The cops run municipal government and by and large the public is fine with this. THAT is the root problem.

If you're trying to convince your friends to spend time on Bluesky rather than X, maybe show them this. X is not "the public town square" or about "free speech." It's "just what Elon Musk wants you to see." If you see stuff he doesn't like he'll step in to make sure you don't see it for long.

They fucking killed this guy it's so fucking awful I don't even have words for it Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

they're allowed to bring this up now that Pelosi is retiring lol

using “criminality” sure ignores the grave ethics abuses, which are very valid reasons to sack ‘em

i love writing about crypto crime because these dudes do this constantly

"since clinton" explains more about the present than anyone wants to admit

Thank you, student journalists at @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social

private equity buys a company and immediately starts torturing their employees and the money

* epstein charged by the trump DOJ * epstein did not kill himself by the trump UBP * trump thinks this series of events makes him look innocent

This dissent supporting the Texas GOP's racial gerrymandering reads like it's from some right-wing PR flack, but the author is federal appellate judge appointed by Ronald Reagan

niche opinion but i think a judge who writes something like this — frankly a judge who even writes "democrat party" — should be instantly removed and disbarred

Larry Summers apologizes in person to all of his students, particularly those he aspires to fuck.

Zuckerberg is building a data center in Louisiana the size of Manhattan — while Meta runs ads about how small towns love their data centers, we found furious locals who plan to leave town completely.

I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.

This type of thing happens everyday and yet a lot of people are quite sure that any criticism of policing must stem from radical academics rather than lived experience.

Will never forget the day a cop put their hand on their gun while yelling at me to pick up some litter.

NEW: Trump's DOJ sent a subpoena to a gender-affirming care clinic seeking information on patients, including minors, and its insurance billing practices. The clinic—which doesn't even take insurance—fought the demand in court and won. Read @garnethenderson.com in @autonomynews.co

Non-conforming cis people are going to catch strays. Primarily masculine women, because sexism.

I think that's the point. They want to reinforce gender binaries and crucify gender traitors of all stripes.

I'm not exaggerating. It literally says trans people can be banned from all facilities entirely leaving them with nowhere to go at all. Since this covers public restrooms, workplaces, gyms, etc, this is effectively a full on ban on the participation of trans people in British society.

The UK is considering a policy that would effectively segregate trans people from society. It would bar trans people from "single sex spaces" even when they use the facility of their sex assigned at birth. This is a full on policy of segregation without even the benefit of separate facilities.

We knock it a lot, but you've got to hand it to our timeline for dropping this just in time to be the soundtrack of the Epstein stuff

Most people, even very smart people, truly do not understand the extent to which car dependency was manufactured in the United States, and how decisions made 100 years ago are why cities and towns look the way they do today.

Not satisfied with just destroying their own brand goodwill, OS companies are now using AI to try to destroy the good names of the apps users install. (Scrivener taking out adds to explain how it has no AI but Apple adds some anyway.)

It’s actually felt really nice to spend less and let people and institutions who are more into jim crow 2: Jim crowier fall away

Bizarre that their new motto, fuck our minority customers, isn’t juicing sales

you can judge the extent of a legal fuckup by the volume of audible laughter coming from the lawyers of bluesky and in this case I think we're at jet engine levels

I usually try to judge legal news of the day by how much the various lawyers I follow have been reduced to incoherent shock posting or hysterical laughter and this Comey shit is like a 14 out of 10

"Trump II administration figures often speak the language of merit in order to contrast it to 'DEI' or 'affirmative action,' but in practice they only hire incompetent clowns—so long as they are also loyal clowns." - @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com

Its really the fact that they feel comfortable saying "I wish people didnt apply the lessons they learned from Holocaust history onto the undesirables" in public that blows my mind.

This is the first story I ever did that got more than a million views

ChatGPT’s signature writing style is everywhere now, and I hate it. It reminds me of when we tried mixing all the beverages at the soda fountain in middle school. We didn’t actually create the perfect drink, we just made a cloying monstrosity that lost everything good about its constituent parts.

Would hate to have to work with Wa-Luigi Coates on a group project

your movement has to be like 8 levels removed from reality to think that some of the starving kids in gaza also having serious medical conditions makes Israel look better. it's completely insane. they just think because it's an additional fact it's somehow exonerating.

There's a lot of Doomerism on here about this ("LOL the Epstein files will NEVER come out LOL") but as I argued yesterday, this dynamic can only keep sinking Trump and the GOP as long as the cover-up continues: newrepublic.com/article/2033...

I'm sure many people have mentioned this, but I think it needs to be mentioned again: women do not have yearbooks. Children do. Because yearbooks contain photos of high school students. Or younger.

I was blocked, so here's the post for context:

very funny how pissed off people get when you make it a point to live by your morals and not run to billionaire donors to fund and corrupt you

ACKSHULLY Those kids we're starving to death are chronically ill too! Ha checkmate anti-zionists!

sounds like it’s giving the cops who remain cops a chance to demonstrate all cops *aren’t* bastards… by arresting the ICE kidnap squads

I just read the book "Rich Media, Poor Democracy" by Robert McChesney (r.i.p). He lays out how neoliberalism has dismantled investigative journalism while transforming whats left into a pseudo-journalism that is unquestioning of power. He argued for serious media-reform.

I fear that many more of us will find ourselves asking the same question unless we can end this nightmare soon.

Condé Nast emptied out every single trans and Black journalist from Teen Vogue while clearing a six figure salary for a woman who slept with people she was covering while she mocked real concerns about their fitness Lord knows I need money but this is SYSTEMIC

Flew to Washington, D.C. 6 hours ago. Missed this due to unexpected changes in how they’re anonymizing flights.

everyone in town to talk strategy on their presence in the epstein files

People should let Tim Apple know how they feel about him attending a dinner honoring Jamal Khashoggi’s murderer: [email protected]

paramount has a mountain of reparations to do before this household engages with them in any way except piracy