Oh my god some fucking tech dingdong posted this on Twitter with the caption "AI games are going to be amazing" totally seriously, you have to watch it. You have to. In full screen.

As a reminder, when Biden announced student loan forgiveness—based upon a statute passed by Congress which explicitly said the President could do exactly that—Douthat called it "semi-Caesarist" because it was done "without consulting Congress."

A very offline cousin sent this to fam group chat. This story is breaking containment.

I really think that we need to talk more about the fact that Republicans have basically quietly abolished the House of Representatives

What looks like chaos is often coordination. What looks like stupidity is often strategic cruelty. The enemy doesn’t play by the rules because they want to destroy the rules. They believe in nothing but their own survival.

The useless legislative branch is nearly equal in blame for the nightmare by facilitating it. They could stop it at any moment.

Tim Snyder’s 2018 book “The Road To Unfreedom” is a damning but deeply researched work into Putin’s worldview and his absolute control of Trump.

When the president is destroying national landmarks, murdering fishermen, raising prices because he's angry over a Reagan video, and kidnapping parents in front of their crying children is probably not an ideal time to have a lazy, completely incompetent legislative branch perpetually on vacation.

Adding this photo of the victim, lifted from the reddit thread

Last night In Athens, GA, a 33 year old named Kenneth Leland Morgan was arrested for aggravated assault after dressing like a Nazi and hitting a glass over a woman's face at a bar people were forcing him out of. The only people who want to dress like Nazis for Halloween are Nazis.

He showed up dressed as a Nazi and then hit a woman in the face with a beer mug, and his face looks like that afterwards? What is wrong with the dudes at that bar?

When dressing up as a Nazi for Halloween is even remotely acceptable then you know as a country we have lost the plot. We can never normalize this:

Changes to Oklahoma’s curriculum rules make it so teachers aren’t supposed to tell students that the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 — a defining incident of racial violence in Oklahoma history — was perpetrated by racists. ➡️ Full story: https://propub.li/3WXTkFm

Ivermectin bots are here. They name search William Makis and try to boost his scam. You know what to do.

Media bozos constantly finding new ways to rename illegal shit.

WSJ called it "cutting through red tape" I sense a pattern

It's illegal, and therefore a crime, and therefore grounds for impeachment, but Mike Johnson has effectively disolved Congress in support of a mad king

@miriamwasser.bsky.social reports on "seven key numbers that explain why many state leaders and environmentalists in New England are concerned about the fate of offshore wind." www.wbur.org/news/2025/10... 🔌💡

The reason Trump and friends are doing this is because the humanity of the people ICE is targeting is irrelevant to them. Standards for ICE officers aren’t necessary when they don’t plan to follow due process anyway.

7/ The comment period for the rule is open until 11/7. Make your voice heard! 👇

6/ This once again shows the cynical emptiness of the admin’s “Make America Healthy Again” rhetoric. In reality, the Trump admin is aggressively eliminating regulations that aim to protect the US public from toxic chemicals, all to appease chemical industry corporations and their lobbyists.

3/ The proposed rule would also prohibit states from banning or restricting dangerous chemicals, such as PFAS and TCE – an alarming and dangerous move that would overrule existing protections, weakening state-level power to protect communities and workers from toxic chemical exposure.

1/ Last month, the EPA proposed a rule that will significantly weaken safety reviews for toxic chemicals used in the U.S. Weakening these reviews can open the door to more exposure to toxic chemicals, including PFAS and formaldehyde.

Make America Healthy Again by increasing the amount of actual toxins that Americans are exposed to, including PFAS, formaldehyde, asbestos & dioxins. Asbestos. One of the most strongly cancer-causing compounds in existence. But at least they took away those dangerous multi-dose influenza vaccines!

AEMO turns to battery inverters for “world-first” trial of running big grids with no synchronous generation #energysky -- via Renew Economy: reneweconomy.com.au/...

Ok this is wild, a) I had no idea Aurora was that big; b) the ex mayor was one of the R bids against Pritzker and it's one of the further Chicagoland suburbs so I assumed it was like...south suburb conservative tbh

A mayor sending sectarian newspaper articles to the chief of police to encourage them to pick a side and stand up against paramilitary ethnic cleansing is not something I had on my bingo card. www.workers.org/2020/06/49516/

Someone wondered about Aurora PD Here is an article that, while focusing on a particular incident, includes quite a bit of context www.injusticewatch.org/criminal-cou...

I haven't seen people here mention this letter from the mayor of Illinois' 2nd-largest city (Aurora, 40+% Latino) to the Aurora Police following egregious attacks by immigration in Aurora and related protests So here it is!

and the end of health insurance assistance is the discontinuation of existing subsidies it's a fucking one-for-one transference of wealth these are unserious, disingenuous people with nothing but contempt for the intelligence of the american public

At a recent tele-townhall with Rep Celeste Maloy, she said we “can't commit to trillions in spending” and when a later caller pointed out that she’s conveniently not mentioning the tax breaks for billionaires, she said they weren’t tax breaks. They were continuations of existing tax breaks.

In addition to using a photo of Tim Mellon that is 44 years out of date (!), @nytimes.com fails to mention that his self-published autobiography was so racist he had to withdraw it from publication. A real charmer. Do better, @nytimes.com ! www.washingtonpost.com/politics/tim...

this is the cherry on top: "He is also a significant supporter of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who also ran for president last year. Mr. Mellon donated millions to Mr. Kennedy’s presidential campaign and has also given money to his anti-vaccine group, Children’s Health Defense."

Congratulations to Tim Mellon, the far right billionaire who just volunteered to become the literal poster child for ads about billionaires whose tax cuts are a primary reason why the govt is shut down. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/u...

Turned off the apocalyptic Dodger game and watched A House of Dynamite. Extremely tense and scary. Reminded me of the book. Nuclear War: A Scenario. Thought of this administration handling such a crisis and wanted to throw up.

Funny how there's a medical study about how the mRNA Covid vaccines could help fight cancer, which should be massive great news, but instead every article about it has comments from people mocking it as fake news. People would rather die from cancer than trust scientists. It's just an insane time

Alaska’s whooping cough outbreak infected hundreds, with infants suffering the most alaskabeacon.com/briefs/alask... via @alaskabeacon.com @yjrosen.bsky.social

1/9 🚨 🇺🇸 BIRD FLU IS BACK -- SURGING AMID A US GOVT SHUTDOWN 🇺🇸 🚨 Meghan Bartels reports for Scientific American. #H5N1 cases are rising, with over 3M poultry culled this month alone. The virus's return was expected, but it raises economic fears and a small but real #PandemicRisk. #BirdFlu

It will probably get worse, tis the season for flu, mixed in with COVID-19, RSV, and who knows what else people are coughing up. Masking would be the wise thing to do at this point, plus, get jabbed now. I already got my shots.

October 24, 2025. WastewaterSCAN Dashboard #FLU Lots of cases all over the country! Take precautions! 😷💉 {https://data.wastewaterscan.org/}

Dr. Griffin and Vincent Racaniello are distressed by the continuing government shutdown, first locally acquired chikungunya virus infection, President Trump’s suggestion for removing aluminum from vaccines, H5N1 isolation from backyard birds and turkey farms, and more. 📺 bit.ly/42Uh4Oq

Now out in @nejm.org : Between 2023–2024: Sixteen human infections with A/H5N1 in Cambodia. Six deaths. Most in children. All exposed to sick or dead poultry. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

If we had a normal Science in Action next week, we'd likely lead on this milestone in H5N1 bird flu, and the global picture As it is, it's the final episode, and @angierasmussen.bsky.social will be joining a top top panel to discuss the dire state of anti science in 2025. H5N1 will get a look in?

It’s everywhere except Australia. I don’t know if H5N1 will make the jump to human adaptation and pandemic potential, but it’s never had more opportunities. youtu.be/sRJeCLgzcKY?...

Agreed. Lots of people dismissed Trump running for president back in 2015 and look where we are now. Gotta pay attention to what these people are planning.

Temperature anomalies averaged over the last month (left), 3 months (center), and 12 months (right) across the Northern Hemisphere... Data from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social ERA5 reanalysis.

So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube. Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X). *1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.” youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

I did have an "abundance" joke ready to go when Trump demolished part of the White House, but Ross Douthat is doing it for real.

And on the contrary, a year into the Trump regime we still get interviews and think pieces and pleas to understand the Trump voters' Völkisch pain

Another example of Big Tech’s favourite line, “Move fast and break things.” The things they’re ok breaking evidently include airplanes in flight full of people. A sane system would be regulating all the stupid, dangerous stuff like this. But Big Tech says that’s “anti-future,” right?