RE: https://infosec.exchange/@psh/116433059749986063 This is far from the most concerning part but: "16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk's interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay […]

"Anyone looking for evidence of secret wealth would be disappointed: In 2025, [Zohran Mamdani] and his wife reported a total income of roughly $145,000, the bulk of it coming from his state assemblyman’s salary of $131,296. [...] They reported $1,643 in royalties from Mr. Mamdani’s former career […]

A startling juxtaposition.

RE: https://universeodon.com/@rchusid/116416435815160172 Shocking, but I'm not complaining.

🤖 You Can Trust Your Bible 2: Ethiopian Boogaloo—It's been almost six years since I posted an article refuting a breathless, terrified post insisting that the Bible was being corrupted by modern interests. Satanism and the Gay Agenda made their way into the fearmongering. Rupert Murdoch even […]

RE: https://newsie.social/@ProPublica/116290998142327066 Mayor: "Norfolk Southern said they were going to be good people, but they lied!" NS: "No, we never said we were going to be good people." That's one heck of a defense.

"Not 34" 💪🏼 Via Roger Parloff: Funny drive-by line by Abrego Garcia's federal public defender, Dumaka Shabazz, at the June 13 detention hearing, while summing up: SHABAZZ: ... Mr. Abrego doesn't have a single felony. Not one. Not 34. Zero. ...

Wait, what? Via Sherrilyn Ifill: This is actually huge. Seth Masket: Trump says he gave #Iran permission to bomb US airbase. Any other president would have been impeached before sunset […]

I don't love Bluesky. (Or Mastodon, for that matter, though I certainly prefer the latter.) But I do think it's interesting the number of attack articles and thinkpieces that have come out in just the past week about the site: two or three Slate pieces, one from WaPo, one from Fortune. Not to […]

Trump as Biff Tannen really holds up when you remember the worst thing you can call someone in the Back to the Future movies is a "chicken"

@freedomofpress , do you have an RSS feed?

The Internet is mostly shit these days, but every once in a great while I stumble across an incredible, passion-project website. This one is hand-animated weird art and it is worth your time as a fun decompressing thing in between your doomscrolling sessions. https://floor796.com I don't […]

🤖 Hope for the Future: Ding Dong, HB1136 is Dead—Republicans in the State House would've used HB 1136 to kill public schools in Indiana like the one my kids attend. We citizens killed the bill instead […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Ok, brain scientists. Please tell my why I can still type in "hiybbprqag"--a nonsense word that Google made up a decade and a half ago to entrap Bing--from scratch, but I can't remember whether or not I ate lunch today?

#wrapstodon is honestly pretty darn cool.

One of the things that's crazy to me about Elno is how he so frequently identifies the correct problem but comes up with the worst possible solution for it. Most recently it was this headline: "Elon Musk says too many game studios are owned by giant corporations so his giant corporation is […]

My 10-year-old is watching a video game streamer play Pixelmon #minecraft . The streamer seems to be an adult, and was boasting about his big victory: beating a different player who has been playing #pokemon "for almost ten years." At which point I spontaneously aged like Walter Donovan in […]

"The hard truth: Americans don't trust airplane safety." By: the Boeing Corporation #wapo #bezos

"The hard truth: Americans don't trust used car salesmen." By: a guy actively pouring sawdust into a gas tank #wapo #bezos

They will not, of course, receive either of these imagined benefits materially. But they have wiped out decades of goodwill and trust in their judgement with a single post. The reverberations and mistrust will last for the rest of Bezos' chokehold on the formerly venerable institution.

A later post notes that it's now up to 16. The Post's publisher's cowardice is either craven greed, or a mistaken belief that a Trump regime would see this as a reason to not put him up against the wall during the promised purge. "For 30 pieces of silver..."

Copying the image over:

Good gravy I mean, I don't want a SCOTUS justice to be a doomscroller or anything, but like Read ANY NEWSPAPER https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/08/politics/john-roberts-donald-trump-biskupic/index.html

There are 12 days til the registration deadline, and western NC is literally closed. Thousands of homes underwater. Dozens dead, hundreds missing. I'm sure their priorities over the next two weeks don't include checking their voter registration, but this is when the state chose to purge the rolls.

This is a real campaign ad by Evangelicals for Harris. 🎉🎉 #christianity #harriswalz2024

Brilliant. #christianity

There are a lot of Christians who make the argument that capital punishment is theologically justified. Maybe. I'm dubious. But even if it is, humans demonstrably can't be trusted with it. https://buff.ly/3MWusJr

Washington Post is reporting that Harris is "gaining ground" on the economy. Newsweek is reporting that *Florida* might be in play this year. 🤔 What is this feeling? Is it...cautious optimism? It's been so long, I...wasn't sure I could even feel that anymore.

Underscoring yet again that everything is ok for these GOP cultists as long as nobody thinks they're weird. You can think they're bullies, that's fine. You can think they're deranged and dangerous and they'll laugh at you. But not weird. Weirdness is weakness, and weakness can NOT be tolerated.

Schroedinger's Immigrant again. Simultaneously a devious plan to steal jobs from hard-working Americans AND ALSO lazy criminals just here to draw welfare and illegally vote