It's also worth noting that the sitting " " President " " has more felony convictions that he has not served the sentences for than the NCAA has active trans athletes in sports in Div I sportsball ... In the country ... Of ~350 million people

I hope cis folk realise they can't be an ally while engaging in HP stuff You get trans allyship or you get potter. You can't have both This isn't an issue with gray areas

Why are Bluesky flagging the picture on the left, yet allowing the picture on the right? According to the fucked up UK law, both pictures are legally male. The one on the left SHOULD be classed as women as we ARE women. Highlights how ridiculous the Supreme Court ruling is.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE-k... He did a stream on it too!

Sal Mercogliano, a maritime historian at Campbell University in NC, is sharing knowledge on Twitter. He's also on Bluesky but not posting yet tonight. @mercoglianos.bsky.social I'll share this long post in two parts. Here's Part 1.

Any time you see one of those fascists on TV claiming birthright citizenship is "bad policy", remember that birthright citizenship is not policy. It is a goddamn constitutional right and it would take two thirds of Congress & 3/4 of the states to change it. The president isn't even involved.

Adriana Smith is being kept alive against her family’s wishes because of Georgia’s draconian abortion ban. Just 9 weeks pregnant when declared brain dead, the State is forcing her to be a human incubator. The fetus is unlikely to make it full term. What happens then? 🧵

To be clear, if this bill passes, it will end all scientific research & medical training in the US. It will close hospitals. It will be economically devastating. Millions will lose their jobs. Call your representatives & tell them to vote fuck no on 15% IDC rates & the rest of this horror show.

OUR FINANCIAL IMPLOSION CONTINUES #Moody’s has downgraded the United States’ debt, stripping the country of its last perfect #credit rating. The move could rattle financial markets next week and push up interest rates. Moody’s held a perfect credit rating for the United States -- AAA -- since 1917.

I want every gay person that doesn't realize that transgender rights and gay rights are interconnected to read this story. A far-right judge just erased your rights against harassment in the workplace along with ours. We are in this together and there's only one way out.

When did CEOs start working?

You know how occasionally you want to clean up but it’s overwhelming and you decide to just pick up a handful of things for a minute? In that spirit, search the word “retard” on Bluesky, block the first ten people who use it as an insult, and go about your business. Every bit helps.

Fucking THANK YOU. Like, for real, I need a lot of you to dispense with the fantasies of objective, impartial tech. You are watching the intended purpose of this shit on display as we speak as Grok is hammered into compliance behind the scenes.

Says the same guy that quoted out he'd be on Mars in a decade 12-13 years ago EVERYthing out of his mouth is 100% bullshit

Additional color: The total number of cars ever made in human history is ~2.5b, and current installed base is around a billion (on the road, global) Tesla claiming “tens of billions” of human robots would be an insane lift

These are the same people who say they hate "Obamacare" but love the ACA, so be sure to show them this:

Agolf Twitler announces he's raising the chocolate rations to 20 grams. Many brain-dead Faux N0oz viewers cheer enthusiastically

To be clear- AI tech cos want complete preemption (read: civil immunity) if some beta-level-AI-driven car smashes into your children

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

In case you're wondering what this leads to, ask a farmer with John Deere tractors (and while you're at it, look at the prices involved) www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Bti...

1. Who pays the tariff for a $400M imported item from another country? Funny how that ain't mentioned 2. Why can't China 'gift' an export to the US to escape a tariff then, & have a receiving company 'gift' them a payment for those goods' value? Because Toothpaste Brain POTUS can't actually think

Spread this widely please: Attorney Patrick Jaicomo of the Institute of Justice has offered: "if federal agents enter your home without a warrant, reach out. I would like to sue them (pro bono)." @ij.org

This is potentially very important. There are some obvious follow-ups that could tighten the argument but the basic conclusion that emitters of CO2 (direct or indirect, scope 1 or scope 3) can be linked (proportionately) to damages seems clear.

THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT IS THE LAW OF THE LAND AND A SUPERSTATUTE AND THE PRESIDENT CANNOT UNDO IT. sincerely, a constitutional law professor who also teaches employment discrimination

We're guaranteeing a shoehorned captive marketplace for shitty subsidized AI from Google, Microsoft, Meta, Sam Altman etc have government paychecks for the next few decades because they don't have products consumers will actually pay for at the scale Wall St wants

Looks like the SDNY’s evaluation of Duffy’s attempt to pull the congestion pricing toll accidentally got uploaded to PACER. Which, oops!

This is racist, segregationist, and deeply antithetical to the ideals of America. Take a bow, John Roberts, you did it. You enabled the worst people to do the worst things. You’re the worst Chief Justice in US history.

Not just in China’s policy making circles

If they disabled logs, absolutely was doing something illicit.

The answer to many of life’s questions usually lies in the alt text (If you don’t use alt text for your pictures, please use alt text for those people who need it)

Toxicologist here! This will improve the health of zero Americans. Current synthetic food dyes are not causing health problems, and are often times used because they are actually safer than natural food dyes. Reminder that guns are the #1 cause of death of children but we are going to ban food dyes.

I don't think people in the US fully understand how much our government has made us broadly hated in other countries

I bet other countries looking at America from the outside must think we are collectively some of the most nonsensical, noisiest, most pestiferous batches of fuckeries on the planet. They’d be right.

Related: this is not even the earliest story that I remember Melissa del Bosque writing re: the way under-18s are treated in the system and it's from 2010. I don't have to tell y'all that the system has sucked since time immemorial bc the system is made to suck www.texasobserver.org/children-of-...

Apropos of nothing else The Oblivion Remaster looks *_nice_* Gameplay looks cool. Some nice quality of life changes thankfully (especially the awful leveling) but they kept some terrible ones too (the personality speechcheck slog, which just please kill me now) Overall, first impressions: decent!

BREAKING! The news that was reported... three weeks ago? And which is required by law given his official role? www.thetimes.com/us/american-...

For context My first 'street legal' car, with insurance and a license plate and everything, was a '80 Toyota Corolla Tercel (yes, they used to be the same car badge) with a 1494cc inline 4 cylinder & a 5 speed manual There are commonly available motorcylces with 1500-1600cc engines This *teeny*

I don't speak a word of French, but I gotta say, they fuckin' know how to protest over there

i want to stress that it is *almost may*, the end of this year is SEVEN MONTHS AWAY

Its also because his 'special government employee' status has a cap of...like 120 days or something like that They haven't found a way to change that yet This isn't a choice

if rfk starts his autism/adhd registry (violating hipaa by the way) then canada needs to immediately suspend the safe third country restriction that automatically denies asylum claims at us border crossings given his past comments on forcing people with autism and adhd into labor camps

71%????? "Net income plummeted 71% to $409 million, or 12 cents a share, from $1.39 billion or 41 cents a year ago"

When I left the Washington Post in 2023, my colleagues and I were worried AI would hoover up our work and enable "zombies" to churn out stories based on our reporting and writing styles. Today WaPo announced a partnership with OpenAI. And here it is: Zombie Gillian Brockell. I DID NOT WRITE THIS.

Remember, Rwanda is where the nazi Tories in the UK were trying to deport immigrants during/after Brexit too

SCOOP — The US sent Iraqi refugee Omar Ameen to Rwanda via new diplomatic relationship in which they've agreed to act as a "third country" for deportees unable to be safely returned to their country of origin, per cables reviewed by me. This is first reported instance. Cable indicates more to come.