the republican party is engaged in a cover up to keep the american people from learning whether president trump is president pedo

i mean c’mon. the president’s best friend was the most notorious pedo in the country’s history who ran a massive child trafficking ring. every bit of circumstantial evidence we have says that trump was a participant. if this were a criminal trial we’d have enough evidence to compel a plea deal.

I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.

I am deliriously laughing at the image of Boebert facing dawning revelation that she's actually found the pedophile elite conspiracy ring and that she's standing right in the middle of it

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

I began to thought New Atheism was terrible because it cheerled wars, denigrated whole populations of Muslims, and spearheaded transphobia, but turned out it was also best mates with Jeffrey Epstein.

Maybe it’s just the Humanities professor in me, but let it be noted that events of today (ahem) have demonstrated the value of being able to assess a large volume of qualitative data and do careful textual analysis with deep attention to context.

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

1998: the year of the Linux Desktop... 2004: the year of the Linux desktop... 2011: Nevermind... 2026: the year of the Linux desktop 😑

We still haven't gotten an acknowledgement of a return filed on extension in MAY, let alone the refund.

I know it sounds zany , but if we shift to building sustainable care centered practices A whole bunch of stuff fails And the fascists lose

"You can't un-invent AI!" We can't un-invent asbestos either. That doesn't mean we have to use it.

I love how the fascists keep insisting that Bill Clinton is on the list, and we keep telling them we don’t care. Ain’t nobody trying to stand between you and Bill Clinton. Pack them all up.

Get to know your mutuals. List 10 random things you like. Lego & mechanical models. Board Games. Anything Star Trek. Reading about history. Trees. Earl Grey tea. Thai food. Hot tubs. Sleep. Baking bread.

Anyone know artists who draw fantasy maps or modified Earth maps who take commissions?

This is a great thread, well worth the read. I have one quibble with the end. You *can* have business without investors: it has to start small, and grow slowly, and can be worker-owned. There are plenty of examples of this in the wild.

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last. The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes. Why? It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

Feel the burn, Elon.

Fuck, fuck, fuck. I discover someone who I think might be really important to talk about in a piece I'm writing just to find out after some deeper research that he was a flaming racist, and his entire framework depends on his racism. Sigh. I even ordered some books (used, thankfully.)

I am repped by @padilla.senate.gov - I hope to call a local office tomorrow. @schiff.senate.gov voicemail is full.

Feeling glad that my partner and I are now all-electric in our vehicles.

Corporations don’t pay enough to feed you and your family, so you use SNAP. Then he punishes you for using SNAP instead of taking on the companies that don’t pay you what you’re worth. We sometimes forget Trump is just an asshole boss. He always finds a way to blame workers.

I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

“perhaps the memorials that would have pleased her best are those that use her name to promote opportunities for young women academics”

I hate the phrase, “It’s not left vs. right, it’s top vs. bottom!” It’s like… what do you think the foundational tenet of leftism is. The core principle. Please tell me.

As someone who has had their Black Card temporarily revoked for varied reasons, I think being an ICE agent is grounds for automatic lifetime revocation.

The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.

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No one should get paid this much.

this has been one of my central arguments the past ten years. the theory underpinning the anti-democratic elements of the american constitutional order is wrong!

Great thread on Chicago court doings!!

“Only in blue cities” Right. www.mississippifreepress.org/mississippi-...

Born and raised, although haven't lived there since I left for college. It is unique in some ways, but it isn't even as blue as San Francisco. This election absolutely has lessons for the Democratic Party, and if they don't take those lessons, we are well and truly screwed (we may be already.)

Just because we beat them doesn’t mean we should continue to let billionaires spend whatever they want on elections.

They aren't afraid of Mamdani, they are worried about what he would unleash among VOTERS. That those voters would say: "actually, we're not buying this centrist bullshit you've been shoveling for decades, we want something else." That's what's being litigated in these Dem elites are worried essays.

"How would less fortunate corporations like Walmart, McDonald’s, and Amazon get by without SNAP and other programs to subsidize their sub-poverty level wages that leave many of their workers reliant on benefits?"

Pundits say the problem is that Democrats fail to represent the people—but the real problem is that our political system fails to represent the people.

🚨 1/ SCOOP We all know Pamela Paul is not a good journalist. But in her (poorly argued) WSJ screed on the alleged "growing divide" in LGBTQ circles abt trans rights, she reports ESPECIALLY badly—including abt Jose Arango & his boyfriend who dumped him. Paul didn't talk to the boyfriend. I did.

“My tax dollars are paying for their steak!” Yeah, well, my tax dollars are paying for ICE to threaten and abduct my neighbors. Steak sounds better.

Off the top of my head, in terms of degrees of separation I managed to get from myself to *Jimi Hendrix* in "three hops," this is a WILD assertion to make www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

This labeler is such a clever way of making spam visible. Bluesky wins yet again: bsky.app/profile/stec...

This is why I generally don't shop there, but rather get stuff at Costco or online. The friction to buy simple things is nuts (last time I was in one of those stores, the frigging shower gel was locked up.)

Not all news is awful all the time. David Drake's (Dave the Potter) pottery is magnificent. When I saw these works in person (after reading a children's book on him to my kiddos) I was so moved. That his descendants benefit and they get to stay on display is so important.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

I love how my brain works sometimes. Once I learn a trans friend's new name, the dead one disappears from my mind. Like it takes a ton of work to dredge it up.

i like to think of LLMs as strong corroboration of the fact that we have zero fucking idea of how cognition works, because however it works, it can be powered by a glass of water & a burrito and not a whole lake & a city’s worth of electricity

The Python Software Foundation was recommended for a $1.5M grant from the National Science Foundation. The terms of the award said PSF could not work on DEI, whether or not the grant funding was used for it. PSF therefore declined the funding. Science suffers, but commitment to core values remains

SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live. Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps: * Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled * Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation. Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

People with experience: please give food banks *money.* They can make it go much further than you can. Grocery shopper 1: I’m going to donate whole pineapple cakes in honor of my grandma. Shopper 2: did you say canned beets? “Shopper” 3: here’s this opened box of cereal my kid didn’t like