Accurate headline would be "Trump attempts to violate constitution to appease AI investor cronies in the White House" as @nytceciliakang.bsky.social well knows, but NYT editors refuse to accurately headline these stories. The lede should mention regulations are meant to stop kids killing themselves.

This is heartbreaking on so many levels.

Never meet your heroes. open.substack.com/pub/emilyiny...

Just because someone is in a position of power does not make them smarter than even the average person. It does not bestow a magical anointing on them that makes all their thoughts holy and just. It just makes them powerful.

NEW: In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant. She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency. Then she died. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

Standing up to corruption and gross abuse of power is painful. It has always required and will continue to require sacrifice. It’s hard. But if we don’t make the hard decisions now, things will continue getting worse until they’re nearly insurmountable.

"Our actions are working, and they are not enough. Nothing we do is sufficient, and everything we do matters. We must be strategic, and we must operate on multiple fronts simultaneously. Time is of the essence, and we have to act for the long haul. This is how change happens." Dan Berger

May we learn from this that someone being rich does not make them smarter, or more noble, or wiser than any one of us. It just means they have more money.

Another example where the default should have been opt-in.

C R Y I N G this is so perfect lmao x: www.instagram.com/reel/DQ7cPSf...

New from me in @newrepublic.com: “Primary Every Democrat.” If the current crop cannot demonstrate they care more about democracy than enjoying three-day weekends, we should flood the zone and challenge them all.

I agree with the intent of this post but think it’s too limited. ALL Dem Senators sold us out, by keeping Schumer as leader. Schumer orchestrated this deal. The Senators worked together to select people whose elections were furthest away or who are retiring. This was a group project.

look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry

The only action I can imagine possibly helping is to call ALL Dem senators and let them know not another dime in donations or another vote for them unless they vote to oust Schumer as leader.

I have been talking to a lot of voters these past few weeks, and a pretty high percentage of them: - are registered Dems but eager to change to Independent - used to be a Dem, are now Independent, and don’t see themselves ever being a Dem again And this kind of weak nonsense is why.

The caucus meeting was just to orchestrate who would fall on the sword but not be up for a vote in 2026.

We definitely deserve better than someone who votes for Trump’s nominees and got his start in the Senate as a fall guy.

I'm reading this, and it really sounds like they want shopping to become like the stock market. Where computer programs will analyze data (us, our words, our thoughts, our habits, our past behaviors) and make decisions for us. Wait for a dip in price, then buy buy buy. www.shopify.com/blog/ai-agents

I'm doing the thing I hate which is to suggest something that I can't take on myself but I would absolutely amplify, make calls and donate.

The NYT does not believe in covering the views of the people, just their elite friends:

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Folks fleeing to Canada to escape persecution in Delaware is one of the oldest stories in First State. And the wickedness of that tradition isn’t any less rotten for being recreated anew in this generation.

A main organizer of VC Defensa in Ventura County was rammed in his vehicle by federal agents and taken into custody this morning. This video is from VC Defensa IG and shows the ramming. Organizers are thinking he’ll be taken to LA MDC—headed there now

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TFW you definitely don’t live in a scam economy with exploding energy prices (This is the kind of economic development that Delaware’s legislators and our governor have been actively courting with subsidies, alongside county governments. Part of our “fintech” growth future.)

“Great resources [we can mine] on the moon” Destroying our Earth isn’t enough, people in power also want to destroy other pieces of our solar system in pursuit of more money for billionaires.

“Each and every one of you has a role to play” 🥹

We've already lost our chestnut trees, and we're losing our ash trees. Losing oak trees is particularly heartbreaking. I feel like I'm grieving a dear, dear friend. But, millions of them.

"Ge Bai, a professor ... at Johns Hopkins University, said that most hospitals were in the past run by volunteers ... [But] that unspoken contract has become “obsolete,” as more hospitals begin to act like for-profit companies while still avoiding taxes." spotlightdelaware.org/2025/10/03/a...

It’s going to be a rough decade, in ways so many of us are not ready to accept. We need leaders with vision for what comes next, and the courage to fight for that vision.

This is also why most wealthy and powerful people never even consider that they might not fully understand something, or that they might even *gasp* be wrong about an idea. Being surrounded by yes-men for years takes a toll on the brain’s ability to _actually_ consider challenging ideas.

This fall, @megstampede.bsky.social & I are collaborating to create a 2026 calendar! Each month features a different animal, facts about them, & actions we can take to help them! Sales will fund our '26 Native 🌱 Project Order before 10/1 to get a free plant sticker! www.etsy.com/listing/4366...

The crowd chants “Let them go!” Shortly after, agents fire off a brief round of pepper balls.

"Part of what makes these firms’ capitulation so frustrating is that they could have won easily. For proof, look no farther than the four law firms that chose to fight back, all of whom didn’t just win but *crushed* the Trump administration in court."

Five Delaware legislators took an all-expense-paid trip, but did not inform their constituents about it. We found out because the group who sponsored their trip posted a picture. Why the secrecy? Trying to hide as they co-sign an entire people’s annihilation? delawarecall.com/2025/09/18/t...

Just a reminder: they were never actually against cancel culture. They were against the cancellation of people they agree with or like. They’ve always been enthusiastically in favor cancelling people they don’t like. If you took them at their word you’re a useful idiot.

We are witnessing the reification of the dual state in the US that never really went away. A normative state for the predominant socioeconomic class in power, white men, and a prerogative state for minorities and women. It will be a dual legal system imposing two totally different systems.

This is critical to protecting healthcare privacy for ALL of us

1. Trump threatened every hospital that provides gender affirming care to transgender youth. Many complied and shut down their programs. Boston Children's Hospital didn't. They fought back and kept providing care. And now, they just beat Trump in court. Subscribe to support our journalism.

I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions. Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

@groundnews.bsky.social is adamantly refusing to remove their post that spreads a straight up lie. This lie was concocted and spread by people trying to create more anger and violence directed at trans communities. If you are a subscriber of Ground News, I encourage you to cancel.

NEW — I wrote about attending the US Open with Trump in attendance, and what the tepid reaction to a fascist at a sporting event says about this country.

Seventy years ago, Selbyville leaders used racial violence and intimidation to crack down on a strike led by largely Black poultry workers in Sussex County, Delaware. Could be an important story given the times that we're heading into delawarecall.com/2025/09/06/t...

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

If you live in Delaware and want the freedom of accessing the Covid vaccine, contact your local elected officials! (The attached script is adapted from Matthew Cortland’s script.) You can send to your state Rep, Senator, & Gov! If you don’t know who those are, you can lookup at legis.delaware.gov

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... This you??????

TIL dogs get vitiligo too