Our politicians did more to regulate Prince and Twisted Sister songs than glacier melting chatbots that promote suicide

They are behaving like someone who is trying to keep us from discovering that they emptied all the money from the accounts spending it on blow and gambling debts.

The Calm app really needs to slow its roll with EMDR. That’s not something I want to experience without guidance from a professional. Yikes.

Got a chamber of commerce notification that ICE came into a north side Chicago daycare and threatened a teacher. #fuckICE

PRO TIP: This is not a winning message. Source: Last night's election results, FAFO.

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They used taxpayer money to make this. I’m so embarrassed by my country. www.whitehouse.gov/mysafespace/

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A huge challenge to designing low burden public systems at the federal level is the partitions between data sources for each government organization. You learn fast that these boundaries are purposeful and important for our safety. This should enrage all of us. www.propublica.org/article/dhs-...

My new fun is telling my 19yo about absurd experiences I had at his age. Today I told him about that time my dad sent me alone to get a replacement car door from STEVEN AVERY. At 19, I was alone in an auto salvage yard being chased by 3 rottweilers. He murdered Teresa Halbach a decade later.

I use Claude (an AI) to scan my posts for spelling and grammar errors. On the most recent post (about the East Wing, link below), I got a really amazing addendum. www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...

The firings will continue until morale improves. federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/20...

Excuse me? So the company the President currently owns is teaming up with a cryptocurrency company to create a prediction market, which will take bets... on things the President himself has quite a lot of control over? Gosh, I'm sure nothing bad will happen. www.ft.com/content/4855...

A sitting president opening a betting market on his own website taking bets on things he influences. Wild times.

I’m only on season 7 of Supernatural. It’s my current comfort show. Today I was served up a post by someone complaining about the show finale and what happens to a main character. SONOFABITCH

If you think Trump can’t misuse the nuclear codes because "people would stop him" well those same people just watched him bulldoze a wing of the White House.

Organized Communities Against Deportations has launched a new mutual aid fund to support immigrant families in Chicago impacted by ICE raids Link to donate: donorbox.org/mutualaid2025

If our soldiers are being paid by a private individual, doesn’t that mean the USA now has a privatized military, at least in a partial, meaningful way? The payroll of the largest military in the world was just paid by one person who has no formal accountability.

It would be so helpful if we had a free and unbiased press that checked on candidate backgrounds and verified that someone is who they say they are with the life experiences they claim they have.

It seems that there is an emerging political trend of styling oneself as a working class progressive to get political then use the influence and inside information to make yourself a lot of money. This will keep happening until we end stock trades while in congressional office.

Been bingeing Supernatural and I gotta say, I’m surprised how comforting it is watching attractive men destroy demons over and over. It’s refreshing when people stop the big bad from doing big evil. Even if it’s fiction.

RFK is undoing human subjects protections so he can conduct placebo trials of vaccines. That means infecting people knowingly. I wonder who will “volunteer” for these trials? If history is any guide, a lot of incarcerated and other powerless people.

Discovered at 6pm on Friday that my email has not been actually sending all week even though all indicators showed them going out. Thanks Google, now I’ll be rechecking my domain settings every day like a paranoid raccoon.

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Chris Murphy: "This is a country that's falling apart because Trump is in the middle of an authoritarian takeover. We're not on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We're in the middle of it ... I have no moral obligation to vote for a budget that literally funds the destruction of our democracy"

While the world is on fire, we spend our days carrying wood to cook our meals.

“No Kings” is great , but we really don't get a functioning democracy back until we internalize, bone deep, the instinctive response to this and every other statement like it: “I don’t care what that rich guy thinks.” Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.

Watching “M: Son of the Century” is therapeutic in the way that reading a good book about someone else’s crazy life is when you are going through it yourself. Plus, it’s a masterpiece of film.

When the people with money at stake tell you to use their product or else—be skeptical.

We were doing just that before DOGE and their purge of federal tech talent!

Reading what is happening today to so many critical federal employees who have been under siege by this administration for months…it’s monstrous. We shouldn’t allow our public servants to be treated with such vindictiveness

You would not fire these people—including the staff of the hugely, HUGELY important 'Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report'—if you cared at all about public health, if you wanted people to live. And you would not let your thuggish henchmen fire people like this if you were a responsible president.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Here it is folks—The physical manifestation of a k-hole. *shudder*

I’m sure this will not have any negative consequences to the general public. /s

Perhaps the vendetta against federal employees stems from the fact that these clowns could never pass the background check required to become a non-political federal employee. I think about 50% of teen movies have “retribution against a club that wouldn’t accept them” as their central plot.

In case you needed a reason to love Jane Goodall more…

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

We have allowed sociopaths and psychopaths to create a society in which only they can thrive.

shit's pretty bleak but at least I have lived long enough to see the Buddhists dunking on Ezra Klein: "Coates is describing lynching, and Klein responds with a meditation about his own mortality. That’s not wisdom. That’s avoidance with a spiritual veneer." lizbucar.substack.com/p/ezra-klein...

One of the things I always find telling is the idea that we have to judge past people by the standards of their time, as if the fact that they did bad things means that everyone thought it was okay. They didn't. Pretty much every obviously evil act had people saying that it was, in fact, bad.

New: Apple just removed ICEBlock, the app for reporting sightings of ICE, from its App Store after DOJ pressure. ICEBlock's developer tells 404 Media "we are determined to fight this." "Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never the right move." www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

Media literacy 101–just because a random, laughably-designed survey says something does not make it remotely true. Also, what editor green lit this sad excuse of journalism?

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white. Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace. That’s not making America great again.

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

JUDGE McELROY: It’s “yet another case where the administration is saying … I’m going to do what I want to do and not what the law says and make the court make me.” @politico.com #FEMA @kyledcheney.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

AOC: I think there's two things that are happening at once: One, there absolutely is an unprecedented abuse of power, destruction of norms, erosion of our government and our democracy in order to prop up an authoritarian style of governance However, they are weaker than they look…

Democrats have leverage — and they need to use it to fight back against this regime. Any Democratic senator who votes for a continuing resolution offered by Republicans will effectively be green-lighting the cruel policies passed in Trump's big, ugly bill. Do not cave in.

Believe them when they tell us their plans. Who is safe when the largest military in the world is aiming at its own people?