Craig Cheslog

Stories I Wanted to Share: The humans are the problem with AI; midterm projections give me hope; wishing Dem consultants would stop defending tech; Hegseth’s Iran War cover-up; EPA capitulates to the forced-birth lobby; Congress needs to hire tech staff; and 17 minutes that changed America.

Meta strongly appears to be an enemy of democracy in the US. Proceed accordingly. If you're a politician, activist, or organization on the left, you HAVE to build your presence off of Meta and X - which basically means here and Mastodon. Bring your audience over as much as possible. It's critical.

Sounds familiar.

This is mostly true. I was in shock and said if the FBI was going to come arrest me then fucking do it already. Ben was the one who held my hand and told that lawyer to fuck off. But YES. We LOVE the NLG. They found me my lawyers and I will owe all of them my life.

Agree with all of this until the last clause. Hegseth ain't leaving until he can turn tanks on American civillians.

They tried to charge her with a criminal civil rights violation (!?!?) and ordinary Americans told them to fuck all the way off. wapo.st/4yPWbRx

As a former resident of the County, I nod slowly in recognition of this dynamic.

Collins has just oozed disdain and condescension towards Troy throughout the campaign. It's gross She really thinks that being from a rich family in the County makes her better than him Pretty sure a lot of Mainers have noticed it....and this ad just confirms it These people are vile elitists

If one tried to buy a cord of wood from Collins, though, I’m sure she’d promise to be diligent when trying to secure the contract, express concerns near the deadline, and then sell you out to your competitor in the end. That’s not independence.

This is far more elitist and condescending than anything Bruce Braley ever said about Chuck Grassley. Will corporate media give it 10% the attention they gave Braley's comments? (no.)

This is why I’m voting for Prop 40. We need to send every possible message that it is time to tax the oligarchs.

The Vance signature move: When you can't succeed by emulating Richard Nixon alone, try emulating George Wallace

before the election, doing dogpile coverage on Trump's heavily documented and extremely plausible rape allegations would be Political and therefore improper. after the election it's time to turn the page, let bygones be bygones, look forward not backward, bsky.app/profile/hoff...

Day 4

Blunder aside, Vance's whole vibe is so dark and conspiratorial. Adam Hamilton will weaponize "your faith" to "launder an ideology" that "despises how Kansans live?" He's a mainstream Protestant megachurch pastor who went to Oral Roberts!

I know there’s a lot going, but 19 Republican AGs have said—in writing!—that pro-choice speech should be criminalized. Thats a Big Fucking Deal and it blows my mind that more people aren’t talking about it

Excited for a low key two years of congressional oversight

Latest piece. If the Dems take control of Congress, the first investigation (after corruption) has to be about the use of AI in US warfare. American tech executives have placed themselves in a pernicious situation and we need to understand what happened. phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/the-first-...

"El Sayed dug up the buried implication of Tommy's question, held it up for all to examine, and then, one shovelful after another, question by question, buried Tommy in the hole left behind." www.the-reframe.com/taking-our-c...

That's HELLA racist and also completely incorrect.

It’s only right for Cathy’s tenure to end in the most embarrassing way possible

Today we lost Walter Koenig. Some thoughts about a fine actor and genuinely nice guy....

Democrats need to demonstrate how big a mistake this was in a loud and obvious fashion.

Oh, man, he's so close to getting it.

If you think you have a deal—for anything—with Donald Trump, you are incorrect. You do not. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

I dont know if it's because they love republicans and want them to win but holy crap is this an embarrassment. the equivalent of reckless disregard in terms of journalism fuck ups. Just the simplest damn googling.

i'll tell you one thing neither ballon d'or winner ever had the cops called on them for hoopin too much, respect this young king and jail the parents who called the police

Also, I'd love to know how two different stories -- each written by three reporters, with no overlap in the authors -- managed to find Jolene Riessen and make her the stand-in for apolitical Iowa farmers.

There are only two explanations for the NYT's habit of presenting GOP operatives and donors as true swing voters: 1. Their reporters and editors are somehow incapable of running a simple Google searches, showing just a staggering level of journalistic incompetence 2. They want to the GOP to win

Meta must be destroyed.

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

NWSL Decision Day approaches, and I am dying to know the logistics of trying to plan two possible shield celebrations on completely opposite sides of the country.

www.braziloffice.org/en/articles/...

it does seem like this moment changed whole election and maybe the modern history of Brazil? crazy stuff

I call it a Digital Dunkirk, but this is much smarter.

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

Every adult involved with this atrocity should be publicly shamed.

what’s better: a world where every single decision in youth sports is dominated by race, gender, police, and violence… or a world where everyone can play

And future Dem POTUSes behaving normally doesn’t change the precedent. Future GOP presidents will feel emboldened to blackmail and punish Dem-run states.

The standard you walk past is the standard you accept.

As I've said, this is either an impeachable offense that Democrats act on or it's a new precedent.

Super surprised that CBS didn’t expose Tina Peters. Did you know there’s a FREE news podcast that answers to no one? @dailybeanspod.com

In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump have lost surprise elections thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.

Watch this with Trump at his side, remember the dissents in the birthright citizenship case — www.lawdork.com/p/six-opinio... — and understand there are no limits, no places they wouldn’t go.