I think the belief by the powerful that "people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math" is incredibly revealing in terms of understanding How We Got Here

Didn't have "Reagan-appointed judge shows more courage than tech leaders" on my bingo card but here we are

It's almost as if it's not the thing being done that raises concern, it's who is behind the doing the thing, and are they part of an in-group or an out-group 🤔

While US venture capitalists were buying monkey jpegs, and DOGE coins, and figuring out how to get Black women fired, and tweeting about white birthrates, and trying to mandate which bathroom trans kids should use, China was making progress on climate change and taking the lead in a real industry.

We're all going to write pieces about what you can learn from tonight but it's actually pretty simple: The frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

So many people were detained extrajudicially, were tortured, or died because of Dick Cheney. You can't get to the danger we're in now without everything he did. The weapons he helped forge are ones we need to take away from U.S. presidents forever.

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

Drone start-up backed by Peter Thiel crashed and burned in armed forces trials ft.trib.al/ps96eIU

FACTS about SNAP: -35% to white people (largest share) -90% to people born in 🇺🇸 -86% to households with kids -70% work full time but aren’t paid a living wage (aka corporate welfare)

Marc Andreessen, who sits on Meta's board, is funding a click farm www.404media.co/a16z-backed-...

ai slop at scale via phone farms, now A16z's latest investment: www.404media.co/a16z-backed-...

Area man(iac) escalates conflict he started.

Seems our military planes just aren't cushy enough for Noem. I guess now we know where the childhood food assistance funding cuts went.

I ❤️ my hometown. Well done…

Area man sees his poker buddies getting all the spoils of taxpayer money, wants in on the game.

I hope people realize how abnormal it is to have social media accounts of federal government departments and agencies picking fights with individuals.

I thought they said it was wrong for an administration to ask a social media platform to take stuff down.

Tell me you're a bot, without telling me you're a bot.

In which John Oliver methodically unpacks how thin it is to claim you’re all about “the truth” when you’re only running essays don’t get properly fact-checked — and don’t hold up to even basic reporting scrutiny www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

Free gift article link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

ANTIFA:

We’re in a moment now where it would be worth people taking three hours to watch Gandhi, particularly the scene of the salt march. There is value to making the brutality of your opponent so plain as day that no one can argue with it. The clarity of that brought down an empire

I mean, would explain a lot rn.

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow

Are we bailing out Argentina because the administration knows they’re going to need an exit plan when their reign of terror is ultimately ended?

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

Where are the people who were so outraged that Biden asked google to pull misinfo at Covid, now that Trump has made Apple pull the ice tracker app

“'The fact that we don't have money to pay journalists, but we have money to pay Bari Weiss between $100 and 200 million is indicative of what the Ellisons' true goal here is,' a network correspondent said. 'And it's not journalism.'"

It will always baffle me how easily people will believe that the poor, the sick, the marginalized, and the immigrant are the cause for all their problems, rather than the people in the most powerful positions in their country who refuse to fix problems and exploit them instead.

Employees listening to managers talking about all the innovation that will come from hallway conversations now that they have to come into the office five days a week.

When air conditioning, the telephone, the steam engine, automobiles etc were first invented they didnt require explanation or debate about what you can use them for or what value they could deliver. And you didnt have to discuss them in the perpetual future tense.

If you hate the Pope because he is too “liberal”, I have some very bad news for you about Jesus.

Republicans control: president, senate, house, supreme court, and their plan is to blame Democrats for the government shutting down. And, it may work, because they also control corporate media.

I have such immense respect for the discipline shown by our Flag officers in not getting up and walking out during the inane ramblings and flagrant acts of treason by bone spurs and the TV host.

We’re gonna need more therapy dogs.

I often think about how none of this needed to happen. And how 2 Marks, 2 South Africans, and 2 platforms ensured it would.

Money has never bought courage. It does reveal people, however.

Live from "war ravaged" Portland

The same guy telling you Portland is war-ravaged, told you Mexico was going to pay for the wall and people were eating your pets in Ohio.

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

this exists it is called thinking

Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us. We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again. That's the revolution.

Fearful Americans Stockpiling Facts Before Federal Government Comes To Take Them Away https://theonion.com/fearful-americans-stockpiling-facts-before-federal-gove-1819579589/

the skeleton key to understanding these people is that they genuinely think you are a drone who will do what you’re told if the TV says it

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

"We will not stand by as the Trump administration destroys one of the largest public university higher education systems in the country and bludgeons academic freedom at the University of California..." @ProfTWolf www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/n...

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

This is how the Stasi controlled East Germans.