this is america. you could find yourself within 100yds of a shooting at any time, in any place. school, the grocery store, a movie theater, a block party, a public park… it happens to regular people every day. but this week we’ll get 50+ weepy op-eds because it happened to the guys who write op-eds

I for one will never, ever forget how quickly and easily American institutions and businesses embraced fascism when this loser took power

"Elon Musk is a white supremacist" is a 100% objectively true factual statement no major outlet would you let say without extensive qualification in an opinion piece, much less allow in straight reporting.

One funny thing about writing more is how jealous it makes me of other people's writing. @caseynewton.bsky.social this line is 🔥

MICHAEL'S CHILD SEX ABUSE ALLEGATIONS WILL RETURN IN AVENGERS DOOMSDAY

"EVEN MORE VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED" is the "Fuck everything, we're doing five blades" of Infowars hysteria, these two brands deserve each other

I can't stop laughing at the thought of a Meta exec actually typing "There has been a lot of concern about this" as they attempt to justify 24/7 digital employee surveillance

Any Dem who runs on a platform of ending every single government contract with Palantir, then hiring a team of experts to undo the damage these fascist dorks have done to our infrastructure, communications and personnel, not only has my vote, but has my donation checks and volunteer hours as well.

Two copy editors high-fiving so hard right now

Remember, Democrats have repeatedly advanced measures to ban partisan gerrymandering and Republicans have voted against them time after time. This is the game Republicans wanted to play. OK, then.

When a Bluesky post becomes a @nytopinion.nytimes.com piece www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...

except what tween girls do more accurately predicts trends/commerce than these dudes

Yes, the fact that I'm attending the White House Correspondents Dinner might SEEM like a supine gesture of complete deference to the insane dullard who demands total obedience from the press, BUT that's until you see the secret message I have on my pocket square

it's really an extraordinary statement of where we are - and of what ideas are circulating in some circles - that a prominent public company said this out loud

Yeah geez weird impossible to know I guess

It shocks me how many businesses still don’t seem to get that Trump’s cultural revolution did not actually happen

"If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason."

I like to imagine that Zohran Mamdani, Socialist African-born Muslim, was literally willed into existence by the collective psychosis of the Tea Party GOP over Obama, like the ectoplasm under NYC in Ghostbusters II

At this point Thinking Machines Lab is just a $12 billion co-working space for future employees of Meta. share.google/IUdV1sXCUjKK...

When you run into an acquaintance you haven't seen in years and make fake plans to catch up for a drink soon, like, when things calm down

Late-stage capitalism has devolved into a nonstop smash-and-grab. Just anything you can think of. Shoe companies pivoting to AI. Football players selling weight loss drugs to healthcare workers. Nothing is too stupid.

Excited to announce that I am pivoting to AI

Again: for any big liberal donor who wants to funnel millions into fixing this country's politics, the ROI on buying any struggling paper and simply tasking it with doing real reporting on local news is vastly higher than the same $$ given to some group that does mass ad buys every election year.

Tell me how the script here would be any different if it was written as a cold open for SNL.

“Two can play at that game” is literally the Drebin quote here when he takes an innocent woman hostage to cluelessly fight the enemy

I misread the headline as one movie and got very excited for a moment…

INTERACTING WITH MARK'S CHATBOT IS THE LITERAL OPPOSITE OF CONNECTING WITH MARK

Swalwell's apology for sexual assault is an all-timer

From new Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar's acceptance speech tonight. This is the absolute BARE MINIMUM platform for any Democrat running for President in 2028.

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

One of Frank Herbert’s Hebrew novels I’m not familiar with

It’s hard to overstate how much of this moment is driven by people who got a taste of accountability and were very, very mad about it.

the strait of hormuz is in a quantum superposition of open and closed that only collapses when you try to take a tanker through yourself and see if you get shot at

Finally, a commercial use case for bitcoin

this whole thing is very much like being locked in a room with a guy with a grenade who keeps being like IM GONNA DO IT IM GONNA PULL THE PIN and then is like “actually nah” and then everyone sighs but you’re still locked in the same room with the same guy and he’s still holding the same grenade

I do feel like a semicolon might’ve been helpful

I generally respect Warnock but this is beyond parody. Get better comms people.

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

I'd like to hear today from the titans of tech who voted for this madman because Joe Biden wasn't sufficiently supportive of stablecoins.

Launch me into the sun

AI killed the corporate copywriter job, so many former writers will evolve into copy editors. The same is true in engineering, where AI code bloat will require experts in reliability engineering and systems architecture. Fewer bricklayers, more building inspectors.

lmao this one is incredible. “Head of product at X condemns quote-tweeting” my brother in Jira you’re the shift manager at the quote tweet factory

I’m sorry, if you’re a journalist and you’re still going to the White House Correspondents Dinner this year, genuinely, from the bottom of my heart, fuck off.

Even more than most AI companies, Meta has never explained why it cares about the technology or how it will improve the world. So far, it’s damaged the company’s properties tremendously.

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

It’s pretty interesting to compare Easter messages from political leaders and then consider which ones the media treats as being out of the mainstream or dangerous

*movie trailer guy voice*

there are so many things i hate about the fascist project, but administration officials making up increasingly absurd lies about the amazing mind of Donald Trump is way up there