White Americans will invent self driving cars just to avoid getting on a bus.

The FBI director’s firing is the latest in a series of dismissals targeting federal officials who probed Trump during the Biden administration.

I am so sad for us

After DEMANDING that Hillary Clinton's testimony on the Epstein scandal be held behind closed doors, and even threatening her with contempt for her insistence that reporters be allowed in, the GOP has been sending out photos and info to far-right influencers. Hypocrisy is the GOP brand.

Clinton: It then got at the end quite unusual because I started being asked about UFOs and a series of questions about Pizzagate. One of the most vile bogus conspiracy theories that was propagated on the internet.

So I just got a statement from California AG Bonta's office: "Paramount/Warner Bros is not a done deal. These two Hollywood titans have not cleared regulatory scrutiny — the California Department of Justice has an open investigation, and we intend to be vigorous in our review"

Politics should serve the people at every step, not just after Election Day. That’s why our campaign office has been a mutual aid hub from day one. There’s no reason to wait until we win to make an impact. We’re showing up for our community now.

A federal judge in Louisiana could end telehealth access to medication abortion nationwide.    This lawsuit is a blatant attempt to ban abortion. Mifepristone has been safely used for 25 years. It's the most common method of abortion care in America. Women will suffer if access is restricted.

Jesus. Netflix calls it quits, the Ellisons and Paramount will get all of Warner, including CNN. Bari Weiss's sphere of influence grows. And no matter what you think of CNN or news in general, it's a big legacy brand with a lot of reach, that will now shift rightwards pretty hard.

"the deal is the latest installment in the ongoing, if asymmetric, power struggle between the executive & legislative branches. (Many proponents of waiving the ownership cap believe that the FCC can do so unilaterally; many critics insist that this would be illegal without congressional approval.)"

Oh wow. Talk about abusive. People commit their lives and bodies, their families and their health, to legitimate achievement and owners are free to use them like pawns. Sports is very much not the only industry with this problem. But it has a staggering amount of money/culture tied up in it.

Fascism is not just a personality driven phenomenon. It arises from deep economic contradictions. Social inequality and permanent war policies fuel authoritarianism. Liberal democracy cannot solve the crisis. The only alternative is socialism.

Was randomly thinking about how if you only listen to music and musicians that feel personally relatable to you then you've missed a lot of the point of listening to music

"As the journalists interacted with the migrants, uniformed police barged in and detained the lawyer and four journalists. Police confiscated their cameras, laptops and phones..." www.wsj.com/world/africa...

Last month, a Pennsylvania farmer rejected $15M from data center developers to sell his farmland. Another in Wisconsin turned down $80M. America's farmers and others across the country are pushing back on Big Tech. This is what integrity looks like.

Ilhan Omar is demanding an explanation as to why her guest was arrested at Tuesday’s SOTU. Omar’s guest was Aliya Rahman, a US citizen who in January was forcibly dragged from her car by federal immigration agents in Minnesota amid the ongoing immigration crackdown. www.mediaite.com/politics/ilh...

Epstein and the DEA newrepublic.com/post/206960/...

Rep. Ilhan Omar: "The president talked about protecting Americans, and I just had to remind him that his administration was responsible for killing two of my constituents."

Democracy is dying in America. ICE is a murderous secret police force. We’re about to bomb Iran for Israel. Your kids are shot at in school daily, and pedophiles run our government. There’s no healthcare, and your food is poisonous. We need real leaders - not career politicians.

How AIPAC controls both Schumer and Jeffries, and why both have to go.

I think the collapse of print newspapers and the end of linear TV habits has created a context collapse for news. Where once day to day reporting and investigation and lifestyle sat side by side in one package, now they live as seperate things in people's minds, with reality warping effects

This would be a great time in American history for a large crop of up-and-coming public servants to run Green🌻. It hasn't yet rivaled 🫏 or 🐘 because it is structured specifically to prevent consolidation of power. But maybe the moment is ripe.

"Balls" as courage is a dead metaphor. It doesn't hold up to scrotiny. Y'all blew it. Find a new figure of speech.

Where are the articles about the woman who self-immolated after unrelenting harassment by a sitting Republican member of Congress? I imagine someone is having them scrubbed? Why did I hear about this one thru a screenshot of a Nancy fucking Mace post?

Dr. Aisha Harris, a family physician in Flint, Michigan, warned all of us about the lies we are about to hear in the #SOTU tonight: "America is sick. Patients are not better off. Families are not better off, and that's the real state of our union."

The Fight Against Trumpism Can’t Wait for Election Day newrepublic.com/article/2069... via @newrepublic.com

“The rise of scientist activism reflects this shifting terrain, and the difficult choices it brings.” In #Rationale magazine, Samuel Finnerty writes on why some climate scientists are turning to protest. rationalemagazine.com/index.php/20...

A SCOTUS majority which • contorts Section 3 of 14A to allow an insurrectionist on the ballot & • goes farther than the case before it requires to grant a president sweeping criminal immunity does not strike down that president's tariff regime because it's genuinely concerned about overreach; 1

Schiff: I've not missed the State of the Union in the 25 years I've been in Congress, but we have never had a president violate the constitution every day with seeming impunity. We can't treat this as some new normal, so I'm here boycotting...

HERO 🔥 And I don’t want to hear shit about a censure vote against this man. Rep. Al Greene was ejected from the State of the Union for the sign — “Black People Aren’t Apes.”

"The Essential Caregivers Act guarantees that residents of long-term care facilities retain the right to in-person access to a designated essential caregiver even when visitation is otherwise restricted by emergency orders."

"dynamic" as in "like dynamite" as in "blows up in your face"

the fundamental problem with American healthcare is that its protocol functions mainly to spare providers from liability, a priority which has very little to do with the preservation of life we would do well to remember that a lot of what we call "Western medicine" was pioneered by eugenicists

cracks in the dam are forming, this kind of thing was once unthinkable for the feds

He Was Epstein’s Associate; He Was Ready to Talk — And Now He’s Dead He Considered Cooperation in 2016. Years Later, He Died in a Paris Cell. What Happened in Between? www.jackhopkinsnow.com

ever since I learned single women tend to outlive those partnered with men, I've been haunted it is not safe for us anywhere not until men agree as a population to protect us and not like the old days where it was a bargain in exchange for fealty but in the modern sense of staying out of the way

crazy idea, what if we *also* tasked the medical "industry" with doing real science and epidemiology, instead of functioning primarily as product dispensers and access gatekeepers

testosterone is a helluva drug I wish that were a joke. men are quite literally high on their own supply nearly 100% of the time

In Amsterdam, Ukrainian servicemen undergoing rehabilitation in the Netherlands took part in a march carrying banners reading "This is who we protect."

The U.S. women's hockey gold medal-winning team has politely declined an invitation from President Donald Trump to attend his State of the Union address on Tuesday.

I won't be attending the State of the Union address. I’m not interested in hearing another campaign rally full of lies.

Relevant to today's conversation about AI's inherent sexism, here's an email from cognitive psychologist and early AI theorist Roger Schank, arguing to Epstein that women can't be truly intelligent, because they care too much about what other people think.

"Her family owned the aviation company @ the airport Epstein used...gave Ghislaine Maxwell housing after Robert Maxwell died, introduced Epstein to the lawyer who negotiated his plea deal and she joined Deutsche Bank’s...board a month before they accepted Epstein as a client despite his conviction."

Jennifer knows which one of us has a spine. @mizzwelch.bsky.social @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social

“I heard the officer say ‘that ain’t shit’.” NASHVILLE — ICE shatter a car window in front of a newborn, refuse to look at man’s license & work visa… drag him out of his car, hit him, mock him for being Guatemalan (he’s from Mexico), laugh when he begs to say goodbye.

Remember when the 100-year anniversary of women's suffrage came and went and no one really gave a shit?

Experts at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have rediscovered a recording and determined it’s probably the oldest whale recording still in existence. The likely vocalist? A humpback whale. 🐋 spklr.io/6007Dxy1Z 📷: BlackBox 🎙️: Luis Lamar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

BREAKING Former ICE agent: On my first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant.