The data were never hidden. It’s just more CYA bullshit from Trump.
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The data were never hidden. It’s just more CYA bullshit from Trump.
“BlueSky is dying” = “No one is paying attention to me!”
When these accounts come on here to proclaim “Bluesky is dying” they’re talking about their own engagement on this website relative to their own engagement on X or Meta and you don’t really have to treat it as anything other than that
This one goes hard www.youtube.com/shorts/d_iya...
Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about
Anna has had excellent coverage of this developing case in which the Trump administration tried to use the holiday weekend to secretly and illegally deport children.
If you're not British, you might not have seen the iconic last photo of Queen Elizabeth II, taken just 2 days before her death, with her swollen ankles and the prominent dark bruise on the back of her hand. Just a thought for all the photo historians out there.
The extent to which ICE is ignoring all civil rights and due process is astounding — and indicative of a culture where they’ve been told they can do literally no wrong. Agency and admin leaders must face sanctions and legal consequences.
Philadelphia’s District Attorney Larry Krasner has suggested an effective playbook— We should arrest rogue ICE agents at the state level, which would shield them from a presidential pardon. This is the kind of hardline approach we need from our Democratic leaders.
White supremacy is at the foundation of all of it, and white supremacy is a lie. You can’t have science, education, history, accurate reporting because all of those things make clear that white supremacy is a lie.
Cracker Barrel quietly removes DEI and Pride pages from its website after logo upheaval | CNN Business www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/b...
New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them. States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.
💉 Shingles vaccine and heart health A global review found the shingles jab was linked to an 18% lower risk of heart attack or stroke, with protective effects seen even in younger adults. 🔗 www.theguardian.com/society/2025... #SciComm #HeartHealth #Vaccines 🧪
One of JD Vance’s political influencers argues that whites have a higher IQ than Blacks and has endorsed returning to slavery. His name is Curtis Yarvin. When Vance becomes POTUS (and he will), you’ll hear the name more often.
No candidate willing to sacrifice trans folks to win deserves a single vote. No candidate willing to sacrifice migrant peoples to win deserves a single vote. No candidate willing to sacrifice Indigenous folks to win deserves a single vote. Warrior up, people. You CAN build a better world.
Israel is now denying US senators (aka their patrons) from even seeing what they have done to Gaza. But the genocide is made up.
Don’t forget to check the alt text. It’s packed with even more fun.
Turning cacao seeds into chocolate! The science is fascinating AND there's chocolate at the end!
And don’t ask about acidophilus.
Was a teen before I learned it was “hap-hazard” not “haf-hazard”. Unfortunately the person who told me was a judge in a speech competition. I did not advance. 😬
Maybe we should stop worrying so much about the screens our kids are on and start worrying about the screens the adults are on.
One reason I try to avoid being in a car as much as possible is because I now assume every driver is on their phone doing exactly this.
"She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it. She was not protecting lives at a gate in Iraq; she was forcing her way through windows in the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power." New from @markhertling.bsky.social:
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.
🧵 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics. The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.
One core premise of the Trump administration is that your power bills are way too low www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/08/trum...
This photo was taken of miners at the end of their shift during the Gilded Age before they were unionized. A Labor Day reminder of the blood, sweat, and tears that those before us paid to give the working class the basic rights that Trump and his thugs are trying to strip away.
This is appalling, criminal, and the GOP plan for everywhere: block cheap renewables in favor of expensive gas turbines. It won't even provide enough power, there's a 3-5 year backlog for turbines. We'll all pay far higher electricity bills to be sicker and to do more environmental damage.
76% of Americans say that this administration is getting it wrong on immigration. www.npr.org/2025/08/29/n...
I really hope this becomes the black eye it deserves to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
“Limestone plus”. Is that some sort of manufactured stone?
On point as always.
How now? Where’s the King?
Too much hope for the future relies on old white men dropping dead.
Never, ever, ever, ever vote for a Republican for any office under any circumstances.
Trump died as he lived, with everyone who had ever heard of him wishing he were dead
This is exactly right, except that it’s not a “feeling” of lawlessness. It’s confirmed, obvious lawlessness.
“dangerous diplomatic embarrassment…” Oh, no, too late.
Well played.
This would be good. I mean it won't help me, but the point is that the more people we get vaccinated, the better it is for all of us.
“My safety as a Jewish person does not come from punishing political speech; it comes from a culture that values truth, empathy and solidarity against bigotry in all its forms.” - Mara Harvey, High School Social Studies Teacher and CTA Board Member.
Thank fucking god. Of course, giving until October 15 lets SCOTUS save them and unconstitutionally impose higher taxes on us.
If it wasn't obvious: If you can 100% consistently predict that a court will rule contrary to law and precedent for the sake of a preferred outcome, it's corrupt and illegitimate. Someday I hope John Roberts is 80 years old surrounded by 300 fellow Supreme Court Justices and just pissed as hell.
All the things Republicans fear-mongered about during the Obama era--from Jade Helm to death panels--are now being implemented under Trump.
What I learned from the USAID dismantling: speed is the most important thing in fighting back. Public heath dorks (myself included) have a tendency to want to be 100% accurate w citations blah blah blah. This is not the time. Call them what they are: fucking psychopaths who are going to kill people.
But by far and away, the biggest priority for a Heritage Foundation-captured CDC is going to be using the agency's legal frameworks for access to medical data, and weaponizing them to control women. *Most* of the Project 2025 plan for CDC is a witch hunt against abortion on an unprecedented scale.
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
Exclusive: Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities — including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez — to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found reut.rs/3JWb00R
Good. We must do everything we can to protect ourselves & our communities, including collaborating where the federal government has failed us. We must acquire and distribute flu & covid vaccines this season, in defiance of the CDC if necessary. @peterneronha.bsky.social @govdanmckee.bsky.social
Taking away people’s health care to pay for tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy is the MOST UNPOPULAR legislation in decades with the American people. NO SHIT That’s Trump’s big, ugly accomplishment.
This is more bullshit from Trump. He cuts off wind and solar—some of the cheapest forms of energy—and then blames them when energy prices going up. We said this would happen when he made his $1 billion “deal” with the oil companies.
All glory to the Great Khan of Illinois.
Health officials under JB Pritzker, who is showing how to take on Trump, are moving forward. They're exploring buying vaccines in bulk themselves. Mass. Gov Maura Healey is in talks with multiple other states about coordinating purchasing of pediatric vaccines. newrepublic.com/article/1998...
Just so everyone knows, Vought said he would do this, promised he would do this, told Congress he would do this. It was in Project 2025. Congress has the power of the purse. Vought took this away. Congress gave it away.
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.
Inside the DC bubble, there's much fretting by Dem strategists and lots of pessimistic punditry from "savvy" media Then, there's what's happening outside that bubble: Two Midwest conservatives set to bow out ahead of tough reelection fights www.the-downballot.com/p/breaking-t...
We need Pritzker merch to complement this. Lean hard into the Khan of Illinois thing.
Fairfax and Arlington schools sued the Trump administration today over its anti-trans funding threat policies and actions. The @washingtonpost.com broke this news but was apparently unable to link to the lawsuit. Here is the Fairfax complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
the thing that's so fucking infuriating about this is how much more that matters for the bottom 10% $1200 can be life or death at that level of income top 10%? $13K is nice, to be sure, but it's "maybe we'll take another vacation" nice not "oh good now we can afford to eat this month"
The thing with Trump is that he folds under the slightest pressure. Which is why it’s so infuriating that so many people make zero effort to push back on him.
Maybe they'll eventually regain their nerve, but for the moment, JB Pritzker appears to have single-handedly spooked the Trump administration into backing down with one 12-minute speech.
"I became a hater by doing precisely those things AI cannot do: reading and understanding human language; thinking and reasoning about ideas; considering the meaning of my words and their context; loving people, making art, living in my body with its flaws and feelings and life."
These are exactly the kinds of students we should be hoovering up and then convincing to stay and work/found their companies here. Even Trump has said so. But this is what happens when you outsource your immigration policy to Stephen Miller, who hates immigrants more than he loves America.
Death Camp Brings Controversy, Jobs
NEW: Immigration Detainees Revolt at Notorious Florida Detention Camp, Report Says unicornriot.ninja/2025/immigra...
I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.
y’all know what one of the first nazi book burnings was right? y’all know why they did it y’all know trans people were one of their first targets and even the ALLIES left us in the camps when liberating everyone else y’all see what’s right in front of you, right?
That’s two reported ChatGPT suicides in one week, plus the grandpa who died trying to meet Meta’s chatbot which had arranged an in-person meeting All going really well
So it turns out this is really not a great time to read a book about how Augustus was able to grab every single rein of power and make himself emperor over a compliant populace and an ineffectual senate.
I think everyone is so densisitized to everything right now but this is legitimately one of the most frightening times I've had in my life. I'm terrified for my community. I'm scared these bastards will whip up more violence against our community while they weaponize government to persecute us more.
One of the things the Nazis did when coming to power was push propaganda that Jews were criminals and prone to violence by focusing on crime committed by Jews or fabricating crime they falsely attributed to Jews. The last 36 hours on X has been this on a massive scale against trans people.
Yikes! Gas is a serious public safety and fire risk. Gas can go boom. One of many good reasons @governor.ny.gov Hochul shouldn’t do Trump’s bidding by approving the Williams NESE fracked gas pipeline project. #NoTrumpPipelines
There’s an enormous amount of stuff in this book I’d like to highlight, but start with: “What emerges as the most elementary insight is that, since we do not now have any ways of making computers wise, we ought not now to give computers tasks that demand wisdom.”
Ashli Babbitt was a domestic terrorist who was shot while committing a violent crime that demonstrated a clear intention to do bodily harm to the people on the other side of those doors. The officer ended the threat she represented...as they were required to do by lethal force if necessary. It was
This is how it’s done.
“Do not offer thoughts and prayers as you systemically enable such tragedies. Do not claim prayers are sufficient when children die as they pray. Do not pretend you do not understand.” — Lydia, 16, Minneapolis
CDC scientists receive a heroes welcome after walking out today.
Jim O’Neill is a tech investor, former CEO of the Thiel Foundation, and co-founder with Peter Thiel of the Thiel fellowship. He has no direct medical education or experience. It’s hard to get away from the feeling that they really are trying to kill us.
Using the name of a group facing active genocide as a slur. Such a complete scumbag. And his supporters will probably giggle and nod along to this fascist crap.
little known fact: In 2020, Republicans lost the White House and the Senate.
alarmed and "very concerned" - of course, as if she has no agency or no power. Key line: "Collins voted in February to confirm Kennedy" he's going to get her constituents killed - and Maine has the highest percentage of residents over 65. That's what should concern her, but doesn't
Since Murray is my Senator, I called her office to thank her for stepping up. Hopefully others will follow her lead. #DidThisToday
Reuters repeating a falsehood here. Most of this money was already granted to intel under the chips act passed by Biden. The rest under other pre-Trump programs
I think people really struggle w partially consolidated authoritarianism, either understating our problem or understating our power It's like we're in a liminal fascist space. And not recognizing how far gone we are or thinking we're simply too far gone are both grave errors we can't afford to make
AP live feed of the CDC walkout in Atlanta. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ7Q...
RFK Jr on the mass shooting in Minnesota: "We're launching studies on the potential contribution of some of the SSRI drugs and some of the other psychiatric drugs that might be contributing to violence."
Choosing to release this when other brands are leaning into white supremacy was A Choice
This is a resounding policy victory for the mainstream right and for the president that used to pretend he deserved credit for operation warp speed and other covid vaccine development efforts
Cracker Barrel's Pride page now redirects to its "Culture and Belonging" page, removing its LGBTQ+ Alliance and DEIB Team.
This ‼️‼️‼️The complete incompetence of the whole regime is killing us ‼️
Diablo devs unionize following layoffs and dissatisfaction with AI, pay aftermath.site/diablo-union...
Unquestionably a war crime. I know we all have fatigue about this, but we have to keep saying it where we can until enough people get it.
Republicans can lie and take credit for infrastructure bill improvements they voted against, in part, because we let the extraction class destroy the kind of local journalism that used to correct the electorate's misperceptions
On this day in 1955, two white men abducted and murdered 14-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi.
EU auto sales for July. Battery-electric sales are up almost 50% YoY outside of Tesla, where they're down over 40% as TSLA market share collapses. PHEV and hybrid sales are also rising rapidly while internal combustion engine sales continue to fall.
Other countries have disturbed people with mental health issues but they don’t have guns raining from the sky like in America. That’s the problem.
The Trump administration invited North Carolina to help "soft launch" a new DHS voter program that allows states to verify citizenship to hunt for noncitizens on the rolls. The administration called the rollout “an exciting opportunity.”
Trump's use of red state National Guards in DC is really about viciously turning Americans against each other, about stoking hate and violence *among Americans.* JB Pritzker's response is so good because it lays *this* bare. Me and @brianbeutler.bsky.social on this: newrepublic.com/article/1997...
