Authorities are imposing a limit of “one bottle of water per person” for attendees on the DC Mall. This is on July 4, when the temp will exceed 100 degrees. Checkpoints open at 1 pm. Fireworks don’t start til after 1030 pm. Good luck to our EMS friends. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

I swear, "a pope from Chicago excommunicates a Nazi-adjacent sect" is like a cut scene from The Blues Brothers

Ngl, I judge trans women who wear obvious pet collars in public.

What makes the idea that the world’s problems could be solved by the creation of an artificial superintelligence such obvious BS is that we’ve already had the tech to solve the world’s problems for a long time but it’s been gatekept by capitalists just as any ostensible salvation by way of AI would.

InfoWars is now live.

Pope : with mercy and love and deep regret, i must call this a schismatic act Half of bluesky with their shirts off and earrings out ready to brawl outside applebees : GET THEIR ASSES WOOOOO

OH MY GOD GUYS okay so priests who want back in have to find a bishop willing to vouch for them, swear fealty to Vatican II and then HAND-WRITE THE POPE AN APOLOGY LETTER (I gues so he knows they didn’t use AI? 😂) and are on probation for 1-3 years this is ten times spicier than I even thought

Dear Media. Vatican II wasn’t just about praying or not in Latin. *Vatican II decided to be less antisemitic. By a lot. * And now Pope Leo (like Francis) is reading the Bible HARD, all that “love immigrants” & “care for others” “🖕 Empire” stuff?! This story is not complicated.

Good time to remind people that Pickett almost started a war with Britain over a pig. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_War...

Not to roast my mom on main, but there was an unfortunate period when she was calling me a "non-binary birth-giver" and I had to break it to her that the gender-neutral word for parent is "parent"

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i probably have one of the older “shut down the IC” posts on here, and you aren’t doing it here, but: so many people presume DSA a political party, and then call all reminders that it’s actually an activist network as the other person trying to get out of something. But we didn’t make the error!

When It Happens, we may have the opportunity to do to the rest of the American right what the reaction to Kirk's death did to the zoomer right. Bouncing between "your body my choice" and "this is so disrespectful to his memory" broke them

One positive development about my job is that my boss has not only encouraged me to continue my astrobiology research using ASU's supercomputing cluster, but actually asked one of the other research facilitators to assist me so she can gain more experience using the supercomputers

THE VATICAN IS CALLING IT A SCHISM I REPEAT HOUSTON, WE HAVE A SCHISM

My conspiracy theory is that Trump famously hates DC & living in the White House. If he burns down DC then he gets to live at Mar A Lago full time.

Its been over a month and I'm still thinking about this

pickett's charge is one of the stupidest military maneuvers ever ordered and I do not have to die on that hill because so many confederates did it for me

I applied for this--I'm newly single and pretty meh about my current job, so it's pretty much the ideal time in my life for something wild like a year-long analogue astronaut mission--but I suspect me being medicated for ADHD is disqualifying, since regs prevent you from having a year's supply

If this were another administration, I'd be genuinely worried, but at this point Trump can't even eliminate algae.

Literally the Supreme Court upheld sodomy bans in 1986 and said homosexuality was worse than rape and nobody even talks about it

SCHISM! SCHISM! SCHISM! "The seamless garment of Christ, which Pope Leo XIV had urged in a heartfelt letter on June 29 "not to tear apart," has now, in the Vatican's view, been torn." paging @clairewillett.bsky.social - this is the first I've seen from the press office.

I'm just musing here, but I think there is a Problem of The Non Radical [Queer] that it might be useful to grapple with a little more openly. 🧵 Incoming, hopefully not too discursive, but no promises.

If you can get people to agree trans women have no place in women's sport you are getting them to concede they are not really women and everything else flows from that. They have said this themselves as they campaigned for the ban.

Everyone is rightly focused on his "low wage foreigners" comment but I'm infuriated by the "we're going to restore dignity to the working class by bringing back manufacturing." NO YOU WON'T. MASS HIGH WAGE FACTORY EMPLOYMENT FOR NON-COLLEGE EDUCATED WORKERS IS NOT COMING BACK. YOU KNOW THIS.

So, if SSPX goes full schism, who becomes their pope? Are they Sedevacantists at that point?

And I was just thinking that Loeb couldn't possibly find a way to be more embarrassing to the scientific community.

Is it weird that I'm strangley calm after almost passing out from choking on a piece of gnocchi? (My roommate--who Heimliched me--said I was literally turning blue; at the moment, I think she might be more traumatized than I am)

Obviously this is a dipshit opinion. But since I sometimes see people on the left rolling their eyes about those signs, I just want you all to know that the other night some lost Black teens came to our house after taking the wrong bus and we were able to get them home. Why’d they pick us? Signs.

Here’s Why Weather Forecasts Have Seemed So Inaccurate Lately. Meteorologists simply aren't able to gather as much data as they used to, and you're suffering for it. gizmodo.com/heres-why-we...

Justice Brown Jackson's argument for birthright citizenship is very moving. I recommend reading it in full. An excerpt with alt-text below. “The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery.” — KBJ

for better or worse, the vast majority of americans on the left are some flavor of social democrat right now

my position for a long time is that creators, for their own well-being, should not interact with their fans, but after seeing the Amazing Digital Circus discourse, I'm starting to think that's not enough. Work camps for Fans, Gulags for Fans, Janissary program for Fans, Siberian salt mines for Fans.

5-4, to reiterate the most milquetoast meaning of a Constitutional amendment that was win soaked in blood, tells us we have to figure out how we are going to get to impeachment. No other remedy will do.

Is it not clear now that reforming the Supreme Court must be at the top of the agenda along with accountability?

It’s always interesting when I get to explain to a cis person that the current anti-trans hysteria is not only 100% astroturfed, it’s 180° opposite of the initial popular reaction to public medical transition. People thought it was cool! Look what modern medicine can do! She’s a bombshell!

For them, it does. They cannot conceive of a world in which someone they think should belong to a suboordinate class has the same rights as them. That's also why they hate the Reconstruction amendments. bsky.app/profile/gabr...

congratulations, transphobes: the biggest perverts you know will be doing genital inspections on your children

This isn’t even a joke thing for me. Mobile platforms are a closed down technofascist response to computers. The desktop isn’t free of those influences, but they are attenuated and interacting with it makes you experience the full promise of computing. The potential and the freedom.

Look, I like Brynn Tannehill--she and my brother used to train in longsword combat together back when she lived in DC--but have any of her political predictions in the last few years actually proved to be accurate?

Are you incandescent with rage that SCOTUS decided a teenage girl who just wants to throw discus with her friends is the real threat to gender equality in the USA? Me too!

it's important to realize that "rights" are not self-enforcing. They're something that requires constant vigilance and jealous defense to maintain and we are currently losing them through stupidity, carelessness and weakness. Our opponents' ultimate plan is to enslave us once our rights are gone.

your response to trans women being subjected to violence and dehumanization specifically should never, ever be anything but “we have to protect them, we have to stop this”

I don't think people understand the degree to which outlets like The Atlantic and The New York Times set back trans rights with second-rate reporting that doesn't stand up now, let alone in the future. They have failed at the most basic journalistic duties.

By God, I will see trans people happy and thriving and these miserable pricks on the Supreme Court defeated within my lifetime.

Gonna be honest: I read the fish from right to left, and was genuinely surprised to see "Muslims" as the big bad 😂🤦‍♂️ These people are so f*cking weird