I guess I shouldn't be *surprised* but it is making my head spin that the feds have shot two people, with live rounds, killing one of them, in Chicagoland in recent weeks, and in both cases they were very clearly found to be lying about what happened, and essentially nothing is happening about it.

Serious question: What's stopping the State of Illinois from arresting Stephen Miller & charging him with incitement? The Senate didn't confirm him. He's just a guy. At some point, the states MUST use their authority to prosecute, because the federal government certainly will not.

They said a woman would never attempt the brilliant CEO gambit of slamming her labia repeatedly in a car door, yet here we stand

it's/he was complicated. but if there's one thing that he was right about, even if he lacked the introspection to see how it applied to himself, it's that the internet makes people crazy when they're immersed in it 24/7, and especially so when there is a power dynamic and they hold the power.

if lowtax's ex-wife is saying you remind her of fucking lowtax maybe you should stop posting

let's try something Like this Post if you will be less likely to open this web site when the trannies finally stop putting up with this shit and find some a new platform to give life to Repost this Post if you're never going to click a single ad on this web site while this shit continues

Hey, first time caller long time listener. Quick question: do you think it's a good business strategy for a website whose sole niche is being a more ethical copy of its competitor to wholly abandon any pretense of ethics & mock its userbase for wanting that to not happen?

Come on, Jay. You think VCs cut checks because of the majesty of the code? You know what they meant. Why on earth would you be shitty and antagonistic about it? If all you had was an architecture and a dream, you’d be screwed. How the fuck can I tell devs in good faith to build on this platform rn?

if the state of journalism and its capture by the right wing also has you in despair, a real, tangible thing you can do to push back is support/subscribe to worker-owned indie news media!! @coyotemedia.org (bay area) @51st.news (dc) @racketmn.com (mn) @autonomynews.co @505omatic.bsky.social (nm)

I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

This is so indefensibly insane: Speaker Johnson is refusing to seat Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva because she'll be the 218th vote to release the Epstein files. Johnson swore in Rep Walkinshaw (VA) w/in 24 hours. Johnson is abandoning his job to instead protect a convicted child sex predator

BREAKING: Governor Pritzker calls for the removal of Donald Trump as President by invoking the 25th amendment. EVERY governor should stand behind the Illinois governor. Governor Pritzker also cited health concerns for the president. He is clearly not well. youtu.be/Dt4mrxNWQWs?...

I withdrew my 3-year participation in the UofM memory and aging study and rescinded my brain donation for autopsy since I can't trust the UofM Regents to protect my info from the whims of Trump + ignoring MI law that protects the treatment my trans grandson was getting and should still be receiving

"single-use plastic of the mind" had me GAGGED

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

nothing says "military readiness" like "i don't know if my squaddie is going to cap me because i'm not a gender essentialist"

A script you can use if you’re not good at speaking on the spot.

Why, in this one brief lifetime that we all get, would anyone waste a second caring about the gender or sexuality of people they will never meet? Or even people that they do meet?

tfw you snap out of years of alexithymia and fall in love with someone you've been bonding with over Townes Van Zandt songs, so everyone's concerned you're constantly listening to brutally sad songs but you're floating off the ground the whole time. music is amazing and emotions are confusing.

Sinclair is still awful, they have been awful for 25 years, avoid them the best you can. Pressure advertisers, best case scenario they are forced to sell stations to people who won’t use the local news to promote thier own personal political agenda.

Cutting healthcare for millions of poor Americans is political violence

More people should be talking about this.

HBD Dean Ween, vastly underrated guitarist & master of pulling the perfect rawk face.

Disney/ABC put Kimmel back on air. Sinclair & Nexstar are blocking him. These are state-licensed stations funded by ads, not Disney. Pressure advertisers, file FCC complaints, and push back on corporate censorship. #FreeSpeech #NoKings #Kimmel

to me, the “column” is less a form than an opportunity (and a challenge). you’re telling me i have as much space as i’d like to make an argument about anything i’d like to an audience inclined to pay close attention? well let’s see if they’ll read 2000 words on democratic legitimacy. (gift link)

This is a complete misreading of this paper's conclusions. For unbiased coverage of this paper, please read this. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Everything about this headline is hilarious. And the YouTube views are a reflection of how wildly the right has overblown the number of people paying attention.

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🔴 NEW - The meat industry has been monitoring thousands of animal welfare activists, gathering information on their biological ties and even their romantic relationships. Vital, shocking exposé from @clarecarlile.bsky.social for @desmog.com

something to keep in mind is that everything the right is currently doing to trans people is just what they have wanted for decades to do to gay people; they just can’t get away with doing the latter right now

“[Peter Thiel] is a threat to every single member of our community here in the Bay Area.” Listen to Valarie Bachelor of ACCE Oakland explain why we’re protesting outside of Peter Thiel’s Commonwealth Club lecture.

Except for Miller I don't even know how many of them have access to that sort of depth of emotion, except in moments of narcissistic rage. It literally would not OCCUR to them that folks could feel deeply about moral issues or harm to vulnerable people.

I personally think it’s worse if you were a person of faith and you’ve read the Bible and you believe in Jesus and you’re a hateful person??? Then you’re not a person of faith because your faith didn’t affect you, didn’t change you didn’t give you any empathy So those tears are meaningless

STOP USING SUBSTACK.

but like "freeze peach abolutists" amirite

"One person claimed Robinson lived with 'a male transitioning into female.' Reuters had not been able to confirm this person exists." Then WHY did you print that!?

@jay.bsky.team how do you feel about willful disinformation on your platform? disinformation meant to encourage hatred of trans people and stochastic terrorism?

I love so many of these John & Faith Hubley films with all my heart. I used to have to go to marathon retrospectives to see them. For the next two weeks, you can still see them on the Criterion Channel. www.criterionchannel.com/six-films-by...

I regret that I have but one Washington Post subscription cancellation to give for my country

Both sides!

even with no character limit I could not sufficiently emphasize to you the stakes that rest upon everyone's ability to recognize and resist this dynamic, in our individual lives, in our communities, and in our politics.

catch me on the actual fediverse

It's not lost on me in the midst of this eulogizing and memorializing a monster that my home state, Florida, has made it a crime to commemorate or remember the victims of the Pulse massacre. In America, only some deaths are considered grievable. The rest of us are just "collateral damage."

We tried to deliver our petition with more than 20k signatures, including 5k customers, to T-Mobile. They called the cops. #tmobile doesn't care about customers. They're in bed with Trump and Musk. It's time to #BoycottTmobile #teslatakedown @stopmoneypipeline.bsky.social join us: tmobileboycott.org

Ezra Klein liked and admired Charlie Kirk, who hated my trans child, so I'm going to view this as a display of true Ezra's character. You can apply this to every single centrist/liberal pundit or publication celebrating him. Got it. Message received.

this is why i am glad i use alpine's mozilla packages, which patch around mozilla fuckery

i guess security was frisking for sandwiches and missed the gun

This: If you're a bigot who's convinced you have to harm children to get into heaven, I'm not going to normalize, and work around, and accommodate and facilitate your misguided desires to harm children. You believing that's a "reasonable compromise" is delusional. I'm going to stop you harming kids.

I simply cannot stress it enough. You cannot sit this out. They are coming for EVERYTHING. No media, no creators are safe under these policies. They want us poor, they want us criminalized, they want us disenfranchised. Call paypros. Call your reps. Do SOMETHING.