ICE violently arrested a protester and pointed assault rifles at unarmed community members filming today in Little Village, Chicago.

The reason this resonates is because this is what American Republican performative Christianity really is now. See a genuinely evil thing said on the internet? More than half the time, they've got "Christian" in the bio. I love that Jesus Guy. But (white) Christians anti-correlate with morality.

We saw this cheap shit all over Saddam's palaces

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Jesus. I don't remember this, but yeah - that woman was going down. 1000 yard stare, and teetering. Yikes. Don't lock your knees, folks!

Historically the people in power get blamed for these things no matter who is responsible (cf. Biden and Inflation), and yet Republicans don’t seem to care. Are they *really* so high on their own supply they can’t see how damaging this is to them electorally *and* to the country?!

Judging middle school entrepreneurship fair applications and it doesn't get any points on the rubric, but gotta appreciate the kid who crossed out the "how many items to break even" question and wrote "I just want to do this. There's no way I'll cover my costs."

Weird that they could find a billionaire to give money to the Pentagon but not one to supplement SNAP* * not weird I know

I don't think anyone had really grappled with how we deal with point number 2.

Performative absence of self-respect. Stomach turning.

Incredibly beautiful day to be at Tunnel Tops park. In a city full of amazing (and increasingly interconnected parks) GGP obviously chief among them, this still stands out as a phenomenal one. Pelosi helped make it happen

Yay @commscholar.bsky.social !

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Trump's tariffs are hurting us in two ways: First, the obvious: Higher costs → either lower profits or higher prices. Second, more subtle (perhaps bigger): We’ve signaled we’re an unreliable partner, so allies are reorganizing supply chains to avoid us. That's hard to unwind.

I don't think he ever washes it off. He's just gradually seasoning his face like a cast iron skillet.

This can’t be real, can it?

A long and comprehensive opinion, but this jumped out at me: The judge accused the Federal Protective Service—which was called in to suppress the protests—of lying under oath to slander the regular Portland police.😬 DOJ recently admitted that other FPS claims in this case were objectively false.

Now THIS is America. When the fascists come to your neighborhood, you rise up and give them shit. You don't take it lying down. This is ACTUAL PATRIOTISM.

It’s unconscionable that congress and the President do nothing and continue to be paid, while the government workers who keep us safe and people who need food assistance are literally cut off completely.

Watch to the end

Affordability isn't not something that is suddenly a thing, except in the political calculations. But there are objective measures of affordability and they've been getting worse for basically everyone outside of the top... 20%? who make all their money on money, not labor.

New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

Honestly looking forward to this ruling. Either SCOTUS rules against Trump or they reveal themselves to be as in Trump’s pocket as humanly possible.

LET ME BE PERFECTLY CLEAR: DOJ DID ALL OF THIS TO TRY AND STOP PAYMENTS TO PEOPLE UNDER AN ANTI-HUNGER PROGRAM.

I'm always saying this. Signaling is inevitable, it's up to you what you signal

Republicans are cartoon villains, man

I've noticed some people on Twitter are prone to arguing with Grok, posing leading questions to get Grok to confirm their most delusional, conspiratorial beliefs. I worry that this behavior + AI's politeness bias + lack of mental health services + widespread guns will lead to bad things.

This looks cool as shit. Please back it!

In 2008, a blogger named Curtis Yarvin called for a future president to kill foreign aid programs as part of a plan to replace democracy with dictatorship. Now 600,000 people are dead—and 14 million will die by 2030, according to the Lancet. This is the running death toll of tech fascism.

Here we go! www.trumpcancelledmyflight.com

In a plea deal in Dec 2024, Smirnov admitted to completely fabricating the conspiracy that became central to a GOP effort to impeach then-President Joe Biden. Days later, the Russian asset pleaded guilty to four felony charges, including one count of obstruction, and was sentenced to six years.

The premium this week is the precursor to something I'm working on coming out in the next week or two (which will be free). But one thing I can't stop thinking about - how has nobody else simply added up all the funding and revenues and costs? Hell, I should've done it months ago.

They're going to outbid the most over-priced, high-paying bubble industry with infinite capital for 100 experts in AI? I think Ohio State might be fools.

Kudos to AP for interviewing families of the victims. They were not so-called “narcoterrorists” but rather poor fishermen, bus drivers, and others down on their luck. They were neither Al Qaeda trained bombers nor cartel gunslingers. Hegseth is simply lying & using smears to dehumanize his victims.

"Republicans are keeping the government closed, starving kids, and making you miss your Thanksgiving flights because they want your healthcare costs to go through the roof" is actually a pretty effective message for Democrats

This stuff is truly horrific. But it's not obvious to me this technology can be PREVENTED from doing this if the user REALLY wants it to do this. This is like if the guns used in suicides left transcripts and sounded like people. They're not. They are tools that people use, tragically.

Here's where I disagree with @radiofreetom.bsky.social. It's true that the average person in the US, right now, doesn't feel particularly oppressed. But the average person in Germany, in 1933, didn't feel particularly oppressed. They weren't the ones being targeted.

There is a lot of discussion on college campuses about "civility" and it always obsesses over tone while avoiding talk about the actual ideas to which we ascribe value. Shaming people for believing horrible, baseless, mean things about other people is actually upholding civil society.

Buried in the Big Beautiful Bill were changes to food assistance that demanded “any future change be cost-neutral. Translation: no more benefit increases, even if food prices skyrocket.” The result was “institutionalized hunger.” @kristencrowell.bsky.social www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Pathetic, cowardly, fake soldier shit.

I'm not great at the political BS of everything. But I could understand this.

Trump is so dump he literally doesn't know that spending bill must originate in the House, which is being kept out of session to protect Trump from the release of the Epstein files.

Rich entitled dude mad he isn’t being catered to like usual.

I find it hilarious that the Post thinks CBS wouldn’t be able to get interviews with Netanyahu, Hillary Clinton and Condoleeza Rice but for Bari Weiss’s “connections.”

Any public policy / industrial policy should be focused on INCREASING COMPETITION AGAINST INCUMBENTS. Our economy is WILDLY OVER-CONCENTRATED. This creates both systemic risk, and reduces competition/efficiency of the market.

Republicans are comic book evil

Wow: Trump is pardoning a convicted agent of the Chinese Communist Party

Just naked bigotry, they don't even bother trying to hide anymore