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Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir, has gone on the record about AI: “This technology disrupts humanities-trained—largely Democratic—voters, and makes their economic power less. And increases the econom...


March 07, 2026

Quick reminder:

This is how you deal with Nazis.


If We Cared About Girls By Kate Manne If we cared about girls, trans girls would be cherished and affirmed and not policed, scapegoated, and bullied. If we cared about girls, we would not er...


Originally published here, September 27, 2025. 20 Things You Can Do to Throw Sand in the Gears As the authoritarian regime continues its march to undermine constitutional democracy, it is clea...


(Quick note: This is legit one of my favorite episodes of the show. “I Am Furious (Yellow),” season 13, episode 18.)


This one is for Starhawk, who challenged me to make a list of things in my life that are good, against the backdrop of, well… (I will get good enough at DaVinci Resolve to partially rep...


An Editorial, and if Bari Weiss was as “fearless” as she thinks she is, she’d publish this. Come on, Bari; just like Sara Bareilles, I wanna see you be BRAVE. I am a second-generation Italian-A...


February 06, 2026

Meme-licious

Working on some real posts. Until then, memes! Note: I called it. I knew they were gonna stuff it with ads. Enshittification is real, and now it’s affecting things that suck...


In 2022, I took a class called Stalin’s Russia, where our professor had us study Josef Stalin’s life, time as General Secretary of the USSR, and the parallels between him and Vladimir Putin. It’...


January 03, 2026

STOP USING CHATGPT

Stop. Just stop. It’s not a person, it doesn’t know anything, it can’t answer your questions, and it’s going to destroy your mental health, just so billionaires can get richer off your engagemen...


December 15, 2025

Bondi Beach

I want people to understand something about this mass shooting: It was motivated by antisemitism. Hatred towards Jews. In Australia, a country with some of the strictest gun laws in the world. O...


December 14, 2025

End of 2025 survey

What did you do in 2025 that you’d never done before? Cashed out my retirement fund, so I could survive until I got another job. Oh, and I left my federal government job, which I hadn’t anticipa...


I regret nothing I’ve said about Upchuck Kirk, Musk, Trump, Nazis in general, or the sniveling centrists trying to appease them. Not one thing. And I never will. Mrs. Frazzled explains why, her...


The government shutdown is likely going to last for a while, meaning that SNAP and EBT recipients won’t get food money for at least another month. …Have I ever mentioned that I hate Republicans...


October 19, 2025

Kristi Noem is a stupid b

I mean, we all knew that, right? But now she’s got the DHS Xitting out posts about “remigration,” and Denizens of the Box of Prose, this is an idea so fucking stupid, I want her to answer the f...


October 09, 2025

AI is not our friend.

Quiz time! Leave your answers in the notes. What percent of internet traffic is thought to be AI? How are artists and writers compensated when their work is used to train AI? Wh...


Dear Diaper Don and Heineken Hegseth: FUCK YOU, MAKE ME. Also, I sincerely hope the 800 generals these two morons called into a loyalty test “top-secret meeting” (hey, dipshits, it ain’t top s...


Russell Vought is advancing a radical ideological project decades in the making. By McKay Coppins May 16, 2025 Original article here. Non-paywalled version here. The opening act of Donald ...


September 21, 2025

An Open Letter to Chuck Schumer

Dear Chuck: “Strongly-worded letters” don’t have an impact on people who can’t/don’t read. You have to take action. You have to stop fiddling with your glasses¹ and do something. Stop fantasizi...


But I really don’t think a lot of people know what “empathy” actually is. So let’s see if we can change that! Part One: Just What Is This “Empathy” Shit, Anyhow? First, let’s go over what “emp...


September 10, 2025

One down, several more to go.

Turning Point USA co-founder and Trump diaper-sniffer Charlie Kirk was shot in the neck during a “debate” at Utah Valley University, and just died, according to the AP and other news sources. To...


I feel like that’s an important idea for everyone to internalize. None of us is immune to propaganda. I’m not. You’re not. No one is. Here’s a video from 2019, about the Soviet Union’s successf...


August 14, 2025

This is a PSA:

If you need to change your cats’ litter boxes, keep in mind the general temperature outside, and any heat indexes. Sincerely, “I thought I’d kill two birds with one stone, wash my cats’ litter ...


Recently, I became aware of an appearance by the Rev. Jesse Jackson on Sesame Street, in 1971, when he led the kids in a chant of “I am! Somebody!” Clip below: (For anyone about to sea lion...


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