If Kamala had been elected Minneapolis would not have been turned into a war zone where people are gunned down in the streets.

Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"

AOC: This is quite a bit of market concentration. Agreed? CVS HEALTH CHAIR DAVID JOYNER: No. I'd suggest it's a model that works well for the consumer AOC: It works well for CVS. Health insurance gets a cut, pharmacy benefit manager gets one, drug manufacturer gets one, & the patient gets screwed

Whatever is in the Epstein Files is so explosive that the leaders of the Department of Justice are openly breaking the law every day to keep us from seeing it. (Just a reminder amongst all the other stuff flying around.)

MLK Jr. said America suffers not just from "the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people." Remember this.

Hey, folks—our kids are under real and horrible threat from AI. Please sign this petition to help protect them. The more people who sign, the more attention we can bring to the issue, so the faster we can get something done. Thanks! c.org/ZJRmN5jmsb

The way an entire country based on “We, the people” has chosen to abdicate it’s collective power over the past year to the people they gave it to rather than taking it back—and then whining about it—is so shameful. We can, and must, get off the couch and do better than this, folks.

Everything you need to know about how the world functions (or, more to the point, doesn’t) in a single thread.

Don't need to imagine, Sinatra had something to say about multicultural liberal democracies 🧵

This is the story you didn’t know you needed to read today.

Only been trying to say this all year. It's always a fight. ALWAYS. It's up to US, y'all. youtube.com/shorts/n5Tqa...

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. youtube.com/shorts/6SjEf...

While this usually isn't the intent, "no one will ever be held accountable for this" doomerism is an excuse not to try. There'll be at least some accountability if enough Americans work for it. And this time really is different. Doesn't guarantee the aftermath will be, but it increases the chances.

A great list of what we can all do - small collective actions add up to make a huge impact. Please read and share this important article by @djrothkopf.bsky.social : davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/how-to-sto...

"One of Tina Peters’ lawyers, Peter Ticktin, suggested on Trump ally Steve Bannon’s podcast this week that the military be used to free Peters from prison." And that, my friends, is what we would call "an illegal order."

Seems like that Gmail thing isn't true but maybe there's a lesson here about what happens when you keep turning new features on by default and you make it difficult or impossible to turn them off, and also what happens when you lump useful machine learning in with forced slop under the "AI" label

Just nasty malicious racist fucks is about the best you can say about these people

Good News: I have successfully convinced an older person to no longer use ChatGPT; instead, to use Google/DuckDuckGo for more accurate answers. Concerning News: I’m terrified at how many ppl are using ChatGPT as a search engine: THE most unreliable & inaccurate source of info on the planet.

Here's the drill. (and this was an assault. This was not part of an arrest nor detention).

When the U.S. stopped policing foreign disinformation, Russia didn’t stop producing it. Kirk’s assassination brought it roaring back. (Gift link with strings) wapo.st/4moekj1

If the people fight and organize, the fascists lose. What we have right now is the fascists using spectacle and propaganda to intimidate people out of fighting, and (worse) people who are intimidated trying to persuade others that it's all over and to lie down and die.

need people to understand that accepting or conceding that he has the authority to do these things is tantamount to giving him the authority, and so your preemptive dooming is actively counterproductive

For all the folks who think "we the people" are "powerless" and "can do nothing," here's evidence that we absolutely can. This is exactly why you make phone calls, cancel subscriptions, and boycott. Put pressure on the corporations so they'll put pressure on you-know-who.

Heard from a friend at Disney+ that there are multiple levels of freakout internally, both from internal dissatisfaction, concerns about subscription cancelations, and of course the big one: concern about a boycott spilling over into parks and cruises.

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

It's worth noting that this clip is from May 30. That's almost FOUR MONTHS ago now. When are you going to DO SOMETHING, Senator? When is it enough? Best time was months ago. Second best time is NOW.

It is genuinely humiliating as an America to have this sour, cowardly, narcissistic lout represent us and to know that so many Americans applaud conduct like this. Just deeply embarrassing.

If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.

Refusing to act, then falsely accusing those who want to see something tangible done to protect kids of attacking prayer on top of it, is doubly shameless.

A week ago, I lost 900 followers for posting a picture wearing a mask. Today, there are more than 10,000 new followers. I’m grateful you’re here. Let’s keep building a community that values curiosity, evidence, and compassion over fear and noise.

Everyone needs to see that these fuckos back down a LOT when they face resistance. Which is why it's SO maddening that so many institutions have capitulated.

Has anyone found sales data on his various grifts? Because I’ll bet the numbers are declining, hence his ever more desperate attempts to make something—ANYTHING—sell.

Tonight we saw an example of the risks associated with the most dangerous force on earth—the egos of old men. Concentrations of weapons grade self-interest and face-saving led to the destruction inflicted in Iran.

This obscenity should be a huge story in every media outlet right now

ITMFA!!!

My god. 6 MILLION acres of public lands in Oregon, including the vast majority of our national forests, will be sold in a fire sale if the MAGA budget passes.

Amazing how they’re demonstrating why public funding/government agencies beat the heck out of privatization right here in real time.

@parkroseperma.bsky.social Could you help get the word out about this complete madness?

One of grants frozen at Cornell: $6.7M (4 yrs) to develop heart pumps for babies born w/ heart defects. It took decades of work to get to point of prepping device for in-human clinical trials. No private company could do this. The cruelty of the Trump administration is heartbreaking. So to speak.

If you care about endangered species and wild habitats, you should go leave a public comment about this proposed change to the Endangered Species Act. youtube.com/shorts/ZQTvF...

Carl Sagan saw this coming 30 years ago, in 1995's The Demon-Haunted World.

they want jim crow history for a jim crow society

Turns out you can shape the agenda with dramatic action and maybe even shift public opinion. Crazy.