Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno

Daaaammnnnn I kinda liked Derek Thompson.

Here I was telling myself that it was just Ezra Klein giving him all these bad ideas.

I need a job and I would not take a job working for Bari Weiss. If you are a commentator who cannot see what the play is there, I'm not sure you should be offering commentary.

Man who works in sewer wonders why there's all this shit down here.

How Bad Are A.I. Delusions? We Asked People Treating Them.

How Bad Are A.I. Delusions? We Asked People Treating Them. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...

ICE and the Israeli Military Are 2 Sides of the Same Coin — We Must Resist Both Opposing ICE in the US while backing genocide in Gaza is senseless. These struggles are intertwined.

"then executive director of RAIA told Al Jazeera in 2020 that U.S. law enforcement who travelled to Israel witnessed 'live demonstrations of repressive violence in real-time, in protests across the West Bank, patrols in East Jerusalem, and visits to the Gaza border.'"
truthout.org/articles/ice...

Not for nothing but these libertarian fundamentalist types certainly know how to rain fire down from the sky when they feel like it, most of all against what they rightly perceive as big government overreach.

Perhaps this deserves some cautious optimism.

Rob Doar @robdoar After analyzing the videos, I believe it's highly likely the first shot was a negligent discharge from the agent in the grey jacket after he removed the Sig P320 from Pretti's holster while exiting the scene. My breakdown:

There may indeed have been a negligent discharge by this untrained idiot agent. (And the p320 has had problems with that.)

That alone would be bad. But worse is that his colleague who shot him saw him take the gun so knew Alex was unarmed by then.

Pretty much everyone on IG who has been carefully quiet about politics is speaking out.

It’s. Weird.

I’m not on there all that much, but I think people have finally been given social permission to say the uncomfortable thing.

I think they realize not speaking up will be read as acceptance.

5 Big Reasons Why Electricity Prices Are So High Right Now The average U.S. household is projected to spend nearly $1,000 this winter to heat its home.

Apparently our electricity bills are going through the roof and this is partly related to data centers that hog huge amounts of electricity to generate information. I, for one, feel hopping mad about this. The companies that are using the data centers should bear the cost.
time.com/7355839/why-...

Senator Rosen calling for Noem’s impeachment. More of this, please.

NRA Accidentally Forgets To Rise Up Against Tyrannical Government — The Shovel An embarrassed National Rifle Association says it totally forgot to do the one thing it has been saying for years it is solely there to do.

It was never about tyranny.

Their number is 763-275-9631

Prof Michael E. Mann on X: ""We ran high-level US civil war simulations. Minnesota is exactly how they start" | Must read piece in The @Guardian by @Penn's @COFinkelstein: https://t.co/zIp8DQXT1D" / X "We ran high-level US civil war simulations. Minnesota is exactly how they start" | Must read piece in The @Guardian by @Penn's @COFinkelstein: https://t.co/zIp8DQXT1D

x.com/michaelemann...

I know, I know, fuck Twitter, but still

The UK Green Party’s new slogan is “let’s make hope normal again.”

It’s just - chef’s kiss - a beautiful sight to behold.

Out here making all us greens proud.

The United States Leaves the WHO. Three Reforms Could Motivate Its Return | Think Global Health A former special advisor to the WHO director general outlines arenas that could strengthen global health regardless of a U.S. withdrawal

Via @petersinger.bsky.social in @thinkglobalhealth.org:
www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/the-...

Opinion | How to Fill the America-Shaped Hole in Global Health Left by Trump (Gift Article) The World Health Organization should do what it can do bring the U.S. back as a member.

My New York Times guest essay published today www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/o...

Pete Epanchin's key points, 1 year since the freeze on US foreign assistance: 1) the benefits of foreign assistance did not stop with partner countries; 2) Americans gained as well; 3) trust is far easier to break than it is to rebuild; and 4) unmanaged risks abroad do not stay abroad.

Climate adaptation and resilience must account for context and culture - Nature Health The health effects of climate change are unequal, so adaptation policies must prioritize the most affected communities.

"Climate change is also exposing and accelerating long-standing weaknesses in healthcare infrastructure. The regions that are most vulnerable to climate extremes, such as heatwaves, floods and prolonged drought, often coincide with areas that already face fragile medical provision."
#planetaryhealth

Piracy will remain inevitable for the foreseeable future because we do not have adequately robust digital archival technology. Every storage device on earth slowly fails/rots.

You are not an antisocial, criminal force. You are doing your part serving as valuable cultural memory.

Printed textbooks are going away too so our Science and History can be revised as easily as billionaires want.

Bro I know.

I gotta fix my grandfathers old typewriter cause I’ve had THIS happen to me on a few occasions.

Source please? I’d like to use this quote. (Educational, not profit)

“Even with the advent of eReaders like the Kindle, reading for pleasure has declined by 40% since the turn of the century.”

But some of us are still reading (all of Peter Cawdron’s novels are included in a Kindle Unlimited subscription).

“… right up to stealing from citizens for personal profit, confident that nothing will happen to them.”

“The immigration agents in this account are effectively operating as something like federally sanctioned highwaymen–they might as well be privateers in tactical vests and masks, flying the U.S. flag as a defense for why they’re able to do literally anything they want…”

Holy shit who has audio?

hey folks, six figure opinion columnist here and gotta say, made a big ol’ whoopsie on the most consequential and honestly, probably the most obvious opinion of my life. thats my bad. anyway, guess I’ll just keep getting paid to give my opinion, thanks for reading