A small number of people whose extreme wealth exerts a political gravitational force that distorts the entire political system is bad, actually. It has been recognized as a threat to free liberal republican government since the first time it emerged in the Gilded Age.

Saw Bluesky described as where elder millennials go to retire from the internet, and immediately felt the peace that passes all understanding wash over me. None of have to struggle any longer. We completed our time.

I guess I lost track of Brigitte Bardot after my childhood where I learned that she was a famous hot lady from the past and am just catching up on her recent activities of loving animals, hating non-white people and being dead

Since the US isn’t in the democracy camp for now I think it’s incumbent on the EU to do what’s right for the future of global democracy and blanket ban the X platform. Someone needs to step up.

X: the everything app/fascism factory

Trump guys on Twitter are using Grok to “hunt” daycares in their nearest city to see if there are kids in them and, if there are, if they’re Somali.

One of the great Twin Peaks lines that really drills down to the core of David Lynch’s work: there are unseen evil forces doing battle with unseen forces of good and the good guys - for all their careful plotting - are getting beat to hell.

“While they don’t publish much information about their demographics, by some accounts their userbases tend to skew in the direction of crypto bros.” The segment of the population most in touch with predicting real life.

It’s wild we’re still talking about masks. I still mask up in grocery stores, elevators, public bathrooms, and public transit cuz I don’t like being sick and I don’t want to get my kid sick and it doesn’t have to be more complicated than not liking being sick. It’s weird anyone would question that.

This Nazi passed a bill to imprison trans kids' parents two weeks ago.

This is the clear pattern when immigration enforcement use a weapon: they claim they were attacked, and then the claims fall apart donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...

I feel like "attention hacking" is most of politics now. The Minnesota aid fraud story is becoming a perfect example. Recap: In 2022, the Biden DOJ filed the first charges against dozens of fraudsters, many of them Somali-American, who'd fleeced a state food aid program. (1/x)

i hate these things so much

"And I never say no" We need to have a serious talk about the way "AI companion" apps not only prey on the vulnerable, but are priming their users to ignore consent and to conflate love with control. We need AI regulations across so many sectors, but this area is particularly horrifying.

Remember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.

Don’t use Spotify until the ICE recruitment ads stop: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky

We had congressional hearings when parents just suspected heavy metal was leading some kids to suicide.

These two images of Chinese train driver Han Junjia were taken less than 30 years apart. Transformative change is possible when it is relentlessly pursued.

This is the world Justice Kavanaugh sanctioned in his foolish & unnecessary concurring opinion to the Court’s order in Noem v Vasquez Perdomo. His hopes of cleaning up that blunder with a plaintive footnote in last week’s concurring opinion in Trump v. Illinois, demonstrates his staggering naïveté.

Conservatives are like “I’m not gonna trust some public school teacher to influence my kid” but are also like “I think it’s fine if my kid spends hours interacting with Elon’s MechaHitler machine on X.”

Let’s swap out the fragile, slowly maturing frontal cortexes of society’s teens and replace them with a soulless, sycophantic pattern recognizing machine designed by hubristic, Ayn Rand obsessed simpletons with no historical sensibility, & whose main motivation is profit maximization. This is fine.

These clowns are just making up duties and rules and laws. Artists don't have any duty to sing for fascists, and only a fascist would try to force them to.

Don't ever accept their bullshit. Always assume they're lying. Never let their lies take hold in your mind and heart. All these fascists bound to lose.

Evergreen skeet.

Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. “Big tech has made their choice.” www.404media.co/google-has-c...

Sinatra has gone woke

As the year draws to a close, a crowd-sourced effort, as well as trackers from advocacy organizations and labor unions, show that the Trump administration has implemented roughly half of the goals laid out in Project 2025.

Good! An early insight of human centered design is that it was possible to reduce airplane crashes by introducing tactile switches and toggle that did not create confusion or require people to take their eyes away from their core tasks donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-origin...

My new year's resolution this year, as every year, is to be a more available, supportive friend as well as an increasingly looming, formidable enemy.

The first thing ICE did when it was created was raiding meat processing plants in the Midwest and south to help quell labor disputes over safety violations and keep those who weren't detained from getting legal protections as many had kids who grew up locally and were citizens with political power.

This story covers so much ground between the maze of rules seemingly designed to entrap people, a cpd detective’s “erroneous” reports, ICE, and the city’s relentless pressure on people with no permanent shelter. Great reporting.

Thanks to @prisonpolicy.org for including an @unraveledpress.com story on this list! From June:

the robot also doubling over as if it kicked itself in the balls too makes this ten times funnier

Jo Ann Allen Boyce's life was disrupted not only by standard-issue US white supremacy, but also by a particularly virulent strain of American fascism. School integration in Clinton, TN began fairly peaceably, until a neo-Nazi associate of George Lincoln Rockwell named John Kaspar showed up.

Our government’s priorities are entirely backward. And purposefully so.

billions of dollars and everlasting fame to whoever figures out how to stop webpages from loading new elements just as you’re about to click on something

It’s day 25 of the ICE occupation of the Twin Cities. The surge continues. Neighbors were kidnapped today outside grocery stores and going about their regular errands. We continue to see heavy ICE activity throughout the metro area. Stay alert - we know many kidnappings happen very fast.

When I launched my campaign, I said I wanted to do politics differently… and we’re actually doing it. Thank you to Jessica Washington and @theintercept.com for covering the most exciting and rewarding part of this campaign: theintercept.com/2025/12/26/k...

I've started to see arguments that we have to get used to AI Slop coding even if it isn't great, because it's fast. Humans could go faster, too, if they're allowed to turn in stuff that only sometimes works. Such a fascinating double standard that will in no way come back to haunt, naw.

Hilarious to call basketball a DEI sport when hockey is just a sport for rich white kids.

A few excerpts from Darmok's Christmas Story: Ralphie and Flick, at the flagpole. Randy, his arms down. The Old Man, when the lamp broke. Santa and Ralphie, on the mountain.

The whole thing is the epitome of anti-Christ in a very fundamental way

merry Christmas Eve www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vnst...

to be clear: Jesus also said denying help to the poor is rejecting God.

Oh dear, how awkward...the guy who coined the term "American Dream" gave the last word of his book to a young immigrant girl & said the main lesson of his day was that people who'd amassed great wealth were not "the wisest leader to follow nor the best fitted to propound a sane philosophy of life."

Interesting post Department of Labor. Why don't we check in to see how James Truslow Adams ended the 1931 book in which he coined the term "American Dream?"

You’re not having real conversations on X. And if you’re finding you’re seeing more hate here than you are on the white nationalist platform that has restored actual Nazis, I’m afraid that’s a you problem.

CBS destroying a brand they built up over the course of like 100 years for one criminal idiot is a pretty funny bit

Andrea Pitzer, who wrote a global history of concentration camps, on why we must call a concentration camp "a concentration camp." One of the most important things I've ever worked on.

ain't no fuckin way