Anna K

great to see that even without a third of its staff the Washington Post can find the time to mind somebody else's business

Predicting that this week we’ll hear more conciliatory words from the Administration regarding Minnesota (since they’re starting to realize that ICE has become politically toxic) but everyone outside of Minnesota needs to know that nothing on the ground has changed.

We didn't say body cams on ICE. Their murders are already on video. We said no more ICE.

I admit, when I finally saw the Neil Gaiman post, where he’s like “the accusations, the texts, the video, the paintings depicting my actions, the songs people wrote about it, the newspaper coverage, the pictures, the apologies I made were all false” I laughed.

DHS said that the woman CBP shot in the chest in Portland was “involved” in a gang shooting.

Her ~involvement~ was that suspected gang members sexually assaulted and robbed her.

When I was growing up in Boston there were mini baby booms 9 months after every big storm and power outage

"And if my parents had made a different choice, I wouldn't be here today leading Congress into helpless irrelevancy, providing cover for a brutal American dictator, setting the stage for World War III, and ... hang on, hang on, let me start again."

Another question I came here with was: how effective are the whistles and honking? Does it stop abductions? And the answer is, surprisingly to my cynical self, yes, and often. I have talked to so many people who have successfully interrupted kidnappings.

TIL: There’s an MTV videos-only site: wantmymtv.vercel.app

I hope another nation takes over funding. I also hope CBS and Bari are unable to kill 60 Minutes.

Donate to Support Mary’s Breast Cancer Treatment, organized by Mary Andrews Hanson I never imagined I would be writing this, but life has taken an unexpected … Mary Andrews Hanson needs your support for Support Mary’s Breast Cancer Treatment

My friend Mary was laid off AND diagnosed with breast cancer in the last few months; treatment is going to make it extremely hard to start a new job. She set up a GFM and I am signal-boosting.

gofund.me/1b54a89c7

The annual National Art Academy graduation exhibition in Hangzhou is usually much anticipated. This year, some particular entries by a master student called Nie Shichang, stole the show. Inspired by both new tech and the mechanical arts of the Mo Clan. 1/
#arts #culture #mechanics

I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul

If you are a Democratic senator watching these results and the lesson you take is "I should cave and help Republicans reopen the government for nothing more than a promise written on toilet paper" then you shouldn't be in the Senate anymore

if you didn't follow the VA governor race you didn't know that Earle-Sears ran like a billion anti-trans campaign ads and Spanberger didn't flinch or pull a Newsom.

going all-in against trans people is a losing move, especially when the federal government has made harming and killing us a priority.

“Do you really expect Mamdani to get everything he’s promising done?”

No. I’m sure a lot of what I want won’t happen. But I’m ready for someone who’s willing to actually fucking try rather than tell everyone why trying is pointless and must be saved for an undefined later moment

Steve Bannon Reveals ‘There’s a Plan’ for Third Trump Term Bannon divulged that there are “many different alternatives” for securing a third term for Trump.

i think editors should occasionally entertain the idea that bannon is just full of shit www.thedailybeast.com/steve-bannon...

"As of December 10, 2020, 1 in 800 Black Americans had died of COVID-19"

the ballroom will never be built and he’ll just pocket whatever money he collects because he is a grifter first and foremost

OpenAI's Sora 2 Can Generate Videos of Celebrities Appearing to Shout Racial Slurs OpenAI's Sora 2 video generation model can be exploited to push misinformation and depict public figures behaving badly despite promised guardrails.

At some point it has to become clear that this tech exists is to create a more toxic society and enrich its owners. These uses are not aberrations but rather the entire purpose.

"Trump is going to invade American cities and bulldoze the White House" would have been seen as an alarmist liberal fever dream thing to say a year ago

Starting to think that bulldozing the White House east wing is the country’s equivalent of giving itself bangs.

The Long Con | Rick Perlstein Mitt Romney lies to be loved.

There's a great Rick Perlstein piece from 2012 basically talking about the connection between the right in general and grift that I highly recommend to anyone interested.

thebaffler.com/salvos/the-l...

Just a reminder that — in the middle of a shutdown — House Republicans are on a paid vacation solely to avoid releasing the Epstein files and lowering your health care costs.

we can't get back the men we've 'lost' to these horrific ideologies because we never had them in the first place. it's been 84 years but dorothy thompson still says it best at the end of 'who goes nazi," which you should read if you haven't. the link: harpers.org/archive/1941... . the quote:

Media outlets who refuse to describe in plain terms what the president did because they find it objectionable are lying to their audiences and running cover for the president. It's as simple as that.

Tax Day Is Met With Tea Parties (Published 2009)

Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement.

Check out how tiny the crowds were:

Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000