Part of the reason "Breaking Bad" is one of the greatest TV shows of all time is that its central thesis, which feels true, is that there is a monster inside all human beings, and given the chance to come out, it will, indeed, come out.
Anyway, here's an article about a Let the Monster Out Factory.
there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for
It's honestly crazy seeing pro-AI people keep talking about artist like elite gatekeepers when virtually every artist I'm aware of is, at base, struggling to get by.
It's not like it's just people starting out either, the amount of veteran talents who've had to set up GoFundMes is staggering.
D’Anna Morgan, far-right activist and not press, was wearing a press card. As was Alan Gotlieb, an old friend of Jake Lang who is also a far-right activist and not press. They were issued press cards under the Adams admin, effectively rendering the cards useless.
THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!
Picture of DOGE guy Nate Cavanaugh
Screenshot of my DOGE letter “Dr. Joseph Rezek Dear NEH Grantee, This letter provides notice that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is terminating your federal grant (Grant Application No. FEL29509824) effective April 3, 2025, in accordance with the termination clause in your Grant Agreement. Your grant no longer effectuates the agency's needs and priorities and conditions of the Grant Agreement and is subject to termination due to several reasonable causes, as outlined in 2CFR§200.340. For instance, NEH has reasonable cause to terminate your grant in light of the fact that the NEH is repurposing its funding allocations in a new direction in furtherance of the President's agenda. The President's February 19, 2025 executive order mandates that the NEH eliminate all non-statutorily required activities and functions. See Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy, E.O. 14217 (Feb. 19, 2025). Your grant's immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government, including its fiscal priorities. Any objections or appeals to this termination will be managed in strict accordance with the President's Executive Orders,
Last year, this guy (left) from DOGE used ChatGPT to find NEH grants that were too “DEI” for Trump, and canceled them, including mine, as shown by the letter I received last April (right). Huge new NYT article on the back story link below
“The 312-foot Dena and its 130-member crew, many of them musicians in the Iranian navy band, had just finished participating in an Indian government naval exercise and cultural exchange that the U.S. Navy had also participated in and were on the way home on Wednesday.”
CBS obtained video of the DHS killing of an unarmed man in Texas that DHS concealed for nearly a year, which clearly contradicts claims that he violently rammed anyone. He is shot with his brake lights on, car not moving or barely moving. Another DHS crime.
What pisses me off more than I'd like to admit is that Hegseth is too stupid/drunk/both to realize just how pathetic and weak he sounds when he thinks he's being cool and badass. It's not fair. There should be like a drug we could give him to make him self-aware and cringe until he shits himself.
I’m sure if Biden posted late one Sat night that he wanted the governor of Louisiana to rush a hospital ship to Greenland for a serious medical emergency in their populace at a time when we had no hospital ships available and there was no emergency the media would also ignore it.
I wrote about how the US and Israel carried out an attack on an Iranian girls school on par with the OKC bombing and US media relegated it to a back page story. No stand alone evening news segments, no front page stories, it made A11 in the NYT then everyone moved on.
Steve King 9 @SteveKinglA + Follow Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny. We can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies. ESTERN ILIZATION Voice of Europe @V_of_Europe Hundreds of Islamists shouting "Allahu Akbar" in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Wilders is right for over 10 years. #turkijerel RETWEETS LIKES 516 688 10:40 AM - 12 Mar 2017 from lowa, USA
I'm teaching about early 20th century eugenics today and was reminded that 9 years ago Republican Representative Steve King was stripped of his committee assignments by his GOP colleagues for this post that simply states what is now bog standard GOP policy/rhetoric on immigration and "civilization."
"I sexually exploited a now-dead employee and also I've got God on speed-dial and he always does what I want" is quite the self-portrait. Of right-wing Christianity. And evangelical entitlement.
Having suffered the pain of a tooth infection I can unequivocally say that this man died in absolute agony. The type of nerve pain that will have you screaming and wondering quite rightly if you’ve gone insane
This man was tortured through neglect, and everyone involved is an irredeemable monster
Once again, malign neglect is a feature, not a bug, in concentration camps
Integrating bullshit engines/ Like-My-Outputs next token preditors into any environment related to maintaining the access to and security of data was basically only ever going to be a mistake
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Democrats may not be able to prevent Mullin's confirmation, but they can certainly turn his track record of offense and stupidity into two days of televised humiliation so spectacular that he is wounded in Trump's eyes from day 1. That is the job.
"It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months."
— Donald Rumsfeld on the Iraq War (7 Feb 2003).
it's certainly a joy and a pleasure to see Noem get fired but there's one direction these fuckers go, and it isn't "better"
feels like a minute since i have pointed out that donald trump has pardoned more child sex offenders than every other president of the united states combined
So the Felon is replacing an incompetent person with another incompetent person and creating a new position for ousted incompetent person in a non-existent program? Good use of taxpayer funds. SNL couldn't make this crap up. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...
Goodbye and good riddance.
But don’t take the bait. Firing Noem alone won’t halt Trump’s campaign of terror.
The atrocities happening by ICE behind the walls of detention facilities and in broad daylight have proven that ICE cannot be reformed.
Abolish ICE NOW.
Rogan has hosted countless Right Wing avowed perverts, so it's an interesting silent admission of how these people see everyone else through the lens of their own perversions. No, you roid raging noodle dick, trans women aren't perverts getting off on dressing up as women. They're women. Full stop.
INBOX: data from the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migrations show that in the most recent three months, every single one of the 1,651 refugees accepted into the United States were of (white) South African origin.
www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...
Lewis said it's more likely that the strike was the result of an error. Satellite images show that the school and clinic buildings were both once part of the base. The school was separated from the base by a wall between 2013 and 2016. The clinic was walled off between 2022 and 2024. Lewis believes it's possible American military planners had not updated their target sets. "There are thousands of targets across Iran, and so there will be teams in the United States and Israel that are responsible for tracking those targets and updating them," he said. "It's possible that the target didn't get updated." The Pentagon did not immediately respond to NPR's request for additional information about the strike.
Everyone is sharing a summary of the school bombing in Iran that includes a screen shot. The screen shot is apparently FROM THE VERY AI PROGRAM we are upset about. Here is a different screen shot, from the actual NPR story, by @gbrumfiel.bsky.social and colleagues
Link:
www.npr.org/2026/03/04/n...
Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...
A black and tan coonhound named Betty White
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She has been adopted through ABTCR, and we’re looking for two volunteer relay drivers (or one especially enthusiastic Floridian) to help get her from her foster home in Gainesville to her new family in Katy, Texas on Saturday
I saw this earlier this evening, but after I filed my column. This is astonishing. It’s just a naked hatred of his own constituents and the soldiers who could die in this war.
On the same day the US sank an Iranian ship in international waters, we have heard three entirely different answers from the highest Republicans in Washington about whether the US is at "war" with Iran
