No, I believe that 9/11 should be kept as a little surprise for kids to learn about at some random point in their lives.

I think the answer is that he sorta wanted Trump to win so that he gets to live through this media frenzy again because it's good for his career

DEI has replaced "woke" because it's the perfect way to blame every disaster caused by billionaires on the &^$$#^s or the *&%%*^$s, and the press reports it as if were some sincere concern and not just a chant that would break out at a Klan rally.

Purple category in Connections today is demonic. What the heck

it's very sobering to remember the median american voter is excited for a new season of "deal or no deal island"

You think Gen Z is cooked? We aren't ready for the politics of the iPad kids. I bet oligarchs have spent billions to produce YouTube Kids content full of subconcious right wing messaging.

they're not journalists, they're propagandists. they like trump and helped him win the election and want to help him keep winning

Industrial carbon capture technology is getting lots of hype and investment, but sadly it just doesn't work. And it distracts us from what does. It reminds me of cryptocurrency. Lots of hype and money flowing, but no meaningful use case. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/22/c...

Facebook is one of the worst creations in human history. you could switch it off tomorrow and everything would improve around the world www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...

Sitting in a room full of dudes vying to be the next Fake Blippi. Pray for me, I need this gig.

“Is it okay for a social media platform to be an echo chamber” back in the day we had websites and websites were generally focused on a single topic and if you were into that topic you would visit that website and if you weren’t into that topic you just didn’t go on that website and it was fine

global scale black box algorithm social media companies in particular are one of the worst things in human history. Facebook destroyed journalism, and in return it automatically produces an explosion in genocidal racism anywhere it's introduced

didn't think we could do worse than "party controlled by its own propaganda apparatus" but "party controlled by its own unmoderated social media platform" might be

the democratic party is determined to destroy itself and honestly im getting very close to "just let it burn" mode. because they are unwilling to adjust at all to the modern world. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

One reason people insist that you use the proper channels to change things is because they have control of the proper channels and they’re confident it won’t work. - Jon Stone

It's rare you get such a clear illustration of whose lives have value in America and whose don't

It’s incredible how consistently wrong the political right was about COVID—and how successful it has been regardless. I mean, we have cranks claiming vindication and many believe them.

Conservative media reaction to the CEO shooter really illustrates how much of their schtick relies on a tacit agreement that they and only they are allowed to cross lines and say taboo things. If anyone else does it they bust out the "Oh my heavens, wont, somebody think of the norms!" persona.

cops are the most effective labor union in america 😭😭😭

oh my god they really fucking wrote the "south korean president does an oopsy daisy" shitpost i made a joke about earlier th is week lmao

the Lummis bill is much more than that, like $750bn lol prospect.org/power/2024-1...

Block the bots. Block any account that makes you question if they're a bot or not.

bots are becoming a bigger thing on this platform now. not as bad as twitter, but it’s a shame that no matter what, we’re forced into experiencing the internet technological rot that infests online spaces now

Debating whether or not Republicans *really* want to abolish multiracial, pluralistic democracy is futile. The proof is in the pudding, and the pudding is the state level: Wherever they are in charge, Republicans are openly embracing staunchly authoritarian measures intended to erect one-party rule.

This story is uh, insane www.cbsnews.com/news/police-...

Today on Volts: the insurance industry is the canary in the climate change coal mine. Now prices are rising, insurers are pulling out of whole states, & state budgets are straining to make up the difference. I talk with @kategordon.bsky.social about the whole mess. www.volts.wtf/p/climate-ch...

So about ten years ago I found a small network of bots on Reddit dedicated to spreading hate. The thing about it is that these weren't even responding to political topics - they were just responding to random keywords with insults and hate. The same bots are now here. You should understand why. 🧵

Chuds don't understand heroism because they're cowards down to the person. All of their bluster and militarism is like a little boy putting on his daddy's work clothes.

he was going to do this anyway he literally campaigned on doing this you don’t need to play stupid and give credence to his obvious self-serving lies

it's a great system we have: one party is a snakepit of insane fascist sex creeps. the other is pathologically allergic to wielding power

fondly recalling how after Jan 6 Congress went home for a long weekend, didn't start impeachment proceedings for a week, which then took another month

This is madness. If other countries want to sell us solar on the cheap so we can expedite adoption of clean energy, let them. Either climate change is a crisis, or it isn't. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Because they like Donald Trump and want to make him popular as president

1. The conventional explanation for food deserts—that these places are too poor or too rural to generate enough spending on groceries, or too Black to overcome racist corporate redlining — fail to grapple with a key fact: food deserts didn’t used to exist. My new piece in The Atlantic.

me to the legal minds who reassured us that the best way to defend the rule of law was to allow trump to slow-walk the prosecutions in order to adhere to DOJ proceduralism instead of arresting him on January 21, 2021

Crazy how rapists and pedophiles keep seeking asylum in right wing safe spaces.

The problem with pieces like this, which are countless, is the prevailing media assumption that left-of-center Americans need constant corrective instruction about how to be in and engage with the world, whereas right-of-center Americans are simply to be observed in awe, like rainbows or mountains.

It’s not just the criminal charges. Overall, Brazil took a coup attempt and ongoing threat more seriously than the United States did, acting more decisively, and not letting obvious BS by politicians or tech billionaires derail the effort to protect their democracy.

Brazil has responded more seriously to a former president attempting an auto-coup to illegally retain power after losing reelection, and to online disinformation that helped fuel it. The example puts the US to shame. Maybe something to do with dictatorship in living memory, and thinking never again.

His justice department failing to prosecute Trump or his allies for committing treason but successfully prosecuting his own son for drummed up bullshit is a fitting reward for Biden's fecklessness that has helped doom our country bsky.app/profile/norm...

Aside from much less nazi stuff its also nice not having Space X stuff forced onto my timeline by the algorithm. Also... the Costco Guys? I can only assume that Elon found them hilarious because X put them on my timeline constantly even tho I always scrolled past them.

every time the Dems graciously extend their hand to the fascists on the other side of the aisle, they get bitten. I genuinely thought the time they sent a mob into Congress to try to literally murder a bunch of Dem legislators would've maybe corrected this tendency but lol nope.

2025 white house cabinet meeting

Any editors interested in my op-ed pitch, "Please don't hurt me, King Donald!"?

this gets to the point i keep making. to the media elites who are obsessed with anti-wokeness, something like mass deportation is a total abstraction whereas they are annoyed, on a daily basis, by their supposedly “woke” younger colleagues and social media antagonists

This is a great piece and makes it really clear how so many Silicon Valley elite types moves from Dems to the GOP as their industry became less of a dynamic growing competitive sector and started to be more of an entrenched business interest

in our media (both traditional and social) you were more likely to see a fake video demonstrating fake vaccine side effects or implying that a vaccine caused someone's death, than you were to see a video of one of the 300,000 or so vaccine refusers who died of Covid during the Delta Wave.