Its the same thing with disinfo shit everyone wants to reinvent the hypodermic needle media theory. Its the network. Its the network. Its the networ

still appreciate any boosting of this greatly, it's rough out there

I've got to say, this weekend, from students preparing for finals at Brown to Jews celebrating the festival of Hanukkah on Bondi Beach...it felt as if Yeats' awful vision were coming true: "The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned."

Say it again for the folks in the back: "The first time the House has voted to overturn a Trump executive order in this term." 🙌

just for comparison, a @techconnectify.bsky.social video with far more niche appeal

CBSNews made the bold, principled choice to no longer be a news gathering organization.

A really unfortunate thing about SF politics is that people like the Network State dipshits genuinely are fascist adjacent grifter morons, *and* many of their highest profile detractors are like the most uncharitable caricature of dysfunctional left wings politics possible.

José Antonio Kast, who loves Pinochet and is hard fucking right, just won Chile's election

I would find this more convincing if I had literally one other example ever from history of a man who had visible hand injuries from shaking too many other hands.

This isn’t actually a problem. There are still plenty of liberals and leftists left on Twitter. They actually ratio the shit out of the Nazis all the time, even with the open suppression. But it doesn’t really matter if you just hang out in the For You tab because that’s all propaganda now.

Imagine a world where you can’t enjoy Bad Bunny, because he speaks Spanish, so you turn from the Super Bowl to watch people significantly less talented just because they are white? White supremacy is a straight jacket.

X is right now a Central European country populated by people who don’t know the Nazi government they live under is about to start and lose WWII

That's right

The endgame here is getting the Supreme Court to declare that the entire civil service system is unconstitutional. Which is to say, this administration does not want us to be a modern, efficient, globally competitive nation-state.

Abolishing ICE and CBP is the compromise position.

like i dunno just the difference in temporal perspective between coates and klein in that interview was pretty striking klein felt like the world was ending, because if your historical perspective starts in 2008, it was. coates could see the longer view.

i think this is especially obvious once you escape from the goldfish brain various pundits have inflicted on themselves and see politics in a longer timeframe various political movements have, quite successfully, reshaped national opinion (elite and mass) on various issues over the years

I think evil is the sort of threshold that most people, even many in this administration, don’t really rise to. At least, not in the ways we often men the word. But I don’t feel any hesitation about calling RFK Jr evil.

This is also why you can't just run an election on healthcare costs and hope they don't bring up immigration. You have to fight them on immigration because they inject this Nazi shit into everything.

It's ridiculously out of touch to treat "abolish ICE" as untouchable. This stuff is wildly unpopular! People hate them! It's an irredeemably rotten institutional culture of thuggery and criminality. Cutting this malignant tumor out altogether isn't just right on principle, it's a winning message.

14 victims dead including two rabbis and a 10-year-old child. 42 injured. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12... And it could have been worse but for Ahmed's heroism and our gun control laws that meant the deceased shooter only had the 6 non-automatic firearms he had been able to acquire legally.

hello, this is your internet tool dad speaking. Lowe’s is ditching Skil tool lines and has massive discounts on everything. you should have a drill. And for $60 plus battery this is the most handy drill on the planet. I have one. Get it for yourself or your kid for their first apartment.

it's easier to understand what's going on if you just sub "elites" for "jews"

notice who's repping him in his lawsuit - the Pacific Legal Foundation, which is a very conservative public interest advocacy group

"ICE and CBP must be abolished" is the only reasonable position. We can debate the specifics of new agencies for immigration functions, but these agencies are simply too infected with a culture of impunity, racism, and fascism to continue. They're gangs with badges.

What could go wrong?

And finally, the assault on Section 230. This is the endgame for independent speech. If you repeal 230, you don’t hurt Google or Meta—they have the lawyers to survive. You destroy the small forums, the independent blogs, the dissenters. You make the cost of speaking the truth too high to bear.

We saw the prototype of the Nero Doctrine with Twitter. The goal wasn't to make it profitable or "free." The goal was to break the one place where news broke faster than the state could spin it. They bought the town square not to speak in it, but to burn it down so we’d have nowhere else to gather.

Trump is trying to steal the money importers have paid in illegal tariffs before SCOTUS rules the tariffs were illegal. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

Courage is rare!

we celebrate this precisely because it is abnormal behavior

*pins this to America’s mood boards for inspiration*

So this is very wrong. Yes they can still succeed, and nothing is guaranteed. But no, they have not already effectively done any such thing. They continue to make decisions as if they have and run into reality. Opposition is still open and visible. The courts still makes them reverse actions

in seriousness, i see silver’s career as a damning testament to our collective failures and weaknesses—our desire to escape the reality of politics and outsource our thinking and decision-making to yet another snake oil salesman pretending to be a prophet. the guy himself is banal & archetypal.

and laid the ground with Birtherism! he won the Republican nomination in 2016 largely on the strength of having been more openly racist in the Obama years than any of his rivals who were then in elective office would permit themselves to be.

Again, this is all mumbo jumbo. The reason we measure inflation based on a combined basket of goods is to see economic wide impacts on consumers. Cherry picking data is political hackery, not economics.

Sorry for not offering this earlier, but if you're a parent of a Brown student and they need help (a ride, a coffee, whatever), please email me and I'm happy to try to help. cs.brown.edu/~sk/Contact/

This is a good statement.

It’s incredible that the government and industry response was “they’ll never figure out how to assemble a reliable car”

There was a whole thing on the right about kids these days lacking "grit" and establishing "grit," and we really need to start throwing that back at the right. If you are having big feelings because someone is wearing an outfit you don't like, that is an opportunity to develop some grit!

now feels like a test of whether those who say they’re just antizionist and not antisemitic actually demonstrate that

In order to "protect women" Texas made it so that women have to go through armed guards with an ID check. They literally created a potty police.

This, for the love of all that is holy Compliant and credulous media will be the death of the republic

what an asshole

But David French, the guys flipping out over Drag Queen Story Hour are the weak men creating hard times. If they think something has gone terribly wrong, and that the thing is people reading books to kids at a voluntary family event, that's insanely weak. And an excuse to act on irrational hatred.

i also think it’s mclellan-brained and i’d remind everyone that mclellan went on to run against lincoln as the candidate for surrender and appeasement.

Seems like an interesting narrative turning point: contract terminated with Rick Perry-cofounded company’s data center originally called “President Donald J. Trump Advanced Energy and Intelligence Campus“ www.ft.com/content/e405...

I no longer accept the class only argument. And frankly anyone who forwards it is suspect as hell It’s a way for a lot to enabling people who feel uncomfortable to justify the fact that they make direct choices that harm others I don’t like triangulation in my movements or my relationships

A lot of terrible things in the world going on everyday so it's good to post the good things sometimes. Humanity is not lost so we should all try to spread it as much as we can.