot to work with. Don't tone police that shit. When it gets out of control, remind people why that's happening.

Key words: “by the school.” In Hollywood 80 years ago, we had very clear ideas about how to treat HUAC lapdogs and informers. No one involved in this choice should hold a job in education ever again.

"F&ck the planet" by the New York Times

“officials discovered two industrial-scale water hookups feeding a data center campus located 20 miles south of downtown Atlanta. One water connection had been installed without the utility’s knowledge, and the other was not linked to the company’s account and therefore wasn’t being billed.”