Can’t wait for Nuremberg 2.0

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

Tom Homan: "It all go backs to the Dems ... there's still gonna be more bloodshed unless they shut their mouth and let ICE enforce the laws that they enacted."

Impromptu ICE protest in Biddeford, Maine

It looks like ICE killed someone in my neighborhood this morning. As always, fuck ICE. www.wmtw.com/article/sign...

Person killed in shooting involving ICE in Biddeford, official says

Police closed part of busy Pool Street in Biddeford on Monday morning and there was a significant police presence.

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My mother was a career journalist and editor who very much shared this opinion

Josh Gondelman@joshgondelman.bsky.social · 3mo ago

My crankiest old man take is that referring to all art/entertainment/journalism/criticism/comedy/advertising as “content” helped pave the way for broad-ish acceptance of AI slop.

Crazy that the AG is like “you said he was planning to take money from the slush fund, which aforementioned slush fund did not yet exist, ergo no harm no foul” and it’s just like, dawg you are the AG and you are defending a crime fund, is that what you dreamt of in law school

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo ago

VAN HOLLEN: An individual who was pardoned by Trump went on to molest 2 children, & he tried to buy their silence by saying he would give them funds from your slush fund. Can you commit to not making that person eligible for a payout? BLANCHE: You're obviously lying V: I am reporting what he said

A state that redraws its legislative maps before every election to maximize advantage for the incumbent party is not a democracy or a republic and in any case obviously violates the guarantee clause, among many others. No country does this. No country ever thought of doing this. It is a total farce.

The Times’ dumbest econ reporter carrying water for the Trump administration

1. Presocratic philosophy 2. Intro to Shakespeare 3. The Civil War and Reconstruction 4. Aesthetics 5. Art in the Dutch Golden Age

I feel like it’s notable that Elon wrote one of these emails to Epstein at dawn on Christmas morning.

Mike Baker@mikebaker.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Elon Musk last year: "Epstein tried to get me to go to his island and I REFUSED" Musk to Epstein emails: • “What day/night will be the wildest party on your island?” • "I really want to hit the party scene" • "Is there a good time to visit? Story: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

weird freak

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8mo ago

JD Vance: "To our fellow Americans we say, you're never gonna find great meaning in a cubicle or in front of a computer screen. But you will find great meaning if you dedicate yourself to the creation and sustenance of human life."

NYT framing an historically embarrassing and disastrous 48 hours for the country as some sort of triumph for Trump is certainly a choice

Of course this will be bad in its own very special way, but the obsequiousness from the press is straight out of Iraq 2.0, baby.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The Washington Post editorial board comes out in favor of the Venezuela attack/operation to capture Maduro

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

NYC, Mumbai, Buenos Aires, Montreal, LA

Alex de Campi@alexdecampi.bsky.social · last yr.

If you could get a crib in any five cities (five cribs) of your choice in the world, which would you choose? Me: NYC, London, Florence, Hong Kong, Auckland

Instead of regurgitating the bromide that LLMs are just "autocomplete on steroids" (even by people who know better), maybe we can actually engage in some public education. The problem with genAI is better expressed through a classic computer science concept, known as SYMBOL GROUNDING. 🧵

The US economic model it's offering to the world is fartcoin, sports betting, and natural oils, the Chinese economic model is high speed rail and solar panels. Americans have rejected Geist and their country won't survive it

Unusual Whales@unusualwhales.bsky.social · last yr.

BREAKING: China has officially banned cryptocurrency trading, mining, and related services

Project 2025 is a jumble of policies, too, but the right has a trifecta and the policies are mostly destructive rather than constructive, so they are easier to implement.

Better late than never. -- In honor of this, which is genuinely wonderful news if it holds, a story. Once upon a time, there was a boy who was born in a tiny village in eastern Turkey. I have been to this village. To get there from the nearest town, you catch a minibus going somewhere else ...

they're calling it the greatest thread of all time

Solomon@solomonrmissouri.com · last yr.

"chief people officer" you mean HR? you down to the Coldplay concert with HR?

ICE is going to end up being basically a Civilian Conservation Corps-style makework program for downwardly mobile young men, but instead of making nice parks and stuff, it will make human misery.

you have been visited by "Le Boulanger Quebecois" repost to receive his blessing

The Court had no problem with nationwide injunctions from District judges when, say, the Biden administration used its explicit statutory authority to "waive or modify" student loan payments, but when Trump wants to nullify the explicit text of the Fourteenth Amendment the practice must end

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · last yr.

there is no jurisprudence at work here. the republican court believes that anything a republican president is presumptively constitutional, even if it directly violates the unambiguous constitutional text and causes total chaos in law and policy.

holy shit

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus? NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country HASSAN: That's incorrect

The most grotesque image imaginable is the President flying around on a gilded plane while his Republican allies take away our families Medicare.

NOAA just announced a long list of datasets that are going away🧪⚒️🌊: www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/docume... Download what you need asap and send comments to: ncei.info@noaa.gov

The bipartisan belief that America would be a better place if *other people* worked in a factory. www.ft.com/content/8459...

If an administration can get away with falsifying social security records to target individuals, then there is no bottom. There's also no such thing as a "citizen" because that can be changed with a couple button presses too. Mark your SSN and passport as dead then ship you to El Salvador.

Elizabeth Joh@elizabethjoh.bsky.social · last yr.

what must be understood is that once *some* people can be declared legally dead because they are undocumented, *any* people can be declared legally dead because … well for anything

These are the worst pigs in the universe torturing all children in a not very wealthy state because the chief pig feels personally slighted, and also is demanding other children be tortured and humiliated as he demands. Of course we can't frame it this way in polite discourse for some reason.

Nathan Bernard@nathantbernard.bsky.social · last yr.

Trump admin announces they will terminate all "federal K-12 education funding, including formula and discretionary grants" for Maine's department of education because the state refuses to discriminate against transgender people.

All I’m saying is that President Harris wouldn’t have us looking at the futures market on a Sunday night.