The city of San Marcos has become the first city in Texas to effectively ban new data centers. The City Council voted 4-3 to make data centers ineligible for any part of the city in its zoning laws.

With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.

It‘s just insane to me that a sitting president has made MORE THAN A BILLION DOLLARS peddling fucking fairy dust with no intrinsic value beyond his stature and power AS president, and it’s not treated as the biggest corruption scandal in American history.

If Mexico wins there's gonna be a riot (positive), if they lose there's gonna be a riot (negative)

8 "Antifa" members just got a combined 450 years in federal prison. The prosecution leaned heavily on an "expert" witness who never spent a day in government or academia - but who spent years at pro-Israel advocacy orgs: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/450-years-...

Every day it's like "Republican-Appointed Supreme Court to Decide Whether the FDA Can Stop People From Selling Ground Glass as Flour"

Right now the world is full of people who want to code and write and paint and film stuff and people who want to play and read and look at and watch stuff and nobody is allowed to do any of that because some unrelated third guy isn't making enough money off the deal

Generative AI is not only fundamentally based on the rejection of consent, but also *standards*. Artists have been micromanaged and hounded over individual pixels, academics fighting to defend every minute detail of their thesis, etc, and then are tossed away in favor of the get shit wrong machine.

I wrote about the Prairieland defendants and the urgency of opposing the extreme sentences handed down on Tuesday. And they likely will not be the last.

You know who else has never assimilated? Everyone who keeps flying that fucking Confederate flag.

helpful coverage from @elpais.com english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-...

The video games corporation is discontinuing their popular product, the video game

It’s truly astounding to see leftists who champion diversity and an end to genocide and corruption characterized as “hateful” and bigoted while the most openly hateful and bigoted politicians in decades are running the country

90% of modern media criticism just sounds like this

Microsoft blaming the rising costs of computer components after spending $146 billion dollars on AI investments

Dems have to run on this hard. Do not let the RFK types try to spin what his own party just signed off on here. Actual Monsanto, the comic book villain of Adbusters days, was shielded from liability over poisoning Americans. I don't care if it's slopulism: this Supreme Court wants you dead.

The Republican president of the Utah State Senate lost his 2026 primary because of his support for "AI" Data Centers. UTAH. Democrats, i really really really need you to get this message and get it right now.

Remember these draconian Prairieland sentences when people talk about the importance of using the criminal system for "justice." A system is what it does; nothing more.

when they said: "if mamdani wins, the GOP will make him the poster boy for the democrats & smear everyone as an extremist" they meant: "we are going to do that" when i saw the NYT labelling mamdani "a kingmaker" and calling winners "his picks" it was obvious they were messaging cucks like this guy

you people need to show more respect for the political machinery that lost to donald trump twice

It takes 1.28 seconds for a message to reach us from the Moon. It takes as little as 35 minutes from Jupiter. It takes as little as 4.5 hours from Pluto. It takes at least 6-12 months from NYT reporters, plus $35 for the book containing it.

You can draw a through line between Standing Rock, Stop Cop City, the Palestine encampment student protests, and the results of the Prairieland case. And then still have Dems asking why there aren't more protests...

Mamuka Artmeladze, a 43-year-old Georgian national, was found dead on June 4, 2026, in ICE custody. Though his name did not appear in ICE’s online death records by the time this article was published, Artmeladze was reported as the 50th person to die in ICE custody since Trump returned to office.

I think we gotta bring this one back after this week

Musk, as cartoon supervillian as ever a person has been, hates when people with relevant expertise in life saving get attention instead of him, and he killed USAID for it, a massacre with outsized harm that serves no master other than his ego internationalpolicy.org/publications...

—exerpt from ‘When The Fascists Kept Getting Stronger’ Bertolt Brecht, Poems of the Crisis Years, 1929-1933

Piece by me this week - looking at the surging number of killings by police in the United States: www.economist.com/united-state...

All the props in the world to this guy, but THIS IS NOT A FEEL-GOOD STORY IT IS A DAMNING INDICTMENT OF OUR SOCIETY AND HOW WE TREAT OUR MOST VULNERABLE

Let’s check in on how Jared and Ivanka’s luxury Albanian resort is doing…

nobody in British politics seems to want to say it but the single biggest driver of their inability to keep a prime minister for any length of time is that Brexit was stupid and ruinous and made everyone’s lives worse

they are on Threads fighting to the death over whether or not it is ableist for an author to use the word “scrying" (people might not know the definition!). how beautiful. people staring into their phones and getting so emotional over “scrying.” perhaps there really is magic in reflective surfaces!

"If I am to flower into something other than myself, I would rather rot into nothingness as I am." - The Reflecting Pool

We're going to have a big beautiful dark age, perhaps darker than ever before. And I think you'll be very happy

Because the people in this government are gleefully malevolent you naturally assume they are more evil than stupid but they're stupid first. They think everyone who came before, everyone who built the world they've benefited from, was dumb. People like Musk and Trump both have this idiot's disease

holy shit????? ICE is getting rid of seven of the 11 would-be concentration camp warehouses they purchased and sec. mullin indicates new mass detention centers are not priority. huge!

Ignoring the fact this is not how the money works re: Iran, Democrats love to post "with all the wasted money we could do all of these things that we also do not support."

Over 470 hospitals wards, clinics, and nursing homes have shut down after Trump and Republicans cut healthcare funding by over $1 trillion.

Never talk to a Fed without a lawyer experienced with political prosecutions.

Microsoft, Tencent, and their contemporaries cannot be forgiven for the way they vandalized and ransacked the game industry. Too many good studios have been stolen from the world by the companies that consumed them. Hell, *one* was too many. They burgled the house and then set fire to it.

The social internet got turned into a giant dopamine farm by a handful of companies who literally hired the same psychologists who design casino floor layouts, and the policy-makers just threw up their hands and said "guess we better ban kids from using the internet then"

my man looking like the baby from the Teletubby sun grew up to be an alcoholic

China is making $6,000 electric cars and 5 minute charging stations. Meanwhile here we have, let's see... the 4th Reich brought to you by Monster Energy drinks.

Breaking: Team USA has won the World Cup for the first time because all the other teams were denied entry into the country and had to forfeit

0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. He is starting to suspect Kras Mazov *fucked him over* personally with his socio-economic theory.

This is what every game developer sounds like right now.

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (remake) announced, coming 2026

really really cool how every game is coming out in September this year one new game for each day of the month

I think conspiracy may be a bad frame for right wing election denial because what they’re really expressing is a belief in is the idea that non-white people shouldn’t be able to vote.

A real page on the White House website