Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.

As usual he is telling us exactly what he plans. He does not plan to leave and he thinks he will be inaugurated for a third time in his new ballroom.

Meowie Antoinette

You know what we don't talk enough about? Queen & Annie Lennox/David Bowie rehearsing 'Under Pressure' in 1992. So much going on! Everyone's clothes, Bowie with a lit cig throughout, where Annie PROPER GOES FOR IT, George Michael singing along in the background. The amazing vocals. Yes, please!

“I’ve been eating BBQ since before Ken Paxton’s first indictment” is a great joke. I’d love to see Talarico swap out the punchline each time he tells it. “…since before Ken Paxton cheated on his wife” “…since before Ken Paxton was impeached by his own party” There are hundreds of options.

The Justice Department removed information about the January 6 insurrectionists from its website. @lawfaremedia.org has preserved and posted it www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

the FT has two pieces on the slow-motion collapse of UK higher ed. 4/5ths of unis are doing voluntary layoffs; 38% are doing compulsory. Meanwhile Britain and its flatlined productivity growth sleepwalks through its unprecedented loss of advanced capabilities www.ft.com/content/8097...

@mikiesherrill.bsky.social And? Designated first amendment zones.

Remember when Bernie Sanders unveiled his plan for free college for all Americans, and everyone said we can't afford it? We just spent more than that amount on Trump's war in Iran.

As of this morning, @thenewschool.bsky.social is de facto replacing its History department with a “Center for the American Experience,” which is funded by private and undisclosed donors. The New School has been New Colleged, and there’s no GOP to blame here. Our anti-fascist identity is over.

Cecilia Vega, the first 60 Minutes Latina correspondent, was fired today, along with some of her colleagues, as Bari Weiss overhauls the news magazine. She has released this statement:

oh god I want them to touch the stove so badly. holy shit can you even imagine the scale of the catastrophic fallout, my god

DOJ Launches Criminal Investigation Into All Women

A President ordering the Justice Department to criminally investigate a woman who won a sexual assault lawsuit against him makes Watergate look like an unpaid parking ticket.

I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.

Hypothetical polling showed Talarico doing about 1-2 points better against Paxton than Cornyn. That is not an earth-shattering difference — but it might be enough in a close race. Ds lost TX by 2.6 points in 2018, w a D+7-8 national environment. GB is on track for that now. It kinda... just adds up

Absolutely nothing is stopping John Cornyn, Tillis, Murkowski, & Paul from caucusing immediately with Democrats & giving them control of the Senate. The same is true of Thomas Massie & any 2 retiring GOP Reps in the House. It is a choice to continue caucusing with the authoritarian personality cult.

Fine, I'll say it: The Texas Senate race is a tossup www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-texas-...

Keep pushing back. Loudly, publicly, and persistently.

I can excuse @iaindale.bsky.social's ignorance here. Just because anyone with a very basic economics education should recognise the lump of labour fallacy doesn't mean he should. But the arrogance combined with the absolutely deliberate refusal to think is quite remarkable.

Shorter: there are no jobs and pay and conditions are getting worse

This isn’t even about AI - this is just straight-up misogyny.

Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified…… History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” - George Orwell -

Please listen to this video by Yale Professor Asha Rangappa and Princeton Professor Kim Scheppele on how Magyar defeated Orban. #ByeOrban In short, narrow your talking points to corruption & inflation... #Corruption asharangappa.substack.com/p/when-autho...

Counterpoint: No it fucking isn’t Both their products and their services (Starlink) are the definition of state corporate capture. HE LITERALLY EXTORTED THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE USING THE WAR IN UKRAINE TO MAKE STARLINK SOLVENT

Rereading Agatha Christie for a Hay festival event this weekend - Googled to fact check something and the AI summary at the top literally *gives away whodunit.* O brave new world, etc.

This is a failure of journalism, on a really basic level, but it is also a failure of political leadership. It was going to fall simply in the basis of what the previous govt did. But Starmer somehow conspired to actively spread the impression it was rising.

Just wanted to let you know that the IRS has audited every president annually for decades now to ensure there was no corruption and the reason you didn't know that was because only one president found that to be a problem

This is how U.S. media covers/normalizes/enables him and his corruption and criminal actions.

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this is a masterpiece

The rise of AI is facilitatitating ever-more-convincing scams and phishing aimed at aspiring and professional authors. The @thesocietyofauthors so has issued a guide to spotting the scammers: search their website or click:

It was kind of Robert Jenrick to set me up for an obvious joke at his expense.

A hidden masterpiece uncovered during a church restoration reveals a dramatic battle against a dragon that lay unseen for over 380 years.

George, who donated significant sums to refugee charities, would have been proud 👏🏿

yes of course Nigel lives in Switzerland

Immigration make Britain brilliant

"Especially over the last 15 years, the Court's corrupt majority has more & more openly adopted the stance that you have a powerful presidency for Republicans & a weak one for Dems. They won’t allow Dems to enjoy the fruits of political power when they win it, & that’s just an untenable situation."

Genuinely even people who can’t stand him keep assembling stories about why he does and says the things he does and says as if there’s any plan behind them. In fact he’s just incredibly stupid and lies a lot.

If I ever had to meet Trump I’d use every big word I know, too. If they contained implied threats so much the better, though I’d lean more toward invective.

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

Elon Musk is tripping his ass off in China.

EXC from @pippacrerar.bsky.social Angela Rayner has been cleared by HMRC of deliberate wrongdoing or carelessness over her tax affairs, the Guardian can reveal, paving the way for a potential leadership bid as Keir Starmer’s grip on power unravels. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

"This is not just the most corrupt presidency in American history, it is among the most corrupt regimes on earth."

This is dead on. If the Democrats retake the House and Senate--or even just the House--it could mark the beginning of the end of a 50-year Republican project. If they can't? The GOP will spend the next 2 years destroying all remaining guardrails. Most important midterms of our lives, no question.

unfortunately, kim il sung's clothes hang a lot better

I was just home and it is so lovely. You can take the girl out of Chicago …

True story