They are trying to kill Wikipedia. Elon has made it his personal project. I have a small recurring donation now set up - join me.

Your average boathouse/rowing club has better opsec than this government.

I am just exhausted from saying JFC every hour for the past 10 years.

How I can see a new stupidest thing I’ve ever seen in my life every 48 hours is incredible.

“The law says he can’t do it so it’s not clear whether he can” is such a 2025 headline

Dude what is wrong with you. It is completely and explicitly illegal. The letter of the law can't be more clear.

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

The fact that AI slop is the preferred aesthetic of fascist weirdos does make the whole thing feel more insulting and gross.

"Google appears to have blocked AI search results for the query 'does trump show signs of dementia' as well as other questions about his mental acuity, even though it will show AI results for similar searches about other presidents." www.theverge.com/news/789152/...

Google is reportedly blocking AI searches for 'Donald Trump' and 'dementia' (via Verge)

“I asked Chris Murphy if he privately talks to Dem colleagues about why they don't sound the alarm loudly. His answers were depressing. Dems tell him they don't want to be ‘alarmist’…” Well, that explains a lot.

Anyway - be careful who you meet. People have various motivations and it wouldn’t be the first time someone made some shit up to try to get ahead.

I’ve enjoyed all pocket friends I’ve met - except recently. This person said they worked in intelligence, we’ve exchanged Xmas cards: over coffee they asked if my org was working against ICE. Whether it was working on immigration. Whether I was doing so pro bono. I’m not, but this felt weird.

Why are all these over filtered female influencers suddenly hawking CZ tennis necklaces on my social media feeds?

Still think GOP rhetoric on saving waste during shut down would be less hypocritical if congressional and chief executive salaries were also not being paid during the shutdown.

Nothing to see here, just SECDEF touring an American city as part of an internal security operation like it’s totally normal Wednesday stuff.

If we had a functioning DOJ — in particular the Foreign Investment Review Section — that was focused, at all, on national security, we wouldn’t have to rely on the media to police these sorts of transactions.

we're gonna radicalize the troops against private equity but not before we price gouge their families

If I were Senator Durbin, and I was the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, I would make a mental note to revisit this in the near future. ICE fast roping onto rooftops in Chicago seems like a good reason to exercise a teeny bit of oversight www.newsweek.com/ice-rappel-b...

As if irony isn’t already dead, the Hatch Act violation on the DOJ website, which blames Democrats for the shutdown, appears on the page advising DOJ employees they are subject to the Hatch Act. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-note-abo...

Readying this for sale.

We are living in Idiocracy

“You had one job”

Evergreen

NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats. Version of original on left, updated on right:

Hello Vanderbilt, Dartmouth, Penn, USC, MIT, UT, Arizona, Brown, and UVA see below: a word of caution

River is so bad at this

the degree of sheer incompetence that pervades this administration is remarkable, and incredibly dangerous.

Fixing these too!

ADP Payroll Estimate: The internals indicate that small and medium size firms have stopped hiring. Small firms shed 40K jobs and medium sized firms let go of 20K individuals. Large firms hired 33K. By sector good produces let go of 3K and service producers 28K. #Econ #EconSky

Oh Honkers I get it I really do

New bench slap just dropped. They are coming at a truly astonishing rate. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

It’s fixed! I am delighted.

Honestly, this entire opinion is just jaw-dropping. The first postings I saw on Bluesky were about the first page, which is lovely in its own right and exemplifies one of the less-well-explored roles of a judge in a democracy: to explain what is going on legally to non-lawyers. There's way more.

reposting this (an excerpt from the district court's opinion in AAUP v. Rubio, a case about the government targeting noncitizen students and faculty for their pro-Palestine advocacy) w alt-text ! storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Exhibit A at The Hague just dropped

Also he bookends the opening:

Judge Young—who has been on the bench for as long as I have been alive—calls it the most important case he has ever considered.

Holy shit

hegseth was one of those guys who jerked off to russian propaganda videos before the ukraine war. "look how big and manly they are, surely ukraine doesn't stand a chance"

and he's obsessed with appearance because that's the only thing he understands.

just the hubris on this guy! like every chauvinist mediocrity, he sincerely believes he is a top specimen, the pinnacle of human achievement.

“…arrest every person suspected of threatening or assaulting a federal law enforcement officer…” New memo drop from AG Bondi

Porcelain War is on PBS POV tonight - I saw the premiere and it is amazing - about the Ukraine war and artists. Go see it!

I’m sorry, why are we bailing out Argentina?

Porcelain War is on PBS POV tonight - I saw the premiere and it is amazing - about the Ukraine war and artists. Go see it!

This is offensive.