Joey Scott

A tables, chairs, and ladders match to decide who’ll be the new leader of Iran.

When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities

It was wrong and harmful - and quite possibly unlawful - to cut already approved NEH grants because Donald Trump hates "DEI."

But the way DOGE went about doing it was even dumber than you probably imagined.

They fed abstracts into ChatGPT and demanded an answer in fewer than 120 characters.

They’re using the deaths as an excuse to build a new jail, too.

listen, this isn’t a lie, but it’s really close.

when you google it, the top source is Siskind’s own Facebook page.

the actual audio is just a meaningless blanket statement from which no one should draw any conclusions.

no actual news source has covered the quote, including Fox.

By delaying their release with their “multi-layered supervisor reviews,” my requests slowly become irrelevant and timely.

The purpose of a system is what it does and that system is the LAPD taking a year to two years to fulfill my public records requests.

If you are saying that the people running ICE prisons are fascist, I have news for you about how the whole punishment system works in this country.

NEW: Watch this report just in from CNN’s Frederik Pleitgen. It is raining oil in Tehran this morning.

A city of 10 million is being actively poisoned.

(🎥 CNN)

Definitely check out the New Yorker article. You can read a copy from the library, or at least I can from Libby.

I think about this piece all the time. I wanted a physical copy of it so I stole one from my therapist’s office. Great work!

The New Yorker @edcaesar.bsky.social wrote about the Kinahan’s recently and the story reads like a movie.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

BREAKING: The US has bombed Tehran’s main refinery and burning oil is now flooding down the streets into the city’s sewers.

This is a vision from hell, unleashed by the US tonight.

(🎥 Vahid Online)

I am so happy to see this thread on here.

North Tehran’s Aqdasiyeh oil depot is ablaze tonight after it was targeted by multiple US-Israeli airstrikes. Apocalyptic scenes filmed by Iranians driving on the nearby highway. Local reporters saying firefighters can’t put it out. This depot is critical energy infrastructure for Iran.

Should we trust a technology that has the backing of the largest corporations in the world who are run by a bunch of dudes who like the smell of their own farts?

Explain ethics. Explain what it is to know. The more interesting question is, what is the moral justification for making a few people richer on a technology that’s largely used to bomb people better and to exploit people’s data to sell us more shit?

Guys like this were in single every philosophy class I took while getting my philosophy degree. It’s always gotcha questions that thinkers proposed since Plato. Do you wanna talk qualia? Access vs phenomenological consciousness? Nagel? Dennett? Searle? Or do you wanna hear yourself talk?

I love all women.

ICE arrested an Oregon shop owner who had her green card in her pocket: ‘They didn’t care’ Juanita Avila later helped expose ICE’s ‘arrest first, justify later’ tactics in a lawsuit that won a major victory for immigrants’ rights

NEW: ICE tackled + arrested Juanita Avila, an Oregon shop owner who is a legal permanent resident and had her green card in her pocket.

When she asked through sobs why they didn't believe her, one masked agent replied: “Because they lie all the time.”

Video + interview with her and her daughter:

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t George W. Bush may think that a war against Iraq is the solution to our problems, but the reality is, it will only serve to create far more.

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid Footage obtained by The Handbasket’s lawsuit shows a hostile takeover on March 17, 2025.

SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors.

My report:

I am so glad Sahra is on here. She does some of the best reporting on the LAPD, covering stories that most journalists miss.

City Attorney Takes Her Own Swing at Man Sucker Punched by LAPD in 2024 - Streetsblog Los Angeles Eleven months after Officer Joshua Sportiello punched Alexander Mitchell in the face, the City Attorney's office filed misdemeanor resisting charges against him. Was it in retaliation for Mitchell's c...

SCOOP: City Attorney Takes Her Own Swing at Man Sucker Punched by LAPD in 2024 - la.streetsblog.org/2026/03/06/c...

That’s all on you for running on a platform that lost.

Most people won’t finish your 1,000 page book.

Most people also won’t finish your 500-word article. So write at whatever length is appropriate for the subject.

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“A slur involved group chat”

Last week, ICE announced the 38th death in its detention system since January 2025. Alberto Gutierrez-Reyes, 48, was being held at Adelanto after being arrested in Echo Park, LA. His family says he was denied medical care despite repeated requests. 🧵