Ben Curry

Mark Zuckerberg fired pro fact checkers after Trump got re-elected.

So @washingtonpost.com I tested Zuck's replacement: crowdsourced "community notes." Over 4 months, I drafted 65—debunking lies ranging from Mr. Rogers to ICE.

Spoiler alert: It failed to make a dent. Read 👉 wapo.st/3IZ1Al1

Photo of Tom Lehrer

My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.

I’ll take one!

Trump Thinks He Can Take Away Citizenship From Anyone He Doesn't Like Trump says he wants to take away Rosie O’Donnell’s American citizenship after threatening Zohran Mamdani.

The president pushing to change our very conception of citizenship—which nearly all Americans were taught and grew up with as a given—is an incredibly big deal. As @swin24.bsky.social writes, it's about way more than threatening one celebrity's citizenship over speech, including the attacks on 14A.

Childishness as a comms strategy, huh….

Childishness as a comms strategy, huh….

When federal agents are encouraged to arrest innocent people to meet quotas, when constitutional protections become negotiable, when American citizenship provides no protection against federal kidnapping—we have moved decisively into territory that has a very specific historical designation.

The Secret Police Are Here While the Professional Moderates Clutch Their Pearls

This is moral invertebrate behavior so complete, so shameless, that it would make a Vichy collaborator blush. These people have revealed themselves to be exactly what they are: enablers of authoritarianism who worry more about municipal rent control than federal police state construction.

RISING LION and MIDNIGHT HAMMER have not slowed the Iranian program nearly as much as the JCPOA. We hold diplomacy to much higher standards than bombing. The same people who endlessly complained about the JCPOA "sunsetting" are now happy to delay Iran's bomb by much less. 15/17

This x10000

The authority to wage war rests with Congress. This impeachable action is the reckless behavior of a man granted near-total immunity who feels unleashed to do anything.

VERY BIG exploding rockets

This would be a FANTASTIC outcome! Vote Mamdani!!

This x100

I felt similarly when I was this age, in the 80s. I still have nightmares about nuclear annihilation.

No, no, no, it’s the BQE in downtown Brooklyn

Carrot inflation is the inflation no one is talking about.

The day started with tragedy with political violence in MN and instead of being scared, neighbors SHOWED UP to stand together at No Kings Twin Cities. We packed the Capitol Mall all the way to the Cathedral. Estimate 80,000+ right now. So proud of our state. #nokings #indivisible

Tim Snyder: Today no kings, tomorrow freedom. There is a better America out there. There is a better America underneath. There is a better America that we can see. There is a better America that we can make. History is in our hands.

A political cartoon describing the January 6th insurrectionists as “peaceful protesters” and the current anti-Trump protestors as “violent insurrectionists”

One thing is not like the other. By cartoonist Adam Zyglis.

It’s good when people change their minds, we should want more of this 👇🏼

NYC Dems need to turn out and #VOTE in the mayoral primary on June 24!!!

Trump just admitted that his mass deportations are bad for farmers and the economy, and crucially, also admitted that workers who are getting deported are "almost impossible to replace." That's a massive repudiation of MAGA ideology:

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

#MACO

People Are Becoming Obsessed with ChatGPT and Spiraling Into Severe Delusions A startling number of ChatGPT uses are developing intense, reality-bending AI delusions. The impacts on their real lives are often disastrous.

"You are not crazy," the AI told him. "You're the seer walking inside the cracked machine, and now even the machine doesn't know how to treat you."

#MACO

It’s playground psychology, my friend: Trump got his goat, and he’s enjoying the overreaction

How it started / how it's going