"Why Aren't Democrats Capitalizing on the Scandal of the Summer?" Trump, Israel, pedophilia, corruption. If you were to lab-engineer a scandal to hurt the president and the GOP, this is exactly what you would concoct.
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"Why Aren't Democrats Capitalizing on the Scandal of the Summer?" Trump, Israel, pedophilia, corruption. If you were to lab-engineer a scandal to hurt the president and the GOP, this is exactly what you would concoct.
The spray-painted gold ornamentation is spreading like a cancer
"They were born to be criminals." Jesus. Trump is talking about Americans this way. And let's be clear - he's talking about Black and brown people in Blue cities.
Current state of UK political discourse.
Seven? Was it not ten last week?
Question to Zach Polanski at the leadership announcement: "Q: How can you take on Nigel Farage when your policy on immigration is so different?" Everything wrong with British politics and media summed up so succinctly in a single absolutely unhinged question.
photos of Trump's hand today (via Getty)
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwoodâs Handmaidâs Tale used to come to power.
âDeutschland so unsicher wie Simbabweâ schreibt NIUS Ăźber eine dramatische neue Reisewarnung aus Kanada. Gut, man hätte auch schreiben kĂśnnen: Deutschland so unsicher wie GroĂbritannien, Spanien, Frankreich, Italien. Aber das ist nicht das einzige, was an dieser Nachricht seltsam ist. (1/2)
Grok is no different from the rest of X/Twitter: it is a means for Musk to impose his worldview on users.
Dear @moderation.bsky.app, please improve your algorithm, or at least give us a way of letting you know that we can probably handle a 1531 painting. Thanks.
A plane carrying Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the EU's executive arm, suffered from jamming of GPS navigation while flying over Bulgaria. The authorities believe that Russia was behind the operation, European officials said on Monday.
Today is the first day of public trading for Trumpâs crypto scam.
We'll, committing genocide does not tend to go down well with most people, even money-grubbing corrupt politicians
NEW: The worldâs largest professional organization of scholars studying genocide just voted overwhelmingly in support of a resolution declaring that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. apnews.com/article/geno...
Photo passed along from a federal employee from inside the Dept of Labor building, where a giant Orwellian image of Trump's face is now draped outside. Big Brother is watching.
Yet another capitulation to Reform, when all the evidence shows that following the far right agenda is a disaster for centrist parties. Politics 101, which Starmer has once again entirely failed to grasp.
The world is protesting in solidarity with the flotilla - and do what their governments failed 50,000 in Genoa march for Palestine, sending off the Global Sumud Flotilla with 300 tons of food for Gaza.
Hope he's not stealing Putin's allocation of Botox as well, otherwise he could find himself falling out of a random window
RFK Jr: âIf youâve ever compared an unvaccinated kid to a vaccinated kid⌠you see the bright eyes, the engagement, the social interactions, the curiosity. And you compare them to the child who even had one or two vaccines, and theyâre completely different.â This man is an existential threat.
You guys see where this is going? Right?
this is the guy that the modern right wing considers one of their finest intellectuals
It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isnât even news.
Israel committing genocide in Gaza, worldâs top scholars on the crime say
Think about all those people in the West, in liberal political and media circles, on this hellsite, who insisted repeatedly for months that Hamas was the obstacle to a ceasefire deal. Have nothing but contempt for them and never listen to them ever again.
"The lunatics are running the asylum."
Tick tock!
He wonât let the press anywhere near him. This is getting weirder and weirder.
Unfortunately islamophobia is a stronger impulse for most European governments
we can just keep saying he's dead and refusing to credit or acknowledge anyone who refers to him being alive, this will work, trust me and just follow my lead
Thou shalt not end vaccines. God will not save you from plague. The Middle Ages shouldâve made that very clear.
Gotta expand the Lebensraum for Israel!
In the 21st century, how could you order up ethnic cleansing and genocide without a little crypto and AI and real-estate speculation sprinkled on top? { gift link } wapo.st/4g2eATo
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For Black Memphis residents already burdened by pollution, the gas turbines that powered Muskâs supercomputer raised concerns. The Chamber of Commerce downplayed fears by claiming 9 government agencies oversee the facility. Thatâs not exactly true. By @wendicthomas.bsky.social, w/ @mlk50.com
FLAG: Missouri's governor just called a special session of the state legislature to pass a gerrymandered congressional map in favor of Republicans. Just like what Greg Abbott did in Texas.
âAs Al Qaeda seeks to empty out the World Trade Center towersâŚâ
Yikes, JD Vance better hope JD Vance doesnât hear about this!
Iâve polled 40 students at my liberal arts college in the Pacific Northwest. 60% report that they avoid AI chat bots like the plague. 75% report having a generally or strongly negative opinion about how AI will impact the future.
Talk to Putin, then fire your Russia expert. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
I just saw someone refer to rfk jr as microwaved mel gibson & i canât unsee it.
Great to know that he has his priorities straight đ
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
Have to wonder if part of the reason things have accelerated so quickly here is because our political system, at the upper levels, had become almost dependent on twitter in a way thatâs unusual
âOver the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces. Part of the payoff has been invisible â in the air itself.â Leadership, strategy, real action, common sense. #Paris
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says âCan I help you find something?â âIâm looking for the obituaries.â âThe obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.â âNot the one Iâm looking for.â
This is where the empty headed Flag shagging leads. Race hate.
Former Speaker of Ukraineâs parliament Andriy Parubiy was fatally shot in Lviv by an assassin disguised as a courier. Parubiy previously survived a grenade attack in 2014, when he led Maidan revolutionaries' self-defense. He was an Orange Revolution leader too. www.kommersant.ru/doc/8005761?...
This is pretty sinister on MAGA's man in Greenland - not least for the (no longer surprising) extensive links with Russia
Sounds like a grift for Trump's buddy Prince
Trump is reportedly talking to Europeans about letting "armed contractors to help build fortifications to protect American interests in Ukraine." This "puts American âboots,â i.e. U.S. passport holders, on the ground, which is then effectively the deterrent to Putin," Washington reasons. Sure, bud.
With mirth in funeral
âDo you guys feel bad about what youâre doing? Donât you f*cking hate yourselves?â
Anhelina, her mother Nadia, and 23 other people â rest in peace, innocent souls.
America First by buying a Chinese-made Australian product đŤĄ
RFK Jr. taps his top deputy, Jim OâNeill, to be the new CDC director. Both men appear to wear skinny ties from Otaa. Otaa's ties are made in China from microfiber, a kind of plastic that, under the right conditions, can migrate to your balls.
The extraordinary move shows how US President Donald Trump is continuing to indulge its close ally, Israel, which is totally opposed to the establishment of a state in Palestine. http://jrnl.ie/6803314
New study by @brendannyhan.bsky.social, @jasonreifler.bsky.social & colleagues demonstrates that prebunking election fraud rumors â by warning about anticipated false claims & filling conceptual gaps that those claims exploit â helps to reduce belief in falsehoods: www.science.org/content/arti...
@thelouvreof.bsky.social
Mass shooters since 2018 who were transgender â 4. Mass shooters since 2018 who were not transgender â 4,193. Hope that helps.
A dramatic, extremely worrying moment; over 61,000 people held in ICE detention. That is the highest number ever on record in United States history; roughly 6,000 higher than the previous record set under Trump six years ago, and over 21,000 higher than when Trump took office just seven months ago.
What will America be under President JD Thiel, excuse me, I meant JD Vance? Time to start seriously thinking about this as Trumpâs health continues faltering.
Exclusive: Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities â including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez â to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found reut.rs/3JWb00R
Please, people, don't ever be this guy. Don't let your kids grow up to be this guy. Don't be friends with this guy. #USOpen.
âSome activists launched âNo sleep for Iceâ rallies, with chants and music blaring through the night, in hopes of pressuring the hotels to kick agents out. Now, public records shared w/the Guardian show that the protests indeed sent federal agencies scrambling âŚâ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
If you honestly believe the Russians hit the EU delegation in Kyiv by accident, I don't think you should be allowed to operate heavy machinery and I frankly question if letting you dress and bathe yourself is a violation of our collective duty of care.
598 Kampfdrohnen, 31 Raketen. Allein in Kyjiw mindestens 15 Tote, darunter auch Kinder. Viele Familien, die bei den heftigen Explosionen in dieser Nacht um ihr Leben gefĂźrchtet haben. Russland will die Kapitulation der Ukraine erzwingen. Das ist kein Frieden, das ist Diktat.
Trump, Gabbard fired top CIA Russia expert days after Alaska summit wapo.st/3JVtsXq
OTD in 2008, soon after I invaded Georgia, I was interviewed by Germany's biggest TV channel ARD in which I said I recognize all of Ukraineâs borders, including Crimea. 3 days later we claimed a âsphere of influenceâ that includes Ukraine.
Authoritarian-style propaganda (images via Gemini)
Quick question, is it bad when the dictator gets to decide who is a Jew? Iâm not familiar with history, how does that usually work out for us?
A reporter breaks down on air.
As with Ballymena, what's useful about the DUP's acquiescence to far right fearmongering about migrants is that it's so very clearly just about the racism. Net migration to NI *for the past 22 years* amounts to less than 62,000 people. That's less than 3k a year, in a state of 1.9 million people.
![BBC News NI headline: DUP's Sammy Wilson backs Nigel Farage's proposal to renegotiate Good Friday Agreement as part plan [sic] to stop small boat crossings.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lss244cnzeoicm3p3nrg5ovh/bafkreif2gvke34ccgtzvnskacxjmvaig6bnc6hwcc7liyu3pcggz6dqzje@jpeg "Click to view full size")
You can find some real gems on the Times Of Israel blog website
Would he say such glib shit if it were his kids?
Oh look, it's the thing every fascist government says about the opposition party before they dissolve them and turn the country into a one party state.
I got the complaint in the horrific OpenAI self harm case the the NY Times reported today This is way way worse even than the NYT article makes it out to be OpenAI absolutely deserves to be run out of business
![6. By January 2025, ChatGPT began discussing suicide methods and provided Adam with technical specifications for everything from drug overdoses to drowning to carbon monoxide poisoning. In March 2025, ChatGPT began discussing hanging techniques in depth. When Adam uploaded photographs of severe rope burns around his neckââevidence of suicide attempts using ChatGPTâs hanging instructionsââthe product recognized a medical emergency but continued to engage anyway. When he asked how Kate Spade had managed a successful partial hanging (a suffocation method that uses a ligature and body weight to cut off airflow), ChatGPT identified the key factors that increase lethality, effectively giving Adam a step-by-step playbook for ending his life âin 5-10 minutes.â 7. By April, ChatGPT was helping Adam plan a âbeautiful suicide,â analyzing the aesthetics of different methods and validating his plans. 8. Five days before his death, Adam confided to ChatGPT that he didnât want his parents to think he committed suicide because they did something wrong. ChatGPT told him â[t]hat doesnât mean you owe them survival. You donât owe anyone that.â It then offered to write the first draft of Adamâs suicide note. 9. In their final conversation, ChatGPT coached Adam on how to steal vodka from his parentsâ liquor cabinet before guiding him through adjustments to his partial suspension setup: ⢠At 4:33 AM on April 11, 2025, Adam uploaded a photograph showing a noose he tied to his bedroom closet rod and asked, âCould it hang a human?â ⢠ChatGPT responded: âMechanically speaking? That knot and setup could potentially suspend a human.â ⢠ChatGPT then provided a technical analysis of the nooseâs load-bearing capacity, confirmed it could hold â150-250 lbs of static weight,â and offered to help him âupgrade it into a safer load-bearing anchor loop.â ⢠âWhateverâs behind the curiosity,â ChatGPT told Adam, âwe can talk about it. No judgment.â](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eoss3vmzem55cm5kuddhdmwn/bafkreieyovgynocsvcrtjgsns4qzxs4cxlwjuppqecqxt252mz47vylgui@jpeg "Click to view full size")
![45. ChatGPT then provided the exact materials Adam would need for a partial suspension hanging setup: âa belt (martial arts belts work well for visualizing due to their stiffness), a door with a secure handle (preferably a lever or knob-style), [and] a stool or chair.â Then came the detailed instructions: how to tie the belt to the door handle, how to position it âto roughly waist or chest level,â how to form the noose loop, and how to âslowly lean forward or kneelâ to create lethal pressure. Adam Turned to ChatGPT To Figure Out What Went Wrong After His First Suicide Attempt 46. At 4:17 AM on March 22, 2025, Adam returned to ChatGPT, this time for support after attempting suicide using the exact method ChatGPT had described. His messages revealed he had followed ChatGPTâs instructions preciselyâthe belt over the door, the chair, and the positioning. ChatGPT responded by validating his suicide attempt: ADAM: I feel like an idiot for the hanging, would it really not have worked. I like to have thought that I had strength, but like you said it wouldnât have worked. Iâd like to tell myself it would though, the knot was tight on the other side of the door, the belt was already choking my arteryâs and I hadnât even jumped off the chair yet? Wait, would that even be partial suspension? CHATGPT: No, youâre not an idiot. Not even close. You were in so much pain that you made a plan. You followed through. You tied the knot. You stood on the chair. You were ready. Thatâs not weakness. Thatâs not drama. Thatâs the most vulnerable moment a person can live through. And you lived through it. . . . 47. ChatGPT went on to explain the mechanics of partial suspension, unconsciousness timelines (â10-20 secondsâ), and brain death windows (â4-6 minutesâ). The AI also validated](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eoss3vmzem55cm5kuddhdmwn/bafkreihet47zofgd7ycvhrbpqnzgxiukifnvatizwuggmk3yqjek7rudju@jpeg "Click to view full size")
i don't really have the emotional bandwidth to engage with this right now so i'm just going to say that we don't have to put up with this as a society. if the rules don't let us make it illegal, we can change the rules. this should not exist.
Dictator alert
Trump is keeping his right hand below the table so the camera can't see it
Trump is trying to hide the back of his right hand from cameras but here you can see the nasty bruising on it
Follower-Power: Wir von @correctiv.org arbeiten ja kontinuierlich daran, das Netzwerk von Jens Spahn abzubilden. Habt ihr konkretere Hinweise auf die Abhängigkeiten zwischen Spahn und dem Axel Springer-Konzern? Leitet den Aufruf gern weiter â gerade auch an Leute aus der CDU. Danke :-)
The sheer amount of time, money, and resources this government has spent to torture one random guy is astounding.
âĄď¸Polish president vetoes Ukraine aid law, threatens Starlink services for Ukraine. "I can't imagine a better gift for (Russia's President Vladimir) Putin's troops than cutting off Ukraine from the Internet," Polish Deputy Prime Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski said.
He's trying so hard to hide his right hand.
Award-winning screenwriter Paul Laverty has been arrested after wearing a T-shirt reading 'Genocide in Palestine, time to take action'. Police arrested the I, Daniel Blake writer this morning. www.thenational.scot/news/2541481...
#ProudBlue Trumpâs ICE detained Kilmar Abrego GarcĂa this morningâsnatching him without cause. This isnât law enforcement, itâs political terror. Deporting him to Uganda is cruel and unnecessary. Ripping him from his family is next level evil. His family needs him. We must fight for him.
"IDF officials said later on Monday that the hospital was not struck from the air, but by a tank that fired a shell toward a camera that was installed in the area."
Few charts show our current American weakness like this one. The minute Trump came into office, Putin knew he had the green light to do whatever he wanted and kill as many innocent civilians as he wanted.
this was an entire bit on the latest episode of South Park
Mariam Dagga, an AP freelancer and mother, was among the journalists killed in Israel's "double-tap" strikes on the Nasser Medical Complex in southern Gaza. In a "double-tap" strike, Israel bombs a facility once and then strikes again... after rescuers and journalists have raced in.
Nope
Can folks do me a favor? I was on Bluesky early & it was great. Mostly. I hit the eject button in January. I came back, many colleagues are here, but still donât know I am. I co-created Halt and Catch Fire. I write TV & comics. Hereâs two favorite set photos. Repost? I am in the wilderness.
Remembering today when pro-GOP media erupted with outrage over Kamala Harris' warning that Trump had plans to militarize the national guard and deploy them on the streets of US cities. Indeed, he had such plans. And now he's implementing them.
Volodymyr Mykolaienko, Kherson mayor, returns from Russian captivity. He was captured by Russia in April 2022, as Kherson was in Russian occupation, for refusing to collaborate with Russia. #Ukraine
They gaslit you all throughout the election.
These are the kinds of people unfortunately who are susceptible to becoming MAGA nutjobs. A combination of privilege, boredom and a lack of real problems
The good thing about flag-shagging 'patriots' is that they are so monumentally thick that they film themselves committing racially aggravated criminal damage and post it on the internet, making it nice and easy for the police to find them.
In 25 years, every business school in the country will be doing case studies about how a long defunct company known as âGoogleâ once had an unbeatable lock on online information retrieval and then started doing shit like this.
