If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

Moses and Mary. At some point this was set to "Hide" all "rude or impolite" posts from me without my knowledge or approval. Fuck Bluesky mods for implementing that.

I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.

Indeed, he was allowed to to kill all those children because he is so rich

I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

Today @TheNewYorker released our short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” online. It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Trans folks reading this: don't panic too much, the supreme court thing is about injunctions pending a larger court case Cis folks reading this: Try to understand how terrifying it is to be a minority the government openly hates, and they start fucking with your ability to *leave the country*

This is obviously terrible, but I appreciate Jackson pointing out that Trump’s legal argument is basically “I should be allowed to do whatever I want.”

Lol holy shit it's all so bad

in case anyone forgot they literally called in the FBI, US Marshalls in armor and SWAT guys to breach the door with submachine guns for the sandwich guy now on trial so they could record this video for propaganda purposes. he posed no danger to anyone at any point. all those clowns should be in jail

bluesky mods retire bitch

I would find it hard to defend the direction of a publication and management after this kind of petty shit

more of this please

Anyway, big winter sale at Amtrak, this is a NY/BAL Acela trip for $64. Regionals for even cheaper. Go book some trips!

I mean, alone it's not much but with everything else we know about this asshole? DAMNING

It's the slight Dutch angle that really makes this photo work.

Heritage Foundation’s endorsement of Haman may be inconsistent with stated agenda of Project Esther.

Ooh, this is exciting. The Baltimore Museum of Art's recent "Black Earth" exhibit was one of my faves of the year. Had no idea there were more environmental art exhibits on the way.

We must note that all the condemnation of Tucker Carlson platforming Nick Fuentes has been about anti-Semitism and there has been an alarming and revealing silence around his anti-Black racism and white supremacy. When the head of the Heritage Foundation apologized, he only cited anti-Semitism.

lolol

Thread. Congrats, Conde Nast, you've just guaranteed that when my current subscription deals to your mags run out, I'll never give your company or its subsidiaries another dime ever again. Well done.

The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.

A milestone: the court order in Chicago today potentially checks America's slide to a secret police state. For the first time, ICE and CBP agents are ordered to wear clear identification: badge numbers or names. Either they comply or this becomes THE issue in which the battle for democracy.

Bro is communism bad or not

A May 2025 presentation by its (Meta's) safety staff estimated that the company’s platforms were involved in a third of all successful scams in the U.S. (Think about who these scams target - the sick, homebound elderly)

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That the Alt National Park Service would do this, that they would use the trauma and terror inflicted on my friends and neighbors as fodder for their own platform, is disgusting. It's astonishing how low this account has managed to sink. And there's still another fanfic post to get to.

Wow. If you're still following that crappy thieving Alt National Park Service account, you need to stop immediately. *So much* awful behavior coming from that account. Stop supporting them.

"Over half of the political content shown to our new X users came from accounts categorised as extreme. Of the content from extreme authors, 72% of posts came from right-leaning accounts." Sure, it's a no-brainer everyone has already figured out for themselves, but the methodology here seems solid.

uh oh

lol

it doesn’t get any clearer that america’s betrothal to fossil fuels is about letting energy companies pick our pockets to prop up their obsolete industry

of course it is

There is something very Elizabeth Holmes about Sam Altman.

This is hilariously done, and a great idea: get lots of folks to run in deeply gerrymandered red districts in NC to boost Dem turnout statewide and highlight the absurdity of the political system, even as the folks running fully expect to lose badly. Love it.

I'm hard-pressed to think of a non-Jewish Democratic politician who has spoken to Jews with more respect and empathy than Mamdani. The fact that many Jewish establishment orgs are going after him while staying relatively mum on resurgent Nazism is a disaster, both for American Jews and in general.

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

lol and ?? and then lol again

"The agreements barred them from sharing information with their constituents. 'That violates a very fundamental norm of democracy, which is that they are answerable first to the voters and to their constituents, not to some secret corporation that they’re cutting deals with in the back room.'"

Reporter: A video of a raid from Los Angeles, look inside this car. They took a US citizen father out and left a toddler in the backseat. Two heavily armed border patrol agents got in that car and drove the child and the vehicle away.

“They came into the building understanding it was a daycare. They did not have a warrant. It is a violation of our rights. It is a violation of these children’s rights. They are terrorizing our community.” Trump’s ICE goons raided a damn daycare.

Ha, the NYC fire chief who just quit was a corrupt Adams appointee: "Six weeks before Tucker was appointed FDNY commissioner, eight employees of Tucker’s former business made political contributions to Adams on the same day. Tucker has never been a firefighter or emergency response official."

the best and most consistent use case i have seen for AI is making right wing influencers weepy with nostalgia for a sepia-toned past that they fever dreamed once when they saw an immigrant and blacked out from rage

this. this will probably be the biggest impact of Mamdani’s win. this is why one race in a city on the other side of the country from where I live is gonna help us all

It’s almost like if people tell you that to win you have to turn your back on poor people, or Muslims, or trans people, or immigrants, you can just say, “no, that’s immoral, we’re not doing that,” and keep doing good old fashioned organizing and campaigning and things will be ok

Great quote from one of attorneys arguing against Trump tariffs in SCrt to today that cuts to the heart of the matter: "Tariffs are taxes. They take dollars from Americans pockets and deposit them in the US Treasury, our founders gave that taxing power to Congress alone. "

Nearly 1.2 million households will get $0 for November under USDA’s plan, because the benefit reduction will be more than their typical monthly benefit amount. Almost 5 million people live in these households, about 1 in 9 SNAP participants.

We estimate that USDA’s plan will result in a roughly 60% cut in average benefits. Because of how the SNAP benefit calculation works, USDA's plan to cut maximum benefits for each household size by 50% results in a deeper cut to average benefits—and a much deeper cut than needed.