I'm looking at a new laptop for mobile work this coming year, but I hate all the bloat and Copilot/Recall shit windows 11 is shoving into new PCs, so...I think I'm finally going to jump to a Linux build.

Holy fuck did I pick a bad weekend to quit smoking

This entire fucking year. And it's not even over yet.

Not in a good headspace and nothing I'm contributing is of value, and all of this is turning into a return to information burnout. So gonna stop posting for a while.

Even bet whether this was Trump having a late night return to MAGAworld or Miller tossing himself off because he's having a bad evening.

This is a fucking news-heavy day for a Saturday.

Did not have “Trump regime may have been planning to provide refuge for Bolsonaro after he fled Brazil” and that’s leaving aside a non-zero possibility Trump regime was planning on extracting Bolsonaro.

With enough stick-on googly eyes, anything can be made to look like an eldritch horror

Without downloading any new pics, what is it like dating you?

periodic reminder: you can just wear a dog collar out in public and nobody can stop you

So prediction for the next year: -Quits Congress, draws her pension after 5 years -Enters into the governor's race for 2026, running on a kinda-not-really counter-Trump platform -If she wins, she removes the mask and drives the state hard right; if she loses, she starts a podcast. -Releases a book

Greene got a taste of what others have been experiencing since 2016 and quit after like a week.

WHAT THE FUCK IS WITH TODAY

Mamdani probably got home, turned to his wife, and let out the longest, loudest “this fucking guy” of all time

So are we all cool with the president admitting he's a fascist because ha ha funny moment or

I want to note how careful Mamdani was to not smile in these pics. When I noted during the Biden presidency how he repeatedly kept smiling in the wrong moments, Biden diehards lost their minds. Do not give people propaganda victories by smiling in photos. Example: Biden with MBS in Saudi.

An American elected official with courage enough to say this in the Oval Office is quietly the biggest news out of the meeting

It's so funny to me that Fox and the Right billed this as a hardass culture war fight between Trump and Mamdani, and it ended up being the equivalent of the diner scene between Pacino and DeNiro in Heat.

Stephen Miller:

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS MEETING DUDE

Has anyone checked on Stephen a Miller, or is he off organizing ICE raids in Milwaukee or somewhere to relieve the tension?

Laughing at Donald Trump saying he'd definitely feel comfortable living in Zohran Mamdani's New York on the same day that half the consultant brain-poisoned Democratic party voted to condemn socialism

I think this clip is the key to understanding why Trump acted the way he did with Mamdani. His world revolves around TV ratings. "I tell you, the press has eaten this thing up."

What the hell is this meeting.

So he did exactly what he said in his confirmation hearing that he would not do. Perhaps it’s time to haul his ass back in there. Also congrats to everyone, including Olivia Nuzzi, who helped normalize this man. So many people will die of preventable diseases as a result.

one of the underrated factors for the rise in scamming across U.S. society is the death of local media.

What the fuck

we are one month into "a few months at most"

I really do hope at least one person in the strike group has the realization of "today I killed a random boat of fishermen so that Scott Bessent doesn't get made fun of by the president in front of the Saudis again."

Congratulations to the dipshits off the coast of Venezuela, you guys have been working to give Scott Bessent less time in the presidential cucking chair. Hope it was worth the deployment ribbon, shipmates.

THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos. I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.

1. Absolutely the dumbest thing to do and shows that folks like Schumer — and there are people like him on both sides — know absolutely nothing about this moment and are not equipped to handle it. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

Great time for the definition of "stochastic terrorism" to reenter the public consciousness - if the media would actually fucking discuss it in the way that it needs to be.

A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF

Meanwhile, the Twitter situation continues to deteriorate, as the World's Richest Man has rewritten his pet robot to tongue his anus in such an exaggerated way that it's driving users to instigate these fawning responses and mock the absurd results.

Musk has apparently manipulated Grok so much that it says he's a better athlete than LeBron James and a funnier comedian than Jerry Seinfeld. Imagine being so insecure you need to program an LLM to boost you like that.

This is part of the reason why social media and online culture editors need to be more prominent in legacy media spaces. They need to be the ones to tell people not regularly plugged in how fucking weird and not normal all of this is, and how it is not just limited to words in an online environment.

So I guess when your sole industry is dependent on community disruption, compliance by force, shock raids, and violence with indemnity, you're going to look pretty fucking stupid when you're taken out of that environment.

I like to think that, despite his ability to direct the regime as an effective shadow president, he still has to co-opt Trump's account from time to time in order to keep up the kayfabe of his subordinance, and it's the only way he can shitpost away the little murderous thoughts that drive him mad.

we are returning to the state in which the framers intended for the legislature, in which the lower chamber and the upper chamber absolutely despise one another

So now that he's signed it...waiting for the catch. Maybe it's Bondi and the DOJ creating a sham investigation to kill release, maybe it's countless redactions and manipulated documents. But there's gonna be a catch.

when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor

This was released yesterday. I've seen little to no coverage or discussion by most major outlets and news figures, here as well; it was overshadowed by Epstein news and the MBS White House visit. This shit is well on its way to becoming normalized.

Interesting. Maybe testing to see how much of a pain in the ass each will be to the other in the coming years.

It looks like Lindsey Halligan misled a grand jury, prosecutorial conduct equivalent to committing perjury, in order to manufacture an indictment against James Comey for… wait for it… perjury.

i find it so off-putting when you watch journalists interviewing politicians and you can tell they’re friendly, all in a big club that doesn’t serve the public’s interests. access journalism is the opposite of accountability journalism.

Bessent has been a staunch defender for Trump's policy nightmares and echoed his boss' crude, bellicose style - and even HE still gets it in the neck publicly, when it suits Trump to humiliate someone for the audience.

It shouldn’t take nineteen clips to prove the point, but here they are anyway.

Thread. “AI is patching up the holes in conspiracy theories and so making them seem more reasonable, making them easier to spread and more resilient to collapse” was not on my bingo card. AI relieves the pressure of cognitive dissonance. That’s … not great.