Flock of Smeagols

True: @zohranmamdani lives in 1 unit of rent-stabilized housing.

Also true: Andrew Cuomo oversaw the loss of 96,064 units of rent-stabilized housing. And killed NYC’s program helping people move out of shelter.

Leaders must show moral clarity. Andrew, time to move out. 🧵
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“A legitimate PhD-level expert in anything,” they said.

“Show me a diagram of the US presidents since FDR, with their names and years in office under their photos,” I said.

Exactly. He KILLED fiddy men!

In Louisiana, Some Court Officials Get Paid to Evict Justices of the peace can line their pockets by granting evictions. A new lawsuit argues that’s unconstitutional.

This Louisiana public official gets to decide whether to grant evictions.

That role allows him to pad his earnings with eviction fees; that's how he collected most of his $255,000 take-home salary in 2023.

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In my book, I show that an eviction can ruin someone's life *even if it never happens.* A mere eviction FILING—even one dismissed in court—can destroy your credit and lock you out of housing for years.

That's why I say people aren't "falling" into homelessness. They're being pushed.

It’s very strange that the Times is normalizing the fact that the whims of the president and the far-right ideologues who staff his “crusade against top schools” have become a predicate for “deals.” This is authoritarian behavior and should be covered as such.

I apologize for swearing but--are you fucking kidding me???

The NYT thinks that judges refusing to give Trump's DOJ the benefit of the doubt is "eroding the healthy functioning of the courts."

For democracy to survive, judges need to be more skeptical and impose greater sanctions for DOJ's lies.

Virginia Guiffre statement to Maxwell read on the day of her sentencing.

Virginia Guiffre statement to Maxwell read on the day of her sentencing.

This is Virginia Guiffre's statement to Ghislane Maxwell, read by Guiffre's attorney in court the day Maxwell was sentenced.

I had to divide it into 2 parts. Please read each & share.

These are the words of a child rape victim, a victim of the monster Trump now protecting & arranging her freedom.

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

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the republican party is a criminal conspiracy against the american republic

Let's Stop Beating Around The Bush, Part II We shouldn't fear the truth, or the word impeachment. Even on a generous read, the Epstein scandal proves Trump is unfit.

Contra Joe Rogan, the main problem with Trump's Epstein coverup isn't that he broke his promise to "drain the swamp." It's that the coverup points to a small number of very dark possibilities. We shouldn't be afraid to air them, and Rogan shouldn't blind himself to them.

The man predicted the future and he told you exactly how it was going to happen, too

Venezuelan Little League team denied entry into US amid Trump travel ban The team will not be able to play in the Senior League World Series in South Carolina.

Yes, ok, sound bad, but on the other hand Rubio did bring back a triple murderer from Venezuela and release him in the US www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

Here’s how it’s about to go down: Ghislaine names a bunch of Democrats, maybe tosses in a few billionaires. She says Trump did nothing wrong. MAGA praises her for “taking down the pedophiles.” Trump pardons her… for “telling the truth.”

I think @keithedwards.bsky.social nails it here, with the next step being Republicans like MTG and Burchett rallying around Trump for "exposing the Democrats."

Apparently, this was the caption that appeared in Rolling Stone Magazine. Amazing.

If you’re feeling uneasy, it’s probably because we now know we live in a country built on the blackmail of a dead pedophile who is Too Big to Fail, so Congress has to go home for a couple of months to figure out how talk about it without defenestrating the president and collapsing the economy.

Welcome to your 40s. You now know what you want to do with your life when you turn 18

Holy smokes South Park went scorched earth on Trump for their season 27 premiere….Paramount is gonna love this after giving Trey Parker and Matt Stone a cool $1.5B streaming deal….🤣💀

Proposition: Rod Fehlman should be “cancelled,” and it would be an exercise of free speech rights to participate in his “cancellation,” and squeamishness about “cancelling” him reflects an inherent bias in favor of the rights of people like Fehlman at the expense of people like the victims.
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So I feel very strongly that there aren’t enough good resources to tell people what mobile games are actually fun and not just a Delaware corporation lunging for your wallet and I’m going to start a thread. Sam’s IOS Game Thread START:

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

Good stuff. House Dems pushed Epstein amendments and that got Republicans to shut down the House for a week.

Now, turn up the heat. Dems should keep that up and use other procedural means to keep the House shut down.

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A very sincere “read the room you absolute wankmuffin” to whoever at Humble Bundle decided to host a HARRY POTTER themed bundle to support the TREVOR PROJECT 🤦🏼😤

At some point, the ignorance can be classified as malicious.

"I knew I should've shown him Electro-Gonorrhea: The Noisy Killer"

all you gotta do to explain the concept of “nonbinary” to a boomer is be like “so you know David Bowie? that’s a gender now”

I called everyone in Jeffrey Epstein's little black book. What I learned about rich people, conspiracy, Ghislaine, stand-up comedy, and evil from 2,000 phone calls.

Read account by “Julie,” a longtime friend from before Epstein became a billionaire, who was present at early stage of Epstein’s outreach to Wexner: www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 1/

As the Senate considers voting to approve Trump's devastating funding cuts to public broadcasting, listen to the words of LeVar Burton.

The Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121.

Contact your senators today and urge them to oppose these cuts.

Hi! I’m a sexuality professional and educator and have studied under some of the most highly regarded sexologists, sex therapists, sex educators in the world. I’m going to talk about potentially triggering things now with all of the discussions around Epstein.

The Trump admin sent an Irish tourist in ICE custody to a federal prison that was leasing beds to ICE, where he says "we were treated less than human."

Staff at the prison would throw his medicine on the ground rather than deliver it to him in person.