Treating him like an AI himself and feeding him botshit as prompts to get their desired response.

Behold: The Antifa Army occupying Portland...

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Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...

Don’t believe anyone who tells you that intelligence shows anything “without a doubt,” but even if the intelligence was water-tight, this strike was still murder. No law permits the deliberate, premeditated killing of civilians.

Reminder that Emperor Marmalade seems to genuinely believe the lie that Portland is “war-ravaged”

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

We're not at war with Venezuela, these boats are many hundreds of lines from our waters, much less our shores, there is no threat, this is just murder. I really do think everyone from the SecDef to the guy who pushed the button should be tried for murder on this.

I maintain that killing the filibuster could have prevented our present authoritarian moment. Yeah, we would have had a more chaotic three decades, but it would have been better for voters to get to touch the hot stove & learn & change than to force the whole country to touch the blowtorch now.

Cowen and others like him are just not comfortable with or interested in human beings.

the nice thing about being a curmudgeon who hates video content is that you cannot be affected by the horrors of the AI slop revolution the same way oh your algorithm was taken over by weird AI videos of old women exploding bridges? I will stay over here, with my blogs

Dark Timeline 2044: The Museum of American Greatness and Art (formerly the Smithsonian) adds Woody Guthries's guitar to the "improvised terrorist weapons" exhibit...

Would much rather "the Dem Trump" mean a guy liberated to do the right thing because he's rich than somebody who throws people under the bus, goes hard on illiberal tendencies or is a borish asshole.

Ahh yes, we need to get back to basics! The history of naval warfare clearly shows that the sexiest warships always win...

The revolution won’t be televised but the treason sure is

Joni Ernst’s lifelong legacy for women serving in the military from her time in the Senate is Pete Hegseth. Every woman denied promotion, denied a job specialty, sexually harassed, or forced out for bs reasons, owes it all to Ernst and the Republican Party.

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

I wrote about this in "The Unaccountability Machine" - when you describe leveraged buyouts to ordinary people, half of them say that it should be illegal and the other half are often convinced that it already is.

So Hegseth wants to give his fantasy Patton speech about being real manly and lethal and stuff to the general officer corps? Telling that this would be something he would choose to do, rather than avoid as a scene of abject personal humiliation...

Wait, is it an adaptation of Vineland !?!?!

"Hey, what's up planet Earth. Just letting you all know I'll be collecting all our eggs in one basket at this exact time and location...."

streaming platforms have robbed us of the randomness that used to be both an essential property of tv watching and a quality that mitigated its addictiveness somewhat. we were wholly beholden to whatever happened to be on! if we didn’t like any of it we were obligated to go do something else!

This is interesting — in a paper out today, researchers created an alternate history to estimate what Trump's desired cuts to NIH would look like. Of 557 drugs approved 2000-2023, *more than half* are at least partially linked to NIH research that would have not happened under a 40% reduction.

Dem attitudes and behavior regarding the decades-long far-right project (capturing judicial appointments, building a media propaganda network, etc) is eerily akin to right/GOP attitudes and behavior regarding climate change.

Imagine if Biden had the energy and media savvy of Mamdani and could have really sold what he was doing to help people. That could not have been, but I think that's what was necessary for the successes to have an impact among normies. It's what any future Dem president will need to bring to the job

God pulled an "oops, all left behinds!" again, huh?

Free speech is genuinely precious, the “free speech” debate (“it should be illegal for libs to be mean to me”) was just about destigmatizing bigotry and confusing the issue so as to provide a pretext for actual state censorship

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

I have long contended that Trump is best understood as a malevolent Chauncey Gardner (Being There, 1980.)

The media landscape in future America must feature credible, relatable, interesting local news for normal people, and it must be robust enough to meet them where they are: reading, listening, or watching (or whatever fourth thing youths are doing these days). We need an oasis for every news desert.

Olivia Nuzzi committed such a brazen and egregious violation of journalistic ethics that she should have been driven out of the profession entirely.

So easy to say, "I honor the man's life, which was stolen by a murderer who must face justice. But I cannot honor the man's life's work, which aimed relentlessly at injustice."

Every day we drift further from perverts only wearing dark sunglasses to buy smut in an alley book store is a day we drift further from God's light...

iPervert iPervert Pro iPervert Pro Max (like mixing metaphors or SW with ST, I know, but that's not the point and you know it)

You got a Porche in the drive way and these tech ghouls are on your porch with a "car" they made out of cardboard with magazine cut outs of a Porche interior pasted inside and a steering wheel drawn on in sharpie and their just smiling and gesturing, "but, don't you wanna get in?"

It might not be possible to educate people who haven't experienced alternatives to democracy. They *think* authoritarianism means police intimidating street gangs, but in fact it's those gangs being given badges and a license to break down your door.

"Thiel does not hesitate to name potential Antichrists, including Greta Thunberg, communism, and even tech regulation." Like a cat naming the vacuum, their carrier, and dry food tupper wear lids as Antichrists newrepublic.com/article/2004...

The entire point of the First Amendment is that you be able to call the President a fucking asshole. Especially when he *is* a fucking asshole, but even if he weren't a fucking asshole, you should still be able to call him a fucking asshole.

Highlights just how big the challenge is for Dems. Should they win back power, they must not only prepare for radical changes to the government and social contract, they will need to have a plan to handle a likely wave of violence and the propaganda pushback calling them authoritarians for doing so

one of the most interesting facts about russ vought’s life, to me, is that NIH research is the reason his daughter had access to life changing drug to treat her cystic fibrosis. vought, of course, is the architect of the administration’s war on science. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

luigi mangione murdered a healthcare executive and opposed "wokeism." i don't know why people insist that killers need some coherent ideology. most people don't even have coherent wardrobes, let alone a coherent worldview.

Irony is a corrosive acid that eats social trust and cohesion.

Wrote this in The Sirens Call about mass shootings as the darkest, most violent form of extreme trolling and think it likely applies here as well.

From a 2019 story: "Since mid-October, Charlie Kirk’s Culture War tour has been increasingly haunted by the Groyper Q&A-trolls, who use the Q&A section to frame Kirk as a cuck." www.diggitmagazine.com/column/charl...

The responses to Kirk's murder are really highlighting just how much people from all walks of life must loathe health insurance executives

The President is so emotionally shook that he's leaning into his emotional support bragging about the construction of his emotional support PedoBallroom. Impressed he is able to govern at all at a time like this.