Daniel Christopher

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged. Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’

We need a word for that deep disappointment and emptiness you feel when realizing an otherwise interesting photograph was AI generated

We are $38 trillion in debt, millions are about to go hungry, and he's busy building himself a gilded ballroom. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

dear US friends, when a sitting president (re)builds the seat of government, it almost always means the president has no intention of leaving at the end of term. your African friends with decades of experience

SNAP benefits expire in one week.

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

My least favorite part of being a software developer in 2025 is giving junior engineer feedback and receiving a response they pasted from chatgpt. I'd just vibecode it myself if I really wanted to argue with an llm all day.

This arrest appears to be in direct violation of a temporary restraining order prohibiting DHS officers from arresting journalists. The officers here may well be subject to contempt of court. protectdemocracy.org/wp-content/u...

George was just trying to get to work. ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process. This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."

its weird that the president brags about inflicting pain on american citizens and cities right?

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

Five days ago, an ICE agent shoved a woman asking questions about the detention of her husband. Today they attacked two journalists. We cannot accept or normalize what has now become routine violence at 26 Federal Plaza. It has no place in our city.

Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance

OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.

While I'll definitely buy Hades II this week, this is one time seeing a trailer makes me so sad that it's a game and not a show. This would be such an incredible animated series youtu.be/wfYA-cChSms?...

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

Liberals have this mental model they keep trying to update where they try to fit the words and actions of right wingers into a consistent moral framework while in reality what the right believes is "I should get everything I want" and "I can say or do anything to get that"

Monarez: "Kennedy demanded 2 things of me that were were inconsistent w/ my oath of office. He directed me to commit in advance to approving every ACIP recommendation regardless of the scientific evidence. He also directed me to dismiss career officials responsible for vaccine policy without cause"

pointing out the rights hypocrisy about freedom of speech doesn’t really do too much but i honestly am just stunned how blatantly and quickly they reversed on pretty much every constitutional freedom the moment they gained full power

Too bad the GOP effectively criminalized studying how information moves online and news orgs laid off and demonized all the reporters who covered the burgeoning online accelerationist performative death cults. All of that work was somehow "censorship" that needed to be stopped. Now we're here.

Why would any foreign country invest in a nation that did this?

"Stay tuned for more details" -- Epstein survivor announces that survivors are creating their own list of Epstein-related abusers

Just spent a couple days trying to vibe code a bug fix at work that wound up becoming way too overly complicated. I started over myself and it turned out to be a simple CSS issue. The key to responsible vibe coding is to know when the AI is leading you down the wrong path, and when to start over

The ad campaign criticizing the use of masks by federal agents working in Washington, D.C. has expanded to 115 bus stops, per organizers

America heartbroken to discover president somehow still alive

I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable

It shouldn't be up to American children to save each other from getting shot. It's the job of American adults to stop shootings from happening in the first place. Ban assault weapons again now.

We were going to do another big marketing stunt for THE TOXIC AVENGER UNRATED. Instead, Toxie, whose life was upended by crushing medical bills, has joined forces with Undue Medical Debt to erase at least $5 million in un-payable medical debt for those who need it most. Learn more:

Walz says Harris "would have been a fantastic president... we wouldn't wake up every day to a bunch of shit on TV. We would wake up to an adult w/ compassion & dignity doing the work, not a manchild crying about whatever is wrong with him. May his fat ankles find something today. Petty as hell."

This is your reminder that no one in Congress should be trading stocks. Who’s with me?

things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes

One of the biggest blunders (when well-intentioned) and betrayals (when not) in Democratic rhetoric over the years is their impenetrable insistence that what voters respond to is somebody who begins by finding common ground with their opponent, no matter who that opponent is or what that ground is.

The party of small government is now the party of big brother.

As someone who has lived my whole adult life in cities deemed “dangerous”—NYC, NOLA, and SF—I think a lot about how dense cities require patience, calm, and tolerance in the midst of social difference, which are of course exactly the civic virtues that the right resents being told to cultivate.

I wish every youtube video about AI taking all jobs would start with a warning like "this is just a work of speculative fiction"

Finally got a Sous vide machine and learned that it really does cook steak as perfectly and easily as they all said

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I'm feeling strong Monday morning lethargy today, and I'm reminded of this beautiful moment in Blue Eye Samurai which is helping me show up #career #burnout www.dchristopher.me/notes/blue-e...

35% of the value of the US stock market is the mag7, 19% of that is NVIDIA, and *42% OF NVIDIA'S REVENUE IS THE MAG7 BUYING GPUs*. Our god damn economy is supported by whether five companies buy more GPUs every quarter! This is insane! www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-gui/

It's become clear that this administration is just a protracted war on anybody who's read a book without pictures in it. It's a miracle we're all still getting up and going to work every morning. The psychological drain is the point, and I'm increasingly grateful to the people who are still decent.

"We are biased towards seeing things that go wrong. Therefore, if someone notices something going right there is more information value in praise." — Liz Keogh paraphrased by Kent Beck