Right now where you live healthcare for trans kids is either being made literally illegal by your state or made functionally illegal by the unlawful threats of the federal government and a care infrastructure glad to sacrifice trans kids on the altar of appeasement.
www.npr.org/2026/04/17/n...
Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more. www.wired.com/story/madiso...
No, her pronouns are they/them
I love how everyone is acting like Zohran Mamdani talking in Mario Kart metaphors is somehow unbelievable. He's 34... you know bro has a ride or die favorite Pokemon type and is up to his eyeballs in debt to Timmy and Tommy.
“You gotta learn AI or get left behind!” is a bit galling given that the entire purpose of AI seems to be to steal our work and fuck our brains and shit up the planet, which is to say, its GOAL is to leave us all behind. That, in order to make its owners rich.
It's time!! The Essay department at @theoffingmag.bsky.social is open for submission until May 1. This is my first official window as Editor and I'm excited to see what y'all have for me. Here's a lil thread of details...
Somehow I manage to podcast merely on coffee, tums and wellbutrin
But also, he's the one with power in this balancing act, and if he's pissed that Republicans are taking his repeated instances of going after trans people and weaponizing it then it's on him to change that conversation with the massive wealth and platform afforded to him.
It’s literally the lesson he learned when he cancelled Chapelle Show, that the wrong people were taking the wrong ideas from his work and weaponizing it. When your standup is just a multi million dollar ted talk for republicans to nod along to, it was always going to go this way.
"Someone tried to strangle Sneako", "Clavicular just had a drug overdose", I refuse to believe that understanding any of these headlines is better for me than chain-smoking
The massive Orban defeat should prompt Dems to align themselves more firmly with anti-fascist and pro-democracy forces abroad. There's a powerful link to be drawn between the celebrations in Budapest and the confrontations with ICE in Minneapolis. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2090...
Péter Magyar, who unseated Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán Sunday in a landslide, shared a bombshell with reporters that the outgoing leader had diverted taxpayer funds to bankroll the American Conservative Political Action Conference. trib.al/ct7GGV3
Every day the news reminds you that everything sucks and is more expensive unless you’re in AI, where you’ll be given as much money and told you’re the most special person alive. I can imagine it tearing at a person’s soul as the world beats them down. What they did was a disgraceful act of violence. Unstable people in various stages of torment act in erratic and dangerous ways. The suspect in the molotov cocktail incident apparently had a manifesto where he had listed the names and addresses of both Altman and multiple other AI executives, and, per CNBC, discussed the threat of AI to humanity as a justification for his actions. I am genuinely happy to hear that this person was apprehended without anyone being hurt. These actions are morally wrong, and are also the direct result of the AI industry’s deceptive and manipulative scare campaign, one promoted by men like Altman and Amodei, as well as doomer fanfiction writers like Yudowsky, and, of course, Daniel Kokotajlo of AI 2027 — both of whom have had their work validated and propagated via the New York Times. On the subject of “dangerous rhetoric,” I think we need to reckon with the fact that the mainstream media has helped spread harmful propaganda, and that a lack of scrutiny of said propaganda is causing genuine harm.
The man who threw a molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's house was partially inspired by AI doomer propaganda promoted by the mainstream media and Altman himself. Both the media and AI labs must stop platforming this kind of dangerous rhetoric.
www.wheresyoured.at/i-will-never-respect-a-website/
I think another reason many Americans Feel Bad About the Economy:
There is a constant barrage of information indicating to the casual observer that people who run scams and lie and refuse to play by the rules aren't just going unpunished, they're *making way more money than you are* as a result.
Yeah, I think they need to break it into 45-55 and then 55-65 and it might be a little different.
The very conservative Rod Drehrer, who attended the Catholic baptism of JD Vance: “Not saying Trump is the Antichrist. But he’s radiating the spirit of Antichrist, no question.”
i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan
People will dead ass look you in the eye and tell you this stuff doesn’t matter.
A series of posts from journalist Mark Chadbourn reporting on the acceptance speech of Péter Magyar after Hungarian elections: Péter Magyar: "Our country wants to live again. It wants to be a European country again." Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 24m Magyar's speech is powered. From a contact in the audience: "He's basically just asked all the puppets, all the supreme justices, all the heads of media, all the heads of the ministries to leave their jobs tomorrow and not wait to be fired." •.. Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 22m He's announced that Hungary will join the European Prosecution Office so anyone in the country can be charged. Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 21m Magyar: "No mercy, they will need to take responsibility for all their actions." ... Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 20m Magyar says he's starting work with the EU and NATO immediately. "The EU doesn't have to worry anymore."
From new Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar's acceptance speech tonight. This is the absolute BARE MINIMUM platform for any Democrat running for President in 2028.
no one is doing it like jd vance, a loser across three continents in a single weekend
Reminder: they are never as powerful as they want you to think they are
Pretty sure he's talking about the defeat of Pierre Poilievre--i.e., Canada rejected the fascist ideology.
[scientist looking through microscope in disbelief] mother of god... it's... it's a reverse milkshake duck
21 Hours in Pakistan: How Vance Tried and Failed to End a War He Opposed
THREAD. This single headline in the NYT contains two outrageous claims reported as fact: 1) Vance "tried" to end the war; and 2) he "opposed" it. Neither is supported, but the thing to understand is: why is lying about the *intention* of powerful people so key to propaganda?
"The right’s characterization of higher education is a fiction. Students across the ideological spectrum feel free to express themselves, think their education is worth the cost and don’t think their views are silenced." Only 3% of Republican students feel out of place on campus for their views.
(I have so many thoughts about Doug & Mark’s friendship and I need to process them parasocially with you and probably also River Butcher while I wash dishes.)
Thank you for reminding me that I can rewatch this show. I used to wake up early on summer mornings to watch it when I was, like, 9 lol
(Please do an ER bonus episode????)
And the people who do it almost always are to blame for their own loneliness, too.
