No matter how ingrained AI is forced into life, I'm not playing this "robots are people too" bullshit. No. Fuck off. Sci-fi writers have warned us for a fucking century not to assign them feelings, personality or make emotional attachments and those nerds are right way more than they're wrong.

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

MORE: Immergut issued a stark warning that the efforts by Trump to make a bad-faith justification to call up the guard risked plunging the country into a form of unconstitutional military rule. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

NEW! Lawless police-state raid of Chicago apartment building demands more attention: presswatchers.org/2025/10/lawl...

This story is the intersection of gaming and incel culture and cop-adjacent impunity and conservative politics. A lot of those things have significant overlap already, but this is a kid where a bunch of vectors of radicalization overlapped and he murdered a couple of girls remorselessly.

Kinda wild Apple will kick ICEBlock out of the App Store on safety grounds but the Saudi government app that lets men track women (their “property”) and control their travel is fully allowed even after the Human Rights Watch AND members of the Senate begged them to ban it.

My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

today I am even more stalwart in my position vis a vis “Bluesky desperately needs to hire a dedicated comms lead” (and a dev relations person)

Advisers are worried that the GOP will take the blame for allowing healthcare subsidies to expire, raising costs for millions of Americans ahead of next year’s midterm elections, according to administration officials. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Chappelle: Y’all are more free than we are Riyadh crowd: Wooooooo Chappelle: Like if I tell jokes about trans people at home people say shit about me Riyadh crowd: booo Chappelle: but you guys clap Riyadh: [applause] Chappelle: you see THAT’s free speech

if you know a rich dem please ask them to give us money to start a news media network that explicitly is not run by and loyal to republicans

This is a really critical point. Vaccination is not just about yourself.

I have criticisms of ICEBlock, but this is authoritarian bullshit, and the fact that nearly all smartphone use one of two app stores controlled by US corporations does not bode well for the future

3 October 1940 | Dutch Jewish girl, Sonja Muijs, was born in Voorburg (left). She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in August 1942. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection. She was almost 2 years old.

Everyone should listen to Chris Murphy's extraordinary warning about Trump on our pod. First, he says the logic must be that the more lawless he gets, the stiffer the resistance. "If I give in and consent to these kinds of tactics then it just normalizes it all." 1/ newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Republicans are happy to collect taxes from blue states, then Budget Dictator Russ Vought cuts off their funding approved by Congress. No cuts yet from the Dictator to red states. Vote out Susan Collins since she is powerless as Appropriations Chair & every R in blue states.

SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years. From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me:

If there’s a chart that better illustrates this economy of “haves” and “have-nots”, I’ve yet to see it. [Ferrari vs. Dollar General:] @mikezaccardi.bsky.social $RACE $DG

SCOOP: PA prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parent's address in Pennsylvania for years. Me with @marisakabas.bsky.social slate.com/news-and-pol...

The deeper concern here is why it gets laughs. They are laughing because they see the U.S. declining to their level, and they see it as evidence that we never had anything meaningful to offer in the first place.

"rob the american people, send it back to them, sign it with a big signature. totally legal and constitutional" --john roberts, six months from now

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

I find it particularly *galling* that Biden went out of his way to put projects in red rural areas (as an attempted bulwark against GOP defunding, which obvs didn't work, and because Dems CARE about putting economic dev where it's most needed) and yet the GOP can get away with hurting blue states.

They’re loving it. Your health care is not on their minds.

Terrorizing and wrecking an entire 150-unit apartment building--hundreds of people, mostly legal or citizens--to detain 37 people. This should be a much more massive story.

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

It seems pointless even to say this, but the Fourth Amendment does not permit federal agents to kick down every door in an apartment building just because *some* people in that building are allegedly undocumented. Even in the unlikely event they had a warrant, warrants have to be specific.

I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year. Republicans in Washington did this. This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.

A lot of people outside the military don't realize that the whole "no beards" thing is directed primarily at the many African-Americans who are allowed not to shave because of a common skin condition.

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We believe healthcare is a right for every American. But starting today, millions of people will be notified that they are being priced out of their insurance thanks to Republican policies. Enough is enough. The GOP may shut down the government, but we will stand tall for YOU.

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A central reason we're in this mess is that the final GOP budget is going to be full of ugly, deeply unpopular stuff - exploding deficits, destructive tariffs, cuts to health care/clear energy/food, supersizing ICE, tax cuts for billionaires - that Rs simply don't want to take responsibility for. 1/

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance. Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn. We have been sent here to fight for people.

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Hi Donald!

A judge appointed by President Reagan accused the Trump administration of staging a sweeping campaign to curtail political freedoms in the United States

A friendly reminder: US billionaires have gained $968 billion in wealth so far this year—that’s 30X the annual cost of ACA subsidies Congress is fighting over in the shutdown talks. That $968B is enough to send every single US household a $7,300 check.

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This is so so awful. He left four children (all Americans, not that it should matter) and a grieving wife (also an American, not that it should matter)

He's telling us what he's doing. Using the military to suppress protest. At some point the opposition needs to listen to him and adjust strategy.

WHATEVER YOU DO, REMEMBER NOT TO CALL THE PRESIDENT A FASCIST THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

Everyone has yelled at the left for years for living in various echo chambers but NO ONE is more utterly shut off inside their absolutely insane bubble than the far-right crackpots running the country.

He summons all of us from across the world on the eve of widening global conflict and in his infinite wisdom the Secretary offers us…the grooming standard?

For context Hegseth was basically fired from every job he had, including resigning from his national guard duty because he had a Deus Vult tattoo. He got fired from all his other jobs for drinking and abusing women on the job. Heres a letter his own mother wrote to him about his treatment of women

DALLAS FED Manufacturing Survey: “.. I may have to close the company. Orders have stopped coming in, and we do not know why.” “.. all we can attribute it to is the crazy tariff-induced environment we are living in.” www.dallasfed.org/research/sur...

Unprecedented corruption and grifting