The only person who could conceivably unseat Karen Bass in 2026 is Rick Caruso, who recently named this guy as an advisor to a non-profit he founded dedicated to bettering LA government. Los Angeles is cooked, put it under state receivership.

Trump is taking revenge on the American people

When Republicans take power do they expand "viewpoint diversity"? No. They purge scientists, delete data and promote their own mediocre minds. If you support Trump you are signaling membership in a movement that *hates* science, science is not obligated to pretend otherwise. bsky.app/profile/popu...

republicans are a death cult

my wife was fired from her job today thanks to the senseless musk/trump cuts devastating local nonprofit hospitals all so some rich brats can get some tax cuts and make even more money via privatization of public services

ok the results are in. chuck did not clear the egg bar. the show i'm working on wraps next week, if any dem elected want to hire me to post "trump take egg" for them hmu in the DMs

don't print lies in the newspaper

i need a 52 year old man with $800 billion to impregnate my wife . i am worried our offspring wont be sufficiently feeble and/or annoying

remember Medicare for All? Wish that was still a thing

not to freak anyone out or anything but I’ve been reading the Anatomy of Fascism by Robert Paxton and I think the concept of fascism as a model of government featuring a normative state and a prerogative state is potentially going to be useful for thinking about DOGE

These are ridiculous numbers (via Lance Lambert of ResiClub):

Liberals: Why don’t people understand these critical issues and keep voting in ways that directly negatively impacts them? NYTimes: paywall WSJ: paywall WaPo: paywall Business Insider: paywall The Guardian: paywall Fox News: open Newsmax: open OAN: open Liberals: It’s such a mystery.

Asked what Democrats will do if Trump ignores the courts, Sen. Amy Klobuchar says Senate Republicans might stand up to the White House. "I've seen a few of them stand up from time to time."

"What are we supposed to do, we don't control Congress" "What are we supposed to do, we don't have a supermajority" "What are we supposed to do, our supermajority has moderate democrats"

in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?

when will yale law school answer for its sins

Not exaggerating when I say I would like a personal, handwritten apology from every pundit who barfed out a dozen "the left wants to change the way you talk!" op-eds based on non-mandatory guidelines in obscure PDFs.

Silicon Valley spent a lot of money on Super Bowl ads trying to impress me with a pair of glasses that can answer questions. Just fuck off. If I want for knowledge, I ask my friends or I research. Tech wants to rob of us meaningfully engaging with the world to buy their Mechanical Turk, get lost pal

And it looks like it’s official. Trump is ignoring court orders. The rubicon has been crossed.

Judges are still operating in the old environment. These people don't understand anything besides "I will throw you in jail" they will openly defy this and other court orders and continue pulling wires out until they are physically stopped. Might already be too late

a nice reminder to the press that there is nothing you can do to pacify these people or buy yourself leniency

fun task to run through if you get bored of calling your congressional reps

“I don’t work here for the fucking money,” said one longtime agency employee who works on air pollution. “I work here because I believe in it, and I want to serve the public.” What #EPA Employees Say About the Decision to Stay or Go Under Trump per @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/epa-...

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i don’t even know if crime is the right word for the illegal destruction of USAID. it is an autocratic power grab and a direct attack on the sovereignty of the american people

aaaand now it all makes sense

Elon Musk is so close to finally killing California high-speed rail — a goal he’s pursued for over a decade — even though his alternative the Hyperloop is an absolute joke. Killing HSR is about keeping people trapped in cars and planes.

today is really demonstrating why anyone who thought Harris losing was good for organizing and leftist causes was really not thinking this through properly

25%-50% cuts to NSF www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

Have Democrats ever been this neutered?

Physical control over key buildings is a major factor in whether coups succeed and Dems need a better plan than what they've done so far. Elon Musk even bragged about his plan before he did it.

All USAID employees to be placed on administrative leave beginning on Friday, sources tell me

no funding if it seems like the research MIGHT involve a woman or a nonwhite person

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

“If the freeze is not stopped, I might lose my house." Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded. www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...

Just got this tip from an airline pilot

it's exhausting when democrats dunk on trump for being a hypocrite. of f*cking course he's a hypocrite. that's the point. fascism isn't a coherent platform of ideals, it's a mechanism for exponentially augmenting power until there are no mechanisms for balance anymore. January 27, 2025 at 7:16 PM

On day one Trump's EO said we were harmful to kids. On day two, it said we were dishonorable and disloyal. On day three, it said we were unAmerican. Transgender people have been a part of this country for centuries. We are not going anywhere. Do not comply with these EOs, they are not law.

if you cared about morale and recruitment you would not alienate a group that disproportionately enlists into the military, but if you are a white nationalist…

OpenAI says it has proof that Deepseek used its work without permission to create something meant to undermine and destroy its product. On behalf of all the authors whose novels and stories were taken as training data, oh no that must be so hard for you.

This comments section is the first time I've felt even a shred of hope in eight days.

@nytimes.com Jesus Christ if I wanted to read about Trump’s hard veiny dick there are better websites, this shit is why I unsubscribed

hi bret

🧵about Deepseek 1/6 Andreessen and Schumer call Deepseek a “Sputnik moment.” We would be smarter to view it as a lucky break. OpenAI, Microsoft, Google et al have claimed that AGI is coming soon, that it will be wonderful for humanity, but there is only one way to do it: their way.

The National Science Foundation has canceled all grant review panels this week. It's unclear how long the pause could last.

Everyone should be aware of the line that has been crossed in the Trump trans military EO. No longer is this about "evidence," "science" or "protecting kids." Now, explicitly, black and white, it's about trans people being "liars," "dishonorable," "false." It's a big step towards very bad things.

We'll see what this means for the current tech innovation business model which is "get truckloads of money by pretending to be super excited about something that is clearly worthless"