Elise Hu

YouTube video by MasterPeppers Rick and Morty || Fascist dimensions

oh my, this Rick and Morty clip is like a documentary www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MU5...

Senate Republicans vote to take up Trump’s tax bill, overcoming resistance in their ranks Lawmakers pushed through the president’s massive tax and immigration bill in a crucial procedural vote Saturday night.

"The Congressional Budget Office said Saturday that the Senate version would result in $930 billion in cuts to Medicaid, more than the roughly $800 billion that the House version proposes."

it would be really helpful for a journalist to be in the signal chat right now

budget question. If homeland security has used up its budget already (per that congressional hearing where Kristi Noem had to answer for running out of $), how does the agency afford more raids/higher quotas for raids?

Police Erupt in Violence Nationwide From New York to Los Angeles, police officers escalated the national unrest.

do headlines the right way i.e. slate in 2020

A scene from the new UCLA Chancellor inauguration

worth jumping off a call so i could focus on this sinner djokovic match

LeBron just casually showed up at a girls club volleyball tournament ystd to watch his kid; he’s just a sweet volleyball dad www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8M2QmQc/

had no idea what i was getting into but HOLY CRAP lilo and stitch was so so thrilling and well done

im still ending my voice memos with "bye bye" and no one can stop me

YouTube video by CNN The algorithm-fueled race to keep up with beauty standards | Terms of Service

From “tomato girl summer” to “looksmaxxing,” algorithms and AI filters are changing how we define beauty. How do we keep up?
Thanks to @elisewho.bsky.social for joining Terms of Service this week to discuss!
Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jxn...
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A vital conversation rn, esp given what we know about the carelessness of our tech overlords

The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. I reread it today; nothing in the law allows a president to defund PBS and NPR. In fact, Congress specifically sought to insulate public media from political pressure.

John Bolton on why Trump 2.0 is going nowhere, fast Fascism, Bolton told Vox, is “too far above Trump’s capabilities.”

"To be a fascist, you have to think at some conceptual level, which Trump never does." —John Bolton, speaking with @vox.com

Trump’s new tariff math looks a lot like ChatGPT’s ChatGPT may be the White House’s latest economic advisor.

"Where did these numbers come from? Apparently, an oversimplified calculation that several major AI chatbots happen to recommend."

"You have given up..."

Apartheid Clyde a petty, dangerous, incompetent man but what always amuses me is how no one likes him and he can’t even buy his way into getting people to like him. He can’t buy a good sense of humor or good looks or good reputation.

One of the defining feelings in American life, for decades now, is elites doing plainly criminal shit and nothing at all happening as a result. It is deranging in a way that virtually nothing else is. Media fixates on perceived street lawlessness but shit like this matters much more in my opinion.

seems bad

(also, good for them)

I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable.

Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.

Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

Five years since these 🔥 answers from @jiatolentino.bsky.social in Interview Mag.
Worth a reread. www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/ask-...

(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

French Senator Claude Malhuret:

"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

Dysentery cases on the rise in the Portland area: 40 new cases reported in January alone Cases of dysentery have consistently been on the rise in the Portland, Oregon area year-over-year since 2012, officials said.

You guys. As a member of the Oregon Trail generation, I just.

“In the First Amendment, the Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to fulfill its essential role in our democracy. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors.” —former SCOTUS Justice Hugo Black

"King Donald I" Accelerates White Nationalist Purge of Military Leaders A suggested guide to how the US media should be bravely—and clearly—covering our national crisis

Now that Trump has ousted Brown, and the heads of the Navy and Coast Guard, the remaining top military leaders are all white and male, particularly striking given that minorities make up nearly 40 percent of the military and women constitute fully a fifth.
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/king-donal...

Video Shows a Rare ‘Doomsday’ Fish Off the Coast of Mexico Oarfish are rarely documented by scientists, but one was seen this month by a group visiting a beach in Mexico.

THIS TRACKS

"In construing freedom as the multiplication and speedy satisfaction of needs, they distort their own nature, for they engender within themselves many senseless and stupid desires, habits and most absurd inventions."

—a dying monk in The Brothers Karamazov, published in 1880, by Dostoevsky

can't wait!

Lord knows I’m not a constitutional scholar not even a lawyer (and I’ve yet to check in with @kateshaw.bsky.social) but a legal regime in which “you can do crimes if you’re buddies with the president or praise him publicly” is *on its face* a violation the equal protection of the laws.