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I can think of no better endorsement of the call screening feature than a Threads sales guy saying he’s not sure if he likes it

submitted 13 hours ago • 8 comments

ICE making lawyers literally do the trolley problem is a special level of evil.

submitted 14 hours ago • 11 comments

Yeah, so this is not supposed to happen.

submitted 12 hours ago • 13 comments

The Plane That Crashed Yesterday Was the Same One a Dead Boeing Whistleblower Warned About

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

a substantive cross endorsement with a role for Lander in a Mamdani administration might move some of the Lander-not-Mamdani people into the good column

submitted 17 hours ago • 3 comments

Demonstrators in LA think it sure would be a shame if ICE agents couldn’t get any rest www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 15 hours ago • 15 comments

Israel’s strikes on Iran now risk an out of control regional war. Trump’s recklessness and poor diplomacy adds to the danger and precariousness of this situation. The Trump Administration must immediately work to deescalate.

submitted 19 hours ago • 19 comments

like, the basic problem with police is that we give them a monopoly on violence and then permit police to essentially use that monopoly in their personal capacity -- which means that the police, in many ways, usurp the power of the state. disaggregating the policing function is good!

submitted 19 hours ago • 5 comments

This is excellent and I hope it kicks off even more cross-endorsements to stop Cuomo. Don’t let the bullies win.

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

There is a lot of public support for deporting criminals, but there is effectively none for everybody else, which is the vast majority of immigrants. If you're married to a citizen, 95% of respondents support you staying here. www.cnn.com/2025/06/11/p...

submitted 19 hours ago • 3 comments

Among other things, this is a very solid counternarrative on antisemitism.

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

Obviously it's not exiling people to torture prison or leaving hundreds of thousands to die without essential medicine or food but stuff like this and Terry Moran is pettily but definitely establishing the premises of absolute dictatorship

submitted 19 hours ago • 2 comments

Look, you can't expect the President of the United States to speak for the government. Also he's a unitary executive who can dictate all government operations at his whim. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 20 hours ago • 18 comments

On the other hand, you could "Full Self Drive" a Tesla for years while only hitting one or two children. It's 99% safe!

submitted 18 hours ago • 19 comments

The full video is worth watching. The brand new Model Y (updated version) breezes past the school bus lights, runs over a child, pauses, then keeps going. These vehicles are not safe @realdanodowd.bsky.social @resistaustin.bsky.social #teslatakedown #MuskMustFall cbsaustin.com/news/local/t...

submitted 20 hours ago • 23 comments

“Tesla’s driverless ‘robotaxis’ could launch in Austin as soon as June 22. But a demo in Austin today showed a $TSLA, manually driven to test its Full Self-Driving system, failed to stop for a child-sized dummy at a school bus—and hit it.” @cbsaustin @velez_tx

submitted 1 day ago • 1886 comments

Honestly true, what happened to Padilla is only half as insane as the actual substance of what Noem said

submitted 21 hours ago • 7 comments

If you watch the actual frost Nixon interviews, not the movie or play that dramatizes & overinflated the value or integrity of the project, wild thing about it is when Nixon says the famous when the president does it that means it’s not illegal, it’s not a gotcha or even said as a stunning admission

submitted 20 hours ago • 13 comments

okay but the thing about the CIA is that the mythology of the agency belies the reality, which is that for much of its existence it was a rubber room for WASP failsons and their operations reflect this

submitted 21 hours ago • 175 comments

Once again, it seems to me that when a court finds the president is doing something wildly unconstitutional, it is dangerous and unhealthy that we default to “but let him keep doing it until multiple layers of review all agree.”

submitted 20 hours ago • 71 comments

Because you haven’t had long conversations with ChatGPT that convince it that the answer you want to hear is “yes.”

submitted 20 hours ago • 4 comments

This is an unbelievably dark story about ChatGPT from top to bottom, especially the twist at the end here www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...

submitted 20 hours ago • 31 comments

You absolutely love to see it. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is pro-housing.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

No brakes, no gas

submitted 21 hours ago • 11 comments

The Washington Post endorsed Kristi Noem’s nomination as secretary of Homeland Security, just FYI.

submitted 21 hours ago • 19 comments

Ah well, eggs were expensive, so.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

I don't know how many times these people have to say "non-whites are not americans unless they are part of my inner circle, we want to do ethnic cleansing" before people start listening bsky.app/profile/pale...

submitted 1 day ago • 85 comments

"mix it up" bsky.app/profile/adri...

submitted 1 day ago • 37 comments

what fools we were to tease them. the weebs were just playing the long game...

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

he's not there to run the military bureaucracy, he's there to run a political purge. He has no idea what the fuck he's doing bsky.app/profile/verm...

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

Last week the idiot lying ass press scty claimed that the CBO misunderestimated (sic W’ism) the benefits by half a trillion. The media just swallowed it because they are their for the palace intrigue and access, and not to fact-check or educate / inform the public

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Get in the streets on saturday. It's mandatory

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

“document of limitations” is a good phrase. i think about this whenever the fbi complains warrants burden investigations. like, yeah, that’s what they’re supposed to do.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

California national guard troops and marines deployed to LA to help restore order have told friends and family members they are deeply unhappy about the assignment and worry their only meaningful role will be as pawns in a political battle they don't want to join. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 1 day ago • 474 comments

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Tonight I can't stop thinking about Malcolm X saying "America's whole situation is a lunatic fringe" youtu.be/tIkK_suKJYU?...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

I can think of no better endorsement of the call screening feature than a Threads sales guy saying he’s not sure if he likes it

ICE making lawyers literally do the trolley problem is a special level of evil.

Yeah, so this is not supposed to happen.

The Plane That Crashed Yesterday Was the Same One a Dead Boeing Whistleblower Warned About

a substantive cross endorsement with a role for Lander in a Mamdani administration might move some of the Lander-not-Mamdani people into the good column

Demonstrators in LA think it sure would be a shame if ICE agents couldn’t get any rest www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Israel’s strikes on Iran now risk an out of control regional war. Trump’s recklessness and poor diplomacy adds to the danger and precariousness of this situation. The Trump Administration must immediately work to deescalate.

like, the basic problem with police is that we give them a monopoly on violence and then permit police to essentially use that monopoly in their personal capacity -- which means that the police, in many ways, usurp the power of the state. disaggregating the policing function is good!

This is excellent and I hope it kicks off even more cross-endorsements to stop Cuomo. Don’t let the bullies win.

There is a lot of public support for deporting criminals, but there is effectively none for everybody else, which is the vast majority of immigrants. If you're married to a citizen, 95% of respondents support you staying here. www.cnn.com/2025/06/11/p...

Among other things, this is a very solid counternarrative on antisemitism.

Obviously it's not exiling people to torture prison or leaving hundreds of thousands to die without essential medicine or food but stuff like this and Terry Moran is pettily but definitely establishing the premises of absolute dictatorship

Look, you can't expect the President of the United States to speak for the government. Also he's a unitary executive who can dictate all government operations at his whim. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

On the other hand, you could "Full Self Drive" a Tesla for years while only hitting one or two children. It's 99% safe!

The full video is worth watching. The brand new Model Y (updated version) breezes past the school bus lights, runs over a child, pauses, then keeps going. These vehicles are not safe @realdanodowd.bsky.social @resistaustin.bsky.social #teslatakedown #MuskMustFall cbsaustin.com/news/local/t...

“Tesla’s driverless ‘robotaxis’ could launch in Austin as soon as June 22. But a demo in Austin today showed a $TSLA, manually driven to test its Full Self-Driving system, failed to stop for a child-sized dummy at a school bus—and hit it.” @cbsaustin @velez_tx

Honestly true, what happened to Padilla is only half as insane as the actual substance of what Noem said

okay but the thing about the CIA is that the mythology of the agency belies the reality, which is that for much of its existence it was a rubber room for WASP failsons and their operations reflect this

Once again, it seems to me that when a court finds the president is doing something wildly unconstitutional, it is dangerous and unhealthy that we default to “but let him keep doing it until multiple layers of review all agree.”

Because you haven’t had long conversations with ChatGPT that convince it that the answer you want to hear is “yes.”

This is an unbelievably dark story about ChatGPT from top to bottom, especially the twist at the end here www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...

You absolutely love to see it. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is pro-housing.

No brakes, no gas

The Washington Post endorsed Kristi Noem’s nomination as secretary of Homeland Security, just FYI.

Ah well, eggs were expensive, so.

I don't know how many times these people have to say "non-whites are not americans unless they are part of my inner circle, we want to do ethnic cleansing" before people start listening bsky.app/profile/pale...

"mix it up" bsky.app/profile/adri...

what fools we were to tease them. the weebs were just playing the long game...

he's not there to run the military bureaucracy, he's there to run a political purge. He has no idea what the fuck he's doing bsky.app/profile/verm...

Last week the idiot lying ass press scty claimed that the CBO misunderestimated (sic W’ism) the benefits by half a trillion. The media just swallowed it because they are their for the palace intrigue and access, and not to fact-check or educate / inform the public

Get in the streets on saturday. It's mandatory

“document of limitations” is a good phrase. i think about this whenever the fbi complains warrants burden investigations. like, yeah, that’s what they’re supposed to do.

California national guard troops and marines deployed to LA to help restore order have told friends and family members they are deeply unhappy about the assignment and worry their only meaningful role will be as pawns in a political battle they don't want to join. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Tonight I can't stop thinking about Malcolm X saying "America's whole situation is a lunatic fringe" youtu.be/tIkK_suKJYU?...

Pritzker's willingness to speak over these fascist pigs is honestly a great endorsement of his suitability to lead in this moment

shoutout to every idiot who believed that trump would "end the wars"

and Chuck Schumer opposed it, which means he preferred this outcome.