Peter BOOthe

utterly depressing that Nixon-level scandals are now a normal Friday night news drop, barely remarked upon, just another day in Trump’s America

we are not having a lot of luck with institutional pushback - everyone who does is fired and replaced

we are definitely not having any luck with “norms”

what we are having luck with is ordinary people looking at the incompetent bullshit put in front of them and going “absolutely not”

I know you all know what deranged, vile, propaganda nonsense this is. But for the record:

Leaders of the regime are declaring the opposition party and all forms of political dissent as illegitimate - and large swaths of the population to be dangerous terrorists. This is incredibly dangerous.

DOGE member reverts to form, doxxes everyone after Trump and Mush give them access to the government databases of everyone.

…said the person running for mayor of the city containing both the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island.

The hardest test for a mayoral candidate seems to be “do they actually LIKE the city?” Adams doesn’t. Cuomo doesn’t.

More than *anything* the people who actually know how technology works, who actually build things, wish that people would treat LLMs like every other technology, and be normal about them. Don't build a religion about them, don't force them on people, don't ignore the problems. Just be normal.

The person preventing measurement is the asshole.

As you may have noticed, white supremacists want to stop the influx of hardworking young people (aka immigration) while somehow forcing white women to have lots more babies to compensate, but they refuse to make having kids more affordable and less arduous an experience.

Kalief Browder spent 700 days in solitary confinement for allegedly stealing a backpack. These people break federal laws knowing they’ll never suffer any consequences.

Republicans: “Stop calling us Nazis just because you disagree with us.”

*Elon Musk Nazi salutes*

Young Republican group: “I love Hitler.”

This Congressman’s office:

This is 100% correct. There is definitely a long history of Nazi-adjacent fascism in the US, and the political dimensions of that history occurred on the fringes of the GOP as those fascists tried to get a foothold in that institution...but the last 10 years mark a significant break in that history.

The Department of State shared the actual tweets: x.com/StateDept/st...

Both sides of a conflict are calling each other evil and corrupt, rendering me, a humble journalist, helpless to discern the truth. Best I can do is let you know that both sides are in fact saying those things. Hope this helps

If someone has to give it to you for you to have it then it’s not a right.

the real plan all along

this continues to all feel like one of those food poisoning fever dreams you get after some bad choices at Dennys

Coffee and capitalism grew up together. If you get rid of coffee you put its buddy at risk.

Anyone familiar with the political culture of the Trumpian GOP will not be surprised by this reporting on today's Young Republicans, but all decent human beings will be appalled by it.

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

the KMET broadcast, in southern California, was longer than the nationally syndicated one. Sunday night. by the radio for four hours. three hours of madness and one hour of the top ten, which was determined by petitions mailed in. the local Rocky Horror massive often dominated the countdown. 2/3

Tim Heidecker putting out an apology for performing at Riyahd (he did not) is such a good bit.

Fun question that makes data center folks have bad nights sleep. Those redundant fiber runs. They're in different trenches, right? Those power lines arent coming through a single point, right? Yes, the vendor promised otherwise. Have you physically *checked*?

The regime gets more deranged every day. A rightwing conspiracy theorist assassinated a Democratic lawmaker - which the attorney general presents as an example of leftwing political violence in order to justify an authoritarian crackdown on the opposition…

We’re in incredibly dangerous territory.

Saturday Night crazy time!

Losing my fucking mind that the world’s richest man skipped town months ago after dismanting all the federal agencies investigating him and the paper of record is still stuck on this transparent bullshit

Abolish. Fire. Prosecute.

This article gets at a thing I read a long time ago about what democracy is and who should get to vote on what. Generally, we let the people affected by a policy vote on it in order to be a democracy. But not immigration!

Maybe that’s why so many authoritarians start out targeting immigrants…

I deeply resent that man's ubiquity.

The Trump administration has been warning of “globalists”.

Who is a globalist? I need a proper noun here.