Chase Aunspach

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

Curious if folks are getting the impression that those around them are unaware antifa is not an org? We know this admin is dead set on pretending it is & many media are uncritically perpetuating that. Feels like we’re watching an elite disinfo campaign move in both a rapid and absurdist fashion.

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

It was clear from the beginning that ICE staffing up was going to be a full employment program for racists, barroom bullies and wife beaters

look ai is completely destroying the world with massive pollution and is using up water at a concerning rate but at least you get to use technology that lies to you and is the primary propaganda mechanism by fascists

Last year, CNN ran a “fact check” of Kamala HQ that claimed we were lying for saying Trump’s plan is Project 2025.

Now Trump is outright admitting it’s his plan.

Legacy media failed the country.

Any university signing this compact is giving the DOJ specifically a major new legal argument for why DOJ should be able to take away "benefits" to which the university is entitled under law (including student loans for its students, 501(c)(3) status, etc) on the DOJ's say-so, with no appeal.

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

We need a bigger tent, that’s why we must betray and expel the following types of people:

“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

So far today, Chuck Schumer has said his strategy for preventing Trump sending troops into blue cities is to win over Republican senators (!) while Hakeem Jeffries praised Eric Adams's courage and authenticity (!!) while refusing to endorse Mamdani. Again.

These two gotta go.

this is that category of “don’t say defund the police,” “don’t say free palestine,” “don’t say abolish ice,” “don’t protest there/like that,“ it’s a way of framing people who have a vision of the future that doesn’t suck as if they are children or animals who need disciplining, not collaboration

You can't joke about anything anymore. Because you signed a multi figure contract with the Saudi government that said they wouldn't pay you if you did.

Presidents don't use war rhetoric against their own nation. Authoritarians do.

Stephen Miller & @StephenM This language incites violence and terrorism. America @america • Sep 24 California Governor Gavin Newsom calls ICE arresting illegal aliens "authoritarian actions by an authoritarian government".

This weak, brazen attempt by Stephen Miller both to chill free speech and to set up a premise to criminalize it — and, to be clear, this is the very type of speech most central to First Amendment protections — would be laughably embarrassing if this man did not have the power that he has.

The concept of the corporate state was way underplayed in fascism studies for too long. The institutional union of the government, big business and the church to crush labor is the distinguishing feature of fascism.

the funny thing about the constant misappropriation of MLK is that the guy left a massive body of writing specifically aimed at explaining his views of those of the movement he represented to the broad public. it is extremely easy to know what the guy thought on a variety of subjects and yet

“Debate Me” culture is not organic, endemic, or apolitical. This mode of high jacking discourse is and has been central to a 30-year conservative training program that has produced untold numbers of people to do this for every reason but “civil discourse”

They are literally canceling culture

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.

This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.

All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

Ds in congress should say that they will investigate these firings as first amendment violations, and that they see consolidation as a free speech and antitrust danger and will act accordingly when they're in power.

What a relief that we've spent the past decade wringing our hands about censorious leftist college students

Leading transgender studies journal comes to Clayman Institute for Gender Research | The Clayman Institute for Gender Research The Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University is proud to announce a new partnership with the academic journal TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, a high-profile venue for innovativ...

We’re very honored to announce that the editorial office of TSQ, the leading scholarly journal in trans studies, has found its new home at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research! gender.stanford.edu/news/leading...

JD Vance is doing the Reichstag Fire the right way.

by Ezra Klein

Gov. Greg Abbott pardons Daniel Perry, veteran who killed police brutality protester in 2020 A Travis County jury sentenced Perry to 25 years in prison last year, prompting Abbott to ask the state parole board to review his case.

I am just going to keep posting that the TX governor recently pardoned a political murderer.

The dude texted "I'm going to shoot protestors", then went and shot a Black Lives Matter protester. He was convicted in a jury trial.

Hard to find a more blatant example of celebrating political violence.

No one would be confused about what is happening here if they saw it in another country.

*ezra klein guy voice* The problem with the left is that they've lost the willingness to speak reasonably with their opponents, such as this guy I interviewed recently who easily conned me into supporting eugenics

if i had the opportunity to ask a question of anyone in the administration, given this "war in chicago" messaging, i would ask them how many americans the president intends to kill in his war

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.

This is not a joke. This is not normal.

Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

starmer is doing all the anti-immigrant and anti-trans "popularism" stuff the centrists are demanding US dems do and this is the predictable result: