Merry Christmas to all who celebrate! 🎅🏾🎁🎄🕯️👼🏼

Pelosi retiring. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 A legendary and historic leader. Here’s my favorite clip of her, saying she’s gonna punch out Trump. #NancyPelosi

For years, but especially for the past year, Democrats have been in thrall to the idea that they need to chase an imagined median voter, and adopt that voter’s positions. Mamdani’s victory shows another way: hold principles, and persuade people to share them.

Thrilled for our friends in the great state of New York 🗽

I love that Mamdani’s ad features a short conversation with a bodega cat. Every vote matters.

he’s not wrong, unfortunately.

“You’re no Mario Cuomo, Andrew Cuomo. I KNEW Mario Cuomo!” A thing Curtis Sliwa just said to Andrew Cuomo’s face.🤣🤣🤣 #NYCMayoralDebate

if only the left put the same energy into registering voters as they do into whining about #EzraKlein.

listening to Hanselman on @oxide.computer's podcast and always kinda figured he was a bit of a curmudgeon—and I have affection for curmudgeons usually—but jeez lol.

The press’s double standard for MAGA is maddening. THEY SOLD ALLIGATOR ALCATRAZ MERCH!!! Profiting off bloodlust that alligators might eat brown people. Good on Warren for being incredulous.

“founder mode” = publicly glazing dear leader

bringing maxine waters energy into this day

💀💀💀💀💀 bring back making jokes the straights aren't in on

Mr. Rogers successfully defending The Corporation for Public Broadcasting from a threatened $20 million budget cut (67% of their funding) in 1969.

It was abundantly clear that the people working at the ICE facility in Baltimore have been instructed to hide the inhumane treatment of the people in their custody.

“Blow on the embers, the fires in your own heart and conscience that need to be stirred,” Grant said in an interview with CT right before sound check at the concert. “Engage, come on, come on, engage!” Grant has described PEPFAR as a “pro-life” program 👇🏽

“Hi, Senator Hagerty, hi, this is Amy Grant,” she said. “I’m standing on stage singing to over a thousand people … We want you to know that here in Nashville we want to see full funding of PEPFAR so we can stay on track to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic by 2030.” www.christianitytoday.com/2025/06/amy-...

A little peek at Taproot… It’s a high-performance context engineering tool written in Rust to extract relevant code context using concrete syntax trees. #BuildInPublic #AI #ClaudeCode

“Beyond its political donations, GEO Group has also lined Trump’s pockets by spending at Trump businesses. In 2017, the company broke tradition & held its conference at Trump Doral rather than its own headquarters, & its Vice President had stayed at Trump’s DC Hotel at least 10 times by June 2019.”

#ICE arrests are drastically spiking in NYC, up 678% compared to last year. Most are people with zero criminal record. #ICEraids www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/14/i...

Luis Florencio Fernandez, a beloved server at NYC's century-old Square Diner for 7 yrs, was suddenly torn from his community of 35 yrs & sent to an #ICE detention center. His heartbroken family, coworkers, & customers—who knew him as part of their daily lives—are fighting for his return.

Democrats hosted a “science fair” on Capitol Hill where leading scientists showcased their research that had been cut by the Trump administration. www.npr.org/2025/07/09/n...

llmc: AI-generated commit msgs 🔐 Use your own LLM account ✨ Open source ⚙️ Fully configurable 🤝 Team friendly ⚡ Manual exec or git hooks 🚫 No more "fix stuff" commits ⭐ Please star on GitHub if you dig it! 💬 Feedback welcome! github.com/marclove/llmc

llmc: AI-generated commit msgs 🔐 Use your own LLM account ✨ Open source ⚙️ Fully configurable 🤝 Team friendly ⚡ Manual exec or git hooks 🚫 No more "fix stuff" commits ⭐ Please star on GitHub if you dig it! 💬 Feedback welcome! github.com/marclove/llmc

🚀 I built a CLI tool that auto-generates commit messages! ✨ Conventional Commits ⚙️ Fully configurable ⚡ Manual exec or git hooks 🚫 No more "fix stuff" commits ⭐ Please star on GitHub if you dig it! 💬 Give me feedback if you have any github.com/marclove/llmc #AI #ML #LLM #BuildInPublic

Diego Luna, guest hosting for Jimmy Kimmel, shares how he found community in the U.S., the amazing things #immigrants bring to America, and how unfair it is that they are living in fear.

"the biggest load that we've seen"

In June, a Philadelphia man impersonating #ICE robbed a store & tied up a female employee, getting away with $1,000 in cash. In April in Indiantown, FL, a man was caught threatening to deport 2 Latino men; he was arrested & charged w/impersonating an ICE agent. prospect.org/justice/2025...

There’s video from multiple angles, douchebag. We already have answers, we need consequences, @schumer.senate.gov

My cat reporting Alf 🐱📱

Here he is enjoying some scrambled eggs this morning (he’s obsessed with scrambled eggs) 🥚

“… Don’t let them intimidate you into thinking that you’re doing something wrong by telling people what their actual, legal constitutional rights are. There’s nothing wrong about it, and there’s nothing illegal about it. And if they want to make it illegal, they can come take me.” THIS IS THE WAY

Last week, DHS and Secretary Noem's staff and spokespeople suggested that because Mr. Abrego Garcia had $1,100 in cash on him when arrested outside Home Depot seeking day labor, that was strong evidence that he was a member of MS-13. I guess that raises a similar question about her $3,000.

Businesses should start itemizing the Trump tariff costs on their receipts.

me after handing off my project to another team

“Japanese Americans in San Jose, CA, one of three Japantowns remaining in the United States, say the deportations are a painful reminder of the WWII hysteria that inspired the mass incarceration of their community.”

boom times for people who worked to undermine the civil rights laws calling me because they've been fired and want to use the laws they've worked to undermine

“The goal is not to save money but to stop collecting it”: exactly. You and I might pay dearly for what meager public institutions remain, through tariffs — but the wealthy, as long as they remained in the party’s good graces, would shirk their tax obligations with impunity.

If your idea was to wither the vital systems of the state and clear a power vacuum for filling by private capital and billionaires, this — like much else the current crew has announced — makes a reasonable step toward that goal.

well well well

18F, a team in the General Services Administration, was tailor-made for government efficiency and technology, writes @matteowong.bsky.social. Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency wiped it out.

🤔 Is this the same "department" that accessed all kinds of private and sensitive data from the government?

One thing Democratic leadership could do right now is to name an alternate HHS secretary--someone to provide ongoing public updates and health information. And do it for other departments too. Start showing voters what a Democratic government would look like--press conferences, speeches, all of it.

Key to the ruling: Ross took the works of Reuters and built a directly-competing product that was not very transformative. I doubt the same ruling will occur in, for example, the NYT v. OpenAI suit. — [Judge] Bibas…ruled that Ross “meant to compete with Westlaw by developing a market substitute.”

Source: Shopify tells support staff to give "no comment" if merchant clients asked about Kanye West using its tech to sell a T-shirt with a Nazi swastika (The Logic) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

The quid pro right there for all of us to see. Literally 6 hours apart. He threw immigrants to the wolves to save his own corrupt ass.

I wrote more about the catch 22 that LLM providers are stuck in & how the future belongs to those of us who can bridge cutting-edge AI capabilities with meaningful, user-centric solutions. marclove.com/2025/02/10/c...