Rep. Ogles: "Muslims don’t belong in American society," Rep. Fine on "mainstream Muslims": "I think you should destroy them first" Sen. Tuberville: "The enemy is inside the gates". Rep. Roy posted "No more Muslims" on his social media. None of them censured by Democrats. No penalty.

I did not have the honor of knowing Catsby, but I am persuaded

Galvion Inc., a Canadian defense company, produces ballistic helmets in a plant in Vermont. The headgear is built to withstand the impact of small, fast-moving projectiles. And business is booming.

I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable

Frieda yawps for the golden hour

Trump Requests $1.2 Trillion To Have https://bit.ly/3RjdlH1

Rooting for Massie against Trump is like rooting for Altman against Musk. Massie is as much or more of a fascist. That he’s also a contrarian makes him no kind of hero.

This is on scale even bigger than Japanese American internment.

Not now, Elder Gods From Outside Reality Frozen Under The Ice For Aeons

The “human vs. machine” binary is fun and familiar from science fiction. But the AI industry and its strategies are shaped by powerful people and institutions. The existing threats — to labor, education, environment, community autonomy — are about those people’s incentives and decisions. (7/x)

Speaking of which — when AI chatbots make mistakes, call them that: mistakes, errors, inaccuracies. “Hallucinations” is an unnecessarily jargony term that anthropomorphizes the chatbots. (5/x)

Speaking of which: Consider referring to ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and so on, as ”products” or “apps” rather than “tools”; the latter tends to obscure their relationship to the companies behind them and makes it sound like they exist just to help us. (3/x)

People don’t “collaborate” with AI products any more than they collaborate with any other product — this is language that tech companies use, but we shouldn’t. (2/x)

Journalists, let’s be careful about the language we use when writing or talking about AI. Here’s a thread — @emilymbender.bsky.social, I know you pay attention to this, too, so feel free to chime in. (1/x)

Her use of “cucked” and “blood sacrifices”—manosphere & QAnon terms—seem like tells that this self-declared “Mangionista”—who seems to simultaneously say assassination is legit & he didn’t do it—is either rightist or sliding that way.

4. In its ruling, the state’s highest court held that the hospital’s fears of federal retaliation could not override Colorado’s civil rights protections for transgender people.

2. Today, the Colorado Supreme Court ordered Children’s Hospital Colorado to resume gender-affirming care for transgender youth, ruling 5-2 that the hospital discriminated against transgender youth patients when it shuttered its care program earlier this year in capitulation to Trump.

1. Incredible breaking news and a landmark ruling out of Colorado. The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled that hospitals MUST not capitulate to Trump, and must continue offering trans youth care under state law. They found vague federal threats "speculative." Subscribe to support our journalism.

For a second I thought this was about the Musk verdict

I’ll be interested (and horrified) to see how much actually goes to violent J6ers as opposed to those who are already rich, powerful, and aggrieved, with “lawfare” defined as friends of Trump prosecuted for tax fraud and domestic violence.

I just filled this out and I hope you will, too. It asks for your address. If you think, "I can't identify myself!" but you post here on this federally-monitored site, you're not making much sense. If you think, "What good will it do?" you're not using every tool available to fight fascism.

Anyone looking to understand corporate influence in American politics, this figure from @axios.com should be a wake-up-call as AI has dwarfed even oil and gas (though there are obviously connections there). To learn more about AI and the midterms, see this piece: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/t...

Marco Rubio says before Christianity people saw history as a “wheel to nowhere.” Yep, that’s ancient Egypt, just lying around, sighing, “what’s the point, why even try?”

daaaamn london

My family got this notice, as well as an email from an advocacy group telling us to hire a lawyer. So when I tell you I'm done voting Blue No Matter Who, PLEASE believe me. We need proactive, explicit political protection, not "of course there should be fairness in sports" bullshit.

That’d be ol civil war Dutch Sheets. Not as in 1860s but as in the one for which he effectively preaches now. I met a student of his who explained to me how the mass hangings are to work.

Ah yes, Lou Engle, whom I met in Uganda, in the company of the author of a bill to execute queer people and imprison straights who’d befriend them, a law for which Engle stumped.

Marco Rubio’s video for Trump’s Christian nationalism festival today really is, without exaggeration, a genocidal horror movie.

Defense Sec Hegseth speaking via video at this event, closing his remarks w/a story about George Washington praying at Valley Forge. Note: Washington was a person of faith, but historians have long dismissed the story of him praying at Valley Forge as a fabrication. religionnews.com/2025/09/29/c...

I guess the photographer/painter/sculptor William Christenberry got dismissed in art world as “nostalgic” but looking at this 2006 survey from Aperture—omg this is something. & “nostalgic” isn’t it. That dismissal is the crudest form of big city provincialism.

And “WIVES SUBMIT” is much bigger than the other two. The Kirk gang really showing priorities.

Good thread. Gerald L.K. Smith, who appears below, was broadcast to troops on the Armed Forces network postwar--despite earned reputation pre-war as fascist--w/ help of International Christian Leadership, comprised mostly of mainstream GOP pols.

The rest of the story could be Handmaid's tale: Pregnant at 15 by man twice her age who told her to burn her grandparents' house down so they couldn't force her to have an abortion; gave birth in prison, shackled, and baby given away to "good" parents.

Reworking my "AI is awesome and you should unquestionably embrace it" graduation speech after some feedback

This video on the rise of Russ Vought is based on scores of interviews, thousands of pages of emails and dozens of hours of videos and recordings of private briefings given by Vought, most of which have not been previously reported.

AI

It’s far, far too late now but in early days of social media I naively thought what if the main focus of “politics” on these platforms was local, an assertion of the more immediate & the real, a rebuttal to the nationalization of every matter, which is a tool of fascism?

"ai is going to touch everything else as well" is such a gross thing to say

Sure, there was Central Florida, and now Arizona. But they don’t count since everyone knows those states are hotbeds of woo woo radicalism. There’s gotta be *some* place where young people love the tech that’s eating their jobs & incinerating their planet, right?

"Flagshaggers" is a useful term

glaad.org/fcc/ I decided if they could use the slippery slope argument, so could I. What's next, a label for content that includes POC? Women? Thank you, @authorkaraj.bsky.social, for teaching me about the Comstock laws because I threw those in my comment too.

I’m afraid that too many people don’t understand just how terrible the Biden pandemic response was—and how it contributed to Trump’s return. I also fear that given how much this administration has dismantled public health, the appetite for looking back and identifying points of failure is low.

“It’s just frustrating to see them come into our community and run all over us like the citizens don’t matter, and then they’re above the law when they do break it,” resident, James Clifton said. www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

There's a major civil rights protest taking place in Selma, Alabama, right now in response to the SCOTUS decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act and the ongoing attack on Black Americans’ political power (video: defiancedispatch/IG)

It’s happening

this use of “traditional” is something else

*taps sign 👇*

I think Newsomism is a neolib variation of Platnerism and both are grotesque mutations made possible by the gamma rays of the Trumpocene.

james lipton IS shia labeouf IN curtis sliwa: renegade angel

Sheriff in county in which I work quietly slinks out of ICE deal ahead of reelection bid. Find out if your sheriff has such a deal and let em know you’ll remember at the ballot box. Cc @jesspish.bsky.social