regime critic

Another room full of (mostly) older attendees for a public meeting about the Family Zoning Plan

Another evening of “this is why your city has a housing shortage”

Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer: working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now" "I'm strong and want to have like fifty kids and a farm" of course you do. You're twelve. "I don't want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal" hell yeah homie you're twelve. "Maybe if there's crime we should just send the army" bless your heart my twelve year old buddy

Another confirmation of the "everyone is twelve now" theory.

ICE is literally shooting priests like it's 1905 or some shit

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

didn’t the obama admin also do this? i seem to recall some white paper about drone strikes

Thread, which illustrates nicely why I'm having that "hey uhhhh did the dissolution of the Union just kind of happen just now" feeling the last few days

It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all

The GOP has been trying to replace Obamacare for 15 years. It still does not have a plan. We are supposed to take their claim to be a party interested in legitimate governance seriously.

My son was in the flotilla. He is now in Israeli prison being mistreated. 22 Americans in all. Calls/messages to US Gov't officials are ignored. Many activists from other countries are already released. Needs national media attention.

as the global hegemon & Israel's chief enabler, America gets more dedicated humiliation treatments, from Netanyahu bragging abt unconstitutional US laws & censorship to some Israeli who harasses US students with impunity mocking the mother of an American reporter who made a Twitter account for this

at this point you have to acknowledge that there is no way that these guys don't try to mess with the 2026 midterms. there is absolutely no respect for the legitimacy of the opposition

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

"I know that there are some people in this room who don't believe that my marriage should have been legal," Ms. Weiss told the Federalist Society, an influential conservative legal group, in 2023. "And that's OK. Because we're all Americans who want lower taxes."

Built in a lab to appease billionaires

We wanted to understand Democratic Socialists of America. So we talked to two old guys who voted for Trump. (Yes, this is literally the article.)

Pritzker doing better journalism 101 than a lot of tv news producers these days

Discord says users' government IDs used for age checks stolen by hackers Thanks to age verification laws, expect more data breaches of users' government-issued passports and driver's licenses.

Today in Totally Foreseen Unforeseeable Consequences.

no industry in the US has ever really been angelic but there is an unique combination of messianic fervor and raw nastiness behind current AI gold rush that even fairly jaded science fiction hasn't really depicted quite well

bsky.app/profile/cksh...

The head of Homeland Security, complaining about a US CITIZEN doing the NFL halftime show.

This could lead one to think their (alleged) anger about “illegal aliens” is really just naked racism.

Anyway, props to the NFL for its America First policy of getting Americans to sing at halftime.

I did not know that Bret Stephens was also on the flotilla

we’re bringing back 2021’s greatest twitter hit 4 years later

\Sephiroth from Final Fantasy VII is glowing dramatically, surrounded by beams of light. A dialogue box styled like the game’s interface reads: Sephiroth: "just wanna clarify that i'm not owned right now. yea u won or whatever but i'm not owned. i'm actually very calm rn"

i also hate baseball and wish we could all stop posting about it

Waiting for SCOTUS to jump in with a one paragraph unsigned opinion saying that the greater harm here would *not* be allowing Trump to brutalized people living in Democratic cities.

Seems a bit weird that a position held by about 2/3 of american jews (israel is committing war crimes against palestinians) can get you fired for antisemitism

Many American Jews sharply critical of Israel on Gaza, Post poll finds Most Jews say Israel is committing war crimes — and 39 percent say genocide — while often distinguishing between the country and its leadership.

Many American Jews sharply disapprove of Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza, with 61 percent saying Israel has committed war crimes and about 4 in 10 saying the country is guilty of genocide against the Palestinians, according to a Washington Post poll.

oh, unlike everything else that’s preceded it?

the products people talk about aren’t even good, they’re objectively bad on multiple different levels! this sora thing is bad AND it’s slop!

don’t understand why so many people are so gung-ho about not AI in general but AI _slop_ in particular

case in point. these people are too stupid, stunned, and/or chickenshit to understand what is happening. they keep looking for an escape hatch that doesn't exist bsky.app/profile/greg...