This is the compromise? This is the bipartisanship? This is the civility? This is the return to normalcy? This is the price of winning? WHAT WILL YOU HAVE WON

Primary them all and block anybody who comes with the “at this crucial juncture the most important thing is that we win.” if they believed that they wouldn’t do this and with friends like them nobody needs enemies

feels like a pretty obvious layup for Democrats to say, "this is an egregiously disgusting statement, even for him, and it underlines that the President is undergoing significant physical and mental deterioration, and either he is lying about it or is not aware of it."

PSA: there’s been an exploit for Signal and WhatsApp released that can be used to silently track you. Temp fixes for both can be done in your settings: For WhatsApp: Settings>Privacy>Advanced>Block unknown messages. For Signal: Settings>Privacy>Phone number>Who can find me by number>Nobody

On the one hand, should we have tolerated the BS that we have tolerated from these people to date? No. But why they think we’ll just continue to allow them destroying everything with zero consequence is beyond me. Take and take and take and what have people got to lose anymore?

If cost has kept you from picking up There Is No Place for Us (which is totally understandable), good news: the ebook is *$1.99* today—93% off!—on Kindle, B&N, Bookshop, and elsewhere. So grateful to everyone who's been reading and sharing the book this year. It means a lot.

put aside the 14th amendment issues. At a certain point, when your organizing principle is defiance of the Constitution, you cannot claim to validly hold a role within the constitutional structure

Idk what all I’m cooking up tomorrow but it’s gonna be a lot. Time to overnight soak some legumes.

Finally watching the Sean Combs thing and it’s wild to me how often we let these guys lie about how they’ll pay people for their contributions, not pay them, and just keep achieving more accolades. (In addition to all the other stuff, of course)

When the winner of the Nobel peace prize smuggled herself over the water and out of Venezuela to attend the ceremony in Oslo this week, her allies called the Pentagon to ask them not to arbitrarily murder her. www.wsj.com/world/americ...

I have like 4 meetings tomorrow. Not sure how that happened.

Oh, we *seized* the oil tanker? We didn't blow it to smithereens and kill everyone on board like we do with fishing vessels a fraction of the size? Interdiction has *always* been possible, but the bloodthirsty sociopaths in Trump II choose violence so they can feel like real men and get clicks.

A new analysis found that 80% of 45 anti-trans groups in the U.S. have received funding from fossil fuel companies or billionaires, including Shell and Anschutz. www.ehn.org/fossil-f... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Somebody on Nextdoor is complaining about their paper grocery bags meeting the rain. Did I hallucinate the past ~decade of many of us transitioning to reusable totes? I feel like people should have at least 2 by now.

‘The 0.001%’: a quick visual breakdown of the world’s wealthiest people

one way the media really fucked us over when it came to trump was portraying him as a big-time, powerful exec who had a ton of world class executive experience, when in reality he was an LLC king who got most of what he had by ripping off people he hired to do the work and cheating on his taxes

I love moving a heavy thing only to realize that actually I need to put that back where it was

It may be unfair of me to expect people to pay attention to as many things as there are to pay attention but also like, if something has been an ongoing joke with a group of people for the better part of a year and someone goes “what?”, I get annoyed 🥴 PAY ATTENTION!

Remember when things used to be F U N? Before they ruined the fun music and locked all the other fun stuff behind paywalls or made it impossible to afford?

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

These loooong nights and being like a week away from 40 had my ass in bed before 7:30pm. I am tired.

This is horrific and exactly what those of us in Black studies, gender studies, women’s studies have been warning our colleagues in the sciences about. Their seeming neutrality will not save them.

There are literally thousands of articles about these topics and, to my knowledge, none have been written by Alex Karp or Palantir.

Yeah, a House member needs to send up that impeachment flag. This is illegal, immoral, dangerous behavior — that is also likely unconstitutional as well.

There are so many people living lives of quiet dignity despite horrific medical news or poverty or tragedy where every day they still wake up and try to be good people in the world even as the world pushes against them and it makes me even angrier at the absolute shitheads that rule over things

I don't understand why Apple doesn't do what everybody else does and just like, steal ideas for things? Example? I still use "Music" for my library. I'll often listen by artist, just starting on any song I want to hear. What does it do when that song ends?

Texas clearly did a racial gerrymander, which is illegal. A district court found that Texas did a racial gerrymander, rejecting the new map because it is illegal. But the Supreme Court reversed it. Because? Must assume the gerrymanderers were acting in good faith (despite the evidence otherwise).

My headache/tiredness is making my face hurt. This time of year is so bleh.

This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream

It's a campaign of terror. Her terror (and the terror of entire communities, forced into hiding) is not incidental. It is a product they are manufacturing, a key part of the spectacle for their intended audience. Which is the terrorized, but also the terror consumers.

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If we're not at war, Pete Hegseth is a murderer. If we are at war, Pete Hegseth is still a murderer. He's a murderer. And you don't need to go to The Hague to hold him accountable because there are perfectly good, American laws AGAINST MURDER. My latest in @thenation.com

firefox AI and slop disablers from tumblr for the people from local hero mckitterick. Tried it on my end and the browser is significantly faster now (copy paste-able in the alt text)

"The 6-year-old is part of a growing number of children arrested and detained by ICE" God have mercy

Quick question for the web dev people: If the login page used to have username/email and password input fields, why would you turn those into two separate pages?

I’m going to keep yelling that I think we need Cluster B personality disorder testing for anyone who wants to hold political office/positions

@noiserockdad.bsky.social this is for you

I hate the monopolies. I hate everything being forced into a subscription-style format. I hate that even with a subscription, we are still forced to see ads, when the subscription was at one point, the way out of the ads.

One of the things about trust is that it is efficient. It saves you having to invest a lot of time and effort in verification, and if placed in the right places, saves you a lot of pain. "The diseases will do the education" is what we get when we don't trust.

Senior doggo is having an upset tummy day today, which is great bc it means all of us get to be miserable 🙂

Trump is invading American cities to nominally address crime, and I think the scale of his pardon-sprees should be given more political salience

Anecdotally on twitter seeing a big shift the last few days from every AI slop account saying every other creative field is “over” and they’re in control now to now posting about how nobody likes them and it’s not fair and they’ll persevere and real artists respect and uplift eachother

I don't disagree with John but there's another layer too which is people like him should never get near power and yet they get near it often. There's something wrong with the system that allows people like Miller to do anything more significant than bookkeeping.

in a reasonable world the Trump admin would be catching enormous amounts of shit for their decision to deploy the national guard now that this has happened, rather than the media helping manufacture consent for them ending all refugee programs I am not holding my breath

No wonder he’s so upset about people reminding the military to not follow unlawful orders. He’s ordering war crimes.

It’s the busiest shopping period of the year, so we’re hitting pause on buying from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=bluesky

Just once I want someone to call him ugly back to his face 😂