oh wow according to this press release from the federal government autism "is made up" and people need to just "pray the devil away" seems legit

the bone farmer, revisited | patreon.com/lubchansky

"If your goal is to cement your power, then it’s rational to pardon your most ardent criminal supporters who have been convicted of carrying out violent acts on your behalf. They will be your civilian army." -- @govpritzker.illinois.gov contrarian.substack.com/p/be-loud-fo...

yet another thing that Marx FUMBLED

The Media (and the right) wants to make it a big meaningful event, but I tend to think that the main effect of Kirk's death will simply be that Charlie Kirk isn't on earth anymore, doing the things he did.

Antivaxxers are big mad about the pending autism announcement.

To anyone who followed Aadhaar’s rollout in India, the language is uncanny. Aadhaar’s ‘savings’ were derived from welfare denied. Countries need to pay attention to the language around surveillance tech in other countries. We’re all stumbling over different iterations of the same problems.

It's possible that tacos might be the last cuisine where you can get legitimately mid and cheap at the same time

why doesn't the east bay have more cheap and very mid pasta joints

POV talking to your friend who's been listening to Manu Chao: "yes, I get it, he's definitely into you, but like, you have to ask yourself, how into you can he be if he's also that into airplanes and the morning and the wind"

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

pictured is gavin newsom ransacking someone's shit. in the upper left corner, in a white shirt, is a former war correspondent who is now the governor's "director of photography", for which the state of california pays $200,000 per year.

Authoritarian theocrats in prestigious positions whose entire politics is “the state should force my religion on everyone,” which they rightly know sounds bad, so they use euphemisms “common good” and “civic purpose,” which they wrongly think sound good. Harvard law prof Adrian Vermeule is another.

I really do find myself thinking about this sacred text a lot

Hey look it's the terrible San Francisco burning Man naked lady statue, it sucks

I'm going to say this for QAnon: they got the details wrong, but in GENERAL, they pinged a lot quicker than I ever did that we are ruled by a cabal of pedophilic monsters.

wore my "this is not a watermelon shirt" watermelon shirt yesterday, and when a guy with a red-white-green-and-black Mexico flag face mask asked me if the watermelon was a Palestinian thing, I said yes, but when he asked "why?" it sort of felt like I had semiotically checkmated myself.

the best way to earn the respect of political enemies who think you’re irredeemably immoral scum? well, have you to tried sacrificing your allies to them?

I don't know, man, I just don't know.

The absolute extent to which these pundits are not ready for this moment is hard to overstate.

No way bro, low key the peanut farmer was a key orchestrator of neoliberal policies in the United States

Hakeem Jeffries voted for Charlie Kirk Day but still isn’t sure if he’ll endorse Zohran Mamdani. This is why the approval rating of the Democratic Party is lower than Trump’s or the GOP.

"it was a missed opportunity to be able to show on stage that the feature actually works."

The brain tricks us constantly. It mistakes scrolling and "seeking information" for DOING THINGS. That is not doing. You have to act.

Olivia Nuzzi whenever someone runs the garbage disposal: I should call him

I accidentally set my podcast player at 1.2 and over the last couple of days I've been genuinely wondering if I'm losing my mind because everything seems a little bit too fast. I only just figured it out.

so she's saying that while she doesn't like the WAY his show was killed, she is glad it's dead because of how much it sucked

Oh nothing to see here…just Trump’s Chairman of the FCC using gifs to confirm that everything he’s doing was in Project 2025 that he co-wrote

"As I took a bus from work to the 9/11 Truth Film Festival at the Grand Lake Theater on Thursday, I privately coached myself into adopting an open mind, or at least an open heart." www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/i-assume-wel...

It takes both real effort and enormous bad faith to turn the openness of universities to a wide range of perspectives into evidence that progressives have a bunker mentality but these two lifelong pundits have found a way to do it

"As I took a bus from work to the 9/11 Truth Film Festival at the Grand Lake Theater on Thursday, I privately coached myself into adopting an open mind, or at least an open heart." www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/i-assume-wel...

it is interesting, in a way, that "chickens come home to roost" is one of those statements about the USA that will most reliably get your ass fired/canceled/shot

the reason Kimmel feels shocking is that they've mostly been doing their gross and baseless first-amendment violations on disfavored communities and actual radicals, and this feels like a real "wait, wtf, THAT guy? him?"

We’d be in a much stronger position right now if mainstream Democrats had taken a common sense stand for First Amendment principles instead of piling on undergraduate standing up for Palestine.

wait, they cancelled jimmy kimmel because he said what now?

Obviously it's ludicrous, but the point is to make sure that literally no one in entertainment media can feel like they can speak up safely

if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved

ABUNDANCE WORKS

me, a white man of a particular age: what if I got a telecaster and a tube amp

"A New Democratic Thinktank wants to Curb the Influence of Democrats"

if you read one thing today, make it this absolutely devastating piece from a fact-checker who quit the New Yorker bidoun.org/articles/hou...

When Democrats and strategists say "stop talking about trans rights" they mean that they're okay with people suggesting shit like this without any push back. If that's the kind of person you want to vote for, you are my enemy.

the recall guy getting recalled is very funny, of course, but it really does index the more-than-expected difficulty the "replace the current San Francisco with the San Francisco we want it to be" people are having, given they still have to get votes from the current San Francisco

"putative allies for whom the reduction of Black people to serfdom was the unfortunate price of white unity."

Ma'am you banned students from hanging whiteboards on their own dorm doors so nobody might write something that could hurt someone else's feelings

Me, reading the indictment for a political murder that half the government has been saying absolutely WILD things about in public: "I bet everything in this is objectively true, complete, and contextualized."

I suppose I could support on a plan to "save healthcare" but none of these come close to that, everything Dems have proposed is a one-year band-aid that vanishes after the midterms and thus helps the GOP consolidate power to do more damage. It's nonsensical, it's exactly what GOP leadership needs.