Historians of the future: Rest assured, millions of us know all this in real time. We are horrified, shocked, enraged, and ashamed. We are acting, in a thousand ways, to oppose it. This cannot, and will not, be how the United States ends. trib.al/0islLh9

Trump posting a video of himself dropping a huge shit on America is probably the most accurate public statement he has ever made.

Yesterday's No Kings protests were apparently the largest since the first Earth Day in 1970 The NYT covered that story with a six column headline across the top of the paper and two full pages inside Today, two small pics below the fold and a story on page A23 They constantly let America down

so here’s the thing, Bari, you’re running an organization full of weapons-grade gossips who hate you www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...

Y’all are acting like you’ve never seen a 79 year-old drug addict post AI vids wearing a crown flying a fighter jet dropping sh*t on US citizens at a rally the same week he bitched out the world for not getting Nobel Peace prize & blew up boats so he could joke about it before.

Don’t take the bait, don’t share the sh*t. He’s playing y’all & getting you to stop talking about huge No Kings turnout today.

It's always the details that get me with AI slop. Like Trump being too much of a dumbfuck to notice that pilots don't wear their masks around their chins. He looks like a moron. An absolute moron.

Please tell me a First Amendment lawyer is willing to step up here and defend this woman.

Political parties must shift immediately and dramatically to the left to avoid alienating these frustrated and abandoned young women. Am I doing this right?

Our recent poll found that women 28 and younger skew substantially more left than the national average. Nearly 80 percent of Gen Z women want abortion to be legal and seven in 10 want gender-affirming care to be accessible for trans adults.

Hey Ezra Klein, is this doing politics the right way?

After a week of ridiculous Republican smears and Trump claiming that “very few people are going to be there,” you just made history. #NoKings

Just a bunch of paid domestic terrorists in Portland, Maine.

The trump regime is setting up official agency accounts here on BlueSky, and they’re dragging their MAGA trolls with them. Block liberally.

It’s not poverty or working class people driving this racism pandemic. It’s those elite who think they’re superior to the rest of us. They’re starting to come out now and show their true colours as they feel more safe in the climate of hate they cultivated for so long. Let them. It’s good to know.

did you guys hear that the adult leaders of the hitler youth were using slurs in their group chat

Trump is now going after Jack Smith. You know who seems safe from his retribution: Merrick Garland. Because he did JACK SHIT. Trump not being pissed at him is, low key, an indictment of his entire tenure.

Good.

Kinda seems like whether or not the president has the power to assassinate people with no due process, no input from Congress, no review, no oversight, and with no obligation to provide anyone with any information or evidence other than “trust me” is an important test of our democracy.

The situation is every bit as bad as @radleybalko.bsky.social says here, with zero exaggeration. It is a precise description of where we are. Everything Rep Adam Smith tells me in this interview supports this reading, and he's in a good position to know.

AI is anti-human—which is why it's become such a useful tool for fascists. Defeating fascism requires dismantling the infrastructure that supported it AND the tools of fascist dis-/misinformation. First up, regulating AI into the dirt and taxing the billionaires who brought us here into oblivion.

IRS employees asked to participate in White House-directed political targeting should remember that Jan. 6 foot soldiers were the easiest to prosecute. Do you want to gamble your future on this criminal presidency lasting forever? And yes, Democrats should make this threat of prosecution explicit.

"Abolish ICE" and Resist the Gestapo in Chicago Democratic Congressional candidate @katmabu.bsky.social has been repeatedly assaulted by ICE in Chicago, but continues resisting Trump's Gestapo and says it's time for Democrats to say, "Abolish ICE!" thelefthook.substack.com/p/a-young-de...

Another thing about that group chat? The ‘boys will be boys’ mentality also paved the way for that group chat. Particularly when you consider that only certain ‘boys’ are given that grace. White boys. While Black boys are assigned manhood status as teenagers and predator status at all ages.

Seeing people say that "by the numbers" Stancil is right about No Kings being bigger than the civil rights mvt. But no. That's not how any of this works. It's like saying I'm a bigger organizer than Greta Thunberg because I'm taller. It's not technically true, it's just stupid.

It's just demonstrably true by multiple measures that the GOP has become even more racist since Bush (really since Obama's re-election), but that's a very different thing from suggesting that racism was somehow verbotem in the GOP twenty years ago.

“Young adults aren’t having enough kids” bro I’m employed full-time with a damn PhD and I’m struggling to afford both groceries and rent. I love kids but I can barely afford my pets. Want us to have kids? Try UBI, rent control, universal healthcare, cheaper child care.

He gets full marks. What? You want to give him bonus points, too?

Everything about John Roberts's approach to the Voting Rights Act makes sense when you remember that John Roberts has has always been hostile to the Voting Rights Act, never believed it was appropriate, and has spent most of his 45-year legal career working to hollow it out.

At the highest level of æsthetic development, we appreciate each encounter with artwork anew. The more we know, the more we can admire, deconstruct, & complicate the work. With AI, it's the opposite. Each encounter strips away its simulated humanity & exposes its soullessness. AI is an anæsthetic.

It is neither real nor terrifying. It's a hugely expensive, highly inefficient video toaster that, after violating countless copyrights, produces hours and hours of inconsistent, unusable, absolute slop and, if the user is very lucky, a few seconds of uncreative mediocre drivel.

Sora is a paper machete. It is low-quality, impossible to make consistent or reliable, while also being incredibly expensive to run. Every single “good” video you’ve seen is cherrypicked from dozens of terrible ones to make you feel scared that this can create entire movies’ worth of content.

"We are a decade into Trumpism. These Young Republicans have never known any other type of Republicanism....We’re talking about a full generation of Republicans who *only* understand politics in the context of an authoritarian project." www.thebulwark.com/p/all-the-pr...

It’s time to abandon the idea of chasing after “swing voters.” We gotta start targeting the angry. Those who have been failed by the system. Those who are being screwed every day despite giving it their all.

Republicans are going to cheat & gerrymander with the rubber stamp of the Supreme Court. It will be very hard for Democrats to take back the House and Senate. Meanwhile, Trump will send the military to crush protests, and when he gets desperate, he'll implement martial law. Eyes wide open, folks.

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone. And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

The racist-ass Supreme Court says race can't be a factor for college admissions or redistricting but racial profiling is perfectly fine for ICE to bash brown and Black skulls. F this corrupt institution. Expand the Court.

We are fighting for true freedom. The freedom to live a life of dignity and joy. A life of 80 hour work weeks, of constantly struggling to get by, being trapped in a shitty job by your health insurance — this is not freedom, and we are not free. But we could be. If we fight.

There is not a single reason to outsource your creativity to a computer. Not one. To do so removes the very point of being creative in the first place.

It will require that those who had the power to do something just, and chose not to, admit their culpability and atone for things like—just spitballing here—throwing trans people under the bus in the name of 'fairness' or refusing to take a stand against genocide.

the "kids" were mostly 30+ years old and said they love hitler

I feel like Ben Gvir personally being in the room when Greta Thunberg was being tortured should be bigger news

The "anti-woke" backlash was always about white collar labor competition from nonwhites, not hr bullshit. bsky.app/profile/phil...

This isn’t going to happen and you know it, you know the bubble is going to burst and instead of doing journalism you are doing ads

Copyright isn't "growing pains." Sora cannot work without the illegality at its core. It is the rotten fruit of a rotten tree. Besides which, the only purpose for AI movies (like AI emails and AI term papers being replied to and graded by AI) is to remove the humanity from both sides. Fuck that.

Federal officials telling social media companies to take down posts was supposedly a free speech crisis. It’s not even really hypocrisy, since the right was lying about much of it. And this isn’t misinformation, foreign influence ops, or public health, just 1A-protected speech the govt doesn’t like.

Not that anybody comes to me for Maine politics, but the fact that the Democrats successfully convinced a 77yo Governor to primary the 41yo progressive, is today's example of why the Democrats fucking stay failing. Susan Collins is 72 and if Schumer gets his way, she'll be the YOUNGER choice!

Once you have called disabled people a burden, you have facilitated the devaluation, dehumanization and death of disabled people.

It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part

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