Can we talk about how harassment and borderline stalking of trans women by gender critical activists has become entirely normalised? Why can’t a trans woman do a bloody Parkrun without having her privacy violated and her data amassed on a website?!

A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year. www.wired.com/story/new-ga...

Incredible shots of the exchange between Rep. AOC and RFK, Jr. at today’s congressional hearing. (image credit: WSJ reporter @lizessleywhyte.bsky.social)

Same vibe. #RFKJr #AOC

I said it before and I'll say it again: Giving a pack of Epstein associates a comprehensive list of all children in the country with home address and school listed, sortable by various traits that indicate vulnerability to exploitation, is the literal diametric opposite of keeping kids safe.

Big abortion win in PA today - the ban on Medicaid funding is unconstitutional! AND there's a fundamental right to abortion! We won! (Though this Commonwealth Court opinion can be appealed - we'll see what our AG does.)

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19): NYT: 5 of 58 WashPost: 1 of 43 WSJ: 0 of 40 AP: 0 of 26 CNN Wire: 0 of 18 NY Post: 0 of 17 Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4 LA Times: 0 of 4 Boston Globe: 0 of 2

I analyzed over 10 years of anti-trans legislation. Over 330 bills have passed, with ~300 of them in just the last 5 years. There is no precedent in American history for so many bills to target one particular minority group like this in such a short timeframe. www.thedissident.news/the-ratchet/

i've said it before and i'll say it again: i don't write like AI, AI writes like me. if you've been putting words on the internet since pre-pandemic times, you can (and should) say it too

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

wtf

lol “we have so much gas”

me @ the horrible monster on my screen right now #survivor50

Trump cutting off a woman mid-confessional. Typical. #Survivor50

he's just blathering about bullshit and i want to keep watching Survivor

I keep seeing "all authors use AI, the real issue is they're being forced to be sneaky about it" headlines. Full stop No. This is a lie peddled for normalization. It's schoolyard-level pressure tactics "C'mon, all the cool kids are already doing it. We won't tell. It's fine. We're on your side."

The 'in the Hands of The Fans' tag has literally allowed them to make anything happen then pin it on us like we did this. I dont think any fan was like 'Yo Jeff, keep the 26 days so that you have to Yeet three people in one night. Also do it in three groups of five.' #Survivor

the point of the war has become to reopen the strait that was closed by the war

This is what everyone should be worrying about. Not Trump canceling elections, but Republicans taking the trips they've been playing on everyone else and doing them to white voter precincts. This thread is a painfully perfect description of how it will go down.

I still can’t believe we have a Fox News host running our military.

When the Iraq War really went south, the initial assurances from Bush administration officials, with their serious and sober analysis, came back to haunt them. This cutesy jokes from Pete Hegseth -- not known for his sobriety in any case -- sound dumb now but they are going to age like raw milk.

I don't think people's problem with, for example, the paper's decade-long crusade putting a big ol' target on trans people's backs can be accurately described as NYT doing "reporting that doesn't always 100% accord with what advocacy groups want."

No, we know. Netanyahu has been telling us they are weeks away for the last 25 years. But also I thought Trump “completely obliterated” it months ago and said it would take them many years to recover. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Here's the legal director of ADF, the organization that wants to criminalize LGBTQ people and ban care, praising Jesse Singal's NYT op ed. This is the goal of Singal, to spread uncertainty and undermine liberal support so that the far right can pass their anti-trans policies without resistance.

This is so wild and awful.

Sometimes I remember Reagan removing Jimmy Carter’s solar panels and I think we’ve been enduring this shit for way too many years.

8/ For more on what kids are experiencing inside the Dilley detention center, read the full story by reporter @micarosenberg.bsky.social:

This Black History Month remember: •Human trafficking was legal •Slavery was legal •Jim Crow was legal •US Government paying reparations to white enslavers & not to the enslaved was legal. Prison slavery is still legal. The lesson: Do not let legality & power be a measure of morality & justice.

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

We have an Epstein problem that is closing in. However, we also have a Christo-Fascism problem that might not be going away.

Catherine O’Hara was the funniest person alive

The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.

There’s no justification for shooting someone ten times in the back. There’s no justification for shooting someone ten times in the back. The debate about what Alex Pretti did or didn’t do is irrelevant. The agents committed murder. It wasn’t a “bad shoot”. It was a killing

Exeunt, leading Katherine.

Catherine O’Hara didn’t steal scenes she just showed up and ownership automatically defaulted to her

Arresting Black journalists is also vice signaling. Their base is racist and hates journalists and they want to get them excited again. The mainstream media industry has never protected Black journalists or journalists of color the way it should.

This isn’t about convicting Don Lemon. It’s unlikely that will happen. It’s about intimidating journalists & making them censure themselves out of fear of consequences. It’s about eroding the free press because the administration can’t afford the criticism.

Charging a Black journalist under the KKK Act for reporting on a protest is a whole new level of fucked up.

The state of american politics is that one major party wants to kill you while the other simply wants you to die

Bad things are happening for trans people in Kansas...

Truly every day I find another reason to be pissed off at this newspaper. Wtf

This is a cover up of a murder, led by our own federal government.

It's not quite the most pressing issue at the moment, but the American people absolutely have a right to know the names of the federal officials who shot and killed a man peacefully protesting, who was on his knees, prone in the street when they shot him in the back.

People are right to be incensed, but there are more names to uplift. ICE killed an immigrant man named Silverio Villegas González in Chicagoland. He had children. Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped in Minneapolis and died in ICE custody on January 14. Their names deserve to be repeated, too.

CW: politics I don't like shaming people too much for being slow on the uptake, but seeing people say *now* that the USA is broken beyond repair is... Interesting. But I do also think there's an important distinction to be made.

Amazon Web Services hosts massive surveillance systems for both ICE and DHS. Citizens Bank provides nearly $1 trillion in credit & bonds to private prison companies. AT&T has a $147 million contract to provide communications services to DHS. Know who is profiting from ICE’s cruelty.

Tiktok is state media now. Queer, trans, liberal, leftist content etc will ask be suppressed going forward.

"ICE will leave Minnesota if you hand over your voter rolls" tells you everything you need to know. This was never about immigration or fraud. It was always about rigging elections.

Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum. Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum. Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum. ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.