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NEW: The ICE office that customarily probes employee misconduct is being refocused to investigate ICE critics, opening hundreds of "doxing and threat" cases and subpoenaing tech companies to unmask anonymous posters. Detention facility inspections, meanwhile, are plummeting. by @regret.bsky.social

They're doing little January 6s because that's all they know how to do.

I think, on this Fourth of July in particular, it’s important to remember that in a functional democracy, your government is supposed to serve you, not rule over you. The government is there to serve its people, not corporations or businesses or lobbyists or only some groups. Every person. Equally.

Have a Fourth or something

shutting down a major artery into the city during a holiday weekend while the world cup is in town and there’s a historic heat wave that’s lead to energy rationing just so you can have a wedding is a real radicalizing eat the rich moment

Been listening to a few different podcasts about books and publishing and it seems like letting the Big 5 become the Big 5 was maybe not such a good idea and that much of what’s wrong with publishing and books and no one making money could be fixed by breaking them up…1/

I'm at home in Brooklyn with my two very young kids and ConEd has reduced our power because of the heat wave. Our lights don't work and AC is minimal. Also, there's a celebrity wedding in midtown right now and I'm unaware of any reports that they're going without.

Judge Reed O'Connor, Ken Paxton, and the federal government are actively colluding with one another to bypass legislators and contort the political reality of the country into their desired shape.

Yep.

Mamdani: "As we mark 250 years ... we see the wealthiest country -- one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more ... we see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans"

Tried to scare myself silly in June. And yes, that includes Margo’s Got Money Troubles. I blame it on attending #stokercon at the beginning of the month, but also not complaining about going (back) to horror for a bit.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Confiscatory taxation & expropriation of billionaires would benefit them personally because extreme wealth is the cognitive equivalent of about sixteen strikes to the head with a ball peen hammer

Crazy to me that people with unlimited wealth do things like buy huge yachts and multiple massive mansions and build extremely phallic rockets to “go to space” and other absolutely useless, dumb, consumerist shit. 1/

It is seriously alarming how many of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful people are just screamingly mentally unwell in deeply toxic, dangerous ways.

I’ll vote for anyone who pledges to remove all replay reviews from every sport in the world

It’s not 1:1, but I’ve had this theory that most AI ahem LLM use would get curtailed at some point because it ends up being prohibitively expensive. I worked in VR at a time when it was supposed to take over the world and change everything once everyone figured out how to make it less expensive. 1/

Tiddies by RS Benedict

What better way to celebrate finishing my editing certificate program at University of Chicago than buying my own copy of the style manual. Now I’ll be able to remind myself about appositives while editing your manuscripts for all of eternity. Or until the 19th edition.

Happy July 1st to all who celebrate.

The Supreme Court just gave Trump the biggest executive power grab in 90 years. But they still protected the things the Republican justices care about the most: their own money. My latest in @thenation.com

INDIE HORROR WRITERS: I’m looking for some stories between 7k and 12k words to adapt for audio. This is paid. Absolutely no AI allowed in any way during brainstorming/outlining/writing/anything. DM me if you’ve got something you’d like to submit! #writers #horrorwriters #indiehorror

Mel Brooks has been around for 40% of the US's existence.

Ford has rehired hundreds of senior engineers after replacing them with AI backfired and has cost the company billions of dollars. AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.

1000x this

theyre not “predictors” theyre gamblers, hes trying to get 18-34 year olds addicted to gambling

So it begins....just as predicted.

I think these people underestimate how mad we are. Mad enough to drag every possible skeleton out of their closets. Mad enough that they're gonna need that private yacht because their every waking moment in public will be met with curses and jeers.

Kinda weird when people come to a revelation about needing to win elections after losing a couple primary contests to the left and not when the courts and both houses of Congress and the Presidency are controlled by the other party

Cannot emphasize enough how often this was articulated to decision makers from like 2015 on.

One under discussed reason why “establishment” candidates aren’t doing as well is because when Trump was elected too many Democrats completely rolled over. We had Democrats in D+45 seats voting for the Laken Riley Act and senators unanimously supporting his nominees.

This observation feels quite innocent now. Sebastian, Pancetta and Eugenics have moved onto Instagram these days, they've multiplied a thousandfold, they're making fuckloads of money filming their lives and they've all got book deals with Penguin, even though they've never read one.

“AI will automate all the boring, rote tasks that drive workers insane so they have more time to focus on important things.” “Hey workers could you actually go back to doing those boring tasks. It’s way cheaper to pay you to do them.” www.404media.co/the-tokenpoc...

Please dont put in the newspaper I got mad.

For the first time on record, solar generated more electricity than coal across the entire U.S. - despite active federal policy pushing the other direction. Read more at the link below!

Sotomayor's dissent: "The court’s decision today is yet another notch in its belt, unabashedly remaking the law in its preferred image. The majority jettisons two decades of settled precedent and breathes new life into two decades of rejected legal theories." www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

The congressional switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. Put it in your cell phone. Use it. If you're not calling at least once a week, you're not doing your part.

Piece by me this week - looking at the surging number of killings by police in the United States: www.economist.com/united-state...

What good will all the data centers powering large language models (they’re not AI and never will be) when most of us are too busy dying from natural disasters to use said LLMs to make PowerPoints and write emails?

It’s like we forget that ‘enshittification’ *retch* actually started before AI and was downstream of who knows how many scams there were on the internet casting it as The Place You Can Extract Passive Income From Forever

Worth remembering “take bribes for clemency” is one of Justice Sotomayor’s examples in the Presidential Immunity dissent that Roberts complained was far-fetched catastrophizing

The workers are making less but producing more value, and the owner doesn't have a problem with that? Well, I suppose that's the end of the story

One of my biggest ADHD/medicating my ADHD struggles is with eating. I don’t feel my hunger first. Instead, I notice that I’m getting tired or irritable, which usually means I’m hungry. But I don’t actually feel hungry until later. Which means when I do finally feel hungry, I’m famished and hangry.

States’ political failures are causing a massive transfer of wealth from classrooms to the richest banks in the nation.

HAPPY FRIDAY I will yell more about books later but for now I would be delighted to see more entries in this Goodreads giveaway for my upcoming weird city fantaspionage (????) novel WICKHILLS! :D (US only for now, sorry! They will have another one later!) www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

From illegal hotels to illegal taxi services to fake money for criminals to the CSAM plagiarism machine, Big Tech is increasingly just organized crime run by unaccountable oligarchs who conspire to poison our media and rig our elections. The sooner we accept that truth, the sooner we can change it.

Millions of copyrighted songs were fed to AI music generators - now there's proof Suno and rivals are being sued for $150k per song. A sum that would bankrupt these companies and set an important precedent.

Ever read a book or watch a movie thinking it’ll be a light, fun little thing? But then you get into it and turns out it’s actually quite deep and has a message and gets into some things? The movie Man of the Year with Robin Williams was like that for me, and so was this book. 1/