Zachary Pruckowski

“Racial profiling is fine because if you’re being wrongly profiled they’ll just leave you alone” is a fairly succinct summary of the right-wing position on racial profiling.

Two different statements here on Susan Collins from two Maine Democrats in the conversation for her Senate seat:

Q: but what if a full Epstein investigation also takes down Bill Clinton?????

A:

Screenshot of Salon article that mixes up me and Ezra Klein (a quasi common occurrence)

I am once again asking you to remember there are at least 2 Ezras who comment on national politics.

clinton?

oh no

anyway

Meta suppressed research on child safety, employees say The company’s lawyers intervened to shape research that might have shed light on risks in virtual reality, four current and former staffers have told Congress. Meta denies the allegations.

A German teen told Meta's child safety researchers his under-10 little brother had been sexually propositioned multiple times on its VR platform.

Meta deleted the evidence.

New internal whistleblower docs indicate that was part of a broader cover-up: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Your daily reminder that US economic data is of extremely high quality even when compared to other advanced nations and the envy of the world

Woulda been nice if we had some contempt proceedings underway by now

Every economics paper from now until the heat death of the universe is gonna have to asterisk any data from 2025-2028.

I honestly feel like this is all being done to mock, not to persuade. They know it's absurd to use a traumatic head injury that they caused as an excuse for starvation. They know those angry about it can't do anything about it. The absurdity is a flex of power.

I'm in a hotel and at the breakfast lounge, a morning show was playing. The segment was about "36% of all shopping is AI-assisted" and when the host drilled down, that mostly meant using ChatGPT to ask when stores are open.
We're putting that AI to work people

not gonna lie, if one of my friends told me they used ChatGPT to write all their texts to me, I would slowly edge that person out of my life

"let's find common ground" says the Jed bartlett wannabe with a high schooler's sense of what diplomacy must be like, thinking that's the opening gambit and wanting to fast forward to the scene where everyone's happy and shaking hands and knowing their wisdom was responsible for this scene

It feels really good to say "I listen to both sides and find the truth somewhere in the middle" because you're telling yourself you're so smart for being unbiased. Meanwhile the guy intentionally lying to you so he can exterminate anyone he thinks is less human than him is calling you a great patsy

Without that stroke I don’t leave Pokémon for Bungie (doctors said if I didn’t reduce stress the next one would kill me). I don’t go to Bungie, Bungie doesn’t crack down on video game cheating (nobody else there knew how). So my stroke changed the trajectory of the industry, at least temporarily.

The doctors attribute my stroke to the stress of getting Detective Pikachu made. Makes sense.

Today they call it age verification. Tomorrow it’s the government wanting access to the databases which store your PII and all the websites you visit.

If Biden had taken 10% of Intel, at least it would have been in exchange for the billions in Chips Act funding granted to the company. Trump's taking this in exchange for deciding not to destroy the company. It's literal protection money.

This morning, me in the @nytimes.com, discussing why the attacks on Governor Cook, the ONLY woman of color to join the Fed's Board of Governors, is a perfect example of how the individual costs women of color face TODAY become societal costs for everyone tomorrow.

This is #TheDoubleTax. #blacksky

So here’s the thing: you can never fully “sort the chaos.” The right wing will kick up a new chaos. Their entire reason for existing is to PREVENT you from getting a hearing. It will be one sabotage after another, forever.

If you can’t see that pattern, you don’t belong anywhere near politics.

Oh, also, there's no truth to the claims that everyone on the right is making about that guy being the "head" or "lead" cheerleader. They just made that up entirely. Zero reason to think that's true, not that it matters (but does illustrate how dumb some of the stuff the right believes is)

Have the Minnesota Vikings lost their f-ing minds?! These are the two new cheerleaders. They took two jobs from women and put these two feminine men in their place. Somebody save us.

Daily Caller: NFL Team’s Decision To Replace Women With Male Cheerleaders Goes As Well As You’d Expect

WATCH: Minnesota Vikings Replace Two Female Cheerleaders With Two Male Dancers. In August 2025, the team unveiled Blaize Shiek and Louie Conn as part of their “inclusivity” push. Just another example of women being replaced by men acting like women.

Men taking away women’s jobs. Some girl dancer/ cheerleader worked her entire life only to be the last cut do the Vikings (a mascot synonymous with peak masculinity) hired a dude. I hope fans protest. This isn’t feminism. It’s something else way different.

See the attack line? They've found it to be successful against trans people, so they're trying to expand it. They don't actually care about women!

Nothing projects strength like tiptoeing delicately around your opponents trying to engineer the pitch-perfect combination of words and phrases to poke them with, so that you can rhetorically wound them without overstepping. Truly the art of mass politics right there

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

If you are a published writer & object to Anthropic slurping up your writing for AI, you have until 8/15 to sign up to help defend your copyright. Check this database to see if they hv taken yr writing (you might want to check regardless):

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Then . . .

1/2

if you're hurt, that doesn't mean someone is trying to hurt you

and if no one is trying to hurt you, that doesn't mean you can't feel hurt

Wyoming and South Dakota Age Verification Laws Could Include Huge Parts of the Internet By omitting the "one-third" provision that most other states with age verification laws have adopted, Wyoming and South Dakota are placing the burden of verifying users' ages on all sorts of websites,...

Wyoming and South Dakota Age Verification Laws Verify Could Block Netflix

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The short answer: the Heritage Foundation have been paying influencers to discredit hormonal birth control for at least 7–8 years now

But what made me laugh out loud was how they hyperlinked "FBI 302 reports" every time they were mentioned.

Click on the link. It takes you to a law firm website saying what shit they are for actually proving anything.

As for the substance, we're supposed to believe that "a Democratic staffer" who "was friends with Schiff" called leaking a classified document "treasonous" to an FBI investigator. Not "illegal" or "prohibited," but "TREASONOUS."

Yeah sure he did.