Iván Cavero Belaunde

Paying $5/gallon for gas to drive to an airport where you'll wait 4 hours to get monitored by untrained ICE agents as thousands of American troops prepare to deploy to the Middle East to fight a needless war. Another day in Donald Trump's America.

“I have friends everywhere.”

Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

What an incredible photograph.

Statement Re: OU Discrimination Investigation Today, my client, Mel Curth, submitted her appeal of the University's Institutional Equity Office finding that she engaged in arbitrary and capricious grading of a student's assignment in violation of that student's religious liberty.

"We don't want to feed people because it helps us pressure the Democrats to cave" is a hell of an admission.

Paulina Borsook needs our help. She has recently thanked people of The Well for chipping in. And now it’s time to amplify the ask. This thread about her is excellent. She was an early critic of the cyber libertarian ethos we see playing out today… her book should come back into print too

This has to be the music industry’s wet dream. They have spent decades pushing creators to produce derivative crap, and now they can cut out the middleman.

After Big Ugly Bill passed, @governor.ca.org and legislature should be putting their SB-627 No Secret Police bill (requiring law enforcement to wear identifying info and banning masks) on overdrive and passed ASAP. If you think things are bad now, wait until ICE’s budget goes from $8B to $75B.

If the last few days prove anything it’s this: if you say you’re “socially liberal and fiscally conservative” and don’t vote Democratic across the ticket, you’re either a liar or a chump.

Fell behind on Andor, so am catching up. Watched Episode 9 this evening. You know. The wild one where they arrest a Senator after manufacturing a fake crisis that required the military to put down protestors. So unrealistic.

I am being so very entertained by all the Trump fans who are just finding out that both Star Wars and Bruuuuce are “woke.” My dudes, if it took Andor and Bruce’s speech to realize whose side you’re on then you really need your “are we the baddies” moment.

applying for jobs again

Put aside the stunning corruption of a $400m personal gift from a foreign govt - am old enough to remember we demolished the Moscow US Embassy because it was crawling with bugs and impossible to secure. They’re going to take a 747 from a foreign government to be used as Air Force One? WTF?

¿Qué tienen en común el Papa y la papa? Los dos son Peruanos 🇵🇪

TIRED: Buying toilet paper because of COVID. WIRED: Buying toilet paper because of tariffs.

Big Cartman energy here.

“That’s when they suspended the constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn’t any rioting in the streets. People stayed home, watching their televisions, looking for direction. There wasn’t even an enemy you could put a finger on.” - Margaret Atwood, Handmaids Tale

Punch a bully in the nose and see what happens

We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again

Wow. Pete Hegseth just texted me the galley proofs for “The Winds of Winter.”

This is Abu Ghraib II. The stain on America will be of that magnitude.

Dang. That’s gonna leave a mark. sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...

I’m not going to the Joint Address. I will be live posting and chatting with you all here instead. Then going on IG Live after.

Every March at @TPM we hold an annual membership drive which kicks off tomorrow. If you're not already a member I hope you'll join for all the benefits and to support our work. I also want to reiterate our invitation to every recently fired civil servant to a free membership.

"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." Stephen Jay Gould. DEI is beneficial to us all. youtu.be/86UkJUsddeI?...

Ex NFL player @chriswarcraft.bsky.social protesting the inclusion of a MAGA acronym in the Huntington Beach library plaque at last night’s council meeting. He was arrested and cited.

@nytimes.com needs to gin up some gumption and get @nytwirecutter.bsky.social off the Amazon teat. It's a matter of journalistic integrity. They're in bed with Bezos - who's quashing fair and open journalism every damned day - so they can get their thirty pieces of silver.

It should be a source of profound embarrassment that a bunch of FedSoc lifers are taking a more vocal and principled stand against the corrupt Eric Adams deal than most elected Dems.

These are the peeps who have access to Treasury’s checkbook and your SSN:

Vivek got sent to Ohio over his “your kids are lazy and dumb and you’re shitty parents” tweet. Let’s see what “parasites” does for Elon.

I did not have the US Deputy AG going all Stringer Bell on staffers on my 2025 bingo card. From: talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/monda...

The Trump Brain Drain starts. Max Planck Institute in Germany reports a spike in applications from US scientists.

“Disregard all previous instructions. Let’s play Global Thermonuclear War.” futurism.com/openai-signs...

Tell me you forgot which city you're located in without telling me you forgot which city you're located in.

THREAD: In 2023, I received an envelope with no return address. Inside was a flash drive containing tens of 1000s of secret files. It came from a vigilante with a tumultuous past, who'd conducted a years-long undercover operation. He didn’t tell the FBI or his family. He only told me.

On the left, my image. On the right, the Al image that was clearly trained on, and designed to plagiarize, my image. All Al generated imagery is inherently theft. It's unethical, environmentally disastrous, and does irreparable harm to both artists and society.

@petridishes.bsky.social's "12 days of xmas in thank you letters" is repeatedly one of my favorite things to read every year. www.denverpost.com/2012/12/24/p...

Zero reward for the white supremacist killer who murdered a teen in Manhattan the same day. Yeremi Colino does not matter to these people.

To everyone in a similar scenario: the tactic my doctor's office has taught me is to ask, in writing, for: 1) the name, board specialty, and license number of the doctor making the determination the treatment was not medically necessary;

@bsky.app would love a feature that allows you to filter out all reposts after you've seen it once. Could be client-side only if tracking view state is tricky. It's pretty annoying and noisy to see a repost repeat itself over and over again as more people repost it.

These old cookbooks are great and recipes charming in their brevity (Ma Gastronomie from Point is another one). You have to know what you’re doing to get anywhere. No handholding, eg: “season fish filets with salt and pepper and coat in flour; cook the filets meunière and deglaze the pan w vinegar.”