Gross. Stop using meta products

Here’s part 1 of my look at what the heck to do when you want to pull your business off of a social media platform. Spoiler alert: the answer is not, “delete your account in a fit of rage” 😉 www.theradicalmarketer.com/this-online-...

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

States that didn’t vote for the president—which includes ones that pay the most in federal taxes and effectively subsidize the rest—will have federal outlays unconstitutionally canceled, in violation of law duly passed by reps from those states, among others. Taxation without representation, no?

The Sora AI thing is proof of something very important: The technology itself is useless without the ability to use the likenesses of real, living, unpredictable people, and the art they create. And the only way to get those likenesses or that art is to summarily steal it.

Adding "feds fucking choking a man in broad daylight" to the list. Absolute terror across Chicago today. Begging for national attention that matches the level of crisis on the ground here feels like screaming underwater at this point.

Bluesky’s high poobah declaring they will “fix” mildly annoying social media posts… Dudette. With respect, your automod still flags the Keystone Cops for violence. They’re not exactly inspiring confidence here.

I don't think the leopards have ever eaten faces quite so blatantly as this.

this is basically portland's version of a haka

Easily, his most elaborate and destructive distraction from #TheEPSEIN_Files... yet.

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THIRTEEN HOUR DAY?!?!?!

In case you're wondering how Portland is doing, my mom just texted me from a massive and tightly organized kids' consignment sale to help us pick great used condition toy storage furniture. We remain as anarchist and weird as possible, and we will continue to stand for peace and community.

Holier-Than-Thou-Ultra-Catholic JD Vance standing there bearing false witness like there’s no tomorrow.

I know it’s not cool, but I dig me a Gantt chart.

My immediate reaction to those who have said political violence is un-American was: are you new here? The country was founded through political violence. The union was restored through political violence. Jim Crow, assassinations in the '60s (18' and 19'), there's been a lot of political violence

I miss MacBooks’ little “breathing” light that showed it was charging.

Say what you will about Lord Byron, his “Song for the Luddites” goes hard. I. As the Liberty lads o'er the sea Bought their freedom, and cheaply, with blood, So we, boys, we Will die fighting, or live free, And down with all kings but King Ludd!

“The MAGA vision of the military class as amoral warriors dedicated to PT and demanding “respect” makes sense if MAGA views its principle strategic rivals not as foreign autocrats, but as American citizens who might try to displace MAGA from the seat of power.” www.thebulwark.com/p/the-depart...

Let's get this into the Harvard Law Review.

What a perfect formulation: “This is, in many ways, the dynamic that defines reactionary centrism: the right must be understood, but never blamed. The left can be blamed, but need not be understood.” www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...

I’d like one newspaper to try out the headline “Republicans fail to attract Democratic votes they need to end shutdown” as a little treat.

Let’s open our eyes. This isn’t a functioning democracy any longer when - in the middle of a high stakes funding fight - the President illegally suspends federal projects in states run by Democrats as a way to punish the political opposition.

this would give you a heart attack if you saw it in 1998

This is a VERY well crafted lawsuit. 1) Plaintiff is natural born. 2) He was detained 2X in a fast-growing part of Alabama, not in a city that Brett Kavanaugh could be easily duped into believing was all migrants. 3) Unwarranted detentions were on private property. 4) He showed Real ID both times.

Remember that Brett Kavanaugh said the inconvenience to US citizens would be brief. This suit alleges that: 1) Plaintiff was held for an hour first time DHS detained him, when he told them immediately he was USCit 2) He took 2 weeks off to recover 3) Second detention was 20-30 minutes

There's a Senate rule that says you need 60 votes. And another Senate rule that says 51 votes can change that at any time. The US Senate is simple majority rule whenever the majority wants it to be. Why must we pretend that's not the case?

Despite it all, it’s another gorgeous day of blue skies and golden sunshine in occupied California. A zine, $10 plus shipping.

“That people I admire, with unarguable talent, would condone this totalitarian fiefdom for…what, a fourth house? A boat? More sneakers?” - David Cross, burning bridges to light his way. ✊✊✊

can you imagine sitting in that audience as a three-star flag officer — decades in the service, multiple post-grad degrees and a virtually unequaled level of command expertise — and being forced to watch this dunderheaded dry drunk give an off-brand jordan belfort seminar?

The kids are alright. Better than alright, even.

WOW. Remember this May video of a US citizen wrestled to the ground by ICE agents and detained for an hour despite having a valid REAL ID? It gets worse. Two weeks later, ICE did it AGAIN — handcuffed him and detained him for 20 minutes despite his REAL ID. Now the Institute for Justice is suing.

The last thing I wanted was to give Charlie Kirk another thought, but this episode of Know Your Enemy is truly insightful and thought provoking on multiple levels that have on tangential reference to Kirk. overcast.fm/+AAR-RML_Mqg

EXACTLY ONE YEAR AGO TODAY. LIKE COME ON MAN.

I, too, would make sure that all the people who would need to coordinate to halt or reverse my political progress were gathered from across the planet in the same room while I demonstrated why they should probably do that

Post something random or have an awful October

This is quite a banner on the official website of the U.S. Dept of Housing and Urban Development

The judge’s option starts with this:

Federal judge, appointed by Reagan, in 161-page opinion today in deportation matter: "There’s the issue of masks... To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police"

a democratically elected congresswoman is being denied her seat because the speaker simply does not want to seat her and leadership is as unconcerned about this as they seem to be about everything else

"I'm going to torrent every movie from any studio that doesn't specifically opt out." See how stupid that sounds? That's what this is:

I don’t talk about this publicly, but hegseth drives me out of my silence. I attended West Point from 1998-2000. I left, along with about 5 other young women, as a direct result of the military’s then-shameful (non) policies addressing sex harassment and assault.

My guess is this was coordinated across the entire executive branch, like a Hands Across the Hatch Act Violation event or something

Comedians being recast as great truth tellers with some piercing insight into society is a neat piece of self-serving rhetoric that we’ve obligingly swallowed since Carlin. Unfortunately, some of the worst people you’ll ever meet in your life are good at getting a laugh- it’s not a mark of virtue.

I continue to think that one of the reasons this country is falling apart is the wholesale abandonment of public virtue as a broadly shared aspiration. Or even something people should be embarrassed about if they don’t have it.

“Over a two-year period, prosecutors across 16 states charged more than 400 people with pregnancy-related crimes, with most of the charges originating in states with near or total abortion bans, according to a new report released Tuesday.”

OMG, my kids are gonna eat this up.

"ICE agents assaulted amNewYork’s own Dean Moses, and allegedly attacked another journalist, on Tuesday morning as they were documenting the ongoing arrests of individuals attending immigration court proceedings at 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan." -- www.amny.com/immigration/...

It would be a catostrophic mistake were @gavinnewsom.bsky.social to veto SB 79. It is the single most important piece of legislation California has passed to meaningfully deal with the housing crisis. He MUST sign it.