We’re about to invade Venezuela because trump wants their oil. No other reason. The airspace has been cleared. Embassies are being evacuated. Flights are being canceled. He’s going to kill people for oil.

Social media could work differently. We teach digital literacy, but ppl often can’t apply those lessons w/in systems that obscure where info comes from & how it gets to them. What might social media look like if users had better signals of information provenance? www.rawstory.com/maga-foreign...

I talked to Sen Gary Peters about his investigation into DOGE’s handling of our Social Security data. It's CRAZY. If you haven’t read the report, do. TLDR? It’s very likely that DOGE uploaded all of our most private Social Security data to an insecure cloud server. Nobody knows who can access it.

It is like, really, super annoying that I can’t watch MLS and NWSL at the same time.

Yesterday I tried to put everything I knew about whistles—where to get them, where to get instruction sheets, how to distro—into one place so you can build off it for your own community's whistle needs: dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...

I think he legit took the napkin on the table and tied it around his neck. Did anyone get a shot from the back? Maybe he dribbled ketchup on his shirt? Maybe he's ramping up the sexual tension with his new 1-way bromance? Whatever the case, he looks (as usual) like a god damn goon.

US operations against Venezuela to begin within days. Covert ops the first move.

When you are beloved for your vulnerability, literacy, library love and pursuit of joy in the face of All the Things: @mychal3ts.bsky.social

Let’s milk this bromance for all it’s worth, starting with affordable health care.

WOW. 😳😳

Every day a new parallel universe opens.

WOW. If I came all the way to Denver #NCTE and only saw The Librarians, it would have been worth it. Must watch. Find it near you, or come to my PBS watch party on 2/9/26! These are the heroes of our times. @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social thelibrariansfilm.com The Librarians Film | Official Site

Powerful PSA

This is one of those points as an academic and researcher who focuses on authoritarianism and fascism I don’t like to make but:when the leader of the fascist movement that holds the government starts posting about murdering their opposition specifically political opposition you are in massive danger

I kinda don’t want to fact check this before reposting, which is against my nature, but I just WANT THIS TO BE TRUE!!

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Lindsey Halligan: “Your Honor, with all due respect, you can’t dismiss this case. We didn’t even get to the swimsuit competition.” graphic courtesy @tomadelsbach.bsky.social

ICE has been raiding my neighborhood and surrounding ones for the last couple of weeks now. They commandeered my local church (against the pastor's will) for a staging site and raided supermarkets, parks, Goodwills, bus stops, you name it. The national media's been silent. So has @mayor.lacity.gov.

Pretty crazy that we have just two political parties and one of them is all about protecting the right of adults to traffic & have sex with children.

Every day a new low

NEW: a contractor is paying random people $300 to physically track immigrants for ICE. They're given addresses, vehicles, told to monitor the target. That information then goes back up to ICE. These are not licensed private investigators; members of the public www.404media.co/contractor-p...

Michigan appears to be under attack from Gestapo now as well. The attack on the free states by fascist forces are accelerating

remember earlier this summer when I said the fascists were building comprehensive databases that were easily searchable that were coming very quickly and I had some of the loudest white pundits on this site Say I was a doomer, a conspiracy theorist and uneducated/lying about my academic record whelp

MUST WATCH: Meet the neo-Nazi targeting kids online, teaching them to hate and to prepare to kill www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

The comments 😂😂

This coming week, Trump will host Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi leader who approved the murder and dismemberment of U.S.-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Not coincidentally, the Saudis are working on a new business deal with the Trump Organization. It's blood money – or bonesaw money.

"With the arrival of the Gerald R. Ford, there are about 15,000 U.S. troops in the region, including personnel spread across roughly a dozen warships..." "Trump said Friday night that he has “sort of made up my mind” about how he will proceed with the possibility of military action in Venezuela"

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries blocked an effort broadly supported by his own caucus to force a vote on restoring crucial labor protections for federal workers that were revoked by President Donald Trump earlier this year.

"History ended in a sealed file, history ended in a silent scream, history ended with the last man warning you that if you tell anyone, you'd end too." -- HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020) RIP Virginia Giuffre

Not in a million years did I imagine this is how I’d spend a Friday night in my late 40s.

I mean, what world are we even living in? Some crazy shit, y’all 😂

The goal of the republicans plan is to create a socially Darwinian society that allows the most at risk to die without being seen or heard. It’s all social murder at scale and eugenics all the way down. The republicans are building the tools of mass death and painting them as public health.

US drew $900mn from IMF account as Argentina debt payment loomed www.ft.com/content/2730...

OMFG. America first, huh? Unless we are to the fire with our rabid dicks in which case American continent first!

After the revelations in these 23k+ Epstein emails, I’m convinced these billionaires didn’t manipulate the last election to keep Trump out of prison, they did it to keep ALL of them out of prison. May ANYONE involved with Epstein rot in hell and prison, you soulless pieces of shit.

"This could take down Democrats, too." I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office. Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.

CHILDREN CANNOT CONSENT (louder for the back)

Fall 2017: Then-NYT reporter literally warning Epstein that someone is "digging around again."

Only 1 “eloquent rant” in all this corporate sponsored “health?” Some of this I can actually get behind, but not like this, not in this way. Not from these people. What the fuck, for example, does JD Vance have to tell me about making us healthy again? I have my own eloquent rant.

Reading for researchers: The original post in this thread features a perspective piece encouraging researchers to look at the role of emotion in the spread of disinformation. The one directly below is an empirical study showing how outrage fuels the spread of misinformation online.

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

🚨🚨Hey folks apparently we still have a chance to stop this deal but we need to get one of these 8 to flip their votes: Durbin, Rosen, Cortez Masto, King, Kaine, Fetterman, Shaheen, Hassan. If one of them is yours, please get on the phone right now and tell them to reverse their vote. 202-224-3121🚨🚨

I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:

This is huge.

You all realize he committed ATTEMPTED MURDER in high school, right? Tried to throw a child out a window for disagreeing with him. That was BEFORE he started the raping. And the raping was BEFORE he killed millions via the pandemic and USAID. But yeah, universities, media, capitulate! He'll change.

It was never about “states rights.” I hope more details (names, parameters, etc) will be forthcoming….

This was a doomed exercise from the outset. They picked a fight to give the GOP something they thought they would want anyway, and have now been embarrassed into capitulating on even that. Beyond pathetic.

so currently defectors are: Kaine (2030) Shaheen (Retiring) Hasan (2028) Fetterman (2028) Durbin (Retiring) CCM (2028) Rosen (2030) King (2030)

The CPL Final is in the middle of a snowstorm in Canada, true North American soccer heritage...how could it get any better? HOW ABOUT A FREAKIN' BICYCLE KICK EQUALIZER!!!

Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.