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oh this is straightforward white nationalist agitprop
Yeah doing this with regular military raises some serious legality of orders questions to put it mildly.
I feel like in the 1980’s/90’s this would be a major plot point in a Tom Clancy novel, and the operation would be carried out as an off-book, illegal black op, with various characters trying to cover it up lest they face congressional hearings. Now the President just announces it.
when you're deciding which couch to fuck
these people need to log off. seriously. bluesky this, bluesky that, how about you look at some actual blue skies and get off the internet for ten minutes
Where I live, in D.C., the Trump administration just effectively repealed our gun laws by refusing to enforce restrictions on AR-15s and public carry. It's a two-way street, right? The next Democratic administration should declare a nationwide ban on assault weapons. It's an emergency, after all.
NONE of these plans are any more extreme than what Trump is currently doing with the help of the Supreme Court. If Trump can shut down the Department of Education and CFPB, President AOC can shut down ICE. If Trump can kill green energy projects, President Newsom can kill the fossil fuel industry.
Impound ICE's funding and redirect the money toward mass refugee resettlement. Cut off federal funding to states with draconian abortion laws and use the money to build reproductive health clinics in those states instead. End oil and gas subsidies then funnel the money to green energy projects.
Other things the next Democratic president should claim a prerogative to do unilaterally: •establish Medicare for All •forgive all student loans •legalize weed •mandate nationwide non-partisan redistricting It's an emergency! And he's the duly elected commander-in-chief! That's how this works now.
I’d add: - abolish the senate and - electoral college. - Current Supreme Court would be become the high court and with an expectation of its partisanship. - a constitutional court would be there to review the high court’s decisions.
Vance follows a coterie of online Nazis on X, has described Curtis Yarvin as a major intellectual influence, and openly attacks immigrants in blood and soil terms. The response of most of the political press? "Doesn't look like anything to me."
Would be a lame or cool player role in some table top game?
In the last week I've gotten pitches from someone who called themselves a "foresighter" and someone who called themselves a "pattern interruptor." It's posting, people. We're all just out here posting.
His transition from commodities trader to rookie paramedic came 13 years ago, when he traded what he viewed as nihilistic self-enrichment for the mission of saving other peoples’ lives. By the time he abandoned Wall Street, he said, he was making millions of dollars a year. He was also miserable.
"Valued users! We understand that over the past 250-odd years, you have come to rely on the services provided by the U.S. of A. ... Well, 250 years of free is enough." @petridishes.bsky.social on the end of America's free-trial period:
The Trump admin has ironically continued to defend workers' rights in Mexico via a labor provision in the US-Mexico-Canada trade agreement, all while gutting collective bargaining for nearly 400k U.S. civil servants, more than 2.6% of American unionized workers talkingpointsmemo.com/news/the-tru...
nine former cdc employees pen op-ed for the new york times, saying rfk jr’s leadership “should alarm every american, regardless of political leanings.” after replacing “experts on federal health advisory committees with unqualified individuals who share his dangerous and unscientific views.”
you can also listen to me and john ganz discuss it on our podcast www.patreon.com/posts/carlos...
My version of Blueskyism is looking at the approval rating of the Democratic Party among Democrats since Trump’s election and idly thinking that the party leadership’s coalition management skills may not be state of the art.
The one big way age verification is already backfiring www.tiktok.com/@drewharwell...
This is the way
“This is political messaging under Trump 2.0: Inconvenient facts aren’t to be swept under the rug, but loudly denounced as ridiculous lib nonsense.” www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-real...
BREAKING: D.C. Circuit panel rules 2-1 to permit Trump administration to axe $16 billion climate funds authorized by Biden administration. Ruling lifts Judge Chuktkan's injunction. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
Alexander Chee: How Can I Write At A Time Like This? “We are being hit with what I would call advanced resilience targeting, an attack on our ability to be in community, to be healthy, to make a living, to know our rights, to have a government.” [querent.substack.com]
Now that a judge ruled Trump's invasion of LA illegal, I wonder if Dems who avoided this topic will reflect on whether it might have been good to put their stamp on it now that it's been unmasked as a massive abuse of power. Pundits who urged caution should reflect on this too, but they won't.
We Already Know a Way to Save a Bunch of Lives. (Giving wounded people blood earlier, in ambulances, increases their chance of survival. But insurance won’t pay for it so we don’t do it in the US. 🤬) [slate.com]
BREAKING: WASHINGTON (AP) - Trump's use of National Guard during Los Angeles immigration protests is illegal, a judge rules.
Amid all the noise & speculation about Trump’s health — btw would be great to get some real reporting on the subject — let’s not forget the big Google ruling is coming this week on the remedies on whether the tech giant must divest its Chrome browser. Here’s a primer: www.cnet.com/tech/us-want...
LOL. Tressie. The accuracy.
Starbux runs, Target lists, Stanley cups, French tips, Mormon curls, a dash of cute kid stories, rants about “hubs”
This is one of the most explicit examples you'll ever see of "the people who annoy me the most, personally, also happen to be the nation's biggest political problem." The quintessential reactionary centrist maneuver.
Remember Nate Silver refuses to use Bluesky and says you'd have to pay him over a million dollars to use it, so I'm going to suggest he not only doesn't know what "normal" people like, he doesn't even know what Bluesky is.... Signal and the noise guy is full of noise once again.
Went to look at how people were responding to Nate Silver's "blueskyism" post, and I gotta tell you, a very large number of people on X seem to think that Bluesky runs the Democratic Party. And have I got news for them...
gun culture
I remember early November 2023. I think I was the first person on US mainstream media, while at MSNBC/Peacock, to say the G-word on TV. On my show. It was seen as hugely controversial then. It's controversial no longer. It's undeniable, irrefutable, the consensus view.
I have my hunches but one, er, feature of the world I keep in mind is that Bluesky doesn't really have enough users for there to be such a thing as "Blueskyism" willrobinson.substack.com/p/the-future...
Nadler ‘said that under the leadership of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel was committing mass murder and war crimes in Gaza “without question.”’
Wow imagine that
It would be really easy to end the rumors yet…
Is the White House suggesting that Trump is nearing the end of his life and wants to depart with his lesson such as, “think big”? You don’t think about legacy until youre about to leave. I thought his swollen ankles and bruised hand was a nothing burger. Maybe the White House is doing damage control
@sbagen.bsky.social has a somber but timely warning about various 2029 rebuilding efforts. This to me is the key. If future leaders bake imagined political constraints into their planning, there just won’t be much “rebuilding” per se. www.offmessage.net/p/project-20...
"If Trump is invading cities and you’re cowering, you look weak. If you say, 'If you hurt my people, I will pursue you until the ends of the earth,' you look strong." On the pod @jamisonfoser.bsky.social is so good on Trump's military threats and the Dem nonresponse: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
Here's some real talk: Dem strategists urging Dems to avoid the "trap" of talking about Trump occupying cities are saying this precisely in order to get quoted in NYT and elsewhere, and everyone involved in this charade knows it. @jamisonfoser.bsky.social and me: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
I feel like, while every new generation of earnest lefties discovers this anew, the dynamic itself has been true for many decades now. Remember, eg, Joe Klein? "I was a progressive until activists yelled at me" is an old, old game. Contemptible, yes! But old.
What's creepy to me is, I came up alongside some progressive pundits/bloggers who saw this dynamic as clearly as I do & lamented it ... and then got old, got mortgages, got yelled at by activists, & then just replicated it!
One way AI has made me more productive is now when some random MAGA reply guy asks me for examples of how conservatives support corrupt or racist policies, it takes a 5 second ChatGPT or Gemini query instead of 5 -10 minutes of writing and Googling.
This is cool
truly
Getting yelled at on the internet is not what turns people into fascists.
Interesting article about how London’s PR firms are adjusting to the rise of AI • They are using AI as a productivity tool for research and analysis. • While companies can ask AI to craft social media posts or articles, companies don’t have the expertise to judge the output so their help’s needed.
Y'all I have ranted about Murc's Law more than anybody on this platform but I really don't think Schatz is the proper target of your ire. Against the abysmal baseline, he's one of the better Dem senators.
Remembering when the NYT went on a weeks-long bender covering a decades-old real estate deal the Clintons were involved in, in which they *lost money*.
The most perverse outcome of this dynamic: The more extreme and deranged rightwing politics gets, the more elite Democrats/liberals react with ritual self-flagellation. “They are elevating RFK? Wow, we really must have angered those good folks with our crazy liberal/woke/leftist overreach!”
Anyway...Dems need to break out of the impulse to see 200 white people protesting against Covid restrictions as "the voice of the people which we must heed" while seeing 10X as many people protesting racist police violence as "a niche special interest group that's out of step with real Americans."
I've never seen such a disconnect between Dem elected/staff/consultants and actual Dem voters. The latter understand what's going on. The former are awash in right-wing brainrot, hence @schatz.bsky.social blaming COVID mitigation and BLM marches for the GOP's wanton destruction of public health.
![@EsotericCD It was in this moment that many of us hanging on to a thin sliver of trust in our institutions irrevocably lost faith in them. One of the most poisonous blows to public trust in living memory - worse than the effect of the Iraq War in many ways. RFK Jr is a direct result of this. Quote Steve Guest @SteveGuest · Aug 31 Politico 5 years ago: [screenshot of article falsely claiming public health officials lied about COVID measures then abandoned them for BLM protests] Views](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ddvus7otnqtlh7fdooxm6qat/bafkreihsypwydo5rcis7mc54cwct6h33l5co477nvh7g7hs7na2fz4jl3q@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Maybe we’ll see a feat of engineering and science to create near limitless energy right here in our lifetime "Looks like nuclear fusion is picking up steam" www.theverge.com/news/766269/...
Lord hear my prayers.
Inequality continues rising, the middle class continues to hollow out, and Disney, like every US institution, continues to shift its services to cater to the rich.
"That middle class has so eroded in size and in purchasing power — and the wealth of our top earners has so exploded — that America’s most important market today is its affluent." Cool cool cool.
"There’s somebody in your community that is scared right now. Or tired, or alone, or broke. What they need most isn’t a politician who has suddenly gotten good at social media and loves all the attention it’s bringing him. They need a neighbor."
In America we've set up a cool system where, when you get *super* rich, you actually pay *lower* taxes.
@govwesmoore.bsky.social Maryland ought to do this now.
An excellent investigation into one of the most frustrating features of modern culture, namely: all the movies are mid.
News in this piece: 1) JB Pritzker's health officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines in bulk to distribute to constituents 2) Mass Gov Maura Healey is leading a coalition of mostly blue states that could coordinate purchasing of pediatric vaccines Read all about this here:
It is as if Zuckerberg built a chaos machine. No one including him is able to rein in the beast. "Meta is struggling to rein in its AI chatbots" www.theverge.com/news/768465/...
I would enjoy this bag as an alternative to my peak design 30L "Vortex 1.0 All-Purpose Gaming Backpack" want — crkd.gg crkd.gg/products/vor...
Trump the corrupt, attempt to "wrest spending power from Congress", is anti-constitutional and anti-American. "Trump tries to wrest spending power from Congress as government shutdown looms" — washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
maybe a cool little project for christmas .... "Framework is now selling the first gaming laptop that lets you easily upgrade its GPU — with Nvidia’s blessing" — theverge.com www.theverge.com/laptops/7655...
What a fantastic critique of star wars as a franchise and as a business. I was worried Mr. Plinkett would dunk on Andor, but you have to watch it. "Mr. Plinkett's What Happened To Star Wars?" — youtube.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xeM...
This guy is a hero. "NYC youth baseball coach confronts ICE: ‘I may die here, but they will not take one of these kids'" — wcpo.com www.wcpo.com/politics/imm...
food prices will go up and it will be this winter. winter is coming. "‘It’s like when you see the tsunami coming in’: Agricultural economists are sounding the alarm about produce prices doubling" — fortune.com fortune.com/2025/08/28/t...
What? Historically speaking I don't think you'll find any greater instances of criminal madness than those cooked up by fascist movements. Volkisch medicine and science is perfectly in line with fascism.
It’s so fascinating to think sand as a battery.
Opposition figures and others in Uganda have criticized the agreement with the U.S. to receive deported migrants, questioning the lack of parliamentary approval and saying the deal eases political pressure on the country’s authoritarian president.
Induction stoves are quieter, cooler, and produce less toxic pollution than gas. On the other hand, they also cook better, as a growing number of professional chefs recognize.
A respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the group. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
This 2024 article from @reckless.bsky.social continues to be our sadly accurate reality. www.theverge.com/24282022/kam...
Talk to Putin, then fire your Russia expert. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Hero
#NYC baseball coach confronts ICE child predators. “There's only one way to get into the cage, so my whole thing was I can control that. I was in front of the entrance and that's when I just said, you know, I may die here, but they will not take one of these kids." www.wcpo.com/politics/imm...
If I walk up to an ATM with a fake card and hack it to give me free cash, I didn't persuade anything. ChatGPT is no less a machine and the language we should use to accurately describe what is going on within a business publication should be the same industry standard language we've used for years.
Machines are not persuadable because they lack the capability to make decisions. ChatGPT followed input instructions in a way that resulted in an incorrect output according to the rules OpenAI has stated it should operate under. It's no more persuaded than 3 'persuading' 4 to add up to 7.
Great post on the AI boom’s blessing & curse. Demand’s so hot Nvidia, Google & Microsoft can’t build GPUs and data centers fast enough. But that same demand is killing margins, features like Deep Research use 100x the compute of last year’s chats. Even $200/month isn’t enough to make the math work
‘Nowhere to go’: What happened after Trump ordered homeless encampments cleared www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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Tesla investors are like a doomsday cult, every time the promised future doesn’t happen, they just move the goalposts. Dojo was hyped as a $600B unlock in 2023 by analysts. It was cancelled this month as an “evolutionarily dead end” according to Musk. The stock price actually went up that day. 😁
It may signal to people that the democrat is conservative (non-reactionary) or more centrists. Nothing is stopping democrats from co-opting the branding of the old Republican Party.
I sometimes wonder what liberals and leftist can do to invert the branding of reactionary party’s brand. Take for example the color red. It’s the color that brands a candidate or congressional member as a republican. But nothing is stopping from a democrat to brand themselves in the color red.
People cynical to protests and challenging the President tyrannical power grab should know that popular opinion matters a great deal — even in places where autocratic regimes reign.
Levying taxes may have a foreign policy component but that power is vested in Congress as Josh Marshall noted. Mark Levin seems like he is kind of dumb and believes we are all dumb like him.
You spelled ENDANGERING wrong, @nytimes.com. “Pushing the boundaries” is a *positive* frame implying unconventional innovations. There are no innovations here. Just medieval anti-science populist attacks on some of best methods of truth seeking we have.
This past week, ICE seized people while they were fighting a wildfire in Washington State. Today, this report about hospitals and surgical centers in California. calmatters.org/health/2025/...
A dying empire and its supreme leader faces their last days. Death throes of the empire hide the ailing leader visible deterioration. It’s weak legislators disinterested in practicing its power, grow soft and fragile as the entire bedrock of democracy swims in an abyss of madness and corruption.
"Trump’s age, his visible health problems, and the White House’s cagey answers raise real questions about transparency and capacity. Yet the institutions that pride themselves on holding power to account have largely looked away," @passantino.bsky.social writes. www.status.news/p/trump-heal...
There is such a prevalence to treating these machines as people. It’s like a looking at a trick mirror and believing the image is really you.
You are not persuading the text pipeline! You are stumbling on to a mathematical vector in which you are causing the word delivery mechanism to replicate sequences other people typed up in which they are persuaded and that OpenAI likely stole without permission!
I wrote a whole book about it!