The AI bailout is going to come from within the Fed!

SHOCK NYT REPORT: DHS now admits the man ICE killed in Houston wasn't even their target. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 35-year U.S. resident, was just driving to work when agents — with no body cameras — shot him dead searching for two other men who weren't even in the van. Gift link in reply.

Blow it out your ass, senator.

Do you suppose the reason Trump is bombing the hell out of Iran is that he's jealous that a million people came to the Ayatollah's funeral?

The fact that FIFA is technically allowed to suspend the rules when it feels like it doesn’t mean it’s not corrupt that it chooses to do so when the president is directly lobbied by Trump

Re: the red card debacle I feel for Balogun more than anyone. The red card was egregious in the first place and now he’s being used as a pawn in political football bc Trump couldn’t stand not being the center of attention. His story is too good to let Trump steal his moment!

RIP, GREAT MAN.

Don't miss this amazing lineup of old school cyberpunks and digital weirdos whose subversive ideas still seethe beneath the AI slop and social media propaganda ... and could rise again!!! Get yer tix now for ... DELIRIA 2!! August 12-13 in San Francisco!

Scrolls from the Roman library of Herculaneum that were carbonised by a volcanic eruption have been read in their entirety for the first time, thanks to scans and AI software

2026 “study found that women who submit resumes created with AI assistance are evaluated as less competent & less trustworthy than men who submit identical AI-assisted resumes. To the evaluators, women’s AI use signaled inability, while men’s AI use signaled initiative.”🧪

“This was good trouble.” Rep. Joyce Beatty successfully sued President Trump and forced the removal of his name from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The Ohio Democrat said she took on the fight because her ties to the venue — and to the Kennedy family — run deep. nyti.ms/4pcULxi

How shallow must your ideas be to alarm(!!) people in finance? What the hell are they suggesting?!

The thing my wife always points out is that these guys don’t send their kids to any school that uses them as guinea pigs for AI.

Water fountains disappeared from the Longleaf Trace in June as the board that governs it grew concerned about how homeless people were using its facilities. Runners and bikers who use the 44-mile trail fear the decision could have dire consequences in Mississippi's summer heat. buff.ly/pBXSvrI

Trump would rather cheat than win fairly. That way, everything is a little prima nocta that you have to thank him for.

America’s oligarchs guard their hoards jealously—but there may be a way in.

5-4 for what it explicitly says in the constitution is incredible. They were this close to undoing the civil war entirely. bsky.app/profile/mjsd...

“I strongly urge you to approve the Oklahoma aluminum smelter without delay...” [Trump's letter] concluded. “Build it in Mar-a-Lago,” an attendee called in response. ☠️ 🔌💡 www.kosu.org/inola-pauses...

the write ups of the pm's fall never mention his biggest reforms—those that made the uk far, far worse for minorities my latest for @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/starmer-out/

I think early on there was some natural curiosity in seeing if generative "AI" was going to be beneficial. I think we caught on that a) it wasn't going to make our writing better, b) it was all based on stolen work anyway. Any writer using it at this point is lazy and/or looking for an angle.

the same guy who leveled the east wing is very mad about vandalism

The Luddites are having a moment (again): they're being discussed and rehabbed everywhere from NPR to US Catholics Magazine to Psychology Today. So, adapted from my book on the subject, here's a short-ish rundown of what you need to know to understand the Luddites in the age of AI.

Shoplift some diapers, and they kill your baby? They were reported for stealing a box of diapers--which are, by the way, really expensive due to how many you need for an infant, some working people can't afford them. Cops claimed self defense in the Major Criminality Diaper Heist Case...

they arrested someone for stabbing the water and everyone's supposed to pretend like pretending this is normal is normal

"Trump loves to be caught and not be punished. Throughout the 2016 campaign, he recited the poem “The Snake,” a story of treachery that mocks the victims: “You knew damn well I was a snake before u let me in.” It is not enough for Trump to commit a crime. He needs to let u know he got away with it"

I’m convinced someone else writes most of these “truth social” posts. The insanity is too structured, too coherent, even. So just imagine the kind of degenerate that would compose these imitations.

HUGE WIN this week: Senator Murkowski and I led a bipartisan charge to protect critical ocean sensors that help us manage fisheries, predict the weather, and understand climate change.

Reuters: A federal appeals court has blocked the Trump admin's plans to immediately slash the workforce at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau by about two-thirds.

“…serious crimes having to do w/ the destruction of National Monuments” you say?

The Supreme Court is expected to rule soon on two campaign finance cases that could forever change our elections. @davidsirota.com explains how SCOTUS is about to legalize corruption.

State supreme court elections happen differently across the country. This year, 13 states are holding retention elections, which are simple up-or-down votes to keep a judge on the bench. Nineteen states are holding regular elections. boltsmag.org/your-st...

The parliamentary system sucks too, but one advantage is the head of state will step down when popular support crashes. In the U.S., we’re stuck for years with an asshole we hate unless he dies or is Richard Nixon.

In the eight months since Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill passed, SNAP enrollment has declined by 4.7 million, according to USDA data. In states where demographic data are available, about half the decline comes from kids losing food aid. The Trump administration describes this as a success story

"The rejected 30-second spot features Trump calling journalists 'the enemy of the people' and suggested that Trump-allied Paramount chairman and CEO David Ellison could force CNN, the flagship Warner Bros. news network, to soften its reporting on the president and his administration."

He sent the national guard to stand watch over his algae pit. Unbelievable.

The solar revolution is - real - in progress - an actual revolution

Understand: Trump is having random police departments arrest (or issue citations to) people sticking their hand in the reflecting pool to COVER UP how his corrupt contracting fucked up the reflecting pool. These arrests are a criminal cover-up of Trump's own corruption.

Donald Trump finally created a new fixture in DC that everyone wants to see, and he's arresting people for getting near it

Um, what this headline doesn't say, but the essay does, is that the Trump DOJ is trying to help Musk in his effort to destroy the health and well-being of Black residents of Tennessee and Mississippi. talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/the-tru...

Rest in peace, Jane. You were a treat!

The IRS audited Joan Brown for claiming her cat as a tax deduction. But the case was dropped after she argued he was a live-in artist’s model that deserved food and vet care. To her artist friends, he became “Donald the Deductible.” #Caturday

from whose perspective though? the people who run the party regard the left as the eternal enemy - way more so than fascism - and are so politically illiterate that they can't distinginguish between trotskyism and mild social democracy

Right-wing trolling ouroboros

Sincere question: What’s the incentive for the NYT not to fire information hoarders? Are newspapers not nominally in the information *publishing* business? Is it fucked incentives all the way down?

reminder that I’m up for the Astounding and would (obviously) appreciate your vote

Are they arresting people for looking at the reflecting pool in deshabille?

I think the time to learn Trump so often steals objects from his wife's bedroom that staff have to take photos of everything she owns to replace them before she finds out & also check the president of the United States' bedroom trash cuz he throws out the sliver is when journos first heard about it

And they release tidbits like this only now, and only to promote the book bsky.app/profile/bcfi...

Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan had sat on a wealth of information to make a profit out of it, and damn the rest of the world.