Jason

Remember when Pete Hegseth's mom wrote him a letter telling him he was a misogynistic POS?

shitposts aside, this one is serious, my loves: if you’re just waking up and you have any service online running PHP 5.4 to latest, you need to take it down RIGHT NOW and don’t put it back online until after it’s patched absolutely catastrophic vulnerability dropped in the middle of the night

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

There will be a lot of equivocating about all the times search warrants have been executed on members of Congress for corruption investigations and the like, and it can't be stressed enough in how many ways HSI raiding Ilhan Omar is extremely not like that.

The targeting of one data center is proving a really useful natural experiment showing which sites and ideologies are an echo chamber of Russian propaganda

Real interesting anti-Klobuchar flyers parachuting into South Minneapolis. I'm really curious who's funding "Citizens For Public Safety Transparency LLC." Nothing pops up on a Google search for them and I suspect they don't practice the transparency they preach.

Bouza was right when he said that "cops don't prevent crime they fight it"

I've replied STOP dozens of times this month to unsubscribe from unsolicited text messages asking me for a political donation. Yesterday a local candidate texted and didn't ask for money, instead offered a lawn sign. I accepted and donated to cover the sign cost. Pols should take a lesson from that.

This seems not great

Also spot on. "LLMs are cloud software. Framing them as anything else only seeks to mystify them and make the companies seem more powerful, all while doing absolutely nothing to make the world safer or more secure." www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-alread...

Spot on. "Media’s anthropomorphism badly clouds the discussion. ... AI is not conscious or sentient. ... We need journalists to be more rigorous and skeptical ... [or] the end result is policymakers and public ill-equipped to both use and judge these technologies." medium.com/whither-news...

Minnesota voters should have an early-voting strategy this year, and to help I made this FAQ. Feedback/questions encouraged. It’s aimed at Democracy Defense trainers who are informing/organizing voters, but we want everyone to do this work & uphold voting rights! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

We can't make them anymore. We don't know how.

Our AG is a real one

Michelle Tafoya thinks that the Iowa State Fair is as good as the Minnesota State Fair. Oh wait, that w.. oh no.

Minnesota will never forget. We will never forgive. Fuck ICE and all the rest. Go get ‘em Peggy. (Art by La Gata Fea Linocut)

Hennepin County is in

Current mood

Hey Bluesky, what's up, anything interesting happening tonight?

if you want to read the minneapolis / MPD budget teaching brief that WEAVE (ward eleven allied voices for equity) put together, they shared it here: drive.google.com/file/d/1y3Fn... very well put together, dense with facts and critical information as we head into city budget season!

There is pervasive corruption across our healthcare and agricultural systems that defy party lines. I meet with MAHA activists because a lot of their concerns are bipartisan issues that major corporations paint as partisan. The fight isn't left and right, it's top and bottom.

Really interesting lawyerly take on this

When all is said and done, these people need to face accountability and consequences.

I have real concerns about how moderate Craig will vote in a seat held by progressives for almost two decades, but we should fear putting someone at the top of the ticket with demonstrated animosity towards other statewide candidates. Will she deliver votes to reelect our AG? Do her supporters care?

If you need a new iPad, they're still on sale for $299 at a few big box retailers. That price won't last and won't go that low again for a while.

Here are some helpful reminders of how to lock down your phones and who to call if you need legal support. Remember, we’re together and we’re brave!

“Conservative evangelicals” talk all the time about the need to speak out on moral issues. Yet when they had a once in a lifetime chance to show that their values mattered more than their political allegiance, they resoundingly failed the test. Makes it hard to believe anything they say now.

Best thing about Mamdani is that he's one of the only Democrats who understands you can just do things

Colbert nailed it 20 years ago.

Investigative journalism matters

Internationally acclaimed artist Saype chose Minneapolis as the first U.S. city for his “Beyond Walls” project, saying residents have shown “to the rest of the world how people can be resilient, how we can create bridges between people to create a bright future.” 🎥: Amanda Anderson

Staggering levels of corruption. They’re using every possible lever of power to enrich themselves and their friends and families. And the “party of fiscal responsibility” simply doesn’t care.

Heritage Foundation’s Kevin Roberts on implementation of Project 2025: "We proposed 1,913 recommendations for Project 2025. 1,055 have been implemented."

This echoes through many consulting domains

We agree with much of this, however there are a couple additional points we'd like to add. The article suggests reporting the offending account to the platform's moderation. Unfortunately with many platforms, this accomplishes nothing and the offender may just continue on with their victims. 🧵👇

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

BREAKING: Just 20 minutes before Trump's announcement that the Strait of Hormuz was open, massive trades hit the market. Investors sold a combined 7,990 lots of Brent crude futures, ​a $760 million bet that oil would go down. These orders were much larger than anything else at the time. Unusual.

Ex Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications and Speechwriting under Obama👇🏽