🚨 5 PM news dump: Given the government’s opposition to the preservation motion and known prosecutorial misconduct in this case, @brianstraw.bsky.social attorney Christopher Parente is calling on @durbin.senate.gov and @duckworth.senate.gov to open an investigation into IL’s USAO northern district 🚨

If it were up to Jeffries and Schumer, the Democrats would be rolling out the welcome mat for Trump. We know this because that is literally exactly what they did. They planned his inauguration!

Black folks been peacefully marching for decades No reparations White folks attack the capitol Get reparations What should black folks learn from this?

Anyway in a just world, there would be a trial right now about the role Ro played in egging on the deaths of millions of people and the destruction of the United States government. Instead, Bernie's people are trying to help him be President because he will fight billionaires or something.

Worth noting that this is actually a meta-question-- it's not "what policy do you think is good?" It's "what policy do you think other, imaginary people would think is good?" This encourages the "Everyone Think Like a Pundit Rather Than as a Citizen" disease that plagues political commentary.

This is the most disgusting, violent, eugenicist period in modern american history. Morally appalling and unrelentingly cruel Conservatives derive a sickening joy from using their power to enact state violence and to encourage stochastic violence and terrorism Clarence Thomas is a robed terrorist.

and I oop *SAUDI ARABIA FREEZES GOV PAYMENTS TO CONSULTANCIES: SEMAFOR

Our entire political system is due for a restructuring like happened when the civil rights act passed. I am a convert to: uncap the house after 115 years when they just stopped adding members and go to proportional districts and get away from the 2 party doom loop. Ds can’t win forever.

"don't vote for cops" is some of the best and most broadly applicable electoral advice you'll ever get

I think Democrats like Cory Booker should take a hard look in the mirror and consider why Jeff Bezos loves their tax cut proposals so much. Billionaires would love to see a weak state with a gutted fiscal capacity.

More on ICE agents detaining a person in North Chicago this morning, leaving a child behind in a car:

Things that happened to me immediately after I said Marc Andreessen needs to be removed from power in an interview with the MIT Tech Review, the most prestigious tech publication in our industry:

Erasing that is carrying out tech fascist orders. They don't want you to fucking listen to me. I got em dead to rights How about everyone makes an effort to get to the heart of this story. VCinfodocs is the real deal and everyone should have a chance to read it. It comes from people who KNOW.

once you understand social media influencers as the modern equivalents of the petite bourgeois small proprietors of industrial capitalism, a lot falls into place canonical @maxread.info maxread.substack.com/p/the-tiktok...

Unsurprisingly (and as Sander knows) I'm not changing my mind on the back of this paper and thread. Europe is losing competitiveness to China, but constantly presenting this as the result of their cheating is both far too sweeping and stops an effective response.

I can't believe we turned "Laptop Worker" into a term of derision. We now have the tech and business models to allow millions of people to make a living in ways unthered to a farm plot, assembly line,, or cubicle. That's very cool! Do not project your weird yearning for the mines on to me.

this was not very Baja blast of you my guy

The producer’s face when he turned. Absolute cinema.

"As all rivers are lost in the sea, which shows no sign of their presence, so will all peoples be lost in the widening confines of our Republic, with an ocean-bound continent for its unparalleled expanse & one harmonious citizenship, where all are equal in rights, for its gentle and impartial sway."

"People treat characters like they're real people and real people like they're characters." Whew.

Hate this take (should be the top 25 or 50)

Look, if you wanted your student loans, healthcare, or retirement paid for by the government I suppose you should have stormed the Capitol on January 6th.

I still think these two paragraphs from Ganz are the most important contemporary political writing

Okay so we're in between net checks and hanging out in the truck because the weather is shit, and a bird lands on the side mirror. My student Noelle looks and starts making incomprehensible noises, because it's a freaking HAWFINCH

I understand why this is confusing: you're used to the press saying poor people deserve to die and not rich people.

Can neither confirm nor deny that I supplied the Jaguars with the raw lap dance video as part of their arbitration with Le Papa de Dublin.

You may have read about the woman who gave birth in a Brooklyn courtroom Friday night while waiting to be arraigned. I spoke to an attorney who saw the whole thing, and says it was much worse than has previously been reported, a scene of "complete violence." hellgatenyc.com/birth-in-bro...

Dems are polling crazy high based on the flaming catastrophe that is Republican fascist rule, so primarying as many of the bad weak complicit Democrats in favor of good determined angry ones has rarely if ever been more crucial

Any Dem not promising to put these people in windowless cells should be run out of the Party, let alone be voted for. No excuses! That's the absolute bare minimum and I won't lift a finger for anyone not willing to do so no matter how many scolds give me trolley problem lectures. Sorry!

Anyway I don’t know how you interpret handing out $1.8 billion in slush funds to the president’s brownshirts as anything other than “they’re definitely going to steal the midterms by force if necessary, and we’ve already had our last free election”.

Remember when the Supreme Court said a president lacked the power to forgive $20,000 of student debt for Pell Grant recipients and the White House just said "Oh, okay"

NEW: We are out with the first and only report about ICE detention in Ohio, comprehensively, during Trump's first 15 months of his second term. 8,000 Ohioans have been locked up in jails in our state. Read more here: ohioimmigrant.org/blog/ice-act...

It's the TAKE OUT THE TRASH cycle. We may not get this opportunity again. Put these fucks out of work, do everything in your power to ship their asses.

Also remember, whenever a Special Counsel is appointed in a Democrat administration, such as Ken Starr, they must be Republican so they are unbiased. But whenever a Special Counsel is appointed in an Republican administration, such as Robert Mueller, they must be Republican so they are unbiased.

When a democratic president is underwater on approval the media interviews republican voters and when a republican president is underwater the media interviews republican voters

Saving this as reference for the next time the Brits get frisky about accurate assessments of the dire state of British “food”. (1/2)

On Fri night, Brooklyn court staff forced a woman to give birth inside the courtroom. Per public defenders, she gave birth in handcuffs, unable to reposition herself, unable to pick up her infant. The men who’d shackled her looked on. The judge lauded the birth of a ‘beautiful baby’ on the record.

Every week or so I think about the fact that the cops/government shot a white man, Alex Pretti, in cold blood and nothing has happened to his murderers. The murderers still have their jobs and the unarmed white man is a cautionary tale for white people to not challenge the white supremacist state.

God, I miss whipping this scumbag into shape.

More soon. It. Ain’t. Over.

I've encountered two CPD checkpoints at the end of the North Ave tunnel so far this spring and I'm having a hard time expressing how much encountering random bag checks to use the bike path makes me feel like we live in hell.

i’ve only seen one brief clip of Jonathan Haidt’s NYU commencement speech but it’s him saying purple is his favorite color and then immediately mispronouncing “2026”

Hahahahahaha Jon Husted running like a bug! It’s like seeing an old friend on the street.

the murder of juniper blessing is a horrifying reminder of the campaign of violence being waged by the most powerful against the vulnerable and the environment of hate being encouraged on all sides of the political spectrum

Lmao I hope all the big pubs are paying attention. Fucking dopes selling out their 100 year old brands for the Anti American Pedo President. Gonna be out of work soon enough.

Seen in Logan Square