again saying the political response of local police depts probably worth following given Trump's efforts to federalize policing

7. Political messaging is lagging regular people’s sense that tech has gone rogue. There is an opportunity to tap into fear about government overreach and economic insecurity. That would tie together several threads of political structures of opportunity — from occupy to environmental racism

If you're rich you get a tax cut, if you're not you have to work longer and harder. Populism! bsky.app/profile/atru...

Presented without comment. I just want everyone here to know. I want you to know what you're looking at the next time you see this guy being interviewed or RTed by an Abundance bro. 1/8

No bigger evidence that we’ve destroyed the old world order than the fact that we’re leaving it to the French to prosecute perverts.

Bitcoin is a fascist & pedophilic project!

I read this, and I almost regret it. What do you even do with the knowledge that Epstein wanted and was trying to engineer societal breakdown via far right populism bc he thought it would benefit his sex trafficking business?

It’s really not difficult to say “Fuck you and your pedophile friends” and the men who didn’t were making a conscious choice

For clarity, "IRS engineers" in the above screenshot actually means DOGE goons who gave themselves the spurious title of IRS engineer. DOGE infiltrated government to give public money, and the power to hunt human beings, to the broligarchs who sent them

Spending the public's money without public oversight. It's not just a financial crime. When someone is trying to hide from democracy they are almost always doing something else deeply disturbing.

this is a very cool thing to do and also highlights one of the biggest keys to Zohran's appeal: he just thinks New York City is really neat people who live somewhere want to vote for someone who likes it there and wants to make it better, not someone who wants to use it as a springboard

Still having a very hard time understanding how cameras are going to be the thing that stops what we all saw happen on camera from multiple angles

If you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.

[upbeat zohran voice] I'm here at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany, where 80 years ago some important progressive work started [smash cut] but hasn't ended. So here's what we're doing:

This is what I’m talking about when I say he’s the “if he wanted to he would” mayor

I have spoken with several senior FBI counterintelligence officers who believe that there is a reasonably strong prospect that Tulsi Gabbard is a foreign intelligence asset.

making tulsi gabbard DNI is itself a watergate level scandal

I haven't given up on writing something about Workday rollouts. I actually need to work on some new column ideas...

We deserve a DC that works for all 💜 Homes for All 💜 Good Jobs for All 💜 Childcare for All 💜 Excellent Schools for All 💜 Safe Communities for All 💜 Reduced Red Tape, Rent for All Small Businesses And a Mayor that stands up and fights for ALL of DC.

like this is absurd, get over yourselves

Watching these Grammys, you have to wonder if perhaps the Silicon Valley bros made a classic VC mistake and went all-in on reactionary politics right before the bottom dropped out.

"a section titled “Biometric Unlock"... explicitly authorized law enforcement personnel to obtain Natanson’s phone and both hold the device in front of her face and to forcibly use her fingers to unlock it"

The year is 2028. A liberal elder millennial has taken control of the government. Everyone rolls their eyes at the new "department of good government oversight" (doggo). Until the purges begin

This shit hits like a sledgehammer right now. It's not even remotely an exaggeration.

👇🎯 Not once has the national media asked a GOP politician about affording ICE the way Biden/the Dems were asked about the cost of student loan debt relief & literally everything else for the last 50 years.

This is truly the worst case for the GOP It would be one thing if it was a wonky special with great D turnout This shows that Indies are swinging HARD against the GOP

The GOP really don't like self-government

We should have made the end of the Civil War a national holiday and celebration on par with July 4

When we do Woke 2 we’re naming everything after Black people, Civil War heroes, and John Brown

Honestly, fuck putting it back the way it was. Make it better “The Kennedy-Malcolm X Center for the Performing Arts”

Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"? Well, it happens they were doing exactly that. www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...

The comments on this video are all over it lmao. It happens at 0:33 seconds, you can hear it, the woman in green immediately notices, and they end this event in an EMERGENCY. www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_6k...

Finally, some sunlight in these dark fucking times

For all the “there won’t be an election in 2026” doomers… …Texas is controlled by some of the least scrupulous state officials. And a Dem just won an election that the GOP was terrified to lose. Elections still matter.

lol good luck with your Trump-friendly gerrymander this November, Texas GOP.

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

if we can get people negatively polarized against the entire Republican party and its messaging...hoo boy

“Jeffrey Epstein was running 'the world's largest honeytrap operation' on behalf of the KGB when he procured women for his network of associates, intelligence sources believe. The files include 1,056 documents naming Russian President Vladimir Putin and 9,629 referring to Moscow.” - Daily Mail

The funny thing about a certain type of angry conspiracy guy is that they’re literally being confronted with an elite paedophile ring and a tyrannical government at the same time right now, and because it isn't being done by the people they wanted it to be done by they’re all being pussies about it

Two things can be true: we’re a competitive authoritarian state with all sorts of efforts to put a thumb on the scale of who has power AND we have sufficiently free and sufficiently fair elections that every month we see the party in power lose.

The “Where are the protests?” lament after Trump’s inauguration was always based on a (willful) misperception. Over the past year, protests have been far more numerous, more geographically widespread, and more sustained than what we saw in 2017, for instance.

There's a rot -- a eugenicist, transhumanist, techno-optimist, new-atheist rot -- in elite institutions that connects Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Silicon Valley, CBS, Palantir, and ICE. It sweeps in Epstein, Bannon, Thiel, JD Vance, Stephen Miller, Joe Rogan, and all these other IDW / NeoRX creeps.

If we trace the major members of the anti-woke backlash in the New York media class through the Epstein files what you find is that they mainly were concerned that they couldn’t openly be eugenicist nor openly argue that their better genes meant they should get to rape all the kids they could.

Taylor Rehmet, a Democrat (& @runforsomething.net candidate!) flipped a state senate district in Texas that Trump had won by 17 points. Expand your imagination. When great candidates rooted in community step up to lead, anything is possible.

40 or so years of neoliberal governments have taught us at least two things. First, that hollowing out our public life and institutions only enables corruption and fascism. Second, that ‘the market’ is a source of no kind of moral value whatsoever.

“There’s no single answer that will solve all our future problems. There’s no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answers—at least. You can be one of them if you choose to be.” ― Octavia E. Butler, A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay

I've been beating the same drum the whole time: — Style is a form of social language — You should buy less, buy better, and save up for purchases — Learn to spot quality — Trousers often look better with a higher rise (written when slim fit, low rise pants were all the rage in 2011)

Qanon never stopped any CSAM production, never saved any kids, but did help keep a guy in power who probably raped kids with his best friend The World's Most Famous Pedophile. So, in the end, I guess the real Qanon was the friends they met along the way, on the CSAM enthusiast website.