Andrew Cunningham
@andrewwrites.bsky.social
Writes about consumer tech at Ars Technica, formerly Wirecutter. Podcasts about books at Overdue and sometimes about TV at Appointment Television. Dad, D&D, organized labor. He/him. @arstechnica.bsky.social @overduepod.bsky.social
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Yesterday, these incompetent fucks were just going door-to-door in a neighborhood near my house at 8:30 in the morning. School buses were driving through trying to pick up kids, people were out walking their dogs, and people were taking out their trash cans.
January 17, 2026 at 2:01 AM
Yesterday, these incompetent fucks were just going door-to-door in a neighborhood near my house at 8:30 in the morning. School buses were driving through trying to pick up kids, people were out walking their dogs, and people were taking out their trash cans.
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It’s so funny to be like “this is when women were WOMEN”
January 16, 2026 at 1:50 PM
It’s so funny to be like “this is when women were WOMEN”
what i see when i am watching the star trek starfleet academy show
January 15, 2026 at 8:04 PM
what i see when i am watching the star trek starfleet academy show
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The median American here imo
January 15, 2026 at 7:25 PM
The median American here imo
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this, driving a person to suicide because they had the temerity to want to work in public service, is what russ vought hoped to accomplish
“One day, a woman wrote to me on Signal, asking me not to respond. She lived alone, she messaged, and planned to die that weekend. Before she did, she wanted at least one person to understand: Trump had unraveled the government, and with it, her life.” @hannahnatanson.bsky.social essay:
I am The Post’s ‘federal government whisperer.’ It’s been brutal.
One reporter’s effort to show how Trump was transforming government brought her 1,168 new sources — and nearly broke her.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:13 PM
this, driving a person to suicide because they had the temerity to want to work in public service, is what russ vought hoped to accomplish
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ICE agents are, simply put, fucking clowns. Some observations from four days on the ground in Minneapolis.
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January 12, 2026 at 7:53 PM
ICE agents are, simply put, fucking clowns. Some observations from four days on the ground in Minneapolis.
www.garbageday.email/p/we-re-all-...
www.garbageday.email/p/we-re-all-...
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It is interesting to me how much billionaires have started talking like they are a satire of capitalism created by a college Marxist.
Like openly and publicly proclaiming their control and power
Like openly and publicly proclaiming their control and power
Also it’s funny how quickly billionaires have adopted the position “any attempt to tax or regulate us in any venue whatsoever will result in a capital strike and attempted authoritarian takeover” as their explicit messaging
January 11, 2026 at 1:15 PM
It is interesting to me how much billionaires have started talking like they are a satire of capitalism created by a college Marxist.
Like openly and publicly proclaiming their control and power
Like openly and publicly proclaiming their control and power
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The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same
January 10, 2026 at 11:24 PM
The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same
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For 248 years the streets of America didn’t feature a roving masked federal kidnapping squad that might send you a Central American death camp or just murder you themselves, but getting rid of it now is some impossible lefty fantasy that professional Democrats lamentably must struggle against.
Classic Democratic no-win. All of them voted against the OBAA, which supercharged ICE funding and hiring. But they won't say they'd "abolish ICE" so they'll get yelled at (mostly by people who'll vote for them in the midterms after threatening not to).
Top Democrats decline to say if they would rein in ICE after Minnesota shooting
January 9, 2026 at 2:50 AM
For 248 years the streets of America didn’t feature a roving masked federal kidnapping squad that might send you a Central American death camp or just murder you themselves, but getting rid of it now is some impossible lefty fantasy that professional Democrats lamentably must struggle against.
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Every DA in every big city in America should be saying this right now, and be fully prepared to back it up.
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DA Krasner condemns fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis, says officers who commit crimes in Philly will ‘be convicted’
Krasner said the actions of the ICE agent who shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good were unlawful.
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January 9, 2026 at 2:32 AM
Every DA in every big city in America should be saying this right now, and be fully prepared to back it up.
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Philadelphia in candlelight.
A city paused.
Love showed up for Renee Nicole Good.
A city paused.
Love showed up for Renee Nicole Good.
January 9, 2026 at 3:00 AM
Philadelphia in candlelight.
A city paused.
Love showed up for Renee Nicole Good.
A city paused.
Love showed up for Renee Nicole Good.
no wonder their relationship failed, imagine how long ryan lizza and olivia nuzzi would have to talk to each other before either of them would get to a point
January 9, 2026 at 2:06 AM
no wonder their relationship failed, imagine how long ryan lizza and olivia nuzzi would have to talk to each other before either of them would get to a point
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One of the core purposes of right-wing media is to rewrite your memory and reprogram your moral response to an event you saw with your own eyes. George Floyd died of a heart attack. Jan 6 was a peaceful picnic. This process has already begun
THERE IS VIDEO
I really do not want to recommend to everyone a video of a person being shot but there is video from multiple angles
why not cut the crap and just publish "this paper supports random state murder, it makes us feel good, kill kill kill"? same exact meaning, less embarrassing
I really do not want to recommend to everyone a video of a person being shot but there is video from multiple angles
why not cut the crap and just publish "this paper supports random state murder, it makes us feel good, kill kill kill"? same exact meaning, less embarrassing
January 8, 2026 at 3:57 PM
One of the core purposes of right-wing media is to rewrite your memory and reprogram your moral response to an event you saw with your own eyes. George Floyd died of a heart attack. Jan 6 was a peaceful picnic. This process has already begun
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@chrislhayes.bsky.social: “A 37-year-old American citizen, the mother of a young child is dead tonight. She was shot in the face by an agent of the federal government, and that government has spent the day telling despicable lies about her.”
January 8, 2026 at 1:05 AM
@chrislhayes.bsky.social: “A 37-year-old American citizen, the mother of a young child is dead tonight. She was shot in the face by an agent of the federal government, and that government has spent the day telling despicable lies about her.”
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I don’t know what to say except that human beings deserve better than whatever this is
January 7, 2026 at 10:28 PM
I don’t know what to say except that human beings deserve better than whatever this is
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My very smart colleagues are doing excellent coverage of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis today. I would urge you to follow along with local sources familiar with the area and the residents here.
Live: Mayor Frey blasts ICE in fiery response to fatal shooting
The mayor called for calm after a fatal shooting by an immigration agent in south Minneapolis. ICE said the agent acted defensively.
www.startribune.com
January 7, 2026 at 7:06 PM
My very smart colleagues are doing excellent coverage of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis today. I would urge you to follow along with local sources familiar with the area and the residents here.
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the front passenger's seat and glove compartment are filled with a little kid's stuffed animals. i am shaking with anger
ICE officer fatally shoots driver through car window in Minneapolis
minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/07/i...
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ICE officer fatally shoots driver through car window in Minneapolis • Minnesota Reformer
The driver then slowly backs up and appears to be leaving, when another officer fires three shots.
minnesotareformer.com
January 7, 2026 at 7:38 PM
the front passenger's seat and glove compartment are filled with a little kid's stuffed animals. i am shaking with anger
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really not looking forward to setting up my life again on a discord replacement when this inevitably kills the app
Discord filed confidentially for an initial public offering, according to people familiar with the matter, adding to a rapidly growing pipeline of venture capital-backed tech listings. bloom.bg/4plpBlz
📷: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg
📷: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg
January 7, 2026 at 1:54 AM
really not looking forward to setting up my life again on a discord replacement when this inevitably kills the app
I remember being in line at daycare pickup with another parent, and standing in silence for a moment before one of us (I honestly don’t remember which) was like “weird day huh”
January 6, 2026 at 5:39 AM
I remember being in line at daycare pickup with another parent, and standing in silence for a moment before one of us (I honestly don’t remember which) was like “weird day huh”
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Propaganda works - this is also why conservative oligarchs are investing so much to purchase trusted media brands and convert them into propaganda outlets
Excellent piece from @gelliottmorris.com on how your news diet affects your politics and how you view the Trump Regime. Those with a heavy diet of conservative media view Trump favorably, while those with a diet of non-conservative media view him unfavorably.
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/what-your-...
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What your news diet says about your politics
Breaking down Trump's approval and 2026 midterms vote by Americans' primary news source
www.gelliottmorris.com
January 5, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Propaganda works - this is also why conservative oligarchs are investing so much to purchase trusted media brands and convert them into propaganda outlets
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My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.
January 4, 2026 at 2:02 AM
My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.
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look at some point you gotta face the fact that not everything is a distraction from everything else and there’s just a lot of bad stuff going on all the time
Schumer: "It makes you think that maybe to Trump he wants to distract the American people, as he always does, from the skyrocketing costs they are facing, from the Epstein files."
January 3, 2026 at 10:30 PM
look at some point you gotta face the fact that not everything is a distraction from everything else and there’s just a lot of bad stuff going on all the time
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Seems worth noting at this point that Weiss's internal critics at the Times were correct and her many apologists among elite pundits were wrong
December 22, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Seems worth noting at this point that Weiss's internal critics at the Times were correct and her many apologists among elite pundits were wrong
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“Stop stealing and start creating” is a real thing an “AI artist” said
December 21, 2025 at 12:31 AM
“Stop stealing and start creating” is a real thing an “AI artist” said