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this is literally stuff King Charles did, like not only did the American colonists have a revolution to not have this happen, but they did so in the wake of the English revolution, which was about not having stuff like this happen

A Powerhouse Writer Found One Word to Change the Debate About Tech

Delighted that Cory is having a moment with "Enshittification," because it's an accurate word for what's happening in tech and he's the right person to describe it.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/b...

Look. Invading our own country is about as straightforward a case as you can have for impeachment. The GOP abandoning the Constitution is kind of the only story there is and it gets no coverage.

1. This is one of the most insane statements ever delivered by a presidential spokesperson in U.S. history. Totally disconnected from reality.

2. There is either going to be a civil war or abject Democratic surrender to autocracy. They are telling this you, to your face, in explicit terms.

The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session.

Want to know why?

Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out.

Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.

Look at this clown getting so mad that someone doesn’t do as he says and then satisfying his urge for violence by aggressively cuffing them. He’s so happy afterwards when he gets to prove his dominance.

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

Early polls show Trump and GOP taking more blame than Democrats for shutdown The national surveys taken in the final days of September and the first day of the shutdown find that voters are more inclined to blame Trump and his party. But many are uncertain.

POLLS: Who do Americans blame for the gov't shutdown?*

WASH POST
47% blame Trump/GOP
30% blame Dems

MARIST
38% blame GOP
27% blame Dems

NYT/SIENA
26% blame Trump/GOP
19% blame Dems

MORNING CONSULT
45% blame GOP
32% blame Dems

[*all taken b/w late Sept & Oct 1]

www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell

JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too

D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals?

J: I didn't see it

D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.

Folks.. @chrismurphyct.bsky.social gets it:

"We could create new rules that slow [AI] job destruction, that protect creative content, that keep children away from these friendship bots. It is all under our control. This is all not all predestined to work out in a dangerous way for us."

"...They are dangerously utopian about what their technology will do. They are blinded by the profits they will make and the godlike power they will wield. They don't see the catastrophe coming because they have rationalized their self-interest. We, the govt, need to step in."

Beyond productivity: The pursuit of purpose in the age of AI YouTube video by Brookings Institution

Refreshing & inspiring to see lawmakers like @chrismurphyct.bsky.social
call for a check on AI:

"People like Sam Altman and Mark Zuckerberg, who come into our offices on a regular basis, are fundamentally disconnected from reality..." www.youtube.com/live/d6-jOJv...

like, the fact that they felt this spectacle was necessary is itself evidence that they don't have the military support that they want

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

"I co-starred with Mark Zuckerberg in a new video. Meta’s AI algorithms are designed to prey on kids. Highschoolers. 8-year-olds. As a dad, it makes me livid."

YES - i am so grateful to JGL for elevating this -- not just Meta's creepy & dangerous chatbots, but the super PACs they launched to bully politicians. more celebs need to be using their platform to drive awareness and make this a political issue for 2026 www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

Paris passe le cap des 300 rues piétonnes près des écoles pour être « plus accueillante aux enfants » La municipalité, qui a organisé samedi une fête dédiée, tire un bilan positif de ces espaces piétonnisés aux abords des établissements scola

Paris celebrated the opening of its 300th “school street”: landscaped & pedestrianized or semi-pedestrianized blocks situated in front of schools. Most have been completed since 2020.

“Trump’s share of the settlement—$22 million—will go to the nonprofit Trust for the National Mall, earmarked for the construction of a Mar-a-Lago-style ballroom Trump is building at the White House, according to the court documents.”

I literally gasped

www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Suburban police standing up to Fed cops is a development I did not see coming, definitely reflects how DEEPLY unpopular the ICE aggression is/has become.

Attn: all “kitchen table issue” Dems, bc this sure seems like something ppl are talking about at the dinner table.

“Social media is a cancer,” says Republican Utah Gov. Spencer Cox. “It is taking all of our worst impulses and putting them on steroids. It is driving us to division. It is driving us to hate.” cbsn.ws/46Yu1c9

This is what is happening when the cameras are running

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

RFK Jr’s approval rating plunge to -21

gotta remember that no one likes this shit

NYT focus group with young Republicans: Do you think JD Vance would1 be a good next leader of the party? 1 person raised a hand.

L, and might I add, MAO. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

“.. I absolutely couldn’t care less what he [Trump] thinks about me … He’s the living personification of what the 25th Amendment and impeachment were for. If Congress had any guts, he’d be consigned to the trash heap of history.”

@time.com
time.com/7319963/bruc...

A few years ago Isaac asked me for an interview to talk Netchoice, Gonzalez cases & copyright & DSA.

I told him I could do it but @daphnek.bsky.social would be better.

She *killed* it. Chotiner’s questions only expose fools & charlatans. Daphne is neither.

www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Opinion | I tried to protect my kids from the internet. Here’s what happened. Tech companies should be responsible for verifying the ages of their users.

"Tech companies are not going to apply stringent age checks themselves for a simple reason: They won’t make as much money." wapo.st/46jmdl5

even for an unhinged presidency this week has been pretty fuckin unhinged tbh

Trump posts his Watergate tapes It ended Nixon's presidency. For Trump, it's just another Saturday.

New in PN: Trump posts his Watergate tapes

"People! The man literally used his social media platform to tweet out a demand that his attorney general prosecute his opponents, ones he’s already characterized as 'guilty as hell.' This isn’t 'venting.' It’s criminal."

Kamala Harris on MSNBC now saying she “always believed titans of industry” would be guardrails for democracy but now—shocker—she reports that turns out they’re not. Only, she still’s waiting! “At some point they’ve got to stand up.” This kind of willful naïveté & denial doesn’t need airtime.

Fox averts its eyes from former employee Homan reportedly receiving a bag of cash

“To state the obvious: Fox would be covering this story if it implicated a Democratic official and administration. But as of posting time (noon ET), the network has not mentioned it.” www.mediamatters.org/immigration/...