Ed Leafe

If AI is conscious then its use is slavery.

Today's cover of the New York Daily News:

I know too many children whose parents would think this is perfectly normal. I was raised by religious parents, but even they would have thought that this stuff is abuse.

Growing up in the 60s, I thought protest songs against injustice were the norm. It's sad that today's artists seem so apathetic. So it was great to hear Bruce Springsteen ( www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDaP...), but too many may have missed Billy Bragg's City of Heroes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...

The coolest Congresswoman there’s ever been.

Americans have a habit of trying to compare all authoritarianism to Nazi Germany. I think in some ways i think it is comforting to view authoritarianism as a foreign ideology. If you want to understand our current authoritarian moment, you need to look to our own past, not to Europe 1/x

Some solid straight talk, in a spiritual kinship with Desmond Tutu: "If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality."

The holiday spirit...

Selfie with my wife, 2018

I'm a lifetime Yankees fan, but all I can say is fuck Aaron Boone.

Before the white-washing (pun intended) of Charlie Kirk is completed, please remember these quotes of his. I found them on Quora and they seem to be screenshots from a post on the former bird site, but I'm too lazy to transcribe them.

Scotland. 😂😂

Today's editorial cartoon from the New York Daily News:

Today's editorial cartoon from the New York Daily News:

The Chiefs can still be named Super Bowl champions if Mike Pence has the courage.

Nobody is telling me nothing this Black History Month, you hear?

That Super Bowl was Black AF. From Ledisi to Southern University to Jon Batiste to Kendrick to Jalen Hurts. Just Black AF from beginning to end. 🙌🏾 #SuperBowl

Needed this so much right now. I just called out the fact that Kendrick Lamar carried that red, white, and blue theme through. He owned it! My fam knew what that meant. THEY don’t want us here, but they do not own the flag. “Not Like Us”

thank you to Kendrick and the Eagles for making terrible people angry tonight

The world’s most dangerous ‘game.’

Just in case anyone isn’t following: Elon did a Nazi salute twice and is now speaking at an AfD (neo-Nazi) rally in Germany. If it salutes like a Nazi and campaigns for the Nazis, he’s probably a Nazi.

SHARE WIDELY. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one. (1/3)

Of course it isn't any of these red herring issues. It's racism pure and simple.

The genius is that it is so obvious to anyone with a working brain, we forget that there are so so so many people who willfully turn their brains off.

That reminds me of a meme I saved. The truth hurts! 😂

Musk is smart, but smart doesn't mean good or decent. Didn't we grow up with superhero stories that involved an incredibly smart, but otherwise shitty human being as the arch-villain?

It shocks me that opposing Nazis is somehow an extreme left-wing view. "Nazis are bad" used to be the one thing we could all take for granted, but not anymore.

Priorities!!

American media is so beholden to the moneyed powers that be.

BREAKING — Joe Biden has pulled off the impossible: positive job growth EVERY SINGLE MONTH of his presidency. The last negative month was the last full month of Trump’s first term, December 2020.

Worth reminding

It's been 9 years now, and the graph has never been truer.

The acceleration of the heating is the most worrisome part of that graph.

this choice of photos by the Carter Center is shadier than a Georgia peach tree in summer

Good for the 11th circuit reversing Judge Cannon on Smith’s report. www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi... ⚖️👏 #beans

Mike Luckovich gets it right as he always does

So typical... 😆

A truly hateful human being.

#DemsConnect #TrueBlue #NeverTrump #voteblue #RESIST #BlueCrew #GrowTheResistance #truthwarriors

I was poor in New York City for 8 years and knew two people with cars that whole time. Who are these mythical poor people with cars. I want to meet them. Can they take me to the airport