The Supreme Court, Presidency, Senate and two party system are all quite anti-democratic institutions as presently constructed. Our institutions are not only incapable of preventing tyranny—they’re currently enabling it. When democracy returns, we need to reform our political system.

The pro crime President. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

NEW: Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or use them. They finally got their wish.

Wonder if his buddies are going to come to their comrades aid with some rubles for the lawsuit.

I should call her.

Technology from 1971. 🤦‍♀️ ‘Railroads will be allowed to reduce inspections and rely more on technology to spot track problems’ apnews.com/article/auto...

Police Chief Brian O’Hara has delivered a blunt message to his department: If an officer witnesses ICE agents using illegal force and fails to step in, they will be fired. 👏 👏 👏

My wife and children and I all live together and love each other. Musk could never.

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This will be remembered as the most pathetic moment in American history. What a needy fool.

My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.

So that's 3 or 4 assassination attempts and successes and a couple of bombers All Republicans.. A tad inconvenient if the Republicans had humility.... and dignity... And self respect... Which,if they had would have precluded electing a fecking Moron as president

JUST NOW: "This is like Alice in Wonderland", Judge Breyer says when trying to get the DOJ to explain to him why what happened in CA is a "rebellion" justifying the deployment of the National Guard. "Words just mean what you want them to mean?"

Rewatching Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and I miss Val Kilmer. 😢 boxd.it/23c8

The White House surrenders at 138 million views. Sabrina wins.

"The current disinformation and slop phenomenon on the internet today makes the days of ‘Russian bot farms’ seem quaint; the problem is now fully decentralized and distributed across the world and is almost entirely funded by social media companies themselves." www.404media.co/americas-pol...

Remember in May when Trump gave asylum to 17 family members of the Sinaloa cartel after making a deal with El Chapo’s son? And did you know in 2013, El Chapo bribed Juan Hernandez- who trump just pardoned - in exchange for protection in Honduras? I’m sure it’s all just a coincidence.

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

talking to reporters last night, Trump claimed of Hegseth's double tap strike that "I don't know anything about it," then moments later claimed "I don't who you're talking about" when asked his plan to pardon the former Honduran president

What a stupid headline. How about "Trump Displays Hypocrisy, As Usual?" I mean...

In case you needed even more motivation to vote in the Midterm elections... #AccountabilityIsComing

Sadly relevant today.

Community notes don’t get much more brutal than this

we gotta do something about the tech world

"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."

New Bill Requires Women to Be “Hot but Approachable” in Public Spaces.

“In days after Alaska, a European intel agency distributed a hard-copy report in an envelope to some of the continent’s most senior national security officials, who were shocked by the contents: Inside were details of the commercial and economic plans the Trump admin had been pursuing with Russia.”

Pope Leo's envoy to the United States is raising the alarm on JD Vance’s political ideology — warning it’s authoritarianism disguised as religion.

A) Pretty sure that's not how this works B) If that is how this now works, then goodbye every single old EO the *moment* a new president comes into office. We can just say "oh they're all autpen" or w/e made-up bullshit to sweep them away ...

"Mustafa served alongside the United States military in Afghanistan. Like so many other Afghans who helped American forces, he later came to the US for its promise of refuge. When I met him recently, though, he had only just left an ICE detention center after months behind bars."

all these "autonomous" humanoid robot demos end up being controlled by people but no one considers how hot that is for the robot

How long until "mental disability" is declared a slur? Because I will happily call you mentally disabled instead of retarded as long as you understand that when I call you mentally disabled I'm actually calling you retarded. The euphemism treadmill keeps rolling along!

It's remarkably easy to not take money from Russia I was once offered a paid slot of Russia Today to promote a satirical comedy show of mine as long as I shit on the government Even though I hated the government at the time, I wasn't going to take money from a dictatorial regime despite being poor

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

What the fuck is wrong with people??! 😡 “Online child sexual exploitation, a global crime targeting children, increases yearly, not only in the number of confirmed reports showing child sexual abuse images, but also in the severity of the images and videos.” infonews.ca/news/7443044...

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I think it likely that some political donors and other influential persons are being blackmailed. We know politicians are being blackmailed; a Congressman said as much last year. There may be blackmail that we are unaware of as well, which is concerning.

In the richest city in the richest country on the planet, the thing we can’t afford is to forget those who are left hungry.

Senile Satan, Con Junior and Fredo announced their phone in June, promising delivery in August to commemorate a decade since Satan came down the escalator. Not one phone has been delivered and good luck getting a refund. They took 590,000 deposits totaling $59 million.

An MP in Zimbabwe has called for the repeal of the country's "backwards" 1977 abortion law. He argued that safe abortion should be available to a wider range of Zimbabwean women, as it is currently restricted to a privileged few. Each year, 60,000 women die due to unsafe abortion.

Don't even need people to do it anymore. Just a fuckton of phones controlled by AI. Dead Internet Theory isn't a theory. It's Dead Internet Reality.

A lot of Donald Trumps supporters look like this. 🤔

So a VA high school football coach goes “missing” right as he’s under investigation for child pornography. Yeah… doesn’t look like he wants to be found. And let’s be honest — this feels awfully familiar coming from the same crowd that loves to scream about “protecting kids.” #ProtectKids #EndAbuse

There was a time when the United States looked down its nose at the countries in South America for being lawless banana republics. Who's the banana republic now, bitches?

Our convicted felon president, who pardoned Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the Proud Boys convicted of seditious conspiracy, wants to charge Mark Kelly, a decorated war veteran and astronaut, with seditious conspiracy. That’s some next-level banana republic shit right there.

Breaking: BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro begins serving 27-year prison sentence.

NEW: The Department of Justice and Texas software-maker RealPage announced this week that they have reached a settlement in a case involving price-fixing allegations in some of the nation’s largest rental markets.

The X platform now has a new tool that promotes scrutiny about the origin of X accounts. I've noticed lately that more trolls are invading Bsky. This same feature that X has so members can check an account's country of origin would be super helpful to weed out the bad guys from causing harm here.