"Facial expressions now accurately reflect internal thoughts. This feature cannot be disabled."
McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net · 11h ago"Night Sweats™ now activate regardless of room temperature, thread count, fan speed, or whether you finally found a position that didn’t hurt your hip." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/rel...
Great job from the president yesterday, basically telling Iran "yes, you should get a nuke ASAP, so you can get the same treatment I give my friends in North Korea." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Donald Trump Just Explained Why Iran Should Have a Nuclear Weapon
He may also have blurted out classified information about North Korea.
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"... the ordinary Americans’ experience with AI is as if after the invention of electricity, every factory worker was assigned to start each workday by receiving an electric shock"
Garrett M. Graff@vermontgmg.bsky.social · 14h agoWondering why data centers are as unpopular as nuclear waste? It's not the data centers. The problem is both more obvious and more fundamental: The daily lived experience of the AI boom sucks. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ai-is-maki...
Why do I tend to focus my criticisms on the likes of Marco Rubio or Ekbridge Colby rather than, say, Pete Hegseth? Let me explain… danieldrezner.substack.com/p/categories...
Categories of Contempt
A typology of my domestic political disgust.
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“The autonomy of the Office of the Attorney General is paramount, and I will defend it against any act, statute, ordinance, or even basic common-law principle,” said Todd Blanche
Todd Blanche Vows To Remain Fully Independent Of The Law
WASHINGTON—Assuring the American people he would not let the legal system sway his judgment in any decision he makes, recently sworn-in Attorney General Todd Blanche vowed at a press conference Monday...
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“Madison [Rhodes] has been on our radar ever since she humiliated a total stranger at a Zara changing area and sent her fleeing the store in tears,” said White House communications director Steven Cheung
White House Taps Mean Teen In Zara Fitting Room As New Press Secretary
WASHINGTON—Touting her overall cruelty and particular delight at making others feel miserably self-conscious, the White House on Monday tapped a mean teenager from a Zara fitting room as its new press...
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“I was offered an untenable bargain: Don’t make trouble. Take insults from those who never faced enemy fire, who asked for assistance in private and then signed orders to erase people like me because “transgender ideology” was a threat to Western civilization.” www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
The Wrong Kind of American
The Trump White House needed me—until the fact that I am trans became public.
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Some professional news: I’m starting at The American @prospect.org on Monday, where I’ll continue my reporting on ICE flights and third-country removals.
Ossoff should be he entire midterm campaign: "They made you pay more for everything and took us to war on lies and spent most of last year trying to cover up for the world's most famous pedophile while the crook president and his crook family raked in billions. . . . Enough is enough."
"Scaling back the exercise is, of course, an insane decision, which does nothing but hurt an ally, and tempt an adversary to think—correctly—that American leadership is feckless." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Trump Will Make South Korea Pay For His Iran Humiliation
His rage is driving him to make irrational policy choices.
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"Rest assured, this will only be a threat to illegal noncitizens, legal noncitizens, citizens, builders, registered nurses, five-year-olds, pedestrians, poets, journalists, pregnant people, small people, old people, ill people, and all people." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/its...
It’s ICE—We’re Rebranding and Jazz-Handing With Our Sizzling New INCEL™ G.L.O.V.E.S.
“As we’ve publicly stated, our planned $10 million-$20 million purchase of these gloves will equip our agents with ‘conductive distraction and de-escalation ...
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All of these ICE charter airlines have emergency landings, diversions, aborted takeoffs etc ALL THE TIME. And very often the shackled passengers have to sit on the plane until ICE flies in a new one. When I say I am drowning in stories and wish more journos were covering this, this is what I mean!
JJ in DC@jjindc.bsky.social · last wk.🧊✈️ HERE'S YOUR DAILY DIVERT 😬 ⚠️ An Air Wisconsin jet (tail: N413AW) bound for the ICE hub in Alexandria, Louisiana turns back abruptly after takeoff and returns to Milwuakee 👀
Trump Tears Up White House In Search Of More Munitions https://theonion.com/trump-tears-up-white-house-in-search-of-more-munitions/
"The Trump administration has not been shy about its international intentions" "Trump’s buddy Elon Musk has amplified rightwing populist movements across Europe. And at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) conference in Warsaw last year, .."
Millions of US tax dollars sent to rightwing European thinktanks. Did any Trump supporters vote for that? | Arwa Mahdawi
It’s a great betrayal: poor communities neglected while multimillionaires peddle a global Maga agenda. How is that America first, asks Guardian columnist Arwa Mahdawi
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bystander1.bsky.social@bystander1.bsky.social · last mo.Dangerous stuff!!! "The documents reviewed by the Guardian set out details of the grants for the first time. They include $7m for 878, a “leading British and American think tank” devoted to “the rediscovery of our ancient culture” and “ending mass immigration”."
"[the press] is there, in part, for the security of the United States itself — to provide, if necessary, an independent and transparent proof of life and proof of presence in the event of a crisis or uncertainty about the president’s status."
Garrett M. Graff@vermontgmg.bsky.social · last wk.The Air Force One catering truck scandal is deeper and darker than the media is portraying it — it’s a Russian nesting doll of corruption and national security threats: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-five-s...
Extraordinary story from @josepagliery.bsky.social following Rogelio Bolufé, one of the Cuban hunger strikers in ICE camps as he becomes a third-country national expelled to Guayaquil, Ecuador, one of the most dangerous cities on earth. www.notus.org/national/dhs...
No ID, No Money, No Way Out: DHS Deports a Man to a Country He Doesn't Know
The Trump administration sent Rogelio Bolufé, a Cuban national, to a cartel city in Ecuador with no means of escape.
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by Trump corruption standards the Truth Social API deal is appalling. open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...
Corruption All the Way Down
If you're the president I guess blatant insider trading is quasi-legal now?
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One piece of this new presidential vax schedule that's gotten insufficient coverage is the additional demand it would create for dr. appointments (assuming kids still get shots), since unbundling shots requires more trips to pediatrician. Do you know how hard it is to get a doctor's appt right now?!
There’s No Vaccine for Stupid
Innumerate Republican senators castigate Fauci for something he didn’t do.
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"I don’t know how you can look at the towering, nude, Adonis-like sculpture of Gothbag, standing on the broken bodies of his hideous enemies, his rippling muscles, and enormous penis glimmering in the sunlight, and think the statue is anything but neutral."
We Must Not Destroy Our History by Tearing Down Statues of Great Men Like Gothbag the Terrible
“If we tear down the statue of him standing athwart the crushed bodies of his foes and drinking their blood from a skull, how will we ever remember all the g...
buff.ly
Little John once watched Robin risk his life dangling from a castle window just to steal a pen from a pharmaceutical conference. “Robin,” whispered Little John, “there are jewels right there.” “Yes,” Robin whispered back, “but this pen is shaped like a syringe.” buff.ly/VA5DpmF
Robin Hood, Prince of Compulsive and Pointless Theft
“He steals from the rich to give to the poor, which sounds generous until you learn what he steals. The people of Sherwood do not need six unmatched salt sha...
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"When a government operates entirely in bad faith,...officials in such a government don’t merely lie to the public: they lie to each other too. As a result, they can’t govern effectively, even in the pursuit of evil." – @pkrugman.bsky.social
Lying Liars Lie to Each Other Too
A bad-faith government is also an incompetent government
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Oh no I sure hope that person doesn’t find this link. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/why-isnt-m...
Why Isn't Marco Rubio Doing His Job?
The allegedly competent Trump advisor sure seems to be avoiding giving advice on the most important foreign policy issue of the day.
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Aprile529@aprile529.bsky.social · 2w agoI know someone who works for the State Dept, highly educated, speaks several languages, and they have this person scanning social media for insulting things said about Marco.
if you make the mistake of talking with your kids now you might be stuck talking with them your WHOLE LIFE www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Now, Thanks to Sam Altman, You Never Have to Speak to Your Kids Again
AI can handle these kinds of pointless interactions.
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Neoclassical econ assumes rationality. The corollary of, "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?" is "you're rich, so you must be very smart!" Thus, people assume that if powerful, well-compensated CEOs insist that "AI is changing everything," well then, *AI must be changing everything*. 1/
Kevin Warsh has only been the Fed chairman for two months and he is already underwhelming financial markets. My latest (with an assist from @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social). danieldrezner.substack.com/p/kevin-wars...
Kevin Warsh Is Not Inspiring Confidence
Not a quality one wants in a Fed chair.
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I've written a longer piece on the book that's been pulled due to "AI" use allegations, what that means particularly for newer authors, and what, if anything writers can do in the "AI" era to prove their work is their own: whatever.scalzi.com/2026/07/31/a...
Another Reason Not to Use “AI” For Your Writing
Back in February I did a long post about “AI” and why I wouldn’t use it for my own writing, and one of the reasons I gave was “the fact that ‘AI’-generated text …
whatever.scalzi.com
Arlington plans to turn poop into consumer-grade fertilizer by 2031
Arlington plans to turn poop into consumer-grade fertilizer by 2031 | ARLnow.com
Arlington County is just a few years out from realizing its dream of turning residents' solid waste into natural gas and consumer-grade fertilizer. Arlington Re-Gen, a long-awaited upgrade to the county's...
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Congress Interrogates Fauci Over Origins Of Pie Brought To Cookout https://theonion.com/congress-interrogates-fauci-over-origins-of-pie-brought-to-cookout/
