“FBI says FBI thwarted FBI-inspired terror attacks”

The latest print issue of @streetroots.bsky.social is a devastating read, even if you won’t read every word. 16 pages of items city contractors took during sweeps in the first half of 2025. Data, presented without comment, tells the real, human-centered story of unsheltered Portland homelessness.

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

I’ve seen a million media stories about how sad Republican voters in CA are about losing their Republican representatives. But I don’t think I’ve seen a single one talking about Demoratic voters in Texas, or North Carolina, or Missouri losing their representatives.

Tech Billionaires Threaten To Flee California Over Proposed Vest Tax https://theonion.com/tech-billionaires-threaten-to-flee-california-over-proposed-vest-tax/

This is enemy sabotage.

AI sloppers (is that a term?) crying that their prompts are being stolen is more beautiful than anything AI could produce

Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. “Big tech has made their choice.” www.404media.co/google-has-c...

Updated this for the NYT.

NYT when a trans man wants to take testosterone: 😡😡😡😡😡 NYT when a cis woman wants to take testosterone: 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

Whenever people jeer at the German civilians forced to bury concentration camp victims by the American soldiers in "Band of Brothers" I ask everyone when was the last time they visited the local state prison and saw what was going on there.

CHOTINER: and when you're in water you PARTICLE MAN: don't get wet, that's right. CHOTINER: And this is because PARTICLE MAN: the water gets me instead. It becomes particle-manish CHOTINER: There's been some debate on this point. Triangle Man, for example PARTICLE MAN: I think we're done here

The Abundance movement often points to environmental groups as the obstacles to building. But who actually files the lawsuits blocking projects? It’s not environmental groups. It’s been lawyered-up HOAs protecting property values all along. Regulation by litigation is the problem.

!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social: is.gd/paU8Ko (It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)

It's important _not_ to give up on podcasts — because their concept is radical, and fights back against big tech (and fascist policy makers) being able to control people's voices through their platforms: www.anildash.com/2024/02/05/w...

I'm struck by the part where Weiss says (paraphrasing): "We don't include the administration's justification, except for where we include a clip of Leavitt publicly offering a justification, which is unsatisfying to me for reasons I will not articulate here."

They have hollowed out the corpse of my industry and are walking around wearing it like a skin suit

1. BREAKING Sharyn Alfonsi, a correspondent for 60 Minutes, sent an internal email to colleagues stating that CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss “spiked our story” about the Trump administration and the transfer of deportees to a prison in El Salvador.

“Does discrimination drive alienation?” is a great question and it feels like there are some other groups that might make clearer case studies than white men

When you lose shitfaced middle-American teenage bros, you have lost America.

New Vergecast! It's the epic season finale of America's favorite podcast within a podcast, Brendan Carr is a Dummy — and @reckless.bsky.social is ready for it www.theverge.com/podcast/8480...

“We were once so close to heaven, Saint Peter gave us medals declaring us the nicest of the damned”

The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."

one of the funnier aspects to the AI backlash is the fact that they're negatively polarizing much of the tech enthusiast demographic against them by making hobbyist PC building functionally unaffordable

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I’ve been warning that the Tech Bros want the S.F. Presidio for a “freedom city”. Now this. 👇 1/

One possible flaw in Bari Weiss's plan to remake CBS News in her image is that she is a bad and boring journalist and nobody actually likes her.

giddyup jingle whores

So are the less famous presidents excluded from the Presidential Walk of Fame? I mean, would Chester Arthur or James Garfield even be on that list?

the entire post 9/11 apparatus is now being fully utilized

In case you ever needed proof that the Heritage Foundation is not a conservative organization, here we have them cheering on the Federal Government threatening to strip all funding from a state that does not make political decisions the President likes. Any true conservative would be howling.

what happened to portland’s critical mass?

If you make a billion dollars — or $500 million or even $100 million dollars — and you keep trying to make more, then there is something seriously wrong with you. It's a mental illness akin to hoarding or drug addiction.

when the editor asks for my first draft

if you give a mouse a cookie

i have no issues with arguing that moderation does have beneficial effects. my issue here is that bazelon and the entire orbit of boosters (like Matt) around him are paying absolutely no attention to what happened to Labour

When checkpoints go up in a fascist autocracies hardening phase it means violence or kinetic contact is imminent. In Bosnia, Ukraine and elsewhere the pattern is clear when the forces espousing eliminationist rhetoric and deploying secret police for terror raids put up checkpoints violence follows

pals you gotta quit spotify

Good on Penn Jillette. Having to come to terms with your entire political identity and philosophy being wrong is not easy and most people could never do it.

Elon Musk and his Russian friends call for the abolishment of the EU

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara issued a stern warning to his officers on Thursday: Intervene when you see Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents using unlawful force or lose your job.

the reason its bad to run universities like businesses is that almost all businesses fail on any reasonable timeline of evaluation. hudson's bay made it the longest and even they only got to about half an oxford of longevity

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

We spent the past month (months?) talking w/ protesters detained at Portland's ICE bldg about their experiences. We heard everything from being questioned about antifa, to not being read Miranda rights, to photos w/ arresting officers. Their stories point to a slapdash, chaotic federal operation:

"This explains why the administration refuses to declassify the memo...If the public saw how flimsy the legal footing is, they’d see the president is using wartime powers he does not have to kill civilians he cannot legally target..." open.substack.com/pub/defiance...

THIS YEAR IN PARTICULAR, in most cases you'll find your premium DRAMATICALLY increasing...and if you don't take any action by the final deadline (Jan. 15th in most states), you'll be stuck with that policy or none at all for the full year. 🚨 SHOP AROUND. SHOP AROUND. SHOP AROUND. 🚨

I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic. It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.

Years ago, my colleagues at Business Insider and I tracked YouTuber “cancellation” arcs. What we found is that for many entertainers, “cancellation” actually sets the stage for a redemption arc, one that can raise their profile higher than ever. It wasn’t career-ending. It was fuel.