currently writing a novel while working freelance content mills to pay rent. my partner and i both have ADHD and autism, and my health is generally in decline from an undiagnosed autoimmune disorder. i cannot convey how enraged this faux-zen attitude from a massively successful author makes me

Obama slithering out of his den to promote a podcast instead of doing literally anything else right now is actually a perfect encapsulation of the grift that was his presidency

Imagine showing this headline to these exact Democrats in October 2024

Oh my but this is good… writing.

Frustrated by the Justice Department’s response to the fatal shootings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti, federal prosecutors in Minneapolis suggested that they could resign en masse. At least one prosecutor in the office’s criminal division resigned since a meeting this week. https://wapo.st/3M2S7L9

Love that classic colonial New England vinyl siding

So what's the move here? Blowing whistles and standing back to record video while they drag an entire Black community out of their homes and off to the slaughter?

It is incredibly painful to watch people left of center becoming as conspiracy-brained as those on the right have been for a long time. The devaluation of trust is the victory of fascism, even if you consciously believe you oppose fascism.

the other half is "please use the computer that's bad at math so we can justify getting rid of your computer, which is good at math"

When people talk about courts constraining this administration, it feels like I'm trying to disabuse a toddler of the notion of Santa Claus.

Well

I am a Jew whose great grandparents were in Dachau, and I would like to kindly ask anyone who insists on preserving the Holocaust in amber and cries foul when the current moment is held up in comparison to go tongue fuck a bucket of medical waste

Uh, Anne Frank was not there legally after all the Jews had been rounded up, which was kind of why she was hiding in an attic

We can’t treat 2026 and 2028 as normal election years. The administration will do everything they can to subvert the elections. Both the voting process itself and the results. Focusing only on the nominees and the horse race as if it’s a normal cycle will distract us. We can’t let that happen.

An entire community of thousands, here legally, having been demonized with deranged lies about eating pets, is about to be arbitrarily DECLARED illegal so they can be forcibly ethnically cleansed. I don’t want to hear one more fucking word about comparisons to Nazi Germany being overwrought.

Read this. Take it seriously. When I wrote a similar article in early 2023, all but one of my predictions came to pass. www.zdnet.com/article/10-w...

fucking incredible. keep it up

It's to the point where you basically can't do anything online when you have a VPN enabled. Nearly every website is openly hostile to it. I just had to disable it momentarily to log into Bluesky!

What do you mean, "why's it got to be built"? It's a data centre! You've got to build data centres.

I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio. Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3. Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.

And yet stating this aloud is STILL considered improprietous or hyperbolic by the entirety of the mainstream media

Kansas is a stand your ground state. I'm letting you know this for no particular reason.

I hope by now everyone gets that all struggles are intertwined, but if you had any doubt— this bounty hunter model is based off of Texas’ SB8, which was the death knell for Roe— & allowed ppl to pull these same vigilante lawsuits against anyone assisting in someone getting abortion care.

Since we published this, Pam Bondi's X account has started posting mugshots of Minnesotans arrested for impeding ICE/CBP. Sharing a defendant's photo publicly in this way is forbidden under DOJ rules

Kansas just passed a monstrous bill enabling criminal penalties and vigilante lawsuits for trans people using the bathroom according to their gender identity and requires them to surrender their current drivers licenses and birth certificates if it does not match their sex assigned at birth.

Once upon a time you could go into a drug store and buy books with titles like this. Now you have to buy drugs.

I am introducing the Cut It Out And This Time I Really Mean It bill. It provides an additional $57 billion to the murder goons but they will agree to wear business casual Monday through Thursday and if they do any murders they have to put a dollar in this jar.

Please continue to contact your representatives and urge them to: -oppose age verification laws -rescind existing AV laws -protect peoples rights to use VPNs -protect section 230

there we go

English translation of statement from Ecuadorian Consulate regarding ICE’s attempt to enter their building in Minneapolis today:

We gotta bring back the hellthread

TECHNICALLY by legal definition, murder is premeditated and intentional killing. Manslaughter is when you kill someone without premeditation or intent. In the case of Alex Pretti and Renee Good, “murder” is correct because both times, agents chose to draw their lethal firearms & shoot repeatedly.

Finding people online raking someone over the coals who you already know to be a weirdo is very gratifying. Anyway, here's the worst take you've seen today from one of the most obnoxious users on this app.

Minnesotans need to drag this man out of the Governor's residence by his remaining hair and chain him to the gates of the nearest ICE camp so that every Nazi thug who wants to murder more people has to go through his doughy body to do it

i cannot express how deeply upsetting it is to hear your people being talked about in such a dehumanizing way, especially from someone who should know far better

This is the lesson over and over btw. People really want something they can believe in that they can put into practice.

I don’t know what he said or what he sprayed from that syringe, but Omar was squared up & ready to handle him. And then continued her talk. I don’t know what’s in the water in Minnesota, but these folks have been underestimated.Later I’m sure Omar was shaking & maybe shed a tear, but..

I keep thinking about the first sentence in this 'graph. So many of the MAGA people in my family cling to this notion that they are the "silent majority" while also claiming that winning an election reflects the will of the people. They are TERRIFIED that they might be in the minority.

She’s a dullard, Jeff Bezos is a dullard. Zuck is a dullard. The paramount weirdos are dullards. A system of mutual flattery holds everything up but appeals to absolutely no one in the real world and so you end up with her cratering the ratings for CBS and there’s no move but to do more of the same.

Very bizarre to watch a whole lot of liberals suddenly shifting leftward in their rhetoric such that a number of things we've been saying for decades are said on mainstream podcasts and shows in revelatory tones. Glad they're coming around, but if you want the gift of prophecy, read leftist books.

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Clark and co. raise an alarming prospect here. Worth watching the full segment. The USPS is a lever Trump has proven willing to grab in the past, and he could deploy it in service of election abuse.

This post is for Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella: Are you aware that begging people to use your AI software is essentially admitting out loud that there's a bubble? Because all this spending and strip-mining the planet is being sold on the assumption that these tools have a mass market.

The right only ever cared about the 2nd Amendment because their plan was to spark a civil war if they couldn't implement fascism electorally. Now that they have achieved fascism, they can do away with 2A rights for the opposition.

This post is for Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella: Are you aware that begging people to use your AI software is essentially admitting out loud that there's a bubble? Because all this spending and strip-mining the planet is being sold on the assumption that these tools have a mass market.

The right only ever cared about the 2nd Amendment because their plan was to spark a civil war if they couldn't implement fascism electorally. Now that they have achieved fascism, they can do away with 2A rights for the opposition.

Clark and co. raise an alarming prospect here. Worth watching the full segment. The USPS is a lever Trump has proven willing to grab in the past, and he could deploy it in service of election abuse.

After a second ICE murder, it's worth noting we know more about the number of individuals injured by cows each year than people injured by our government. This is driven not by a lack of technological sophistication, but by a lack of action. From Jacob Fuller: trib.al/iBuyFuk