If the Teamsters were worth a shit, weren't labor aristocracy and weren't aholes that shit on indy and immigrant truckers, the whole country could be shut down over this. www.kqed.org/news/1206398...

Trying to decrypt my birthday card from Grandpa:

My right side is absolutely killing me You need an appendectomy How much is that Umm … $47,285 How much without the anesthesia Ok we can do that for $36,210 I don’t think so What’s it going to take to get you into this OR today I’m going to shop around Hold on, my manager is coming over

Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed

Neutrality and objectivity are not the same thing and are, in fact, often contradictory goals. The objective truth is often not neutral in its political implications, and it would be a useless exercise if it was.

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last. The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes. Why? It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

I always wanted to negotiate for my own health insurance and spend time entrepreneuring my way through an intentional maze of rent-seekers and bureaucracy. This is great.

poor children literally went without food. people lost jobs and went into debt and got evicted and sold their cars they need to get to work. people who otherwise would have lived longer will die younger because of the stress of this. people did things for money they can't undo

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight

just wanted to re-post this messaging that helped win an election

FEEDING BABIES WON!!!!!

Dearest Martha, Today we endured the most fierce fighting yet in our just endeavors. There were projectiles everywhere and regrettably I was struck squarely in the chest by one. The explosion was immense. But, Almighty God protected me, for though I smelled onions and mustard I persevered.

It’s too bad only farmers are people and not librarians or artists or healthcare workers or researchers.

For reasons too complex to explain here, I wrote an Apple II program designed for Early Modern Age Catholics to determine if they're allowed to have sex with their wife, or if it'd be a sin. Here's the video of it running.

Absolutely. Jurassic Park is in the rotation.

nothing chatgpt has done is as impressive as akinator, the mind-reading internet genie from 2007

The entire Republican Party strategy for achieving what are comprehensively & wildly unpopular policy objectives now consists entirely of bypassing Article I of the Constitution through wildly illegal abuses of both Article II and Article III.

tfw your 1,000-word tweets aren't working

Remind me, do taxpayers pay the president’s salary or does the president pay ours? Do we work for the president or does he work for us?

Look, we can lose our minds in a depressing way or a fun way

it would probably be sorta hard for just anyone to do it *this well* because it requires you to actually be normal about trans people, but still it feels important to state for the record that WE ARE NOT HARD TO STAND UP FOR AND ANY OF THEM COULD DO IT.

When Republicans are pre-butting a pro-democracy rally like No Kings and making shit up left and right to scare people, you know they're losing and in panic mode. Pedal to the floor.

This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

lmao, kristi noem wanted a black bloc fight and got an inflatable rave instead. fuck you DHS, rip city forever.

if you’re a visual learner i made you some maps of where the people quoted in this article as supporting portland being occupied by troops live

Just having a moment reflecting on what a ridiculous state we're in, where the president is making "deals" with private universities by personally meddling in federally allocated education and research funding and this is being treated as just ordinary politics.

if i were a would-be dictator whose only civilian check on power had been consumed by total-complete partisan loyalty, something i would definitely do is call an unprecedented in-person meeting of the only people who could stop me and then proceed to illustrate why they should stop me

like, the fact that they felt this spectacle was necessary is itself evidence that they don't have the military support that they want

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

If you're wondering why they don't go to court with their high paid lawyers for an easy win, it's because this allows Google to bribe Trump. All the big players are way over their skis on AI investment and are sure they will need a bailout at some point. It's 2009 but for tech instead of housing

DOJ’s attempts to charge these cases in DC and LA have been resoundingly unsuccessful. Grand juries have rejected a huge proportion of the attempts to indict. One case in LA that went to trial as a misdemeanor recently ended in acquittal

I feel naive just writing this, but a president threatening to withhold funding to a city unless it elects his preferred candidate for mayor seems like the sort of thing that shouldn't be legal.

what

Ezra Klein is making money from telling comforting lies to right wingers and he should be shunned and ignored.

Your war correspondent on the ground in battle-ravaged inner northeast Portland

Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.

still not convinced either the World Cup or the Olympics actually take place here

One of the big asymmetries in US politics is how Republicans getting more votes from men is a major crisis for the Democratic party that must be addressed, perhaps by abandoning some values, while Democrats getting more votes from women is a nonissue for the Republican Party, not worth discussing.

So just to be clear: The US is propping up Argentina’s economy, and now Argentina can eliminate its export taxes, so it can sell tons of soybeans to China, so China isn’t forced to buy soybeans from the US, so the US can pay subsidies to keep our farmers solvent. www.reuters.com/world/china/...

i made a helpful reference

You can't just tell your dog he's handsome all the time, you also have to compliment his job performance

The government knowingly putting false information in the label of a drug is crossing a Rubicon that should not be taken lightly

Having millions of people who categorically do not understand the concept of "it's a bit" suddenly exposed to GWAR is pretty magical

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

This is the whole ball game, gang.

Awful and dangerous to hear the Mayor echo the transphobic bigotry coming from the Trump administration. It's completely at odds with the values of our city and another reason why his single, disgraced term in office cannot end soon enough.

'If we don't do the messaging Republicans want, Republicans will have a messaging victory'