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Welp, here it is: maybe the funniest thing we've ever done, in its entirety.

Over 100 Brown U students & 20 faculty members gathered outside the campus today to demand that the university reject Trump’s loyalty oath compact. Professors & students taped their mouths shut to symbolize the compact’s threat to free speech, #academicfreedom & diversity of thought. #DefendHigherEd

Do not, my friends, become addicted to water.

“This is the largest interruption of benefits in the history of this program put into law 90 years ago by Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Frances Perkins.” – Former Social Security Administration Commissioner @martinomalley.bsky.social

I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News. Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios. www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

"Every time we have been attacked w/pepper bullets or tear gas or pepper spray … it has felt like it came from anger that we were there, and not from any determined safety need or protocol," said Rev. Hannah Kardon, who has been shot w/pepper bullets _multiple times_. "They are unhinged."

Neither Democrats nor Republicans grasp how needlessly difficult the current legal process is even for the supposedly simplest, uncontested case of spousal immigration. Once people learn it takes years and thousands of dollars, they're far more open to easing the process. doi.org/10.1017/XPS....

Trump treating the federal government like those apartments he owned with his daddy: No Blacks Allowed!

“One of the chants that has become ubiquitous at these protests at Broadview is, ‘Love your neighbor, love your God, save your soul and quit your job,’” said Black, who pastors at the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago. “Everybody chants that.”

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them. They should feel bad.

My choice for the Nobel Peace Prize this year: Chef José Andrés and the World Central Kitchen.

Annals in sane-washing. When I checked NYT, WSJ, Politico, and WaPo for a story abt how Trump invited PizzaGate guy to the White House and declared an end to the First Amendment, this single story that mentioned it was on top of WaPo. Now it's buried. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

The acting CDC Director has no knowledge, training or experience in science/public health. Trump has no knowledge, training or experience in science/public health. Both are calling to make the MMR vaccine into 3 separate shots, which makes absolutely no scientific or public health sense.

Today the Bruins open their season against the Washington Capitals, so I am going to tell a story about one of my idols who happened to play for both teams: Joé Juneau. Joé Juneau is a reason why hockey is awesome.

The attorney general of the United States seems to have declared intent to extrajudicially murder protesters

It's a bit of a fun exercise to contrast what Nick Nick Holzherr, the founder of Git.Law, breathlessly promises in his hype blog vs what the actual terms of service for his product say

donald trump is a fascistic leader who has surrounded himself with people who are explicitely pro-fascistic that want to end democracy as we know it and punish anyone who dissents. pretending otherwise leads me to believe you agree with them doing this

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

Literally all they've got any more is KKK-style nativism, directed specifically at Latinos. Every single GOP message collapses back to this. They've become the Klan

If you're still working at the Post or the Times and think you can just keep your head down and do some good from "the inside," I'm astonished that I have to inform you that you're naive as all fuck. Join us on planet Fuck You, Make Me. There's more cachet in leaving than being thrown in the bin.

So last night I migrated @gregpak.net from Bluesky to Blacksky's myatproto.social server for non-Black users! A few thoughts on the process for anyone thinking about this...

People got mad at John Oliver for pointing out that Marc Rich's pardon under Clinton basically established the precedent Trump uses to enrich himself and double his net worth this year, but like I'm sorry you have to understand this did not all happen at once lol

When you could code silly quizzes on Facebook, it was FULL of "what would you be in medieval times?!" etc. I made one that nearly always answered "died as a child", "died in childbirth", "lived and died as a servant" People got SUPER mad with it. Everyone assumes they'll be at the top of the tree

they don’t want you to know how they treat prisoners because it will grieve you to know it, which is natural and human, and because of your normal human reaction you will want the system changed. It’s important to them that your natural aversion to how the system works not be engaged.

SILENT HILL f gets a DRM-free release on GOG #SILENTHILLf #Gaming #PCGaming

Bank of England flags risk of ‘sudden correction’ in tech stocks inflated by AI - on.ft.com/4o3RheA

It's been one year since I was laid off from Bungie, and I'm still looking for full time work. If you've got any leads on game design or games qa positions, please reach out. I'm a skilled designer, and nothing I led QA for ever had any bugs ship. dianavoyer.com

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

Deloitte Australia will partially refund the 440,000 Australian dollars ($290,000) paid by the Australian government for a report that was littered with apparent AI-generated errors, including a fabricated quote from a federal court judgment and references to nonexistent academic research papers.

Pam Bondi is supposed to be a public servant. The performance at today's hearing - an utterly horrific display - indicates she is fully comfortable letting taxpayers know: she is Trump's lawyer, not America's. Zero shame and zero checks by Republicans: www.huffpost.com/entry/pam-bo...

NEW: David Adler—a Jewish American on the Gaza aid Flotilla—details Israeli detention. At one point, he says, he was forced to his knees for a photo op with the Israeli flag, as Ben Gvir yelled in his face, calling him a terrorist. Says US "hung up" on families of Americans, veterans seeking help.

Dems somehow lose the messaging war on pedophiles. Make this your entire platform. They're giving you SO MUCH MATERIAL. Literally say THEY WON'T SWEAR IN THIS WOMAN BECAUSE SHE WANTS TO RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES. Hire me as your consultant. We will win. Stop hiring Adam Jentleson. He's an idiot.

Just as a reminder, Bondi’s origin story in Trump world is that she said she was going to investigate Trump University, Trump sent her a $25K check and the investigation disappeared. She later became Trump’s personal defense lawyer. So yeah, don’t challenge her integrity.

if you needed another reason to stop using spotify:

There are some people whom the media has decided are "leading intellectuals", regardless of the views of their academic colleagues. Invariably they are people who justify - or at the very least do not challenge - economic power. Steven Pinker is a stand-out example. www.monbiot.com/2018/03/09/c...

Kristi Noem was the governor of South Dakota when Biden was President. Guess what she said regarding Biden potentially federalizing the Guard.

RSS is, and I say this without hyperbole, an incredibly useful tool for psychological independence in the current environment. Newsblur, as Vajra suggests, is good, I use Feedbin, there are others. Most remarkably easy to set up.

Dunno man, seems a little misleading to write an article about Trump describing activity in Portland and Chicago as “insurrection” with a 33 year old photo of a burning donut shop taken in the 1992 LA Riots (sans caption explaining that) as the header on all your posts about it.

She wasn't really "deported," was she? She was in international waters when Israel illegally boarded her ship, detained her, and then bought her into Israel before shipping her to Greece. That sounds like a lot of things but "deported" is not one of them.

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

A Texas megachurch pastor and GOP leader has been arrested for crimes against children. Not Robert Morris, a different one. Not Josiah Anthony, a different one. Not Luke Cunningham, a different one. Not Tony Evans, a different one. Not Scott Crenshaw, a different one. Not Steve Lawson, a different o

Subscribe to The Onion. I want to have more subscribers than The Free Press as soon as possible. This is achievable. In exchange, when we sell the company to a drone and cobalt magnate so I can dive in a pool of gold coins Scrooge McDuck-style, you will be spared my wrath and retribution.

Jesus, that letter from Wari Beiss to all CBS employees is a cumbersome, poorly written, pedantic flourish of fascist-leaning ambiguity, just as one might expect.

House Republicans are refusing to seat Dem Adelita Grijalva, who won a special election more than a week ago. She's the last signature needed to force a vote on the Epstein files. The soonest the GOP will act is Oct. 7. In three prior specials this year, the winners were all sworn in a day later.

This footnote to Illinois and Chicago's lawsuit against Trump is an important reminder: * There is no Department of War or Secretary of War, which are make-believe names for the actual agencies created by Congress. Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Not just willing. Eager. That's the terrifying thing. If you're wondering how "Jawohl, mein Führer! We will kill the queers and the Jews and the Zigeuner!" got off the ground...you're watching it in real time. Unless you're in ICE. Then you're doing it yourself.

One thing to understand about what's happening now is that on Oct 1, the deportation machine's budget increased dramatically: $170 billion in NEW funding, averaging to $42.5 billion per year. That's just below the Israeli military's annual budget. It's the equivalent of 13th biggest army on earth.

I have a lot of sympathy for anyone trying to deal with all of this [waves hands]. Nonetheless, as the genocidal rhetoric & state violence against Dems increases every day, there is something genuinely pathological -- worthy of psychological diagnosis -- about responding with "moderate, moderate!"