“He doesn’t have a mandate” are you fucking kidding? Dick Cheney died the day Zohran is elected he has the mandate of HEAVEN

Republicans are even losing state Senate seats in Mississippi.

I'm happy that Mamdani won. But I won't let that get in the way of my celebrating Cuomo losing.

“I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration and I’m sure they would be interested in this matter. I would strongly suggest dropping this story.” Declining a press request is one thing Trying to silence the press entirely is another ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

Please read more about Lia Smith here. She sounds like she was a wonderful person, and it's an unbearable tragedy that we lost her, and everybody else who's driven to the brink by people like Brianna Wu.

Congratulations, Andrew Cuomo! I know how hard you worked for this.

Look folks gen AI videos are out in the wild so if you weren't already being careful about sharing rage bait videos then now is a great time to start If you can't trace a video back to a trusted source then I recommend leaving it where it is, like a slice of bologna you found on the street

It’s insane to talk through this shit out loud. “Children should starve because it might make their moms less likely to sleep around in the future.”

I love that they look like they're wearing furry boots!

Allegedly it's also a crown that you only wear when you were dead

The @bostonglobe.com has the story on its website but hasn't posted about it here

a huge part of the gen ai project is to create the mythic past that is central to the fascist narrative: the non-existent golden age that needs to be restored and the supposed fallen present that must be overturned. if these things are lies then reality itself must be altered to make them true

Hey Boston-area folks! The local Wobblies are holding a punk concert in December www.instagram.com/bostoniww/p/...

I will not, as discussed before, read another single story that is clutching pearls about people's reproductive choices. But every time I see one, I'll remind you that there is no economic problem that cannot be solved with immigration and/or taxing wealth hoarders.

Today I learned... 😳

Philip K. Dick gets it right again. Let's hear it for the vague blurs!

This puts the current (known) total at more than 7,500 people, which is FAR more than I had thought

A movie you've seen more than seven times in a gif

Which didn't have to be a surprise, because we knew it already from the 1918 flu, which adversely affected children in utero for eighty years, showing a marked decrease in health outcomes, lifetime earnings, and life expectancy.

The music cuts off awkwardly before the end, but this is an incredible NYC Halloween costume compilation.

Once again

Apropos of nothing in particular, I'd like to inform you that the @flomask.bsky.social remains a comfortable N95 as we head into this icy season...

You still want to believe the political fuel that powers the American collapse into authoritarianism isn't the deep, abiding resentment of white men who pine for an America that sees and services only them? Gaze upon Leni Riefenstahl's recent work for Donald Trump's U.S. Department of Labor.

Most of the "decline in birthrate" has come from a reduction in teen pregnancy. Basically, a reduction in child SA, and an increase in women and girls' agency to choose when, where, and with whom to start a family. White nationalists atheists want to end repro rights and bring back child marriage.

We don't cast off one segment of society to save ourselves. It's a betrayal of everything we're trying to defend. It's a cowardly kind of self-preservation. If your plan for escaping this bank robbery involves deliberately killing a few of our fellow hostages, maybe sit this chat out for a while?

It's real fucking bad

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BREAKING: Democrats just tried to pass a standalone bill to fund WIC & SNAP to make sure families don't go hungry during the Republican shutdown. Republicans BLOCKED it. So Trump won't use emergency funds to keep SNAP running, and Republicans won't let any bills pass. Shameful.

Hey, so as a veteran and incident responder I need to warn you to pay attention to something in America. The human brain is resilient. While you're watching kids get dragged away from the parents and people being beaten in the streets, you're accumulating trauma but also being desensitized.

Unshittification is possible when people care and they show up however they can. Good things *can* come from this Hellsite Jr.

Post something random or you'll have an awful November

I have been giggling over this skeet since last night

Okay I’m reading it now and, no surprise, it suuuucks in exactly the ways you would expect.

They don't have an answer, because they don't ask the question. It is 2025. If you are a Democratic Party operative in 2025 and you aren't even looking into media ownership and propaganda effects, then you are either a conman or a mark.

And now we have an explanation for why the modern right – in particular this administration – is so skeptical of vaccines

This is a real thing that a judge had to say to the Chief of US Customs and Border Protection.

Discworld QOTD, from The Last Hero

I am daily grateful that I read Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet at the right moment for me to internalize "On Giving": my automatic reaction to cries for means-testing, warnings that someone will "take advantage" (how? by *eating*?), or anything else of the sort is to ask, "And who are you...?"

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

Imagine entertaining conversations with type of ppl “debating” over who “doesn’t deserve” food, re: the SNAP issue. They’re discussing food like a gift, reward or luxury not a need. Like get thee behind me, satan. Ppl like that are not worth a single sentence on any social media platform. Blockiana.

🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style. Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.

Godsdammit, Google, I am tired of having to turn off all the permissions you turn on without my permission. (After the last major system update, my phone suddenly accepted a fingerprint unlock even though I've had that disabled for probably 6 years now. 😒🤬)

This whole thread...

This thread is brilliantly helpful for illustrating examples, and I need to remember to Kirby more things!!

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A STORY IN FOUR PARTS: 1. NRSC poll wording 2. NRSC poll results 3. SoCal poll wording 4. SoCal poll results

I wish they said explicitly that there's $5 billion in emergency reserves they're refusing to use instead they're happy to let people - mostly children, the disabled, and elderly, starve.

I’d be ashamed to have a job meant to help my fellow Americans, to be paid while doing no work, all while people will lose benefits, jobs, and go hungry; the entire east wing of executive mansion in rubble as federal soldiers invade states, and the protection rather than eviction of child rapists.

I'm serious: It's very probably long past time to stop using the current paradigm of "generative AI." It comes from, depends on, and perpetuates so much environmental and social harm. Reinvision a better way than this. JFC.