if you have had a sinking feeling about AI hype and can't square it with what you see in the market … read this to add to your knowledge and awareness.

Even if the government reopens, thanks to Elon Musk and DOGE, families won’t see help for a while.

All those kids watching from Florida and Alabama and Mississippi and Texas are going to sleep through their lessons on how Jesus loves chattel slavery tomorrow morning

1 dead and 1 injured in shooting in Acworth, Georgia.

Trump has deployed an aircraft carrier to the Caribbean and launched a series of missile strikes that have killed dozens. From Colombia to Mexico, leaders are calling it a war crime—and warning that the U.S. is reviving its old habit of gunboat diplomacy. Read the story here.

@theonion.com is undefeated.

Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.

true. though i've been reading up on cognitive dissonance in "mistakes were made (but not by me)" … … and heaven help us … because it seems pointing out this level of hypocrisy to the little weasels at fox & the cult of trumpism who watch them will likely only cause them to double down yet again.

UPDATE: Trump is set to demolish the entire East Wing of the White House, after of course promising the White House wouldn't be touched. Here's the thing—he could demolish the ENTIRE White House, and I absolutely could see him doing so—and MAGA Republicans will cheer him on because It Is A Cult.

with @duckworth.senate.gov on this. and … i'm so f-ing sick of nytimes/wapost reporting "Rep. Xavier Dumbshit (R) says Democrats feel abc about jkl". i'm sorry, but … X.Dumbshit is gaslighting reporters here. publishing this in this political climate is lazy! one thing it's not: journalism!

true. though … i cannot ignore all of the abominable things he & his administration has done … … not the least of which is that we should not be too cavalier or conservative w.r.t. assessing the percentage of covid pandemic & current measles deaths that his "administration" is the real cause of.

Earlier this year, we published an article headlined “10 Ways to Enrich the Trumps and the MAGA Movement.” We failed, though, to consider that the president might simply force the US government, i.e. us taxpayers, to straight-up pay him hundreds of millions of dollars.

Standing with the consensus of scientists, governments, and public health institutions isn't "centrist", it is anti-populist, pro-science, and pro-social democracy. Expertise matters, and governments informed by experts can generate the best outcomes for the public.

glad to see there are still some trying to play by the rules.

Hundreds of people protesting ICE in downtown manhattan right now. Reads and Broadway. NYPD cops in riot gear on scene.

"expands east wing"? "overreach"?!? i mean, i've given up on @washingtonpost.com being the least bit objective (w/ bezos at the top, bending the knee to trump). but for those still trusting them for editorial journalistic objectivity … just note the word choices & maybe stop trusting their slant.

well, exactly! i mean, we all understand that this administration isn't the least concerned with things as quaint as "laws" when they disagree with them. but let's at least be clear.

a functional press would, every single day, repeatedly, across numerous paragraphs in every story about him, make it clear that this is indisputably the most corrupt President in U.S. history

Has anyone before figured out you can use lawsuit settlements as facially legal bribes or is this a Trump innovation?

"paying for"? "paying for??" that's not how this works. try another word choice. like "corruption bribes". you don't just get to legally "pay for" such changes to federal buildings. … unless you don't agree it’s illegal / corrupt. laws exist to cover this. call it "illegal", wsj. please!

this. this. 1000x, this! it sounded like bullshit in the 80s. it’s proven out to be bullshit today. let's tax those who have high incomes & capital up to the point of the laffer curve, and then let's try to truly leveling the playing field for people who aren't already generationally wealthy.

Truth.

Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.

mendacious kleptocrat

this should be on cnn 24/7, and the backdrop for every "serious" sunday morning or evening news broadcast for every interview of any R in congress or any other trump admin stooge or apologist spin doctor even remotely related to the government shutdown. anything else is just turning a blind eye.

mendacious kleptocrat

there is simply no end to the mendacious kleptocrat's utter contempt for americans & the institutions of america.

don't let this get washed away in the tide: 170+ U.S. CITIZENS ! look, i'm not for doing any of this to immigrants ("illegal" or not) either. but if you want to convince your racist, immigrant-hating MAGA uncle (or others you're related to or once called friends) that ICE is bad, start with this.

It was an honor to join the UC Student and Policy Center to talk about my vision for California—a place where students can get a good paying job and afford to stay after they graduate. I’m running for Governor to bring back California's promise, and that starts with bringing down costs.

The New York Times has been complicit for a long while now, but this goes beyond complicity to intentional disinformation.

A quick rundown of who I am and what I’m doing. By the numbers.

@nytimes.com is clearly no longer a serious objective journalistic entity. yesterday's protests by 7 million people drew 2 below-the-fold pictures & a reference to a page 23 article. compare regarding charlie kirk recently. politics aside, these stories are the same magnitude.

a lot of details from @propublica.org , what has become to me a trusted source of information. this is not the twisting of words out of context. this is the collection of words directly from the mouth of russell vought & others in the current administration on the direction they want things to go.

This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton. I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.

October 18, 2025

Every Republican on the Sunday shows should be forced to comment on this. Show them. Make them watch That won't happen. But should

Walking through the No Kings rally, and seeing it thousands of times over across the country, has me awestruck. So many Americans are ready to stand against corruption and fight for a lower cost of living. I’m honored to stand with them.

Some stills from Oakland #nokings

Sf #nokings

Can we please collectively heed these words of warning?! Sarah continues to be proven correct because authoritarianism is predictable. Pay attention and respond accordingly- while you can!

Federal agencies: Yes we can find a way to open new social media accounts during a furlough. No we cannot find a way to acknowledge your FOIA request.

Civic Center at 3 pm. There are still hundreds of thousands of people marching down Market from the Embarcadero.

applies to "citizen journalists", too.

I have friends everywhere. #NoKings

Minneapolis is showing up and showing out. #NoKings

Philadelphia Freedom. 🇺🇸 #NoKings

#NoKings Austin tagging in. Massive crowd at the Texas State Capitol despite Gov. Greg Abbott’s activation of the National Guard.