really tired of having to keep tabs on what the most miserable, petty, small-minded people on this planet are doing because rather than address their own deficiencies they've decided to endanger everyone else

I hate how people are arguing with me about Biden’s culpability when he explicitly named the bill “Build Back Better” to restore “normal” and also kept saying frequently throughout the campaign that he expected Republicans to support some of his policies—deliberately undermining himself.

Yep, this is exactly what I'd have expected. Great article from Ken.

Ignoring all acts of sectarian violence they still just charged a guy with terrorism a week ago in Arizona for threatening to shoot up a gay bar. In reality, anti-government/militia-style groups outpace all others and are routinely committing acts. They just shuttered much of the research into them.

They won’t include these in terror or extremist numbers, but the point is that extremists control this system, and our government is a terror group. Connect that to the history of incarceration in our country, and it helps clarify how acceptance of state violence led us here.

Ended up with a front row seat, as Walters officially announced he’s resigning as OK state superintendent on FOX News. I’ll show you what happened afterward….

Ryan Walters bolts after announcing on cable news (in our studio) he will be stepping down as Superintendent to become CEO of Teacher Freedom Alliance to “destroy the teacher unions”.

“I use it for brainstorming.” is quickly becoming my most hated pro-AI statement. YOU TOOK YOUR BRAIN OUT OF THE EQUATION. THAT IS NOT BRAINSTORMING.

The most telling statistic I have ever hear is that poverty decreased during the pandemic heights because we were just doing direct payments. We basically had a national UBI pilot and ditched it because Biden wanted to restore status quo ante instead of leading a 21st century New Deal transformation

Something that makes me feel insane is that it's still not the mainstream opinion of the mainstream Democratic Party that tech billionaires are their enemies. They want to collaborate with the MechaHitler guy who spent several months breaking the federal government

So anyway, turns out plasma in menstrual blood can completely heal wounds in 24 hours. hudson.org.au/news/womb-to...

No one will ever come close to exceeding Nutmeg's profound, image-defining lack of self-awareness. No one.

This is probably part of why everyone on bluesky is 38 years old: 38 year olds are basically the only people who consider it totally normal to flee a sinking ship and then just casually resume the conversation on the tropical island they end up on. They've outlived dozens of ships.

I’ve lived less than 24 hours with the new iOS “Liquid Glass” and it’s… it’s Fine™ but I really, truly do not see the point. It’s just a change just to do stuff.

the term gets tossed around easily but this story is, no doubt about it, fucking insane

We probably won’t have this HERE until this crew is gone, but it’s still excellent news

Meta's policies require "repeated" Community Standards violations before Meta will disable an account. But abortion advocates are getting banned after just one post. This completely cuts accounts off from their followers and silences crucial reproductive health information.

3/ Tech fascism in a nutshell: “Computers are so much more rule-based, controllable, fixable, and comprehensible than any human will ever be. As many political schools of thought do, these technolibertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect.“ She wrote this in 2000!

4/ Borsook divided the tech ”libertarians” into two main types: the Ravers and the Gilders. The Ravers are the ones who go to Burning Man and project countercultural ideas. The Gilders are the Peter Thiel types, more overtly focused on money and power. But they are birds of a feather.

JUST IN: The Trump administration's bid to coerce states to comply with immigration enforcement in order to receive disaster aid is illegal and unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled today. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I was a rookie reporter in Washington, Pa., when a local judge tried to close a criminal trial to the public. The newspaper's attorney was across the street and filed an emergency motion to reopen the hearing almost immediately. The president judge granted it. The trial judge went bat shit ...

a Reichstag fire, but one of them every week

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

2/ In 2001, Borsook said tech "libertarianism" reflected an adolescent mindset, with a craving for unchecked independence & resistance to constraint. She warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer. From "Cyberselfish," a book based on her 90s writing:

Whenever people discuss what they feel is an overindulgence in sex as a component in TV and movies, I feel the urge to scream: Do you bring this energy also for violence? Sex is an integral component to our existence. That instead violence is defended and glamorized is an indictment of our values.

My decision to ultimately cancel Hulu/Disney+ came down to the fact that they reinstated Kimmel but didn't say anything about ensuring it doesn't happen again or protecting the free speech rights of their news division.

This is very good and reminds me of a point I always make when people say you can’t shame people out of being bigots. You can’t, but you can make them behave better by not creating a culture of permissiveness when they do

GOP lawmakers cite Georgia’s experiment as a model for the federal Medicaid work requirements set to take effect in 2027. A new report by a government spending watchdog found that the nation’s only Medicaid work requirement program spent twice as much on administrative costs as on health care.

Just a reminder that these "pivotal votes" that the Democrats got in these recent special elections aren't pickups. They are pivotal seats that have been vacant for months because the Democrats who previously held them ran for office notwithstanding age and cancer diagnoses, then died in office.

This is something I’ve been thinking a lot about the past few weeks. It’s a bitter and difficult thing to live life with senses cranked to 11 at all times in an environment that is fundamentally hostile to that lack of filtering - at both a sensory and social level

If the FBI was still run by the normie Republican they appointed last time, there wouldn’t be a trust issue with most libs. You don’t appoint Kash Patel bc you care about the other half of the country believing what you say.

Wrote for @thenation.com about the complicity of some liberal politicians and pundits in the conservative campaign to exterminate trans people www.thenation.com/article/poli...

They’re destroying our history!

yeah, apparently the shooter engraved "KASH PATEL IS COMPETENT AND HANDSOME" on a bullet. idk! that's what they're saying. really makes you think

“I think we're going to test ABC out on this. Let's see how we do. Last time I went after them, they gave me $16 Million Dollars. This one sounds even more lucrative.” I don’t think he’s ever been quite this explicit about his extortion.

I genuinely enjoy reading the city's budget book, a high-level look at what our taxes pay for. Not very deep in yet and I've learned the budget adds $762,000 for expansion of the Joint Enforcement Team, recently in the news for raiding gay bars in search of "lewd" conduct.

laws only exist if they are enforced what is enforced becomes the law

good job chat we successfully bullied a major corporation to the point that the late night host they canned is making jokes about it in his return monologue american fascism versus the cancel subscription button: who will win

This may have been the most insane and incoherent four days of his presidency. Tylenol, the U.N., I hate my opponents, other countries are going to hell, this escalator's broken, I'm mad at a TV comedian, I like Ukraine now. It really feels as if some minimal tether to reality has snapped.

Half of all Americans die in hospice care. Easy money and a lack of regulation transformed a crusade to provide death with dignity into an industry rife with fraud and exploitation. (Published 2022)

Weird how it was only a problem once it was pointed out to them

evergreen context of why the U.S. is like this: For hundreds of years mainline European christian sects got rid of weird branch sects with murder which was effective but reduced moral then colonialism introduced solving the problem by putting them on a boat to America

Proud to announce the project I've been working on 🏳️‍⚧️🧬 Had hoped to have more ready, but the events of the last week stressed the importance of speaking up against fascism NOW I'd appreciate your support in spreading the word, esp if you work in life sciences research, healthcare, or biotech

Have they considered taking away the AI's ability to work from home

A spray-painted bronze statue titled “Best Friends Forever” showing President Trump and Jeffrey Epstein holding hands was placed on the National Mall in front of the U.S. Capitol early Tuesday. https://wapo.st/42Dy5vU

A good ad on the DC Metro

Breaking: Trump's US envoy to Syria (also one of his few personal friends) apparently wholly unaware of what "Islam" means. This is stunning and in any normal world would be career ending for any diplomat in the Middle East.

so the Economist article isn't attributed an author. but someone in the replies of this 🧵 tipped me off that it was Jəsse Singal. & it turns out that it was, which in retrospect isn't surprising (as he's one of the ppl who would never answer this question):