There has been no breathless roadblock coverage of this shooting on cable channels or in major newspapers, afaik. wgme.com/news/local/i...

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You have to keep giving money to avoid collapse and if there’s collapse you have to give more money. It’s called the free market.

Woah! Ontario passed a law starting Jan 2026 that it is illegal for companies to ghost you. If you have interviewed for a job they are legally required to inform you if they hire someone else or close the position. The law also requires salary transparency on listings and disclosing use of AI

Just want to remind everyone that Mike Flynn told a crowd of rabid QAnon troglodytes in no uncertain terms that the military should conduct a coup in order to reinstall Trump as an unelected dictator, and he never once was subject to the penalties that the UCMJ demands for that sort of thing

If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand” Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.

Elon Musk donated $277 million to Trump so he could steal the federal government’s data, dismantle the nation’s infrastructure, and stop foreign aid from going to nonwhite people. It’s a quid pro quo breathtaking in scope, corruption, and damage, & completely unprecedented in American history.

the last 24 hours on X, summed up:

"when the jews are gathered in their homeland (far from us) so jesus can return and drop them into a fiery pit before He reigns triumphantly forever, everything will be great 🥰" -evangelicals

Fond memories of that time Mike Johnson was president of a local law school that never opened its doors, in part because it was attached to a Baptist college that was losing its accreditation, and in part because it was always a scam from the start

Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door. This is who it was:

THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos. I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.

If you're still on Twitter you're literally on a white supremacist's propaganda machine, you are not immune to propaganda, and your continued participation helps him. Get off that shit already. Don't rationalize it, that's an excuse not a reason.

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

/13 Why? For proximity to power. For prestige. For attention. Some tongues were made to praise God. Some tongues were made to sing. Some were made for poetry, some for prose, some to agitate and some to soothe. But some tongues were made for the boot.

I’ve been saying this for ages: These folks are doomed to be permanently angry because they’re angry about aspects of the culture that policy ultimately can’t change. They’re seeking political power as a consolation prize for lack of cultural power, and will always be dissatisfied.

The Geiers were famous for using Lupron (a medical castration drug) on autistic boys to “ take the wolf out” as they put it in a long -vanished article that used to be on the NYT website. Vile and evil men.

'People forget what Khashoggi was investigating when he was murdered. He was writing about Kushner turning over classified info to MBS, who used it to hunt down, arrest and murder his opponents.' h/t @cocacolakid

Fark.com yo :) 27 in Februrary

Fish have committed credit card fraud

my tv station is now broadcasting from a raspberry pi in my garage, and being controlled from a little webapp I hacked together that lets anyone on my network schedule videos off my media server or YouTube or whatever It's basically a homemade analog chromecast as a UHF tv broadcast

Kinda shows the level of elite capture in this country when the guy with the lowest approval ratings in history is going “hey you fat pig! I’m going to hamburger conference to say fish sandwich! Also not a sex offender!” and the news is just starting to be like huh wonder if this guy is unpopular

Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.

WHAT ANNOYING GUYS THINK SUN TZU'S ART OF WAR SAYS: show everyone in every single situation you're the big dog, literally bark in your bosses face to assert dominance ACTUAL SUN TZU: no but seriously you do have to feed your army

The reason why socialism is no longer taboo in America is that our elites have successfully rebranded it as “any attempt by the state to function beyond semi-random violence“ while trying to combat it.

The opioid crisis the Sackler family intentionally began costs the United States roughly $4 trillion a year.

sam altman only has three looks: i see a ghost, processing bad news, and jackass

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It actually wasn't, all societies have codes. I've written a number of papers on 17th century mercenaries and they spent most of their time suing each other. That's in the middle of the worst war in Europe. You have to be "a sheep" within your own society or nothing functions

“I’ll fight until hell freezes over and then I’ll cut the ice and fight on”

women are always saying “lord grant me the confidence of a mediocre man.” ok well he did. now what. is the world a better place? look at what you’ve wrought.

Going back to Summers' talk about how women don't want to work hard and don't have high end aptitude, we could ask: What fraction of young men must deal with a creep with substantial power over their career hitting on them using tips from an infamous pedophile? 🤔 www.thecrimson.com/article/2005...

one function of capitalism is to funnel these types into positions of power, because if competent & kind people get into power they start taking from the rich and giving to the poor. capitalist leaders must be either evil or ignorant or both, only by mistake does anyone else get near power

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I think it’s about how everyone is being nudged towards superficially individualized pre-curated personal realities that may provide immediate comfort but ultimately rob us of opportunities to engage in critical thought, shared truth & eventually choice… which poses an existential danger to us all.

Jamelle was cooking. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...

If the NYT told the story of the homeless teenager exploited by Matt Gaetz with even half as much empathy as it tells the story of Olivia Nuzzi, it would be in danger of committing journalism.

my takeaway from this letter is that glenn youngkin, rector sheridan and their flunkies on the board are deeply dishonest people who are engaged, with the trump administration, in a mob-style shakedown against the university of virginia

So old I remember when it was considered a political liability to hand out a presidential pardon to your son in law’s drug dealer buddy who went on to commit crimes of violence and sexual offenses. nypost.com/2025/11/11/u...

If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.

The thing about cruelty and inhumanity is that the limits of who is affected keep expanding and expanding until we shove it back the other way

Whoa! Immigrants come here with nothing and the next thing you know they’re buying houses that established citizens cannot afford? Those enterprising newcomers sound like just the sort of folks we need. Never mind that JD’s premise is as BS as his 30M number.

A middle school boy created deepfake AI CSAM of his fellow classmate, a 13 year old girl. The girl pleaded with the school but they did nothing and instead put her on a bus with the perpetrator. She ended up hitting him and was expelled but nothing happened to the boy. www.wsaw.com/2025/11/12/g...

Jesus Christ in the midst of Epstein-o-rama I nearly fucking forgot that Chuck Schumer tripled my health insurance costs for the sake of the Senate rule that lets them pretend to support popular legislation while at the same time letting it get killed for their wealthy donors.

just a reminder this guy slashed the tires on his much younger female coworkers tires to trick her into getting in his car he was married at the time

In my 44 years as a journalist, I'm pretty sure I never advised a "source" on how to blackmail the president of the United States

“Ultimately, between the money she made from her interactions with men and in the food services industry she was able to save up enough money to get braces.”