I just want the nation's top public health official to talk about kids' junk less. I have mostly given up on him stopping it entirely.

It's absolutely insane how the Nasdaq changed rules around its exchange to include SpaceX just 15 days of trading, allow less than 5% of free float, and require a weighting of multiple its float in the index. This is the largest wealth transfer in history from everyone's retirement to Elon.

I'm not voting for a candidate that wants fascism for trans kids, but safety for me. Don't try to sell me that you're worried about rising fascism, if you think there's enough of a safety margin to throw away the 5% to 10% of anti-fascist votes that you will lose by backing an anti-trans candidate.

Remember this the next time a Republican congressman from Oklahoma waves around a government report and says in his most affected redneck accent "they're using taxpayer money to study guinea pigs?"

I think this is true. It’s also collective punishment, which is a war crime.

It speaks so badly of our attention economy that John Fetterman is the topic of endless conversation for being an unhinged jerk, while Andy Kim from right next door gets such little hype for being a decent human being

They didn't die while serving in the military, but they died protecting our freedoms from those who would destroy them, nonetheless. Remembering these heroes on this Memorial Day.

Still wild that the media covers Epstein like a True Crime curio that the President is sometimes asked to comment on and not the biggest scandal in Presidential history

Pedocon theory still batting 1.000

All these people are ready to go full John Brown and we have people like Elizabeth fucking Warren still making deals with the enemy and bragging about it. AOC is reading the room pretty well but most of the rest of them are falling flat on their face.

bringing this one back because they just keep doing it

And Biden's 2020 win displaced Trump for a moment, but it wasn't a victory, because its goal wasn't the total removal of the insurrectionist confederate Nazi party—Republicans—from all government at all levels. It never intended to, and it didn't, and here we are. Let's not make the same mistakes.

DeTrumpification is as necessary a project to the US as DeNazification was to Germany. Everything removed from everywhere, including every person in the Trump party from every elected and appointed position of public trust, with all appropriate investigations, charges, and trials.

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

One again, Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people.

People got really angry at me when I wrote this on Mastodon a few years ago, but it's true: post-consumer plastic recycling is functionally a myth, not just in the U.S. but globally. Odds are vanishingly close to zero that your plastic, faithfully put in the recycling bin, will ever be recycled.

For anyone who defends centrist bullshit or votes for a D who "works across the aisle," your head is in your ass. Stop listening to shitheads at the big papers and pubs who tell you it's fine. If it looks fucked up, it's probably fucked up! They're paid to tell you otherwise. Take that into account

FUCK ICE NOW AND FOREVER

I think it's under-appreciated how much user-hostile recipe sites and news articles smothered in pop-ups and video ads have negatively polarized the average normie against the open web, and helped to drive adoption of AI as an alternative way to get basic information

Worth noting that this is actually a meta-question-- it's not "what policy do you think is good?" It's "what policy do you think other, imaginary people would think is good?" This encourages the "Everyone Think Like a Pundit Rather Than as a Citizen" disease that plagues political commentary.

Not only did two neo nazi teens attempt to copycat the Christchurch mass shooting, the world's richest man falsely blamed trans people for it. Not a single outlet covered that he spread that disinformation.

"don't vote for cops" is some of the best and most broadly applicable electoral advice you'll ever get

This building is a basic box that covers the entire lot and has no modulations, setbacks, upper level setbacks, and still allows plenty of daylight to reach the street, isn’t a burden on utilities, has no parking and it’s completely fine. Legalize this stuff and let architects do their job

hard to exaggerate how heroic these men were. they likely saved dozens of children's lives. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I’m sorry I only accept Taylor Lorenz-initiated discourses if she’s posting them on here. we must to stop relying on imported discourses from hostile foreign powers like X Dot Com to fuel our posting wars, as a matter of Bluesky national security and poster sovereignty

You're seeing defenders of Israel and Netanyahu publicly distance themselves from Ben Gvir after this video has gone viral. They're saying this isn't Israel and he doesn't represent the country. What are they talking about? He literally represents the government and this is who he's always been.

any obituary for Barney Frank that talks about the Dodd-Frank Act, the landmark bill he sponsored for Wall Street reform, should also talk about how he spent the rest of his life undermining those reforms, resulting in the collapse of not only SVB but Signature Bank, where he sat on the board

JUST POSTED: first in a new occasional series, Political Strength Training, this is a tour through some of the fascinating data we've accrued over the past few cycles of campaign work. However disastrous you thought the Democratic campaign approach to immigration was, it's worse. 🧵

hot take: all this type of shit violates the Guarantee Clause. you can't tie the hands of the legislature on basic budgetary matters and still be a republican form of government bsky.app/profile/alph...

Billionaires must be targeted with tax policy and antitrust policy not because it helps everyone else (though it does) but because their political power must be limited so they can't wreck the world the way they're currently doing

Bezos on Trump: "I think he's a more mature, more disciplined of himself than he was in his first term. Trump has lots of good ideas. He's been right about a lot of things. You have to give him credit where credit is due."

It’s a good morning in PA-03!

The U.S. military, it was said, would defy illegal orders. Instead? It has carried them out without a single note of public dissent. www.theredoubt.net/the-us-milit...

It would be cheaper to give every coal miner $5m every year than it is to keep them employed in coal mining. Not even joking; there are maybe 40k coal workers, but annual economic burden of U.S. coal is $200B-$500B (climate change, public health, water & ecosystem damage, dispatch inefficiency).

this is a masterpiece

At the Phils game and my hot Philly take is Citizens Bank park is a great place to see a game with the exception of the concessions. For a food city like Philly the options here are embarrassing.

saying you’ll disregard this document in its entirety is the hot new litmus test (complimentary)

Dick Durbin is so embarrassing.

Good breakdown of the background and bottom line: "If you paid 2023 federal income taxes in the state of Connecticut, $3 out of every $100 you paid is now set aside for reimbursing people who a committee of people allied with the president decide were treated unfairly by government actions."

one thing that went wrong in our political media culture is that journalists so deeply internalized a backwards version of 'the cover-up is the crime' they assume that anything that's being done out in the open is just 'a thing that happened' that needs to be subjected to the 'objectivity' standard

thinking about this tweet today. generative AI has done a wonderful thing; now everyone can have their own horse kicking them in the head even if they aren't a billionaire. and now billionaires can have two horses kicking them in the head at all times. a very valuable service

Remember this when people talk about Copilot revenues and remember they’re baked into a ton of enterprise agreements but no one is actually using it

My taxes are going to murder school children overseas and to let pardoned insurrectionist pedophiles get their hush money payoffs to victims, meanwhile, the papers of record want to let me know the real danger is the guy who taxes second homes in Manhattan to balance budgets and feed hungry kids.

Studying works!

Ah yes, the good billionaire.

In an unusual flight path, jet flies into World Trade Center.

People prefer to use “sycophantic” AI systems that reinforce their pre-existing beliefs. In a new paper (n=7,227), we found that people enjoyed interacting with sycophantic AI chatbots more than interacting with neutral chatbots or “disagreeable” chatbots that challenged their beliefs.

Dems are polling crazy high based on the flaming catastrophe that is Republican fascist rule, so primarying as many of the bad weak complicit Democrats in favor of good determined angry ones has rarely if ever been more crucial

So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count

If any democrat can't run ads this fall detailing the people who smeared crap on walls in the halls of congress not only getting a pardon, but a cash payout and hanging it around the neck of their MAGA opponents, they just need to retire.