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SuaSponte2024
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Data architect, legal analyst, writer. Formerly "Matt Gertz's Forehead" on the hellsite.

Minneapolis rises.
Pinned
We're living the American Scream.
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Klaatu barada fuck you.
February 20, 2026 at 3:29 AM
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Once again, I am promising Democrats there are literally thousands of former department of justice people who will crawl over broken glass to prosecute this administration given the chance
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · 14h
A large banner of Donald Trump was hung outside of the Justice Department headquarters in Washington, DC, emphasizing the White House’s control over the nation’s top law enforcement branch that once pursued criminal prosecutions against the president. https://cnn.it/4cBCqW7
February 19, 2026 at 8:37 PM
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he's stealing billions of dollars of taxpayer money for his personal slush fund

the most corrupt, criminal administration in history and despite how high a bar that is it isn't particularly close
Trump: "I want to let you know that United States is going to make a contribution of $10 billion to the Board of Peace." (Congress has not appropriated this money!)
February 19, 2026 at 6:49 PM
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Yes. As a capitalism-sympathetic social democrat, I believe we have a duty to markets to ensure money can act as a disciplinary measure. We have literally reached the fail state of money. Elon can lose 90% of his wealth and functionally lose no practical value. We broke the invisible hand.
Correct! Go after them to fix democracy, because they exist like blackholes that warp the fabric of society. Money is power and they simply have too much of it.
It will not work, and is wrong in principle
February 19, 2026 at 1:50 PM
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If you are in a government in Minnesota and your response to your constituents begging for help is to say that you can’t ruin the budget, you need to resign. This is an occupation by the federal government designed to ruin our lives. There is no status quo. Every priority has changed.
February 19, 2026 at 3:59 PM
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My favourite

The grand old Duke of York, he had 12 million quid.
He gave it to someone he’d never met, for something he never did
February 19, 2026 at 12:22 PM
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3000-word “X” post breathlessly explaining how everyone’s lives are about to change forever now that all of Silicon Valley can play chess against a Turkish automaton
And after all that, the Pitt/Cruise AI fight scene appears to have been just digital BG and face replacement on multi-angle green screen reference videos of two real live human stuntees fighting.

In other words, like most AI hype — it was a con. www.shokunin.studio/blog/2026/2/...
February 19, 2026 at 2:01 AM
Remains of the Day.

My wife calls the movie, "Remains of My Wasted Life."
fun question: what’s the maddest you’ve ever been leaving a movie theater? not necessarily worst movie you’ve seen, but the one that just pissed you off the most. mine is Batman v Superman
February 19, 2026 at 4:25 AM
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Every AI company
February 19, 2026 at 2:01 AM
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I am also comfortable saying, after years of engaging with this, neither I nor anyone else really knows what they mean by "AGI." I have made peace with this.
February 19, 2026 at 1:20 AM
Imagine a water bottle in the shape of a spiral. When you pour water from it, would the water spiral out of the spout? 🌀

(No, no it would not. 😋)
I want to see the MythBusters people do a pour test to see if it's just cosmetic or if there's any effect at all.
February 19, 2026 at 1:22 AM
J&J once asked my grandfather to design a rifled toothpaste tube that would cause the toothpaste to come out curlycue when you squeezed it.

As I recall, he laughed in the market executive's face.
Q: is there a technology that "the left" is excited about?

A:
February 19, 2026 at 1:18 AM
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Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance.

And you know why?

Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.
BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.

This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
February 18, 2026 at 11:47 PM
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Right now people are using this trick to change what AI tells you about topics as serious as medial questions and financial advice. The problem is ENORMOUS

Experts like like @lilyray.nyc say this is a problem the tech industry has know about forever, they just didn’t work on it til it was a crisis
February 18, 2026 at 4:37 PM
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Ted Lieu: “Donald Trump is in the Epstein files thousands and thousands of times. In those files, there are highly disturbing allegations of Donald Trump raping children … of Donald Trump threatening to kill children. So I encourage the press to go look at these allegations.”
February 18, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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Next week, Trump will deliver his State of the Union address. I won't be there.

Trump is marching America towards fascism, and I refuse to normalize his shredding of our Constitution & democracy.

This cannot be business as usual.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/u...
Democrats Plan to Counter Trump’s Speech to Congress With Rally
www.nytimes.com
February 18, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Oh my lord.
What if Lemon Party and Grindr did a cross-promotion.
February 17, 2026 at 11:37 PM
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A yellow what now
Mike Rounds says Republicans just want to make you show your document with a yellow star in order to vote
February 17, 2026 at 10:17 PM
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I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.
February 17, 2026 at 9:00 PM
And it's harrowing to think that the antibiotic age may not last longer than a few more decades, thanks to antibiotic misuse.
Historian of medicine here. Yes. Yes, they did.
before antibiotics did people just die all the time from everything?
February 17, 2026 at 7:28 PM
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Even at it's most reductive, this is still a poll tax for wives.
the new Republican talking point is that it's insulting to complain about requiring women to show their birth certificate and passport in order to vote because they're smart enough to figure it out
February 16, 2026 at 11:12 PM
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This is the single biggest problem with all these AI tools. The fail state is "make shit up".
February 16, 2026 at 11:42 PM
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y’all do realize we’re two years out from the primaries right
February 16, 2026 at 9:58 PM
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Since December 2025, “Operation Metro Surge” has had a devastating impact on Minneapolis. It’s disrupted our local economy, broken families apart, and worsened already existing disparities our neighbors face.

An additional 76,200 people citywide may now be experiencing food insecurity. 1/
February 16, 2026 at 3:08 AM
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What the fuck is he talking about?

I mean, I love bluegrass and southern food. But as a Tennessean, I’m comfortable saying that no one comes to America lured by the promise of Appalachian culture.
February 15, 2026 at 11:57 PM