Sebastian Hassinger

hey, cis folks!

this is monstrous & it’s only going to get more common & if you remember 2020 when white moms stood between cops & black protestors that’s probably what it’ll take in some cases for trans people to survive using a public bathroom in the same shape they went in.

i hope you will.

They recovered over 180 bullet shells at the CDC. Debris from shattered glass is still being cleaned up. I am completely stunned at how quickly the news cycle has moved on. This was an act of terrorism targeting public health experts, and the response seems to be a collective shrug.

The Medium Chili Peppers

yeah they are going to decide this and give republican states enough time to draw new maps

i think they're handing this medal out to dipshits *because* it's gone to people like rosa parks and MLK

the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.

You know, I’m not surprised that the people who have been bringing us “alternative facts” for like a decade now are planning to share fake jobs numbers and tariffs numbers and Smithsonian museum exhibits but it does scare the shit out of me how much they’re intent on destroying our shared reality

For the record, our division commander BANNED things called “presence patrols” in Iraq.

“If you don’t have a specific task & purpose, your ‘presence’ doesn’t do anything.”

National Guard stating they are now doing presence patrols in DC.

A complete waste of soldier’s time & effort.

They go fast when they want to go fast and slow when they want to go to slow and the decision is *always* an ideological one.

This from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social hit me over the head like a mallet of truth. This is the thing. This is what I’ve been trying to warn people about perfectly crystallized. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...

What baffles me is that neither Mayor Muriel Bowser nor AG Brian Schwalb have filed any action to stop TACO from his illegal take over of DC.

There is NO emergency warranting the exercise of that power and we all know it.

Make him defend this shit in court.

Fascism is here. We’re not “getting closer” or “at risk.”

That matters, because it changes the frame: we’re not trying to stop it — we’re trying to defeat it. It hasn’t just started taking over our institutions; it already has.

Otherwise, we’ll always be behind, fighting a past we’ve already lost.

Remember the legend who asked how much does fascism cost?

Well -
The LA occupation was $134M.
How much is this siege in DC going to cost?

Our dollars are being used to terrorize and control us.

Get angry. Get committed. Get united.

This is fascism.

I’m reading William L Shirer’s wartime memoirs and everything the Nazis did was “just theater” when it sputtered out and Blitzkrieg and Sonderbehandlung when it worked the way they wanted it to.

Another one of the many moments that’s “just theater.” Thing is, fascism is all about theater. There’s no “just” about it. It’s drama and it’s dangerous.

Mohawk Skywalkers: The History Stephen Miller Whitewashed The Kanien'kéhá:ka Haudenosaunee ironworkers were vital to building Miller's favorite monuments to modern America

Stephen Miller tried to claim only real "Americans" built the Empire State Building, but he left out the true stories of the Indigenous ironworkers who actually did. The Mohawk Skywalkers helped shape America's skylines—and shatter the lie behind Miller’s whitewashed nostalgia.

Pulling for this guy. He's pretty great but also he's married to a newspaper columnist which speaks very well of his judgement.

“The Nation” Interviews Zohran Mamdani New York's Democratic mayoral nominee shares his views on the city's affordability crisis, the new media landscape—and how Democrats need to stand up for what they believe.

"At a moment when the language of politics is so dour and so dark, it’s important to understand that the tonic to the darkness is not imitating it, but rather to marshal the same lightness and joy that also characterizes our lives."

--Mamdani, in this interview:

I'm constantly reminded that most who use ChatGPT and other LLMs have *no idea* their models aren't updated in real time to account for current events.

As prompted by someone on Reddit who asked ChatGPT to design a travel plan and appeared surprised it wasn't aware of the July 4th floods.

Rep. Adam Smith: "Look, it's pretty clear the president wants his own domestic police force and step by step he's trying to create it. We should be deeply alarmed by that regardless of how you feel about crime in DC or any other city ... it's a huge step toward an autocratic government."

The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models rep… The new era of tech seems to be built on superstitious behaviour

Modern AI tools emulate the classic con-man tricks of mentalism, tricking people into believing that they’re far more clever - and sapient - than they actually are.

Fantastic piece by @baldurbjarnason.com :

softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...

From 2020 to 2022 COVID vaccines prevented over 18.5 million hospitalizations, 3.2 million deaths and saved the US $1.15 trillion.

mRNA vaccines and treatments are being developed for diabetes, HIV, cancer, and more. Imagine how many more lives we could save if we don't defund science.

Never forget how much we outnumber these ghouls.

Bureau Of Astonishing Tootlers (BOAT)

DAILY MEMO: Masked Agents Draw Guns On Student In front of Highschool, Leave Live Ammunition in The Street, Setting Their Sights on Schools, and More.

@eltragon.bsky.social

Lift this up!!!

“Trump says” vs. actual data on crime dropping in DC is not “Trump says vs. the Mayor says.”
It’s “Trump says” vs. fact.

Trump’s “crime & squalor” excuse is pretext & his naming other cities all w/Black mayors as his next targets compels an honest confrontation w/Trump’s racism & authoritarianism.

Ok this is my laugh for the night.

Buy this book. Seriously, if you have any interest at all in Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter or in the way racial injustice manifested not only in the music industry but in "progressive" folk music and academia, you need to get it.

condolences to all the folks facing layoffs at eater. so many times when i’ve been in a new city i’ve just typed “eater + city name” into search knowing the recommendations would be top tier. thanks to all of you for all your work.

media, man.