President Trump is so far gone that he is pushing an obviously fake AI video of *himself* He can’t even discern what’s true about his own words and his own actions.

#carlsagan #quote #johanneskepler

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*Coughs in American*

This aged well...

“The polite phrase for this is ‘democratic backsliding.’ But that’s a euphemism that doesn’t meet the moment. Let’s call it what it is: it’s a power grab. The rule of law isn’t slipping; leaders are sabotaging it. Rights aren’t being neglected; they’re being stripped." @clintonglobal.bsky.social

Too funny

Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on. www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...

If you ever need more data points that AI is vapor, you can read this poem written by a six year old that has orders of magnitude more potent artistry than anything ever written by a language model:

Scenes from the lawless streets of Portland, OR.

RFK Jr., Makary, Bhattacharya and Oz continue to downplay or outright reject the role of genetics in autism spectrum disorder. They cannot accept that they cannot control the uncontrollable. They try to change reality to fit their illusion because they won’t acknowledge the limits of their power.

The rhetoric (and actions) seems to be escalating...

PURA ARTE

#FlintFriday! Stunning 🤩 Mesolithic scraper from submerged #Doggerland 🌊 found on the beach by Maurits a couple of weeks ago.

Well don't I feel stupid

A pattern is developing where everyone who fights back against a Trump attack inevitably wins with their reputation much better than before, and everyone who caves to him looks like shit and has Trump coming back for more a month later.

So this is real. Go fuck yourself is his actual policy regarding talking to Democrats.

cartoon by @bagleycartoons.bsky.social

Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets. • Joy Reid • Don Lemon • Melissa Harris-Perry • Tiffany Cross • Jemele Hill • Marc Lamont Hill • Karen Attiah • Amber Ruffin

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Absolutely amazing.

None so blind as those who will not see.

Wait, *11 people* with AR-15s and tactical gear, and they were using fireworks as cover? I am a 0.1%ile news consumer and it's still absolutely wild what blows past these days, there is just Too Much News. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The Trump admin tried to censor Jimmy Kimmel, but their plan failed after the public pushed back through protests and boycotts. It was good to see Jimmy Kimmel return to the airwaves last night and his monologue is worth a watch:

Someone cleverly switched off the escalator in the UN building just to mess with Trump as soon as he arrived.

Last night in LA… Nightmare fuel on a freeway wall.

This moron is a US Senator (I don’t need to tell you which Party, obviously). God help the USA. 😕

Imagine the President of the United States, the Vice President, the Media & other highly influential people giving openly high praise to a man like this? Oh wait….🤔

DISNEY: "OK, we are putting Jimmy Kimmel back on the air. You can resubscribe now." ME: "I unsubscribed because you immorally bowed to fascism. I'm not going to resubscribe because you immorally bowed to finances."

Medical ethicist Arthur Kaplan, quoted in the NYT: “The announcement on autism was the saddest display of a lack of evidence, rumors, recyling old myths, lousy advice, outright lies & dangerous advice I have ever witnessed by anyone in authority in the world claiming to know anything about science”

Trump: "We've got a lot of stupid people in this country running things."

Adobe: We've upgraded a key feature. User: How will this improve things for me? Abode: Now just hold on there buckaroo

#OTD Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing about 3 million enslaved Black people. Slavery’s end was not its disappearance. Oppression took new forms. Today, #TheMarchContinues.

Videos shared across social media show a bright fireball streaking across the night sky over various cities in India. It’s unclear whether it was a meteor shower or space debris burning up in Earth’s atmosphere.

✒️ Ottoman Calligraphic Wall Panel, Poem, 1897 "Be rich in heart and content with little, Even if you die, do not seek a livelihood from the lowly, Do not let your heart be wounded in order to sustain your life, Indeed, provision comes from God."

Be sure you take a moment today to remember Charlie Kirk for exactly who he was.

Kirk’s ‘memorial’ getting a live coverage on The Guardian is a great example of how the right gets automatically framed as the default political movement to be ‘understood’ while the victims of that same movement never will never get the same amount of coverage

in other life i have to travel a lot (i have to travel as chuck a lot too) and many years ago i was trotting a flight in australia that dropped for about a minute (maybe a few thousand feet?) i have hated flying ever since but still have to do it. thats where the scene in bury your gays comes from

October of last year.

I got back to my hotel and saw the foreground involved FALL FOLIAGE! In California! I had to stay up to finish the edit. Glad to live in this universe with you all ❤️

If you want to push back against censorship, here’s some actions to take. Censoring *yourself* is not the way. Please listen to those who are most affected (nsfw artists) and what they’re asking us to do which is not to be silent!

One day I will bore everyone with my long ramble on “how you talk to rural conservatives” and it is not by peddling weak ass centrist talking points. I have never had to be wishy washy on what I believe. The point is not about trying to logic people out of bad info. Logic didn’t get them there.

One of my favorite moments in the history of free speech: Larry Flynt publishing a satirical Campari ad featuring Jerry Falwell Sr. as an incestuous drunk who first had sex with his mother in an outhouse. Falwell sued. In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court found that satire is protected speech.

Something for ICE "agents" to think about.

lol. Emil Bove intervened. The guy that Senate Republicans just confirmed for a lifetime position on the federal bench. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

Trump criticizes Pam Bondi for not charging his adversaries quickly enough, in a Truth Social post that looks a lot like a DM. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

Very much this. We need Democrats to take back control, but not Democrats that sell people out, work with the fascists for only a little fascism.