I just heard a guest say on MSNBC that Trump likely doesn't have a case in his Wall Street Journal libel case unless he gets Judge Cannon. Everyone nodded and agreed. And it struck me that we've now reached the point where brazen corruption is just expected and accepted as a part of civic life.

@patrickhwillems.bsky.social needs to listen to the new Clipse album

@adamlancegarcia.bsky.social Mephisto?

Good morning, beloved. Fan the flames of justice AND kindness. Today is a great day to overcome evil with good.

Popped into Bsky specifically to see @adamlancegarcia.bsky.social 's response to Doctor Who. Was not disappointed!

They suck and are useful for very specific purposes, if heavily supervised by a human with relevant expertise

It’s unclear exactly how many citizens have faced the Trump administration’s dragnet so far. The government does not release such figures. Neither Border Patrol nor ICE would tell ProPublica how many Americans have been mistakenly detained.

Tomorrow’s going to be a good stress test of the press. El Salvadoran President Bukele will visit the White House. At the press availability, every Q ought to be about Abrego Garcia: where is he now? Did US ask you to return him? etc. WH will hate, maybe try to prevent, so all should band together.

Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.

if you want to bring back the prosperity* and security of mid-century american life then you need high rates of unionization, a generous social insurance state, and widespread, freely available education. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

How does an authoritarian grab power?

“Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.” -Luke 23:24 Sometimes… entertaining the idea that someone is moving in stupidity… is the foundation of forgiveness.

it is hard to find a stronger example of motivated reasoning than a bunch of traders who are desperate for there to be a rational explanation for the fact that they’re all hurtling into the abyss

Every time I see a cybertruck in the wild it's like sorry I don't believe a real person bought one of these with their own money. These are paid actors

once you have enough money that it no longer matters in material terms and serves only as a scorekeeping device, you have too much money

We've heard concerning things about the Social Security Administration lately, so I decided to check for myself. SSA says Wednesday is the best day to call, so I called then. Their system told me there would be a two-hour wait time, told me to call back, and then just hung up.

Feels like a first amendment issue

It's not knee-jerk. It's an environmentally-destructive technology designed to fetishize idea over effort and excise artists from art in order to make techlords richer by plagiarizing pre-existing material made by *actual* creative people and not quote-unquote "prompt engineers."

If Trump issued an Executive Order requiring all newspapers to send articles to the WH for review before publication, would newspapers report it is a “requirement” or “mandate”? Or would the fact it’s preposterously illegal and unconstitutional make right into the lede and headline?

PSA: Delete your DNA from 23andMe right now. It just declared bankruptcy. And California’s attorney general has issued an unusual “consumer alert” about how to protect your privacy. Instructions and details in my @washingtonpost.com column: wapo.st/4kUsBEF

I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I'm running for Congress.

No weed, no alcohol, no cigarettes, no drugs, and no coffee. Never done any of those things. Don’t judge others, they can do what they like and good for them. But they are not for me

I just reskeeted @prisonculture.bsky.social saying people don't know. I'm telling you people don't know. I keep having conversations, even conversations with people who are in media who are missing huge chunks of what's happening. People are busy and aren't directly impacted so they don't know

Gosh, this is so important… Y’all, a pro democracy coalition is the only true weapon against fascism. Anyone who pushes back publicly is doing the work. Anyone. “Be Rachel Cohen, not Paul Weiss.”

"Trump smashes norms" doesn't mean anything to people who never experienced those norms in the first place Trumpian politics are the only politics they've known

“the left's growing hypersensitivity to ideas leftists find offensive” the left can be annoying about ideas they find offensive, meanwhile the right is ctrl+alt+deleting WORDS they find offensive *from the public sphere* and *disappearing people with ideas they don’t like.* what are we doing here

Posting this at 5pm on the Sunday in question is kinda hilarious

The richest man in the world took over $5K out of this guy's bank account, claiming he was dead. The richest man in the world said he was saving money. He was not dead.

All Trump has to do to fix the stock market is admit that his economic ideas are stupid and wrong.

As I watch a buncha people (who do not read books) call Mahmoud Khalil a terrorist, I’m reminded of the fact a leader of the fight against apartheid in South Africa (a man named Nelson Mandela) was also on terrorist watchlists until *checks notes* 2008 #FreeKhalil #FreePalestine

"Fending off starvation in Ethiopia and providing clean water in Colombia was completely crippling Western civilization, taking away precious funds we should be using to buy crypto."

the most effective form of leftism is cynicism olympics, in which everyone jockeys to see who has the bleakest vision of the future and the winner gets to absolve everyone of trying to do anything producive at all.

Introducing my kids to my horse girl era

…this better not be a tease with no follow through

I never got the hype around Suits when it was on but every member of this cast has so much charisma I am utterly obsessed with the messy lives of these lawyers

Watching Suits for the first time and seeing them drop references like the Tesla Roadster and how they avoided a Trump scandal is a really jarring reminder of how different the world was in 2011

Do you know why nobody in the US has died from measles since 2015? It is singularly because of vaccines. Not nutrition. Not hygiene. Vaccines.

New York's (de)congestion pricing, which charges $9 to drive into Manhattan below 60 St, has reduced traffic, increased ridership, reduced subway crime, and is raising funds to fix the decaying transit system. Rare for a public policy to have this many benefits!

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I want to make it clear that no executive order can change federal law and every executive order trump has signed has expressly disclaimed the intent to. The screenshot is from the DEI EO. That’s before you get to courts actually blocking big parts of it. And yet the overcompliance is legion.

@saramontourlewis.com !!! The comeback!!!

Look I like the Watson show well enough so far, but having a character named “Dr. Lubbock” who is from Dallas and talks like she’s from Louisiana is going to drive me up a wall and down the other side

“One of the most revolutionary things you can do is have joy.” - @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social with a whole Word.

How we did it: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did

One danger of embracing generative AI as a learning device and in language assistance is that you're letting the keepers of that AI have power over what you learn and how you write. It will be programmed with biases, unintentional but often *quite* intentional, that you will unknowingly adopt.