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One of the definitive days of this admin imo was the WSJ identifying racist posts from a DOGE staffer - the kind of stuff that would be read out loud to you as HR explains why you're not getting severance - and Vance saying no, we won't let the media cancel people anymore.
I'll trust Ken's opinion on US law, but I want to point out the way these people "think": Simply *existing* in a "space" is violent abuse. Committing an actual act of unprovoked violent abuse is not.
/4 And if you think I should have reached for a cultural reference within the last half-century I invite you to get off my lawn, whippersnapper.
/3 Also, it should be obvious, but in case not: this illustrates that the aims of the anti-trans movement are legitimizing violence against trans people as well as against anyone who doesn’t present like Bobby and Cindy Brady.
/2 This would very plausibly get charged in the U.S. — particularly if it were about a group subject to less prejudice. It’s not clear the prosecution would succeed, but it’s quite possible this would get you arrested here, particularly by state authorities.
The UK’s approach to prosecutions for social media content is quite different than ours in ways I have criticized. This one is within shouting distance of prosecutable in the U.S. The relevant question is whether it’s sufficiently imminent to meet our incitement standard./1
Trump on moving Space Command to Alabama from Colorado: They went to all mail-in voting. So they have automatically crooked elections. When a state is for mail-in voting, that means they want dishonest elections. That played a big factor also
An officer briefly became the face of Trump’s brutality mandate in DC after popping up in various videos like federal Forrest Gump. @jsweetli.bsky.social and I investigated and found he’s a 26-year-old former Eagle Scout named Patrick O’Hanlon who says he was just doing his job. Our report:
If scientists are loving Bluesky, but Glenn Greenwald and Matt Yglesias hate it, I know I’m in the right spot.
US conservative activists and academics were literally making these exact arguments in the 90s, which is why con pols are doing it now; THIS is the movement they grew up with.
Fascism is a branch of conservatism, and Yes this is conservatism. I have, in fact read a book: in fact I've read HUNDREDS of books on this exact subject, the intellectual history and philosophy of modern conservatism, and that's how I know this.
and more practically and directly: contemporary Conservatism is all about hiding from reality. Remember "Reality has a well known liberal bias"? Cons response to that is to just try and make discussing reality illegal.
It's awful and criminal, but it is also part of their conservatism. The thinking that motivates Yarvin, Thiel, and the Claremont Institute ultimately blames the Enlightenment and Empiricism for leading us away from Revelation as the only source of "Truth", so theyve got ideological beef with science
One day, should literacy survive the current fascism, we will learn just how much ghoulish care went into propping this man up. I feel like it will ironically be a cross between Hawking’s vast health team and four 20 year old tan studio clerks who also do IV drips.
As with so many things related to the Trump administration, a great deal can be gleaned from what they don’t want to discuss.
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.
I’ll hold your hand And remind you that you’re alive And that you’re a light in mine
A must read for those who believe in science.
plz
Show me an actor with more range 😤
Do people know that Big Alcohol is funding the fear of “Big Marijuana”
RADDATZ: You talk about what can be done. After shootings in Buffalo & Uvalde, Congress passed a bipartisan Safer Communities Act. It provided hundreds of millions for schools to expand mental health services. You didn't vote for it. Why? TOM EMMER: I don't remember the reasons I didn't vote for it
Looking at airbnbs in Zagreb and this is the energy I want to bring back to my home
Lori Chavez DeRemer: "Consumer confidence is up." (Consumer confidence is actually way down since Trump's second inauguration.)
They go all out on Dr. Worm too youtu.be/EBXpmwI1rIg
The intro to Ana Ng goes so hard
They Might Be Giants KEXP set!!
KEILAR: Of 172 mass attacks between 2016 & 2020, 96% were non-trans men. Are you missing bigger picture? GORKA: No. When you look at shootings at Christian schools the data is different K: Of 32 school shootings since 2020, only 3 were trans shooters G: Forgive me if I don't go with CNN's stats
Some of the names have changed since I wrote this last November, but the central reality is, sadly, upon us. snyder.substack.com/p/decapitati...
MAGNETO was a FICTIONAL CHARACTER portrayed in a VARIETY of different WAYS and CONTEXTS by many different CREATORS with VARYING POINTS OF VIEW, and thus the MORALITY of his actions depends NOT ONLY on the PERSPECTIVE of the VIEWER but also upon the SOURCES that one CHOOSES to DRAW UPON.
Residents are finding all sorts of ways to fight ICE: They're recording and reporting. They're wheatpasting and sharing know-your-rights materials. And they're stepping up to care for each other, from delivering groceries to walking kids to school. 51st.news/dc-residents...
This is something I ardently defend- when you're going into Congress, you actually are representing people in your district, so you should know what their concerns and wants are. Knowing your district is Politics 101 shit, and this site treats it with contempt.
Wrote about the Wachowski's Bound and how it doesn't so much subvert noir as show how queer noir was to begin with. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/butch-and-...
I’m not sure these people are aware but you are allowed to just dislike something without it being “woke” and “the downfall of society”
“was Lee or Grant a better general” is a question with an obviously correct answer that a whole lot of people get wrong
Some much needed closure on this case, and a victory for the cynics amongst us bsky.app/profile/marm...
We are now deep into Zapruder territory, pausing to assess the minor clues that can reveal the habits and actions of this social group. bsky.app/profile/laur...
Maybe you don't get front row seats at the US Open without being this guy
This whole thing is great but the highlighted bit made me laugh out loud. 😂 Marlon on Snoop:
But *we’re* the snowflakes… Christ alive this is stupid.
"I watched Snow White when I was a kid and I ain't gave a bitch a poison apple yet." is an all time bar
i don't know that the U.S. ever produced a finer general than U.S. Grant
i shouldn't still be surprised by how much i like John Cena as an actor but he really is quite good
I often talk about the fact that MAGA does not access the same news as the left wing. I present to you Exhibit A. Dr. Daskalakis’ resignation letter excoriated RFK Jr. and shared that RFK Jr. was lying to the public, manipulating data, and ordering unethical actions. This what Fox News served.
tariff? me no like it
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
If the “plan” mentioned in the above article sounds effective to you:
Sep 1 all forms of THC/CBD vapes become illegal in Texas, hitting my already declining store hard. I’ve paid for the first 1/4 of trade school largely by selling plasma which I’ve had a couple hiccups with. Licenses/tools cost too, and you can donate to me directly here or simply appreciate my hat
i have a headache that refuses to end
Just a reminder that the previous Trump Administration (which lied a million times but was more honest than this one) hid Trump’s COVID infection for several days.
I hope they aren't right, but if history's a guide pretty much any corp can appeal their fine up to the SC and see it drastically lessened, if not overturned entirely.
Tesla could have settled for $60 million, got hit with a $240 million judgement, and it was caught covering up Autopilot crashes in the process... but now they figure the right fancy lawyers can put the toothpaste back in the tube www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Yeah. And they're the ones largely responsible for this situation in the first place, too. They spent the 90s and the 00s closing most of the rural hospitals down, consolidating them in large regional hospital hubs that rely on medicare funding to exist, & spent the "saving" funding Republicans.
Privatized healthcare companies have ample funds to buy land purely for investment purposes. They could fund rural hospitals if they wanted to, they just don’t want to
The thing is that money does exist. It's currently being spent on building concentration camps and buying new toys for the dumbest guy from your class. I think that's the angle we should all be pushing here
I’ve 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.
'democrats are obliged to govern but republicans get a pass' is bizarrely the mentality of both establishment institutions and a lot of leftist posting.
Please help me welcome to Bluesky @drdebhoury.bsky.social - brave, brilliant, and principled. abcnews.go.com/Politics/vid...
I always appreciate someone who lived as an obnoxious famous dickhead and then somehow decided to become a better person and very strangely one of the main examples to me are Penn & Teller who somehow both did it simultaneously because they are magician soulmates
"oh but what about rural Dems or children" again: there. is. no. money. every rural doctor you pay is an urban doctor you don't explain to me why the 100 children of Fucksville are worth more than the 100,000 children of Shitsburg
there is not enough money to keep all the hospitals open, it doesn't exist anymore the question that state governments have to answer now is which ones get whatever money is left and "the ones that serve those who voted to keep them open" is a perfectly fair answer
10 people are on a deserted island and there are 10 fish to eat if five people decide to throw their fish back into the ocean because they don't like tuna i don't think the other five are obligated to share
reminds me how the irl guy the rockwell "Freedom of Speech" painting is based on was standing up to argue against rebuilding a school that burnt down
I'll never forget black mold literally killing a teacher at my school and then the referendum to fund repairs and improvements failed (because it passed by 53% and needed 55%)
I live in a state (California) where raising basically any kind of tax requires a referendum and those often fail even when the benefits are directly accruing to most voters bsky.app/profile/drew...
yes. bsky.app/profile/rick...
it really makes you think huh bsky.app/profile/rhyz...
yup! bsky.app/profile/ryan...
great, ok. that's fine. now let me tell you about how state budgets work bsky.app/profile/dmnd...
i 100% support increasing taxes on rural residents to keep rural hospitals open. it's a great idea. oh, you meant taking money away from MY area to keep them open? come on, we're the richest country on earth, the rural areas can afford to pay for it!
the demand is always expressed in terms of blue state governments step in and keep rural hospitals open. but why can't red rural county governments step in and keep rural hospitals open?
ICE, DC Police, Park Police, DHS, and HSI brutally arrested a man who refused to provide identification after being stopped for eating in public. Goons attempted to stop community members from recording his injuries during the incident.
This is pretty much the story of conservative politics all over the world. The extent to which rich Republicans, either individually or through ~religious orgs~, are funding global conservatism is truly staggering, and seriously under-reported.
Japan’s Sanseitō Party, which leapt from fringe to 14 parliamentary seats in July, is hosting Trump ally Charlie Kirk for a sold-out Tokyo event. The party’s anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ, agenda highlights growing ties between U.S. and Japanese far-right movements.
they like trump and want to help him and critical reporting about his health - to say nothing of the type of incessant drumbeat coverage they gave biden - wouldn't help him so they don't do it.
Actual lol at the latest installment in this series
"Doc" Marshall (Fascist-Kansas) is a dentist. You could write to him too.
Write Senators and especially Senator Cassidy- a physician who betrayed his oath. I’ve sent him nasty messages. If you have never seen a child get MIS after COVID, on a ventilator with organs shutting down, or seen a healthy 2 year old turned into a dead mute after measles you will. RFK must go.
They won't stop with abortion. They want women home raising kids and nothing else. How many have they fired with the DEI pretense already ?
Fyi this was something we called out in our analysis of Project 2025. They said saving lives was not worth the impact on churches. kettering.org/project-2025...
tl;dr: They're going to get rid of the CDC as you know it. They're going to build something new and ghastly that they call the CDC, using its legal powers and data systems, and they are going to use it to hunt down every abortion in America. We are still in the window of time when we can stop that.
Just call Congress. I am asking you to do that for the women in your life, if not for public health. You don't even need to find a script or write down what you're going to say before you call. Hell, you don't even need to shave your nasty little beard before you take a video and post it on Bluesky.
You have to fight this. You MUST fight this. This is the first fight in 8 months that you, as a person without a law degree, can personally win against the Trump Administration. We still need a bit more critical mass from Democrats. Keep calling. Demand (1) statements and (2) investigative hearings
You've seen how much damage RFK has done at HHS. RFK is a disorganized, age-addled maniac, and most of his job is PR stunts. I cannot begin to tell you how much damage a Thiel-verse technocrat like O'Neill will do in CDC. Starting with: he will persecute women you know and love for their abortions.
(Unfortunately for these sweaty incels, who have never even had a chance to try the rhythm method much less screw it up, abortion is healthcare, and there will always be abortion.)
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.
The goal is to weaponize the law to write public health out of existence: "By statute or regulation, CDC guidance must be prohibited from taking on a prescriptive character." That means, for example: no vaccine recommendations at all. Not fewer; none.
In the next Covid-19, mpox, H5N1, etc. - what scientists call "Disease X" - O'Neill's CDC won't even test people to try to track infections, let alone stop them from spreading.
and separately, - a disempowered institution that has a "severely confined ability to make policy recommendations" and would be "required by law to stay in its lane"
1. They want to split CDC into: - an empowered institution that gathers data from the states, which should set off alarm bells, not just because of what else I'm about to tell you, but because O'Neill is a Thiel guy, and Palantir is currently building the great database to end freedom
With O'Neill (apparently) taking over CDC (if they ever get around to firing Monarez), I think it's worth looking back to Project 2025 and asking what they actually intend to *do* to CDC. So, I went to remind myself today. Here's what's in store:
The problem: Mortgages signed by the Paxtons contained inaccurate statements declaring that each of those three houses was their primary residence, enabling the now-estranged couple to improperly lock in low interest rates, according to an Associated Press review of public records.
one of the most important technological revolutions in history and it has nothing to do with AI. Trump and his petrostate paymasters want to stop it but at best they'll succeed at costing Americans billions by leaving us slower to adopt it.
The Republican party IS that dying industry. That industry is the government of multiple nation-(petro)states. Capturing the Republican party was the solution for that process in America. Government is the only technology with the scale to address climate change. Which is why it had to be captured.
I’m grateful to @sdiclaborcouncil.bsky.social for uplifting our fight to raise the minimum wage to $25/hour for hospitality and tourism workers. Let’s show which side we’re on: the side of workers, not corporations. 📍 Waterfront Park, 1600 Pacific Hwy 🗓 Mon, Sep 1 | 10AM 🔗 bit.ly/sdlaborday2025
If you see this post, please DO NOT share it. It makes claims about this Big Balls case that are NOT backed up in the article it links to. Just say no to disinfo.
I talked to Abed Ibrahim, the restaurateur who went viral and got dogpiled for posting about how his fledgling food stand Tallow has struggled to attract customers. He says there's nothing political about frying in tallow—but in today's America, staying out of the culture wars isn't so easy.
Folks who care about climate should listen far more to advocates & activists who confront fossil fuel power dynamics on a daily basis. Setting aside misplaced attacks on NEPA (by wonks who lack NEPA domain expertise), there remains far too much magical thinking that market nudges can carry the day.
yet again i marvel at how we've actually created in real life the sci fi dream of a computer you can just have a coherent natural language conversation with, and it's a fucking idiot
