Matthew Olwell

How about we just say things in a way where where we don’t sound like a complete assholes if people take what we said out of context?

As I observed in my Substack Round Up this past week, the endgame of the military strikes against drug cartels in international waters is to lay the groundwork to use lethal military force against Americans at home. Pay attention open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

Musk, Trump, et al have made decisions that literally killed children. I wish I thought we had any mechanisms at all in place to hold them accountable.

Never before in American history has one state's military force been deployed in another state over its objection.

I say never because the Civil War involved states whose governments legally ceased to exist, their offices vacated by constructive resignation, with no legitimate governors to object.

zeldawilliams 20m From Create Mode •• Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want. To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough, , just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

Utah Republicans Advance New Gerrymandered Congressional Map Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: Republicans in Utah advanced a new congressional map favored to help their party retain total political control in the Beehive State. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Federal workers sue the Education Department over partisan shutdown emails Employees say their out-of-office messages were changed without their consent to include language blaming Democrats for the shutdown.

Employees say their out-of-office messages were changed without their consent to include language blaming Democrats for the shutdown.

“The body of scientific knowledge is the stuff that has survived contact with intense skepticism” (Hank Green explaining why increasing understanding tends to be a slow process).

Autistic people oppose a cure to autism and I have a hard time reconciling why that isn't the end to the conversation about it.

Nice to see Luke Skywalker still fighting evil out here…

FACT FOCUS: Republicans shut down the government to give him more time to hide the #EPSTEIN_Files.

FACT FOCUS: Democrats did not shut down the government to give health care to 'illegal immigrants' This is false. Democrats say they are pushing for the inclusion of key health care provisions in the next congressional spending package.

FACT FOCUS: Democrats did not shut down the government to give health care to illegal immigrants.

This is the logical endpoint of the far-right media echo chamber / isolation booth: a confused, elderly man has become president and, with Fox et al as the only source of information he believes, he thinks archival footage of things that happened over years is all stuff that’s happening now.

I once again beg all y'all not to screencrap nonsense from the former Twitter and bring it here to dunk on it, that's like inviting a vampire in to tell them their fangs look stupid, maybe you're right but they're still going to fucking eat you

(also "screencrap" was a legit typo but I left it in)

Just logged in to Pinterest for the first time in a while, and it seems to have turned into an even worse AI slophole than the rest of the social internet, if such a thing were possible.

Huh?
Miller: Calls federal court decision: "an organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers."

And, an attack on the Republic itself?

If Miller calls typical federal court activity "terrorism," what chance do the rest of us have of not being called terrorists?

Oregon AG Rayfield: Huge win at this moment in our democracy right now.

This is the president that is normalizing the use of the United States military in our country.

So to get this strong of a ruling out today for the public to see—it’s incredibly important.

Trump’s Flood of Emergency Appeals Is Straining the Judicial System The administration has turned to the Supreme Court at a record pace, and the justices have issued orders that lower courts have struggled to interpret.

Trump has sought emergency intervention by the Supreme Court 28 times in the first eight months of his new term, more than Bush, Obama and Biden did combined over 20 years. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

@StephenM on X: Legal insurrection. The President is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not an Oregon judge. Portland and Oregon law enforcement, at the direction of local leaders, have refused to aid ICE officers facing relentless terrorist assault and threats to life. (There are more local law enforcement officers in Oregon than there are guns and badges in the FBI nationwide). This is an organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers, and the deployment of troops is an absolute necessity to defend our personnel, our laws, our government, public order and the Republic itself.

Everyone is trying to have a normal Saturday night and the president's top advisor is on X announcing that civil war is necessary

Journalists in Portland: Try to get photos of gas canisters/munitions, either spent on ground or still carried by DHS. ONLY IF SAFE. Use long lens. Risks unknown, don’t approach.

This green smoke isn’t super common. Raised concerns in 2020. Documenting DHS munitions may help accountability later.

JD VANCE: "My mother got the drugs that almost killed her from Mexicans."

REALITY: JD's mother got the drugs that almost killed her from her hospital patients, whom she stole from.

So sweet! 🥹

Thanks. I’ll take two.

I always think about that quote from
HHG2G about the Sirius Cybernetics execs being, “a bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came.”

Meta and its ilk that are raking in obscene amounts money selling ads are a cancer. They benefit the already-wealthy at the expense of the citizens, the environment, and the social order. They do not provide enough value to society to justify their existence.

One problem with the reinvention of American universities as giant investment funds is that the people in charge no longer understand that guys like this and Bill Ackman are mental and moral morons who need to be told to shove their money up their asses

HT to the inimitable Rob Inglis for the amazing vocal stylings of Shagrat and company.

Tough times, being an orc foot soldier in Sauron’s army. Not a lot of workplace recognition or respect.

(This is from a scene in Return of the King, when Sam is trying to rescue the captured Frodo and overhears the orc captain Shagrat threatening one of his underlings.)

Listening to the LOTR audiobooks for the nth time and “I’ll put red maggot-holes in your belly first,” has got to be one of the best threats ever uttered. A real gift for words, Tolkien had.