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Not making the things that annoy me, Nate Silver, central to my identity challenge Impossible
It was like the first thing computers were built to do!
The man literally held a dinner for the people who gave him the most money for his meme coin. Conflict of interest is the entire purpose of this shit.
... and that Netanyahu intentionally propped up Hamas to undermine Palestinian statehood and peace.
Our top story tonight: Generalissimo Donald Trump is still dead.
This is literally the largest act of union busting in American history. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
Leaked ‘Gaza Riviera’ plan dismissed as ‘insane’ attempt to cover ethnic cleansing www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
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")
Space Caligula is casually calling for ethnic cleansing again.
Our top story tonight: Generalissimo Donald Trump is still dead.
Reminder: the apparent plan was to spirit these children away in the middle of the night without them ever seeing the inside of a courtroom to challenge their deportation. Children.
Chicago homicides are down 32% over one year and 50% over four years. If that keeps up for the remainder of the year, Chicago will have fewer homicides this year than any year in half a century.
I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field. There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.
The whole point of this endeavor is to cut out human labor costs altogether. It is exceptionally frustrating people refuse to see the gameplan here for what it is.
As a friend recently put it: the venn diagram of people who assured us the gun violence was worth it because we need the guns to protect ourselves against a tyrannical federal government and the people cheering on Trump as he deploys the military to take over American cities is a circle
W.H. Auden's fantastic poem.
Or you can read the Post or the Times in like two weeks to find out. 😂
He declared, on camera, he can "do anything" he wants and it was a blip in the press.
Certainly would put a crimp in Jake Tapper's efforts to sell his shitty book.
President of the United States, Bill Belichick.
... from which they successfully campaigned on "we'll keep you safe" despite, you know, 9/11.
If they actually pursued this, it would be one of those bold faced events in history books from which decades of turbulent events directly follow.
jfc
trump can issue as many executive orders as he wants, perhaps coverage should reflect the fact that a lot of these have the legal force of a child's wishlist for santa
Out of the first five questions, four are about gender identity. There isn't even a pretense that they're looking for qualified educators. They're interviewing candidates for the bathroom police.
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
There is literally no long term plan involved.
Trump said tonight he is going to issue an executive order purporting to require enforcement of voter ID rules: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u... The president has no such authority to order how elections are conducted.
a society that wants to keep functioning needs to discourage balanced lying, especially by authorities
"Just five years ago, China purchased about 12 million tons of U.S. soybeans through mid-August. Last year, the year-to-date number over the same time had plunged to only 2 million. Many industry analysts say tariffs are pricing American farmers out of the market."
"organic daughter" is a new one by me
It's DeSantis' Florida. They may be required to do it by state law at this point.
RFK Jr. is, in my estimation, a eugenicist and shares similar ideas with Trump about "good genes" and the like. Plus the anti-vaccination community shares a lot of traits with fascists.
They will be replaced with six Shane Gillis clones.
Fake news should be cheeky and fun like "Trump is dead." This kind of fake news is sad and tragic.
This is appalling, criminal, and the GOP plan for everywhere: block cheap renewables in favor of expensive gas turbines. It won't even provide enough power, there's a 3-5 year backlog for turbines. We'll all pay far higher electricity bills to be sicker and to do more environmental damage.
Shocking photo of Trump at the White House.
Just saw a video of Bill Maher calling Mamdani a “straight up communist” and I continue to be struck by the depiction of policies associated with the New Deal Order as far-left extremism, which goes along with a refusal to depict Trump’s unprecedented authoritarian actions as far-right extremism.
someone should put together a "kennedy death count" for everyone who dies of a preventable disease and just plaster it everywhere www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...
Is "Coronary" a male or female name?
He doesn't even need to use a pillow.
My grandmother used to give all the adults scratch offs or lotto tickets as part of their birthday or Christmas gift so today has felt like those 90 minutes before the numbers were announced and us kids would speculate on all the cool shit we'd get when we won. We never won.
Hopefully it is on a yacht on the water, too.
Sir, because of your decrepit physical state, every social media platform is speculating you're dead.
And was he wearing sunglasses at the time?
The power of prayer.
A White House memorial playing the decedent's favorite tunes.
It's streaming on Hulu.
"Weekend at Bernie's" takes place during the Labor Day weekend.
Volunteered with the ONE Campaign at FedEx Field during U2 360 Tour. Our 'seats' were the standing area under the scaffolds the band would walk onto during the performance. Then they brought us on stage. My niece was born the same night so I kept one of the rubber ONE Campaign bracelets for her.
Inspired.
Why should I move? He's the one who sucks.
I've got my "Dave" and "Weekend at Bernie's" memes ready to go, Hitler is dead references all nice and neat. I'm ready, Helen.
... a procedure for which one could die on the table?
~*manifesting*~
Dousing his body with petrol in the Rose Garden seemed, I thought, a bit much.
They are going full "Dave."
There's also a difference between people who play up the possibility because, I mean, come on, and those who run with it seriously.
Go MAGA and your state sucks shit.
Oh my God he's Nick Burns, your company's computer guy but, like, for America.
We have so little, Olivia. Let us have this until he shows up on camera with those big sunglasses you get from the eye doctor.
Again, it must be asked, if this administration were trying to sabotage the country and intentionally screw over its own citizens, what would they do differently?
Every time your electricity bill goes up for the next 10 years, it can be traced back to this Administration’s actions. They are making solar and wind power illegal to build in the United States. They are artificially restricting supply while demand is going up.
Meanwhile we're just over here slitting our own throat.
"Her patient had signs of what could be a cancer or could be an unusual infection — diagnoses that would require completely different treatment. Ordinarily, she would confirm an infection after sending a sample to the CDC for testing ...the CDC no longer has the capacity to do that"
She could use it to write the descriptions of products in the J. Peterman catalog but George would use it for everything.
George Costanza, obviously.
A Trump death is the best case scenario for Vance and probably Republicans in general for 2028. It would make him the incumbent, consolidate MAGA support behind him amid Trump canonization, and free the party of a messy primary, assuming Trump did not actually try for a third term.
There will be books written in the future and likely published outside the U.S. that will provide the definitive account of the failures of this era.
Science: Trump supporters are assholes.
Dude literally had a menu. With prices. Like, he wrote down what he charged for specific crimes, basically percentages of potential profits for government contracts. No, really:
My wife needed a test for a rare parasite. Johns Hopkins's Infectious disease team told us that the CDC no longer provides the serum test. JH Hospital then had to cold call a hospital in Canada to begin a process of having it perform diagnostic testing. Expect a lot more of this.
Republicans are firmly pro-death and are intentionally making it easier for you or someone you know to die in any number of ways.
This choice amidst an occupation partially premised on homelessness and Bowser’s openness to increased policing during a federal occupation really serves to highlight how bad the political instincts are at the top of the party.
Miller's lies just aren't the same when it is about something other than nonwhites.
Here's comes the Trumpflation
Cows in the U.S. basically living in “The Matrix.”
The prequel to “The Day After Tomorrow” is today.
the right wing view of covid is, basically: it is very bad the evil chinese manufactured this bioweapon to kill us all, but also we should've let it kill more people
I will never understand how American elites managed to convince themselves that uncivil debate — not fascism, not impunity and not widespread indifference to facts — is the defining problem of our time. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
If I had said, in 2005, that 20 years later the Republican Party would be even *more* systematically opposed, not only to domestic action on climate change, but to action on climate change anywhere in the world, I would have been dismissed as a hysterical partisan.
The single most important thing to understand about digital futurism is this: When the digital future that Sam Altman ( or Elon, or Andreessen, etc) predicts fails to materialize, he doesn’t have to give the money back.
Perhaps an investment in a dashcam and bodycam makes sense.
It's an evolution of the Paul Wellstone style.
People don’t understand that we live in completely different realities. After decades of being trained not to trust trustworthy outlets, the only information conservatives are able to read is stuff like this. They basically 1984-ed themselves for fear of being 1984-ed by “the Left.”
For Republicans, it may be a better option than an open primary in 2028. Vance ascends to the presidency, canonizes Trump in death as his named heir, and runs as an incumbent without a messy primary.
Well, the whole third term issue may be moot before 2028.
If you're a historian with the phone number of a publisher, here's your book proposal: tell the story of how the press fucked us through incessant headlines like this.
what are we doing here, folks
Barack Obama's "death panels" turned out to actually be Donald Trump's AI "death panels."
However evil you think this is, it’s worse: “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.”
White House doctors: Donald Trump is in perfect health, everybody.
