Gene Parmesan, Jr. 🇺🇦 🐸 🐢 🌲

David Byrne on AI:

"AI is basically sucking up all human knowledge and throwing it back at us and charging a price"

Psychopathic war criminals.

“This is the Epstein Administration because there are two types of people in it — people who are in the Epstein files and people who are covering up the Epstein files.”
@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social

“The Epstein Admin protects the Epstein Class, supported by the Epstein Court.” @dzaia40.bsky.social

So to summarise: You failed to take out the regime. You failed to destroy nuclear material. You failed to eradicate Iran's retaliatory capacity. You brought chaos to the Middle East. You killed god knows how many people. You destabilised your own economy. All for nothing, but the ego of madman.

Share of election spending by billionaires before Citizens United: 0.3%

Share of election spending by billionaires in 2024: 19%

It is not a coincidence that we're about to get our first trillionaire while working people struggle to afford rent, groceries, and healthcare.

#Republican math and priorities.

Stephen Colbert: “Where are the Epstein Files? We were told there would be Epstein Files. You signed a law mandating you would have to release the Epstein Files by the middle of last month, but you still haven’t. It kind of makes you seem like a… pedophile protector!”

We’re heading into dark times. This is how to be your own light in the Age of Trump Having studied authoritarian states for over a decade, I would never exaggerate the severity of the threat we now face. But an American kleptocracy is exactly where president-elect Trump and his backe...

‪“Do not accept brutality and cruelty as normal even if it is sanctioned. Protect the vulnerable and encourage the afraid. If you are brave, stand up for others. If you cannot be brave — and it is often hard to be brave — be kind.”
@sarahkendzior.bsky.social

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The Trump administration is treating disabled veterans like criminals.

Gullible, Cynical America The trouble with believing anything and nothing at the same time

Adam Serwer, always worth reading:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The danger to my job from AI isn't that AI can do my job, it's that my job is made even more precarious by the way AI is shaping ideas of the value of work. It can't do my job, but it can be part of convincing people (incorrectly) that my job isn't necessary.

Highly dishonest framing here by Tapper.

Seconded. Hegseth is a joke and he’s already gotten Americans and innocent Iranians killed.

Obama: "Each day we're told by those in high office to fear each other, and to turn on each other, that some Americans count more than others, and that some don't even count at all <> Rev. Jesse Louis Jackson inspires us to take a harder path. His voice calls on each of us to be heralds of change"

Nothing new with T. He loves to spend money as long as it’s other people’s money.

Spotted in Seattle's Fremont neighborhood

The U.S. economy lost jobs in 0 of the 48 months Joe Biden was president. It has lost jobs in 6 of the 14 months of Trump's second term.

Great framing in her response.

Spanish PM Sánchez responds to Trump:

"Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."

Spain's leader with a message that should be adopted by every top Democrat

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Yup.

The American people rightly do not want a war with Iran.

President Trump’s war is not smart, it is not legal, it is not morally right, and it is not in our national interest.

Fuck you too in no particular order:

1. Podbros
2. Democratic Consultants
3. Uncommitted
4. DSA
5. White Nationalists
6. White adjacent folks
7. The whole Congressional membership that pushed out Biden
8. All members of Congress who said this what is about motherfucking eggs

🙂

respectfully tapping the "support billionaire-free, worker-owned, independent media" sign again

Spent parts of three days trying to get an ESRI-provided Python script to run for some pre-maintenance tasks related to an Enterprise update. Sometime please talk me off the ledge. 😖 #worstscripterever

Dear Fellow Americans: This is a friendly reminder that Trump decided to tax you an extra 15% for no other reason than he was mad at the Supreme Court. 🗽