I don't really think it's appropriate for Forbes to call Flock "a startup," implying that it's a smoll bean Andreessen Horowitz VC corp valued at $7.5B billion that is giving cops worldwide the ability to stalk and hunt and surveil us even more than they usually can, in this dick sucking PR piece
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
The over-reliance on AI implicitly limiting the number of queries isn’t great. This is just a graph search algorithm, and not a very good one. Paul Rudd has appeared on Conan O’Brien’s show nearly a dozen times and the tool didn’t have a single photo of the two of them together. youtu.be/WRx-XgErZ0U
I recall reading a piece from Gareth Watkins saying that AI is the perfect aesthetic style for fascism. Both the ideology and the impersonal method by which the art is generated reflect an absolutely lack of respect for human dignity.
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
Film makers should be forced to watch 1940s musicals so that they can replicate the lighting and colors.... I'm tired of not being able to see shit.
On Labor Day, we take a moment to honor the dignity of hardworking men and women across Maine and our country. As we celebrate with friends and family, let's remember those who helped build America, as well as the workforce of today striving for a stronger, more prosperous nation.
A big difference between Republicans and Democrats is that Republicans understand the science of political communication. Republicans dictate the topics/terms of debate while Dems (and the left) usually burn energy in constant response. Thiel and Co call this mimetics, Lakoff calls it framing.
my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy
They’re detaining wildfire fighters while on the job. Insanity.
Subheading: "The risk of growing polarization". Have you been living in a fucking hole for the past 15 years? Republicans cheat, steal, and seize power, while Democrats are told to be bipartisan and follow the rules. Fuck that. Admonish the goddamn Republicans for breaking shit!
@nerd4cities.bsky.social Came across a headline-fodder "study" dubbed "The Dirtiest Cities in America" from the "good people" at "LawnStarter". Their methodology is dubious at best, as less than half of the factors are even tangentially related to solid waste. www.lawnstarter.com/blog/studies...
They’re happy when it’s national socialism.
Current U.S. economic policy regime: "I want to try to get as much as I can."
Miller’s lie is plain as day, but I just wanted to point out that this is the same vibe that the Bush administration was putting out in the lead-up to the Iraq war. No one in the room is challenging it, not even the media. They’re all just letting him do it. Opposition is entirely external.
This is such an outrageous not to mention idiotic lie. This whole charade would be a joke were it not also so dangerous.
I have no idea what this means it's the funniest thing he's ever posted
"I" gave the Governor of Maryland money? I'm pretty sure those were taxpayer dollars. Your money. My money. Not King Trump's money.
Uncooperative Federalism is here! open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...
We are not journalists or political commentators. We can't predict the future either. But we are informed and are careful scholars. I know no other historians (and I know a lot, across the nation and abroad) who are MAGA or open Trump supporters. We don't deal in lies so it makes it impossible.
Honestly, this may be one of the most important media graphs I've ever seen. The claim: Democrats keep using annoying words. The data: Republicans CLAIMS Democrats use them, which then becomes the narratives. Then centrists attack DEMS for things GOPer CLAIM they say, not GOP for making stuff up.
Game on.
Delightful but also hazardous if he forgot to take the car out of gear. Non-zero chance of getting crushed between the moving car door and the house door frame.
Masked raids are tools of fear, not freedom. Despite what this administration wants you to believe, they are not about “safety.” They are about letting ICE agents hide from accountability while carrying out inhumane acts.
Trump 2020: Find me 11k votes Trump 2025: Find me congressional seats
An estimated 93,000 will die a premature death due to the loss of SNAP between now and 2039. The ‘Make America Healthy Again’ party would rather people sink deeper into poverty and food insecurity than get the essential assistance they need to buy groceries.
Hey CA residents, I just got a flyer from Voters First Act regarding the redistricting efforts to combat what Texas' GOP just did. Don't fall for it. It's backed by Charles T. Munger, Jr., a republican who is unhappy that CA is fighting back. And CA isn't doing it like Texas. 1/3
@ahoyuniverse.bsky.social
Trump apologists in a nutshell: “I’m not going to pick his [RFK’s] brain to find out exactly which of those things are true. I just kind of assume that none of them are. And for the most part, I wish him well.”
No, I’m mad that the aggrieved left would rather see the country consumed by fascism than put one ounce of effort into coordinating a shared opposition with Democrats. We are at war, and our only hope against the billionaire death cult and its media machine is a unified narrative front.
So let’s say the centrists actually compromise with the left. Then what? Will it be enough? Or will the left continue to take pot shots at pro-democracy candidates squaring off against fascist insurgents? The yelling will continue until the left stops attacking on pro-democracy candidates.
My goal is to get it through everyone’s thick skulls that the only way out of this is coalition building. Yelling “fire” is pretty damn effective on most people, but apparently when it comes to politics they’re more than happy to feel the burn.
As governor of the largest state in the union, he is advancing redistricting legislation to counter federal-level election interference. Pay attention.
I could see how it sounds that way. To be clear, I’m not asking people to carry him to the general, and he hasn’t announced anyway. He is useful in the moment. But my broader point is that shitting on one of the few politicians willing to stand up to fascism, does not contribute to stopping fascism.
I’m sorry, last I checked you needed a coalition to win an election. Purity tests are a one-way ticket to losing badly.
Yeah you’re right. Yelling accomplishes nothing. Especially when the recipients are too self-absorbed to understand the nation-ending consequences of not allying with one another over the cause of self-rule. Welp, enjoy your autocracy. Good luck getting into the top spot now.
Oh my God
The formula for success is shower first, then run a deep clean soaker tub full of warm water to relax. I get why most people hate tubs though, the most common tubs are those awful shallow contractor specials. Needs to be deep and have a good sized backrest.
I’m a one issue voter. If a politician is anti-fascism, and isn’t crossing their fingers behind their back about it, they are on my side. Doesn’t matter if they are an asshole, doesn’t even matter if they support bad policy. The country is being torched and we need every firefighter we can get.
Armed Trump administration agents wearing masks just showed up outside of Gavin Newsom’s press conference. This is what rising fascism looks like.
Important.
I'm going to publish the entirety of an exchange I just had with the press office of the DOJ. I want you to see how they are talking about truth.
Anyway here's the piece. Follow @votebeat.org. www.votebeat.org/texas/2025/0...
I will never lose my sense of awe for the miracles that public health and medicine bestow.
🗣️ Reporter: There is a new report that the Russians have hacked into the computer system that manage US federal court documents. Will you bring this up with Putin? 🇺🇸 Trump: I guess I could, they hack in, that is what they do. They are good at it.
Corporate America has been waging a war against the trade union movement for a simple reason: They know that union workers earn higher wages and better benefits than non-union workers.
i made a little video about little video tapes youtu.be/HFYWHeBhYbM
A Project 2025 author with a Nazi ship on the wall behind him. This ain’t subtle, folks.
The Air Force and Navy are poised to cancel two nearly complete projects worth about $800 million because they want Salesforce and billionaire Peter Thiel's Palantir, to have a chance to win similar projects. The result could be a costly do-over. www.reuters.com/world/us/how...
Palantir has been getting a huge number of deals like this, in what is extremely obviously self-dealing.
As the tweet says, this isn’t a cash strapped regional school that needs to focus on career oriented majors to attract dollars and students. It’s one of the premier universities in the country.
This isn’t an impoverished regional school – this is the University of Chicago. Devastating.
They’re *feeding into* the information problem by not slapping this shit down immediately, as any responsible publication should. Giving equal weight to bad faith shitheels is how we went from the limitless potential of liberalism in the late 90s to the cesspool of fascism in 20 short years.
I hate it when weak-minded media such as the Washington Post say that DC crime is dramatically down but "many residents still do not feel safe." They're talking about an *information problem* more than a crime problem. Right-wing propagandists don't want anyone to feel safe.
Donald Trump complaining about violent crime in DC is rich.
Adrian Bliss hitting the nail on the head - that stare into the camera at the end, chef kiss 👌 “Making Art In 2026”
In 2009, Peter Thiel wrote that the 1920s were "the last decade in American history during which one could be genuinely optimistic about politics." Why? Because of "the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women." 👉 www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/p...
Do you have any legal angle on the activities of MAGA muckraker Saihajpreet Singh? Former US resident, currently lives in Ottowa. He runs a bot account named CityDeskNYC and is gleefully bragging to the press about how easy it is to manipulate American politics. ottawacitizen.com/news/ottawa-...
Could be because he doesn’t want to get into a war of words he knows he can’t win. Pritzker is very, very good at cutting through the BS and firing back.
Pritzker: "It's cheating. Donald Trump is a cheater. He cheats on his wives. He cheats at golf. And now he's trying to cheat the American people out of their votes."
A 24-year-old US-Indian man living in Ottawa, Canada, Saihajpreet Singh, exposed for developing a network of MAGA bots including DOGEai to influence US elections, politics, and public opinion to support Donald Trump, the US Republican Party, and Israel. ottawacitizen.com/news/ottawa-...
Donald Trump and Republicans are pushing illegal maps that violate the Voting Rights Act. Instead, Congress should pass fair, independent maps nationwide. Without that, Democratic states must consider all the options to protect our constitutional republic.
Pete Hegseth shares a clip saying women shouldn’t have the right to vote, the 19th Amendment should be “repealed,” and women should “submit” to their husbands: “All of Christ for All of Life”
Hope you feel better after the gym. You’re doing great work, I hope you know that.
No, you did not give those of us who happened to look like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor any due process. And that was profoundly wrong. It destroyed our lives.
The way some people react to my posts about electric cars makes it seem like they think I am advocating for this kind of a future, and I'd just like to clarify that I'm not because lol
Fallacious argument. Just because both parties share mutually awful policies doesn’t mean that they are alike on *every* matter of policy. OP has every right to boost Labour because *on balance* they’d rather have that than the fascistic Tories.
Well, I’m not an expert on the UK market, but the sheer number of themed entertainment industry suppliers with global reach had grown exponentially by that point. The 80’s also coincided with the dawn of edutainment (EPCOT Center) and the industry alignment of museums and parks/resorts as peers.
As expected, no matter what happens: - the government wins (tariff revenue if tariffs stick) - the suppliers and corporate brands win or draw (increased profit if tariffs don’t stick, flat profit if they do) - and the everyday person fuckin loses big time no matter what The GOP is antihuman.
They are on the path to becoming a games company that makes more money from Wordle than journalism subscriptions. Take that for what you will.
Quick, someone Google "current NYC mayor" before hitting publish.
Claiming the Democrats are not worth voting for is a completely unserious argument. They are the last viable pro-democracy party left in the US.
The camps are here, buddy. You had the opportunity to advocate for harm reduction, but instead you chose to tear down the flawed candidate, which indirectly helped the apocalyptic candidate win.
Imagine if they used their mental agility to support progressive beliefs in a hostile world rather than creating that hostile world out of spite. 🤸🏻♀️
I remember when this happened.
on this note, NYT is getting more clicks and revenue from their games at this point they are a webgames company that occasionally writes loaded news stories all that said, if you play wordle, connections, etc- you should stop. you are directly funding misinformation by playing games
Moneyball strategy is bad, actually
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Turns out negligence towards the rise of fascism is frowned upon
I’m so glad I’m writing a book so I can answer these and more questions
May all your trains be crazy
In Sacramento yesterday morning a US citizen is tackled by ICE agents as his horrified wife screams.
for Bills Week I decided to read the new 1000 page Buckley biography
The guy lasted 11 Mooches
Thanks for reminding us that you decided to flush any hint of journalistic integrity down the toilet. Sometimes people forget, given that your name has that vestigial word “news” in it
You are conflating human rights violations with political ideology. The US government was never explicitly fascist, but still did those terrible things. Now, our country is being hijacked by fascists, which *is* directly comparable to 1930s Germany. People are terrible if we *let* them be terrible.
He accomplished one thing and one thing only: he kept Mehmet Oz out of the Senate. That’s it — but it’s not nothing, either.
lmao oh my god he’s getting ratioed by his own supporters on his own website
They will try to tell you, “Resistance is futile.” It is never so.
I hoped never to see concentration camps like the ones I grew up in appear again in this country. Reading this breaks my heart.
Oh, it’s not hard to tell. They’re always stupid. And often malicious. They say they’re kidding after the fact, to cover up their maliciousness.
THIS IS FUCKED UP: Sae Joon Park took bullets for America in Iraq. The thanks he got? A one-way ticket out of the country he nearly died for. He’s being deported to South Korea—after surviving spinal injuries, PTSD, and addiction. He fought for America. Now America throws him out like trash.
Musk mocks Pam Bondi.
Freedom from kings. Freedom from fascism. Power to the people forever. ♥️ Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸
Happy 4th of July, Batman.
