I don’t necessarily think that it’s useful for serious political figures to endeavor to fully dissolve — as opposed to regulate and constrain — corporate entities, but I’d make an exception for Palantir. It cannot coexist with liberal democracy and it openly says so

I live in a rural area. Local Democrats run on all sorts of great policy proposals. The Republicans run on a platform of "I'm going to cut taxes so hard your local school will die." Also, they wave guns around. They win by large margins. Wish outsiders understood the reality here. No easy solution.

InternalServer error? im pretty sure I'm outside the server Bluesky. I hope that helps

it is just a well known fact that the third cup of coffee is the one that makes you less anxious and solves all your problems

I'd like to inform @mccollum.house.gov that Google is sending her newsletter to my Gmail spam folder and giving it a warning about "suspicious links". It's frustrating that there's no appropriate contact link on her web page, something like, hey just ping a low-level staffer or something.

Maybe we could skip the part where they *continue* to commit war crimes and crimes against humanity and get straight to the trial for the war crimes and crimes against humanity. Just speaking from my perspective as a member of humanity, I think that would be a lot cooler.

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out: www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

Someone in Congress needs to introduce legislation to ramp up renewable energy production on an emergency basis, now! The skyrocketing costs of oil due to the invasion of Iran presents the perfect opportunity; even idiots can now see that our reliance on oil is a serious problem.

The US and Canada go to Daylight Savings Time tomorrow morning.

I'm totally out of touch with what's going on in the mainstream culture, so I'm hoping I'm just wrong about this, but ... when was the last time you heard a politician talk about "the kind of world we want our great-grandchildren to live in"? Or even "children"? The future seems too bleak for that.

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” James Baldwin

And those interests sometimes gain political control! So while it's admittedly a little wild to see the US dismantle its own mechanisms of long-term hegemony, it's also not that much wilder than the logging company that cuts down the entire forest

LOL.... i wanted to hear JD getting booed at the Olympics and when i searched for it on YouTube i got this

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

Cat wandered in front of the camera during the #aurora long exposure

ICE/CBP is following school busses now. My husband (a school bus driver) was just in an urgent all-hands meeting about it this afternoon.

I’ll say it again: @governorwalz.mn.gov needs to deploy his National Guard with *legal* orders to protect the citizens of his state from ICE. Let the goons try that shit with them.

You could get stuck on a completely deserted road in the middle of nowhere and 3-5 Minnesotans will magically appear to push you out and then say “don’t worry about it” before vanishing back into the forest This is unprecedented lol

ICE seen in Roseville at the BP gas station on Cleveland and County Road D. I heard many whistles and many cars stopped & people recorded them on their phones. They apparently left without abducting anyone.

Do you want a government of equivocating, amoral moneymen who rely on good manners to rule while empowering the worst people on Earth? Keep voting liberal. Do you want a government that sets social priorities, enforces them, and disempowers the worst people on Earth? Fight for socialism.

In retrospect, there should have been way more pushback against the random bombings of fishing boats in the Caribbean. They were testing the waters, and they found they could get away with murdering 100+ civilians with no more than the usual grumbling in response— so they took it to the next level.

A great example of how the @nytimes.com centers white Americans and Trump supporters in its anecdotal political coverage. You never see stories like this about Black Democrats whose cities are cracked in Republican gerrymandering to give them Republican elected officials.

Waiting for plane at Chicago airport… Guy next to me: Looks like the police are boarding. Me: Is it the regular police or the kidnappers. Guy next to me: I don’t know. (I pull out my phone)

"I come not to praise CBS News ... but to Bari it"

How can the states continue to pay a federal government that is not doing the things we're supposedly paying for? This article suggests a number of legal ways to stop paying, and I hope @governorwalz.mn.gov will take notice. cmarmitage.substack.com/p/trump-cut-...

File under "Fuck, I Wish I Thought of That!"

I just figured it out ... being neurotypical is like, _wanting_ to listen to podcasts. Finding that the conversational banter adds something to the information being presented, instead of detracting from it. Huh.

All we really have to do to get him to admit to it, via social media post, is tell him that there's someone on the Epstein Client List who was better friends with Jeff, contributed more, participated better, and that was really loved and respected.... Then kick back and let his ego do the rest 🤷

the message from Democratic leadership is that anyone concerned about the President's military occupation of American cities is a fool who is being distracted from fucking omlette prices

Considering liberals only have one strategy going forward, they're betting everything on the Maginot Line that is "Just Vote!" Surely the fascists would never dream of just going around it.

Our grievances against King George and Trump are the same For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world

The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

Kids playing Ozzy's Crazy Train on xylophones

I think the popularity of the Epstein files with the MAGA base is in part due to timing. They got their Dear Leader back with an unfettered hand to fix everything this time and ... the exact opposite of fixing everything is happening. This is not what they were promised; what they believed in.

For years, Ben Garrison has drawn some of the most absurdly pro-Trump propaganda cartoons I've ever seen. Seeing this from him is a real sea change. I don't think this Epstein thing will go away.

Why the hell was there a jumbotron at a Coldplay concert? Those are for baseball games where ... things get slow sometimes. Is Coldplay that boring, they can't put on a show that keeps people engaged?

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

AI companies should fully observe copyright law, just like other tech companies including YouTube, Google, Facebook, Instagram, Discord, Pinterest, and TikTok did in their early days.

With all that's been going on recently, I can't stop misreading "federal" as "feral" in news articles. "Feral immigration officers ..."

Fellow Twin Citians, do you have any advice for where I should park when I go to attend this? www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

I can't believe I haven't seen this posted yet today; it's definitely the meme for the moment.

Government: *Announces universal health care but only for white people* Activists: *Decry obviously racist policy* Pundits: Saying white people should die of treatable illnesses won't play well in the heartland.

We can be practically certain that this increasingly desperate administration is looking for an excuse to declare martial law. Given the president's increasing dementia, I worry they will assassinate him and blame it on the left to give them that excuse. Two birds, one stone.

Found on Mastodon: I’m at the pagan festival I’m at the labor uprising I’m at the combination pagan festival and labor uprising

Two days ago, my son asked me if Led Zeppelin was an American band. I replied "no, that's Grand Funk Railroad". So then of course I had to explain the joke by finding the song on Spotify. I've had an earworm ever since ☹️

I guess the destruction of NOAA will make flying even less safe (among many other bad things).

I've already decided that I won't be flying for the next four years, for my personal safety. How about if we all stop flying? The airline industry doesn't deserve the brunt of government incompetence, but none of us do. If everyone stopped flying, a huge industry would be sick of Musk's shit ASAP.