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初秋の色🌼 ------- Early autumn colors🌼 #illustration
Adios, Graham Greene. Not just a great actor, but a ballsy actor who took risks and expanded the palate of roles for Native American performers. Sure, Dances With Wolves, but, man, check him out as a total flirt in Transamerica or as a UFO-obsessed loner on Reservation Dogs. Such masterful presence.
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I love the smell of consequences in the morning. Thank you, @dragoncon.org
Judge Sooknanan is giving a master class in judging during the Trump Administration -- but really in how judges should always value the people whose lives are affected by their decisions.
It's Might & Magic VI time! WOOOO! www.twitch.tv/kikoskia
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Today is my Birthday! If you want to congratulate me, the best gift would be to retweet my drawings🙏💖 Thank you for sticking with me💐
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field. There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.
Whether or not these people are actual foreign agents is almost irrelevant. Their actions are observationally equivalent to & indistinguishable from the actions actual foreign agents would be taking. The consequences of our total Article I constitutional crisis, right here:
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One of the winters they spend together☃️ #tarttioc
By dropping dozens of cases and settlements, Trump's CFPB has let corporate lawbreakers off the hook for some $3 billion in harm to consumers that may never be redressed.
This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I can’t overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.
This should be a bigger story. A government official had the YouTube channel of a private citizen shut down bc he didn’t like what that citizen was saying. This administration’s version of free speech is a joke.
A horrific further step toward genocide.
Too many vaccines in the first year?Your child is 44% more likely to survive to one year if they are vaccinated than if they are unvaccinated.
Face the Nation, oddly, didn't cite this when they asked Pritzker about the success of the DC occupation.
Aiming to finish DQIII today! ! #vtuber twitch.tv/lunatasticvt
It's a lie. Stipulating "explicit" carries the implication that he *does* have some other kind of informal, traditional or implied authority over elections, when he does not. Don't print lies in the newspaper.
DEVELOPING: Advocates are seeking a court order to block the Trump administration’s effort to deport hundreds of unaccompanied minor children to Guatemala. Judge abruptly moved 3 pm hearing up to 12:30 after she was notified that some children “are in the process of being removed" today.
Parroting Trump, Raddatz repeatedly attacked Moore for claiming he had a Bronze Star when he didn't. She apparently didn't know that Moore now HAS the Bronze Star that his superior officer told Moore he had earned years ago in battle.
As honest as I can get: Gavin's platform hijacking stuff is very good; redistricting is excellent. But the podcast/transphobia stuff is obviously designed to get attacked from the left to impress "the middle" because HE THINKS IT HELPS HIS AMBITION. It's our job to prove he's wrong about that.
This whole thing is great but the highlighted bit made me laugh out loud. 😂 Marlon on Snoop:
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The thing about a lot of these never Trump Republicans is that, unlike a lot of institutionalist Dems who think the fever will break and we can all return to comity or whatever, these guys saw the rot up close and know the only appropriate response is to tear them out of government root and branch.
this point—that this era is not forever and accountability can come in many forms—has for some reason proved bizarrely elusive for democrats
Stopped at a Midas repair shop today and the guy there brought up the CDC. This is an example where raising the salience of what is going on really can break through the noise.
I would have added a little more context to make this clear, but I'm not a reporter: "The president's net negative 18-point approval rating is his lowest recorded since [he tried to overthrow the government in] January 2021..."
Little kids with brain cancer. That’s who Donald Trump and RFK Jr. are screwing over by cutting health care.
Thread. Co-sign.
Hi folks! Today’s stream will be at 10AM JST (9PM EDT/6PM PDT)! I’ll be starting with Mega Man 2, and we’ll see where things go. Also, at noon, I’ll be pausing to post Granblue Fantasy news, then spark for the new character! www.twitch.tv/originalpocky/ Hope to see you then! ^_^
It’s not an exaggeration. The DOGE initiative is the largest data breach in world history.
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average Dem strategist: we must focus on bipartisan policies that undercut Republican attacks average Dem voter: having studied the denazification of Germany, we must raze the RNC and leave JD Vance clutching a single wool blanket in a cell after we strip him of everything
The point of this is to normalize the topic and build pressure. Even if it doesn’t ultimately succeed the more pressure there is on Kennedy the more likely it is he makes concessions here and there.
Hello, I am furious www.liberalcurrents.com/let-it-burn-...
Once again, Border Patrol tells the press this was a targeted kidnapping, yet they took a man who is legally here & in the immigration process. This shows that it was not a targeted investigation as they claimed. Press must stop printing lies. apnews.com/article/immi...
You spelled ENDANGERING wrong, @nytimes.com. “Pushing the boundaries” is a *positive* frame implying unconventional innovations. There are no innovations here. Just medieval anti-science populist attacks on some of best methods of truth seeking we have.
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going back to the founders it would have been recognized as an act of gratitude and patriotism to dedicate one's life to service of their adopted country, but Vance rejects the fundamental ideal of America in favor of crude blood-and-soil Nazism that he learned on the internet five years ago
A collection of clips from MSNBC of multiple Republicans getting booed at town halls this week.
Happy birthday Miku!
A snippet of the originals I have available at Dragoncon this weekend! Swing by table 405 in the comic and pop artist alley 🫣
Joe Biden’s no longer president so the media has moved on from caring about such things Much like inflation and budget deficits
At some point in the not too distant future the conventional wisdom will be that this was a period where the US focused on dumb shit while China took the lead in multiple domains
NEW figures show that 61,226 people are currently in ICE detention — the highest number ever in US history. According to ICE data, 70% of these people have no criminal conviction.
beauty in maps tbh
"Her patient had signs of what could be a cancer or could be an unusual infection — diagnoses that would require completely different treatment. Ordinarily, she would confirm an infection after sending a sample to the CDC for testing ...the CDC no longer has the capacity to do that"
That disastrous reshaping of the world's ocean currents that would leave the EU in an ice age & shift the world's fertile regions thus causing persistent global famine? According to science, it's no longer "low probability." Sleep tight.
How many of us at this point just shrug and assume SCOTUS will let him do it anyway, regardless of the merits of the ruling or underlying law? By itself, that cynicism about the law is deeply corrosive
Sums up America in 2025 pretty well I’d say
People are often surprised to learn that Lee was an officer who never made it past colonel. The purported promotion to general was awarded by a treasonous cabal calling itself the "confederate states of america" which was put down by force by the Union army, which also had superior generals.
BOOM. The federal appeals court rules Trump's tariffs illegal, because they are. There's no national emergency, and so the power to tariff a country rests with Congress. Trump admin has lost at every stage of the process, but stay tuned for the Supremes to chime in.
“You have to let us break the law or we will be embarrassed” is not a good legal argument
A federal appeals court has ruled that President Trump’s tariffs exceeded his authority under an emergency powers law.
I'm getting my Lego Pitchforks ready!
This is at the heart of the Cook case: if the President gets to decide what "for cause" justifications are, then there is no actual for cause standard, it is a de facto at will standard. As is amply demonstrated by Cook case!
🧵 In the wake of numerous reports of interactions with AI chatbots that resulted in deadly consequences, the Center for Democracy & Technology's Dr. Michal Luria says AI firms should stop designing products that pretend to be human.
This is one of the ways that white supremacy weaponizes civility: by implying that certain people get to be served, and other kinds of people (you know what kinds) need to be grateful, without interrogating it.
Needless to say, I would not have been able to complete my PhD had this rule been in effect when I was a student. What a nightmare.
This is illegal. www.gao.gov/blog/what-po...
Someone tell DOGE a way that the gov't could have been more efficient, by not building a stunt concentration camp...
This isn't just a political claim, it's an empirical one. If "the problem is not guns" then we shouldn't see any correlation between gun ownership and oh wait platform.vox.com/wp-content/u...
This is a hell of a letter. “The intentional eroding of trust in low-risk vaccines…will bring us to a pre-vaccine era where only the strong will survive and many if not all will suffer….Eugenics plays prominently in the rhetoric being generated…”
If you can’t ban Nazis without sweeping up high profile Republicans and you can’t ban disinformation without sweeping up high profile Republicans, the issue is Republicans. Not the policy.
true story i used to be one of those red pandas who thought booing was impolite and unsportsmanlike but this administration and its shitty people has completely changed my stance i am all for booing and public shunning of every single one of these fucks tbh thank u for coming to my TED talk
There is so much terrible about all of this, but what strikes me most is how often the teen suggested involving his family so he didn’t go through with the suicide and it appears that each time, ChatGPT discouraged him.
no no, it was "Don't! Be Evil!"
Trump doesn't denounce vote by mail because he thinks a democratic electoral system would be better without it, he denounces vote by mail to set up his lies about electoral fraud. The lying pretext is the point. Why must we learn the lesson over and over? Do not appease fascists, it does not work.
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
She said she was asked to fire “her leadership” and “to rubber stamp [vaccine] recommendations that flew in the face of science, and she was not going to do either of those things.” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
RKF Jr. is a dangerous man who is determined to abuse his authority to act on truly terrifying conspiracy theories and disinformation—leaving us unprepared for the next deadly pandemic and snuffing out potential cures while he’s at it. My full statement.
taking a moment of incandescent fury to remember when that Washington Post columnist said that instead of enacting better gun laws, we should train schoolchildren to rush mass shooters
Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.
There is no conceivable interpretation of the law of war in which a camera set up nearby legitimizes a mass casualty double tap strike on a protected civilian site like a hospital. The fact that Israel is citing it as if it meets some standard should, by itself, trigger a halt in weapons to Israel.
What strikes me is the every time the Trump Administration and the Republicans come into actual contact with the American people, it is toxic for them: grand juries, townhalls, opening ceremonies. Look, the man won with 49.8% of the popular vote; this was not a resounding victory by any means.
The worst fucking people with the worst fucking technology.
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Wow. On NPR, @gbrumfiel.bsky.social reports a Social Security official “copied the Social Security numbers, names and birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private section of the agency's cloud.” The source is a whistleblower, who is named: Charles Borges, SSN chief data officer.
the richest man in the world buying a presidential election, getting run out of the administration for being a weird diva, then pivoting to jerking it to anime cartoons full time is somehow more Roman than anything that ever happened in Rome
Maybe a hot take but I think this is probably a positive development even without the risk of AI-fueled cheating. Writing and arguing with sustained focus, without the ability to switch tabs every couple of minutes, is a skill that we need to cultivate more proactively.
I got to meet one of my childhood heroes, Roberta Williams, and talk to her for hours and it's one of the coolest experiences of my life. That will only make sense to a narrow band of you, but I'm fine with that. Big thanks to @gameinformer.com for asking me to do this. Roberta Williams. The legend.
I don't care how deep into the deep state you get, there is nobody randomly looking at mortgage applications on performing mortgages. Anyone doing this would have to be asked to do it. And hopefully we will find out how and when they were asked.
The same rigged game as vaccines and election integrity: 1. Destroy trust in X 2. Say trust in X has been destroyed 3. The only way to restore trust in X is
This is the machine that, a few short years after it's increasingly obviously irresponsible release, a big section of our elites wants run our institutions. Complete madness.
This is why it’s so important for Dems like Pritzker to be loudly declaring their intentions to hold every person involved in this lawless shit accountable. Make them consider their own vulnerability once Trump is no longer in power.
👇🎯 Anyone in bed with crypto right now should not be anywhere near serious discussions about the future of the Democratic Party or American democracy bsky.app/profile/mcop...
The frustrating thing is that there really is a "enblandening" shift going on in corporate logo changes and such, but oh my god are these people insane to tie it to politics.
every time i see the title of this Politico piece i'm reminded of Sartre
"It is without a doubt the most illegal search I've ever seen in my life," U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui said from the bench. "I'm absolutely flabbergasted at what has happened. A high school student would know this was an illegal search." unreal quote 😭
DOGE "uploaded a copy of a crucial Social Security database in June to a vulnerable cloud server, putting the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans at risk of being leaked or hacked..." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
20 countries have now stopped shipping all valuable mail parcels to the United States. It’s a result of the White House’s large and chaotic taxes on Americans who buy products made with any input from overseas (‘tariffs’). If you listen closely, you can hear small businesses dying.
The US Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit has affirmed that it violates the Constitution to exclude timely received mail-in ballots just because the voter failed to handwrite in the correct date. Thrilled to partner w/@eliaslawgroup.bsky.social on this. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
![__________________________ OPINION OF THE COURT __________________________ SMITH, Circuit Judge I. Introduction The ballot is a building block of our democracy. Perhaps no civic act has greater importance—or consequences—than a citizen’s casting of a ballot. Our Constitution calls upon the States to regulate the mechanics of how its citizens cast their ballots so that those citizens may meaningfully express their voices in what George Washington once called “the last great experiment [in] promoting human happiness.”1 But our Constitution also calls upon the Courts to scrutinize such regulations to ensure they do not unduly burden voters’ voices. This inquiry is often a difficult one. It requires a court to balance the State’s constitutionally mandated duty against its citizens’ constitutionally protected right. But “there is ‘no substitute for the hard judgments that must be made.’” Anderson v. Celebrezze, 460 U.S. 780, 789–90 (1983) (quoting Storer v. Brown, 415 U.S. 724, 730 (1974)). This appeal asks us to make one such hard judgment. We must determine if the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s requirement that mail-in ballots that arrive in undated or 1 Letter from George Washington to Catharine Sawbridge Macaulay Graham (Jan. 9, 1790) (on file with the National Archives).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wovz3whdkughp6decczypkqq/bafkreieamj5gfoifz76xhoxw4zcc7kdrt4wpiayemnxavaa65vg5motxka@jpeg "Click to view full size")
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