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I need people to wrap their minds around the fact that here in Minneapolis, ICE broke the window of a vehicle yesterday, pepper sprayed the occupants, and arrested them, and shot another observer in the face today, and OBSERVERS ARE STILL GOING OUT TO PROTECT THEIR NEIGHBORS AT MASSIVE PERSONAL RISK
I’m eating lunch, I’m having a panic attack, I’m charging my phone, and then I’m going back out to try and keep my neighborhood safe.
January 7, 2026 at 5:47 PM
I need people to wrap their minds around the fact that here in Minneapolis, ICE broke the window of a vehicle yesterday, pepper sprayed the occupants, and arrested them, and shot another observer in the face today, and OBSERVERS ARE STILL GOING OUT TO PROTECT THEIR NEIGHBORS AT MASSIVE PERSONAL RISK
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Is it strong or weak to throw trans people under the bus? Is it strong or weak to target and destroy homeless encampments? Is it strong or weak to adopt your nominal enemy's platform rather than stand on principles? Gtfoh.
“Remember: be vulgar, be trivial, be offensive. Just don’t be weak.”
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
The Front-Runner
California’s Gavin Newsom would rather be wrong than weak.
www.theatlantic.com
January 7, 2026 at 4:20 AM
Is it strong or weak to throw trans people under the bus? Is it strong or weak to target and destroy homeless encampments? Is it strong or weak to adopt your nominal enemy's platform rather than stand on principles? Gtfoh.
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they're doing it for gender, imo
It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason
January 6, 2026 at 1:57 AM
they're doing it for gender, imo
You know, I think I read this book. I think it was the very end of Allen Drury's Advise and Consent series (Come Ninevah, Come Tyre?), and he'd lost it completely by then and all the Good characters sounded like this.
If Miller's reading it, somebody should take it away from him.
If Miller's reading it, somebody should take it away from him.
this is small comfort given he has state power and i don’t but i am struck by what an obviously weak and fragile man miller is. a blubbering piss baby whose entire affect and personality is an attempt to make up for his profound feelings of inadequacy
MILLER: The US is using its military to secure our interests unapologetically in our hemisphere. We're a superpower. It's absurd we'd allow a nation in our backyard to become a supplier of resources to our adversaries
TAPPER: Sovereign countries shouldn't be able to do what they want?
M: *yells*
TAPPER: Sovereign countries shouldn't be able to do what they want?
M: *yells*
January 6, 2026 at 1:42 AM
You know, I think I read this book. I think it was the very end of Allen Drury's Advise and Consent series (Come Ninevah, Come Tyre?), and he'd lost it completely by then and all the Good characters sounded like this.
If Miller's reading it, somebody should take it away from him.
If Miller's reading it, somebody should take it away from him.
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yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.
Right.
If you want a good explanation of why the American system of government worked well enough for 200 years and then suddenly stopped, it's because Republicans in Congress suddenly started letting their partisan interests COMPLETELY override their institutional interests
If you want a good explanation of why the American system of government worked well enough for 200 years and then suddenly stopped, it's because Republicans in Congress suddenly started letting their partisan interests COMPLETELY override their institutional interests
a lot of problems wouldn't exist if we had a congress with even an ounce of self interest
January 4, 2026 at 11:52 PM
yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.
Important thread, from a reliable journalist.
THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread
This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated.
According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.
This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated.
According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.
January 3, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Important thread, from a reliable journalist.
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Ok I really am working out the logistics of permanently shuttering my twitter account - but my god is this funny.
January 3, 2026 at 2:35 AM
Ok I really am working out the logistics of permanently shuttering my twitter account - but my god is this funny.
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Reminder that Bari Weiss held the 60 Minutes piece on migrant gulags with the suggestion that Stephen Miller (whose number she has) should comment. Maybe if 60 Minutes could just post this video alongside the story, it would meet Weiss's vaunted editorial standards.
White House Senior Advisor Stephen Miller has spent years weaponizing hatred to become the mastermind of Trump’s crackdown on marginalized groups.
Zeteo traces his most hateful, strange, and downright cringey moments along the way.
Zeteo traces his most hateful, strange, and downright cringey moments along the way.
December 24, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Reminder that Bari Weiss held the 60 Minutes piece on migrant gulags with the suggestion that Stephen Miller (whose number she has) should comment. Maybe if 60 Minutes could just post this video alongside the story, it would meet Weiss's vaunted editorial standards.
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Humans: "humans are trash, I hope we all die"
Literally all other animals: "shit, I need some help, I should go find one of those giant terrifying apes, they'll fix it for me, cause that's what they do"
Literally all other animals: "shit, I need some help, I should go find one of those giant terrifying apes, they'll fix it for me, cause that's what they do"
we were out hill-walking once when I was a teenager, and a little grey cat started following us in the village, then followed us all the way up the hill. we stopped for a picnic and she came to curl up and sit in our laps. when we went down to the village again she meowed and went her own way.
this made me so happy
December 23, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Humans: "humans are trash, I hope we all die"
Literally all other animals: "shit, I need some help, I should go find one of those giant terrifying apes, they'll fix it for me, cause that's what they do"
Literally all other animals: "shit, I need some help, I should go find one of those giant terrifying apes, they'll fix it for me, cause that's what they do"
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This is as easy a test of your belief in the American system as is conceivable: Should this be an acceptable argument from a president?
December 23, 2025 at 11:59 AM
This is as easy a test of your belief in the American system as is conceivable: Should this be an acceptable argument from a president?
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I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite
Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite
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Reminding everyone for no particular reason that Section 230 is one of the last things standing between free speech online and Trump having control over everything you see and say on the internet
December 18, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Reminding everyone for no particular reason that Section 230 is one of the last things standing between free speech online and Trump having control over everything you see and say on the internet
Infuriating and tragic, all at the same time. How are we supposed to support a party when half of their high officials are substantively anti-First Amendment? Why the hell is this our only alternative to hard-core fascist goons, and how do we stay motivated when it is?
Senator Durbin has had this explained to him multiple times. Getting rid of 230 doesn't help this, but will make it worse. It will make it impossible for smaller sites to exist (like this one) and will give MORE POWER to companies like Meta and X.
Why would Durbin want to do that?
Why would Durbin want to do that?
Children are being exploited and abused because Big Tech consistently prioritizes profits over people.
Enough is enough. Time to sunset Section 230.
Enough is enough. Time to sunset Section 230.
December 18, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Infuriating and tragic, all at the same time. How are we supposed to support a party when half of their high officials are substantively anti-First Amendment? Why the hell is this our only alternative to hard-core fascist goons, and how do we stay motivated when it is?
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Trying to forecast the future is prone to uncertainty, though I am probably closer to the alarmist end of the spectrum.
This article is most useful in highlighting the dismissals of such warnings. Big question is why? Normalcy bias? Not being vulnerable?
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
This article is most useful in highlighting the dismissals of such warnings. Big question is why? Normalcy bias? Not being vulnerable?
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
The Americans Who Saw All This Coming—but Were Ignored and Maligned
Call them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and how did “anti-alarmism” become cool?
newrepublic.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Trying to forecast the future is prone to uncertainty, though I am probably closer to the alarmist end of the spectrum.
This article is most useful in highlighting the dismissals of such warnings. Big question is why? Normalcy bias? Not being vulnerable?
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
This article is most useful in highlighting the dismissals of such warnings. Big question is why? Normalcy bias? Not being vulnerable?
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
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"The students are facing potential discipline that could range from a private reprimand to being required to withdraw from the school"
Instead of removing the guy who was buddies with a sex trafficker, they're investigating and going to discipline students who drew attention to it? Insanity.
Instead of removing the guy who was buddies with a sex trafficker, they're investigating and going to discipline students who drew attention to it? Insanity.
Harvard officials are reportedly secretly investigating two students for their roles in drawing scrutiny to the relationship between Jeffrey Epstein and ex-president Larry Summers
Harvard Secretly Investigates Students Over Larry Summers Video on Epstein
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
"The students are facing potential discipline that could range from a private reprimand to being required to withdraw from the school"
Instead of removing the guy who was buddies with a sex trafficker, they're investigating and going to discipline students who drew attention to it? Insanity.
Instead of removing the guy who was buddies with a sex trafficker, they're investigating and going to discipline students who drew attention to it? Insanity.
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And finally, the assault on Section 230. This is the endgame for independent speech.
If you repeal 230, you don’t hurt Google or Meta—they have the lawyers to survive. You destroy the small forums, the independent blogs, the dissenters. You make the cost of speaking the truth too high to bear.
If you repeal 230, you don’t hurt Google or Meta—they have the lawyers to survive. You destroy the small forums, the independent blogs, the dissenters. You make the cost of speaking the truth too high to bear.
How Democrats’ Attack On Section 230 Plays Right Into Trump’s Censorial Plans
Like clockwork, lawmakers are once again rallying around the idea of eliminating Section 230. That Republicans are leading this charge is hardly surprising—repealing Section 230 is explicitly laid …
www.techdirt.com
December 14, 2025 at 9:11 PM
And finally, the assault on Section 230. This is the endgame for independent speech.
If you repeal 230, you don’t hurt Google or Meta—they have the lawyers to survive. You destroy the small forums, the independent blogs, the dissenters. You make the cost of speaking the truth too high to bear.
If you repeal 230, you don’t hurt Google or Meta—they have the lawyers to survive. You destroy the small forums, the independent blogs, the dissenters. You make the cost of speaking the truth too high to bear.
A no-doubt ignorant question: Why do posts from people I follow only show up on my "following" feed when they're labelled as "from Discover"?
I've said I want to see these posts. Why don't I, without some kind of algorithmic interference, and how can I fix this?
I've said I want to see these posts. Why don't I, without some kind of algorithmic interference, and how can I fix this?
December 14, 2025 at 5:28 PM
A no-doubt ignorant question: Why do posts from people I follow only show up on my "following" feed when they're labelled as "from Discover"?
I've said I want to see these posts. Why don't I, without some kind of algorithmic interference, and how can I fix this?
I've said I want to see these posts. Why don't I, without some kind of algorithmic interference, and how can I fix this?
My city needs to find a way to get off Meta.
Another first with the Meta sponsor just added to the Turning Point USA mega conference
December 14, 2025 at 12:04 AM
My city needs to find a way to get off Meta.
Charivari, for our times!
December 13, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Charivari, for our times!
I swear to GOD.
I've just reverted to my 12-year-old Macbook Pro to evade Apple Intelligence, but I can't seem to get rid of the rest of this crap. I turn it off; it turns itself right back on.
I think I've got a 2008 that still boots up around here somewhere.
I've just reverted to my 12-year-old Macbook Pro to evade Apple Intelligence, but I can't seem to get rid of the rest of this crap. I turn it off; it turns itself right back on.
I think I've got a 2008 that still boots up around here somewhere.
December 13, 2025 at 12:20 AM
I swear to GOD.
I've just reverted to my 12-year-old Macbook Pro to evade Apple Intelligence, but I can't seem to get rid of the rest of this crap. I turn it off; it turns itself right back on.
I think I've got a 2008 that still boots up around here somewhere.
I've just reverted to my 12-year-old Macbook Pro to evade Apple Intelligence, but I can't seem to get rid of the rest of this crap. I turn it off; it turns itself right back on.
I think I've got a 2008 that still boots up around here somewhere.
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Section 1 of the executive order is like "in order for this to mean anything, Congress must act." The rest of it is like "X department shall convene a task force to provide a list of recommendations etc. etc." It's completely toothless and this "blocking states" headline is brain-dead stenography.
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that blocks states from enforcing their own regulations around artificial intelligence and instead aims to create a "single national framework" for AI. https://cnn.it/49chVwf
December 12, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Section 1 of the executive order is like "in order for this to mean anything, Congress must act." The rest of it is like "X department shall convene a task force to provide a list of recommendations etc. etc." It's completely toothless and this "blocking states" headline is brain-dead stenography.
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I'm not sure if the famous flying Ottoman scholar Hezârfen Ahmed Çelebi was actually as fabulous as this painting by Adem Başpınar makes him look, but legend has it that he did manage to fly over the Bosporus strait in 1632.
Whereupon he was sent into exile for being "scary."
Whereupon he was sent into exile for being "scary."
December 11, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I'm not sure if the famous flying Ottoman scholar Hezârfen Ahmed Çelebi was actually as fabulous as this painting by Adem Başpınar makes him look, but legend has it that he did manage to fly over the Bosporus strait in 1632.
Whereupon he was sent into exile for being "scary."
Whereupon he was sent into exile for being "scary."
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Last month, a growing coalition of Massachusetts-based LGBTQ+ organizations sent a letter to @warren.senate.gov and requested a meeting with the Senator to discuss her previous support for #KOSA given the Trump admin's weaponization of the FTC to target trans healthcare.
The office ignored us.
The office ignored us.
December 9, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Last month, a growing coalition of Massachusetts-based LGBTQ+ organizations sent a letter to @warren.senate.gov and requested a meeting with the Senator to discuss her previous support for #KOSA given the Trump admin's weaponization of the FTC to target trans healthcare.
The office ignored us.
The office ignored us.
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Get on the horn and call Warren. She's usually on the correct side of issues, so it's bananas that she's sponsoring something so awful.
Just heard disappointing news that @warren.senate.gov will co-sponsor the Kids Online Safety Act again despite overwhelming opposition from LGBTQ, human rights, abortion rights, and racial justice groups.
This is a horrific betrayal of her constituents, particularly trans youth and their families.
This is a horrific betrayal of her constituents, particularly trans youth and their families.
Why Are Some Democrats Backing MAGA's Anti-LGBTQ+ Censorship?
From late-night host cancellations to removing LGBTQ+ history from government sites, politicians in both parties are contributing to the overwriting of the internet — a place where lots of queer and t...
www.teenvogue.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Get on the horn and call Warren. She's usually on the correct side of issues, so it's bananas that she's sponsoring something so awful.
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After the tenth of these emails I got Mad Enough to Blog it. Thanks to @electricliterature.com and @thedennemichele.bsky.social, and all the authors who shared their own scam emails.
That Personalized Email About Loving and Marketing Your Book Is a Scam - Electric Literature
Taking advantage of aspiring authors is a rich tradition, and now published authors are being scammed too
electricliterature.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:26 PM
After the tenth of these emails I got Mad Enough to Blog it. Thanks to @electricliterature.com and @thedennemichele.bsky.social, and all the authors who shared their own scam emails.