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Porn and erotica are important and societally valuable forms of speech, and the defense of them, in the face of state and church attempts at repression, is a necessary political act.

genuinely interesting journalism here, and fairly convincingly in my mind www.hardresetmedia.com/p/an-ai-gene...

you know one thing dems do not need and have never needed overwhelming majorities to do is to stop talking about republicans as their respectable colleagues who they hope will do the right thing and the fever will break any minute now, and to start talking about them as enemies who must be defeated

People harassed Lia Smith's parents after she completed suicide. The level of hate and dehumanization of trans people is obscene.

this store is 18+ and they’re strict as hell about it. none of this has ever been about “protecting children,” it’s about trying to force trans people to disappear

you can change polling and public opinion and issue momentum with effective and viral communication, I have no idea why this is so fucking difficult for a particular segment to grasp

Rep Adam Smith, highest ranking Dem on Armed Services Committee: The consultants keep telling me to talk about kitchen-table issues, but the rule of law is being utterly destroyed in America by Donald Trump.

I reached out to the author of this viral Reddit post thinking there might be a story in it. He sent me an employee badge that Gemini flagged as being AI-generated and supporting documents that I suspect were also generated by AI. Be careful out there folks! www.reddit.com/r/confession...

you know what's weak, bitching to god damn Axios off the record. if you want to have an argument about this then use your real name

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, could you please establish an official NYC Mayor account on Bluesky and post everything your office is currently posting on X over here? And please remove all city accounts from X, which has become a CSAM creation and distribution site? No money for Musk, ever, please.

Hey remember how I wrote a thing for @liberalcurrents.com a couple days ago about how Democrats should be constantly asserting that Trump is illegitimate and has no right to rule? You wanna see an example of doing The Opposite Of That??

Countries like Algeria will be happy to hear that France was happy to let them just walk away

man I wish I had whatever chronic condition it is that allows this guy to forget Mitch McConnell’s incredible run as an obstructionist minority leader

I haven’t seen any reporting on this yet but I have to imagine this is related to all the protests outside hotels where ICE agents are staying. People are showing up outside hotels and banging drums and making loud noises all through the night. It has to be having an impact.

Oh look it's Cassidy whining again about the consequences of his own actions in confirming RFK Jr. and convincing others to do so. Sir, you are a United States Senator. The fact that you continue say much yet do nothing in the wake of RFK Jr.'s destruction of public tells us all we need to know.

you owe it to yourself to read what this clown said in support of confirming rfk, who is ignorant and whose actions are destroying the public health www.cassidy.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...

29 years ago today, Homer Simpson had an epic chili pepper-induced hallucination. “El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer” first aired January 5, 1997. Most of the sequence was animated completely by David Silverman as he wanted it to look exactly as he had imagined it.

here in New Jersey a bunch of progressives ran for Assembly this year without party support and almost universally got outspent by margins ranging from "brutal" to "impressive they haven't dropped out already", and then four of them won and a bunch more came close

News: Minnesota Governor Tim Walz announces he won’t run for reelection: A portion of his statement 👇

6/ What this means now: 🔹Access: All childhood vaccines recommended by the AAP are still available 🔹Cost: Vaccines remain covered by insurance with no out-of-pocket costs 🔹What’s ahead: Expect confusion around school requirements, clinical workflows, and the future supply of combination vaccines

4/ Denmark’s schedule works because of what sits underneath it: universal care, paid leave, centralized records, and near-perfect follow-up. In the U.S., where care is fragmented and missed visits are common, routine recommendations prevent kids from falling through the cracks.

1/ Well, he did it. He actually did it. RFK Jr. just issued a unilateral directive to overhaul the U.S. childhood vaccine schedule. This isn’t based on new data or new evidence, and he bypassed every scientific and clinical process we have, including not taking public comment.

If I had to guess, folks switching to Unaffiliated are doing so because they're _left_ of the NC Dem establishment, because if they were right, they'd simply align with the GOP. There ain't much daylight to the right of NC Dems.

I again wish to point out that it is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. has unilaterally ended CDC recommendations for many childhood vaccines. It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States. And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).

it’s “fuck JHU” until it’s backwards they’re planning on cutting all these trees, which aren’t even technically theirs, down. they’re putting the kids in my neighborhood through hell!!!

A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.

Baltimore is also in this line.

Not clear how this will shake out since the specific hotel in question is independently owned, but worth noting in 2020 Hilton corporate told ICE "the detainment of migrants, including minors, is not activity that we in any way want associated with our hotels." stories.hilton.com/releases/sta...

Ernie Bushmiller, 1947

Utah commissioned it's department of health to do a systematic review of gender affirming care for trans youth. In a 1000 page plus report found it was beneficial and the evidence was substantial. The lawmakers rejected it anyways. www.deseret.com/politics/202...

Eyes wide open, folks. They're revealing the supervillain plot.

Great article about a fantastic group actually building homes for the homeless in Baltimore.

WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize. “If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Excellent post. They don't care about their own blatant hypocrisy, of course, but we still can.

What's happening in Venezuela isn't war, it's deal-making (and back-stabbing). As VP Delcy Rodriguez assumes power, let's re-read the Miami Herald's reporting that she negotiated with Trump in 2025 for this outcome - new boss, same regime - and that she's involved in drug trafficking herself. 1/

Adding: it seems relevant that Marco Rubio's Florida buddy David Rivera - they shared a house for 5 years - is an associate of both Maduro and new president Delcy Rodriguez. Rivera is currently awaiting trial for acting as an unregistered foreign agent for Venezuela. Lots of old ties here. 6/

The Miami Herald Oct. 2025 article also alleges the Rodriguez siblings are deeply involved in Venezuelan drug trade and "serve as the cartel's financial managers". The same claims were made in December by a former Venezuelan general jailed for drug trafficking. 4/ colombiaone.com/2025/12/09/f...

Thread with gift links to great reporting from October in the Miami Herald.

Use this gift link, folks. Thanks, David. The original link just showed me the pic at the top and then stopped; wish I could afford to subscribe to more than the 6 or so outlets I pay for.

A rollout of AI-generated pre-payment reviews for social work organizations in Minnesota is a mess that's wrecking small businesses doing good, honest social work. Archive link for non-subscribers: archive.is/nGYrI

Not every Chotiner interview is him making some blowhard look foolish. Sometimes he has experts explaining complex situations in clear terms. Also good discussion of the comparison to Noriega, which was my first question this morning about all this...

update: can an AI be literally psychotic? This is insane

In a study following 23 million people age 18-59 (pretty young) for 4 years…despite the fact that the ones who got the COVID vaccine were overall older and sicker at baseline, they not only had 74% lower risk of dying from COVID than the unvaccinated but 25% lower risk of dying from any other cause!

This is why they want us to be upset about day care centers.

No. Social safety nets crumble when we wrap them in neoliberal rhetoric aimed at dividing people and deluding them into thinking that everyone--except some tiny group of perfect poor--should be able to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps, even if their boots have been nailed to the floor.

For people that feel helpless, this period is so tough but there's ways to help for anyone. Go out there support Venezuelan ppl and artists living in it as they prepare for unpredictable times Here is a starter pack of artists with commissions or donations open as well: go.bsky.app/8daQmpX

If your concern is about fraud, and making sure the poorest receive funds, block grants are the opposite of what we should do. They allow states to redirect the money away from the neediest. OTOH, there is very persuasive evidence that SNAP really helps people. academic.oup.com/restud/artic...

I am not exaggerating: the lede of the Washington Post editorial board's post about SNAP is based on Shirley. Does not detail that his claims have largely been debunked. (See link). Why should they? It is only the Washington Post, not a serious opinion page. www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

How does this meet the standard for anonymous quotes? This is just people's personal opinions being laundered into the press.