My lukewarm take is "we should take this to the courts" and "the laughably corrupt and partisan Supreme Court will issue a ruling that says CONZ RULE, LIBZ DROOL in crayon, the court clearly needs reform" are complimentary stances in that the hypocritical clown show is how you build your case.

The victim was a 19 year old transgender woman. She was stabbed to death in the laundry room of her student apartment complex. Seattle police just released these pictures of the suspect. If you know who he is, you can call the tip line at 206-233-5000.

What “distressing” ideas? How are they “cocooned”? It’s amazing how much publicity one can get by reinforcing cliches that accord so little with the experiences of so many of us who actually teach college students.

Well at least one Canadian hockey team will win a championship this year.

I'm going to update this - it clearly is deniable, as many people who seem completely in good faith are denying it. So, here's a more nuanced thread, from someone who runs moderation on a news site, about what I think happened with moderation and the trans community on Bluesky. 🧵

This is arguably the first / biggest blunder of the @mark-carney.bsky.social government so far; ignoring experts and case studies, rushing headlong into absolutely terrible security policy that will factually, incontrovertibly make every Canadian less safe and less secure.

My first piece at Public Notice. Fixing Hungary is a lot easier than fixing the US. www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-orban

In January, a phishing message arrived on my Signal account, supposedly from "Signal Support." I was able to turned the tables on the attackers and get a unique view of the wide-scale campaign by the attacker's targeting journalists and politicians I was target #13,730 in their database.

personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.

THREAD: So you may or may not recognize this little girl, but it's timely to learn about her now, as Iran's Hormuz deadlock is pushing desperate regional & global powers towards alternative trade corridors. This is Ciham Ali Abdu, an American citizen. She hasn't been seen or heard from since 2012.

This was a hard story to report. Newborns who don’t get a vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop a condition where they bleed uncontrollably. But more and more families are declining the shot. And babies are dying. www.propublica.org/article/more...

We knew Vit K was effective in preventing bleeding more than 60 years ago In 1961, the American Academy of Pediatrics began recommending all newborns receive a vitamin K injection as part of routine newborn care In 2026, if we allow kids to bleed and die, this is beyond shameful

American conventional navy is really powerful: it is them who are blockading Hormuz, not Iran blockading Houston or NYC. But strategically, this overwhelming power just doesn't matter in this context. The war hasn't shown the weakness of the navy (too much, anyway), but that of the so-called leaders

Man, this is so incredibly cool. www.popsci.com/environment/...

if you ever feel constrained by the dictum not to speak of ill of the dead, this is a great moment to share your memories of what an abomination Rudy Giuliani is — as in this reminder of his consumate awfulness long before he made himself an absolute grotesque for Trump

AVERAGE WHITE MLB PLAYER: has 18 latino teammates he doesn’t speak to, believes the 2020 election was stolen and is in a group text with morgan wallen AVERAGE WHITE NBA PLAYER: wokest dude you’ve ever met, has gotten into several fistfights over a teammate being called a slur, knows every nas lyric

Bluesky Date: Do you like it? Me: Yeah, I love Chinese food. It’s great. Bluesky Date: So you hate Japanese food? Me: Wha? Bluesky Date: And Japanese people obviously Mel: That’s not what…. Bluesky Date: Pol Pot did nothing wrong

Hey Pittsburgh! It's my first day at @triblive.bsky.social covering Allegheny County politics (+other fun things) Add me to your press lists and send your best tea to abenavides-colon (at) triblive .com 🍵

"But this Occupy Democrats post says-" yeah ok have you considered not believing every slop post you read online? you are not an 87 year old Fox zombie

Lot of reactionaries truly believe in their hearts that immigrants and trans kids get the secret good healthcare from companies that love paying for claims.

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I think it's worth learning the difference between "I am annoyed by this person" and "this person is a bad person."

Loving reminder from the Muppets that your compassion for others and desire for a better world is never a bad thing even if it feels most people disagree

oh, weird, she met two different standards to use the name “joanna” on the ballot and your whole crack team couldn’t figure that out about a fellow party member? or did you really just want to be sure it was in the papers she’s trans &, with our names & all other things, trans people are deceitful?

I also strongly question whether the lawyers' here met their ethical obligations of candor and honesty to the court when describing the multitude of court rulings from across the country blocking these subpoenas. This obligation is all the more clear in light of DOJ's role in such a petition.

Here were the lawyers on this filing:

It’s amazing how hardened we’ve gotten to this ludicrous, offensive, deeply un-American assertion.

Tough news, does anyone out there have openings for some morbidly cynical hacks who specialize in cashing checks from the Hungarian government

We're headed toward a Congress where like 40 states send a single-party delegation, indistinguishable from just electing everyone at large and a population-based replica of the Senate. Thank you, John Roberts, for ushering in this nonsense era.

As a privacy lawyer, it's seemed to me for a while that the treatment of the list of electors is misaligned with privacy principles - an anachronistic laxity with PII that operates without regard to the scope and the sensitivity of information they're entrusted with. This is the exclamation point.

We do not concede the south, the birthplace & continued lifeblood of the Black American experience, to people who hate us. We do not throw in the towel. Black people have every right to be southerners & very much are no matter who likes it.

Not only is this not happening, the Chinese dominance of EV’s is a terrifying development for US auto manufacturers.

I have spent my entire career listening to FedSoc types complain about liberal “activist judges” who “legislate from the bench,” and none of them are going to say a single blessed thing about Sam Alito rewriting the Voting Rights Act to say what he thinks Congress ought to have said

This is so incredibly reckless

And this dynamic is how a huge portion of the population receives a large share - or even all - of their information about politics. Instead of looking at a newspaper every 6 months, a nonstop firehose of shock videos all competing for attention. Do you think this might, perhaps, have some effects?

i missed this and i am forced to report that it is surprisingly good

The right’s repeated insistences that NOW they are now finally truly violently angry (the left, collectively guilty, cannot even conceive the anger!) would carry more weight if they didn’t also say that kind of thing when they see a video of women having fun at work.

Just read the Comey indictment, and it is brutal. Some of the allegations: - never puts shopping cart back in designated cart return area - takes too many napkins from pizza parlor napkin dispenser - lied about having seen "Titanic" to fit in He won't beat the charges this time.

Is the New York Times more biased than other major US news organizations that cover the trans community? Early data from our 2026 news tracker suggests they are. Of the 10 outlets we've been tracking, NYT had the fewest stories that quoted a trans person of them all. More here:

Popehat Signal: Another person related to this prior incident needs pro bono counsel. On the plaintiff side: FROST NEWCASTLE of “Goths Against Cancel Culture“ and the Order of the Black Chalice,” whose signature on court documents looks like this: /1

Boosting the Popehat Signal. If you are a lawyer who can take on a pro bono defamation case in Chicago, here is your chance to do a good deed.

Oh wow really

now to hold my breath and wait for the major sports governing bodies and news organisations to act and report on this

I do think this a genuinely worrying aspect of this incident we know the kind of guy who commits political violence and up until now he has not looked like this, and there are a lot more guys like the latter than the former it’s a very bad sign for a society when someone like this picks up a gun

Anyway, they should be scared. Rufo should be scared. Not because we’re going to hunt and stalk them like they do to us, because because when their little tyrant shuffles off this mortal coil, they’ll have no one to protect them from the judgment of society, standing on a brittle raft of lies.

For years these guys openly called for war. They said protesters should be shot. Their whole thing was sending you memes that said “We are going to kill you” and “You have six months.” But then some guy likes two dozen of my tweets about how Trump is bad and I’m the terrorist. They’re lying.

The thing about this is that the administration has completely flattened the distinction between Leftist and Liberal in actual practice Waking up to this fact is the first step to building a durable political coalition

LAWYER: The shooter shared your post: “Bugs Bunny is a two-pump chump. I’d show Lola how to smash ‘Animal Style!’” What did you mean by that? ME: That Bugs Bunny cums fast. LAWYER: He lacks sexual prowess? ME: Yes. LAWYER: Did you consider that posting something this inflammatory might be dangerous?