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When I saw this I honestly thought "Frazzledrip" was a joke.
Alas, no...

03.03.2026 03:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Just glad congress isn't alive to see all of this

28.02.2026 20:07 👍 382 🔁 69 💬 2 📌 1
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The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close!
New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

27.02.2026 13:02 👍 7880 🔁 2455 💬 343 📌 376
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500,000 tech workers have been laid off since ChatGPT was released - Anil Dash A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Dorsey and his peers think that the recent attempts by tech workers to salvage even the barest modicum of human dignity are signs of "woke culture" that must be cruelly stamped out, ultimately through destroying their livelihoods. And they are playing for *keeps*. www.anildash.com/2026/01/06/5...

27.02.2026 02:26 👍 130 🔁 47 💬 2 📌 2

idk what yall are even fighting about but there are bigger fish to fry so cut it out

23.02.2026 01:00 👍 728 🔁 48 💬 45 📌 3

Right now Rikers Island, the physically largest jail in the entire United States, is holding under 7,000 people.

ICE's warehouse plans include detention camps which will hold between 8,500-10,000 people in buildings not designed for human habitation.

09.02.2026 17:57 👍 2225 🔁 887 💬 52 📌 54

I just read about this loathsome practice. A quarter of the time your *former employer* contests unemployment claims!

10.02.2026 15:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Radium -- I like this way of thinking about AI

09.02.2026 20:22 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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This isn’t some anonymous tip. This is sworn testimony, under penalty of perjury, from someone who said Trump threatened to kill her if she exposed Epstein’s sexual abuse.

03.02.2026 17:04 👍 7227 🔁 3189 💬 183 📌 172

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes."

After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

03.02.2026 03:58 👍 26524 🔁 6081 💬 34 📌 44

Congratulations to Emerson, Lake & Palmer for winning the Grammy for Best Concept Album About An Armadillo Tank for the 54th year in a row

02.02.2026 02:09 👍 739 🔁 117 💬 15 📌 12

I can’t stress this enough. The state of 4th Amendment law is that the cops can’t force you to type in a passcode but they can force you to swipe your finger or present your face. Never stop using passcodes/passwords to unlock your devices. And consider additional code to unlock Signal.

01.02.2026 00:08 👍 3896 🔁 2048 💬 62 📌 81

@rickwhist.bsky.social Those were the days!

30.01.2026 18:06 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1

OMG, a new Thomas Anderson album!

30.01.2026 16:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Very rarely ever discussed but the way Social Security supplemental income actually works is like the most insane form of welfare I've ever seen

29.01.2026 00:15 👍 152 🔁 18 💬 5 📌 0
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ICE detained a 2-year-old girl in Minneapolis and put the child on a flight to a detention center in Texas, despite a court ordering her release: www.startribune.com/agents-detai...

24.01.2026 00:29 👍 4734 🔁 2861 💬 255 📌 451

These should be the headlines in the @nytimes.com and the @bostonglobe.com as well (not counting on @washingtonpost.com ).

23.01.2026 17:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I've been waiting for four slices! Finally!

22.01.2026 22:40 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

This chilling, stirring lamentation by @ositanwanevu.com pops into my head at least once a week. Often several times when I peruse the exploding terror erupting every waking moment.

You fight these nazis or you submit. No going back from this. Either the right is destroyed or the US is destroyed.

20.01.2026 17:44 👍 101 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 2

ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.

19.01.2026 05:41 👍 18208 🔁 8161 💬 406 📌 529
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Tell MENA authorities: #NoExamShutdown Year after year, the MENA region has led the world in exam-related shutdowns. With the 2023 exam season in the region quickly approaching, it's time to take action and demand change!

Bruce Schneier's newsletter (@schneier.com) mentioned something I don't recall hearing about before: Some countries cut off the internet (or sometimes just certain apps like WhatsApp and Telegram) during exam periods.
www.accessnow.org/campaign/no-...

15.01.2026 18:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Having seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.

14.01.2026 14:31 👍 10389 🔁 3998 💬 148 📌 184
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This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan.

A citizen.

Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.

"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.

Agents took and sold his phone

And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.

13.01.2026 22:20 👍 9010 🔁 5058 💬 360 📌 688

This is an excellent idea

14.01.2026 02:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It's impossible to comply with these goons, they tell her to go, she starts to go....and then the guy runs up and smashes the window and they all surround her and drag her out. Criminals doing carjackings are more organized than this

13.01.2026 19:31 👍 1696 🔁 463 💬 34 📌 12
Eyewitness account:
Good morning,
My name is Brandon Siguenza, and l am a US citizen from Minneapolis. Yesterday, while doing legal observation, ICE stopped their cars to harass my friend and me. They sprayed pepper spray into the vent of our vehicle. We held our hands in the air and told them we were not obstructing, that the car was in park and they were free to drive forward and away. There was no active immigration raid. They returned to their cars, and drove forward a bit, then decided to stop again. They surrounded us, smashed the windows of our car, opened the doors (they were unlocked), ripped my friend and I out of the car and arrested us on charges of obstruction.
I was put in an unmarked SUV, separated from my friend.
As I was put in the back seat an ICE agent tore the whistle off my neck and said "I'll be taking this, I might need it later." My phone was knocked out of my hand while being arrested. As we drove away I asked the driver and the passenger if they wouldn't mind buckling my seatbelt, as they were driving erratically. I was ignored. I asked them if I could have the handcuffs loosened, as I was losing circulation, and was told no. At one point the passenger realized his own driver's license was in the backseat next to mine, and tried to surreptitiously grab it without me seeing it.
We were taken to the Whipple federal building, where I saw dozens of brown people being processed in an unheated garage. I was frisked, told of my charges, and saw buses and vans being prepped. I later learned that these were being filled with detainees and driven to the airport for deportation. As we were led in, I noticed that the building was very busy. I got the impression that one of the 2 agents bringing me around was being trained. At multiple points throughout my stay, government agents were unable to open doors, not sure where they were meant to be going, and overall confused and overwhelmed. They couldn't figure out how to use the building phones, or complai…

Eyewitness account: Good morning, My name is Brandon Siguenza, and l am a US citizen from Minneapolis. Yesterday, while doing legal observation, ICE stopped their cars to harass my friend and me. They sprayed pepper spray into the vent of our vehicle. We held our hands in the air and told them we were not obstructing, that the car was in park and they were free to drive forward and away. There was no active immigration raid. They returned to their cars, and drove forward a bit, then decided to stop again. They surrounded us, smashed the windows of our car, opened the doors (they were unlocked), ripped my friend and I out of the car and arrested us on charges of obstruction. I was put in an unmarked SUV, separated from my friend. As I was put in the back seat an ICE agent tore the whistle off my neck and said "I'll be taking this, I might need it later." My phone was knocked out of my hand while being arrested. As we drove away I asked the driver and the passenger if they wouldn't mind buckling my seatbelt, as they were driving erratically. I was ignored. I asked them if I could have the handcuffs loosened, as I was losing circulation, and was told no. At one point the passenger realized his own driver's license was in the backseat next to mine, and tried to surreptitiously grab it without me seeing it. We were taken to the Whipple federal building, where I saw dozens of brown people being processed in an unheated garage. I was frisked, told of my charges, and saw buses and vans being prepped. I later learned that these were being filled with detainees and driven to the airport for deportation. As we were led in, I noticed that the building was very busy. I got the impression that one of the 2 agents bringing me around was being trained. At multiple points throughout my stay, government agents were unable to open doors, not sure where they were meant to be going, and overall confused and overwhelmed. They couldn't figure out how to use the building phones, or complai…

just a reminder that we aren’t even seeing the worst of what is happening in Minneapolis from someone detailed at the Whipple Federal Building yesterday

13.01.2026 00:51 👍 5248 🔁 2854 💬 54 📌 268
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STRETCHY NOODLES Ramen was brought by Chinese immigrants to Japan in the late 1800s, and it soon became a staple of their culinary culture. After the instant variety was created in 1958, it also grew in popularity in....

#TIL that 'ramen' and 'lo mein' are basically the same word.

www.etymologynerd.com/blog/stretch...

13.01.2026 10:35 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

04.01.2026 18:49 👍 43470 🔁 16080 💬 326 📌 411

Considering my options for 2026

02.01.2026 04:39 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0