I don't understand why they need a socialist solution when they could surely qualify for many loans with Silicon Valley Bank.

From the top rope

Listen, there is very much to criticize about Pritzker, but the fact that we have reached a point in our politics where a sitting governor has told the president (and his cronies) to "fuck all the way off" is something. We should not underestimate the power of symbols to galvanize resistance.

When I was working for a Chinese government contractor in 2019, my mainland colleagues insisted that Trump was a fellow traveler who was just doing Chinese communism very badly, and would fail because of the US’ public’s independent streak. FWIW, I think they’re completely correct now.

💣DUN DUN💣

Compares the incident to when an 8-year-old is “in the middle of a bedtime temper tantrum” and “takes that stuff animal with which he sleeps…and throws it at you. Are you offended?…Are you scared you might suffer bodily injury? No.”

Says assault requires a “reasonable fear of immediate bodily harm,” and none exists given agent’s long-sleeve shirt, long pants, boots, gloves and ballistic vest that is created to “keep you safe from military rifle fire” and so is “definitely going to keep you safe from a sandwich.”

While the government prosecutes this case “in some purported effort to keep law enforcement safe and free from food fights,” CBP employees “are joking about it.” The gov, she says, is trying to turn a “gag-gift worthy moment into a federal criminal offense. We ask you not to allow them to do that.”

Asks, “Would a man genuinely injured, genuinely offended by having a sandwich thrown at him proudly, happily, joyfully” keep a plush sandwich on his shelf and a “Felony Footlong” patch on — yes! — his lunchbox?

Defense begins, “This case, ladies and gentlemen, is about a sandwich. A sandwich that according to Agent Lairmore somehow both exploded on his chest in a spray of mustard and onions but also landed intact on the ground still in its Subway wrapper.”

How far has former NY governor Andrew Cuomo fallen? Cuomo has been endorsed by two of the most loathed people in the world, Trump and Elon Musk — as well as a person many consider to be a full-blown Nazi, Stephen Miller. Zohran Mamdani is going to be New York City's next mayor.

I wont be seeing a penny of this, but anything that puts a crimp in OpenAI's day makes me feel all toasty warm.

From SpongeBob memes to AI “Hitler comedy trailers,” OpenAI’s Sora 2 is being exploited to distort history, glorify genocide, and normalize hate, exposing serious gaps in the company’s content moderation policies. Read more:

"The support for the more aggressive options is coming from Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is also the acting national security adviser, and Stephen Miller, Mr. Trump’s deputy chief of staff and homeland security adviser."

Trump has tried to claim he opposed the Iraq War from the start but he was always quick to note that the real mistake was that the U.S. didn't "keep the oil." From 2019:

New Yorkers are HITTING THOSE POLLS. It's the highest turnout in about two decades.

things are truly insane over there

Perfect @mollycrabapple.bsky.social piece:

This might be one of the most heartbreaking things I’ve ever read

It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.

"He can assault you — that is discipline when you’re a juvenile,” Phoenix PD officer Blake Willer told a 16 y/o boy about his father. “Your dad should beat you. Other than sending you to the hospital, your dad should beat you.”

It's a real head scratcher www.mediaite.com/media/tv/fox...

A long hallowed corrupt practice. Joe Crowley, famous primary loser to AOC, gained his seat through similar legerdemain.

Ask any of your favorite Black women writers from a decade ago why their bylines stopped appearing, and you’ll likely hear the same response: There is no place for us in media. In TV. In publishing or academia. For the majority of us, there’s no place but gone.

I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members. At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.

as my fellow Teen Voguers come over here I’ll be sharing their accounts, throw them a follow, offer them work, and we’ll be launching a gofundme/something similar soon!

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

The order is to be implemented at school libraries on military bases in Kentucky, Virginia, Italy and Japan. Students and their families claimed their First Amendment rights had been violated when officials removed the books to comply with President Trump's executive orders. n.pr/3Lm231z

Zohran Mamdani's focus on affordability concerns has energized many young voters around the country, who say he speaks to some of their most pressing economic concerns. n.pr/4hzXH2Y

A few days after the presidential election one year ago, we went to Fordham Road in the Bronx. It was a little different last week.

you know, the original SPACE JAM was not some kind of masterpiece — it wasn’t even particularly good — but it feels like SEVEN SAMURAI compared to the sequel (watching it with my kids right now)

Maybe I should file a complaint with the FCC against the Trump White House for editing his unhinged 60 Minutes interview. It will use the exact same language Trump lodged against Vice President Harris.

I watched Kathryn Bigelow’s nuclear warfare movie last night and I feel like all the troll the libs types should be forced to watch it and think about what it means that Trump and Pete Hegseth are in charge of this stuff

Kash fired the guy he thinks outed him for taking another private jet flight to see his girlfriend sing.

She also did not comment on whether the use of such masks would increase assaults on ICE officers if those being arrested attempt to fight back against costumed agents unaware that they’re law enforcement.”

The Chicago Tribune called it that. This is its Instagram

Convince me this is not state-sponsored terrorism.

Yeah but windmills aren't manly

This might be the one that breaks me. Every federal agency reduced to banana-republic personal fiefdoms where criminal Trump allies loot the public and fire vastly more qualified people for daring to do their jobs. It’s unthinkable. It’s obscene.

Kash Patel was angry about his publicly-available jet logs indicating he’d flown to see his musician girlfriend perform so he forced out a senior FBI official overseeing aviation, Bloomberg reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Sooner or later, someone is going to respond to one of these ICE goons by returning the violence and it's not going to end well -- not for the goon, not for the victim, not for any of us.

1980: GOP: Let’s move right. Dems: Let’s move right as well. 1984: GOP: Let’s move right. Dems: Let’s move right as well. … 2024: GOP: Let’s move to full fascism. Dems: Let’s move right. Maybe this is why the median of political imagination and possibility is now to the right of Reagan.

The situation in Darfur is dire apple.news/Aj3T17ypTQvq...

Still one of the worst people on the planet.

Nancy Mace not backing the blue. www.wired.com/story/nancy-...

chauvinism isn't about being mentally ill. nancy mace is just evil. don't throw disabled people under the bus to get a shot in at fascists, thanks.

"The people in those boats may or may not have been criminals. The people ordering the strikes are." www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-targ...

I’m still shocked that stories like this which come out daily still get largely ignored. The most corrupt person to ever hold any public office in US history. I will keep posting them every day and try to amplify them, even when most media doesn’t care. www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

Commissioner @agomezfcc.bsky.social lays out the Trump FCC’s immoral and inhumane attacks on inclusion, connection, dissent, and diversity of viewpoint at the @uccmediajustice.org #ParkerLecture2025.