i stand corrected, woody guthrie wrote *two* songs about what a cruel, criminal piece of shit he was

one of america’s most cherished folk singers wrote an entire song about what a cruel criminal piece of shit donald trump’s father was all the way back in 1954 and somehow this basically never comes up in any story about the trumps, they have literally *always* been this way

Calling Candace‘s theories crazy while watching Erika Kirk come out to a stream of fireworks in a glitter sequin jumpsuit and bragging about selling $250,000 of merch less than two weeks after her husband died is wild

Love this for us

Massie, in an interview Wednesday evening, said it took Bondi “a long time to find my insult card.”

“I can’t believe that the Attorney General of the United States of America would appear before hundreds of millions of Americans this way and then have a book of insults that she’s ready to lob at members of Congress ...,” Raskin said following the hearing.

"alcohol purchase ID laws exist to protect the alcohol. I am a very smart person who should be trusted with power in the legislative process at a national level"

Wrote about some ways to help folks in Minnesota facing real economic hardship following the regime's siege of their state: badfaithtimes.com/a-chance-to-...

The core problem with capitalism for capitalists is, it has to keep finding new aspects of existence to commodify and then sell back to consumers. AI is an effort to take our digital selves (social, intellectual, work online presences), homogenize them, and charge us for the resulting generic slop.

You absolutely can have a meaningful conversation about AI on here, the real problem is that a certain cohort of white dudes are getting VERY uncomfortable with the meaning surfaced in those conversations

Forget Congress—the Real Leaders Who Might Stop ICE Are Local -- TNR

Cuellar should be excluded from all Democratic House Caucus meetings, e-mails, chats, all of it.

if Tehran is facing such an assault, its ‘Samson Option’ response would be sustained paramilitary and drone attacks on oil and gas production and export plants, including closing the Strait of Hormuz. The global impact could be massive – on a par with the 1973/4 oil price surge.

Texas Democrat Henry Cuellar Joins House GOP to Pass Voter Suppression Bill ino.to/KTRBasM

One photograph of Bondi’s notes showed that they included a section called “Jayapal Pramila search history,” and appeared to include a list of the documents the Washington state Democrat had reviewed. ino.to/LnlVLtN

Pam Bondi is about one question away

If Pam Bondi was a waitress.

PAM BONDI DO SOMETHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Trump Border Czar Announces End to Deadly ICE Crackdown in Minneapolis ino.to/ojGWtGK

Trump Secretly Yanks National Guard Out of Three Blue Cities ino.to/YKndrG4

Next time someone should tell Bondi they hope her ringed binder is full of information actually relevant to the questions she's being asked, and not snappy comebacks to derail the discussion.

Bondi Calls Jewish Rep. Antisemitic for Asking About Trump and Epstein ino.to/kGvDdw9

What I mean is I understand why it feels ludicrous but I also do believe a semi-stable realignment of voter preferences by both persuasion and churn is possible

"Can the American electorate have a genuine change in preferences or are we stuck in a thermostatic enshitification ratchet" is the question to define our future

here's video of the Keith Ellison smirk that triggered Ron Johnson

He neglected to mention that by "harm's way" he means fucking ICE/CBP psychopaths who regard Good and Pretti as trophy kills. And they went into "harm's way" to defend their neighbors against them.

Oh FUCK YOU

I have a hard time understanding how our culture has somehow produced fans of this person. He’s so clearly and horribly diseased

For folks unfamiliar, this was a bog standard position for Nazi and incel 8chan/board culture back in the day. He's not inventing, he's regurgitating and repackaging

Right, another key thing that historians do is working with important records that have not been digitized. And the vast majority of the world’s records *have not been digitized* and thus do not exist in any format that LLMs/AI can work with.

Man I'm so goddamn sick of ai. "Wahhh you can't have a reasonable conversation about ai on here," yeah maybe be mad about the two year parade of scam artists and financial charlatans and environmental ruiners who have radicalized everyone against the spell check that agrees with you

This is a pogrom

This is exactly right. There's a good chunk of research that says prejudice tends to inflate the perceived size of target groups. Scientists don't necessarily agree on why, but there are theories. I believe it's a combination of normal cognitive errors and deliberate manufacturing/manipulation.

What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it

happy to see this covered better not to be lost in this is how republicans screamed it's about choice and government or businesses shouldn't make people, let people decide what's best for them, then we do and they're like no you gotta decide the same as me so I don't feel you know something I don't

"I have some Reasonable Concerns about trans participation in women's sports which is why I support a worldwide crusade against transition care and trans recognition and want trans people unable to participate in public life or exist in society." "Because of the Reasonable Concerns. About sports."

three women shouldn't have to share the same pair of sweatpants 😔

NEW IDSG: Doug Wilson talks to Ross Douthat (Bad Faith Discussion 2). @danielharper.bsky.social & I listen to sinister Christian nationalist pastor Doug Wilson chat with chunky conservative media lolcow Ross Douthat. Because we hate ourselves apparently. idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/140-doug-wil...

"Why can't we have a calm discussion about AI?" There are many calm discussions about AI happening. The old rule was that whoever got mad on the internet lost the argument. Now it's whoever assigns someone else some emotional state or motivation has lost the argument.

If anyone would like to help me survive I have $15 in the bank, no food besides Cup of Noodles, dirty clothes with no laundry money or supplies, and a need to pay about $60 a night for a motel room for shelter 💕💸💸💕 #mutualaid #crowdfunding #transcrowdfunding #disability #homeless

I was so glad one of the Congress people said -you don’t want to be compared to Gestapo, don’t act like them. Their fake outrage is getting really old.

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

I wonder if they have the procurement process for skull calipers going yet

9. Also you must know, the laws during Jim Crow never explicitly said that Black people couldn't vote. That was illegal. What they did was create "race neutral statutes" that *just so happened* to mostly affect Black people

7. Well, in 2013 they did it again...only through the Supreme Court. Shelby v Holder made federal oversight of elections in certain areas historically known for voter suppression, to be unconstitutional. The reason? "We're not racist anymore." But what happened? Voter ID laws everywhere!

6. Because of the repealing of the Enforcement Act in 1894, elections wouldn't be subjected to federal oversight for another 70 years with the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. So where are we?

5. However twenty years later in 1894, Congress repealed the federal oversight sections of the 1870 Force Act. Most people credit 1896 Homer v Plessy as moment that marked Jim Crow, but I'd argue that repealing two years earlier allowed for the crafting of new restrictive state constitutions

4. Also the 1965 Voting Rights Act technically wasn't "new" legislation either. After the passage of the 15th Amendment in 1870 (which gave Black men the right to vote), it was the 1870-71 Enforcement Bills (also known as the KKK Act) that gave it teeth. It called for federal oversight of elections