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A federal court ruled this morning that the fight over the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, Biden's green bank program, belongs in Federal Claims Court. Unless the plaintiffs can get a rehearing from the full D.C. circuit, the EPA will not have to reinstate the grants. heatmap.news/politics/gre...
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
Let's keep it up, totalitarian egos are weak....
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
there's this myth that building bipartisan consensus with republican voters will pull them away from the fascist state, but that's just not how fascism works in the brain. part of the package is that they literally don't care about any specific policy. they want the treats: vengeance, dehumanization
You don’t find “common ground” with fascists. You build power to defeat them. This is the main reason why I believe fascism at the Federal level in the US will last generations.
Because it never stops being relevant, I'm re-sharing this piece I wrote in Time Magazine in 2023 about how surveillance of immigrants and xenophobic fears of immigrant crime re-made US policing into something more repressive for all people.
"Blueskyism" is just the latest rhetorical stand-in for a certain class of political commentator to signal that principled progressivism annoys them personally. Previous stand-ins include "woke", "DEI", "critical race theory", and "political correctness"--also all used by the far-right. Curious!
For some context about NatCon: www.importantcontext.news/p/trump-offi... This extremist conference kicked off today.
Also, I was busy cleaning the kitchen, but did he say they were “born to be criminals” in reference to people detained in DC?? And no one had a follow-up question?? No…”um, what did you mean by that?”
"If police are going to be using drones, we need much stronger limits on how they do that, including treating the flying of the drone as a search that requires a warrant,” EFF’s Adam Schwartz told @Dispatch.com. www.dispatch.com/story/news/...
As far as civil rights go, being forced to relocate from Colorado to Alabama is a major downgrade. Imagine keeping your job but losing your reproductive rights.
"warmer warmers?"
Settler collaboration
Cleverly replacing rumors of my death with evidence of my senility
Authoritarians love the power they think their hypocrisy brings them over the truth. They don't care about crime, its just a dog whistle for the punishment of black and brown bodies they really want. Owning the libs, and doing whatever their demented psyche daddy dom Trump says is their entire MO.
The son of a Republican lawmaker is suing Gov. Mike Kehoe alleging his First Amendment rights were violated when Kehoe preemptively declared a state of emergency for what turned out to be peaceful protests against the Trump administration in June. - Missouri Independent www.kcur.org/politics-ele...
Trump is already 45 minutes late to the special announcement he was going to make to quell rumours of his demise. The White House necromancer is so getting fired over this.
I am not seeing "Constitutional amendment reversing Citizens United" on any of these New Reconstruction wishlists folks are circulating, and. Absent starting over from scratch, I don't see us establishing any semblance of democracy here without that plus Supreme Court expansion.
🚨Congress is back from recess today. If they’re serious about protecting democracy in this crisis and beyond, here’s what they *must* do—immediately. 🧵
Greg Sargent: "So perhaps it’s time for news organizations to state unabashedly and affirmatively that they are not in the business of amplifying Trump officials’ lies and smears, and any official who feels entitled to such amplification can go stuff it." newrepublic.com/article/1998...
Definitely. But I also think their brains are legitimately cooked. They can't imagine engaging in a place where they are challenged.
It's so weird how Greenwald and Nate Silver and the like—who aren't even here—keep insisting that Bluesky is pro-DNC, when I've yet to see anyone here ever say anything nice about the DNC at all. Also, evaporating? Lol. Bluesky now sends WAY more traffic to @techdirt.com than Twitter *ever* did.
to give you an idea of just how profoundly half-arsed this whole thing is, Tesla couldn't even be bothered whacking a PDF on their website 'phoning it in' still feels like too much credit for publishing a bundle of junk Grok slop-vomit www.tesla.com/master-plans
It is eternally frustrating to have one side outright lying and the other side not wanting to talk about it because their internal polling says not to
I tried to explain this to family members pre-election and they were incurious and now they are losing their shit on how so many things they regularly ordered are out of reach financially.
Becoming a reactionary is a trap that many people seem to fall into, esp risky in era of self-obsessed click-bait attention economy. Info silos are also something to guard against. So far tho, seems mostly reactionaries who hate it on Bsky and are upset they don't get algo traction for selling out.
This actually suggests an interesting reason why so many "centrist" pundits have stayed on Twitter (and in many cases, cooked their brains there)--on Twitter, they are much less likely to get substantive pushback on their ideas.
ICYMI: A group of admin law scholars sent a letter to the House & Senate Appropriations Committees arguing why "pocket rescissions"—the idea that the president can propose rescissions of budget authority late in a fiscal year and then allow funds to expire while the proposal is pending—are illegal.
“Nearly 70% of people said they believe the American dream—that if you work hard, you will get ahead—no longer holds true or never did, the highest level in nearly 15 years of surveys.”
Just like all prohibition laws.... They drive behavior to the criminal black market, and can even increase prevalence because of the taboo/rebellion factor.
The supreme court pretending like conflicts of interest don't exist, is so corrupting.....
What’s funny is this article was preceded by six months of “ok, white nationalism doesn’t make any sense, but there must be something in there that’s good for the economy.”
Yikes...is the market finally realizing that Trump admin is delusional?
Kristi Noem's Non-Stop Slander Invites Congress to Ask Melania about Her Close Ties to Jeffrey Epstein www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/02/k...
In 1954, white parents and school board members in Milford, Delaware kickstarted public opposition to integration in Delaware - petitioning, making violent threats against children, & leading a wildly popular & largely successful boycott - withdrawing students from school to closing it for months.
Ffs atrocities and genocides do NOT have a "both sides." We must not entertain their bigoted feelings, whitewashed fantasies, and deluded myths about Christian nationalism as equal to historical scholarship based on primary sources.
Boolean keywords reveal a lot less information about your thoughts than conversational queries.
The Department of Energy hired five academics to raise doubts about climate change. 85+ climate experts (organized by @andrewdessler.com) reviewed their report. Our conclusion, detailed in 450 pages of analysis: it is biased, full of errors, and not fit to inform policy making.
The biggest mistake liberals make on media issues is assuming the mainstream media gives a single fuck. They don’t care. They’re rich and they’re white and they’re protected. None of this affects them. They don’t give a shit. If you understand this fact then the tone of the coverage makes sense.
#BREAKING: Judge Breyer has held that the Trump admin. *violated* the Posse Comitatus Act in its military deployments in and around Los Angeles, and has enjoined further use of those troops for law enforcement tasks. The order is stayed through 12 PDT on 9/12: georgetown.app.box.com/file/1973361...
Donald “I Used The Office To Accept Every Form of Graft and Bribery I Could To Become A Billionaire” Trump putting his face up next to Teddy “Trust Buster” Roosevelt’s adds an extra layer of truly disgusting humiliation to this fascist iconography.
If 2pm presser is about Venezuela, my prebunk/theory: Trump's military provocations on Venezuela are a way to create a factual basis to sustain his Alien Enemies Act deportations. And, he may try to use it to expand his original executive order to all Venezuelans, not just TdA
As a human in DC right now I would get a significant boost to quality of life via a widely available COVID vaccine compared to armed men harassing my neighbors. Would call my representatives in federal government to point this out, if I had any
In a democracy, this is what the party of the working class would sound like.
I hope when Kevin Costner dies his obituary identifies him as “American Actor Who Portrayed White Characters”
You bet your ass if should result in a murder charge. Bastard shot a child who was RUNNING AWAY. And since when is "ding dong ditch" a "TikTok Trend." It's been a thing since like...doorbells were invented. www.cnn.com/2025/09/01/u...
I think we need to stop saying that people hate crime. They like punishment. There are clear ways to reduce crime that involve systemic investment in communities but we avoid doing that in favor of ever more militarized policing because too many people in power like punishment.
Milton was convicted by a jury of 3 fraud counts in 2022 for misleading investors about his company & its electric trucks. He was sentenced to 4 years + restitution. Two weeks ago, prosecutors recommended he pay $676M in restitution. Now he won't have to pay that & is a free man.
The Trump administration used Benny Johnson's claims that his house was "burned to the ground" and that "people were murdered in my front yard" to justify its federal takeover of DC. @kenbensinger.bsky.social found out that Johnson made it all up. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...
As @vermontgmg.bsky.social observes, it's not just that the many red flags about Trump's health haven't become a news event like they almost certainly would have if Biden or Clinton were involved, it hasn't even become a news *story*: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-time-...
I'd go even further, and say that if I am not spending time in my own brain creating (craft, art, writing, whatever), alone, pondering that longer form content I've spent more careful dedicated attention towards-my really deep thinking does not have an opportunity to happen.
did you know in florida homeschoolers get up to $8k/yr in taxpayer money per child
"it’s hard to imagine anything more emblematic of the Trump Era than what is for all intents and purposes still the Commerce Secretary’s company (yes, yes, arms length hand off to his twenty-something sons) making bets on something Lutnick himself has significant influence over"
When the president of Portugal says openly that Trump was recruited by Soviet intelligence in the eighties and continues to operate as a Russian asset, US media decided that this was not a reportable news story. What does this tell us?
tucker carlson telling viewers to quit their jobs if there was a vax mandate while he worked at a place with a vax mandate desantis criticizing lockdowns by dems while he shut down beaches politicians and media complaining about lockdowns that never happened
it wasnt covid restrictions that turned people crazy, it was a group of immoral cynical right wing media grifters who took advantage of their scared followers to get clicks and subscribers and make money
Happy Labor Day to all unions except for cop unions, which I would argue are not real unions but crime syndicates
honestly insane how reporters have kept going "well but crime down so isn't this a good thing" about the take over of DC, dawg the reason why crime has collapsed is the same reason why restaurants are in freefall, because no one is outside because of all the goddamn goons
The problem isn’t refugees on boats. The problem is oligarchs hoarding obscene amounts of wealth while most people fight to stay afloat. Wages aren't tied to inflation, so the working class keeps falling behind no matter how hard they work.
If he was fine they’d have done a proper photo op with him by now to draw a line under this.
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And no one says a word about weird white men named Scooter, Mitt, and Newt.
From my college days ⬇️ #LaborDay #WorkersOverBillionaires youtu.be/9XEnTxlBuGo
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The debate is really over two visions of law enforcement: one is based on "race-neutral," technocratic policing that relies on "hot spots" and surveillance data. The other is brute force, street-smarts, never filling out paperwork. The problem is neither one works. www.vice.com/en/article/u...
yeah “giving a shit about real problems that are actually occurring” being made into a political liability is just an extraordinarily grim development. you’re incentivized to avoid trying to actually address real things because there’s no upside at all politically.
Central Coast Farm workers wish you a happy #LaborDay Campesinos de la Costa Central les desean un feliz Día del Trabajo. #WeFeedYou #SoyEsencial
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
Raise the minimum wage. It’s been $7.25/hr since 2009. Some states have voluntarily raised the minimum wage. Most red states have not. Workers should not have to work several jobs just to survive. WA is at $16.66/hr, CA at $16.50 #LaborDay www.paycor.com/resource-cen...?
big policy win for them. Congratulations. I feel safer already, kidnap all the people taking care of the elderly next
Those of us paying attention are in the real bubble
I was already pretty done with the news media but seeing clips yesterday from the Sunday shows where an anchor is like “but what if living in a Police State does reduce car jackings? Why would you be against that?” probably was the end
Many of these micro-movements rarely make the evening news, but they have become the core of mobilization efforts.
Happy #LaborDay to everyone except the legislators in Jefferson City who repealed paid sick leave for Missouri workers.
A mom who is a legal US citizen gets separated from her family by ICE GOONS after getting back home from a family vacation.
*h, where
Or in the case of cars (esp that only use cameras to auto-drive), you get some number of crashes because the image recognition did not happen fast enough. Cases were people die, or lose their liberty or sanity, need to be solved before public consumption or widespread adoption.
*accurate enough
I love reverse image search, it is very useful, and most people don't think of it as ai-but when it further makes the determination if an image is accurate, you sometimes end up with serious cases of mistaken facial recognition identity. Chatbots have some very shitty consequences for some people.
Search engines aren't answering my queries the same way. Assessing whether or not a source is accurate/exact/specific enough to what I want to try to determine, or seeing that all the results are unreliable/commercialized/limited, is thinking that is being outsourced, imo.
Telling people "you guys, ai is really good now, trust me, I work in ai" without any clear cut examples (except that super nuanced editing work flow) is definitely the ticket.
If you've made specific tools, for limited use cases, like an application dedicated to a task that uses a predictive model, sell us on the ways these tools are useful.
A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment. Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.
And that's not even touching on data privacy or plagerism issues. Do you really want your entire thought process accessible, co-opted, and owned by a giant corporation with questionable ethics? Are you ok giving up the protections normally afforded to published works in order to have this ability?
If llms were so great, you wouldn't need to peer pressure people into using it, or call it ai. Limited models are useful tools for specific data sets. Outsourcing your thinking to a sycophant lorem ipsum machine that gets recursively inaccurate if it's own answers are added to it's data set, is not.
I don't even know what that is.... I just want to use the rights weapons and protections against them.
ICE procurement activity since August 22, totaling ~$19M. Companies highlighted in yellow are new to the "Who's Profiting from ICE?" map, available here: bit.ly/3TgUZEq Source: USAspending.gov
Mussolini didn’t actually make the trains run on time. That’s propaganda. 20th century fascists did “sheer vandalism” and elevated superstitions above science, often in self-harming ways. The competence of fascists is another of their self-aggrandizing myths. It’s just that destroying is easy.
Personally, I think one big problem is both parties rely too much on donors that turn out to be white collar criminals to ever treat it with the performative concern they show over petty street crime.
Said with respect, I genuinely do not think it is hypocrisy. The gun culture tells white men that they are police, protectors, virtuous warriors. See, for example, Ahmaud Arbery's murder. They do not see the MAGA government as tyrannical.
the beauty of MAGA people being nuts is they’re gonna go harder on the body double theories than us lol
Governor Jared Polis says on a reddit AMA that Colorado will fix it so that people can access COVID vaccines without a prescription within the next few days.
"We have reached the point where the U.S. Supreme Court has become one of the greatest threats to public health and welfare in this country.” —Katherine Franke (Op Ed in the Nation)
My favorite sentence in the New York Times explainer on Mamdani and socialism.
