I do gotta say that if anyone had told teenage me that someday I would be prepared to personally bail out an entire high school but the woman who made The Matrix did it instead I would definitely have been like “ok somebody needs their meds adjusted” What an absolute real one. Thank you, Lilly 😭

We can't even get people to get off Facebook and Twitter for their own good. I stopped expecting them to grasp geopolitical trends. I haven't yet found the right message that makes the average person start to understand why things are so messed up.

Liberal people constantly underestimate the impact of conservative sentiment in this country. Republicans have understood this for a long time. The same way white people from the heartland think they are "the real America", white liberals think their culture is "the real culture".

I was not ready for where this woman went at the end of this video.

These folks have sat in front of Congress and lied to their faces. I'm not sure what we expect to change. Go ahead and haul them in. When they feed you some bullshit and nothing changes, then what? We need to be talking about what happens after your soft power no longer works.

Yep.

I’m not going to get into this again but the defund the police critique remains complete bullshit yes we can was nonspecific lock her up doesn’t lay out why or for what make america great again couldn’t be less specific this critique is pure reactionary nonsense filtered through pundits

I'm in this bar and the TV is showing a T-Mobile commercial with Druski sitting next to Zoe Saldana. I don't watch commercials that much at all these days. Are y'all okay?

New internet insult unlocked. When someone is being an insufferable dick, be really patronizing and sarcastic. Tell them they're a special little guy and if they grow up big and strong they might get to be president one day.

There are certain tactics which are universally condemned because they do ultimate and lasting harms. You don't do foreign ops by claiming you're medical personnel...or you can't do medicine because of generational suspicion. When they claim to need help or are in distress to do harm? Same shit.

Cartoon: If anyone in Chicago knows this school or an anti ICE organization affiliated with them I would be happy to donate this art. I only wish I could have fully Sal Buscema-ed that punch :)

#amquerying Am open to be represented by the right agent for me. Need literary representation again so bad. Universe help! How I've cried to you & begged.

Right? I been paying for my mom's phone for almost 2 decades. When white people talk about what's happening with them, it almost never sounds like what's happening with us. Bruh of course your parents can afford your phone. Our parents had a different experience.

I cannot begin to tell you how much anger I have at the abject cruelty of these people. There is no politician I will support, none, unless they are committed to accountability for these sins.

Can’t stop thinking about the gargantuan gulf between the kid glove, caveat-laden, “having your name all over the Epstein files doesn’t mean you did anything wrong”-treatment of the men in Epstein’s inbox… and the brutalize first, ask questions later policing in Minneapolis.

🤣🤣🤣…but also, facts. A Black protag in the Resident Evil universe makes more sense than one in the Silent Hill universe. With R.E., you’re kinda thrust into the role. Wake up one day…BOOM, middle of a zombie outbreak. You have to *intentionally* travel to Silent Hill…Black folks ain’t doing that.

I'm still thinking about this. It does bother me that I know that people are going to question my integrity. I've publishing so many words about this. But most people still aren't going to see any of that thoughtfulness before they randomly run across the part where I said something they don't like.

You may not wanna talk to me today. I'm in a mood. Just FYI.

I ended up writing another screed about ai last night after hours. I feel like it's worth bumping up today as well. In short, I understand that Sam Altman is the devil. No one should trust anything he says or builds.

Have to say I'm not terribly surprised. Modern conveniences meant housewives didn't have to work quite so hard any more. Did they work less? No, they joined the workforce. Emails and computing made paperwork much faster. Could administrators work less? No! But now everything was happening faster!

I feel fine about the discussions I'm having actually. If you're saying that talking about a charged topic (and rightfully so) will always bring people who wanna yell at you, then yeah. But there's nothing special about AI. That's just the internet.

Whew. This is so real.

I'm not entirely sure what the purpose of this is. I can't tell what Hayes is suggesting. I think one thing I'm heading is "it's not just hype, and companies will get some value out of deploying AI instead of humans in some cases." FWIW I think that is accurate. But now what?

Two years ago

Uh. I'm not working on an engineering team right now. So I don't have pessonal experience. But from what I'm hearing? It's not looking good. No, backlogs are not getting shorter. There are more "projects" in flight though as people let AI churn on problems.

Please don’t forget about us and our neighbors! standwithminnesota.com

When you start paying attention, you notice how often people try to tell you what you should be doing. About work, about relationships, about kids, about hobbies. Everything. People assume you're looking for advice even if you didn't ask. It's not the worst, but it's frustrating sometimes.

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

You don’t have to be white to uphold white supremacy.

I would also like to add that police testimony is usually seen as inherently *more* credible. Despite what we all know about the police now. Yes this is all backwards af.

One of the things bothering me about how people are responding to the Epstein files is that there are tons of conspiracies being created and spread about what’s in them, rather than people just believing the victims like they could have been doing for years now

It has been one of the most significant failures of public discourse I've seen. The fact that they successfully weaponized the idea of wokeness not just against Black people but against *everybody*.

Anytime I see white people and their company is centered around "family safety and security", they're always coded as conservative to me. Like home security systems, parental controls, etc. It fits their whole moral panic theme. A lot of conservatives are making money off making white people scared.

Correct. That's the only reason Musk got involved with the govt at all. To give himself govt contracts and tax breaks.

This is state sanctioned theft of taxpayer's money.

Incrementalists take it on the chin again. This is why they hate Mamdani. He's giving up the game that people in power HAVE POWER and don't solely exist to beg you for $5 every day. He's ruining the Democratic Party by showing voters that they have the power to do stuff instead of crouching in fear

We often talk about how you shouldn't have to watch scenes of police violence in order to care about the issues. I believe that wholeheartedly. I say that to say ain't no way I'm about to watch Donald Trump shit on camera. I believe you.

NEW ‼️ Judge has ordered the release of 5 year old Liam Ramos 🙏🏼

This was about 10 months ago. Early in Trump's second term. I was worried then about prominent figures being punitively arrested for speaking against Trump. I sounded like I was wearing a tin foil hat. People said I was overreacting.

Don Lemon speaks outside of the courtroom after release: "I have spent my entire life covering the news. I will not stop now ... I will not be silenced."

My first remarks since being arrested last night.

Damn.

every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds

Forgot my grilled cheese on the stove. Burnt grilled cheese is the worst. It's gonna be that kinda day huh?

Also ICE agents are not private citizens minding their own business. If they want the privacy to which private citizens are entitled, they can give up the qualified immunity they enjoy in its place. The "protection" they want is from public censure, not from crimes or violence.

I was interviewed for two documentaries about "AI" that both premiered at Sundance this year: @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social ("Ghost in the Machine") and "The AI Doc: How I Became an Apocaloptimist". As a pair, these films are a study in contrasts. Another long 🧵>>

Here's what I expect from Democrats. Their goal is to win big in the midterms. Do some tepid sanctioning of the Trump regime. Then hopefully win the presidency in 28. They want to reinforce that the status quo still works. They don't want to acknowledge the institutions are broken.

They don't care about this either. The only reason this is hard to weasel out of is there's nobody else to blame. With school shootings you can blame "lone gunman", parents, inept local police. But this is a federal agency exciting the president's direct orders.

Almost every reason people have for defunding or abolishing ICE is also a reason to defund or abolish the police, yet many people who are rightly calling for action against ICE would never come close to doing to the same for police. But this fight goes beyond just ICE. ICE represents a larger issue.