Frankly, terrifying

They built this technology with this use case in mind.

In Chicago, we haven't forgotten about Silverio Villegas González, the father of two shot to death by ICE 8 days ago. A Biden administration policy called for body cams “in all aspects of ICE enforcement activities.” But Trump's ICE is a masked, unaccountable goon squad. There's no video, ICE says.

To my fellow cishet dudes: when we are quiet about supporting the trans community, the only voices anyone hears are the Charlie Kirks of the world. Don't let accusations of being "performative" or "virtue signaling" shut you up - that's their whole point. Our voices are needed now more than ever.

"Enough is enough. Texas must allow faculty and college students to explore freely the breadth of human knowledge, and administrators must support us in that time-honored quest." – Pauline Strong, President @utaustinaaup.bsky.social #AcademicFreedom #AcademicSky @texasaaup.bsky.social

Beyond cancelling Kimmel's show are about 200 writers and crew members in LA who just lost their full time gig.

I have no love for Charlie Kirk. I've been eye rolling for the past week while everyone on both sides have praised him for his "free speech" views. That said, its deeply ironic how much he would hate the crackdown that is happening in his name of anyone who speaks about him in any unflattering light

in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments. that fox news host still has his job.

The remarks weren’t “about Charlie Kirk,” they were about how this administration is using Kirk’s death as an excuse to shut down critics … and they responded by proving him completely correct.

We have truly crossed a new threshold when The Man Show Guy is too far left of a voice for our current set of chauvinists to tolerate

i do not think americans want to live in a culture where jimmy kimmel is considered too edgy for television

Chicago!

Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

US Journalism challenge: Publish what he said

democrat melissa hortman was literally politically assassinated in her fucking home less than 3 months ago and now everyone wants to comment on how bad it’ll be now like ok

Repost times 1000. This man’s making me drive to another state to get a Covid booster.

We interviewed four people on hold with the pharmacy in order to better understand this frustrating lifestyle. thesqueakywheel.org/meet-the-pat...

Happy publication week to Epic and Lovely by Mo Daviau @mauditmo !! “This book is a love bomb, a love bloom, a love letter from a soul on the edge of death who talks back, cracks wise, and throws down wisdom." —Lidia Yuknavitch, author of Reading the Waves: A Memoir and The Chronology of Water

You may be thinking, “How did you even find 1,000 ableist YouTubers?” But honestly it was pretty easy. thesqueakywheel.org/we-cured-100...

The God’s honest truth. Proud of @maron standing up to fascist propagandists like Bill Maher, and hate filled anti-trans bullies like Chappelle. Chappelle is worse because he was once funny. Maher has always been a hack. variety.com/2025/tv/news...

If you're arrested in Illinois protesting the planned ICE HQ in North Chicago, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected]. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.

All I’m saying is: This is Texas too. #txlege thebarbedwire.com/2025/08/19/h...

If your fave houseplant is an ikea draceaena marginata, @claireluisabiz.bsky.social and I are booking a therapy session at your practice. New piece in @belladonnacomedy.bsky.social

AI enthusiasts are constantly saying it can be used to do our jobs, but can AI cry silently in the office bathroom? Didn’t think so.

The Republican party should look into @kathrynbaecht.bsky.social for their redistricting maps instead of AI:

Amazing how peak masculinity for a Republican is swearing that you’re too afraid to go outside

Crowd cheers as cops leave.

I must continue to insist that this is not a strong regime. It does not have the kind of pan-societal support needed to enforce Gleichshaltung. It has significant elite buy-in and a small popular coalition, but it is brittle and feeble and will collapse if pressed hard enough.

Pete Hegseth shares a clip saying women shouldn’t have the right to vote, the 19th Amendment should be “repealed,” and women should “submit” to their husbands: “All of Christ for All of Life”

Their attacks up your legs are so meticulously coordinated you almost have to respect it. 🐜

More of this, please.

When public media disappears, so do the stories that bring us together. With federal funding eliminated, millions may lose their last trusted source of news and connection. If that matters to you, now’s the time to act. Donate: n.pr/458sOhq

Unrelated, probably. Fallout Comedy does shows 7 days a week and you can take classes there too. You will probably make a friend, and at the very least, you will watch comedy in Austin, a city that Tim Dillon says, "There is zero talent here in any capacity."

In honor of another terrible Bret Stephens op-ed, please enjoy this background joke from "Mulligan," from the ruins of D.C. post-alien attack.

To start, what kind of face wash do you use? Quel horror if you say “just bar soap.”

How long has it been since you washed your face the right way? New piece up today in @pointsincase.com — first one in a good long while. www.pointsincase.com/articles/the... The Right Way to Wash Your Face According to TikTok | Points in Case

Palestinians are beginning to resemble “walking corpses”, a United Nations official said on Thursday as Sir Keir Starmer called the starvation unfolding in Gaza “unspeakable and indefensible”. www.the-independent.com/news/world/m...

This is unreal: Houston just made it illegal "for any person to sit or lie down on a sidewalk or on a blanket, stool, or any other object placed upon a sidewalk." Being unhoused in public is now a criminal offense.

@kathrynbaecht.bsky.social is maybe too good at satire, as the week has proven. Read her weather piece in the Boston Globe: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/10/o... Opinion | How to predict the weather without NOAA

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

Google Gemini’s up in my emails, all “Want me to summarize this for you?” Dude. It’s two sentences. What is there to summarize?

It's amazing how DOGE is probably going to end up costing the government billions if not trillions of dollars and end up saving nothing.

Because of course not.

It's against the law for the president to directly or indirectly tell the IRS to investigate a specific organization. Every media outlet needs to make that fact clear in its coverage. It's not just a disgusting abuse of power – it's plainly illegal.

THIS, 100%.

@simonearth.bsky.social this you on my teevee??????

Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?