Spent the last decade reading conservative blogs use the word "Orwellian" more than they used the word "the" and now they're literally just saying "War is Peace" out loud in front of everybody.

A Tarrant County, TX resident who has worked as an election judge criticized the county’s move to cut more than 100 polling sites. “You’re not saving money,” she said. “You’re sacrificing democracy to save a buck.” With @fortworthreport.bsky.social @texastribune.org

De Niro: "I gotta go. A couple cases of Tylenol fell off a truck and now I gotta figure out how to put autism in them."

good job chat we successfully bullied a major corporation to the point that the late night host they canned is making jokes about it in his return monologue american fascism versus the cancel subscription button: who will win

bingo 🎯

HHS Secretary RFK Jr. wants to find the causes of #autism by September. Erin McCanlies has spent the past 20yrs studying how parents’ exposure to chemicals at work affects the chance that they will have a child with the condition. RFK Jr. cut her entire lab. My latest video for @propublica.org

Trump: "We've got a lot of stupid people in this country running things."

This is SO fucked up. A sarcastic "Some of our friends" yeah man those people who hate the idea we can't just assault women are terrible

Oh nothing to see here…just Trump’s Chairman of the FCC using gifs to confirm that everything he’s doing was in Project 2025 that he co-wrote

holy shit -- GOP Rep. Mike Turner tries to "help out" Hegseth by getting him to confirm that the Pentagon does not in fact have plans to take Greenland by force, but Hegseth instead more or less testifies that yep, they have devised plans for that

Trump's SEC has dropped a major lawsuit against Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange. This comes just weeks after the Trump family's crypto venture (World Liberty Financial) helped broker a $2B deal between Binance and a UAE state-backed firm. It's all out in the open.

NEW: The chapters, one board member argued, were inappropriate for students because they discussed “vaccines and polio,” touched on “topics of depopulation,” had “an agenda out of the United Nations” and included “a perspective that humans are bad.” With @texastribune.org

Confirming, as was obvious from context already, that this wasn’t a one-off. They are routinely using Signal to evade statutory record retention requirements.

1/ This is wildly illegal. That is not a question on which reasonable legally informed folks can disagree. It doesn't fucking matter that he ran on doing illegal things. They are still illegal. And striking at Congress's power of the purse is worse than illegal. It's anti-constitutional.

Twitter is down on one of the biggest days of the year in the NFL. Bluesky…

The winner for best post of the day 😂

I want to see Rodgers yell at DK & Pickens and get hit with a dudley death drop

NEW: On paper, Salvador Cavazos earns less than $300,000 to run Valere Public Schools, a small Texas charter network. But taxpayers likely aren’t aware that in reality, his total pay makes him one of the country’s highest-earning superintendents.

25 years ago measles was declared eliminated in the United States due to the success of vaccination. In 2024, there were outbreaks in 33 states, 90% of which were in the unvaccinated.

When Trump took office, the NLRB had 24 separate investigations into Musk’s corporations for violating workers’ rights. But presto...Trump fired three officials at that agency, effectively stalling the board's ability to rule on cases. See how this works?

It was always apparent but now it's increasingly undeniable that all these 20-something DOGE employees were chosen not *in spite* of inadequate vetting but *because* they would not pass vetting. Trump & Musk chose the people who seemed the most willing to commit illegal acts on their behalf.

If the oligarchs are using henchmen to block elected officials out of government buildings, then our system is finally shedding its disguise and openly revealing itself as authoritarian.

1. Twitter bans overt racists. 2. Musk buys Twitter. 3. Musk polls his followers about reinstating the overt racists. 4. Musk buys access to a presidential candidate. 5. A guy who posted overt racism is fired from government. 6. Musk polls his followers about reinstating the guy to the government.

Between Vladimir Putin, Joe Biden and Elon Musk the last three US Presidents have been terrible.

@daltonbmiller.bsky.social @dpnfl.bsky.social Need some of your favorite safeties to watch in this draft? #Saftiesmatter

Most people don’t know that Elon Musk brought the Saudis in to help him purchase Twitter and take it private for $44 billion. The Saudis are the #2 investor/owner of Twitter/X. They have been quietly infiltrating American companies, including snapping up the PGA Tour, GE Plastics, & others.

It is not "hard," it is unconstitutional.

"The tragic irony is that Trump will inherit a thriving economy, which he’ll claim he restored to its pre-2020 greatness through sheer force of will, and neither the media nor even his fellow Dems are likely to spend much time defending Biden’s record."

So it's dangerous for China to have the ability to access our data and manipulate us via social media apps. But it's okay for America's billionaires to have the ability to access our data and manipulate us via social media apps. Do I have this right?

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next time you hear an article scolding leftists and liberals for not understanding MAGA Trumpists, remember how they laughed at us while our cities were burning due to global warming that they caused. Most of us understand perfectly.

Congratulations to Mike Johnson for trying to pressure the House Ethics Committee into burying a report that found the then-nominee for attorney general had engaged in sexual activity with a minor. Party of Family Values, am I right?

The story behind the story is that Eli Lilly rebranded Mounjaro (an Ozempic competitor) as a sleep apnea drug in order to expand its addressable market...and that this FDA approval comes on the heels of the FDA restricting compounding pharmacies' ability to offer the active ingredient at lower cost

@nikotaughtyou.bsky.social @bontahill.bsky.social @warriorsworld.bsky.social @jjmaples55.bsky.social #warriors what do you guys think of a Zion deal for the Warriors?

The nightmare begins, with an ignorant, unelected billionaire from South Africa gunning to shut down the US government—based on lies and falsehoods. A @politico.com fact check, and it’s a doozy. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

They didn't call him Kid Gorgeous, then later on, Kid Presentable, then Kid Gruesome, and finally, Kid Moe for nothing

Please.

The problem with health insurers is you can't sue them for bad faith, like you can with casualty and property insurers. They're protected by federal statutes. That needs to change, but so far, Congress is more concerned about cultural wars.

If you see this, post a Knight

Researchers at the London School of Economics have found that 50 years of tax cuts for the wealthy have not trickled down to the middle class and only served to help the rich get richer. What does Trump have planned for his second term? Another giant tax cut for the wealthy.

#49ers mailbag: * Biggest thing Shanahan must solve this offseason * Deep thoughts on the great Dobbs v. Allen debate * Is Deebo cut-able? * Next on the contract to-do list (aside from Purdy’s) * DC targets (actually, there’s only one) * More! www.nytimes.com/athletic/595...

Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing. They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays. The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k. www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...

Kendrick’s record label, UMG, with a savage response to Drake’s stupid lawsuit: "No amount of contrived and absurd legal arguments in this pre-action submission can mask the fact that fans choose the music they want to hear" variety.com/2024/music/n...

Harassment, racism, and engagement farming are not “a difference of opinion.” Had a chance to talk about BlueSky on Pablo’s pod—and why the echo chamber argument mischaracterizes what’s actually going on. 📺: youtu.be/DFBlec2Exrw?...

We left X and joined Bluesky because those against our parks said, “If you don’t like it, leave.” So we did. And now they’re saying, “No, come back so we can say mean things to you—it makes us feel important.”

With teams seeing more and more of the Dubs' side blitzes/traps, the counters are coming in. Just like what Boston and Cleveland did, Dallas countered the trap using a variant of "Spain" or "Stack" PnR where the backscreener leaks out to the wing instead of setting the backscreen, which takes the n