Perhaps the key is that they are calling these threats in to places like suicide prevention hotlines and not directly calling 911.
Republics are systems that require people to compromise with each-other. Radicalism is the path to authoritarianism.
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Perhaps the key is that they are calling these threats in to places like suicide prevention hotlines and not directly calling 911.
That makes sense, but: www.cnn.com/2025/09/23/u...
Do you have a theory on the swatting of politicians that reportedly emanated from this cluster? Do random Internet griefers know how to buy services from this sort of criminal enterprise or is this more likely to be a foreign nation state pouring salt into partisan divisions?
"Celebrating its 41st anniversary this month with a huge retrospective exhibit at Beyond the Streets gallery in Los Angeles, the alien band’s savage explorations of our society might resonate more than ever right now." The Art of GWAR:
This is best story by far about the SIM farm uncovered in New York by Secret Service. The intent of the farm is not, as suggested by other stories, to disrupt Secret Service protection of dignitaries attending the UN or taking out mobile service for all NY but about managing criminal enterprises
The press release is here: www.secretservice.gov/newsroom/rel... Some images are below:
This just in from Sinclair: "Beginning Tuesday night Sinclair will be preempting 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' across our ABC affiliate stations and replacing it with news programming. Discussions with ABC are ongoing as we evaluate the show's potential return."
“On site.” 🤣
KIMMEL IS BACK
I think this is a good outline. A complexity visible here is that the Democrats need to figure out how to constructively engage with the tech industry. They knew how do to this in the 1990's. That doesn't excuse tech's embrace of Trump, but it is a reality and part of a constructive path forward.
This is good, although I think it fails to fully dissect the causes of Biden admin's allergy to tech policy and the solutions to that. Paraphrasing: "Apple cofounders had barely grown out of their shaggy-haired days selling 'blue boxes,' now the big tech companies have became The Phone Company."
West of House You are in an open field west of a big white house with a boarded front door There is a small mailbox here > From the vaults of the Zork Users Group in '82: a gorgeously illustrated map of the adventure that'll take you into the depths of what was once the Great Underground Empire.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_...
New York’s social media age verification law is a perfect example of bad tech criticism making bad law. Algorithms are used by some sites to drive engagement. They are also useful and necessary. Regulators need to learn how to approach tech issues with scalpels rather than broad swords.
"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
The H1-B visa thing is, like everything else in the Trump administration, set up to carve up exceptions for friends and punish enemies. It’s the authoritarian thru-line that stitches everything together.
Deleted the below posts out of an abundance of caution. Despite the words of the Proclamation, an unnamed White House official told New York Times that they intend to apply the $100,000 only to new applicants only. If that is correct, the implications are not as urgent.
That last sentence.
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Assuming CDC formally adopts ACIP's recommendations, CVS tells me it will provide Covid vaccines without a prescription in all 50 states and won't require even self-attestation of a qualifying condition — "it’s up to the individual patient." No confirmation from Walgreens or Walmart yet.
Unless I'm reading this badly wrong and the administration puts out contrary implementation, it would appear that starting tonight, anyone with an H-1B who doesn't write a $100,000 check to the US government is banned from reentering the country if they're currently outside the US.
Add to the long list of harms that will take a generation to undo. Long after Trump is gone and competent doctors reverse the move, the fact that this was EVER the offical line will validate antivax paranoia in the eyes of many parents.
ROVE: “.. Using Charlie’s murder to justify retaliation against political rivals is wrong and dangerous. It will further divide and embitter our country. No good thing will come of it.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/they...
Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"
Moody’s recession odds: 48%. But we’ve been there before. @barchart.com
Even National Review is dragging Pam Bondi: www.nationalreview.com/corner/pam-b...
Vance said earlier Monday that he would “go after the NGO network that foments, facilitates and engages in violence.” www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
September 15 is "Hackers" day as we celebrate the movie that came out 30 years ago today.
“.. I can’t remember anyone ever telling me we can’t say anything critical about a civilian like this. He was not in our chain of command or anything,” the officer said. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
In all seriousness, I'd love to see a reporter try to get comments from all of these people about their initial impulse to declare a literal war on half of their fellow citizens and to see if any of them regret it, apologized for it or learned anything at all from it.
Political violence is rising in wealthy democracies. Polarized societies and bitter party politics are putting candidates and election officials in serious peril. Political leaders, more than anyone, have the power to stoke or stamp out this dangerous cycle of violence.
If you want to escape into a more hopeful world, it turns out the 1988 DOS adventure game of Neuromancer can be played in your browser. archive.org/details/msdo...
I think SCOTUS has determined that these discretionary rulings (such as in Netchoice vs Fitch) allow for governance to swing severely to the right in the short term, with option of "correcting" in the future if someone else is in the Whitehouse when these cases finally come back for a decision.
LOL!
Lemme speak with directness and a sense of urgency about our most important economic threats, and what history teaches us about moments like this.
Doctor I trust more than RFK Jr.
I think it is. The administration is ripping up its own capacity to project power: refusing to make real appointments, letting DOGE get rid of everyone capable, splitting incompetent people across 2-3 roles. The only thing they can make is memes.
Just because you don't pay doesn't mean you don't pay.
The Supreme Court on day one of the imperial Democrat presidency
War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength
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ATTENTION FLORIDIANS: FDOT needs your help!
I will never apologize for a post
Anyone been seeing a lot of Dubai Chocolate lately?
Opposition to RFKJr is ramping up. Joint statement from Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and 21 other organizations 👇
The Department of Homeland Security has requested immediate military support for ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations in Chicago.
Interesting thread:
Read @chrisgeidner.bsky.social on how WaPo misrepresented Muriel Bowser's EO. www.lawdork.com/p/the-posse-...
Via "One First," my quick stab at the legal authority President Trump will likely claim allows him to deploy un-federalized Texas National Guard troops to Illinois; why such a deployment without Illinois's consent *ought* to be unlawful; and the options Illinois will have for litigating that issue:
Nongovernmental groups like the League of Women Voters are now barred from registering new voters at naturalization ceremonies, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced. n.pr/4g7YKqg
“The great excesses that are now projected as a result of the new budget will likely cause a debt-induced heart attack in the relatively near future,” he said. “I’d say three years, give or take a year or two.”
A 76% point gap between how satisfied Republicans are with the country versus how satisfied Democrats are. The largest partisan gap ever. news.gallup.com/poll/694370/...
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
I think it has more to do with the later than the former. www.amazon.com/Generations-...
Its an oversimplification. Individual people have different capacities for empathy, and people tend to organize into groups with shared interests that act selfishly as collectives.
“Texas Democrats lost. But they drew attention to Republicans’ efforts to put their thumb on the scale, and demonstrated a valuable tactic for galvanizing their beleaguered party. They lost, but they lost loudly. Losing loudly has been a crucial feature of successful political movements.” Gift:
NEO TOKYO (1987)
i think about the “do not split” principle from hong kong often
Context, this is a particularly glaring attack on Senate advice and consent: Monarez was the more acceptable choice after they effectively rejected his first nominee (withdrawn), an antivax ex-congressman. This after Congress in 2023 changed the law to make CDC Dir. subject to Senate confirmation.
I would love to see just one … just one of the people who got sucked into the Twitter Files admit that these people are doing the exact specific thing they claimed to be angry about and its clear to them, now, that all of this was always in bad faith.
Congratulations, and thank you for your principled advocacy!
1/ This week, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer demanded that the Wikimedia Foundation hand over information on editorial policies & individual contributors to help the committee investigate "propaganda" on Wikipedia. These demands are offensive to 1st Amendment values
“Here’s what’s particularly galling: the same people who spent years screaming about “government censorship” when social media companies made actually independent editorial decisions are now dead silent about actual government officials actually threatening to investigate a platform for its speech.”
Something blue states will need to explore: how to create cross-state compacts dedicated to a functioning government as the Trump administration walks away from it's responsibilities.
🔭 The Meteor and the Star Cluster Image Credit & Copyright: Yousif Alqasimi & Essa Al Jasmi apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25082...
NEWS: CVS, the largest pharmacy chain in the country, is currently not offering Covid vaccines in 16 states and DC — even to people who meet the new FDA criteria — because the CDC hasn't signed off and isn't expected to do so (if it does so) for at least three weeks.
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
The CDC is one of Atlanta’s crown jewels. Dedicated public servants who are tireless advocates for public health. They deserve better than this administration’s disregard for science. We deserve much more from our government than conspiracy theories and indifference towards individuals’ well-being.
The muted market reaction to The Crazy doesn't tell you much about what will happen. Markets almost *never* react in advance to large but only potential disruptions. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-arent-...
New, from me: America is no longer a functioning democracy. It is a competitive authoritarian system, hurtling rapidly toward authoritarianism. This was a hard piece to write but we can't move forward if we don’t acknowledge where we are. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...
“Trump’s surge on the streets of DC is meeting resistance in the city’s federal courthouse, where magistrate judges have admonished prosecutors for violating defendants’ rights & court rules, and grand jurors have repeatedly refused to issue indictments.” www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
"It is without a doubt the most illegal search I've ever seen in my life," U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui said from the bench. "I'm absolutely flabbergasted at what has happened. A high school student would know this was an illegal search."
Online age verification is not like "showing ID to buy alcohol" because a) the liquor store doesn't get to scan your ID and store a digital copy of it forever in a database that will inevitably get hacked b) you don't have to show ID to go to the library because they have cocktail recipe books
There was a period of time in my life when one of those things was literally the heaviest physical object that I owned.
Mississippi’s Broken Age Verification Law Forces Bluesky To Block All State Users Full disclosure: I am on the Bluesky board. Bluesky made a major statement last week when it announced that it would be geoblocking Mississippi IP addresses from accessing its site—making it the first major social…
/7 It’s easy to say why. Saying “you can prosecute flag burning as incitement because it makes people really mad” allows you to say “you can’t criticize Israel/denounce Trump/preach Islam/say reality TV suck because it makes people so mad.” It limits speech to what thug trash will tolerate.
The impact from data-center hubs on electricity prices is coming into view — just in time for election season. @opinion.bloomberg.com @liamdenning.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
He has kept among us, in Times of Peace, Standing Armies, without the consent of our Legislatures.
This tracks:
Device searches at the US border hit record high, new data shows
From "highly CONFLICTED" to "Highly Respected" in just weeks — and all it took was for him to give away 10% of his company
My site is a part of this lawsuit (you can read my declaration at www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/8zy9o... if you're curious) and it was deeply disappointing that the Supreme Court denied our appeal when the 5th Circuit overturned the preliminary injunction.
WRT the Intel deal, why shouldn’t the taxpayer get an equity stake in exchange for corporate welfare to the tune of nearly $10 billion dollars? The Admin is not taking a board seat, so this isn’t “state capitalism.” I know everything is unreasonable right now but explain to me why this is, too?
NEW: Pentagon officials tell Fox News that Trump will mobilize up to 1,700 National Guardsmen in 19 states (18 with GOP governors, plus NM? maybe an error?) from August through mid-November under Title 32, Section 502(f).
UPDATE: Hours after Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s release in Tennessee, Fox News reports that the Trump administration may deport him to Uganda as early as next week.
Mississippi's new social media age-verification law has now forced BlueSky to block Mississippi IP addresses. Our Mississippi Free Press team is now urgently having to grapple with what that means for our audience—and for press freedom. My new editorial:
Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users. While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.
NEW: Earlier this month, two hackers published their findings in Phrack magazine after earlier breaking into the computer of a North Korean government hacker. Now, in speaking with @lorenzofb.bsky.social, the two hackers explain why they went public — even though their breach was probably illegal.
Phrack turns 40. The digital drop is live. Download it. Archive it. Pass it on. 💾 www.phrack.org #phrackat40 #phrack72
CDT's @kateruane.bsky.social: “The State Department’s announcement should send a chill down the spine of every American. No one should feel the government breathing down their neck when they post about politics or social issues online." apnews.com/article/trum...
"What is remarkable is not that writers anticipated how the neoliberal turn would go, but that 40 years and several international economic crises later, politicians still respond to these crises with solutions that prioritize markets over people." slate.com/technology/2...
Alito is already on his third draft of why the CA/NY/IL gerrymanders are bogus but the TX/FL/MO gerrymanders are exactly what the Framers require, isn't he? Gonna be epic.
It’s that time again
> @governor.ny.gov
Punishing universities for "fighting back"--that is, for petitioning the courts for redress of grievances--would be a serious violation of the First Amendment even if Trump's broader campaign against the universities was lawful, which it isn't. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/u...
You don’t have to be a big fan of the Democratic Party to recognize that this Republican boom is an extreme catastrophe in the age of Trump. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/u...
For my friends, everything! For my enemies - the law!
