My student Theia Henderson just presented at UIST (and earned a best paper award) for her work "Graffiti: Enabling an Ecosystem of Personalized and Interoperable Social Applications". If you want to build a social app, Graffiti makes it simple and serverless; I explain why below. 1/

Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1

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Trump had his accounts suspended on January 7, 8, and 9th 2020. WHEN HE WAS STILL PRESIDENT. It was not Joe Biden because Biden was not President.

Post the wins, even when they’re just California wins. I’d like to see other states do this. It’s a crime that DC can’t.

I can’t repost so I’ll screenshot. This is an excellent point:

Suddenly, when it's about the media, everyone starts portraying the authoritarian threat clearly. Better late than never...

the Colorado school shooter from the same day that Charlie Kirk was killed posted himself holding his gun on Twitter / X where he followed multiple far right accounts weird how you wouldn't call on Elon Musk too to testify at an online radicalization hearing

Yes, release the Epstein files!!!

Another member of the ever-expanding leopards eating faces club

It is truly incredible how blusteringly incompetent these guys are.

Charlie Kirk fans threaten HBCUs because they want to lash out at Charlie’s enemies, and theirs, and they’re conceding that means black people. Not ONLY, but definitely.

So is Jane.

This formulation is popular: contrasting SCOTUS' intolerance of race as an admissions factor with SCOTUS' tolerance of race as a detention factor. There are, in fact, doctrinal, historical, and logical distinctions between the positions, that one could use to dismiss this comparison. But... /1

It’s a shame no one had the power to bar Trump from office four years ago www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Our billionaire President put an airline lobbyist in charge of the Department of Transportation. So no, this is not a surprise.

🚨MAJOR BREAKING: DOJ Deputy Chief Joseph Schnitt was caught on a hidden camera saying the government will “redact every Republican” from the Epstein files and leave only the Democrats. He also revealed that Ghislaine Maxwell was transferred to a minimum security “to keep her mouth shut.”

The Trump administration has canceled the Biden era rule where airlines would have to compensate passengers for flight disruptions.

Rizz king. Telling the fascist president to debate me bro on TV is baller shit

100% this. Unfortunately, that circle also fits fully inside another circle of people immune to feeling shame about their hypocrisy.

There can’t be any gun restrictions because we have to protect against federal government tyranny, and if kids get shot we just have to live with it. Also the President can send troops to cities because the federal government can do whatever it wants. These two ideas are consistent and reasonable.

We’re being governed by monsters. Just absolute monsters.

Very, *very* smart piece from @espiers.bsky.social about why media efforts by Dem consultants are so often comical failures. Highly recommended:

More of this

This perfectly describes both the Trump presidency and the Republican Congress. The only true thing he said today.

Trump removed Lisa Cook “effectively immediately” in a letter posted on Truth Social this evening. Here is Lisa Cook’s response:

1) ABC/NBC should lose license or pay hefty fees because their reporting is mean to him. 2) MD should maybe lose bridge repair funds because Wes Moore was mean to him. 3) The feds should investigate Chris Christie for Bridgegate because he was mean to him.

So much for transparency & commitments to deliver social good. Elon Musk’s xAI terminated its public benefit corporation status last year per NV public records first obtained by LASST. (xAI’s own lawyers were still calling it a benefit corp. in court filings this year.) www.cnbc.com/2025/08/25/e...

People like renewable energy once it's built. It's the propaganda about it that gets people worked up beforehand. wapo.st/4fXqy0E

holy shit

Still waiting for someone of prominence to admit it was not about eggs.

So this is the President of the United States reacting to being criticized by saying we should revive a defunct and well outside the statute of limitations criminal investigation against the person offering the criticism.

Whoopsy

Regular reminder, for every time he tweets something like this, ABC and NBC don't pay for broadcast licenses. Their affiliates do (yes, they each own some affiliates, but most affiliates are independent). Also saying you'll lose a license based on editorial choices is so very much a 1A violation

Inslee: If you need more energy, the dumbest thing you can do is disallow access to wind, solar, and advanced batteries—three of the most productive ways of producing new energy. And yet, that’s exactly what he’s done.

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered…Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” - 1984, George Orwell

Nice Olympic team/delegation you have there. Would be a shame if something happened to it. <opens crypto wallet>

The most corrupt White House in history. Here is an account of what people are paying, directly to a PAC called MAGA Inc, in order to meet the president, get pardons, change policy www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/u...

shocking

The scale of Trump's pay-for-access scheme outlined by the @nytimes.com is mindblowing. Crypto contributions resulting in business deals with the Trump family crypto businesses, oil companies buying influence and later reaping benefits from friendly policies, and a $1 million pardon.

From a director at the … American Enterprise Institute

"Just before the election this woman came out with phenomenal numbers on Biden's economy and right after the election, they announced those numbers were wrong." This is a lie! The pre-election job numbers were bad! BLS revisions were bad for Biden/Harris! donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-shoo...

Ok that time may have just arrived

Emil Bove’s norm-breaking behavior at the Department of Justice alarms some observers

Whether it's students at Oberlin asking for trigger warnings or the Department of Justice opening an investigation into George Mason faculty who criticize Trump, both sides have taken brazen steps to limit free speech at universities.

Let's not forget that this seat was vacant because Islamaphobic Democrats wouldn't let Biden's appointee be confirmed. And Schumer let the clock run out.

The Supreme Court derives its power from its legitimacy. It earns its legitimacy by explaining its decisions. The endless stream of wholly unexplained orders in favor of the Trump administration is not just indefensible—it's a threat to the court's own long-term power. This reeks of illegitimacy.