An important partisan point -- lots of our sh*tt**st public figures used to be Democrats, but became Racist Rethugs when the Dem voters weren't sh*tty enough for them (Dem voters, NOT Dem leaders, who were and are remarkably sh*tty). So, yeah we live in a democracy. With party competition. Sort of.

Your dad's cousin is your aunt. I am from a family of plain boring white people and my kids call my wife's cousins who live around here and they see all the time "aunt/uncle." This is not even some "see, in other cultures," thing this is just a total normal thing they are presenting as scandalous

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

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Everyone should see Jamelle Bouie's spiked posts on the Nazi-sourced NYTimes nothingburger story aimed at smearing Mamdani, and then raise hell about the Gray Lady's evil social media policies.

Yup. "AI exists for one reason and one reason only–to throw you out of a job" www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/06/ai-n...

Gathering of the Juggalos in Sad Decline

More Americans voted for Senator Alex Padilla than for 48 of the 53 red state GOP U.S. Senators combined.

Krugman understands Stinky's LA actions correctly: 'The militarized response ... is all about rejecting the idea that Americans have a right to oppose Trump policies.' open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

amen to this sentiment on (part of!) the role of US higher education -- I would add, at all levels, not jus R1s.

Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man starring Tobey Maguire is older than ICE.

Hey Curtis -- ever hear of an 'Executive Officer" of a US Naval vessel? And, um, what exactly is his job?

My personal "5 years since the start of Covid" moment is remembering that in 2020, the US discovered it had allowed almost all its mask and PPE manufacturing to transfer to China for cost savings. In 2025, PPE is still almost all made offshore, and we just encouraged China to end shipments to us.

If you think a just-fertilized ovary is entitled to life but are indifferent to what happens to a kidnapped 4-year-old with cancer, sent to a dangerous country without meds, you don’t give a fuck about the lives of children. You are just in a cult that fetishizes being against abortions.

Whiskey Pete: "Hey, wha's my petard do--" BOOM !!!

Poor Stinky-BooBoo didn't read the job description carefully before he applied. Sad!

Stephen Miller is out in front and widening the gap in the WorstPersonWorkingForStinky-BooBoo race

Yves Smith, truly an expert here, and Richard Murphy: how Stinky-BooBoo's antics are wrecking global finance, a wreck that eventually will wreck Main Street too, and possibly my, your, and most everyone's household finances, as it did after 1929 and 2008: www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/04/long...

Remember how during Stinky-BooBoo's first term the pandemic released an unexpected hell of "supply chain disruption?" Get ready for a repeat.

FT: Stinky-BooBoo plays approximately 0.01-dimensional chess in setting tariffs www.ft.com/content/bbaa...

Chicago is the greatest city in the world

Tech Shmoes are lining up outside the Oval Orifice with their bribe offers for Stinky-BooBoo

The holes in his head are showing

"there is no essential connection between the modern research university and the values of liberal democracy other than, as (recall) Michael Polanyi noted, that they can have the same enemies" crookedtimber.org/2025/03/22/o...

DOGE is disproportionately targeting grants in blue states that voted for Harris. This is about political retribution. Credit to u/airmovingdevice for this. www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...

To justify kicking out these service members, Trump accused all transgender people of lacking the honesty, humility, and integrity, not to mention the 'warrior ethos,' to serve in the armed forces, a claim adopted in DOD’s implementation of Trump’s order. They are being kicked out by Pete Hegseth.

The doge-can-recode-cobol- codebase-fast is a classic case from business ethics, where a salesman exaggerates what his engineers can do. Musk is a habitual exaggerator of what his firms will do. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

Start the Grok-Under-Bus Countdown Clock

MEE-lon the MO-ron 's right hand man in doge has been is long-time lackey Steve Davis, who has nothing better to do, since he's CEO of Musk's Boring Company, which is a total smoke-&-mirrors, cannot-deliver-the-goods flop blog.ucs.org/steven-higas...

I learned this week that you can put our troops' lives in danger, compromise our national security, and violate the Espionage Act. And the government will do nothing. But if you write an editorial for your school newspaper that Trump doesn't like, you will be abducted on the street and disappeared.

Maybe xAI is worth $ 80 B.

I guess ABC News payoff on Stinky-BooBoo's shakedown was money wasted.

What Fatman and Robinn' are defunding

Hear Hear!

Project 2025 recipe for using signal instead of secure government channels. accountable.us/project-2025...

Last year I wrote some fragmentary paragraphs for the conclusion of what was to be my first book. I think they hold up unfortunately well "The United States is ultimately a young, fragile democracy. If you start the clock at the Voting Rights act of 1965 the United States is barely 60 years old.

Recessions are measles and we are being governed by anti-vaxxers who want to throw a big poverty party so we can all spread the infection among ourselves.

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We should stop saying "doge" and start saying "Musk's junta."

Important. Either Trump is so far gone mentally he doesn’t know what he’s doing, or people are acting in his name without his knowledge. This was an order with enormous implications, and the President of the United States says he didn’t do it.

PayPal ?? Seriously !?!!

The National Weather Service just indefinitely cut a big swath of weather balloon launches across the US Forecasters say this will immediately degrade the accuracy of predictions and make it harder to give plenty of warning for extreme weather. My latest for @notusreports.bsky.social

Summer Olympics, Buh-Bye ?

TIL that Tesla insiders (executives, board members, etc) have sold *1.46 million* Tesla shares over the past 12 months, and bought precisely *zero* www.nasdaq.com/market-activ...

Consider the possibility that military leadership *wants* to brief Musk. They've watched him break shit he doesn't understand for the last two months and they're terrified he's gonna destroy the U.S. military next. [spoiler: he will regardless]

Is it at all surprising that a convicted felon would ignore a judge's order?