Really striking to see this from a leading local legislator like @bethliston.bsky.social - you would never have seen a politician publicly turn down a trip to Israel like this a few years ago
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Really striking to see this from a leading local legislator like @bethliston.bsky.social - you would never have seen a politician publicly turn down a trip to Israel like this a few years ago
The WSJ carelessly spread anti-trans misinformation www.theverge.com/politics/777...
Republicans pledge censorship crackdown to avenge Charlie Kirk’s death
GameStop bought ThinkGeek, one of the most universally beloved merch outlets on the web, and immediately sent it to the graveyard. Then they pivoted to selling the world's most unlikable merch in their brick and mortar stores and keep wondering why they're failing as a company.
How does it have a $30M budget? I thought the point of AI shit was to steal from actual creators and to "cut down" on hiring artists and keep budgets low. Why not just spend the $30m on actual animation?
Just like everything in this Trump-shaped disaster of a presidency, the regime takes public dollars away from useful programs and services so they can plaster their names all over the continent like the world's most tacky vanity project, only if it were a country.
over time I believe this will end up being one of the most unpopular things the administration ever does a death sentence for many hobbies and all the average consumer sees is that you’re taking away all their bargains one of the few policies that has a direct negative effect on almost everyone
Wikipedia's resistance to enshittification is fascinating to me.
Laura Loomer has more power over your government than US Senators.
My productivity went through the roof when I worked from home. I was super locked in and got so much more done. It was only when I was back in the office with the dinosaurs that my productivity tanked, and mostly because my workflow was interrupted by people just making conversation
They're actively targeting creators who call in & banning them, making it even more important to call if you're a customer & not a creator Tell them they shouldn't be dictating how you get to spend the money you put your blood, sweat, and tears into earning
Business dudes are so weird. They have nothing to do with any sort of artistic vision or creative process but they want to put their name, their face, their likeness on everything that OTHER people worked on and call it their own. Go finish your fucked up renaming of HBO, shitwad
Someone should create a government agency that protects consumers
“The recent change in the adult and children’s immunization schedule threaten the lives of the youngest Americans and pregnant people.” This should be one of the biggest scandals in America right now. And every Democrat should be loudly calling for RFK Jr’s resignation
The United States, just months before its 250th birthday as the world’s leading democracy, has tipped over the edge into authoritarianism and fascism.
In a functional government, this would be a five alarm fire where Congress calls in Kennedy and asks him what the fuck is going on
Last week Trump said he likes the idea of starting a war so he can declare “no more elections” and stay in office forever. Today he just said “a lot of people” want “a dictator.” See where this is going?
yeah this is what fascism looks like
Desperate to get the Epstein scandal off the front page, he decided to invoke Martial Law in Washington, DC, citing crime as the reason, when they're quite literally at a 30-year low on crime. This is practice for when he has to stop cities from voting in 2026. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
there's an episode of The Simpsons where Marge tries to get a violent cartoon pulled from the airwaves, only to discover that the people backing her aren't going to stop at just the art that *she* doesn't like, and that supporting artistic freedom means accepting discomfort. It aired in 1990.
Which isn't to say you can fire people for saying uncomfortable things, but in an industry especially concerned with public relations and optics, everything is heavily scrutinized.
They were right to fire her in the first place. She said something that anyone could (and rightfully would) interpret as shitty, and may have even made other cast and crew uncomfortable making comments like that. I'd be uncomfortable working with her in a professional environment.
people need to stop reading this as "stupid" or "misinformed" and acknowledge it as an aim to kill american citizens by a eugenicist
We could have had cancer vaccines, and instead the United States will contribute nothing whatsoever to mRNA research, condemning millions of people worldwide to unnecessary illness and death
David Byrne came to my band’s show at a gay bar in Bed-Stuy and sang This Must Be The Place with us and I still haven’t processed it
All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.
It feels like every recent order from immigration to criminalizing homelessness is basically a way to reintroduce slavery in the form of prisoner labor
"Don't be bullies" is the easiest, most universally appealing, natural-gateway message on trans rights for Democratic politicians. It's not everything that needs to be said, but it's an ideal first step, and the number of Democrats who refuse to take it or who turn it into a "Yes but" is enraging.
Reppin' the Matrix soundtrack album too, I see
LOOK OUT #Superman
Reminds me of the GBC version of Star Wars Episode 1 Racer.
my favorite movie with pirates in it and a Hans Zimmer soundtrack? gotta be Muppet Treasure Island
CONGRATS!! 🎉
The idea that "the Flintstones" actress Rosie O'Donnell is, in Trump's brain, as looming a threat as like, the heat death of the universe or fictional threats like the Borg or something is intensely funny, although unfortunately he's in the position he's in.
When does the “golden age” start?
What's not to like? His numerous felonies? Being best buds with a convicted trafficker? The way he treats veterans, the disabled, women, the poor, visiting dignitaries, or people of color? The way he's dismantling government, science and the arts, and our very way of life? Big mystery.
It's really weird to me that they've never re-issued this set with No Time to Die in it. You'd think that they would have by now, but honestly I think it was a misstep to produce a collector's set in the first place without finishing the Craig series first
The US is busy destabilizing itself right now, call back later.
Lots of spoiled rich kids never went trick or treating because their parents gave them whatever, whenever they wanted. They had no reason to dress up or celebrate Halloween.
You moving again?
With the awful news from the last couple hours, this post from the political optimism subreddit helped to break through a bit of the despair fog. Repubs know this is political suicide, ICE's support is crumbling despite the budget increase, and there's a myriad of ways to fight back. Keep strong.
has any sitting Dem politician Locked In as much over the last 6 months as Kathy Hochul?
I'm in my 30s, living with my parents, and I can't make a living wage working 45 hours a week. These fucking losers in government couldn't last a day in today's world if they were stripped of their cushy positions and barred from holding stocks.
Their favorite pasttime is formulating ways to bring the peasants under their heel so they can compete against one another to be the world's richest turd
Help raise awareness about the specifics of Trump’s Tax Scam by using our social toolkit. When people know what’s in the GOP’s dangerous reconciliation bill, they overwhelmingly oppose it — but a lot of people still aren’t aware of the details. We need to change that: app.sosha.ai/toolkit/trum...
If I had said this last year, that Trump would try and deport US citizens in his first year, all Republicans and a nontrivial number of liberals and centrists would have attacked me for behind hyperbolic, and fear-mongering, and of having Trump Derangement Syndrome. And yet:
This wouldn't be such a problem if they stopped showing previews for streaming crap. If I'm in the theater, I want previews for theater programming, not stuff I'm already likely to see previews at home for later.
Everyone running for public office needs to unequivocally say whether they support Trump’s attacks on Iran — attacks which put hundreds of millions of lives at risk. My answer is an unequivocal NO and there’s no excuse for a candidate to say anything different.
We are not prepared for how bad this bill is. 👇
"Trump has spent the last five months vowing that the Ukraine-Russia war would never have happened if he was president, vowing that the Israel-Gaza war would never have happened if he was president. And yet the reality is that not only has he not avoided war, but he’s plunged us into a new one."
mcdonald's sweet tea should be 99 cents and served in the largest styrofoam cup you've ever seen
Due to the heat advisory, COTA buses are free tomorrow through Tuesday.
Craft Raccoon Creative Reuse is officially open right next door to us! Like, we share a door! Come see us at 1526/1530 South High Street in Columbus, Ohio! Just south of downtown in Merion Village :) #knitsky #crafting
Call me a nut if you want, but how does anyone know if the Cloudflare/AWS/Google services weren't intentionally sabotaged?
He's not an "energy secretary," he's a Trump loyalist at an energy secretary's post. That was the only condition for most of this administration's hiring policies, with the exception of the people writing legislation that will destroy our ability to defend ourselves. They're experienced in cruelty.
BREAKING: A US judge temporarily barred President Donald Trump from deploying National Guard troops in Los Angeles amid protests over stepped-up immigration enforcement, finding that the Guard was unlawfully mobilized by Trump reut.rs/4jJeyQp
Free him now.
A single predator drone costs taxpayers $25-70m. Imagine what you could do for your community with that money.
This country has gone mad. ABC News paid a historic bribe to Dictator Trump—begging him not to destroy it—and has now let go a beloved, celebrated journalist for... ...an *accurate tweet* whose accuracy is *confirmed* by *all prior reporting* on the life and times of Stephen Miller. We are lost.
The same people who shoveled money to a settle bogus case with Trump, have now fired Terry Moran for telling the truth. No one should wonder why viewers are abandoning legacy media in droves. www.cnn.com/2025/06/10/m...
Will the mainstream media stand in solidarity with reporters being brutalized by Trump's goons or will they push "violent protests and blue city anarchy!" stories? I think it will be telling!
ABC News suspending Terry Moran over a tweet criticizing the administration is insane - even more insane that the administration is ASKING for ABC to punish him. Anyone with eyes can see that Trump and his cronies are gleefully and willfully cruel and vindictive. Moran is right. Fuck ABC.
Those who seek to trade their liberty for egg shall have neither egg nor liberty
Don't know who needs to hear this, but the guys hanging out at Home Depot hoping to work on a painting or construction job don't constitute a foreign invasion force and if you think they do you should be forcibly committed to a medical facility
Dear Leader posted this a few hours ago: “Also, from now on, MASKS WILL NOT BE ALLOWED to be worn at protests. What do these people have to hide, and why???” We ask the same about ICE.
If Andrew Cuomo, a craven politician desperate for power, is putting out statements about ICE like this, that’s both a sign that the Trump administration is losing on immigration and that the pundits who are arguing we need to take a harder stance on immigration to win are full of shit.
*Toad voice* THERE'S A 40% CHANCE I BEAT MY WIFE!!!
Joe Biden was old and not fully competent and his staff covered it up. Big scandal. Donald Trump was accused by his top donor and former top ‘Special Government Employee’ of being a pedophile. So are his staff covering that up? Isn’t that, y’know, a bigger scandal?
Ideas are worth precisely jack shit. "Stealth operative breaks into a facility overtaken by terrorists" doesn't get you Metal Gear Solid 999/1000 times. Creative voice is everything.
They're perpetuating a massive scam on the American people. In order to cut taxes for the wealthy and not have huge deficits result, they have to gut all these programs that help people, but nobody wants that, so they're left lying about how the cuts won't actually harm any Good Decent Americans™.
Performative like everything else is.
It’s a massive wealth transfer from the poorest to the richest
this is why local news in so many of its forms is so important. people in media who serve a community, not a national audience, who can build up decades of credibility. it's not just that he's speaking up but that there's a possibility people might listen. this is what's lost when you gut local news
I had this terrible game. I was so excited because I had played the console version at a friend's house and didn't have a console at the time, so I found a PC copy and brought it home... ugh. I bought a GameCube shortly after.
There's no mistaking a Liefeld cover. Dude draws the ugliest human beings I've seen outside of my own doodles from when I was in kindergarten
none of this would have happened if we disallowed the rename to Syfy
"Star Trek we never political back in the day."
we live in a society where corporations can just kill people outright and the media and police obediently declare it a suicide but if a CEO gets whacked in plain sight we must all take our hats off and bow our heads in respect for the Working Class Billionaire Hero.
‘Return of the Jedi’ was released 42 years ago today
I mean, it could be. starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Into_th...
the modern mobile internet makes popups and banner ads look benign in comparison
Not content to only wage her own war on trans people, JKR is now willing to fund other people's wars as well. Your refusal to let go of a childhood book series is literally funding trans genocide. This has never been up for debate, but she sure keeps making it increasingly obvious.
Looting our country like its conquered territory. Stealing every thing of valuing and enslaving the surplus population. The Plot to Enslave America
I keep getting asked if it’s legal to spend our campaign funds on food drives or our high school public service grants and the answer is YES. It is. Politicians and Democratic organizations need to use their coffers to help people NOW and fill in the gaps that Trump has created.
the nazis are winning and the only political party available to cast in the anti-nazi role has said they’re not doing resistance this time and instead are rallying around the organizing principle that it’s okay to run and promote cancer-stricken members well into their 70s and 80s.
Republican Infighting Erupts Over Whether Trump Bill Beautiful Or Handsome
I had just gotten into a new relationship just prior to the game dropping. My then-partner and I were really, really into playing the game together as we were in a long-distance relationship. We broke up in 2021. I never got back into it because I would have been reminded constantly.
Jamelle prompted me to buy this and wow, I really hope a lot of young people read and internalize this shit!!!! I kinda can't believe this got published lol
very hard not to see the shift from traditional arcades to crane game emporiums as evidence of the degeneration of the world state
Trump stole money from the National Parks and used it to pay for a parade for himself. Hail to the thief.
like this would be party-collapsing if Democrats were in power it's just fucking maddening Republicans get to be unconscionable monsters and it's just baked in
With Hurricane Katrina was the Michael Brown, an out-of-his-depth political appointee, symbolized failure, visibly representing incompetence, and the broader Bush reliance on hacks. When this year disasters occur, DOGE officials will not be present at the scene, but are no less responsible.
“This moratorium would prevent states from banning even the most harmful uses of AI, such as any bill that proposes prohibiting the automated firing of employees by AI systems.”
Sounds like a formula to get viewers to turn off their favorite platform. Shooting themselves in the knee to get a couple more cents out of people.
Please enjoy this stock photo the local CBS affiliate chose for a story about traffic this summer
omggggg i wanna go to new orleans so bad
Lutnick: "Don't talk about the Biden inflation. That's another whole gig. When we left, when President Trump in 2019 had the lowest inflation in history." (Trump left office in Jan. 2021. It's an easy thing to remember on account of him trying that self-coup on Jan. 6, 2021.)
Then why did they exempt oil and gas from the tariffs? If they cost nothing here, why exempt them? (Because obviously tariffs are a tax on yourself and Lutnick knows it).