Good morning, America. Nice work yesterday. I love you.

It doesn’t make more aggressive forms of protest and resistance less effective. It makes them more effective. It can raise public tolerance for protest, introduces new people to acts of resistance, and lay the groundwork for larger networks of solidarity.

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Here in the Hostess City, we say #NoKingsSavannah

There are basically only two positions on Donald Trump. 1. He is a criminal and a con artist. He sucks. 2. I've invested in Republican campaigns in order to lower my taxes and screw over minorities because I'm a racist. Holy cow, it's transformational. Position #1 has lower barriers to entry.

I unfollowed a leftist for an extended rant on how we're all wasting our time marching on Saturday. I don't have a lot of patience for that kind of garbage take right now, but fortunately @malmer.com picked up the ball. whowhatwhy.org/politics/us-...

Found one of my fav trash D&D novels from my early days and it is borderline unreadable. Absolute trash writing.

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

There is an actual life-changing conflict between WFH being cheaper and more efficient, an entire layer of middle managers who need to have meetings to feel alive, and the commercial real estate cabal that runs all cities. It’s going to get so fucking weird.

tfw you're "modeling decency and morality" so hard that your party's youth organizations are overrun with Nazis.

"The masks are coming off" put it on a t-shirt

I was waiting for the other shoe to drop on the alternative "perfect" dimension on Peacemaker S2... and it was quite the drop.

The Nazi flag in this guy's office is raising a lot of questions answered by the Nazi flag in his office.

Turns out it was an actual state senator, but I think my broader point stands.

Coal collapses under Dems: worker retraining programs and payouts for black lung and community grants in Appalachia Coal collapse under GOP: coal mines on federal land (does nothing for weak demand) and subsidies for power plant owners (lol) and coal workers can get fucked

We were actually getting somewhere, too. 😞 @sbmitche.bsky.social www.library.hbs.edu/working-know...

One of my favorite movies as a kid. Remarkable this came out in 1982 with zero CGI and not a single human actor appears on screen.

I think my biggest betrayal is that it feels like they have not nurtured upcoming generations. we've watched them cut the knees out from people who get the base excited instead of mentoring them, it's aggravating as fuck.

Having a second endoscopy tomorrow to try and figure out why my coughing fits resumed, but the antibiotics I've been on seem to have miraculously nuked this persistent flare-up. So now maybe I don't need the endo, but I'm getting it anyway so we can rule out a GERD recurrence. Gawd I hate this shit.

Not to downplay the significance of the top echelon of "young" Republicans being exposed as Hitler-worshiping groypers, but I've seen several takes calling them "leaders" in "positions of power" and I'm sorry but these are vice-chairs to youth GOP clubs and a state senators aide.

Emily Tucker argues that the AI regulation debate largely misses the point: the real threat to democracy is the unchecked data extraction and accumulation that is fueling corporate power. “We can have mass surveillance, or we can have political self-determination. We can’t have both,” she writes.

This is a tragedy. The decimation of one of the best newspapers in the country.

Also proof that creative deconstruction of art fundamentally fails as will be read as the opposite of it’s original goal. Also see Fight Club

Journalist, inform thyself.

See, Republicans know how much words matter or they woudln't be afraid to say the name of the protests.

after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet

I joined r/GameDevClassifieds a while back when I started low key working on a new ToG side project, and man, every day I see like five posts from world-class artists seeking work. The amount of underused #gamedev talent out there right now seems like it's off the charts.

Happening right now. To us. In America.

Starting a new web content company to cash in on re-reconciling federal websites with federal law during the next Dem administration.

Important piece from @brianbeutler.bsky.social One feature of conservatives’ refusal to provide any reasoning in emergency docket orders is it allows to see which way the political winds are blowing when they finally rule on the merits & adjust outcomes as needed open.substack.com/pub/brianbeu...

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Another day ends with me no closer to figuring out wtf is wrong with people

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

When I was asked to play the Apokolips comedy festival I wasn't sure. But then I found out the only rules were that I couldn't make jokes about Darkseid or the anti-life equation, so I decided to go. And I found out at that the parademons are just like us in many ways.

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rhetorical: Why do I keep seeing things printed in the Bulwark that I should be hearing from Dem leaders in Congress? www.thebulwark.com/p/democrats-...

Here's the creator of The Punisher specifically mentioning challenge coins using the Punisher logo as a huge problem and a sign of a law enforcement agency that doesn't understand its mission. /this is a Reddit comment reproducing a statement supposedly included in a SyFy article now offline.

The notion of a "free speech zone" is an un-American idea at its very foundation.

I dislike a lot of Newsom’s stunts. But some of his stunts are genuine good policy. We need his flash, Pritzker framing, Walz folksiness, Warren’s financial plan. We’re gonna need a Frankencandidate. Sorry, a Dr. Frankencandidate’s Monster.

“Fuck them kids.” That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other. abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

Remember: 100% of America is a "free speech zone".

I’ve been looking around for the most credulous mid-campaign piece about Trump’s obviously fatuous Project 2025 disavowal, and I think it might be this one from Politico. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

"We are so much more hardcore than they are," I shout into the mic before walking back to my cramped West Wing office to send some fascist emails.

I have traveled and moved and socialized so much these past twelve days; far more than the past twelve months combined. Now that I'm home, I am tired to my bones.

It's important to name the tools of authoritarianism so we can identify and condemn them with precision. I'm glad we now have a term for ICE's openly racist, degrading immigration arrests: Kavanaugh stops. slate.com/news-and-pol...

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

There is no place of safety except the one you make yourself.

Going out on a limb to predict this will be a much bigger technical debacle than healthcare.gov.

Post a fictional comedian who definitely would accept an invitation to the Riyadh Comedy Festival.