Fucked up at work recently. Monday gonna be stupid. Anyhow.

i am genuinely bewildered by people who say that the rise of white nationalism in the republican party is a response to the "woke left." like, did the woke left cause pat buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign? is the woke left why steve king had a long career in congress?

We're officially entering the Fuhrerbunker phase of the Trump presidency

“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”

Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’

The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...

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I would like media to care more about the reality that tech tycoons want to kill people than what they’re imagining about AI wanting to kill people. We have multi-millionaires (with support from billionaires!) calling for ethnic cleansing, a thing that has happened in living memory. Not theoretical!

Editor: I'd like a story that combines Americans' hatred of artificial intelligence, their fears about the environment, their antipathy toward data centers, and their angst over inflation driven by dwindling fuel supplies. Reporter: Got ya covered, boss. Need anything else?

And we're gonna do it. Absolutely, we'll post about it for two months. We'll sound somewhat upset about it at times. We'll ask you all to dig deep, to dig in your heart, and your couch cushions. Deeper. Fish around inside the frame. Diesel's over $6 & regular is $4 or more. But we need your $5.

Mike Levin@mikelevin.org · 3d ago

Here is the reality. We have the votes to impeach Pete Hegseth tomorrow. Mike Johnson knows it, we know it. So he’s sending us all home to avoid the vote. www.cnn.com/2026/09/16/p...

I just realized that if you claim that "actually Palestinians/Arabs/Muslims are Semites too," then what you are actually doing is SILENCING the conversation about anti-Arab and Islamophobic bigotry by covering it up with a term for anti-Jewish bigotry – a term invented by proto-Nazi "race science."

Police should not be able to bypass the Constitution with a search for "haha." www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

The High Crime of “LMAO”: How Cops Are Treating Mass Surveillance As

With no warrant requirements, limited guardrails, and deficient audit processes, ALPR databases have fostered a culture of unrestricted access to everyone’s location information. This culture of

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Everything's falling into place

Jamie Dupree@jamiedupree.bsky.social · 3d ago

House GOP leaders cancel votes on Thursday - sending lawmakers home later today until after the elections. That means the House can avoid a vote on the Hegseth impeachment plan from Rep. Thomas Massie R-KY.

When #Harvard has a banner year in fundraising, nearly erasing its budget deficit of $365 million, that’s when you know that the reason behind its academic cuts has been purely ideological, not financial.

FAS Raised Roughly $800 Million In FY2026, Far Surpassing Its $500 Million Target | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences raised roughly $800 million in fiscal year 2026 — far surpassing its $500 million target and marking the school’s strongest fundraising year in at least five yea...

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As if the government didn’t have enough cultists.

David Ingram@davidingram.bsky.social · 3d ago

New from me

These newscasters should be so fucking embarrassed

Combatants are hunting civilians from the sky with small drones more than ever before - and the international community isn’t doing enough to stop it. My latest on the ways we can protect civilians from drones, written with Nathaniel Raymond of @hrl-yalesph.bsky.social :

The Laws of War Must Change for the Drone Age

Hunting civilians from the sky is growing disturbingly common.

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Journalists who were fired for pointing out Charlie Kirk's racist statements are being rehired. Celebrities who came forward to spotlight Donald Trump's incompetence are booked and busy. People are tired of being bullied into silence.

Arrest him?

Stephen James@stephen5150.bsky.social · 5d ago

Mitch McConnell disappeared for three months & kept his full salary. Disabled people are forced to prove they’re “still disabled” just to remain in legislated poverty. Folks on SNAP must re-apply and prove they’re “still poor”. Republican Senators don’t even have to prove they’re alive.

Everybody calm down, a Russian oligarch did NOT pay for Donald Trump Jr’s wedding. He only paid for the wedding PARTY, and some masculinization plastic surgery for Don Jr. See? Nothing to worry about. Everything is totally fine and normal.

my dream is to one day see Sam Alito’s seat filled with the wokest rainbow-haired trans lesbian puppygirl imaginable

NEW: DHS's Inspector General releases a scathing report about the Everglades detention camp known as "Alligator Alcatraz." The OIG finds that the now-closed camp, violated multiple ICE standards. The OIG also confirms detainees were punished with placement in a metal cage in the Florida heat.🧵

underrated part of El-Sayed’s messaging strategy seems to be shaming journalists who ask dumb questions that play into right-wing frames. you can’t answer these in a way that satisfies them, but you can make it embarrassing enough that you impose a toll on asking.

"For years, I viewed headlines about nursing strikes with cynicism. But once I began researching the history of nursing unions, I realized how much they have done to push for higher standards of patient care," Dr. Alia Sharif of Mercy Hospital writes.

Opinion | I am an ethical doctor. That’s why I’m on strike.

For years, I viewed headlines about nursing strikes with cynicism. But once I began researching the history of nursing unions, I realized how much they have done to push for higher standards of patient care, Dr. Alia Sharif writes.

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"Yes, during Homecoming, he did erect a Confederate statue on the field while shouting a full-throated defense of eugenics into the loudspeaker. But what are we supposed to do? Buy entirely new sweatshirts? We cannot replace tradition. We cannot replace Sir Racist Von Genocide." buff.ly/cvVJWJp

In Defense of Our College’s Mascot, Sir Racist Von Genocide

“We cannot replace tradition. We cannot replace Sir Racist Von Genocide.” Nov 10 2021 Sept 8 2022 9/16/23 9/6/24 9/2/25 9/13/26

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VICTORY: Trump's mail ballot interference rule is blocked in FULL A fed. judge ruled USPS never had the power to rewrite how America votes, weeks out from the midterms @democracydefendersfund.org & @campaignlegal.org brought this case for LULAC, ASA, SFI, Madison WI & Travis County TX👇 -TN

Today is the 5th birthday of The Actual Star. I'm proud of everything I write, but this book had the hardest labor. There were many times I didn't think it'd ever even see the light of day. The world has changed a lot since then. So have I. But to my delight, the book continues to find readers.

NEW: Once exceptionally rare, illegal deportations — in defiance of court orders or due to ICE screw-ups — are now a routine part of President Trump's mass deportation push. It happened 3 times this past week and more at least 30 times in recent months. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...

A key point in Fahrenheit 451 is that books were banned because they made people depressed and uncomfortable. The novel's protagonist, Montag, is taken into custody after he reads a poem that makes a woman cry because she realizes the emptiness of her life.

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.