When a person says, "This can be done the easy way or the hard way", with extremely high probability, they are a sadist. And sadism *never* exists in isolation, it's always accompanied by sociopathy-psychopathy (ASPD).

You should read the whole piece from @edzitron.com but if you only read one paragraph, make it this one: OpenAI has burned so much money that there is no more money. Read that again: it's not just OpenAI that's broke. All of VC is broke. www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...

"This crowd -- the MAGA crowd -- is equal parts gangster and Gong Show." -- U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., on The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell.

Another day, another magat, evangelical KKKristian pedophile/pederast.

"[Grijalva] also pointed out that when Rep. James Walkinshaw of VA won a special election just a few weeks ago, he was sworn in w/out having to wait for certification." bluevirginia.us/2025/09/mond... h/t @tusk81.bsky.social

Leftists: taking shit for being right since probably before you were born.

It'd be pretty to think.

I sure am glad we have a president who will send a pilot making $80k/yr to kill a Colombian fisherman making $3k/yr in a boat worth $500 with a missile that costs $1,000,000 to keep the public from learning about all the times he sexually assaulted underage human trafficking victims. #Epstein

Primary any D senator that votes for a penny for farmers and other traitors.

Colorado’s Democratic Senators should be leading the charge on impeachment.

Friendly reminder to all media this week: The GOP controls both houses of Congress. They can keep the government open with their own votes. It’s their own fecklessness and chaos that REQUIRES Dems to vote for this budget.

Governors are elected to protect their citizens, and courts have already limited his overreach. Yet Trump keeps pushing to normalize militarized cities. This isn’t about safety—it’s about consolidating power. When Trump talks about “emergency powers,” alarm bells should go off.

Whoever gave that order needs to be duly convicted and then hanged at The Hague.

Is it cool that I think you shouldn’t be murdered by the state even if you’re a drug dealer???

there are almost certainly more people — more blue collar laborers, specifically — involved in the cultivation and production of chardonnay grapes and wine than in coal

Just read Stephen Miller is in charge of Venezuela strikes FFS- Being American feels like stifling a gut wrenching scream, the kind that chips away at your soul

This is America. Where we have turned golf violent. European players have vowed to never return to America to play the sport.

A victim of the shooting at the ICE facility is UNCONSCIOUS, in critical care, may not survive, his wife is about to give birth, and ICE IS KEEPING HIM SHACKLED TO HIS HOSPITAL BED: I just unlocked a new level of rage. www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...

I love teaching the Letter with Malcom X's Ballot or Bullet because they make the same argument.

Hakeem Jeffries has been such a glaring disappointment. Just a mess of a man and a shit terrible politician. Too busy trying to triangulate palatable pablum to honestly hone an authentic agenda. People deserve someone who cares more about them than about the pretense of decorum in the face of fascim

*points to sign*

It is important to see this sort of straight talking, precisely because of the executive order last week that conflated criticism of the government with terrorism.

It’s really hard to find a therapist who can counsel people with actual real threat scenarios, like this one. For example, I don’t think I have “haters”. I have actual coordinated attacks on my safety and wellbeing, sir or ma’am. Same with political conflicts like these.

Ezra Klein is so emblematic of a certain kind of man in media. Incurious while thinking he's open-minded, condescending while ignorant of his of ignorance. It's an intellectual exercise for him, as if that's a marker of his journalistic professionalism rather than an expression of his privilege.

the idea that you could just pass specific bills on specific areas with simple majorities is just beyond the ability and comprehension of most lawmakers in congress it seems

Sir that is no way to talk to the Supreme Court

Trying not to amplify the hateful comments from this US committee hearing’s R reps from NC. Rep. Adams is there. Rep. Ross appears to be there. I’ll look for their words later. One theme, though, is “This is not a money problem. This is an ideology problem.” Respectfully, hogwash. #ncpol

Tip for Civil Society: Never Negotiate. Always make them do the bad thing. Don’t help them do it, but make their choice either: do something really bad, or nothing at all https://alecmuffett.com/article/115274

Oopsie.

Warrior ethos? What part of that involves advocating for war criminals to be pardoned/exonerated or restoring awards to those who massacred women and children? A question I hope someone asks on Tuesday.

I’m old enough to remember when communities of all sorts - urban, rural, large, small - would try to stop Walmart from opening stores in their area because they knew it would kill small businesses. Nostalgia, my ass.

So YouTube Labs has invented the disc jockey.

One person having the power to upend entire industries and economic sectors on a whim every day that puts companies out of business and workers out of jobs with no legislative input is an autocracy, regardless of whether that person initially acquired power through an election.

Hakeem Jeffries is acting like he *wants* to draw a strong primary challenger in 2026 and, honestly, I wish him all the luck in the world there.

Ayup. Same old story... until we end it

really need to emphasize the small cities part. i have mentioned this before, but you'll see people on facebook talk about charlottesville like its ridley scott's mogadishu

Another crime. Throw it on the pile.

Hard same.

The Christian persecution bullshit is so irritating because no one gives a shit who you worship until you start telling other people who they have to worship, too. Gee, I resent you telling me what I can or cannot do based upon shit I don't believe in. Who'd have seen that coming.

More on Mr. Taylor from Kelly, along with action you can take. Senators Ossoff and Warnock have been notified by the petition sponsors, along with Gov. Kemp. I will contact them, but these officials need to hear from Georgia residents.

Another one to throw on the crimes pile.

As a former gamer, I cannot overstate how big of a deal this right-wing takeover of Electronic Arts is. Are they going to create video games where they kidnap and dismember journalists like Jamal Khashoggi?

Minutes after the bill was signed, my firm sued on behalf of affected voters. I told you I don 't bluff. Next up is to show that we win.

Delighted the reviews are good. Congratulations @alexwinter.com, and to Mr. Reeves! deadline.com/2025/09/wait...

It’s both depressing and darkly hilarious how Lawfare posting has gone from “we got him on an Article 33, Clause 8, Subsection Alpha infraction, baby cannon time!” to *slams whisky bottle down* “the law is fake and I challenge John Roberts to a fistfight at the Walmart parking lot.”