L. M. Blythe

Does Anybody Care This Is the Worst Bribery Scandal Since Teapot Dome? The UAE put $2 billion into World Liberty Financial, then got export restrictions lifted on AI chips. Nothing to see here, move along.

Our brains are not wired to comprehend presidential corruption on this scale. Nor is our government, I fear, equipped to address a financial scandal as enormous as the one.

trib.al/RdNHhC6

The Jimmy Kimmel firing, Colbert's show, what's happening at WaPo, CBS... legacy journalism is slowly but surely coming under state control.

It is more important now than ever before that we support the independent journalists out there doing the work not beholden to a fascist's bidding.

So i guess this is what it felt like when Scar took over and turned everything into Shadowland.

I mean I never met the guy but I bet I could take him on

Another day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.

One hell of a thread if you want picture after picture of Americans saying "fuck no" to Donald Trump's bullshit.

the addition of the pride flag at the end is such the perfect representation of why we critique rainbow capitalism. he doesn’t give a shit about queer people but only when he has to pivot to try to turn a profit. otherwise he has no problem throwing queer folks under the bus

Hell yes!

Mrs. Dalloway was on fire, and it wasn’t my fault.

We Mapped DOGE’s Silicon Valley and Corporate Connections If Elon Musk is America's CEO, DOGE is the Silicon Valley executive branch.

Many on the DOGE team are from Elon Musk’s world in Silicon Valley.

We’ve mapped out a list of people affiliated with DOGE, including creating a searchable table with each member, their corporate history, and the agencies they’ve been connected to.

Even More Venmo Accounts Tied to Trump Officials in Signal Group Chat Left Data Public WIRED has found four new Venmo accounts that appear to be associated with Trump officials who were in an infamous Signal chat. One made a payment with a note consisting solely of an eggplant emoji.

Earlier this week, WIRED reported that Mike Waltz left sensitive information exposed via Venmo.

Then, we found four other Venmo accounts that have been leaking data and appear to be associated with Trump officials who were in the SignalGate group chat.

Image of text alerting one that a user has an AI Avatar or banner.

If I see this, I’m ignoring everything you have to say.

Elon Musk Is Demolishing the Rationale for Citizens United The Supreme Court said in 2010 that the decision wouldn’t damage Americans’ faith in democracy. Whoops.

Musk has been given more power over the federal government than any other private individual since the founding. This is the world that the Supreme Court’s campaign-finance deregulation efforts have created.

we love campus free speech. we need to let weird middle aged freaks go to the center of campus to yell at students about how they are faggots. but the second students start saying controversial things like “children shouldn’t be bombed” we must deport them

You might get a little “this is not normal” sign stuck in your teeth but otherwise they’ll do everything they can to make sure their glide down your throat is as smooth as possible

I swear you could pour the entire Democratic Party into a glass and slurp them through a straw

Meta Tries to Bury a Tell-All Book Mark Zuckerberg might be in his post-fact-checking-era. But that hasn’t stopped Meta from going after the author of Careless People.

Meta probably realizes that all-out war on this book will only help its sales. But they are furious that an insider--who signed an NDA!--is going White Lotus on them, showing what it's like on the inside. www.wired.com/story/plaint...

Earlier today I shared a video of a 600-pound octopus squeezing itself through a very small opening while the video narrator explained that it could do so thanks to its lack of bones. I joked that it could easily slide into a butt.

That octopus had more of a spine than Schumer.

It's jarring how absolutely none of the rightwing lives in reality

Bernie Sanders Is Showing Democrats How It’s Done The Vermont senator is taking his anti-Trump tour to red America—and it’s a smash hit.

"By rejecting passivity, Sanders is also doing more to actually put Republicans—who’ve recently been ordered to abandon town halls in the wake of mounting anger from their own voters—under pressure."

Why do I look

so surprised when I look

in the mirror and I look

stronger than I look?

I'm losing patience for "B-but if Trump dies, then we get Vance/Elon/DeSantis/etc and he's WORSE cuz he's MORE EVIL AND LESS DUMB" doomerism, not because doomerism isn't understandable in these trying times but because it totally misreads the "Oops! All scheming viziers!" nature of the trump court

Beware Trump’s Talk of Coming “Emergencies” Far-right rhetoric is suffused with dark talk of impending calamities. It’s a favorite trope of autocrats who are, themselves, the calamity.

"They have borrowed directly from Nazi sources to make the very same points that the Nazis were making. They understand very well that the way to establish a form of government that is not bound by law or reason is to declare a state of emergency."

Grimm and Grimmer reading, March 5th at 7pm at Powell's City of Books in Portland, Oregon.

My first non-comic book in ten years, Grimm and Grimmer, comes out at the end of February. An irreverent re-telling of Brothers Grimm fairy tales. On 3/5, I will be at Powell's in Portland to talk about the book & the power of fairy tales have on our imagination with Brian Michael Bendis!

The universe is a poor substitute.

The earth cannot catch me when I stumble.

The stars cannot guide my way when I'm lost.

The moon cannot pull me into a hug.

The sun cannot sing, "You are my sunshine."

Ye who smelt it

Thought up an old-timey Southernism: “He ain’t fit to teach shit about stinking”

The Recruitment Effort That Helped Build Elon Musk’s DOGE Army At least three individuals associated with Palantir or its cofounder Peter Thiel were involved in an online recruiting effort for DOGE late last year, WIRED has learned.

SCOOP: We've learned at least three individuals closely associated with Palantir or its cofounder Peter Thiel were involved in an online recruiting effort for DOGE late last year. Step inside the recruitment effort that helped build Elon's DOGE army: