What's hilarious is that what Trump is proposing is very plainly against the law

It is not, I think, coincidental that a bunch of smaller accounts are all singing the peaceful-protest-and-absurdity-can't-win song just exactly as those things are proving to be an effective tool.

certain social media users really struggle with the whole “some people study drones for the purpose of better understanding how to *stop* people from getting murdered with drones” thing

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

The MSM does not interview community organizers. It's part of why they miss so much of what happens at the local level.

You know how there’s been this big push towards encouraging older people to do puzzles, cognitive games, and to learn new things to keep them from succumbing to dementia? Wonder where that’s gonna go with the rise of “outsource your cognitive functions to AI, it’ll be convenient” culture

Committing new constitutional violations by breaching the rights of a man named Miranda during an arrest? If this goes to the Supreme Court it would be the mother of all ‘weird that it happened twice’ moments.

This is the lesson of 2025

glad to be born at a time when i got to see what life was like before the internet and will be dead before AI completely destroys humanity

OK, so this is going to be tough to hear, but it needs to be said. Now that Trump has been enjoined from sending *any* NG to Oregon, ICE is going to go gangbusters in Oregon, dialing everything up to 1000%. Because they need riots. They need someone punching an ICE officer. DON'T TAKE THE BAIT.

Breaking on MSNBC: An FBI agent in the Washington field office has been fired for refusing to arrest and perp walk James Comey. This news was first reported by Reuters.

“I wish I had a garden,” said Toad. “Here are some flower seeds. Plant them in the ground,” said Frog, “and soon you will have a garden.”

As if irony isn’t already dead, the Hatch Act violation on the DOJ website, which blames Democrats for the shutdown, appears on the page advising DOJ employees they are subject to the Hatch Act. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-note-abo...

Playing around with Sora 2 and it is the same warmed up dogshit OpenAI always slings. I also got it to cough up direct copies of Naruto and Demon Slayer *with audio from the shows*. It’s obvious they have ingested a ton of copyrighted material

this is the third time Donald Trump has shut down the government while his party controls both houses of Congress

WATCH: "They are underwater across the board, and they know it. And that is causing them to double down in public. But it is backfiring. That is why—whether it's a shutdown, whether it's all of this—they want us to blink first. And we have too much to save," says AOC.

Fat Man and Little Boy bombed.

Seriously—in any other administration the President telling the SecDef (sorry, "SecWar") that American cities should be used as "training grounds" for the military would kick of impeachment proceedings that same day.

i was invited to a gathering tonight and initially wasn’t gonna go because every extra thing feels like so much these days but i made myself go and i’m so glad i did because it turns out community is so fucking important right now

Why not just ask people for permission? Oh what’s that? You don’t think enough people would consent? So you’re just going to steal their livelihoods to get rich and hope they never notice?

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

You have shit like Disney/ABC getting blindsided by the backlash to the Jimmy Kimmel suspension because they thought suspending him would be broadly popular because that's what Twitter was saying Everyone with power is addicted to fucking Twitter

you don’t need to run candidates who have bad culture war positions. you maybe do need to run candidates who code as moderate independent of their culture war positions.

this exists it is called thinking

*siiiiiiigggghhhh*

Exactly this

[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that

I just issued an executive order to safeguard vaccine access in Minnesota. While the Trump Administration attempts to limit Americans’ access to preventative care, Minnesota will continue to be guided by science and the freedom to seek out medical expertise.

In dissent, Justice Sotomayor wrote for the Democratic appointees, “We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent.“

If you think that due process only applies to citizens then ask yourself what you would do if someone accused you of being a non citizen. Either we all have due process or no one does. The Constitution affords the former. SCOTUS has unleashed the latter.

If it’s run for profit, then it’s profiting off of … us. When I hear that the post office lost money, I think this: Good. We already paid for it. Why on earth should it make even more money from us? Who would keep the money? Would we see it?

We need to invent a way for people to learn about issues before elections

Common theme of people I've interviewed recently. At universities, in research centers, in diplomacy, in the legal system, dealing with refugees or immigrants: The reality inside is much worse than you would think from the outside.

Coding interviews from people who left government earlier this year, and this is a fantastic quote in response to a question about what DOGE tech folk don't understand.

The lack of mainstream coverage of regular huge protests reminds me of a talk from a Twitter employees who explained that they had to drop BLM off the Trending Tags section because otherwise it would have been there permanently. The modern media environment has no appetite for sustained movements.

I am reluctantly forced to chalk up a W for the children's literary canon

Know your rights, Illinois. Stay safe and stay informed.

This is frankly one of the worst things Donald Trump has ever posted, which is really saying something

I’ve studied US drone strikes, I wrote a book called “Drones and Terrorism,” and this Caribbean strike is different. Lethal fire at a non-threatening target in a non-hostile environment on purpose when other means, such as capture, were easily doable, and without even attempting a legal rationale.

Trump promoting idea that the Korean War and Vietnam War would have been won but for leftist subversion echoes one of the deepest right-wing conspiractorial beliefs. This is a version of John Birch Society arguing Eisenhower was a Communist who undermined war against the Soviet Union.

Remember this. The Nazis were defeated by geologists and car mechanics and school teachers and milkmen. Ordinary people from all over the world who risked their own lives to put the fascists in the ground where they belong.

Someone needs to tell CBS that at some point you bend the knee so far that you are just kneeling.

While progressives often get accused of undermining the Democratic Party, the evidence shows that it’s the moderate wing that most often violates the “Vote Blue No Matter Who” principle. https://trib.al/ayccoO7

The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.

And that's the problem: when you steal the entire Internet to create a statistical algorithm for determining the next word, you're going to end up outputting the statistically most likely next word. From the *internet*

A non-zero-sum worldview is, in my mind, the core of what it means to be "on the left." You believe that through cooperation & solidarity, we can *all* benefit. Indeed, if you look back through history, you find that non-zero-sum cooperation is the root of pretty much every human advance!

‘Cursed is anyone who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow.’ Then all the people shall say, ‘Amen!’ Deuteronomy 27:19

remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature