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in addition to feeding the kitty, your support helps me keep scribbling. was proud of this piece I wrote this week on how mass incarceration empowers fascists. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/the-road-t...

babe what's wrong? you've barely touched your warrior ethos

This is the kind of in-depth gun violence reporting that requires deep sourcing, trust building, newsroom resources, and straight up empathy. Which is why so few people do it like @ellierushing.bsky.social: share.inquirer.com/49QJcN

nobody does more brutal fashion reviews than the irish

Marko Elez, the DOGE operative who had read-write access to the Treasury payment system, sent PII found in Treasury records to GSA officials in an unencrypted form and without being authorized to do so, according to a sworn statement filed in federal court last night and first noted by Bloomberg:

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered a stop to mass firings in federal agencies (except Pentagon, OPM and NARA) saying the so-called “reductions in force (RIFs)” broke the law. “Employees purportedly terminated … are returned to government employ.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I put a stock ticker widget on my phone just for this. It’s important to find joy in the little things

warner is 72 and has been serving in the senate since 2009. get him out

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

my ideology is woke Canadian radical social democratic military keynesianism now

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

I wrote about how reactionary centrists are currently living out the truth of an Oscar Wilde’s bon mot: “When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.” adriandaub.substack.com/p/that-is-no...

I went ahead and counted how many times Captain Jack and Diana Villiers are described as "boyish," "boylike," "like a great boy," and "bounding up the steps like a boy" in Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series. It's a lot! www.thechatner.com/p/who-is-mor...

Amazing. Almost too poetic to be true. This book going straight on my reading list >> When a group of libertarians set about scrapping their local government, chaos descended. And then the bears moved in. newrepublic.com/article/1596...

SCOOP: The US Treasury claimed a DOGE's Marco Elez didn’t have ‘write access,’ when he actually did. Sources tell WIRED that his ability to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded, days after officials said it didn't exist.

Democrats should do this for every single nomination and seek to recess the senate as much as possible for one key goal: slowing down the confirmation of Kash Patel. We need to keep The Drizz in there as long as possible

Trans folks seeking passports: Here's something potentially useful, to a small group. If you are in: Michigan Minnesota New York Vermont Washington You have access to an "EDL". This is a drivers license that can be used for LAND AND SEA (not air) entry to Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean. (1/3)

Trump has signed 10 executive orders attacking trans people in his first 16 days in office. Do not ever let anyone tell you that it's Democrats who are obsessed with trans people.

HAPPENING NOW: members of Congress led by @maxwellfrost.bsky.social are attempting to enter the Treasury Building to demand answers re: Musk’s unconstitutional money grab

so this is definitely gonna end poorly

it is 2022. I am arguing with Will stancil about mask mandates. it is 2024. I am agreeing with Will Stancil about the Biden economy and Elon Musk. it is 2027. I am helping members of the 1st Free Minneapolis Volunteers spraypaint an icon of Will Stancil on the side of one of their tanks.

Many are saying that President Xi’s failure to seize the Tesla factory shows weakness.

Donald Trump's negotiation style is threatening to set himself on fire if he doesn't get four tires on his new car, then declaring victory because he got the car for MSRP, then calling the salesperson a slur

The thing is that an undercurrent of the whole free speech charade was that a lot of people in elite spaces genuinely did not like trans people or respect trans identity and wanted a way to resist by proxy.

Gandalf, who will you turn to when we've gone

Retaliatory tariffs are all right and good but if Canada, Mexico and the EU want to get this over with sanctioning the hell out of Trump’s oligarchs seems like a force multiplier.

A government that deliberately abandons the rule of law is not morally entitled to its protections.

There’s been a kind of…fashion of late to view anti-Trump libs as lame and cringe and just annoying, aesthetically. I remember this exact same aesthetic judgment in the run-up to the Iraq war. The earnest libs were right then and they’re right now.

I will be thinking about this tweet for the next four years

Chart from @pkrugman.bsky.social generalising folks' understanding of wages and prices seems fair. open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...