Here is a great starting point. The linked post specifically details dozens of such sources… bsky.app/profile/harm...

Hey, since we're all talking about CECOT again, And how sending innocent people to solitary confinement is a fundamentally evil practice... Can we talk about solitary confinement in US prisons and jails yet? No? It's only bad when the GOP does it? It's okay when it happens to Black people?

The censored 60 Minutes' segment, Inside CECOT, is now available. Download from @ddosecrets.com: data.ddosecrets.com/Inside%20CEC... Download/stream from @archive.org: archive.org/details/insi... The original video was recorded by @jasonparis.bsky.social, and cleaned up by @emma.best

Amazing work from whoever was up in N6914W over Ohio … www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...

Betty Reid Soskin, the National Park Service’s oldest ranger, has died. She was 104.

They have to remind people who are starting to feel that there’s got to be a better way than being sick constantly, that they would join the ranks of the quirky, the uneducated, the marginalized and the shunned were they to start protecting themselves from infection. 4/

Oh my god oh my god oh my goddddd the local aquarium has three new born otters and they CHIRP

From this point on, I'm forced to assume that every elected politician who does not immediately call for Trump's impeachment is in the Epstein files. Sorry. Just cutting the Gordian knot here, as one does during societal collapse.

I’ll be curious to hear if there’s any further outcome of this investigation. If there are no witnesses or recordings, I wonder why they believe it to be a solo crash.

Today on Volts: I've got a nerdy one for you! I talk with political scientist @samuel-bagg.bsky.social about the epistemic crisis & its roots in social identity. He explains why factchecking & media literacy classes will never solve misinformation -- why something deeper & stronger is required.

Everyone who‘s moved out of California:

The backdrop to the whole section 230 thing is that the Internet exists as a state backed social project with a set of load bearing exceptions to normal liability laws so the good thing can exist. The appetite for a repeal is because Silicon Valley has visibly given up on that project.

if you tell me i have to abandon trans people in any way i'm simply not going to take you seriously. you're not someone i listen to. your opinion stops mattering immediately. i don't do what bigots tell me to do.

Idea: when this happens leave the wrecked car in the intersection as it landed for a week with cones to guide lanes around it. Make the risk more real for people.

Maybe LLMs speak prep-school (post-) Imperial British English. Because that's what most English knowers globally use. marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-...

Please read and share this piece. This study is an ethical nightmare, run by a Danish couple who’ve built their careers on decades of exploitative, shoddy research in this community. It will have permanent consequences for many children enrolled, & for broader trust in foreign biomedical research.

The sooner we all go: “Fuck you. They’re not hurting anybody. Leave ‘em alone.” the sooner Consevatives have to scramble for a new target. And whoever they go after next, we’ll defend them, too.

The bad-faith "neutrality" complaint is designed almost entirely to give center-left types permission to jump on these bandwagons. It's barely a pretense any more but it still works pretty much every time.

Traffic engineering standards that are mandatory across the US require a certain number of injuries or deaths per year at a given location before installing additional safety infrastructure may be considered.

Every tutoring attempt when I was recruited as an assistant teacher in k-12. This is painful to read.

C‘mon Apple it‘s way past time to accept that “Mamdani” is as legitimate a name as “Cuomo”.

shit like the ban on gender affirming care (and it is a ban and we should call it that) is why democrats cant be mealy-mouthed bigot lite on this issue. its why theres a problem with people like gavin newsom giving ground on this issue. this has to be a line in the sand.

BREAKING: The Democratic National Committee will NOT release its long-awaited autopsy on Trump's 2024 win. The report is completed but Dem leaders decided it could distract from their winning streak, so it will remain secret. Not good. Details here: newrepublic.com/article/2045...

It’s so hard to talk about things like distrust in vaccines because such a huge majority of people in any position of authority are in fact completely off their rocker.

The extreme attack on transgender youth we are witnessing from a governmental stage was enabled by The Atlantic and The New York Times.

The networks were afraid not to run Trump because they assumed he would use his office to punish them if they didn’t. The irony is that this is what Biden was warning about, a warning they chose not to share with America.

This is also, taking her at her word, a very clear cut and egregious example of the #doctorsareassholes phenomenon that drives people to woo and is putting us all in danger from previously banished infectious diseases.

Bluesky tonight is neatly divided between trans people and family members appropriately angry and freaking out and everyone else who has barely noticed.

My god. This thread.

Oh, that's who Swalwell is. I'd already decided to vote against him. If he's advertising this much this early, he has too much money and is up to nothing that will benefit me or the state. Hearing that he's abandoned his post just confirms that.

If Cuellar voted yes and any one of the 4 Democrats who were absent showed up to vote yes, Rep. Jim McGovern's War Powers Resolution to prevent Trump from going to war with Venezuela would have passed. clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...

"Don't worry, it'll fail in the senate." Ancient cis proverb

I asked @aoc.bsky.social about why she posted this tweet, and she said “because JD Vance is a goober, man.”

This is enabled by the widespread agreement in the last five years that life and wellbeing aren’t worth much.

My sense is that the “male loneliness crisis” is not really about addressing men’s emotional needs but rather the relatively newfound absence of having someone to perform domestic labor for you quietly in the background now that there is a longer gap between your mother and your wife doing it

And maybe it is because I did not grow up around cars and the expectation of private car ownership, but a lot of you sound absolutely detached from reality with the way you frame cars in your life. Y’all can’t imagine alternatives because you don’t want to.

NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇

I'm going to do my best to alt text this because holy crap, everyone should know.

The unemployment rate for Black workers soared to 8.3% in November. That's more than double the rate for white workers.

Cracking up that they gave up and retreated from a snowball assault.

The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."

Further point being, Somalia surely counts as the most intense zone of US military engagement in 2025, far beyond even the Caribbean aggression, and accordingly has to be one of the most ignored stories of the year.

“Oh you should be online to try to provide value to your political side” fuck that that’s nerd shit you should be online because you’re unwell and need to tell people about weird animals you saw

Rob Reiner apparently walked up to Billy Crystal, said "Forget the lines," and then there was thirty hours of - and I quote - "Medieval Yiddish Stand-up." I feel like, in our hour of greatest need, someone will release those tapes.

Choosing to focus, on hearing the news of Rob Reiner's passing, to remember this moment where he was so overcome with joy and laughter that he - the director of the movie - was one of many people banished from the set in order to finish filming.

just too much things.

pagliacci jokes make me sad, what if for once it wasn't him and it was a person who said "oh sick that will cheer me right up!" and they went to see him and had a great and cosy time

I’ll never forget his warmth and unpretentiousness. Rob Reiner was the proverbial mensch. May he and his wife rest in peace. His memory will always be a blessing to me from that one small interaction we had. I’m sure he touched people’s lives like this everywhere he went. We’ll miss him.