Darin 🙇🏼‍♂️

Something I wish was more broadly recognized/admitted about the leftists/progressives in the party is that when their votes are needed, they almost uniformly show the fuck up. Even if it’s inadequate milquetoast legislation that they openly hate. They show up and they’re good goddamn party soldiers

The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you’re overreacting.

What’s crazy is that artists have been saying this for years but y’all just had to make your stupid ass “studio ghibli” profile pictures and fake 90s yearbook photos. It didn’t matter when artists were at the chopping block tho. 🤪

welp,

About 1.5 years ago, I signed a letter by CUNY journalism school faculty that basically just said killing journalists is bad, because even then the number killed in Gaza was setting records. Somehow this was…wildly controversial at the time.

This is my will and my final message. If these words of mine reach you, know that Israel has succeeded in killing me and silencing my voice. Peace be upon you, and the mercy and blessings of Allah. Allah knows that I exerted every effort and strength I had to be a support and a voice for my people, from the moment I opened my eyes to life in the alleys and streets of the Jabalia refugee camp. My hope was that Allah would prolong my life until I could return with my family and loved ones to our original hometown, the occupied Ascalon "Majdal." But Allah's will prevailed, and His decree was fulfilled.

Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif’s last tweet is his last will and testament, posted by his friend after he was murdered for telling the truth for 22 months.

Contrast with Beto O'Rourke, who said two days ago at Netroots Nation that Democrats should "use the awesome power of this country to establish an independent, sovereign state for the Palestinian people."

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

The biggest red flag is when somebody can’t say a simple “yes” to a Palestinian statehood, but somehow pretends to advocate for a 2-state solution.

A 2-state solution only happens if you’re willing to recognize Palestine as a state, my dude!

This part.

Blueberry jam isn't blue because the anthocyanins in blueberries function as a pH indicator. They shift from blue to red in more acidic conditions, like when lemon juice is added during jam preparation. h/t @helenczerski.bsky.social

I’ve long joked that someone should start the Social Democratic Party of America that just peels off the electoralists in DSA into a new organization that doesn’t allow the ultras. I’d join right away! (I’m a DSA paper member, don’t @ me)

Meanwhile LAPD racks up hundreds of millions in liabilities for their lawlessness and abuse

Good morning. Some thoughts about last night:

It’s a shocking thing when media get brutalized by the state, for a number of reasons, but it often shifts the spotlight off the thing we were out there to cover in the first place.

My evening started like this yesterday: a lively, fun march thru DTLA

Wtf? I think we really have to own up to the fact that this timeline was always kind of effed up.

i'm crying laughing. she's literally never seen the word before.

This makes me jealous of Zohran because my partner and I pay more for rent in LA and make less money. 😭😭 the affordability crisis is real.

there are so many open layups and somehow dems can’t make them. republicans are literally pulling cancer treatment from children and they can’t message on that??? like what the fuck are we doing here

Source sends along this photo from House Democrats’ AIPAC-led trip to Israel.

Reps in the photo include: Pete Aguilar, Brad Schneider, Johnny Olszewski, Nellie Pou, Gil Cisneros, Laura Gillen, Tim Kennedy, Luz Rivas and Wesley Bell

These House Dems are having an AIPAC-funded smiling vacation in a country currently bombing and starving millions of people with weapons they voted to send to that country.

Truly sickening. Stomach-churning. Ghouls.

Substack’s extremist ecosystem is flourishing The app's recent swastika push alert was just the tip of the iceberg.

NEW: Since giving NYT hacked info from a Nazi and sending a swastika push alert, Substack's extremism is in the spotlight again. An investigation finds Substack is a haven for newsletters dedicated to white supremacy—with the co-founders' blessing.

A collab between @katz.theracket.news and me:

as others have mentioned the president of the united states has unprecedented access to classified and high level intelligence reports and yet he spends all of his fuckin day watching TV

Really telling how quickly transphobia became the single, all-encompassing prescription for all of the Democratic coalition’s ills in the minds of the white guy midwit pundit class.

ICE: Houston-area Trump-themed burger joint owner now facing deportation Roland Beainy, the Lebanese owner of President Donald Trump-themed restaurants in and around Houston, is facing deportation.

Greetings from Houston.

You can’t make this up.

Not from The Onion.

It sure sounds like someone burned down the home of one of Roy Moore’s accusers as retribution after he lost the election.

a message; a word.

OpenAI claims new GPT-5 model boosts ChatGPT to ‘PhD level’ GPT-5's release comes as tech firms continue to compete in an effort to claim the world's most advanced AI.

Obviously a lie, since the definition of PhD-level expertise, standard across universities worldwide, is that you can produce original knowledge.

It's really key to understand this: ***they don't need actual backlash of any substance or scale to run this cycle***. All they need is a few random comments, which they can always find, which means that you can basically run this cycle at will. You don't need libs to play along at all!