Retiring Congressman Steve Cohen (Tennessee' only Democrat in Congress) introduces six articles of impeachment against Chief Justice John Roberts. Good! Get SCOTUS corruption into the Congressional record. #uspol […]

So, a woowoo neighbor told me he'd just read about* Musk's new venture, saving us from disaster with some tech he thought might be called "Dark Energy" (It's Musk, so the name at least sounded plausible). I went digging a bit. I want to point out that (however rife it is with pitfalls) I had […]

“Criticism of Russia is not treated as hatred towards Russians. Opposition to American wars is not automatically framed as hostility towards Americans as a people. Protest against the Chinese government is not assumed to be anti-Chinese racism. Only when it comes to Israel does this distinction […]

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@Hex/116574851788219801 Oh YES. Hence the metastasizing load of time and aggravation every ordinary working person must cope with for every post-purchase customer service interaction, every effing day. We're trapped in a cycle of purchasing affordable stuff (cheap […]

@davidgerard 11 min Mitar has some pretty juicy points. The prospect of one or two tech companies “owning all the engineers” is more realistic than one could ever imagine. It is however, predicated on the idea that AI slop could move into production. Because these forward engineers or […]

One of those mornings... when every little thing catches my attention. Slimy film on the clear panels of the AirSeal pet door catches my eye, have to clean that NOW - and oh, one of the flexible plastic hinges is beginning to break... [AMAZING company, btw, every single part is easily replaced […]

Something that's baffled me about using the Mastodon interface, in various apps/browsers: if there's a post which is just a picture, with no initial comment/text, what TF do I do to see the responses or subsequent comments? Where do I click? Am I blind?

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mem_somerville/116557814677034720 I've been using Kagi for a while, I love the ease of things like keeping aggregated sources or of my results. Got subs for my kids...

When the county utility investigated, officials discovered two industrial-scale water hookups feeding a data center campus located 20 miles south of downtown Atlanta. One water connection had been installed without the utility’s knowledge, and the other was not linked to the company’s account […]

I’m just saying it’s REALLY telling how *intensely* racist the US is when there are states *in the middle of an active primary* that are shutting it down so they can redistrict to prevent Black people from representation because SCOTUS said it’s OK to do a racism. This is like racism speedruns […]

Almost 4 weeks into this cold > sinus disaster > cough > hernia? expedition, I'm beginning to fantasize about life after death; I'm imagining a place where I'm comfortably cushioned by thousands of unmatched socks, but things keep poking through the padding. Looking carefully, I realize it's all […]

How #fascism intimidates protesters. #fbi #uspolitics https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/video-fbi-agents-visit-anti-ice-protester

JEWISH RUTGERS U STUDENT PROTESTS IDF SOLDIER: “When grandmother told me about the Holocaust and about ‘Never Again’. This is not ‘Never Again’. ‘Never Again’ means ‘Never Again’ for everybody.”

RE: https://mstdn.social/@Nickiquote/116470566667001541 No comment.

I feel bad for the guys who keep taking the fake Trump assassination jobs - no trump contact is worth the collectible edition TP it's printed on, but they have to realize the hardest way possible that it's literally a dead-end gig.

Still recovering - way too slowly - from a cold followed by laryngitis and sinusitis, so too much time lying around (and discovering that I can't crossword for shit on cough syrup). Fediverse, look out. Apologies retroactively and in advance for stupid comments...

I've had a sinus infection for almost 2 weeks and I feel like a brick that's been fished out of a septic tank.

Here's Hemant: https://open.substack.com/pub/friendlyatheist/p/are-young-men-really-becoming-more?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

My husband says he's not worried about online privacy, as it's an illusion already. But I've kept my post settings as "quiet public" since I got here, and I'm basically invisible. I do have some followers, mostly gleaned from my comments on others' posts or from people I found/follow who […]

Verbatim: "Doctor Jesus wants to spend $2Bn every day rather than help you get health care....Fuck His A**!!

"Disrupted iron levels after SARS-CoV-2 infection may trigger long COVID" https://www.news-medical.net/news/20260306/Disrupted-iron-levels-after-SARS-CoV-2-infection-may-trigger-long-COVID.aspx #longcovid #covid

And suddenly…the #IranWar has turned into some kind of #Christian end-days crusade. What could possibly go wrong? Is this any way to conduct rational foreign affairs? We now need to worry about US #Military leadership leading us into some sort of armageddon […] [Original post on connectop.us]

While you were distracted, Tennessee Republicans introduced a bill to execute women who get abortions… Paying ATTENTION, yet?!

"Climate change should be the big story of 2026 Fossil-fuel production/use must be reduced by half by 2030. ..nobody even wants to think about this sword over our heads,what we owe our future generations. Econ actors were already backing away before Trump’s corrupt negligence"

Looks like ICE is opening another detention center in Tennessee — in LEBANON. Part of the $38 BILLION push, as @CoreCivic complains they haven’t detained enough people. Cruelty is big business. From @TNLookout: tennesseelookout.com/2026/02/13/i...

Yeah @marenmorris.bsky.social gets it

Interesting Supreme Court allows new California congressional districts that favor Democrats #politics https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-california-congressional-maps-8362a34b739ea91d37a190eee1b6a6d1

You could pluck literally any of a thousand stories on what Bezos or Larry Ellison are up to this week from the newswires, and the fact they're gunning for total autocrat-serving information control and 24/7 agitprop will be buried in the fucking eighteenth paragraph if it's mentioned at all

Breaking news, Trump openly gloats "We're a great power, much greater than people even understand. I think they found that out 2 weeks ago in Venezuela. We saw this in World War 2 when Denmark fell to Germany after just 6 hours of fighting." Yet another case of being better Nazis than the Nazis […]

The Black Monk of the Danube was a terrifying specter of doom. #austria #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Black_Monk

Historians will, I predict, regard the current situation as the American Civil War II. Certainly we are in a civil war, instigated by the federal government, when it began sending unnecessary and militarized forces into American forces. (See pinned post.) 1/

When you feel like there's no justice in this world, just remember that Turning Point USA was founded by Charlie Kirk and Bill Montgomery who worked to promote gun culture and remove all COVID restrictions… Bill died from Covid. Charlie died from gun violence. The. Irony. Overload. Is. Sweet. 😎✨

Today I am reflecting, not for the first time, on the fact that Trump told us exactly what he was going to do if elected, AND many people pointed out what he was saying and yelled as loud as they could, "Listen to what this guy says he is going to do if he gets elected!" and yet somehow there […]

“Trump’s presidency is enabled, normalized, and protected by a wide class of political, legal, media, and economic elites who chose caution, self-interest, or fear over civic responsibility… The most conspicuous retreat came from Republicans in Congress.” open.substack.com/pub/marcfrie...

For those DOJ decisionmakers: "Nuremberg Trials in 2029" is the bare minimum compromise position. "Extradite to the Hague" is a moderate compromise. "NAKED & AFRAID: VIEQUES FIRING RANGE" would pull a yuuuuuuge viewership!

Memo to @indivisrockland.bsky.social Repeatedly platforming a pro-genocide single-issue religious identity candidate, strongly backed by this very failed incumbent leadership is divisive, counterproductive, and destructive. Maybe line up with @indivisible.org for a change, or stop using the name.

All the money I won’t be donating to or raising for incumbent Democrat Senators who do not call for Schumer to step down will be available to donate to independent media, candidates for state Dem offices, and for any convincing fighters who primary incumbents.

Michael Cohen: "There is no better example of how Trump has destroyed America's basic democratic norms than the fact that Trump keeps pardoning Republicans who were convicted by juries of crimes, simply because they are Republicans, and it's barely even a major news story." #media #crime […]

Drove out to #Latrobe, PA to St Vincent College for a seminar] bout 90 mins away from my end of [#Pittsburgh GPS guided me on the way back through all kinds of small roads and fields - but literally a scenic route. Tempted to stop so many times - few cars […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

If I ever have a confirmed case of #covid, I will get a prescription for metformin. "Still, two years later, many people — including healthcare providers — don’t know that taking metformin during an active SARS-CoV-2 infection might prevent Long COVID. And recent studies, including a trial […]

AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All https://www.wired.com/story/ai-bubble-will-burst/ "It’s worth reiterating that two of the closest analogs #ai seems to have in tech #bubble history are aviation and broadcast radio. Both were wrapped in high degrees of #uncertainty and both were hyped with […]

Maybe Goldman's fellow West Bank Settler Terrorism supporter in #NY17, Beth Davidson, can get permission from the material sponsors of genocide and white segregationists backing her run to join Goldman in opposing domestic terrorism by ICE. Big maybe.

If I invited federal officials to an event & they took advantage of my hospitality by telling a bunch of demonstrable lies, this is not the headline I would write.

The apparent failure of our vaunted FBI to (even attempt to) track down Tyler Robinson's lost Discord posts or discuss even the possibility that Kirk's assassination might have been a right-wing Groyper conspiracy is... totally predictable. Follow the Kash.

Ugh. Combo Covid/flu boosters yesterday - I'm glad I was able to get them, US health care being what it is, but boy do I feel like crap.

Deciding the EPA doesn't have any business talking about/doing anything to prevent or mitigate anthropogenic sources of climate change (or acknowledge climate change at all, I guess) is like saying the FBI can't do anything about the problem of minors being trafficked for sexual exploitation […]