TikTok’s US operations are changing hands and will be retraining the algo on US-only data. No word yet on whether a new app is needed. Meanwhile, @skylight.social — the TikTok of the atmosphere — is seeing massive growth this week. 🔗 skylight.social

My mom took Tylenol when she was pregnant with me and now I'm antifa!

Gift link! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/w...

Proud to announce our unnamed tech partners tracked the cell phone locations of hundreds of thousands of people without their knowledge or consent

Certiorari "before judgment" is how #SCOTUS takes up a full appeal *before* the intermediate federal courts have heard it. It used to be exceedingly rare. For instance, there wasn't a *single* grant of such expedited review b/w August 2004 & February 2019. This is the *23rd* such grant since then.

The offer made to women in the enticement to become trad wives is the same as the offer made to citizens in the enticement to embrace authoritarianism: give up. Abandon the aspiration to self rule. It’s imprisonment recast as rest and relief.

Get in losers, we’re grieving

The Pentagon is implementing new guidelines that will require journalists to sign a pledge and agree to report only approved and officially released information.

I’m really not comfortable getting Rove, Kristol, Frum, Yoo, Carlson, and Hanania in the divorce.

Today has been upsetting, to say the least. I keep trying to put into words how defeating it feels to watch the swift, public, and unequivocal framing of the left for political violence... But nothing seems to appropriately express just how dangerous this is.

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

When MAGA expresses anger at the state of things, the press and pundit class treat every utterance as the received wisdom of True America. When the left expresses anger, the press reaches for its pearls and smelling salts and bemoans the end of civility.

guys, we have a tone shift

the media rush to canonize charlie kirk is legitimately maybe one of the weirdest things of this nature i have ever seen in my life

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

Several anti-ICE protestors on the Ohio-Kentucky border. This is how the police dealt with them. Literally beat the hell out of them. This is Trump's police state America, coming to a protest near you.

Yeah this is real. Mike Johnson said Trump was an FBI informant in the Epstein case.

This is sick freak shit to say and it's alright to point that out

The Senate voting to confirm Emil Bove and the earth responding with an 8.8 earthquake and tsunamis feels like the seals on the Dark One's prison breaking.

We also learned that Trump inscribed a book to Epstein back in 1997, saying "You are the greatest!" We're publishing that here, as well as a previously undisclosed photo of Trump with Epstein and James Brown. More in the article>> www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/u...

Notice how x.AI didn't get one of these? That's because MechaHitler (Grok) will absolutely be on board glazing Trump. Let's not forget Bailey previously went after @mmfa.bsky.social using the freaking Merchandising Practices Act on behalf of Musk.

One of the little-noticed parts of Secretary Brainworm's autism registry rollout was talking about the NIH Data Platform. They want to collect ALL the health data - including your wearables.

A Dem lawmaker and her husband were killed by a guy for their political views and it’s already out of the news.

Some media outlets treat requests to post court documents as the audience asking for a courtesy so please let me urge such people to understand: When you don't post the court docs, you look incompetent. Amateurish. It's embarrassing, it suggests you plagiarized someone else and never had the docs.

Help catch Vance Boelter.

OK. This is incredible content.

A herring is a fish. When a herring is preserved by salting and smoking, it turns red and smells. It's so pungent that it's a great diversion to distract hunting dogs from their trail. Now, a ‘red herring’ refers to anything that diverts attention from the issue at hand.

I cannot fathom spiking the ball and saying "suck it" when plaintiffs voluntarily dismissed their claims as moot because they were removed from the country. Just... What fucking timeline are we in?

Hey, so... What the fuck?

The absolute stupidest timeline.

Cassocks are red Conclaves are dope Wake up babe we got a

I'm fine with the congressional trading act being called the PELOSI act, but can we please find a way to work "MTG" into the backronym? Dog the Bounty Hunter Jr. has been killing it with her trades lately.

I posted on TikTok about this a couple years ago: an entire subreddit where the conversations were ALL between LLM accounts, and they were often very convincing. I knew smaller actors would unleash bots into Reddit more broadly, the fact U. Zurich did so, without warning and unapologetically is 🙃

The second paragraph, JFC 🤦🏼‍♂️

Elon Musk's destruction of government will only escalate. That's why JD Vance just followed Curtis Yarvin on Twitter. More at The Nerd Reich: Elon Musk, JD Vance and the Onward March of Tech Fascism. www.thenerdreich.com/elon-musk-jd...

"I've detested at least three-quarters of what the tsunami did, but it possesses one quality I can't help admiring: energy. It has just wiped everything out so quickly and efficiently!"

An excellent analysis that everyone should keep in mind for when MAGA cries about partisan judges. This doesn't fix the problems, but it's heartening to see.

This is how we keep sliding. People will say crazy, dumb shit, and then enough people see it and repeat it, and eventually it gets laundered into the right ring news/brains of insane policymakers. See, e.g. fucking everything.

An outstanding, succinct piece about DEI - and why it's important - that everyone should read.

HAPPENING NOW: Following the Supreme Court's decision requiring the government to "facilitate" the release of Abrego Garcia, a hearing before Judge Paula Xinis is about to begin. I'm in Greenbelt, Maryland for @lawfare.bsky.social Follow along for updates

IF YOU'RE IN LINE TO PISS ON STROM THURMOND'S GRAVE, STAY IN LINE

Theres a headline from the 1930s for every single thing happening here today

The clown car is fully engulfed in flames 🤦🏼‍♂️ www.spiegel.de/internationa...

This is art. 🤗

Not sure if this has been shared here yet, but this is video of Rumeysa Ozturk's arrest posted by WCVB. It's terrifying.

It’s been a long day, but in short, bullies ain’t shit! I don’t care what title you hold! This isn’t some long gone reality tv show or failed casino; it is war! How dare a draft dodging dumb dupe humiliate an ally & berate a brave man who has actually been on a battlefield for his people?!

Anyone else get *viscerally* angry watching the Zelenskiy meeting? I about threw my phone when Vance started performatively lecturing Z about... Performing for the American people in the Oval Office.