When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

The "pronoun thing" is fucking dead simple: Person A: tells you what their pronouns are Person B: refers to them by those pronouns Sometimes you fuck up, especially when you knew Person A before they told you their pronouns. Okay. 1/

When someone asks what parenting be like… 😂🤣 🐵 🥰

Betty (2.5yrs) just sat with me on the couch and watched Wall-E for the first time, the whole dang thing, start to finish. My heart is so full.

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Swoon. This was my dream.

Compromise w Trump regime is useless. There is no reward for cooperation, no fruitful compromise. They do not want anything save your subjugation. They want ultimate power & wealth forever. Anything they pretend to be interested in is incidental. There is no upside to anything other than resistance.

I'm white, CIS male, born in 1973 in North Dakota. We (midwestern white males) are not a victimized group. How can you be so rich, so fortunate, and such a fucking whiny baby?

I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.

Ask me how excited I am about Age of Revelation Cyclops.

Hi there, I am the Starfleet badmiral in charge of holodecks functioning properly and androids not going rogue and I basically do nothing all day because work is for suckers.

More of this, please.

Mayor Bass: This morning, it was frightening in Los Angeles to see tanks essentially rolling into MacArthur Park. It was an egregious show of force. I have no idea what their purpose was. I don’t even think they detained anyone. Los Angeles was peaceful before June 5. We need to go back to that.

Folds: If we’ve been told our whole lives that we can’t spend money on the arts because they’re not important—then why was taking over the Kennedy Center and the arts the first thing they did? It is extremely important. It’s the bedrock of self-expression.

July 4 Hi & Lois is pretty on point www.usatoday.com/comics/?cont...

People are asking me if the six judges must be devoured in one sitting. People, no. Obviously no. You have to pace yourself. Get a good blender. A smoothy in the morning, another for dinner. Before you know it you’re done. Please, be serious minded and strategic.

This is bullshit. Not only do ICE bounty hunters refuse to identify themselves, they won’t say where they’re taking the people they’re kidnapping. Deliberately shuffling detainees from facility to facility so families can’t find them & they miss their chance at legal counsel. (Anaheim, CA)

I cannot emphasize enough how true & real this is. In almost anywhere on the political spectrum you ID with or major issue, there’s probably a bot/troll operation to encourage your rage and vitriol. And how/where that rage gets directed, esp understandable rage, is what they are out to influence.

Save every human being. Fight for every single person that you can. AND it's all of us or none of us, truly. We must continue to fight back in all the ways that we can. AND literally: Save every single person that you can. There is no buffer time. It's now

65 million. Every Latino person in the United States is a target. If you didn't already know, you do now.

INDIANA JONES AND THERE ARE A LOT OF GOOD PEOPLE ON BOTH SIDES

A video of Florida's new "Immigration detention center" from someone who supports it (Benny Johnson). This is a concentration camp & we need to call it that. "Alligator Alcatraz" sounds silly & funny. It's a concentration camp.

1/ Maj. Anthony Guerrero is resigning from the Army—not because of politics, but because banning transgender troops violates the ethical standards of military service. We applaud his courage and example of professional, principled, leadership. 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/o...

The White House has ordered the US Dept. of Justice to prioritize denaturalization: voiding the citizenship of US citizens. Who will it denaturalize? "Any" case that it "determines to be sufficiently important". Point 10 leaves the criteria opaque and arbitrary. substack.com/redirect/169...

The Zohran thing has been very revealing, and not in a way that speaks well to the Democratic Party as currently constructed. “Fix your hearts or die” would be my advice.

The Trump admin has freed Jose Hernandez Reyes because he can testify against Abrego Garcia. Hernandez, who has been deported 5 times, has also been arrested for: —DUI w/ a handgun; —cocaine possession; —illegally transporting migrants; and —drunkenly firing a gun. Free link: wapo.st/40i4Ttt

Per this lawyer, the mother of 3 US citizens, among others, has been abducted by “bounty hunters” at gunpoint, brought to CBP, where they demanded she sign deportation papers without seeing a judge. When she refused, she was literally disappeared by the armed “bounty hunters” at the behest of CBP.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s dissent hits the target. She is reminding us of the stakes in this case. And she is spot on. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Re Zohran’s grocery store plans- the government already runs discount grocery stores ALL OVER THE WORLD. They are called commissaries and they are on every US military base. No one has ever had a problem with their existence

Anton's a great writer and thoughtful critic. Worth reading his POV on the new Witcher comic.

California National Guard troops under federal control were sent to operate in "the greater Los Angeles area." What the actual definition of that area is for Task Force 51 is isn't clear. But apparently it includes the Salton Sea. New from me @taskandpurpose.com taskandpurpose.com/news/nationa...

Forget politicized. A lot of the reason ppl choose govt jobs is stability. If the stability goes away, these are low-paying jobs compared to their equal in the private sector. The best ppl are not going to want jobs with neither stability nor competitive pay. Which is part of the plan, of course.

What's a poster you had in your room growing up?

Got a ConEd alert telling me to use less energy during the heat wave and this is all I can think about.

I have Opinions about 20 Sided Tavern performing at Trump's Kennedy Center. I'd love to hear your thoughts.

"Forget about intelligence." ~USA 2024/2025

I wish there were a vaccine for this cognitive error whereby people take the success of public health measures (e.g. eliminating measles from the US) as permission to abandon the public health measures

My friend is 2nd generation Persian American. After 9/11, he passed as Mexican, avoiding the worst of the harassment & bigotry. Today he said to me, "what am I supposed to do this time?" The cruelty has been a choice. All these lives ruined, lost for no reason. It's unfathomable. Fuck Trump.

Do it. Make every house member cast their voice vote for or against this president and his illegal acts, including an illegal declaration of war. It may not pass, but we must fight.

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.

Fuck.

Derek is such a thoughtful, eloquent writer. I never in my life thought I'd look forward to reading about fashion, but I read everything he writes with great pleasure. It's helped me understand my own fashion sense, too, which is a real bonus.

If a colleague had the reliability rate of an LLM, they would be fired. If ordinary* software did, it would be uninstalled. LLMs require the chat format, because chat makes us party to the conversation. We insert the meaning ourselves - and hold it to a different standard. It's the mirror effect.

There is no motivation for this save cruelty.

This is some bullshit. Bring back Plastic Man, you a-holes.

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Via Sam Stein on twitter

The Times saying last year they'd no longer endorse candidates in local elections, then immediately being like "oh but not THAT guy" 10 months later because the candidate wants free buses gives away the whole game. "Objectivity" means you break your own rules to punch left as much as you want.

Really destructive dynamic is when one branch of govt nominally co-signs another’s abuses out of kayfabe. Mayor Bass has to play along with what the cops do, or else she admits they’re not under civilian authority. SCOTUS co-signs many Trump initiatives in part bc it knows it can’t stop him.

If you’re in LA in a public space this month and someone tries to get you to sign a petition about wages and voting DO NOT SIGN IT. this is businesses trying to repeal an ordinance that increases wages for workers in hospitality spaces ahead of the Super Bowl, World Cup, & Olympics. Do not sign!

Faded black jeans: Augments all fatherly advice with quotes from Green Day songs.