“After years of illegal and unconstitutional federal efforts to restrict free expression, I will sign an executive order to immediately stop all government censorship & bring back free speech to America. Never again will the immense power of the state be weaponized to persecute political opponents.”

Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans

It really winds me up that they invoke Christianity while acting in such a way that is the opposite of Christ, and lead by one or the most un-Christian people to have ever sat in that office. In CCD class, we asked the purpose of confession and the whole point of confessing was to do better.

Can someone remind me who is the majority party? WaPo seems to need help here. I thought it was the GOP, who despite what the WaPo wants you to think, actually have some agency. Lots, really, tho you’d never get that idea from the media.

Katie Britt and Tim Scott are both up for election in 2028. Dems better get cooking on candidates if they want to be prepared if they both get primaried by a whackadoo.

Pricing and configurations are available March 12! Just a few weeks away.

Found the 90 deals in 90 days. Just not involving the US.

So the feds ARE NOT considering an mRNA vaccine for the flu, which could save countless lives, but ARE backing research into whether horse dewormer can cure cancer, because the right views vaccines as elite and ivermectin as populist. Cool. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

The only thing really disappointing is that at no time (that I was watching, which was most of it) did the bushes start dancing. If the bushes started dancing with the music that would have been awesome.

More than half the drugs on the TrumpRx site have a cheaper generic version on the market. Pristiq, an antidepressant, is available with a TrumpRx coupon for ~$200 for a 30-day supply. A generic version is on GoodRx for less than $30 and Mark Cuban's CostPlusDrugs for $16.65.

Let’s hope this podcast is syndicated in Canada, if you get my drift.

This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here. (clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)

Last day of these signs

Cost Savings xkcd.com/3197/

This is the first example I’ve seen of an American government using AI to meaningfully misrepresent actual events with the intent to deceive the public. We are at Stalinesque levels of propaganda. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...

The Verge removed the paywall from this piece by @scottmeslow.bsky.social. It concludes ominously: "Wherever you are, get organized now. Figure out who your likeminded neighbors are. Set up your Signal chats. Get some whistles (I can spare a few if you need them)." www.theverge.com/policy/86419...

Chapter 1,394 of things that would scandalize any other administration into paralysis. 🤷‍♂️

America has a housing shortage. Every single housing proposal you see that is not "build more housing" will have the primary effect of pushing up the prices of existing housing, and is therefore, in reality, a plan to enrich current homeowners. In conclusion, build more housing.

A few months ago, ICE hired me I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!" My latest for Slate

That pink jacket even matches that DPRK news presenter coloring color.

Conor has a lot of good points but I still have a hard time reconciling my model of life in America with this chart produced by AEI (right-wing think tank) where the underlying thesis is “trickle down economics works!”

they've got Raffi calling for regime change. something has shifted.

In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.

US government killing Americans in broad daylight, kidnapping foreign leaders, threatening allied territories and dictating corporate capital returns. But “invest in America.” 🤡

In these upcoming Maduro trials. What if he is found not guilty? Do we just ship him back?

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

Not that I have the time, but if I did I’d start a “Fixing NYT” website and fix these problematic issues with their stories. Show both side by side with annotations and notes to take their pro-elite, pro-powerful stories and fix them to be more pro-people. I think it would qualify as “fair use”.

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

So Netflix licensed Dune (1984) for streaming. But it’s the original theatrical release (2hr) not the directors cut (3 hr).

It’s January first, and that means only one thing - here comes the CESpool of new weird electronics products.

When my younger kid went to daycare the front door was locked. They didn’t let anyone in that wasn’t a parent, staff, or someone else who should be there. And they certainly wouldn’t let any randos off the street inside to film.

We are in a post literate society where words mean nothing, only vibes and feelings. www.theverge.com/policy/84960...

I was the only one in my house to get the flu shot this year. (Stuff happens, it just didn’t get done, sorry) I was the only one in my house in the last 10 days to not test positive for Flu A (or anything else). The flu shot worked for me. It will probably work for you too.

via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

A guy flew a glider from Nevada all the way to freaking Kansas on Friday 12 hours and 1200 miles in the air with no engine. Dudes rock

“.. Not since the U.S. allied with Joseph Stalin during the Lend Lease Act has a White House official enjoyed such frequent, personal access to a Russian or Soviet leader. “Witkoff has yet to visit Ukraine.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/world/putin-...

“The thing that’s been the most difficult so far is that, in all of our interactions with the government, they’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them.”

Training to be an air traffic controller is, rightly, tough. Doing so during the government shutdown proved a breaking point for as many as 500 trainees, a dent in efforts to boost ATC staffing.

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

This what happens when you find a stranger in the alps.

Christ, what an asshole.

I’ve never wanted something to be AI generated more in my life. This is what it’s like to live through (in?) a farce.

Brandy you're a fine girl What a good wife you would be But my life my love and my lady Is the See

The age of the petrodollar is ending. China is ascendant in clean energy, and the electro-yuan might take its place.

If you scroll on X, you are only being shown what Elon wants you to see. If you create content on X, no one will see it unless Elon wants them to.

Bovino, Italian for bullshit.

In a new phase 3 trial, people randomly assigned to receive a flu shot made with modified mRNA were 34.5% less likely to be diagnosed with an influenza-like illness than people given a standard flu shot made with inactivated virus. We need to stop the anti-science attacks against mRNA vaccines!

How the fuck do you “smuggle” a supercomputer. They take up lots of rooms in very large buildings.