Dan Shortridge

Prediction: He’ll lose by an even bigger margin than he lost the primary.

The New York Times is completely content to trust Donald Trump's word and can't understand why anyone else might have doubts about his trustworthiness.

Worth reading to understand the flood of spam fundraising garbage.

He straight up, deliberately lies about demonstrable facts (the jobs revision happened before not after the election and Trump called it out at the time!) and no reporter challenges him on it. No
Sunday show host challenged his officials about his lies. He gets away with it.

May be a sign that, I dunno, healthcare shouldn’t be a business but a universal government service.

Intro to Drama, Intro to Poetry, & Intro to Short Story, all three taught by two profs who honed my writing down to a fine scalpel.

What a complete and total disappointment.

Pete Buttigieg weighs in on ‘fairness’ of transgender kids playing girls’ sports He said he rejected blanket policies about trans participation in sports.

@petebuttigieg.bsky.social Trans athletes ARE women athletes, you jackass. Do you have any idea what you and your asshole buddies like Rahm are doing to families with this GOP-lite bullshit?

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All the dire implications notwithstanding it is hilarious how evil this technology is. Billions of dollars spent on this greasy lying stupid thing that was literally built to replace people, and everyone that uses it gets weaker, lazier, dumber, and sadder for having done so. Well done all around.

My writing process is “research, research, research, make tons of notes … [months pass] … OK, now write!”

One source at a time? Nope. I’m assembling the story from a multiplicity of sources, and I have no idea what the combined narrative is going to say until I read all of them.

what this is, above all else, is the biggest green light we’ve ever seen for Dem primary challenges

the Dem base is deeply, deeply angry at the party for not doing more to oppose Trump and the door is wide open for anyone who is serious about doing more on that front

It's become clear that this administration is just a protracted war on anybody who's read a book without pictures in it. It's a miracle we're all still getting up and going to work every morning. The psychological drain is the point, and I'm increasingly grateful to the people who are still decent.

I do think some people really are weirdly ignoring the whole “LLMs can’t go out into the world and collect information that a human hasn’t already recorded and put on the internet” thing

A Nazi owns Twitter, right wing billionaires own the Wall Street Journal and the LA Times, and CBS is run by a right wing nepo baby who just fired one of the network’s biggest stars for criticizing Donald Trump. Here’s why America has a left-wing media bias problem.

Everything is an eternity under this guy. Three and a half more years will last forever.

"Reich citizenship will not be laid in the cradle of every one born in Germany, but will be ceremoniously conferred on him after he has shown himself worthy of it through special accomplishments, through loyal services to the State." NY Times, July 6, 1933.

And then this shit just came out.

When you’re making over $700k a year, gaining $12k is nothing. It’s a nice vacation, redoing the garage, giving a niece/nephew a car.

When you’re making $23k a year, losing $1600 is “are we paying for food or for the house or for medical bills” territory.

So important. This is America.

Freedom, equality, democracy, human rights are not and never have been dictated by polling approval.

If you're heading to a protest tomorrow, it's important to know your rights. Consult this information from the ACLU.

Be peaceful. Be safe. Be careful. Be strong.

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

When they run out of undocumented immigrants to round up, they will come for documented immigrants, then naturalized citizens, and finally, citizens.

Fascism continually has to reinvent the “enemy” within to stay in power.

#ICE
#AmericanGestapo

Department of Defense Security for the Protection of Department of Homeland Security Functions MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE                THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

There is no bigger story right now than the White House asserting that California residents are in a state "of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States."

The military isn’t being employed to carry out an immigration policy.

The immigration policy, and especially the way the administration is choosing to carry it out, is an excuse to call out the military.

Double down on the launch Rahm part.

My advice to Democrats would be to stop letting Republicans set the terms of debate, start making it clear you’re acting on principles instead of polls, and fire Rahm Emmanuel into the sun.

Protect trans kids.

They are the absolute worst.

Yes

This is my gardening technique