JohnC

It should be very very clear to everyone right now that the Attorney General was asked under oath if she possesses pics of the President with undressed teens and she refused to say “no.”

🧵is truth - you read now.

We are in that part of autumn where the wish to hurry home before dark becomes more pronounced and yet we can't fully articulate just why this is so. The redundant lamplighter phantoms come earlier and earlier. As does our unease in certain places. This season pokes with fingers of fear. – #DAKilroy

MORE DETAILS — Asked what will happen if feds violate the order, Johnson said, “that’s why we have our Department of Law.”

After multiple ?s asking for clarification, Johnson reiterated that if feds violate the “ICE-free zones,” his admin will take them to court.

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Every day I log on to social media, this becomes more accurate.

Democracy depends on its citizens, especially those with a public platform, holding the line on what we consider beyond the pale, especially when extremism has broad support. It’s an obligation we must accept.

Who are we to draw the line? We are citizens who demand to live in a democratic Republic.

Where Is the Line? On Ezra Klein, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and the struggle to define the boundaries of what is acceptable in America

ICYMI yesterday:

I wrote about Ezra Klein, Ta-Nehisi Coates, the struggle to define the boundaries of what is acceptable in America – and why democratic citizens have an obligation to hold the line on what we consider beyond the pale.

Some thoughts from my new piece:

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Talk show hosts.

I'm of the opinion that trump will do something so egregious that he'll lose enough support to impeach and convict. Not there yet, but I don't think he'll last two full years.

the right accuses us of "Trump Derangement Syndrome" but the thing is that perceiving the Trump administration is like gazing into Yog-Sothoth's eldritch form. The only way not to be deranged by it is to actively refuse to perceive it, which is the right's preferred approach to anything inconvenient

Bad Bunny Reacts to Backlash Over Spanish Super Bowl Halftime Show: 'You Have Four Months to Learn' The Puerto Rican rapper tells anyone who doesn't know his native language: "You have four months to learn."

'You Have Four Months To Learn' www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

Lateral intervention—I think its highly likely LLMs _without fine-tuning_

- could not be mistaken for people
- could not induce delusions in users
- have comparable “inner complexity” to actually released LLMs

No LLM is sold without first being instructed to chase you around like the terminator

This is a true joke; but also exemplifies why the Trumped Supreme Court has engineered a delegitimization of the Court so comprehensive that its like has not been seen since the 1860s. The right wing Court majority will lack the credibility and authority required to hobble a Democratic President.

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

They’re using American tax dollars to fund infrastructure in Argentina because that’s where they’re all going to flee when we kick them out of office

more of this kind of rhetoric, please

remind the regime its members will be held accountable to the law when the rule of law returns

It's bad enough if President Trump is demanding authoritarian powers in violation of the Constitution ...

But if his unelected aides are manipulating him to get their own authoritarian policies in place, that's sort of a bigger deal.

And in reality, you are making it all worse by taking what these people are posting at face value and ascribing the power to bring their insane reality into being to them.

And it failed, miserably, and it failed so miserably it required all the people in charge to walk it back and say "we're just smol beans, it was market pressure not us."

Just because Stephen Miller dreams about cosplaying as a nazi and camps doesn't mean he can bring it into being.

I think the Jimmy Kimmel stuff is going to go down as the mountain where the attempted consolidation completely failed. And it's because it wasn't even trying to disappear someone, wasn't even trying to put someone in jail, it was just trying to use the levers of capitalism to go after jokes.

Early morning bathroom ritual. #caturday #BlueskyCats

"The makers of AI aren’t damned by their failures, they’re damned by their goals. They want to build a genie to grant them wishes, and their wish is that nobody ever has to make art again. Their dream is to invent new forms of life to enslave."

I apologize for getting testy.

They literally, in first lines of the opinion, address the question of why it is so lengthy. You are not helping.

just incredible that thune's terrible senate leadership has put them in a position where the senate is subordinate to the fucking *house*, a better senator with more self-respect and intelligence would know what is proper in this situtation

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.

super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉

I don't know what to do about the group of people who believe the only just system is one in which it's impossible for anyone to ever lose their rights, because how do you make a grown adult understand that this is impossible if they haven't put it together on their own already?

And I promise all fauxgressive leftists: you do not actually want to introduce a rule wherein being an asshole to a group of people is a bannable offense.

Singal is a piece of shit. He also gets like no traction here.

Though if you want to curl the monkey's paw, by all means proceed.

As I do, saw an egregious doompost and went to the profile to block, and their entire descriptive text was “doomscroller“…. 😩