And yet China got shook down to sell off TikTok. Makes ya think

If you want to end monopoly, you must want to end capitalism. You cannot have capitalism without its tendencies towards monopolization and concentration of wealth. It is a fantasy that has never existed.

If you're wondering why they don't go to court with their high paid lawyers for an easy win, it's because this allows Google to bribe Trump. All the big players are way over their skis on AI investment and are sure they will need a bailout at some point. It's 2009 but for tech instead of housing

Any of those public figures who say the words "Western civilization" all the time now should be immediately disregarded and also has a type of porn on their laptop that cannot be legally described in any known human language.

We need a bigger tent, that’s why we must betray and expel the following types of people:

You should read the whole piece from @edzitron.com but if you only read one paragraph, make it this one: OpenAI has burned so much money that there is no more money. Read that again: it's not just OpenAI that's broke. All of VC is broke. www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...

governs when and how an administration may delay or withhold funds already approved by Congress. The watchdog’s report specifically criticized FEMA for halting money from the Emergency Food and Shelter Program, the Shelter and Services Program, and the Next Generation Warning System Grant Program.

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) ruled that the Trump administration broke the law when it blocked three categories of grants overseen by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). According to the GAO, FEMA’s decision violated the Impoundment Control Act (ICA), which

NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka. I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws. Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”

ICE is here in Chicago, clearly going after the worst of the worse, or as they apparently call it, "Adorable families with small children attempting to enjoy an early fall day at a park." May shame follow those participating in this cruelty for the rest of their lives.

I can think of no more cruel yet majestically appropriate fate for Donald Trump: wasting away into emptiness, while his uncaring minions tirelessly torment him with AI-generated specters and shades of what never was and what will never be

And another one caves. Absolutely craven nonsense.

good lord, dick durbin wants democrats to give up their only remaining leverage this year for an *informal commitment* from republicans. www.semafor.com/article/09/2...

He fears HE'LL be the target, he means. And he's right to be afraid. People are rightfully PISSED at him and his fellow fascists for doing fascist things. Just wait until he's arrested for crimes against humanity. He'll really soil himself then.

So this is a very, very desperate move - a very silly app of generative AI slop that will be incredibly expensive for OpenAI to run, and on top of it, they're requiring rights holders to *opt out* once they see violations. You can't do it in advance. They're washed, and trying everything to survive.

this is why you can’t give an inch to transphobes. they are driven by hate and no amount of kindness will make them even momentarily soften. it is a militant ideology.

really need to emphasize the small cities part. i have mentioned this before, but you'll see people on facebook talk about charlottesville like its ridley scott's mogadishu

I don't think this is limited to elite pundits, writers, etc. I think it's a common trap to get to a certain point in your life believing you'd be in one future, and discovering you're in another, and then failing to plan how to move through that actual future.

Columbia graduate student and peace activist Mohsen Mahdawi faces a crucial hearing tomorrow as the U.S. government appeals his release before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York, alongside a similar challenge in the case of Tufts PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk, detained after writing an...

Federal employees should never be used as political pawns in shutdown negotiations.

New: four million people could be forced to leave public housing and other federally assisted housing under new plans from the Trump administration, according to experts who reviewed drafts of two unpublished rules obtained by @propublica.org.

This week, we need to get mad. Then we Protest Speak up and volunteer to make a difference Support those trying to make a difference if we can't Flood any and all local/fed/state channels with messages telling the GOP (+ DemLdr if they cave) to fuck off and Dems to fight. This is OUR America!

Patty is a Democratic State Rep from Missouri. 👇🏻

Everyone knows the price of beef is high, but you may not know that the price of a bottle calf is almost $1000. That is an outrageous price for a newborn calf.

While they have you distracted… (And the top 1% control more than 1/3rd)

Please note that, unlike the president, the deputy chief of staff does not have immunity from prosecution for official acts per Trump v. United States

SCOOP / UPDATE — Disney saw more than 1.7 million total paid streaming cancelations during the period 9/17-9/23, a Disney source confirms to me. The total includes Disney+, Hulu and ESPN.

More public transportation so you can get a few beers with the fellas

What kind of president and administration promotes “maximum pain” to their people? We need to stop calling this the Trump “administration”… it’s a “regime”‼️ #ThisIsTrumpsShutdown

if they cave on this i won't vote for a democrat for dogcatcher and i'll do everything in my power to make sure everyone i know doesn't either

One if the most obvious, glaring problems with our chattering class is they are so detached from reality is that to them the past is an interesting story. For many people, the past isn’t even past.

"But do you condemn Hamas?" The IDF has killed more children in the past year than the total number of casualties of any age attributed to Hamas over all time, and it's not even close. So the real question is, "Do you condemn the IDF?"

One of fascism's core operating strategies is to create a society of informants

ICE is up. A sighting of vehicles in Norridge earlier this morning. Arrests on the side of the road in Arlington Heights and Palatine.

NEW: One proposed rule would strip aid from families where a member is in the U.S. illegally. Families could keep their assistance IF the ineligible member moves out. But HUD expects many families to give up assistance out of “fear of the family being separated.” By @jessecoburn.bsky.social

The oil stooge running the Energy Dept. just banned the words ‘climate change’

This is going to crater the economy for the remainder of the year and well into 2026.

I spoke with federal workers who took the deferred resignation program set to take effect on September 30 "I was forced to" one worker said "through fear and intimidation." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I'm not surprised by the lengths they are willing to go to stop us from seeing the Epstein Files. Just look at how far they were willing to go to stop us from ever hearing from Jeffrey Epstein again.

🚨This. Is. Madness. Do not normalize seeing heavily armed federal forces in the streets of Chicago (or anywhere). Posted on IG a few minutes ago. 1/2

I mean yes this is funny, but the fact that these unconstitutional stormtroopers are so directionless that they literally stand around waiting for random nonwhite delivery guys to bike past them is just pathetic. No mandate, no mission, no clue. Just racism.

spreading lies about immigrants voting, and openly mainstreaming terrorist propaganda. This isn’t just another unhinged rant, it’s dangerous. A president is feeding white supremacist violence and calling it truth. He’s not hiding it. And if we don’t call it out, more people will get hurt.

What the actual fuck is Trump even talking about? He just went on Truth Social to declare the racist “Great Replacement” conspiracy is “no longer a theory.” This is the same extremist garbage that inspired the Buffalo and El Paso mass shootings. He’s recycling message-board rants like their policy,

In which a top US Border Patrol official, incredibly, tells my tall and Anglo colleague @chipmitchell1.bsky.social that he's not the type they're looking for as they go about downtown Chicago arresting people based on "how they look" chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

“Am I watching things on television that are different from what’s happening?” is a great line to be whispered in a hushed, scared voice over an assaulting montage of glitching warping FOX news footage for the trailer to an A24 horror movie about the next few years.

ICE brutally detains U.S. citizen just for filming—knocking her unconscious. "Agents took her to a side alley, beat her up, then called an ambulance," witness said. "Then they kidnapped her from the hospital—without a formal discharge—and took her to Downtown LA Detention Center."

Brett Kavanaugh: well, he is a brown-skinned delivery driver, so this is fine actually. This is the world we want to live in.

‘JV targeting 100,000 tonnes of LCE per year…That’s close to 10% of today’s global production…with 20,000 bbl/d single-well flow rates and concentrations like these, ~25 producers plus ~25 injectors would be needed. At 8,000 ft and ~$250/ft drilling costs, the wells alone could exceed $100MM.’

NEW: Some 4 million people in the U.S. could lose federal housing assistance under new plans from the Trump administration, say experts who reviewed drafts of two unpublished rules obtained by ProPublica. By @jessecoburn.bsky.social

Minutes after the bill was signed, my firm sued on behalf of affected voters. I told you I don 't bluff. Next up is to show that we win.