it’s a good day to be a Bari Weiss hater

ICE seems to get completely flummoxed when they’re being yelled at by white men over 35. They kind of put their heads down and shuffle their feet. It’s like their kryptonite.

No, these are very serious comments.

ChatGPT has absolutely no goddamn place in graduate education. It steals from other authors, routinely gets major facts wrong, hallucinates sources, and generally makes the prose flat and boring as hell.

And if you shill for it in my mentions, I'll block you.

Our Detroit staff has received reports from Ford workers that the President's body odor was "like bad breath mixed with feces -- I can't describe it, but I'll never forget it"

Every couple of weeks we get a different description of the apparently awful stench coming off our necrotic president and I think it's high time the media nail down exactly what kind of rotten meat covered in women's perfume he actually smells like.

The flopsweat desperation of an administration that can feel the walls closing in, just smashing and grabbing everything they can before the reckoning comes.

And it's coming in one form or another -- the Epstein Files, Trump's death spiral, maybe just the midterm elections. And they all know it.

Elon Musk Cannot Get Away With This If there is no red line around AI-generated sex abuse, then no line exists.

There is a crisis of impunity. The Musk/Grok stuff is just one f many examples of people who are counting on there never being any consequences. And it all makes me just incandescently mad.

This guy is in Minneapolis standing before an American citizen in an SUV.

The only reason he's brandishing an assault rifle is because he wants the people he's purportedly there protecting to feel terrorized by his presence.

This is not protection. This is occupation.

If I start freaking out, you should definitely freak out. As someone sent to me on the other place long ago:

I would say we're farther away from fascism, and from authoritarian takeover, now than we were a year ago, when I was a *lot* more worried. (Go listen in on my recent podcasts with Charlie Sykes and others over the past month.)

Stephen Colbert on the ICE murder of Renee Nicole Good: “The message from this administration is clear. Only they determine the truth. And when their forces come to your city: obey or die. And if you die, you clearly didn’t obey. This should be an alarm bell for the entire country.”

Handing Out Free Tickets, Mamdani Says Theater Should Not Be ‘a Luxury’

“When I speak about making our city more affordable, my vision is not limited to the homes that we live in or the child care that we’re making universal — it’s also a vision where we make it possible for working people to afford lives of joy, of art, of rest, of expression.”

I am tired of everything being so stupid.

Seeing this list is bonkers. There are counterterrorism organizations here and others dealing with children’s welfare. WTF?

AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.

Definitely was on the knife’s edge of a crash out on here all day and I’m sorry for it. Finding it hard to be normal about this one. Anyway, off to vigils because at this second that’s the only thing I can think to do.

America is almost dead. And unless the people rise up to save it, it will be gone before the mid-terms. Dems won’t save the country. Only it’s people can.

It feels like so much of society is dying or dead :(

Mamdani has only been Mayor for a day & criminals are already fleeing New York

I’ve been stuck at Pearson for an extra 6 hours… so tired 😪

I have spent the last 3 weeks in Edmonton… super excited to be sleeping in my own bed tonight 🫠🫠🫠🫠

Trump Walked in on Teen Pageant Contestants Changing Former Miss Teen USA contestants say Trump walked in where contestants as young as 15 were dressing

Are you telling me *this* man might have been involved in his best friend's sex ring of teenage girls? Does that sound like him?

Is this building the country?

“Public hospitals are being starved of staff and funding, while private providers receive inflated payments for the lowest complexity surgeries,” @alonghurst.bsky.social said.

#OnPoli #OnHealth

Folds: If we’ve been told our whole lives that we can’t spend money on the arts because they’re not important—then why was taking over the Kennedy Center and the arts the first thing they did?

It is extremely important. It’s the bedrock of self-expression.

Sometimes calls for prayer are sincere and sometimes they are an argument: a claim that this is God’s fault and our choices and policies have nothing to do with it.

An aerial view of a flooded, muddy river strewn with fallen and battered trees. A bulldozer is seen on a road above the river. Photo by Carter Johnston for The New York Times.

The death toll in Central Texas climbed to at least 70 as of midday Sunday, as rescuers searched for people swept away by devastating floods and forecasters warned that downpours would continue in already hard-hit areas. Follow live updates. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...

Blistering from @kimwehle.bsky.social, constitutional law professor.
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Even knowing this is where fascism was headed, it's still haunting and terrifying to the core to see the fully built camps

In a country characterized by the rule of law, some regulation of immigration is a legitimate function of government. In a lawless, expressly bigoted, and expressly corrupt regime, it is not. Download IceBlock and defy this administration.

You think that vast armed force is going to be used just for immigration?

I doubt it. Watch for ICE duties to expand duties and for ICE to follow the pattern of militarization of police. Also watch it used as secret police against anything anti-ICE.