ChatGPT “is designed less to help you than it is to keep you engaged,” says Amanda Guinzburg. Read about her eerie experience with the bot, and how to avoid common AI pitfalls. https://www.snexplores.org/article/5-things-talking-with-chatbot

We're pulling a national all-nighter reading this shit, huh?

Tim Kaine says he told Republicans what he needs is "a moratorium on mischief." Just kill me now.

Exactly what do these motherfucking Democrats think the election results 5 days ago were telling them?

Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments. My response ⬇️

I would dearly love someone, perhaps even a member of the Press, to ask Mike Johnson for the bible passage where Jesus tells him to starve kids and protect sex monsters.

Over the last year, I've often thought of this last bit from an excellent interview Nancy Pelosi gave in August of 2024.

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

Memphis is a frequently overlooked City and they're being terrorized right now but not getting the same attention as LA and Chicago

This is a very big deal. This is an incredibly segregated state with massive disparities in infrastructure across racism and economic lines and this is one step closer to ending that

BREAKING: The Democrats have seized the majority in the Minnesota Senate!

Basically going about as well as progressives/Democrats could possibly hope.

How much further do you want us to fall back? Read the room, Time.

If I had the opportunity, says Judge Michael Luttig; "I would tell the Chief Justice that he is presiding over the end of the rule of law in America. That's what he is doing." For anyone concerned with what remains of US democracy, this is a must listen podcast.

"Ms. Monahan, 61, paid $439 a month for her coverage in 2025. When she went to shop for next year’s plan, she learned that the monthly cost would jump to $1,059 for the same plan with an annual deductible of $7,100..." Thanks, GOP congress! Thanks, Trump! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/h...

I mean, the party that *controls* Congress hasn't shown up to work in over a month on explicit orders from the Speaker of the House because he wants to keep protecting the most prolific sex monster in US history. But, sure, I guess you can describe that as"at an impasse over the plans' subsidies."

Pour one out for George Soros's bookkeeper. That's a lot of checks.

The Perfect Neighbor is a masterpiece. That is all.

"After the warning, neighbors showed up and formed a human chain outside the church to guide parishioners home. NBC Chicago found more organizers doing the same for the beginning of the 6 p.m. mass..." www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...

Last night's layoffs are right out of the Project 2025 playbook, executed by its architect Russ Vought. These illegal layoffs cannot be left to stand. We need to fight them on every front. We need these public servants back on the job immediately. Lives are literally on the line. 3/3

Trump just eviscerated the CDC. This is not hyperbole. Using the shutdown as a pretext, last night he fired—illegally—100s of key scientists, disease detectives, immunologists, respiratory disease experts, the entire Office of the Chief Medical Officer, the CDC's entire Washington office, etc. 1/3

Decades ago, I found myself seated beside her at a 5-year-old's birthday party. We watched the kids' entertainer, who was...not great, but giving his all; puppets, instruments, etc. Keaton was utterly rapt, verbalizing amused, encouraging things like, "Oh no, really? Oh, my! Oh, that's terrific!" 💔

One first step people should do to respond to this is start using the “report a speed trap” function in Apple Maps to report where ICE is operating. Make Apple party to the attempt to protect people.

In a sea of Fucked-Upness, this is Super Fucked Up.

If an Earth flag existed, it should be flown at half-mast for Jane Goodall.

Find me a better political communicator than @aoc.bsky.social in terms of focusing democrats’ attention where it needs to be and breaking down why.

Alternative headline: SCOTUS Continues To Aid and Abet America's Fascist Takeover by Donald Trump.

ICE Abduction in Iowa. In Trump’s America, no identification is needed and no due process is deserved.

1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse. Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away. Thread 👇

Department of This Country Hates Women.

Stop wasting time writing on bullets. No one reads anymore.

UPDATE🚨 An immigration board issued a final removal order last night for journalist Mario Guevara. He could be deported any moment. We renew our demand for his immediate release. #FreeMario

The escalator jammed. The teleprompter stopped. The Democrat won. Jimmy Kimmel called the President a glazed ham with deep vein thrombosis upon his return. All in all, a good day.

Leadership. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/n...

Invitation to friends in the arts. I'm part of a group organizing a project called Fall of Freedom. We want artists and orgs of all kinds (whether you're an Indie bookstore, a cinema, gallery, whatever) to come together to resist authoritarianism. Starting November 21st... www.falloffreedom.com

After her hearing at 26 Federal Plaza, a woman was detained and escorted toward the stairwell. Her husband, confused and in shock, was guided toward the exit. Minutes later, he broke down in the elevator. They entered together, but he left alone. This happens here daily. #ICE

A Hymn in the key of darkness. open.substack.com/pub/amandagu...

Don’t say “Dems aren’t doing anything.” There’s just little attention to the courage of these Missouri Dems resisting the extreme gerrymandering of Republicans desigmed to increase Republican numbers in the House. www.kfvs12.com/2025/09/05/m...

As someone who lived through the weeks of unholy silence, interrupted only by sirens, during the *second* time our city became ground zero for a mass trauma event back in 2020, I am particularly grateful for Governor Hochul's leadership today.

Please, go ahead, try to convince me he will not, in fact, attempt to nuke a hurricane before Thanksgiving.

People keep using the language of progression, like we're still moving toward some climactic darkness, when the truth is we arrived in the lowest depths a while ago. Seeing the eye of the storm for what it is is the first requirement for survival.

This is a set of screenshots of an astonishing "conversation" between writer @guinz.bsky.social and #ChatGPT. "What ultimately transpired is the closest thing to a personal episode of Black Mirror this lifetime." ‪h/t @dranitaheiss.bsky.social #writing #AI /... open.substack.com/pub/amandagu...

A Master Class, for all of us.

Guys, I’ve had enough. Time to fight back. amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/s-t-o-p-2-...

May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.

I think a lot about the crucial difference between us now and the Europeans in 1939. Video cameras. Hundreds of millions of them.

So the Broadcast Media is just gonna go along with the whole this is a real summit between two world leaders 'pursuing peace' thing, huh? I feel insane.

Release The Epstein Files (Taylor's Version)

And any headline that fails to make clear Trump’s militarizing DC is as an explicit advancement of his authoritarian takeover of our country will be in error.

Now, with the situation in Israel and the anger at the current administration which supports it, we find ourselves in unfamiliar and uncomfortable territory. Israelis are now the bad guys which is to say, Jews are now the bad guys. michaelianblack.substack.com/p/lets-talk-...