Jared Friedman 🇺🇦
@silkscreenfiend.bsky.social
Running from the law, the press and the parents...
Is your name Michael Diamond?
Naw, my name's Clarence.
Is your name Michael Diamond?
Naw, my name's Clarence.
Pinned
Hot take incoming: we should amend the Constitution to remove the requirement that the president be a "natural-born" US citizen, because that legally establishes two classes of citizenship, even if only for two offices. 1/
One thing the right badly, BADLY miscalculated is that Americans love stories about standing up for neighbors and communities. High-profile attacks on cities inspire exactly the kind of thing we see here, which is average citizens going "fuck that," and then other folks sharing it around the world.
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 7:41 PM
One thing the right badly, BADLY miscalculated is that Americans love stories about standing up for neighbors and communities. High-profile attacks on cities inspire exactly the kind of thing we see here, which is average citizens going "fuck that," and then other folks sharing it around the world.
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He really is the weakest senator there is. Two people have been murdered, there’s been no accountability, and he believes the Senate is powerless. He believes Trump gets what Trump wants.
February 13, 2026 at 1:52 PM
He really is the weakest senator there is. Two people have been murdered, there’s been no accountability, and he believes the Senate is powerless. He believes Trump gets what Trump wants.
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The thing about all the Newsom posting is that people are giving themselves negative feelings about the party as a whole based on something at best hypothetical (more likely imaginary) and after the thing doesn’t come to pass, those negative feelings will remain, searching for justification.
February 13, 2026 at 8:17 PM
The thing about all the Newsom posting is that people are giving themselves negative feelings about the party as a whole based on something at best hypothetical (more likely imaginary) and after the thing doesn’t come to pass, those negative feelings will remain, searching for justification.
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The one thing I don't understand about the attention economy is that I never make any money when I get everyone's attention on the bus by taking off my pants.
February 13, 2026 at 12:40 PM
The one thing I don't understand about the attention economy is that I never make any money when I get everyone's attention on the bus by taking off my pants.
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I think it would be a good idea for people to begin making their peace with just how severe the consequences will have to be for those who participated in this administration. Because it will be shocking and there will be many in the chattering class who insist on letting bygones be bygones.
BREAKING: The Trump administraiton has committed a mass violation of ICE detainees' constitutional rights in MN, effectively blocking their acess to attorneys in the Whipple building, a judge ruled tonight.
The judge: Trump appointeee Nancy Brasel
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The judge: Trump appointeee Nancy Brasel
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February 13, 2026 at 2:27 AM
I think it would be a good idea for people to begin making their peace with just how severe the consequences will have to be for those who participated in this administration. Because it will be shocking and there will be many in the chattering class who insist on letting bygones be bygones.
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People who speak like this under oath to our elected Representatives in the People’s House should face actual legal & professional consequences
Pam Bondi throws a fit:
"You don't tell me anything, you washed up loser lawyer"
"You don't tell me anything, you washed up loser lawyer"
February 12, 2026 at 6:04 AM
People who speak like this under oath to our elected Representatives in the People’s House should face actual legal & professional consequences
One of the things I think about, relating to this, is that human processing tasks and digital processing tasks are wildly disparate in terms of relative complexity. 1/
Look, I’m a giant, MASSIVE nerd who wants to live in Iain Banks’ Culture as much as the next post-scarcity guy, but our current fill in the blank machines bear about as much relationship to intelligence as a duck does to a stealth bomber.
All of this is so incredibly stupid.
All of this is so incredibly stupid.
Researchers working with the A.I. system Claude have come to understand that the model’s selfhood, like our own, is a matter of both neurons and narratives. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/kEX1vV
February 11, 2026 at 5:37 PM
One of the things I think about, relating to this, is that human processing tasks and digital processing tasks are wildly disparate in terms of relative complexity. 1/
They are garbage people who only want to harm others.
Sometimes I remember Reagan removing Jimmy Carter’s solar panels and I think we’ve been enduring this shit for way too many years.
February 11, 2026 at 1:36 PM
They are garbage people who only want to harm others.
This is ominous as hell. But it's also incredibly politically toxic - irregularity like this is what freaks normies out and gets the otherwise unengaged to pay attention. 1/
The airspace over El Paso airport, Texas, has been suddenly closed by the FAA for ten days, closing the airport too. The airspace has been defined as "National Defence Airspace". Nobody knows why.
(Via @osinttechnical.bsky.social on X)
(Via @osinttechnical.bsky.social on X)
February 11, 2026 at 10:55 AM
This is ominous as hell. But it's also incredibly politically toxic - irregularity like this is what freaks normies out and gets the otherwise unengaged to pay attention. 1/
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I mean, if Musk announced his plan to begin ranching frogs since the average frog weighs 50% more than a cow, you'd think that someone at the FT might pause before putting "frogs, which on average weigh 50% more than cows" in a news story.
February 10, 2026 at 1:25 PM
I mean, if Musk announced his plan to begin ranching frogs since the average frog weighs 50% more than a cow, you'd think that someone at the FT might pause before putting "frogs, which on average weigh 50% more than cows" in a news story.
The problem is that the right has, for years, been screeching about how mean and unfair to Conservatives the center-to-left is, while we have been biting our tongues and doing backflips to avoid criticizing them and keep them on our side. So they have no idea how to deal with actual aggression.
if you google the piece in question the guy who wrote it is very clearly steamed that i am where i am professionally
February 10, 2026 at 4:19 PM
The problem is that the right has, for years, been screeching about how mean and unfair to Conservatives the center-to-left is, while we have been biting our tongues and doing backflips to avoid criticizing them and keep them on our side. So they have no idea how to deal with actual aggression.
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'no no no I flew on jeffrey's other plane, the pnin express'
February 10, 2026 at 1:12 PM
'no no no I flew on jeffrey's other plane, the pnin express'
This. We have been putting off a reckoning for a very long time and I still don't know what it's going to look like. But there is no moral position that includes a compromise with this injustice.
It’s absolutely infuriating that we are just expected to treat the people proposing these kinds of laws as normal folks that we just have some policy disagreement with
Tomorrow I will testify before subcommittee of House Judiciary Committee against the proposed "Preserving a Sharia-Free America Act," which would authorize exclusion/deportation of all or most non-citizen Muslim immigrants. My written testimony posted here: reason.com/wp-content/u...
February 10, 2026 at 4:12 AM
This. We have been putting off a reckoning for a very long time and I still don't know what it's going to look like. But there is no moral position that includes a compromise with this injustice.
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MAGA hates it when the wrong people adopt patriotic iconography and attach it to broader narratives about inclusion, unity, and joyful celebration so we should do more of that. Triggering the cons is in fact a useful heuristic because they have embraced vice so thoroughly under Trump.
February 9, 2026 at 5:51 AM
MAGA hates it when the wrong people adopt patriotic iconography and attach it to broader narratives about inclusion, unity, and joyful celebration so we should do more of that. Triggering the cons is in fact a useful heuristic because they have embraced vice so thoroughly under Trump.
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90% of people who claim they hate the Democratic Party because it’s not “socialist” would be totally satisfied with “the Democratic Party with its current policy positions, but mean”!
February 8, 2026 at 10:11 PM
90% of people who claim they hate the Democratic Party because it’s not “socialist” would be totally satisfied with “the Democratic Party with its current policy positions, but mean”!
If the Democrats have any brains at all, they will blanket South Florida with this story.
White House frustrations with Venezuela’s Machado grow after elections comments
“None of this is ‘Operation María Corina Machado.’ It’s ‘Operation U.S. national security,’” said a White House adviser.
www.politico.com
February 7, 2026 at 10:03 AM
If the Democrats have any brains at all, they will blanket South Florida with this story.
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we are going to expand the inclusion and care to the children, the elderly, the disabled, the unhoused, the immigrant, the other marginalized i'm forgetting to list
conservatives want to exclude them, hide them away where rich white men can make them the victims of abuse
to that, we say "fuck no"
conservatives want to exclude them, hide them away where rich white men can make them the victims of abuse
to that, we say "fuck no"
February 6, 2026 at 5:24 PM
we are going to expand the inclusion and care to the children, the elderly, the disabled, the unhoused, the immigrant, the other marginalized i'm forgetting to list
conservatives want to exclude them, hide them away where rich white men can make them the victims of abuse
to that, we say "fuck no"
conservatives want to exclude them, hide them away where rich white men can make them the victims of abuse
to that, we say "fuck no"
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what is religious exemptions for vaccine mandates but conservative dei
February 7, 2026 at 12:50 AM
what is religious exemptions for vaccine mandates but conservative dei
If you support this, you are a bad person. If your family members support this, they are bad people.
DHS has requested expedited deportation proceedings against family of Liam Conejo Ramos www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
DHS has requested expedited deportation proceedings against family of Liam Conejo Ramos
The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.
www.mprnews.org
February 6, 2026 at 4:47 PM
If you support this, you are a bad person. If your family members support this, they are bad people.
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Unfortunately, if the culture were such that officers could simply be fired under those circumstances, we wouldn’t have the problem to begin with. You can’t fix criminal organizational culture with outside tech gimmicks.
February 6, 2026 at 12:09 AM
Unfortunately, if the culture were such that officers could simply be fired under those circumstances, we wouldn’t have the problem to begin with. You can’t fix criminal organizational culture with outside tech gimmicks.
This. We allowed an abuser/abused dynamic to take shape, with the result that the entire country got abused. Very much including the rubes who vote for the GOP.
Also, because it's me and it's always going to come back to Swift Boat: Harris' election was lost in 2004 when the Party decided to "respond" to contemptuous lies by lying to themselves about what was happening instead of punishing the GOP
February 6, 2026 at 10:19 AM
This. We allowed an abuser/abused dynamic to take shape, with the result that the entire country got abused. Very much including the rubes who vote for the GOP.
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Trump was probably on a path to win the moment the three-cueing zoomer streamer class decided he was a kind of national Fun Uncle, at which the horrors of the first term were washed away and replaced with this idea that he’s the guy who’d give you permission to be a sneering little twit
February 5, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Trump was probably on a path to win the moment the three-cueing zoomer streamer class decided he was a kind of national Fun Uncle, at which the horrors of the first term were washed away and replaced with this idea that he’s the guy who’d give you permission to be a sneering little twit
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If you knew who Dick Cheney was, you were in a class of high-info voters who Kamala won
She bragged about getting endorsed by Dick Cheney
All the complaints about her campaign are basically stupid nitpicks and the people convinced they’d have changed EVERYTHING by adjusting the words in her ads or whatever are out of their minds. Trump’s support was built out of years of irresponsible false nostalgia for his hellish first presidency
February 6, 2026 at 12:12 AM
If you knew who Dick Cheney was, you were in a class of high-info voters who Kamala won
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The late great Hannibal Lecter.
February 5, 2026 at 9:54 PM
The late great Hannibal Lecter.