Today! @dansinker.com is still in paradise while @maureenjohnsonbooks.com is trapped in a hell of her own refinishing. But they still find time to talk Mitch, RFK jr, and the reflecting pool on today's Says Who! sayswhopodcast.com/episodes/fai...

lol eat shit

Parked next to a BYD Chinese electric at a Walmart in Fullerton California. I didn’t think they were legal in the US??

Oh my god I think I found the video.

CSketch@csketch.bsky.social · yesterday

My main thing about "electability" is every single candidate I have seen it used as a virtue for has either barely won or lost

Ed Burmila@edburmila.bsky.social · 2d ago

It's "Electability" season once again so let me just remind everybody possessing this incredible power of foresight to tell us something useful like November stock prices.

A great thing about being a human is because we needed a nervous system tuned to avoid getting eaten by sabertooth cats and giant sloths or whatever I now lay awake at night stressing about absolute meaningless bullshit.

I have been very purposefully mostly off the Internet for a bit and let me tell you: it is great. Also coming back, you realize just how fucking cooked everyone's heads are.

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

I think one question one should ask oneself before launching a feature like "generate fake satellite imagery" is "does this have any legitimate use-cases?" Everybody who approved this stupid feature should be fired. www.npr.org/2026/07/31/n...

Google pauses AI satellite images, after fears of deepfakes in the sky

Journalists, human rights advocates and open source analysts recoiled in horror at the initial decision: "The opportunities for abuse and disinfo are literally boundless," said one.

npr.org

shocked at this resolution, who could have guessed

Scott MacFarlane@macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 5d ago

FLASH: Justice Dept seeks to dismiss Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn Trump Admin acknowledges: "Damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in June 2026 was the result of flawed installation by the contractor"

honestly @akilahhughes.com and I could have made Season 2 of Rebel Spirit 100 episodes and still not cover it all

Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01)@repstansbury.bsky.social · 5d ago

While you were over here trying to figure out how you were going to cover the rent and food—this guy was over there using $5.1 million in taxpayer money YOU paid into the system to cover these statues in 23 karat gold. Yeah, he did that.

the pope really working overtime to convert me specifically

Rich Raho@richraho.bsky.social · 5d ago

Pope Leo received singer and songwriter Patti Smith in private audience this morning. The Pope and Smith are both Chicago natives. She was accompanied by @antoniospadaro.bsky.social, undersecretary for the Vatican's Dicastery for Culture and Education.

Got a good job down at the Data Center. I work on the line, and it's hard work but it's honest and the wage is fair; my family and I are grateful for it. I rivet the word "absolutely" onto the little apologies that chatbots do when they misunderstand a prompt.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Hassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."

Lol have fun

Oliver Darcy@oliverdarcy.bsky.social · last wk.

Scoop: I’m told that Ross Douthat is exiting The NYT and is expected to take a role at “60 Minutes.” News expected to be announced soon.

FYI there is no "real" reason why Rome "fell." Its power waned for the usual, mundane reasons: widening gap between rich and poor, inability to maintain infrastructure, incompetent leadership, pointless wars, endless persecution of marginalized groups who performed vital labor, etc.

The sad thing is this will boil down to which side can bribe Trump more instead of any reasoned policy decision.

Michael Jordan spends his entire life trying to not appear political, and Trump jumps in like oh yeah he's my good friend and we good all the time. Lol

Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · 2w ago

Donald Trump: “LeBron is — maybe he’s a racist. But maybe he doesn’t like Trump. I don’t know. But I only like people that like me.”

every day i feel like we're experiencing some kind of societal gas leak

Enjoy your dinner tonight, members of the White House Correspondents Association, you miserable embarrassments to the profession.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Q: Do you think it's appropriate to subpoena family members of journalists to find out information? TRUMP: I don't know. Barack Hussein Obama did it all the time. He went after journalists and nobody said anything about it.

The John Brown Freedom Trail in Iowa is getting 10 of its 16 historical markers replaced. It marks spots along Underground Railroad routes where Brown and others led enslaved persons out of Missouri www.wqad.com/article/news...

It's wild how someone will make a movie with real craft and care and love for the medium and experience and people will turn out and buy tickets and it'll be a hit and execs will learn exactly zero things from that and continue to greenlight derivative shit.

It’s Steve Albini’s birthday today. RIP forever, friend.

Rebel Spirit season two wraps today with a look back across all the conversations @akilahhughes.com had these ten episodes, a moving call for a new reconstruction, and a supercut of calling Confederates losers. rebelspiritpodcast.com/episodes/epi...

Episode 10: The Flags We Plant - Rebel Spirit Podcast

Rebel Spirit is a podcast series from Akilah Hughes (Crooked Media’s “What a Day”) about her return to her small town of Florence, Kentucky with a mission to change her high school’s mascot from a Con...

rebelspiritpodcast.com

Rebel Spirit season two wraps today with a look back across all the conversations @akilahhughes.com had these ten episodes, a moving call for a new reconstruction, and a supercut of calling Confederates losers. rebelspiritpodcast.com/episodes/epi...

Episode 10: The Flags We Plant - Rebel Spirit Podcast

Rebel Spirit is a podcast series from Akilah Hughes (Crooked Media’s “What a Day”) about her return to her small town of Florence, Kentucky with a mission to change her high school’s mascot from a Con...

rebelspiritpodcast.com

Have now made it across Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Eastern California and have seen 2 more Trump signs. One was an old Trump/Vance MAGA sign where "America" had "Fascism" scrawled on it. The other was painted huge on the side of a semi on a hill, it had "pedo" graffitied over it.

The @nytimes.com has a great story on the fallout from Midway Blitz for Chicago’s US Attorney’s Office. In it, Greg Bovino trashes Andrew Boutros for not going hard enough: “as weak as a limp dishrag.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/19/u...

Failed Immigration Cases Leave Chicago Prosecutor’s Office Reeling

Prosecutors have fled the U.S. attorney’s office in Chicago, angry about the cases they’ve been told to bring against protesters and immigrants.

nytimes.com

Lol that game

Absolutely stunning motel signage, Raton, New Mexico

Signed

Chicago Reader Union@chicagoreaderunion.bsky.social · 3w ago

The Chicago Reader Union has been bargaining w/ Noisy Creek since February. In that time, management has consistently offered proposals that would cut longstanding benefits in exchange for meager pay raises. We need YOU to tell Noisy Creek we deserve better! 🧵 🔗: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

So like did all of Canada burn down or what