Jesus definitely did not say rape is no big deal. (Also pretty sure none of the women in the senate are rapists.) So tired of the whataboutery and excuse-mongering.

“Bluesky elitist liberals don’t want to hear it, but sexual assault just isn’t that big a deal to most everyday Americans.” By Ryan Grim and David Sirota.

Many cities and counties are quitting Flock’s AI surveillance cameras (including this domino effect in Wisconsin: boltsmag.org/wisconsin-fl...). But the board of Alameda County, home to Oakland and Berkeley, voted to contract with Flock a few days ago. oaklandside.org/2026/07/01/2...

"The change drew protest from Comcast and other ISPs that complained bitterly about the complexity of listing all the hidden fees they had chosen to charge." The Trump admin is truly committed to making the Scam Economy even scammier. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

If you read just a few comments on any article about Graham Platner it should become crystal clear why victims don’t come forward earlier. The level of cruelty people direct at victims is gutting

I’ll have to read this later to see if this writer cited the specific details about this “blanket warning.” Who issued it? Where, and applying to whom? Did it take hold?

I’d forgotten all about this. Klippenstein is yet another cretin whom way too many otherwise smart people continue to take seriously.

Many of us have been right about Platner all along (you know, because his awfulness is so flippin’ obvious). But I’d still vote for him over Collins. That’s where we are now.

I don't think Platner is a plant. he's just your run-of-the-mill misogynistic, racist leftish dudebro.

“Bluesky elitist liberals don’t want to hear it, but sexual assault just isn’t that big a deal to most everyday Americans.” By Ryan Grim and David Sirota.

At least he’s got his messaging down pat, like a real pro.

Kind of remarkable that so much of the discourse is about the dangers of extremism in the Democratic Party.

"A study found Kalshi’s political markets 'compressed toward 50%,' meaning they systematically overvalue longshots & undervalue favorites. This is exactly what we saw with CNN's coverage of Greenland, where a Trump pipe dream was promoted as something with a 'very high chance' based on Kalshi odds."

They’re five-year-olds! He’s sharing videos of a bunch of happy five-year-olds in order to harm them! It’s inhuman, we must rid ourselves of these men

Aid the Trump admin says it's giving Venezuela: $300 million. Amount that's actually been dispersed: $0. Amount of aid Obama gave for Haiti earthquake: $3 billion Amount of revenue U.S. has gotten from takeover of oil industry: $8 billion www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/w...

Trump on the bell he rang to open the stock market: "There's the bell right there. It's so beautiful, I'm not giving it back. I don't know if it's supposed to go back, but they're gonna have to fight like hell to get it back. We're not giving it back."

Have Matt Taibbi or Conor Friedersdorf even mentioned any of this shit?

Short-Man’s Complex

Tomorrow in NYT Opinion: “UFC is helping America reclaim masculinity,” by Christopher Rufo. You know, for “balance.”

The owner of X is embracing an explicitly fascist ideology which is opposed to liberalism, universal suffrage, and racial equality—and yet every Democrat in Congress and most journalists still use his website every day. It’s absolutely disgusting.

A broadside assault on truth that must be taken seriously. This administration wants to replace independent scholarship and curation with propaganda and Prager U. drivel. The Kennedy Center was bad enough. This is worse.

But doesn’t it *feel* like it’s true? In your gut?

If you find a restaurant you really love, let it go. If it comes back to you, it wasn't actually a restaurant. Because they don't move.

If you're not outraged, you should be

It was, and is, astonishing to watch them all decide “Well, I guess we’re a fascist country now.”

Yeah I don’t think you can say this when Trump did a whole red scare speech in front of Mt. Rushmore last week

I hope everyone just had a great 3 day weekend after a short 4 day workweek. Amazingly the world didn’t end, the economy didn’t shutdown, there isn’t anarchy in the streets. Normalize a permanent 4 day workweek immediately.

Trailers containing millions of dollars worth of Tesla car and home batteries have allegedly been stolen straight from loading docks at the company’s Nevada facilities at least 11 times since last December, according to sheriff’s records obtained by WIRED. wrd.cm/4vwhead

I've always been amused by the people who wonder "what happened" to Taibbi, since some of us had him pegged all along. But there HAS been a lot of degeneration. He wouldn't have said anything like this 15 years ago. He also said all profs teach anymore is Howard Zinn and bell hooks.

@chicagotribune.com published a piece that says establishment dems must fight back against progressives within the party. The same piece called @katmabu.bsky.social, a Palestinian woman fighting for mutual aid in politics, a "bomb-throwing influencer"... www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/05/e...

It’s a pose. They’re savvy cynics who bin around the block a time or two and wasn’t born yesterday. The know the score, jack, while you sheeple are living in a dream world. The people who do this are nearly all dudes because it’s born mainly of male panic and deep insecurity.

Well, I *did* notice yesterday that there weren't a lot of dumpy, doughy, oafish-looking slobs. They're all pretty young and trim. I didn't go on to conclude that they might not be right-wing. But hmmm. (I'm joking. Patriot Front is a real thug squad. They, like, train and stuff).

We think of CBS News as Bari's thing now, and ascribe all this kind if inanity to her. But CBS News was doing this shit way before she showed up, just as the rest of the media continues to do it now: covering this lunatic like he's Eisenhower.

Maybe this hasn’t sunk in for anyone who should care but the NHS was birthed when the UK *literally had negative money*. The USA had razed us of every penny to pay for weapons to defend ourselves against Germany, Germany had bombed all our industrial sites. We still did it in 6 months. 6.

it's like being a piece of shit of a human being is mandatory to join the ai cult

This is one of those things where time is a big factor: at this point, after several years of increasingly horrifying shit, is there any excuse left? How about the people who work for the right-wing propagandists who run the Atlantic and NYT Opinion? They've had years to plot an exit. But they stay.

Thomas Paine is my favorite founding father. He was famously abolitionist and one of the earliest voices to point out the hypocrisy of fighting for independence while keeping slaves. He also firmly believed that keeping any friendship which required compromising your morals made you a bad person.

The most Social Media thing there is: people who comment with questions, doubts, and misapprehensions directly under posts that include a link that would address all of those. It's never been easier to access news stories and people *still* would prefer to ignorantly yammer about them.

You're a single mom in Anacostia. You have to be at your restaurant job at 6:00 a.m. It's 12:30. Your neighbors are STILL blowing off M-80s. Your kids are crying, your dog is howling. You have no air conditioning. And now, here comes the president's Airborne Toxic Event.

I would like this administration to stop generating painfully apt metaphors

Good to know!

I appreciate that Democrats seem energized to run against Trump's egregious corruption, but it is disturbing how nobody seems eager to run against his murder spree.

Huh. Imagine that.

Trump's big speech had the aesthetics and time slot of the Charlie Rose Show.

BASH: But it peeled off. Why did that happen? BURGUM: It didn't peel off. There was vandalism. There was box cutters. There have been 7 arrests. BASH: There are photographs of people cutting a 350 foot gash in the reflecting pool? BURGUM: Dana, I'm not sure why you keep questioning it

this guy is the co-founder of Airbnb

Well, "in force," but yeah. There's a lot of good shit about this country! We keep toggling between it and the bad shit, the latter just to appease our most moronic citizens.

“Liberals in the weather service.”

while every normal cable network celebrates America, Brian Kilmeade on Fox News is reading Trump's deranged Truth Social diatribes from a bunker

they are trying to repeal everything this country has achieved since 1865 and we will, like the hero born of woman, crush the serpent beneath the heel