When the president is a heinous abuser, when many of the most popular celebrities are heinous abusers, when the richest people in the world are heinous abusers, when the people developing new technology are heinous abusers, well that’s how you get a culture that incentivizes abuse

the entire Chicago Park District can hear from Chicago about bathrooms from Area Supervisors who oversee sections of the city's parks, to park supervisors and the Park District Board we want all gender bathrooms that are open 24 hours bit.ly/chicagoparkd...

If alt-text isn’t too time consuming for Flavor Flav guess who else it isn’t too time consuming for 🫵🏾

Nothing he can say to them will be as degrading and disgraceful as their own decision to be there in the first place.

the way this makes sense for RFK is that "healthy people" and "sick people" are ontological categories.

The thing about UK-based crime dramas is that when all the exceptional dialogue and very serious acting eventually gets to a trial, everyone looks like this 😅

We're NOT okay

This is a FRAUDULENT paper, AI-generated. My name was used as an author and I had nothing to do with it, never saw it until today e-pubmed.co.uk/journals/dig... The "Editors" Angelo Rossi Mori, David Mensah, and Zarnie Khadjesari and this "Journal" should be reported.

a teenage boy just made it clear to me that he thought the shirt im wearing was advertising the two separate concepts of guns and of roses

Here’s the very simple truth. We should ban all Gerrymandering. Until then, to unilaterally disarm is political suicide and malpractice.

NEW: I've been shocked by some of the numbers I've been seeing on behind-the-meter power plants for data centers, so I did a little math. less than a dozen gas plants being built to power data centers for big tech companies could emit a maximum of nearly 130 million tons of CO2e each year (!)

Any Dem who runs on a platform of ending every single government contract with Palantir, then hiring a team of experts to undo the damage these fascist dorks have done to our infrastructure, communications and personnel, not only has my vote, but has my donation checks and volunteer hours as well.

Priceless post from the official White House social media

The DOJ was created to increase the capacity for federal prosecutions during Reconstruction esp. those to be brought under the newly enacted KuKlux Klan Act. Now the DOJ is being used to prosecute a storied civil rights organization whose central mission has been to expose & dismantle the Klan.

A reminder while Republicans bitch about Dems finishing the redistricting fight they started: they have full control of gov’t— they can pass a law banning gerrymandering any time they want. They won’t. Republicans aren’t mad gerrymandering exists; they’re mad that they’re not the only ones using it.

You ever try to code switch at work and fail? 😂

I just finished writing my reflections on tonight's big win in Virginia. I've been fighting this fight for ten years, including three cases in SCOTUS. Tonight we won a big one at the ballot box. Subscribe to Democracy Docket. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

Democratic House Rep. Troy Carter to RFK Jr. in the HHS budget hearing: "Respectfully, you know what I really wish you'd spend more time on? More time thinking about the American people, less time talking about whale heads, bear heads, and raccoon parts." 🤣

They're just little guys. You can look at them for free and you can look at them up close if you pay for Bird Premium (binoculars or camera). They're just doing behaviors. They will never email you.

Oh my God. 🚨🚨🚨

If not for Trump, what's the emoluments clause for? What's impeachment for? What's the 25th Amendment for? What's section 3 of the 14th Amendment for? What are checks and balances for? The baddies are cherrypicking the Constitution the same way they do the bible: for their own benefit.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has signed an executive order banning state employees from using insider info to bet on prediction market apps like Kalshi and Polymarket, warning the unregulated boom “opens the door to insider trading and abuse.”

Good people and good deeds matter. In all the turmoil let us not forget that rare and wonderful feeling of changing someone’s life because you said, “I’ll help.” Thanks, Norm and all the people in communities everywhere who stood up for their neighbors.

flipping through a proof of yet another book from a somewhat well known liberal voice diagnosing “where the left went wrong” and i’m struck, again, by the fact that a large part (if not most) of the liberal commentariat simply does not believe that the political right has agency.

“I used AI to combine the data from two excel lists and then send emails to people who were on one list but not another. Saved me so much time.” My brother in academia, you just fucking discovered mail merge. Welcome to early nineties computing.

“Over on Twitter, they’re” shhhhh. Shhh. Shh.

Turns out the phrase “America First” is preceded by the words “Sell Out.”

the best (worst) thing is, this could refer to several posts.

Dismantling Voice of America was one of the most devastating things I’ve witnessed. VOA wasn’t propaganda, it was proof that free press could criticize its own leaders and still survive. And now we’re throwing away one of our greatest tools of freedom.

ProPublica obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing. (Published 2021)

This is exactly right. It’s not a dilemma though. It’s a line in the sand that will at once once collapse what remains of the rule of law and regulatory infrastructure designed to protect the public.

This is a snapshot of the failure of MSM and the concomitant ignorance within the American electorate about what is happening in and to their country.

advertising technology in the 1990s: look at this “website” you can “surf”. it has an image of a cat on it advertising technology in the 2020s: you must adopt this now or die. we are going to completely kill you if you don’t download this app immediately

Free speech absolutism.

In a nutshell. 😊

i think people have a right to expect that leadership figures go back to hiding their drug and alcohol usage and posing as dignified professionals

Nailed it! 🤣

This "president" has said nothing-- NOTHING-- about eight kids killed in a mass shooting in Louisiana today. Ages range from 1 year to 14 years. Children. And they rate not a single comment. I detest that bucket of filth and the way he's lowered the bar for all. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The average person doesn’t give a fuck if AI has some niche use where it actually excels if used properly. In fact, that is what a tool is *supposed* to do and none of us will have a problem if it is used like that. What we see is AI fucking up real life in a massive way.

Recall the Supreme Court held there was a constitutional right to stand on a public sidewalk and scream homophobic rants at a soldier's funeral as long as you're a bunch of right-wing religious freaks, but apparently it's a crime to stand on a public sidewalk and smirk while Black.

This is my personal preference for my own funeral.

Ironic that when a woman saves an entire news organization, the news still can't bother to put her name in the headline. What year is it, again?

Browsing this company's website and the only way I can describe what I'm seeing is imagine a school shooter was a management consultant

Your phone will never take a good photo of the moon except for this one rare exception.

Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.

"Dear America" letters from people who work at the besieged US Department of Housing and Urban Development: dearamericaletters.org

Cool. My electric mixer stirs faster than my finger

Today, a lot of people will be talking about the manifesto that Palantir released. In addition to pouring over what those words mean, I invite you to ground the conversation in what Palantir has already done. Its work with Israel and ICE show us exactly what it stands for.

Palantir is a quasi-fundamentalist subversive right-wing movement with a stock symbol

I wish more educators and fewer lawyers would run for public office, in part b/c the best ones are naturals at explaining the whys of things. We could use more people in public life who cultivate understanding and bring people along together instead of "voters are too dumb to appreciate language"