Again, it's protected activity under the First Amendment. Courts as far back as at least 2000 have concluded that.

Seems like a very libertarian position to say “agents of the state should have unmitigated authority to do summary executions, just stay out of their way and keep your head down”

what sohrab ahmari wants most of all is a boot in his face

Remember, when Vance was caught spewing racist lies that Haitian immigrants were eating people's pets, he admitted that "if I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that's what I'm going to do." Proudly, openly a liar.

“make big tech afraid” has to be just as much of a priority as “prosecute the criminals of the previous regime” for the next Dem admin the tech fascists are way too far out over their skis and what remains of global stability will not survive that state of affairs continuing

basically; “the summary execution of americans on the streets is a land of contrast” this guy is a true airhead. just nothing between those ears.

Speechless at this choice

A Minneapolis pastor of an MCC church — a denomination rooted in LGBTQ equality — recounts being detained by ICE. Says an ICE officer walked up to him as he was chanting “we are not afraid.” The agent, he says, raised his gun and said “are you afraid now?” m.youtube.com/watch?v=lcSO...

my immediate thought is they are sending vance out to eat shit for the administration

the snotty petulance of this guy is truly intolerable. one of the most repulsive human beings who has ever lived

remains striking the extent to which trump quite loudly does not see himself as president of the united states and more as a clan leader for his supporters

masked, unidentified goons who assault and murder with impunity. a literal gestapo.

Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.

NEW: Publishers of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette announce they are shutting down the newspaper on May 3, 2026. Hours ago, the Supreme Court of the US declined to extend a stay on a court order for the paper to pay its journalists following the end of a 3-year strike.

infuriated on behalf of my union siblings in Halifax over this, even moreso after the absurdly long history of struggle in Canada trying to get a union going within Ubisoft. www.ign.com/articles/ubi...

At the @status.news newsletter that I read daily, they're saying... "A chaotic on-air rollout, cringe social media posts, and MAGA-friendly editorial choices have turned Tony Dokoupil’s “CBS Evening News” debut into a source of embarrassment and growing alarm inside the network’s newsroom.

one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it

milkshake duck hotel edition

Today on Quest Quest, the adventure game podcast, @decafjedi.com and I discuss one of the great FMV games: Under a Killing Moon. Tex Murphy has to solve some low-rent Blade Runner mysteries as rendered in cutting edge 1994 technology. Listen here or where ever: zencastr.com/z/1vuG9S4B

cathartic, clear, on “coup”: “Why am I harping on about this? First, because it is important that we tell the truth, and second, because the words we use to describe things matter… The more this sort of stuff is allowed to go unchallenged, the more it becomes the settled version of events.”

I wrote section 230 to protect user speech, not a company's own speech. I've long said AI chatbot outputs are not protected by 230 and that it is not a close call. Given that the Trump administration is going to the mat to protect pedophiles, states should step in to hold Musk and X accountable.

do not understand why the new york times considers it important to maintain ideological neutrality towards an ideology which would fill a mass grave with the staff of the new york times

Every mob that has ever run a trans woman off of socials has had a "valid reason" why they deserved it. But it's still systemic and endemic.

I see we’re already starting off with the sophisticated worldbuilding

We have published the following update to our article following an email response from the New York Times. Trans News Network has a policy against platforming bigotry. As such, we have declined to publish the Times' statement which included blatant transphobia.

yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.

Of all the competitive authoritarian developments of the past year I think the fall of CBS News is among the most chilling. That this can happen to easily and so quickly freaks me the fuck out.

Could an empire in decline do THIS? *launches deeply unpopular invasion cementing status as lunatic-led pariah state, its not clear what kind of move i was trying to do*

He's gotta go, folks.

The same editorial board described Seattle’s mayor raising taxes to pay for childcare as a totalitarian power grab

*Witch cackles*

I've waited 3 years to make this post

There was a liberal court for a few years in the mid 20th century and the right wing response was to delegitimize for DECADES right up to the point they had a supermajority, at which point it became Wrong to do so. These people think you are stupid bsky.app/profile/chri...

This, combined with "vice signaling" (taking pride in antisocial behavior) has given us the reign of the Stupid Asshole, something most people are against, but can only be remedied if we're not too polite to talk about it

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WANTED TO STAY UP AND SEE SANTA! WANTED TO SEE AND I SAW! JOLLIER THAN YOU THINK, DAD! JOLLIER THAN YOU THINK!

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This is a wonderful summation of the beauty and value of human made art ❤️

i always look back on this email as predictive of where she was heading

you must get this.

I’ve been in game dev for 26 years and I can’t remember any other time where a specific tech was being insistently and persistently pushed on devs as a group in the public sphere. Why would it? Cui bono? Why would any given dev have an interest in other devs using tech they don’t have a stake in?

RFK Jr's wife Cheryl Hines is the star guest for an "exclusive" interview with anti-vaccine group, Children's Health Defense's morning show, just after their segment denying measles injury and deaths.

It's truly remarkable how there will be news organizations and journalists who correctly identify that RFK is a menace and that HHS can't e trusted when he pushes stuff about vaccines or Tylenol causing autism... but cover the anti-trans stuff like "Well, HHS says so, and we should trust HHS!"

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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

/2 And people in authority who openly defy the rule of law and encourage contempt of it, who openly use it to help their friends and hinder their enemies, are not morally entitled to its protection, in any way.

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Reminding everyone for no particular reason that Section 230 is one of the last things standing between free speech online and Trump having control over everything you see and say on the internet