The state of Montana is on the verge of being the first in the nation to counter the impact of Citizens United via a 2026 ballot measure using an innovative legal maneuver that other states could adopt.

8 years of "What is a woman?" and now it turns out that the comeback was "define a child"

Let me get this straight: The Right has spent years calling trans people, drag performers, queers, teachers and librarians "groomers" -- but Epstein and Trump are NOT child molesters, because *checks notes* their victims were young-looking 15-year-olds?!

So there was a conspiracy, just not involving pizza parlors. At the center of this is how White men trafficked children as a means to acquire global wealth and political power. I do want us at some point to understand this situation as ongoing throughout Western history & not an anomaly.

you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric

I guess I’m confused. People are so mad at the New York Times but they still subscribe to it, read it, link to it, and post their Wordle scores. The NYT has sucked for a long time. Bluesky’s continuous cycle of outrage at/obsession with the NYT *feeds* the NYT. Starve it instead. 🤷🏼‍♀️

I was off by 49 days

Please to speak with @the-independent.com about the boat strikes and the law. “The term for premeditated killing outside of armed conflict is murder. And the Trump administration has not established that these strikes are taking place in an armed conflict.” DOJ: US forces following orders.

this article is one of those rare analyses from the contemporary left that's realistic about who exactly holds what power in this country at this moment and why we can't treat ideals like solutions. the pen is not actually mightier than much of anything, sorry guys!

The essential item here is the TV crew. We need to understand that the administration's policy is driven by an optimization function that weights aesthetics over everything. To be powerful is to be seen being powerful.

We always look back at how overboard the NYT went on Hillary's emails, but I think it's also informative how underboard they went on Access Hollywood tape. The very first story led with his apology, as if that was more important than the existence of the tape itself.

Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/google-has-c...

At the same time the NY Times was hyping Hillary Clinton's emails, it had a reporter with emails from Jeffrey Epstein that were highly damaging to Trump. The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.

every Tesla recall starts overseas, and then eventually comes to the US after a matter of days or weeks... it's one of the best ways to measure the decline and fall of this country's regulatory capacity/credibility

Hey white guys, I need your help. They are trying to push the Overton window on child rape. They are trying to say sex with 15 year olds is normal. I need you all to get VERY LOUD. Online. In your communities. Everywhere. Do not let them do this. Its up to you. #epstein

pantomime for a congress that's too corrupt to function dominated by a right wing party in complete thrall to industry, but I'm sure Politico makes that clear to readers being a news outlet and all

Ever notice that social judgement motivates Christians more than celestial judgement?

One of the striking things in Epstein's emails is how fucking inarticulate he is, and how *every other billionaire is just as bad at communicating*. They're the exact textual equivalents of any interview with Altman or Musk or Thiel etc just fucking babbling incoherent word salad.

i had never before considered careless, hasty, sloppy, barely coherent writing in emails as a means of signaling high social status, but it makes perfect sense.

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

It appears Magistrate Judge Laura McNally has arrived for the morning's inspection, along with a team of attorneys. "Hold them accountable!" A protestor yells repeatedly. "They had a week to clean things up, remember that!" Another says through a megaphone.

We fought this war in the 18th Century. But if they want to fight it again, we're willing and they will lose once more.

You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants. We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua. www.propublica.org/article/chic...

"It's okay to cry. Statistics show you may cry daily for up to 649 days. I hope this comforts you."

Everyone getting mad at the New York Times for sitting on or suppressing mountains of evidence about Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump need to realize that they had a lot on their plate with trying to keep the country afraid of trans kids and Palestinians

There’s definitely a socialism of fools going on—men are being offered domination over women so that they won’t notice how brutally and sadistically they themselves are being dominated by the rich.

“We can’t afford grandma’s cancer treatment but we CAN afford to turn her into an LLM so you can chat with her any time!” is a fun little dystopian twist. Been afraid of this for a long time. Deathbots, am I right?? 🤦🏼‍♀️ (we’re effed.)

Favorite random reddit comment of the day: "Truly wild how Covid broke so many rich people's brains, while we were all like, 'Well, guess I'll get into puzzles.'"

Incoming Trump Truth Social post: “Pam, look at this email exchange, Michael Wolff suggested that Epstein should blackmail me, which is HIGHLY ILLEGAL, and the terrorist Democrats in Congress knew about it. Why haven’t you indicted everyone involved??? NOT HAPPY!!!”

Earnest post: there is increasingly direct evidence that Trump participated in child sex trafficking or at least knew about it. He should resign, be impeached and removed from office, and prosecuted. Even if you don’t think that WILL happen it’s important to say publicly that it SHOULD happen.

Black thinkers & activists have been saying the same thing for more than 150 yrs: the rights, laws, & programs passed by Congress are meaningless if white Americans remain unwilling to enforce them.

Laws continue to be an expression of power, rather than the source of it. I have lately been thinking that passing laws is sort of a big scissors ribbon cutting for activists. Proof of accomplishment, where we can take pictures and look at artist renderings of what's supposed to happen

NEW: ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media. The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.

SNAP benefits weren’t stopped by the shutdown, they were stopped by Trump’s lawbreaking. Under US law there is a dedicated SNAP fund for shutdowns, Trump refused to spend it, lost in court, defied the court order, took the issue to the Supreme Court. And guess what? He’s still pursuing that case.

Never forget that the only country in NATO history which triggered NATO article 5 is USA after a bunch of Arab terrorists took down some buildings in New York. Now when Europe is in existential threat by former Soviets, the USA is throwing us bones and expecting gratitude. EU need to step up.

Trump’s campaign to quell dissent by deploying the American military to U.S. cities comes at an immense price.

EXCLUSIVE: DOGE whistleblower and former SSA Chief Data Officer Chuck Borges is running for office. In his first interview since announcing his campaign for Maryland State Senate, he describes being sidelined at SSA + why government needs more technologists. www.wired.com/story/doge-w...

"Authoritarians worldwide have discovered how to exploit a weakness in democratic opposition: they weaponize our compassion against our principles." This is the stuff, from @adambonica.bsky.social. All of it. "Normal politics" is wildly inadequate in the face of the far right authoritarianism.

I recently watched one our local channels morning news for the first time since last November. The stories were crime, crime crime crime, traffic, weather, crime, crime, crime, crime, crime. Even crime stories from other states. They just want everyone afraid all the time. It's nuts.

The next Democratic administration needs to go on a spree of stripping churches who engage in politics of their tax-exempt status and charging them back taxes.

Finally got to write about this obsession. Elon pushed people to stop linking the articles they were talking about. He's started to roll that back, but we were left with a culture of people yelling at screenshots of headlines on monetized accounts

Their political philosophy hinges on a vision of white supremacy in which people who aren’t white are here at the privilege of white people, which they can revoke at any time, which they expect to be received with gratitude.

what if the firehose of fascist shit isn't wiping out the memory of the electorate? what if it's just hitting different things? and idk it seems like a persisting problem to me that dems aren't in lockstep with and fully tied to no kings, possibly the biggest social movement in american history

I do think this is a point of radicalization because a lot of angry, angry normal people were ready to dig in and suffer a lot in order to make fascists suffer a little, and their resolution was sold out and made into a mockery

Big Tech is plotting a $100M lobbying and campaign spending blitz to block AI regulation at the state and federal level. We must stop this takeover before it's too late.

Imagine that: 560,000 of us that checked the box for the extremely qualified woman will perhaps now have some representation in DC. The @utahgop.bsky.social knows there’s been a shift happening, and they’re snowflaking so hard that they even try to break a voter approved amendment.

Stephen Joe Payne, United States Navy, 1961-1965, photo aboard the USS Point Defiance (LSD-31), Phillipines, 1963, age 19.

The point of having a standards editor is that you bring in a skilled, disinterested person to read or watch a story and point out possible bias, errors and lapses. The actual story editors can miss those things because they're so closely tied to the production and reporting of the piece.

Really. You're going to tell us what to do? We're the ones paying the bill. Whose lives are on the line. Who are being abducted and deported. Who keep showing up to fight ICE We are the 7+ million who showed up and then voted Get rid of Schumer. Clean your house, get it in order, then listen.