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2006-2024 I was on Twitter. Then the apartheid emerald mine nepo baby happened. Artist. Lurking with my hoard of books, eating my feelings. I occasionally visit my studio to bash away at scrap metal. High voltage may be involved.
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When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine," That's... usually not the case! In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using. We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that? youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk
Why didn’t some of the Epstein survivors speak out earlier? “I thought someone was going to kill me,” one explained. As another asked, “Why did the government work so hard to protect Jeffrey Epstein and not victims like me?”
Adams has been offered a job at HUD, @jccoltin.bsky.social reports. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
Expect your mobile to go off 3pm Sunday! Be prepared for a test of the Govt's emergency alert system. Full info... www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2025/09... LIVING WITH DOMESTIC ABUSE? If you've a hidden mobile, you the link above has details of how to opt out of the alert. Pls share
grant no measure of grace to any professed “reasonable Republicans;” at this point belonging to the GOP is like admitting that you’re a cannibal, yes, but you don’t eat *people* or anything… and you’ll only be at the bbq because all your friends will be there
No hay una polarización derecha-izquierda en España, hay una polarización entre los que tienen conciencia social y los que no🤔
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
I'm aware that the President likes to go on television and beg me to call him to ask for troops. I find it strange, as Chicago doesn't want troops. I also have experience asking him for assistance – just to have the rug pulled up from underneath me when execution meets reality.
every single rabid Newsom fanboy who isn’t doing Their Thing for Pritzker right now should disregard previous instructions and explain why
Yesterday we visited Green Mountain Falls, CO to visit the kinetic sculpture Off the Beaten Path by Patrick Shearn. I wasn’t ready for just how dynamic it was even in the slightest breeze. Reminds me of a murmuration of starlings. Incredible artwork. It’ll only be up through October 19th.
"Bowser issued an executive order that requires local coordination with federal law enforcement “to the maximum extent allowable by law within the District.” The order gives no expiration date." I, for one, would like a new mayor (and statehood) www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.
Phang: The judge notes that the MacArthur Park show of force was just sheer political theater. Major General Sherman, objected, expressing concern that there would be a large number of people because it was Father’s Day. To which Bovino criticized him, questioning his loyalty to the country.
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
Hey so she shouldn’t have a career in Democratic politics after this
I think it's a genuinely catastrophic thing that the most influential members of the American political press spend their free time on a site where views like this are amplified and promoted as a matter of policy, and naturally coming away believing on some level that this is the prevailing view
Felt like I was due for a reread of some of my favourite blog drama - food blogger accuses a luxury chocolate company of misrepresenting their stuff, and demolishes every aspect of the company post by post. Right down to identifying whose chocolate they were reselling dallasfood.org/2006/12/noka...
Pritzker: "It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try to disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear -- the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anybody living here."
No quieren ser héroes, quieren tener sueldos dignos, más medios, planes de prevención de incendios y menos precariedad. #bomberosforestales
It's remarkable how much lighter everything felt for those few days we thought he might be dead, huh?
Fox News had to pay 3/4 of a BILLION dollars for lying to its viewers. And it STILL lies.
Reminder: ACA subsidies that made ins affordable are ending in 2025. Premiums could skyrocket 75%+. Ppl will go broke if Congress doesn’t act. Just an eg to show d impact: Blue Cross Blue Shield premium for 1 person: about $600/mo W/ ACA subsidies: about $75/mo W/o subsidies: back to $600/mo
I also don't think it's editorializing to call him an anti-vaccine activist when he is actively making it harder for everyone to get vaccines
Pritzker on Trump's authoritarian takeover: "The playbook is the same. It's thwart the media. It's create mayhem that requires military interdiction. These are things that happen throughout history and Donald Trump is just following that playbook."
Tangential but it’s notable that when California does things it gets reported as “Newsom” and when Illinois does things it gets reported as “Illinois”
I hope you understand that if you show up at a hospital with an infection no one has ever seen before that the US had somewhere you could call. That place would answer, offer testing you can’t get anywhere else and come visit you to solve if necessary.
As the DoJ tells the court that it will not remove unaccompanied minors to Guatemala, we can only hope they’re telling the truth.
As our neighbors vanish daily, this serves as a meaningful way to honor them and highlight the extent of this issue throughout the city’s
Yo me tomaría muy en serio la amenaza de alguien que, pudiendo haber escrito "a las diez menos cuarto", se toma la molestia de indicar que fue exactamente a las 9:43. Ten miedo, defecador anónimo... Ten mucho miedo.
Stephen King tiene novelas con menos suspense
The thing about this guy saying his restaurant is apolitical is that he probably believes it, but I haven't met a single person who claimed to be apolitical in the past decade and a half who wasn't actually right-wing. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
this should become a thing, putting up signs like this for every arrest & disappearance in public spaces. it would likely break into lower info, less politically engaged demos and local social media groups
Words have no meaning anymore. At least with a certain (disturbing) proportion of the population
You are probably smart enough to rationalize whatever narrative about the world you want to believe, but that doesn’t mean it’s correct or you ought to do it
If you’re in favor of shutting down museum exhibitions or banning books because they make you feel bad, that’s a pretty good tip that you deserve to feel bad.
If all the documents were released, all the records, all the interviews, if every shred of paper written on the Epstein sex trafficking operation were released tomorrow, there would still be horrific things we’ll never know. Think about that.
ICE procurement activity since August 22, totaling ~$19M. Companies highlighted in yellow are new to the "Who's Profiting from ICE?" map, available here: bit.ly/3TgUZEq Source: USAspending.gov
Get the hell off Substack before you literally can’t anymore without blowing up your business
New: I looked at 90 porn sites to test the new age-verification law rewriting the web. The ones following the rules, and scanning visitors' faces, are crumbling, while the lawbreakers are doubling or tripling their traffic. One of many unintended consequences for an experimental tech wapo.st/47QuttW
Robert Mueller was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2021. We’re just learning about it now because he was asked to testify in the Epstein matter and won’t be able to. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
Look I am clearly a heavy social media user but I also don’t need to validate my social media use by imagining that a politician having someone on their team who is good at making memes means that they would be a great president and have good policy ideas Like please be serious
Remember when Hillary coughed and the media were practically writing her obituary?
"I watched Snow White when I was a kid and I ain't gave a bitch a poison apple yet." is an all time bar
Tulsi Gabbard is *very obviously* a foreign intelligence asset and I hope we all live long enough to see her tried and convicted for it.
Heather Honey, a high-profile denier of Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election, has been appointed to a senior position in the Department of Homeland Security in which she’ll help oversee election security.
MORE: Sparkle Sooknanan is still awake -- and she wants a fourth status report from DOJ. The judge orders the government to update her when all putative class members have been returned to ORR custody.
Funny thing is that his spokesperson gave a totally different account than the actual police report.
I’ve heard wall streeters are buying up the tariff refund rights from importers as speculative investments.
Remember the Goolsbee Rule, also called the “pathological irony of crisis”: If you lose credibility, your statements begin to mean the opposite of what you say.
Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about
part of the growing chasm between the supreme court and the lower and intermediate courts is that the supreme court has not punished the government for its overwhelming disrespect of the bench
What’s the point of having this guy Ensign representing the feds when it’s clear attorneys at DHS are giving him the barest instructions? It’s a deliberate strategy of obfuscation. Judge should call out the legal eagles at DHS to explain themselves, directly to the court.
And the guy that gave that order got appointed and confirmed to a lifetime appointment to be a judge. Not only did they willfully and intentionally defy the judge, they rewarded the guy who did it with the cushiest of jobs.
DEFYING A COURT ORDER NEEDS CONSEQUENCES! Get the lower level employees, or the middle managers, someone has to be held accountable! The regime can't function without sycophants, so start locking them up first!
I’ve been wondering this for quite some time now.
Looks like the Federal judges are learning from each other's experience, which is a very good sign. Judges don't like lawyers playing games with court orders, and that's pretty much the #1 strategy of this regime.
Wondering when defying court orders will have consequences.
This is the second judge in a week that has brought up the fact that the government can't be trusted with clear instructions - likely because the government ignored Judge Boasberg's order to turn the planes around last March saying "verbal orders from judges don't count."
Good night 🌙 and….
Rolling Stones Gimme Shelter just came on and once again I am ranting about how merry clayton would have had an adele level career at the least if those fools had had the guts to back the generational talent, what pipes, that voice is just a whole different level of incredible
Remember, kids: A real big goal of "AI" is to entirely sever capital from labor, and no, there will be no universal basic income, you can all just starve and die, thanks www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...
If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.
one thing Rudy Giuliani is always going to do is defensively announce a weirdly incriminating detail with his whole chest as though he sincerely believes it exonerates him
No, really. You really need to bring your subscribers off of substack to a superior newsletter tool. It’s now or never!
El multimillonario polaco Piotr Szczerek, robándole la gorra a un niño que le regala un tenista en el US Open como otra motivación más para que el Eat The Rich se haga ya realidad:
Goodnight Hookland, enjoy the driftwood fires but be careful they don’t catch the hedgerows afire.
::manifesting that so hard::
New plan: we get Obama to demand the death certificate
In honor of the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina: "Heck of a job you're doing, Donny."
CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @mluckovichajc)
Calling misinformation of LLM “hallucinations” is… ironic Because LLM’s have learned the one propensity shared by all humans… lying when we don’t know the answer
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NEW figures show that 61,226 people are currently in ICE detention — the highest number ever in US history. According to ICE data, 70% of these people have no criminal conviction.
An activist has started using artificial intelligence to identify ICE agents beneath their masks — a use of the technology sparking new political concerns over AI-powered surveillance. Can Washington do anything about it?
Classical Chinese for When It Happens or Possibly Already Happened: 丞相斯為上崩在外，恐諸公子及天下有變，乃祕之，不發喪。 Because the Emperor had died while away from the capital, the chancellor Li Si feared rebellion among the princes and the rest of the empire, so he kept it secret and announced no mourning.
here's the thing, don't feel bad about enjoying this moment because if he is still alive, he is now watching literally the entirety of the english speaking globe celebrating and laughing at the thought of him dying, and THAT is worth it alone
It's going to be the weirdest thing watching every news network trying to sell "a nation in mourning" while Kool & the Gang's "Celebration" becomes the new national anthem.
If what we hope will happen ever happens, we'll watch as many, many people in the world of politics, overnight, go on to pretend they were always against what preceded it. This era has been a highly effective acid test for character. Take notes now, so that you don't forget in the future.
What … what are we having a vigil ?
Corporations socialize their losses and privatize their gains.
So not only do churches NOT have to pay taxes, they're going to get YOUR tax dollars to boot. This seems like oh, I don't know, government establishing a religion in violation of the First Amendment?
People are often surprised to learn that Lee was an officer who never made it past colonel. The purported promotion to general was awarded by a treasonous cabal calling itself the "confederate states of america" which was put down by force by the Union army, which also had superior generals.
We should all know the name Ann Burgess. Much of the techniques and methodology of modern day criminology stemmed from her: FBI Mind hunter profiling, how to interview victims, co-founding r*pe crisis centers & much more. Today, she is working on a study about missing & murdered indigenous women.
Luuuuuuuucccyyyyyy 🥰
They’re traumatizing kids.
Inhuman. “I don’t have any choice” is a lie.
Chicago keeping art alive:
What a cursed sentence (gift link) “The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
When a president decides to disregard the will of the American people, you’re right, that’s the mark of authoritarian rule. The White House has notified Congress that it plans to cancel $4.9 billion in foreign aid funding that lawmakers had already approved, doing so without their consent.
Starbucks CEO pay: $96 MILLION Starbucks worker pay: $15,000 Coca-Cola CEO pay: $28 MILLION Coca-Cola worker pay: $14,000 CEOs used to make like 20x the average worker. In 2024, the average CEO earned 632x more. The system is rigged.
Hi, immunologist here: (a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes) RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can “see in kids faces that they have inflammation” That’s NOT how immunology works. He is an anti-science profiteer. Start calling him such.