My most right wing opinions are against unions, so it's really impressive to get even me interested in a strike.

Still unhappy that the Pitt won an Emmy over Andor, but I'm really enjoying it right now regardless. Unfortunately too much of the convo on here about it is complaints that one of the doctors likes AI lol.

stray pigs eating food in my suburban backyard — an unexpected and random turn of events to cap off my week! had to take off the rest of the day to take care of these ladies and figure out who lost them

the reason people on here constantly believe Democrats are selling them out/that everyone is doomed/other things downstream of a pervasive atmosphere of harassment is because not enough of you are willing to block "cool" people in your circles who repeat bullshit

Uh, so… guys, this needs to be configurable. This was *the* way to work around not being able to turn off reposts per person in Following at the moment… (without resorting to building a custom feed)

On one hand, Helen Toner and Tasha McCauley had Sam’s number from the jump On the other hand, Sam did get off this sick burn on Elon And Greg, woof man, how long has your brain been cooked

you can make arguments either way, I think it's fine to use or not use. the thing where people on here sublimate anger at actual bad things happening into screaming at people who 80% agree with them over messaging is happening again.

The US Treasury and IRS issued draft guidance for the "no tax on tips" provision of Republicans' tax law. It's open for comment, so we submitted one asking how the provision would apply to a government official who accepts bags of cash in exchange for government contracts.

Single? Oh I hope they meet someone nice

Last night I dreamt that Anthropic declared they had achieved AGI with Claude 5 and in recognition of this achievement renamed their model versions from Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku to another set of names. I wish I remembered them but they were really dumb.

If we really want to cut down on traffic congestion, then extend the SAS past 125 and deep into NJ. This would easily serve 150k-200k daily riders and eliminate 100k+ car trips. NJ Gov elect Sherrill should call Kathy this week! ☎️🚜🚇

A bunch of somewhat contradictory thoughts on the birth rate. 1. The birth rate problem in the US isn't nearly as large as people think, as data analysis by people like @scientificdiscovery.dev has convinced me that the official birth rate is undercounting increases in the birth rate among older

Protesters clashed with federal agents for another night outside the Whipple Federal Building, which holds ICE detainees. Agents fired less-lethal munitions and deployed chemical irritants at the crowd. 📷️: Jeff Wheeler

my claude is really scared

Would be funny if the DOJ investigation enables Powell to stay on as Fed Chair past May

Having served in multiple countries run by ruthless dictators, I am accustomed to their tactics for keeping their populations under control. One of them is to employ a legion of fake opposition figures who promote the false narrative that "all parties are the same, so why bother voting?"

At some point the law needs to actually be enforced. Letting bandits run rampant because they have badges is corrosive to the rule of law, dereliction by public officials, and morally wrong.

Defund the police was terrible slogan because defunding the police was a terrible idea, the solution was destroying qualified immunity and police unions not reducing spending on public safety. Abolish ICE is a good slogan because abolishing ICE is a good idea. ICE is improving no one's safety.

What do people think of this mild gamification for a bluesky client?

It’s legitimately a massive scandal that they’re giving people guns with a fucking month and a half of training before putting them on the street. Big city beat cop training is like six months!

The biggest mistake dems AND activists made following the death of george floyd was not making the central demand to bust the police unions.

Hello world. First post from my bluesky client, testing testing.

Just so folks know; if I did this for a client I would lose my fucking bar card.

It is much better to read this than to watch the video.

The video JD Vance is touting shows that Ross boxed in Renee Good and got out of his car to confront her, her saying "I'm not mad at you," furiously turning her steering wheel to avoid hitting him, and Ross screaming "fucking bitch" after he shoots at her three times.

All 3 models predict higher employment than we have seen. So tariffs, deportations and impoundments have likely had an impact.

Very useful to see what various commonly used forecast models would have predicted pre-tariffs.

We’re mobilizing across the country this weekend to honor Renee Nicole Good, demand accountability for ICE’s killing of Renee, and make visible the human cost of ICE’s terror: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

2025 is now, officially, the worst year for job creation outside of recession since 2003. @byheatherlong.bsky.social

Another image that sums up the protest.

And here you have it, Star Tribune is reporting that his name is Jonathan Ross. www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...

This is hard to believe/unacceptable

This is going to sound crazy but criminal obstruction charges will need to be strongly considered by Minnesota against a large number of federal officials.

This isn’t a call for civil conflict or civil war. Very few people want to die for this regime, thankfully. It’s about putting people with training, uniforms and government backing between ICE and your constituents. Simply paying people to do monitoring work would be so helpful.

As a person who does believe capable AI risks are real, it’s frustrating to see the community not exactly behaving responsibly. If you can’t find it in yourself to say or do something about a literal, present, AI harm (Grok being used for abuse) what is the point of you

The thing I always come back to is how many people never despaired against longer odds, and how arrogant it would be to put myself above them.

This is the agent Trump said it’s hard to believe is still alive. After he shot Renee Nicole Good. Walking away. Seems not at all hard to believe he’s still alive. Lies. Shameless lies.

First time solo protesting. Was shockingly easy and refreshing. Got a lot of positive interest for my "how much longer must we endure our national humiliation 14-3" sign and people were friendly at Columbus circle.

I'm too angry, can't work right now. Might just take a sign to Trump tower and protest in front of it then get my work done tonight.

the video of the shooting is not graphic, i should say, at least the one I saw. you cannot see the victim, only the car. but it's video of someone being murdered.

This needs to be charged as a homicide. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Ok this is one thing I actually support, because I will support almost anything that turns Trump's madness away from the rest of the world and towards Russia.

I see people saying Jan 6th wasn't a failed, but rather a successful coup because Trump is in power. I'd urge you not to say this. It's disrespectful to those of us who sacrificed to make it fail, and it abdicates responsibility from the millions of Americans who voted for Trump.

If Sky were still here, they would have a much better post on this than me.

An excellent essay that applies to much more than just libertarianism.

Recently Venezuela has been averaging ~1,100 BBL/D/1k of crude oil production which should annualize to about 400 million barrels annually. So this would be about 1/10 of a year's worth of production for Venezuela. I think this is context for this unconstitutional, illegal, impeachable act.

I understand this but I don't think the rest of us should leave because of mediocre college seminar gadflies, failed grapic novelists, middle-aged faux revolutionaries, and other griefers who want to use social media as their instrument of self-actualization.

Tangential, but I keep seeing an anti-military thread w/ a decent number of flat-out lies, the gist being: "don't join the military it's evil" and I'm sort of dumbstruck. We need a military, and ideally we should have moral people staffing and running it. Don't cede control of that to shitty people!

is it eugenics to be a power bottom?

I mostly agree with Matt Yglesias here, with the exception that I'm still angry at Zohran for meeting with Trump and not putting up any fight against the Bally casino. open.substack.com/pub/matthewy...