Amazing work from whoever was up in N6914W over Ohio … www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...

People are like "Has she always been like this?" and the answer is yes. From 2014: www.bbc.com/news/newsbea...

This can never be allowed to disappear from US political discourse until there is justice.

That's a really interesting analogy, Jack. Gee, I wonder what the Germans did in response to the Treaty of Versailles. They put a fascist dictator in power and committed crimes against humanity? I wonder how that played out for them in the end....

Just hit me why all the antivaxx/right-wing talk about “Well, most of the people who died of Covid were old or sick” immediately made my gut turn. That’s whom we’re supposed to protect!!

Possible, but I don’t give any corporation the benefit of the doubt.

Senator Bernie Sanders will administer the oath of office to New York City’s Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani during his public swearing-in ceremony at City Hall on January 1. trib.al/ylTzosO

This. I'm a software engineer who's had to use LLMs at work for programming. I wasn't a big fan of how they were trained on human work product w/o consent but I largely had an open mind about their capabilities. That's changed completely for the worse in a little over a year.

Seeing some binary thinking in the feed so just noting that to stop the worst effects of climate change we need to get fossil emissions to zero ASAP *and* we need to get land emissions below zero ASAP, which includes minimizing ag emissions and land use, ending deforestation, & restoring ecosystems.

"Real-estate agents are noticing more throuples and polycules buying homes together, often with everyone’s name on the deed." www.wsj.com/real-estate/... (gift link)

Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.

get in bitch we doin Y2K

Third Way Terrified to Learn of Fourth Way

This is the (pretty negative) prognosis for the oil and gas industry from the belly of the beast in Texas, even with absolutely every bit of federal and state help they could possibly have. But sure, let's continue to pour all our hopes for "abundance" into this leaky bucket.

There is a crown in the gutter for the first 28 nominee to blame Clinton for giving us Trump by squashing the 96 Epstein investigation.

Noem is using the Brown University shooter to end an entire visa program, but it should be noted that Pete Hegseth, just today, murdered more than twice as many people

those who predicted authoritarianism were both dismissed, & deeply misunderstood, by the media my latest for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2042...

In the 90 minutes since I posted this, I've gotten two more death notifications. ICE has a responsibility to take care of these people, something they are clearly disregarding. This is beyond horrifying. We must ensure dignity and humanity for detained people in this country.

FOUR new deaths in ICE detention. That puts the total this year at 30 people dead; the highest in ICE's history and worse than even during the COVID years. It's clear that the system is breaking down. Many of these are preventable deaths.

God forbid the party learn from its mistakes. “Mr. Martin will instead keep the findings under seal. He believes that looking back so publicly and painfully at the past would prove counterproductive for the party as it tries next year to take back power in Congress…”

there is really no difference between the current administration and having the country run by david duke

Had to explain Ea-Nasir to my therapist

thanks, obama.

Too many people think the issue is "ai look bad" not the stolen data sets not the workers rights not the climate change and the fact that people CANNOT AFFORD TO TURN ON THEIR HEAT because they're subsidizing data centers, let alone the misinformation and fascism

It is really funny that most democracy indexes claim Saudi Arabia is more democratic than Iran

This is the core for understanding the spread of AI. All technology you use from big companies is fundamentally about trying to show you shit you don't like because when you avoid it that renders extremely useful preference data about you as a user that enhances targeting algorithms.

You do not get to stand on California soil, praise a man who called for the killing of protesters here during Vietnam, and then ever, ever, ask for my vote. Not ever.

He's secretly (less so lately) platformed by billionaires. The billionaire media won't point out that the so-called "groypers" are hired hands and that if Fuentes tried to throw an event in person, the turnout would be very small. (He learned from mistakes by fellow Nazi Richard Spencer.)

I think of all the establishment pundits and corporate columnists who engaged in civility politics for 10 years and told me and other people of color in a paternalistic tone that we were hysterical and reactionary about Trump's racism and we should be nicer to MAGA and...I see Nazi slogans in 2025.

And another thing: anyone willing to allow their grievances to be weaponized by the fascists in this of all moments is decidedly not someone to be taken at face value.

I also applied for at least several hundreds jobs for more than a decade before I found this one, which is a good fit, in both directions. Im brown, and a woman, and an immigrant, and disabled, and do work with critical theories but I guess we're only accepting anecdotes from white men like James

SO WEIRD HOW THIS KEEPS HAPPENING

We're told over and over again that we need things like facial recognition and license plate scanners and encryption backdoors and cities blanketed in surveillance cameras to "catch the bad guys" in these exact scenarios and yet... Security theater kills exponentially more people than it protects.

Bari Weiss talking to a rich guy

every so often I think about the outrage and handwringing at the prospect of a western state enforcing the law against Israeli heads of state, then I read about things like this again

i hate arsen ostrovsky's politics but it's totally insidiously fucked up that people are faking a.i. images to make it look like he was part of a false flag operation

"But for rural and small town voters, the perception that Roosevelt’s New Deal Democrats have been traded for corporatists in the state and national party leadership remains strong."

this article is wild and important because it shows how Weiss has become a media mogul not because he work has ever been popular, but because a small group of rich and well connected guys liked her work as it made them feel good about not using pronouns and stuff. nymag.com/intelligence...

"[G]enocide denial." "Wales and Sanger are using their roles as Wikipedia founders to bypass the normal editing and review process." "Their efforts deny the documented reality of Israel's genocide in Gaza and contradict the broad consensus." #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Censorship #Media #Genocide

Idk when Texas is having its senator primaries, but vote for Tallarico over Crockett, Crockett is saying some incredibly racist shit towards immigrants rn.

Only a month after the Nick Fuentes row....

something that was very much a political ZIRP was the tendency to frame things like affirmative action as 'it's a zero-sum competition and that's good'

This is what passes for progressivism and climate policy in California. Jane Kim’s answer for elevated fire risk and actuarial risk? Put it on the public dime. Urban renters should bail out well to do exurban property owners and landlords in fire zones. FAIR plan is already a ticking time bomb!

Saying that the public sector will ensure McMansions in high fire-risk areas doesn't make those McMansions any more insurable, it just means you'll be draining the state coffers to subsidize them when you could be using that money for genuinely progressive priorities.

Are you a fan of trans journalism? Are you an enjoyer of ranked lists? If you are either of those things, or both, we've got the end of year feature for you. Read our list of the best ten and worst five examples of journalism on trans issues of 2025. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

One of the biggest moments of my career: USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!

Every single one of these people needs to be primaried. They have proven that they can be easily led by the nose by disingenuous culture war nonsense and are uninterested in fighting the oligarchs and fascists!!!

We are parents of a trans kid and our family takes this very, very personally. If you intentionally make life harder for our beloved daughter, it’s EXTREMELY hard to think of you as an ally, to say the least. @amyklobuchar.com - you still send us requests for money, while hurting our kid. Disgusted.