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Hello fellow word nerds. I’m Greg, a silly little man who loves stories. Long stories. Short stories. Scary stories. Silly stories. Weird, fantastical stories. I love writing them, editing them, and figuring out fun ways to get others to read them, too. Maybe I can help you with your stories.

The Government™ has made an ad about all these protests happening around the world, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.

So hard to pick a favorite part of this article. Pretending that sending unsolicited dick pics at 53 was a “youthful indiscretion” is good, but don’t sleep on the argument that his wife forgave him for subjecting other women to unwanted nude photos so everyone else should too

Meet the guy Republicans are hoping to gerrymander into Congress by diluting the voting power of Black people in Memphis.

Todd Blanche—the President’s personal lawyer—went to a prison to arrange hush money to be given to a sexual predator and place it on the record, because he knew that the Republicans, who control Congress, would nominate him to be AG anyway.

"Trump’s criminal abusiveness and the public’s ineffective response to it are Exhibit A in the case that there are deep problems with American democracy that must be dealt with. Beating Republicans at the polls in 2026 and 2028 is merely the beginning of what needs to happen."

A damning quote from the report: “Trump and Epstein seemed to share the same playbook for recruiting and abusing women, all the way down to the university they promised admission to and the timing of their follow-up phone calls.”

Kudos to TIME for getting it right time.com/article/2026...

Homepage of the @miamiherald.com with story by @jkbjournalist.bsky.social that mentions rape in the first paragraph. See, it's not so fucking hard. www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

You can do the same thing, buying a house and borrowing against it—ha ha, just kidding, normal people get taxed annually on their wealth via property taxes, the "you can't tax wealth, the economy will collapse!" rule applies solely to the super-rich.

It's hard to believe but Democrats ran for decades against the "Bush tax cuts" and then made most of them permanent. Then ran against the "Trump tax cuts" and then didn't repeal them either.

For the fabulously wealthy, paying taxes is pretty much optional. They can borrow against their vast wealth, which is mostly an untaxed capital gain, without paying taxes. When they die, the capital gain goes to zero. And loopholes exist to bypass the estate tax too.

Not condoning whatever shitty thing the White House staff did but the bishops could’ve avoided this entirely by not being there.

found out that my mother in law decided she was aggressively pro trans rights literally by going, I don't know anything about this but everyone who is against trans rights is also against free school lunch, the issue I know and care a lot about, so this must be the correct way to feel about this

Dear brands, for the love of all that is holy and just in the world, please stop telling me that things hit different.

i don't think anyone should run explicitly on banning online gambling but i do think that a democratic-led government should just quietly take steps to undermine the industry and create an inhospitable regulatory environment

ICYMI

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

At TPM, we wrote a bajillion stories on how the 2020 effort to undermine the election came together. A big part of it was creating *the appearance of chaos*. So all the Kraken lawsuits failing wasn't that big a problem, because the litigation created the appearance of a dispute.

What if the husband took on those responsibilities because the wife is the breadwinner? You know, like a mature adult in a loving relationship would do?

Congrats to Lula on overcoming Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump to defeat Hospital Pervert Jr., even as his opposition literally blocked off roads and turned off bus service during election day. Fascists are scary but they are always, 100% of the time, ultimately gigantic fucking losers.

There’s a house in my neighborhood that puts out pro-republican yard signs every election cycle but this year also has a “vote yes” on an amendment to the VT constitution that codifies workers’ rights and strengthens unions and if that isn’t a wide-open door for democrats I don’t know what is.

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

i know the trot of my tone here seems slightly flippant because thats just the nature of posting, but this makes me deeply, deeply sad. like physically ill. i cannot believe there are people out there doing this. i cannot imagination seeing reflection on your own child as a task to streamline

ive talked on how i wont engage with writers who use ai, i wont eat at a restaurant with an ai menu, i wont have anything to do with it. but what this post illustrates is regardless of how OTHERS react, ultimately the worst part about using ai is that you are punishing YOURSELF and dont even know it

The cool part is that now there’s totally precedent to do automated benefits for SNAP and Medicaid!! I’m being snarky, but after this there’s no excuse to dismantle the extra admin burden placed on SNAP/Medicaid via the One Big Bill

Trump Accounts would allow corporations or their owners to make donations by zip code. So, for example, a company trying to set up a data center could give money to families in that region. This is the logic of the bribe state which Trump has enabled and supports. bsky.app/profile/atru...

We know how to solve poverty We know how to solve homelessness We already have an understanding of the causes WE ALREADY KNOW THE SOLUTIONS!!! It’s not a question of how or why anymore it’s a question of when are we going to start… It all starts with an unconditional basic income…

It seems impossible for our political system to hold the politicians tied to the actual invasion of our Capitol to account, but any random Muslim candidate is reflexively labeled a terrorist.

i wrote about the GORP

Maybe that's him and/or his immediate political successors. Maybe it's some new thing following in his footsteps and expanding on his precedents for what you can get away with. But it's a binary choice. Either you shut this kind of thing down hard and decisively or sooner or later it will work.

We'll see how far the attempt goes, even if it will clearly fail. But a constitutional system that sees such an attempt by its chief executive and then leaves him in office has already been shattered. Merely trying is betrayal enough and places him outside of constitutional or democratic legitimacy.

That it'll fail because they lack sufficient consolidation and centralized control does not make it trivial that the president of the United States is trying to steal elections and produce an illegitimate sham Congress. It is open rebellion against the Constitution and morally tantamount to treason.

Three weeks ago AI founders were all over the press making vague but portentous comments about the existential risks and power of their models. This week their models are part of a widespread security failure around critical systems such as your bank account..a more immediate and serious risk 1/

TikTok investor Jeff Yass avoided paying $1 billion in taxes while largely escaping public scrutiny. He then poured that money into campaigns to cut taxes and support election deniers. From the ProPublica archives:

Bellevue Police Capt John Stuck: “We get kids that once that school resource officer has put the gloves on, or they see that the gloves are on, they immediately comply without even touching them or doing anything. Which again, that’s a complete success for us.” Hmm, where have I heard this before?

The Republican Party's closing message to voters is basically "there is a non-zero chance that we will send armed state agents to drag you from your home if you try to participate in democracy." Vile and pathetic.

Just as a private equity firm buys out a corporation and strips it for parts, a consultant class is raiding the Democratic Party and getting “generationally wealthy” along the way New from me and @adambonica.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2163...

Once mass spam texts were made legal, younger donors vanished, leaving a grassroots fundraising machine that subsists on squeezing vulnerable seniors, some of whom give hundreds of times a day. It’s a horrific model. Consultants get generationally wealthy, and the party hollows out its future.

Thanks to this vile little goblin for helping me make some progress on a unified theory of contemporary-style evil guys. defector.com/vivek-ramasw...

Civilians applying for jobs in the Pentagon are also being vetted this way, but worse: asked if Trump won the 2020 election.