I keep hearing horror stories about Google screwing over their corporate customers by silently enabling Gemini API access on Google Maps API projects. I've heard at least a dozen stories now where SaaS companies and individual developers have gotten burned and billed for 10s or 100s of thousand $

It seems that police in Netherlands are full of racist thugs www.msn.com/en-gb/news/w...

A new op-ed in the Washington Times finally says the quiet part out loud: Fascism demands sexual repression. "Pornography corrodes the exact social foundation that supports national strength... A society marked by loneliness, weakened families and diminished social trust becomes brittle."

What's this tell us? Bluesky is a far healthier and more effective platform for engaging and organizing your supporters online than X and Threads. By a lot. No algorithm suppressing left politics. No billionaire influence. Good content reaching the right people.

I've worked in Democratic digital comms for a long time and pay attention to campaign metrics across platforms. Increasingly I'm seeing Dems who crosspost on X, Bluesky, and Threads get better engagement on Bluesky even with far fewer followers. Here's @jamestalarico.bsky.social's clip last night:

As ICE ramps up their bullshit for the summer, a reminder that me and a whole bunch of other folks will get whistles out to you, for free, in quantities of 100 to thousands, to distribute in your communities. Just send a request here linktr.ee/3Dwhistles

🚨🚨 #Switzerland’s star striker Breel Embolo has been barred from entering #US ahead of #WorldCup following a last-minute decision by US authorities to review his #clearance to travel. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/swit...

Meet the ‘superdodgers’: The few who never had COVID Researchers say there's a big difference between people who think they’ve never had COVID and those who truly haven't. Data suggest only 2–3% of people worldwide avoided infection, with many unnoticed cases due to mild or asymptomatic illness.

"…There was a sculpture from Ghana that represented the collective Africans' grief at the assassination of President Kennedy. And there were ornate hand-carved wooden doors carved from 700-year-old wood that contained scenes of Yoruban village life. That room is now completely gutted and emptied."

They most likely stole the art and sold it on the black market. Because that is how this people operate.

"the African Room..is now completely gutted and emptied. I was not told where those items went."

"maga leads to flesh eating disease" headlines just write themselves

RFK Jr. needs to be impeached and removed from power. Have his assets sized, frozen and confiscated and due trial. Since he is a fraud, a liar and a mass murder.

People that think they are protected by god, any god in any religion system do not care about anything but their own believe system and what it justifies. Whatever that is. History is full of evidence of this and it always ends very poorly for everyone.

another doja tweet has hit endor

Think we can get 20 new paid subscribers by midnight 👀

you see this *a lot* with foreign policy where people always assert that there's some hidden material motivation for things, oil wells in Gaza or some shit like that, when the reality is that many of the actors involved being sincere ideologues who mean what they say explains things much better

It's not an arena. It's called "The Claw." And the fact that Donald Trump wants a giant claw painted in stars and stripes sitting in front of the People's House forever is exactly the metaphor you think it is.

BREAKING: MS Now confirms Trump will formally nominate his former personal lawyer Todd Blanche to be his next attorney general. Todd Blanche mishandled the Epstein files, supported the controversial slush fund to give to insurrectionists, and targeted Trump's perceived enemies.

The drop in support for marriage equality last year was not a blip, it has declined further, dropping 6 points from its high of 71. Whether or not gay or lesbian relations were "morally acceptable" dropped 9 points. Support for LGBTQ rights broadly is diminishing. news.gallup.com/poll/710810/...

A monument to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee is back up in Charleston, S.C., and a giant Columbus awaits a return in Ohio’s namesake capital www.wsj.com/us-news/conf...

They should livestream this.

Welp *USDA CONFIRMS DEADLY SCREWWORM IN US CATTLE

The universe. Meteors over United States. I was unable to find any other source for this news. youtu.be/AL0khsTpodA?...

Today, the US admin announced that it will reduce its capabilities in Europe and threatened new tariffs on European imports. Now Rubio is suggesting that the US has no intention of giving up its imperial ambitions over 🇪🇺 Greenland. What part of this still signals a reliable alliance to the EU?

This should be a bigger story. Loads of Americans don't follow ANY news, & have no clue what Trump's doing to our FREE PRESS. If we lose that, it's game over. 'She Was Brought in to Kill' 60 Minutes: Scott​​ Pelley Unleashes on Bari Weiss at CBS Meeting 1/2 www.commondreams.org/news/scott-p...

I think about this a lot and it sucks real bad

Values on full display. Republicans are ready to gut Medicaid and Medicare to fund an unsuccessful, unnecessary war in Iran. They are trading your healthcare and your parents’ security for a conflict we dont want. Stand up for our care before it’s gone. #FundHealthcareNotWar

Fighting my wrongful termination by the Washington Post. After Charlie Kirk was killed, I was accused of gross misconduct simply for stating the truth about America’s racial double standards when it comes to political violence. We head to arbitration tomorrow. Let’s go.

America has kept new world screwworm further south than Mexico for decades but it took two years for this dipshit admin to somehow fuck that up

beef prices are gonna be fun

update: it's so over.

This is what happens when the journalist class stays on X.

Russia thinks it is going to be into existence by the year 2030. It won't.

Donald Trump, that is one hour from just going away of natural causes at any day without warning continues to try and trash anything he doesn't like.

In many actual democracies, losing a vote like this in the parliament would be followed by a vote of no confidence to bring down the government & possibly trigger new elections, or at a minimum reshuffle the Cabinet & replace the chief of government. Once again, presidentialism was a grave mistake.

Getting my mind off of this crazy day with some fun games!!! We begin now!!! ➤ˎˊ˗ twitch.tv/curly

Trump has dropped his $1.8 billion slush fund for his loyalists after a major outcry. But his Justice Department is keeping the agreement to shield him and his family from IRS audits, which could save him at least $100 million. He will always find a way to line his own pockets.

Trump strips job protections from 8,000 federal workers as Schedule F (now Schedule Policy/Career) begins. What I told @npr.org - this is the first step of a much broader assault on the civil service system. www.npr.org/2026/06/03/n...

Your regular reminder that Martin Luther King would have been called a terrorist, and indeed would probably have been arrested and charged with terrorism, if that vocabulary had been as prominent then as it is now. They threw everything else at him.

"Civil terrorism" is exactly the kind of 1984 level rebranding of peaceful protest we've come to know and love from the US government for decades now.

Further proving the point that whether you are "the bigger man" or not, fascists will treat you exactly the same regardless. Might as well aim for the quickest results.

The Manhattan Institute is a organisation that is run and paid for by very far-right Christian terrorist inside United States. They just pretend to be something else to fool people inside United States.

This one has been coming for a while. The implication was very explicit in the criticisms directed by liberals at disruptive Gaza protests.

A set of sweeping policy changes unveiled by the White House would leave officials appointed by Donald Trump vetting every public grant issued to universities and nongovernmental organizations on the basis of their fidelity to “American values”, as defined by the president

In survey of more than 300 fired probationary employees, 95% reported continuing mental health effects

This is completely absurd. It's a chatgpt wrapper that has access to their proprietary database. That's the only value add. Claude connected to Courtlistener can do 95% of what you need for $20/month.

Trump signs order to make it easier to fire 8,000 highly paid federal workers #Trump

Something I plotted up showing how the Atlantic Hurricane Season shifts when taking the 3 mo ave RONI into account. El Niño conditions shift earlier in the tails. Neutral conditions shift later in the tails. La Niña conditions lead to even later shifts in the season, including the season peak.

Depressingly, this has been exploited to convince people that trans rights are the causal element, that this is somehow our fault. But that misses that these graphs could just as easily be about racial diversity or abortion access, both of which show significant drops in support this year in polls.