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How is it that Spike Lee, who wrote and directed Do the Right Thing, is showing up in a Polymarket ad? #nomoreheroes

A chance to see a favorite band in my hometown Mosswood Meltdown! Pavement FTW

Kilmeade quoting Trump from the “Fox News Freedom Bunker” is beyond Orwell’s wildest dreams and impervious to satire. The amount of joy I will have when all this insanity ends will be immeasurable.

July 4th, 2026, Washington DC. Patriot Front ride the metro to their hateful little march. Her face sums it all up to me. A mixture of defiance and weariness. Both born out of lifetimes of having to put up with this shit. She knows only too well that America never stopped being a racist country.

Peace Corps > Tomahawks

Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19

The stories & photos from today’s voting rights marches in Alabama deserve to be seen by people who weren’t able to stand there in person. If this piece moves you, please share it widely & help make sure these voices aren’t lost in the noise of a crowded news cycle. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

So here’s a thought experiment about AI coding that I haven’t seen posed: if you think of the best current coding agent as an employee, would you keep that employee after having had to live with code, fixing the bugs and security vulnerabilities?

BREAKING: Donald Trump meets privately with Kash Patel and Pete Hegseth to assure them their jobs are secure, amidst swirling rumors that they may be the next cabinet members to be fired. #KashPatel #PeteHegseth

Completely agree, especially since writing is thinking. But also recall the AI* booster who claimed that no one likes making music? futurism.com/suno-ai-ceo-....

After the White House complained about an unflattering photo of Karoline Leavitt, it was removed from AFP and Getty’s systems. This is the photo in question. Please do not repost it. 👇

Whether it’s Kristi Noem getting Mar A Lago face or it’s Bryon Noem wearing enormous fake breasts, the Noems have emerged as unexpected practitioners of gender affirming interventions.

Powerful

Officials at an Omaha-area high school ordered the student newspaper to remove this editorial cartoon criticizing ICE, then demanded prior review of articles about their censorship. Via @splc.org, which is advocating for the students: splc.org/2026/03/nebr...

Travel writer Rick Steves on Washington's newly signed "Millionaires Tax"

Walking thru the “Ultra Normie” No Kings rally in my extremely rural, white town and there are Patagonia wearing moms carrying signs that say “DEAD PEDOPHILES DONT REOFFEND” and “ICE GETS THE WALL” and I hi fived an old guy with a sign that said MY DADDY FOUGHT NAZIS AND SO WILL I” this is wild

Markwayne Mullin, Trump’s DHS Secretary nominee, bought shares in Chevron just days before Trump attacked Venezuela. Chevron’s stock jumped as the rest of the market fell. Could this be insider trading? Congress must find out during Mullin’s confirmation hearing.

Classic Chotiner interview, in that Landsman thinks it went great for him and is wondering why his family looks sad and is wearing black and there are all those casserole dishes in the kitchen

Ghost and Behiiv are great options daringfireball.net/2024/11/rega....

I know what girls want... 😂

Titanic. Wandering around the corridors as presumably below-freezing water fills the ship and they look like they’re sloshing around in an amusement pool…

Muppets Strike Back

It absolutely drives me insane when hosts don’t point this out

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

Prisons are for people who've been CONVICTED of crimes. Most people in these warehouses - without proper food or sanitation or worse - haven't even been CHARGED with crimes. And thousands are CHILDREN. This will be another of America's greatest shames.

This vector of attack worries me a lot more than the wandering ICE goons on Election Day.

In one of our signal chats, a neighbor calls these “fuckaroundabouts”

It's a great opinion by Judge Ana Reyes (and sound on the law—Noem was too busy posting to follow even the basics of the statute). Worth a read, and don't skip the footnotes.

i don't know if i've ever seen a chotining where chotiner gives up in the middle and goes "ok buddy. here's your petard." www.newyorker.com/culture/q-an...

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired

Now is the time to push harder and faster.

The killing of Alex Pretti and the grotesque lying was an overreach by the administration. They've paid a price and had to pull back a bit. But it's when there's some disarray that the democratic opposition needs to intensify the offensive, and turn a marginal tactical success into a major victory.

This is horrifying for an entirely different reason: why does Eric think the people of Minneapolis are the *enemy* at all??? They seemingly don't even know why the American Revolution happened, and that the administration (and Eric and Joe) are the modern-day British oppressors.

Absolute banger of a comment on r/military: www.reddit.com/r/Military/c...

Career prosecutors quit the justice department because they refused to smear this woman. @cnn.com does it for free.

I love that we have four or five separate examples of ICE thugs directly threatening to murder dissidents by saying precisely the same thing (haven't you learned your lesson?), and it never fails to just make people virulently angry. They just refuse to believe it's not working.

Frost: For so long, the right wing has held up patriotism as a vibe, as an aesthetic. But patriotism is more than bald eagles and flags and beer. Patriotism is about loving the people who live in the damn country — every single one of them.

If you are a Democrat and you don't think that Gregory Bovino has repeatedly proven himself unfit for a government job long before a tweet this week, you should step aside and let someone do the job who can do the job.

Some countries that have prosecuted or threatened to prosecute central bankers for the purpose of political intimidation or punishment for monetary policy decisions: Argentina, Russia, Turkey, Venezuela and Zimbabwe.

Jerome Powell is a very brave man. Much respect.