Here are the Senators who voted to criminalize hemp products:

More than 15 Senate Democrats join GOP to advance nationwide ban on hemp products, including CBD gummies,

BREAKING update to my lawsuit against DC Metropolitan PD for body cam footage from USIP raid — We've submitted our response, including sworn declarations from *six* USIP workers, 1 of whom says he "observed members of MPD giving each other high-fives and fist bumps" after removing staff from bldg.

It is 2025 and Pagans are still too comfortable hanging out with and platforming TERFs.

Ari Cohn tries to pull the Milo Yiannopoulos defense when criticized for his organization’s consistent stance against LGBTQ rights.

On some level even cis people who think they're not transphobic think trans people deserve more harassment than other people because we're not *quite* equal.

Y'know how Mr. Adam Frankenstein has those bolts on his neck in a lot of depictions? What's wrong with me is I'm also like that but they used pop rivets.

Source:

Quite

There are no words for how evil this is

"why can't you get a job, missy?" The largest newspaper in America this morning:

"Ruined by Women"? yeah I'd like to be

This means if you are in the habit of saying things like "fuck Trump" or "I hope Cheney burns in hell", probably a good amount of your feed isn't seeing those posts because, unbeknownst to them, Bsky has shielded grown adults from "rude" "threats" like this.

Good info!

All my hearing damage is from bands that fuckin shred \m/ \m/ so I've got elevenitus. It's one higher.

Strikingly, of the 45 Minneapolis Police officers whose videos we've just released, more than 24% have killed community members while on duty, and a large swath of other officers had numerous accounts of egregious actions against the community. 🚔

"I was banned for praising their democratic party nominee after the primary."

been having a chuckle about this. looking on that subreddit, the mods are constantly running searches for and deleting posts that mention mamdani. the posters have been saying things like "the frontrunner for mayor" and so on to evade getting banned lol

My work as an author and educator is proudly listener supported since 2017! If 13 more of you sign up for the Suzume ($3) tier on my Patreon, we'll hit the 100 paid sub milestone-- and I'll debut my livepost of the historical novel "Lord of the Golden Fan." Thank you for the support! buff.ly/CL8AX7D

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rember the 5rd vember

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

This is so messed up

For a sound and sustainable financial policy we can all trust, lend your support to the DB Cooper 2028 presidential campaign

DB Cooper for president

This is a really vulnerable time for paypro call centers. It's already been reported that Mastercard is stressed by our persistence I know we're all busy around this time too but let's fire the engines 🔥

Great job, everyone, we did it again

They literally ruin everything they touch

Here's the full list -- both "specific policy" and "prioritizing the wrong issues" are pretty far down. (This is an open-ended question, so these categories are researchers' coding of individual responses. www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/u...

I hope we all have fun hallowing our weens tonight

Contrast this w Welcome PAC’s bogus “survey” which was conducted *6-12 months ago* and whose questions were written by political staffers with a vested interest in producing the results they wanted, not by professionals

ween

Bad times friend ahead

Trump two happened because NYT cynically platformed every worst reactionary centrist impulse as “just asking questions” pieces. WaPo wants to leapfrog to the top of that niche, and that’s specifically why Bezos bought the paper— to convince liberals it’s virtuous to hate the poor in advance of 2026.

It Halloween. Hap Halloween.

I published this on Patreon like a year ago but someone on a server I’m in was asking for a banishing rite so I polished it off and put it up on my public blog: serpentandtree.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/r...

libs be like "the only way to stop a bad transphobe is w a good transphobe"

Hey everybody go here and do this: www.iww.org/membership/

My girlfriend @natalieironside.bsky.social wrote this story and it’s really good and also trans /and/ Halloween themed and you should listen to it. talestoterrify.com/episodes/507...

Trans people: I have to say that as awful as this all is, I think we’re going to keep doing better and better. We’re here, we’re out in the open, we have numbers and voices and strength and diversity and power and wisdom.

A Michigan town hopes to stop a data center with a 2026 ballot initiative. grist.org/elections/a-... #DataCenter #Michigan #MI #AI #Computers