geez good thing we’re only using it for health insurance claims, legal arguments, mortgage rates, teaching students, predicting crime, mental health care, automating government services, fact checking, and pointing out other AI

That void has felt even more acute and devastating last 9 something months.

Some of these people need to retire. We need Democrats in these hearings who are better prepared, more mentally agile, and more comfortable verbally sparring. We need more than a low energy reading of questions prepared by an aide. The Senate the Durbins and Schumers were built for is dead.

This is a crucially important thread about how "competitive authoritarianism" will impact the 2026 election, how to understand the threats, and how we have to approach politics to stabilize democracy and reverse democratic backsliding. Thank you @asharangappa.bsky.social for linking to it! 👀

Charlie Kirk Was Not Practicing Politics the Right Way 🔗 www.404media.co/charlie-kirk...

Once again, it's Teen Vogue doing real journalism while WaPo and the NYTimes are busy sanitizing his record.

I'm wondering what the reaction would be if Vice President Kamala Harris or Joe Biden had skipped a 9/11 ceremony because a Pod Save America figure had died. bsky.app/profile/wash...

I wish Klein arguing that poisoning the national dialogue and goading your followers into violence while keeping your own hands clean is "doing politics the right way" would be the last we hear from him, but it will be the opposite. Nothing is ever really new. www.theguardian.com/world/2016/m...

This is painfully accurate.

The United States Supreme Court saying that it's perfectly fine for federal agents and the police to make indiscriminate stops and interrogations of people based on their color, race, ethnicity, and the language that they speak is the effective end of civil rights in this country.

DOGE, he said, began acting like “a bunch of people who didn’t know what they were doing, with ideas of how government should run — thinking it should work like a McDonald’s or a bank — screaming all the time.” @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/insi...

At a profound level, MAGA's immigration policies are simply a way to transfer taxpayer dollars to private contractors whose job is to terrorize the American people. Fundamentally, leaders are using our own money to destroy our democracy.

It will be much easier for them to kill Medicare when seniors start to hate it as much as the rest of us do our shitty insurance companies who drag things out a long as possible hoping we'll just die before they have to cover any costs.

I love how someone called the new White House gold aesthetic as "Saddamcore".

This is really interesting—a House Dems "Rapid Response Task Force and Litigation Working Group" set up three weeks after Trump took office, which I've never heard of until today.

It’s a little bit funny that so many people with influential platforms remain committed to the idea that Trumpism, as a political project, is mysterious and hard to pin down – while Trump himself constantly goes “Gotta protect the white real Americans from the black and brown hordes.”

August 22, 2030: ThirdWay releases its annual list of phrases serious Democrats should avoid using if they want to seek leadership positions in the labor cadres of their internment camps: “typhus” “mass grave” “summary execution” “human rights” “quicklime”

Oh good. If there's anything government websites were missing, it's things constantly moving and disappearing and your settings changing themselves.

90 Minutes of James Dobson Burning In Hell (2025)

As a metaphor for the relationship between Fox News and the Trump administration this is a little too on the nose

I don't know whether I'm more offended by framing this piece around Taylor Fing Swift, or that they think they have any business bringing it up unless it's to apologize for their own last decade plus.

"Journalist" posts lengthy thread misrepresenting issue, turns off replies when people start correcting her, leaves thread up. Whether is should be available at Costco is a different conversation, this is just amplifying ADF's PR claiming they won a fight that didn't even happen.

As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.

Letting billionaires control whether or not the sun is blocked out? What could possible go wrong.

She's a green card holder with permanent residence status.

We should have a larger convo about how companies like American Eagle use beautiful people to add glamor to unglamorous products. In 2023, a young Bangladeshi woman committed suicide at a factory that made American Eagle clothes bc of abuse. This is the cost of cheap, trendy clothes.

Since convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell is in the news, it's worth remembering that, during her trial, she stared the courtroom sketch artist dead in the eye while drawing her back. Like a total psychopath.

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Whoopsie, I accidentally voted to give a lifetime federal judgeship to a 35-year old zealot who's on record arguing Christians are obligated to impose their beliefs on non-Christians. How was I know to know Josh Hawley's endorsement was a negative not a positive?

"sir you're in the epstein files"

I hate when someone unearths my pube-autograph to the world's most famous pedophile while I'm dying of cankles

Andrea is an expert on the history of concentration camps. She wrote a book about them. There is no one you should be listening to more about the atrocities going on in Florida than her. bsky.app/profile/andr...

The presence of masked federal agents is an unnerving part of life in Southern California this summer. Here’s a look at who’s carrying out the immigration raids. cal.news/3Gxq9Vo 📸 Larry Valenzuela

I didn't expect the origins to be so surprising or so satisfying.

The right has to lie about cities because cities, in all their successful bustling and dynamic pluralism, puts the lie to the right's claims about what's necessary for a society to function. If cities are great, then the right is wrong. So they have to tell their followers that cities suck.

26 of the 31 states that were won by Trump last year have homicide rates higher than New York City's. Mississippi's rate is about 4 times NYC's rate. Alabama's rate is about 3 times NYC's rate. But you don't hear the Trump regime talking about crime in the GOP-run states of Mississippi and Alabama.

This morning, like every morning, US President woke up: painted his face orange, clipped on his comical wig, put on a big floppy tie & oversized suit & weird platform shoes, and went out in the world to steal as much money has he could while undermining US national security & economy & democracy.

SAME. Made me crack a half smile for the first time today

This is what I keep reminding myself of.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

One of my first jobs was as an operator for one of these companies. Many calls were refused because families couldn't afford the rates. The inmates would often try to get us to stay on and talk to them about the weather, food, movies, anything to hold onto a friendly voice and a piece of normalcy.

I laughed so hard I dropped my phone into the abyss under the ottoman

I open up this app and the first two things I see are (a) an accident in which a woman fell off of an 8-foot high unicycle while balancing bowls on her head at a basketball game; and (b) a massive explosion at a fireworks factory. The vibes are super unusual tonight.

Almost twice as many people ride the New York City bus every day as live in Wyoming. The bus should have two senators

maybe it's a weakness in my character but I'll never be able to forgive my fellow Americans for any of this it's just never going to happen

What does is mean about the Republicans and the American people that Republicans think it is good for business to laugh it up in front of cages in a tent, in the summer in Florida, where hurricanes can rip through at any moment, where they intend to detain innocent non-white men, women, children?

We’ve got secret police black bagging people and sending them to gulags, the scary parts of communism are already here idk what these people think a public grocery store will lead to bsky.app/profile/jame...

Nothing better exposes the hypocrisy of the GOP, who claim to be the only ones who cares about national security, than their silence on these demonstrations that either the US's word is meaningless, or US intelligence is entirely incompetent. There are pictures of the trucks.