I wouldn't buy a radio station, but every time my local NPR station did a pledge drive I would call in during the first hour and donate the goal amount.
I wouldn't buy a radio station, but every time my local NPR station did a pledge drive I would call in during the first hour and donate the goal amount.
The Trump administration tried to snatch unaccompanied minors from foster homes, put them on planes and deport them illegally, on the weekend, during the night lawyers worked through the night to prevent it, while kids sat on the tarmac words fail me
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
R.E.M. “pushed the boundaries” of alternative rock Herbie Hancock “pushed the boundaries” of jazz Trump & RFK Jr. are “destroying public health & will be responsible for killing people” What is journalism, anyway? 🤷♂️🤦♂️
🎉🎉🎉 Getting through a photo backlog is always a great feeling!
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.
It’s 4am, you don’t need to bash Schumer for 53 Republicans outnumbering Democrats & confirming cabinet officials when a Republican Senator wrote a fucking op-ed complaining about how effectively Senate Dems have stalled & slowed literally hundreds of confirmations not even half a week ago.
This story is bullshit. I am one of the 7,000 New Orleans public school teachers/employees they fired 2 weeks after the storm. They privatized our schools & took our community healing away from us. Charter schools are based on eugenics model. We need a journalist who has the spine to tell our story.
People saying Trump is dying or possibly dead, but I for one would urge caution, because it is quite possible a second healtbar will appear as he enters his second phase and a gargantuan centipede will burst forth from his torso, so be careful of his new sweep attacks and toxic buildup from bites.
What if we established a tax-exempt Church of Democracy and sued the government for infringing on our religious freedoms when it does authoritarian stuff?
Your makeup - and your photography of said makeup - is always amazing!
You hired him, motherfucker!
If you are okay with this, if you think this is justified, if you think people living on the street have brought this upon themselves, if you think this is good leadership, you may be able to fool yourself that you care about others but you don’t fool me
Saying they’re unconstitutional but leaving them in place anyway pretty much sums up everything from the last 8 months
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news... “law enforcement agencies that use [WA database] are required to sign an agreement…they will not use the system for immigration enforcement.” Homeland Security signed the agrmt, then let its ICE colleagues use the database for immigration cases. Not acceptable.
As much as Trump scares me, he's ultimately a puppet. He's ALSO an incompetent, impulsive, impatient, and petulant manchild who only cares about perceived power - limiting what the puppeteers can do through him. Vance would start a Project 2025 speed run as soon as he was sworn in. 2/2
I hate that I'm saying this, but I REALLY hope not. If it meant there would be a new election I'd feel differently, but it means a Vance presidency and that scares me so much more. He wholeheartedly believes in this nonsense and wants to bring it to fruition ASAP. 1/2
That… is the entire point of the Federal Reserve.
What could POSSIBLY go wrong...?
"Lethality, lethality, warrior ethos, mulch." I am DYING!
“I was r*ped sometimes 3 times a day on that island… and I was not the only girl on that island… Ghislaine must die in prison, because I’ve been in hell and back for the last 17 years.” Listen to the survivors.
Sorry, usually when I see folks saying "the GOP controls Congress and will do whatever they/Trump want", it's accompanied by a defeatist attitude and nothing we could do to try and stop/slow them down matters. I assumed you were doing the same.
So we should just throw our hands up in the air and go "oh well, America had a good run" and let the authoritarians, Nazis, and White Christian Nationalists do whatever they want without *any* resistance?
Not that he or his backers seem to care, but the president has no legal authority to call off elections unilaterally. Congress sets the date for states to hold elections, and elections are often administered at the county level.
I need anyone pretending Newsom is the only person fighting, or that Democratic leaders are feckless, to pay more attention please.
When I was on T-Mobile - living in the KC metro - about once a month my traffic would inexplicably get routed through San Juan, PR. I only noticed it because it tripped geoblocking for my work apps since US territories aren't included with the "US" country definition in M365.
In honor of Idiocracy, C has got to be "Carl's Jr."
General and current reminder: if you see unusual police or fed activity in the Chicago area, reach out via Signal at unraveled.66. Anonymity always protected
Airport bar friends are the best!
this is little more than a vendetta being pursued by the federal government against a man it unlawfully removed from the country and was forced to bring back
just can not shake the feeling that democratic leadership really believes they are just a couple votes away from the halcyon times of enjoying senate softball and seersucker suit day
He *also* apparently had a standing reservation at a ritzy hotel in downtown KC, so on particularly late nights he could crash there instead of driving all the way to his house in the bougie suburbs.
I've heard from several folks who were there during his tenure that former Cerner CEO Neal Patterson used to say when he looked out his window at 8 PM he wanted to see the circle drive lined with food delivery vehicles because so many people were still at the office working. 🙄🙄🙄
THIS Please, people. Get off of substack. There are so many people whose newsletters I’d sign up for if they weren’t on that platform
Then give Cole the title of "Federal Liason to MPD" if that's the job function.... ...except they CAN'T do that, because that's not actually what the Bondi order says.
Yikes! I don't think Edge has any AI specific popups, and it's only three prompts to migrate/share data before you can browse. Never thought I'd see the day that a Mozilla browser had a more intrusive first-run experience than a Microsoft one....
There's also Mullvad, if you want the protections of Tor browser without using the Tor network. mullvad.net/en/browser There's no session/data persistence, so using it as your main browser comes with a bit of friction, but it's my default for ephemeral searches/browsing.
Cities aren’t scary. You are scared. There’s a difference
Event Horizon by Paul W.S. Anderson was released on this day - August 15, 1997
We must increase bands. Eightdust
I love this so much and I am absolutely tearing up about it. The gentleness and plainness of this, the way he just lets her be her (and she seems so damn lovely, who wouldn’t?), the generosity. It isn’t going to solve the world’s problems, but this kind of humanity is a hell of a start.
The "mRNA shots can be made within months" chryon is a huge positive of the technology, but these eugenicist quacks are saying it's a bad thing. FML.
Slightly diminish a band Sixdust
a lot of rank and file dems do not seem to understand that trans people are in an existential battle for our right to be part of society right now. the government today is trying to use employment law and federal extortion to ban us from bathrooms.
This public shaming left the GOP with an appalling mess www.rawstory.com/kansas-leade...
Me: that's Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert My son: who? Me: you've never heard of Dilbert? My son: no Me: perfect
Correction: the new head of US labor statistics recorded a podcast promoting Project 2025 IN FRONT OF AN IMAGE OF A NAZI WARSHIP. Compare the pictures. Who would put the Bismarck on their wall? Can we finally talk about the actual Nazis in our government? (Flagged by @fitch64.bsky.social) 1/
Some of the crimes I've seen in Washington DC: — Beige sweater with beige chinos — Jacket sleeve tag left on — Tan shoes with navy suits — Giant Windsor knots (triple felony with the metal sports watch paired with dark suit and French cuffs)
i will never not be amused by how the conservative world is governed by the kind of “affirmative action” they say happens in mainstream institutions. totally unqualified dipshits are handed the keys to institutions because they say the right thing and have the right look.
An "economist" so dumb I had to explain to him how the import price index works last month will now lead the BLS, kill me
According to them, it makes you a national hero!
So let me just state in advance, and in all caps: WE AREN’T HOLDING THIS TECHNOLOGY TO SOME ARTIFICIAL, IMPOSSIBLE STANDARD. WE ARE JUST ASKING WHETHER IT DOES THE THINGS THAT YOU BOOSTERS LOUDLY INSISTED IT WOULD DO. WE ARE HOLDING IT TO THE STANDARDS *YOU* SET OUT.
When Israel labeled six journalists in Gaza - incl Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif - “terrorists” last year, press freedom groups expressed alarm. “The fear is that these six will now possibly be targeted,” @rsf.org’s Rebecca Vincent told me at the time. time.com/7098857/isra...
Someone forgot to take down this webpage: www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...
Young people are always children when we want to control them and adults when we want to punish them or endanger them. Pregnant teens and minors driving cars have to suffer adult consequences but Britney Spears leaving her abusers or a college grad on hormones is a petulant child throwing a tantrum.
Uh, @financialtimes.com, "unusual agreement" is a strange euphemism for "bribe".
Never forget today, when, on this day in 1988, Zero Cool crashed 1,507 systems in one day.
“Earned on the battlefield”?
The treatment is to GET THE VACCINE. I am going to lose my mind.
I got a flu booster today and it made me reflect on the sense of national accomplishment I felt when I drove to a public facility, waited in my car until my number was called on an app, and got my first covid jab. It's fucked the right gets to erase what a moment of technological liberation that was
I bet you're ecstatic that soon your broker will be able to add real estate, private equity, and memecoins to your portfolio!
We’re not sure who needs to hear this, but ‘blueberry’ has two b’s.
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I'll wager a billion Monopoly™️ Dollars "modern technology tools" means some ham-fisted application of generative AI.
My initial tin foil hat answer is because he knows those numbers were cooked in his favor. I think the more likely answer is he thinks getting enough electoral college votes to be elected will translate into a permanent House majority for the GOP.
Don’t fucking pretend you’re pro life while you support fucktards beating up a pregnant lady. Fuck. You.
weird how the guy born into obscene wealth, bailed out repeatedly, allowed to fail upwards forever until he fell ass-backwards into the presidency, and then was declared by the Supreme Court to be a Very Special Boy Who Can Crime Forever never stops whining about how everything is rigged against him
I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.
The Trump administration effectively created a de facto bathroom ban at Brown University and none of the major media is covering it, and if they do, they character it as about sports. This is how the trans visa ban was enacted and characterized. www.advocate.com/news/transge...
https://youtu.be/QI5TQl7FfX0
Melinda Gates Says Bill Gates's Work with “Abhorrent” Jeffrey Epstein Led to Divorce The philanthropist added that she realized their marriage “just wasn’t healthy, and I couldn’t trust what we had.” www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/0...
Can we get a wellness check on Sam Altman please? This reads like he's had a stroke...
Tired: Choose your fighter. Wired: Choose your strongly worded letter writer. But in all fairness, saying that they can't fight is not accurate. Because they fight really hard, and viciously, when the opponent is AOC, or Mamdani, or Black college students.
I left and am safe from him I don’t have a place to sleep tonight Could someone please help me out?
When even the host of @marketplace.org is left effectively speechless, you know it's bad....
this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025
F in Journalism: NY Post's staff wrote, edited, and published this nothingburger because they don't have anything of substance to attack Mamdani on
My first reaction to the clip was "At least she tried asking for evidence before moving on to the next topic." It took me a minute to realize just how sad it is that this is where we're at with the media......
I do mine in the electric pressure cooker for about 6 hours, followed by a natural pressure release to suppress bubble formation as much as possible.
10/10 skeet. No notes.
It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.
Republicans just confirmed Trump’s ex-lawyer Emil Bove to a lifetime judgeship—despite whistleblowers saying he told DOJ lawyers to ignore court orders and “f--- the law.” Even GOP senators warned he’s too extreme. They did it anyway.
Private Bone Spurs is pretty much the least qualified person to assess if someone is a "war fighter first" - whatever the fuck that means.
I am so god damned ashamed to have this man representing my state in the Senate....
Germany gave people €1,200/month no strings attached. They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others. Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further. #UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.
I haven't seen this aspect noted, but it's top of mind: every totalitarian regime finds ways to justify extrajudicial detention of nonconforming citizens, often under the guise of mental defect or socially disreputable behavior there's a vast literature on this... www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
The summary is that they are trying to criminalize every aspect of homelessness so they can arrest & forcibly commit unhoused people. Currently(/before), there are not enough mental health & substance use treatment beds/facilities, and this does not add anything, which only leaves imprisoning people
Bruh, you're reading quite a lot into what I wrote. I never made any claims that they would be reached or have their minds changed. I was just stating that their privilege is what allows them to not only not care about, but actively avoid politics.
DOJ is now part of the Epstein cover up and I don’t understand why Democrats don’t operate like that
More likely, they need to either be informed/reminded of - or called out on - their immense privilege that allows them to be aloof when it comes to politics.
Our apartment has a package room, but when we've moved or have furniture delivered we always make sure to have bottles of water and Gatorade available. Even if it's the middle of winter they always really appreciate it.
I love this idea!
They SHUT DOWN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to avoid releasing the Epstein files.
I have a longer explanation at the bottom of the story but…I tried to freelance these and couldn’t find an outlet. Most just didn’t respond, but some said they can’t work with me because I tried to stop the South Sudan flight, and they can’t publish “activist” journalism. What I’m saying is.
I've gone through all of the ATS fleet's flight data for the calendar year. First, I spotted the flight most likely to have carried Omar Abdulsattar across the Atlantic as he was being removed to Rwanda, first reported by @marisakabas.bsky.social.
EXCLUSIVE: ICE may have secretly done more third-country removals than previously known Flight data from private jets contracted by ICE show a spike in activity to 13 countries targeted for third-country removals. 👀I've been working on this for two months. hardghistory.ghost.io/exclusive-ic...
Two things both true: The loved ones of Venezuelans are celebrating that they are no longer in CECOT; some are celebrating their return home. And. It is a violation of international law to cause someone to be returned where they’ll be persecuted. Most of them never got a chance to make that case.
The Writers Guild of America is calling for an investigation into Paramount after ending The Late Show. Link: www.wga.org/news-events/... Also, I love my friends who know I am deep into research and keep me up to date. It takes a village to write, research, and stay on top of this chaos
