American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

Great piece from @dell.bsky.social at @wired.com about ICE's newest foray into social media monitoring: the agency is putting out feelers for contractors who can do on-site, open source intel 24/7 for ICE's Targeting Operations Division (TOD). 1/ www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

As a case out of Colorado heads to the Supreme Court this week, conversation therapy is still thriving in California through religious ministries, @raheemfh.bsky.social reports www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

When church and state tangle before the Supreme Court over the legality of conversion therapy on Tuesday, they will neglect the larger half of a controversial practice pioneered in the Bay Area and staking its comeback in Northern California. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

BREAKING: Immergut has *granted* Oregon and California's motion to block the new call-up of Guard troops to Portland. She says this effort to bring CA and TX troops to Oregon is in "direct contravention" of her oroginal order.

Anyone seen Children of Men recently? Holy shit.

Sign of the times: Was at a gathering where we spotted what turned out to be five sheriff’s department helicopters doing an exercise and people started looking on their phones to see if the federal government had invaded.

This term, the Supreme Court justices will have no choice but to confront directly and publicly the big questions about presidential power. bit.ly/4757OJq

Many American Jews sharply disapprove of Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza, with 61 percent saying Israel has committed war crimes and about 4 in 10 saying the country is guilty of genocide against the Palestinians, according to a Washington Post poll.

Around 200,000 military-grade assault weapons and machine guns are trafficked every year from U.S. gunshops to Mexican criminal groups, moving south across the border with little to no scrutiny. interc.pt/3KwJHL8

i looked at the methodology for this and it is a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and b. p-hacked

"Google appears to have blocked AI search results for the query 'does trump show signs of dementia' as well as other questions about his mental acuity, even though it will show AI results for similar searches about other presidents." www.theverge.com/news/789152/...

Increasingly grateful to my pop culture ignorance.

Of all the best and kindest humans to ever live, Jane Goodall is near the top of my list. Rest in Peace, you beautiful soul. On behalf of the earth, I thank you www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

If you are following the story of The Pentagon's new policy, nicknamed, "you must check with us before you dream of doing any journalism," you may enjoy this update from @status.news

“Four hundred and twelve women were charged with crimes that would not have been crimes if they were not pregnant. That is exactly what happens when we give rights and status to embryos and fetuses.”

In a scorching opinion, Judge Young, the Reagan appointee who once seemed deeply skeptical of this lawsuit, filed a broadside against the Trump administration’s threats against all the pro-Palestinian demonstrators targeted for deportation, which he said flew in the face of the First Amendment.

This fucking book at this fucking moment.

17 people are dead from US strikes in the Caribbean this month and we still don't really know who they are and so far the president and VP have made jokes about scared fishermen.

Just a reminder that the Commander-in-Chief of the Louisiana National Guard, who can call them out all by himself if they were actually needed, is … Governor Landry.

I mean

Environmental justice advocates say California missed an opportunity to advance its clean air goals against a hostile Trump administration and resurgent oil industry. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

Trump wrote on Truth Social Saturday that he was directing Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth “to provide all necessary Troops to protect War ravaged Portland." That would be illegal, except perhaps in moments of serious unrest—which this is not.

Confused why a high-scoring movie on Rotten Tomatoes left you underwhelmed? It may be because a 100% on RT doesn’t mean the movie got an A+ from all critics. It just means all critics found it (at least) better than average. If you care what critics think, find a few you enjoy and READ THEM.

The Paper’s Sabrina Impacciatore is hands down giving the best Persian performance by a non-Persian actor not doing a Persian performance.

Rappler’s cheerful juggernaut Maria Ressa with some chilling parallels and a hopefully inspiring message to American journalism companies. (P.S. “ultra-processed speech” is now branded on my brain.) youtu.be/Tsb1I7hqaJ4?...

“…in the days when the Nazis were just a very comical kind of minority party of nuts that nobody took seriously at all…” Welles recounting how unmemorable Hitler was during a hiking trip: youtu.be/G_PUUHLknDI?...

Much excite

Family values. www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...

While you still can, if you’re asking “who’s Sinclair?” John Oliver has you covered:

I would never take the right to speak ill of the dead from my Nana.

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

•ABC: fires Kimmel for mocking Trump •CBS: fires Colbert for mocking Trump •ABC: fires Moran for slamming Stephen Miller •MSNBC: fires Matt Dowd for saying “hateful thoughts lead to hateful actions” •FOX: Champions Brian Kilmeade as he calls for Nazi state murder of America’s 600K homeless people

First Colbert, now Kimmel. Last-minute settlements, secret side deals, multi-billion dollar mergers pending Donald Trump's approval. Trump silencing free speech stifles our democracy. It sure looks like giant media companies are enabling his authoritarianism.

Trump and his allies are ramping up their dangerous and anti-democratic threats, using Charlie Kirk’s murder to suppress progressive political activity. The administration’s latest attack? Left-leaning non-profits they claim promote violence.

* ORACLE, SILVER LAKE, ANDREESSEN TO CONTROL TIKOK IN US: WSJ $ORCL

Given how much I've heard tech giants like Andreesen say that a major reason for switching to Trump was because the left didn't praise them hard enough, I'm not at all surprised that sycophancy is a common feature of all the chatbots.

“Quiz Show” is my favorite Redford-directed movie and one of my favorite movies of the past 30 years, a snappy, impassioned morality thriller whose baseline values feel so far removed from the America of today.

donald trump and the white nationalists that run his government want you to think that slavery was just fine www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

The U.S. government is trying to deport Ohio children’s hospital chaplain Ayman Soliman, alleging tenuous connections to terrorism. If DHS succeeds, experts say it could hand the Trump admin. a “sledgehammer” to use on mass deportations. ➡️ Read the full story: www.propublica.org/article/ayma...

AIM used a similar buckshot approach to decide which students it would target for antisemitism. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

this joke broke containment and now i have a bunch of right-wingers gleefully informing me they've already called my boss and celebrating my firing weirdly enough i haven’t gotten a single phone call!

Set aside Sen. Mike Lee's storm of lies and incitement here. Lee literally made jokes on Twitter about the fmr Speaker of the Minnesota state house being murdered in her home by a right wing extremist. Hard to imagine any more twisted and malicious person in public life.

Someone check the CW for a Red Room.

Did anyone else listen to that Daily episode about Americans’ unhealthy obsession with protein and also think, “I’m not getting enough protein!”?

My alma mater ladies and germs.