That place was fuckin demonic
That place was fuckin demonic
40% of Republicans think the COVID vaccine killed more people than the COVID virus. One in four believe that QAnon is real. No matter how far they radicalize, we are told over and over again that the people being rude to them are the problem.
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.
(far from the most important thing right now. but still.)
fire currently destroying multiple decades-vacant buildings in downtown baltimore right next to a light rail line. buildings that would be occupied and thriving in a country, state and city (in that order of culpability) that cared about cities, the environment, history, anything besides profit.
"You are not more powerful than Twitter’s algorithm." This is it. This is the whole ballgame. I do not understand how people don't get this.
ENDY CHAVEZ
looks like he brought a bag lunch
Given that there are many other plausible candidates at this point it seems like a reasonable line to draw well in advance 🤷♂️
lol i know he was a school teacher for a while. hope he's doing well. not sure what jason does now but IIRC joe is an engineer (aerospace?) and travis did like web design last i checked. the indie rock to stable white collar employment pipeline.
agreed / never met him but seems like a swell guy
eric axelson
this is something i'm just coming to understand, but: yeah. that's literally what a lot of "christians" in this country believe.
key to remember in all this revisionism that the world did discover a successful pandemic defense approach that avoided most of the harms. it was "Zero Covid until you can roll out vaccines," simple as bsky.app/profile/grud...
And Hamilton Nolan and Margaret Sullivan
Nardwuar at least does a ton of research
A massive moral failure (not as big as Gaza, but still big)
Remains absolutely wild to me that people have had THREE GODDAMN YEARS to get off the Nazi-owned Nazi website that he used to help re-elect fascist politicians and seemingly decent people cannot be bothered to leave. Social awareness and self-respect seem to be at all time lows.
Sucks to suck 🤷♂️
And a lot of very smart and important people legitimized that backlash and will never admit it or face a single consequence for it
at no point did we defund the police. it's important when we talk about defunding the police to note it never actually happened. would it work? we don't know! but merely phrasing the idea succinctly incited a reactionary backlash that put fascists in charge of all 3 branches of government. curious!
Ahahahaha you are dumb as a sack of bricks
Watching this strangely insightful documentary/commentary on Joe Rogan and his comedy cult, thinking: we seem to be living in a time of cultlike devotion to celebrities/influencers mediated by new and social media, a kind of parasocial cult culture. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewvR...
I think one was premised on the guy from Mars Volta having never heard RUSH like do you think I’m stupid drumeo
My “favorite” genre of this is “professional drummer hears extremely famous band with notable drumming for the FIRST TIME” like cmon man
One thing I’m quite grateful for is that generative AI has given me a new source of personal esteem in that I feel incredibly superior to those who use it.
“If the rulers of the past are destined to end up remembered for their villainy, might the rulers of today suffer the same fate after they are gone? It is a paralyzing thought for those concerned above all with self-glorification.”
Songs about female friendship: Maureen - Sade Wannabe - Spice Girls ?????
Cling to their bibles? If only. They never comprehended their bibles. They cling to marketing: Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben and the Barrel Cracker etc. Their praxis is waiting in line for Chik Fil A. Their heritage is green bean casserole made with Campbell's cream of whatever soup. Embarrassing.
People obsessed with this country's "heritage" are violently opposed to ever actually addressing its real heritage, so all they're left with are consumerism and symbols chosen for their plausible deniability. Imagine claiming the Cracker Barrel logo as your birthright.
happy labor day
Hell yeah 👍
One of the reasons why we all gotta do a better job of casting off childish things is that the fascists love exploiting your nostalgia, your longing to enjoy those childish things again. It puts a target on your back.
Republicans love when kids die.
This whole thing is great but the highlighted bit made me laugh out loud. 😂 Marlon on Snoop:
Those willing, by contrast, to trade away the rights and dignity of transgender people or the poor cannot be considered friends of democracy any more than those who were willing to countenance second-class status for blacks and Jews.
They’re doing all this to prevent people from MEMORIALIZING A MASS SHOOTING
In addition to, you know, a bunch of other stuff
Between Martin Makary and Ben Carson, Johns Hopkins has a lot to answer for recently
It’s that time again. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Oh, is there a deathball happening? 🙄
It was so fuckin good
They should try believing different, non-terrible things
his line delivery on that has been lodged in my brain for 20 years
Cookout mishap?
Just signed up for an appointment in Baltimore. I said yes to having a preexisting condition and they didn’t ask for details.
Every time you use ChatGPT or something like it, you’re helping to train an algorithm that is actually being developed to do things like this
there's a big mobilization in DC on september 6 but not sure if it's happening anywhere else
I live in Maryland and was able to make an appointment to get the new/updated COVID vaccine at CVS. At least in Annapolis/Anne Arundel County, they have the new formula. All I did was answer "yes" to having preexisting conditions and no more questions were asked. Marylanders, please share around!
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
This is fantastic.
😮
kid a still great but to me amnesiac is better
A bit on the nose for this Politico story on Trump’s maniacal dedication to destroying Kilmar’s life to feature a link to a story critiquing “Dem word choice.” Just a laser focus on things that truly matter, gang, never change.
there have to be tribunals
For 12 months, America had a limited proof of concept for universal healthcare, and it was so uniformly successful we had no choice but to obliterate our society
If you’re the side of: - capital interests - wealth as an indicator of virtue/the value of one’s societal contributions - free markets - “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help’” …you’re fucked. COVID just exposed you entirely.
The COVID-19 pandemic undermined the right in several key ways: 1) It showed us which workers are essential and empowered them. 2) It showed that the markets can’t solve everything. 2) It threatened GOP political prospects in a critical election. 4) Government relief proved popular and effective
Full resignation letter from Demetre C. Daskalakis, a CDC leader, does not hold back. "The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."
One overlooked benefit of declaring preferred pronouns as a social norm is that it's not just for LGBTQ but also for people w non-Anglo names. I'm a cishet woman with a very feminine name but nobody's gonna know that if they don't know Chinese. But the anti-LGBTQ crowd are also anti-immigrant so..
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
WSJ: ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteran’s paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.... On Aug. 5, Greenwich police discovered that Soelberg killed his mother and himself in the $2.7 million Dutch colonial-style home where they lived together.
This was a delightful review of a delightful concert
Beyond warning our neighbors of checkpoints, I think the primary goal of protesters encountering ICE and HSI agents should be to try to shame them into quitting their jobs. A big lift -- unlike the Guard they signed up for this shit -- but a good goal regardless
Overnight, this extremely well-funded tech company run by a billionaire has gone from “There’s no way we can possibly stop our plagiarism machine from convincing children to kill themselves” to “If you type anything we don’t like, we’re calling the cops.” Either way, they take zero responsibility.
Jesus Christ
TX-21 will likely be represented by two consecutive Marylanders, both from extremely wealthy suburbs (Teixeira is from Severna Park, where Pat Sajak has lived for decades for some reason, and Chip Roy is from Bethesda.
As did Chip Roy (Bethesda, lol) - I knew it was one of those fuckers just wasn't sure it was him.
as often with conservative westerners "Tex Texan for Texas Congress" grew up in fucking Maryland
I remember seeing a quote from him saying he loved Bush Jr in like 2004
at this point going back to saying nothing would be better than this crap
When your whole life is on the computer and your whole ideology is based on who’s yelling at you on the computer…
Abolish ICE. Abolish "A.i." No arms for genocide. Protect trans kids. Shut down the concentration camps. Abolish tariffs. Fire RFK, Jr. Boycott Avelo & Tesla. Delete Twitter. No crypto. Care over punishment. Vote Mamdani. Primary every do-nothing D. Protect vaccines and SSRIs. No fascism. #NoKings
gargle my fucking ball sack
baudrillard mentioned!
Trump's use of red state National Guards in DC is really about viciously turning Americans against each other, about stoking hate and violence *among Americans.* JB Pritzker's response is so good because it lays *this* bare. Me and @brianbeutler.bsky.social on this: newrepublic.com/article/1997...
Dem electeds want influencers in media to say stuff like "I sure do approve of the job our wonderful Dem electeds are doing" when the thing Dems need influencers to actually say is like "the shitty economy is really shit right now huh"
It's important to know what we're dealing with. Though some in the media still try to horse-race, both sides this, we're faced with psychopaths at the helm of our nation's public health, scientific and healthcare efforts. They want to inflict pain and suffering. It's a goal, not a by-product. 6/
Every American has to decide what they are going to do now, because your government is out to kill you. Perhaps in January, this might have seemed like hyperbole, but in late August, it sounds like just another Thursday morning in the United States. 9/
if they refuse to learn, they need to be replaced.
Good piece. "When you demand that influencers take your direction about how to reach audiences, you lose the entire value of working with them in the first place. If you already knew how to do that, you wouldn't need them to begin with." www.elizabethspiers.com/why-dems-kee...
We have to destroy right wing Christianity if we want to have anything close to a civilized country. nymag.com/intelligence...
This may be true. Israel would still be destroying Gaza and Gazans with our tax money, though.
Back in 2020, YouTube suspended OAN's channel, demonetized it, and noted it was not an "authoritative" source. Now, five years later, the Google-owned platform has inked a deal to put the MAGA propaganda network in millions of living rooms. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/youtube-oa...
It’s very clear that the Democrats strategy is to keep their heads down and hope voters are mad enough to vote them into a majority. It’s moral cowardice.
another classic from/for the archive
Every word of this thread
This is such a good overview of the problems the Democrats are running into with the gerrymandering wars of 2025. The gist: too little too late. If they want to get power again, they need to win overwhelmingly.
read this
One more time, shout out to the very serious people who suggested that RFK had some really good points about public health. No way to have predicted how things would turn out, except to look at his past record and everything he said about vaccines.
Imagine it — the idea of watching your friend have a conversation—one about whether or not you should be allowed to be harmed or maimed or even killed—with the person who is actively trying to do it. www.the-reframe.com/boiling-water/
They were only ever against it happening to them
We need to stop using a framework of 'ChatGPT killed someone', it feeds into the myth of the system's agency & OpenAI's framing. The right framework to use: OpenAI is continuing to perpetuate an indefinite industrial disaster. The oil pipe is not at fault when it breaks. The company that built it is
I wrote what is essentially a blog post (😱) about why Dems keep screwing up their efforts to build out a liberal media ecosystem and what can be done about it: www.elizabethspiers.com/why-dems-kee...
This from Riley Gaines is why trans people freak out when Democrats try to carve out some compromise over sports. The politicians and activists attacking trans people are not interested in compromise! They're interested in our eradication from public life and are exploiting sports to that end
