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To those blaming Walz for not mobilizing the Guard, he did that six days ago. I have to say it's disturbing to see people angry at Walz instead of the government agents that just executed a man. As though we should all be experts about what to do when a secret police force invades an American city.

Super-rich chatgroups (and their own posts) have shown they have a whole universe of petty / inexplicable / bigoted / eugenicist grievances that they consider sufficient cause to justify burning down the rule of law, civil order, and international stability that made them rich in the first place.

ShopRite is using facial recognition in stores. Here’s what shoppers should know Connecticut lawmakers plan to introduce legislation to ban the practice in retail establishments statewide.

“Biometric data collection at Connecticut retailers has drawn new scrutiny over the past week, after Wegmans declined to say whether it uses the technology at its Norwalk store.”

“I think of ads as a last resort for us as a business model” - Sam Altman, October 2024

“We are starting to test ads in ChatGPT free and Go (new $8/month option) tiers.” - Sam Altman, January 2026
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This sounds more like a second resort than a last one. 😁

We've learned that for the All Lives Matter crowd, no lives matter.

Screenshot of an X.com post by Thomas Massie that begins, ‘Psst, Denmark…’ and jokes that telling the administration the Epstein files are in Greenland would make them lose interest and never find them.

Say what you want, but Massie has game.

I hate to burst everyone's bubble but if you think that CBS News losing ratings or prestige matters to David Ellison, you're mistaken. Murdoch ran the NY Post for 45 years without turning a profit. They want these media companies to pump propaganda, not to get ratings or make money.

To everyone who is concerned that ICE is starting to target citizens as well as immigrants:

Violently abducting immigrants is wrong too.

Moms with children are terrorists. January 6 rioters are patriots.

Boromir from the movie The Fellow ship of the rings thinking out loud about the one ring, with the caption "Perhaps we could give the ring better training."

the president has declared war on an american state and the leaders of the opposition wont shut the fuck up about retraining the stormtroopers

Meta's VR layoffs, studio closures underscore Zuckerberg's massive pivot to AI Meta began laying off employees in its Reality Labs division focused on virtual reality and shut down several VR studios as it pushes resources towards AI.

It underscores Mark Zuckerberg fucking sucks at literally everything he does and his company is a harmful burning pile of burning cash and donkey piss the press helps pretend is remotely interesting and innovative

Old me: “shit, I gotta do laundry, what a chore”
New me: “laundry, what a nice little break from fascism”

Whenever I spent time on normie platforms (your threads, your Facebook), I become more and more convinced that a large part of our problem as a nation is the literacy crisis. People have trouble with basic reasoning. They can't follow very simple logic or compound sentences. It's disturbing.

"You cannot be explaining your Nazi tattoo and defeat a multi-term incumbent."

Wealthy people need to hire a personal Red Team to tell them how stupid their ideas are.

U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis is now questioning Shawn Byers, ICE's deputy field office director in Chicago.

Vance spokesperson: “Gavin Newsom wants people to think this exercise is dangerous.”

<shrapnel hits Vance’s motorcade>

Vance spokesperson: No comment.

Elaborating b/c there's a lot of misunderstanding on this.

Insurrection Act does nothing except you can then use soldiers as cops. They can enforce laws, but they're the same old laws. It doesn't suspend the Constitution. No martial law, no closing courts, no removing state officials, none of that.

i love when people from other countries are like “does the US know how bad things are???” and it’s like YEA WE’RE AWARE

The record protests are the 6th headline down on the NYT mobile app.

all the anxiety human evolution developed to help me spot bears now kicks in when i have to answer emails

This was my favorite sign from #Portland #NoKings. #putabirdonit

YouTube video by ProPublica Russell Vought: The Shadow President

📽️ WATCH: This video on the rise of Russ Vought, Trump's “shadow president,” is based on scores of interviews, thousands of pages of emails and dozens of hours of videos and recordings of private briefings given by Vought, most of which have not been previously reported.

Even though I'm partial to our NYC crowd, I will admit that seeing this visual was the one that really got me today. It's just so damn impressive.

At the South Portland ICE facility, after pushing back the crowd to let some vehicles leave, agents gassed the street for approximately 10 minutes solid. S Bancroft was opaque with gas; agents also threw flash grenades and shot pepper bullets.

SDPD

And San Diego PD did the same.

Los Angeles, CA -

More pushing, shoving, “less lethal” projectiles towards the crowd that was assembled at Metro Detention Center. Protesters were as far as I can tell peaceful outside of remaining in the area (but were attempting to leave) until the charge from horse mounted units.