aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

It’s extraordinary that Biden’s main weaknesses were inflation and cognitive decline and now America has inflation and cognitive decline as well as tariffs, authoritarianism, blatant corruption, etc

Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s nominee to lead the office investigating Jack Smith, has recently been investigated for harassing a colleague, Politico reports.

“Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him..”

Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got

- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Gasped at the ending to this. (It's all cool edgy fun and games until someone gets chatbot-induced psychosis.) www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

“Secretary Kennedy is entitled to his views. But he is not entitled to put people’s health at risk.”

Six former surgeons general condemn RFK Jr.

Over the weekend, Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller repeatedly attacked judges, calling them part of an "organized terrorist attack" on the US government....

On Saturday, the home of a judge who ruled against Trump, went up in flames

time.com/7323442/sout...

😱

We are parching our planet for racist AI memes and for men to have chatbot girlfriends who don't challenge them www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,

The JDV description!! Note-perfect!

if the Trump Hegseth address had been an email www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Shockingly, it turns out there is a limit to what is tolerable. This is an opportunity to be exploited. Record everything. Get loud.

And get trained in bystander intervention.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/n...

He did this, unmasked, in full view of multiple cameras and onlookers. If you saw this kind of assault happen on the street you'd call the police.

What an incredible homage to its two inspirations, Embassy Vestibule In A 2003 First-Person Shooter and Buffet Room In The Old Soviet Hotel Where I Stayed When I Had Covid In Ulaanbaatar Last Year

such a good idea!

It's *terrifying* every time you have a fever during pregnancy for exactly this reason

I do think it’s conspicuous that no real public conversation has emerged over the reality that the rise of AI means that women and girls no longer have a choice about whether their image is made into porn; that this is now a cost of entry for their participation in public life.

“There’s an invisible thread that connects all of us women who go through an experience of public shaming,” @monicalewinsky.bsky.social tells @sophiegilbert.bsky.social at #TAF25.

Watch more: bit.ly/3IkhDd9

TCA condemns ABC and Disney’s capitulation to the government’s demands of censorship.

"Kudos to whatever stylist absolutely nailed her request to go to the royal palace in 'Babadook Mode.'"

This is terrifying