The 60 Minutes episode about CECOT was not only worth running, it was an exceptionally powerful work of journalism that made clear the US government has embraced torture. You can read the transcript here: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Gavin Newsom is Mitt Romney for the Democrats, a department store mannequin who will lose in a general election

It’s all fun and games until this Nvidia bubble bursts

We murdered clippy and now they’ve raised us copilot

Companies trying to get people to use AI is the Mean Girls equivalent of trying to make fetch happen

John Oliver really was not kidding about the overwhelming rebellious power of just saying “Fuck you, make me.”

I think “speak to your fake dead relative” might be the most evil application of “AI” i’ve seen so far

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Tonight, we did something everyone counted out. We proved to a nation that states like Tennessee are still worth fighting for. The margin was close, and that can only be attributed to the thousands of volunteers who showed out. This is just the beginning.

Honestly wild how much Behn closed the 22-point gap from the past two 7th District races.

It's 7 p.m. Polls are now closed in the 7th District special election between Matt Van Epps and Aftyn Behn. (if you are in line you can still cast your ballot). The first thing we are likely to see are early vote totals from around the district.

It's 7 p.m. and polls are closed in Tennessee's 7th Congressional District! Stay tuned for the Scene's coverage of the results, and have a look at our coverage leading up to Election Day.

Weirdly, this is all part of a 50-year-long plan to get their parents back together

I think about it all the time. And I think we shouldn’t give the private org ultimately responsible $15 Million for surveillance equipment.

Man, Al Gore has entered the chat.

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Why buy shit you don’t need when you can be out knocking doors for @aftynbehn.bsky.social? Vote for Aftyn on Tuesday, December 2 and let’s flip this mfin’ seat already

Lol Matt Van Epps was part of the $8 million graft purchase of those pesticide-laden sock masks (which had visible holes, for those of you who don’t live here). Incredible shit. www.tennessean.com/story/news/p...

Threatening my friends

Why do we allow ourselves to be such easy marks? #monorail 🦞

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

The problem of writing a novel while holding down a day job is that I just performed 4 hours of big brain work giving it all I got and now I have to go clock in for 8 more hours today

people are reading "catch-and-kill" in the journalistic sense but she was probably just finding raccoons for him to eat

a very good and important response from @slotkin.senate.gov and company in response to Trump's threats. You absolutely cannot allow a would-be authoritarian to know that the surest way to make his opponents back down is to threaten them with violence. www.slotkin.senate.gov/2025/11/20/j...

If you’re wondering how it’s going in rural Texas

PROTECT 👏🏼 PHIL 👏🏼 WILLIAMS 👏🏼 AT 👏🏼 ALL 👏🏼 COSTS

Tell me your go-to karaoke song and no one gets hurt

Kamala Harris & Justin Jones choosing not to even use Aftyn’s name… really something. And also utterly unsurprising. This is why so many of us hate the Dems, fyi. No such thing as solidarity, only self-interest & status quo.

Whoa: A federal court just barred Texas from using its new congressional map, drawn by the GOP to target Dems. "Substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 Map." Court says the old map must be used in 2026. Appeals are certain. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

In 2028 I will vote for whoever will send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

I swear to god I just want to live to see a world where nobody’s talking about Bill Clinton’s penis

Is there a We Rate Cats, but for bad cats only

When I encounter myself as a different colored cursor because I have the Google Doc open in two tabs

you can’t “well actually” child abuse, dog

It should be bigger news on bluesky that we could possibly flip a House seat blue in Tennessee next month imo. Let's help elect @aftynbehn.bsky.social

Gerrymandering relies on low turn out. A wave can break that Vote @aftynbehn.bsky.social

Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"

@civiccommonsus.bsky.social's Bridget Marquis tells @lisabubert.bsky.social why we need civic spaces: “to serve as literal common ground in our communities to counter both loneliness & socioeconomic segregation” -- including at karaoke bars, bowling alleys and churches. tinyurl.com/mvx8sby2

In December 2018, Epstein wrote about Trump: “I am the one able to take him down.” Eight months later, Epstein was found dead in a prison run by the Trump administration. Weird coincidence.

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes. Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.

LEFTISTS ONLINE: do NOT put your real name in signup sheets. use Signal for anything other than texting your grandmother JEFF EPSTEIN AND ALL HIS FRIENDS, FROM THEIR GMAIL: helo guys,,

We seriously need to give Sarah Kendzior her flowers

And MTG and Boebert are in play. We need @aftynbehn.bsky.social from #Tennessee #TN07 in Congress. Everyone who votes for her MAGA opponent can’t claim they have not known that they vote for a pedophile rapist. Simple as that.

Trump’s problem is that so many Americans — including his MAGA base — believed that he’d expose a powerful global elite. But every day it's becoming more and more clear that Trump may actually be part of that global elite. Expect him to lash out as the walls close in.

There’s a lot of upsetting shit in these files but let’s not sleep on how illiterate these boomers are over email

Replacing their amoral cynic enablers with true-believer psychos is lowkey one of the biggest mistakes these people ever made

Conservatives in 2017: the world is run by a satanic pedo cabal Conservatives in 2025: we will kill you if you don’t worship the satanic pedo cabal