Georgia's governor signs a comically transparent law. It makes local elections in 5 big blue counties nonpartisan, to give GOP candidates a chance to win without a party label in places like Atlanta. And it doesn't change anything in the rest of the state, for red counties to know who's GOP.

I always thought that cranial pleasure implant from the Larry Niven books was ridiculous, that nobody but the most broken and despairing person would ever use such a thing, but here's some office normie clamoring to have the Droud drilled through her frontal lobe.

As @davekarpf.bsky.social lays out here, buying the election was the cheapest option for Musk--a centibillionaire facing multiple govt probes into his business dealings. davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/a-story-of...

FINAL THOUGHT OF THE DAY… Just a gentle reminder that the person stating the trans activists be treated as terrorists is… A 34 times convicted felon. An adjudicated rapist. An almost certain paedophile. A serial liar. A fraudster, who defrauded a children’s cancer charity. A molester. A racist.

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Rich people are an actual, palpable threat to arts and society at this point...

When it comes to regulating what counts as "adult" content, platforms are actually at the mercy of the all powerful credit card companies that they depend on to survive. Learn more in this classic comic from 2021 by @luxalptraum.com and @erikamoen.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/70032336

This article is a dystopian fucking nightmare—not just because of what it says about the state of Hollywood, but because this is a glipse at the true "Ai Future!" you've been lectured thoroughly is inevitable & definitely THE FUTURE. It's your kids' nightmarish future. www.wired.com/story/i-work...

Drunk chaggi doodle #hazbinhotel

Why the hell are they weirdly exoticizing the way poorer people normally shop?

They are gonna treat you either way but if you’ve already used up your physician empathy points and went and fucked around with medications then they’re not going to treat you as well or as effectively as they might have otherwise. www.welcometohellworld.com/they-want-to...

the fact that the average person just does not give a half of a shit about trans people and what is being done to us daily (and what is being threatened) is really really really starting to wear me down. just total apathy, even from the people that purport to care

Headline sucks but yeah, glad to be in NJ like usual. This essentially takes a bunch of stuff Phil Murphy did to ensure protections for trans patients and providers in an executive order and makes it the law of the land, once it clears two more steps that seem pretty certain to happen.

"this would be really bad and so, ipso facto, it can't happen" is the assumption underlying the entire Trump era and it's sort of bleakly funny to see people clinging to it even as the train is jumping the tracks

After many failed attempts to subpoena trans kids' private health records, DOJ is now trying to get them via criminal grand jury in Texas. "This is mafia-type behavior," Shannon Minter tells @hurwitz.bsky.social. This will be a new test of blue-state shield laws. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Q: “To African-Americans concerned this is going to draw Black members of congress off the map, what do you say?” TRUMP: “I think it's been a wonderful process.”

Discworld QOTD, from Jingo

TRUMP: “I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation. Not even a little bit.” And there you have it, folks

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Waymo issued a recall to fix software issues in their robotaxis that could allow them to drive into, basically, flooded roadways. The recall is voluntary & impacts ~3,800 of its AVs with gen. 5 & 6 automated driving systems. www.cnbc.com/2026/05/12/w...

Genuinely funny that Alito just wrote a whole opinion making clear that the only thing Republicans have to do to gerrymander Black people out of electoral existence is say "this is about politics, not race," and then this genius is like CAN YOU BELIEVE HOW MANY BLACK PEOPLE ARE IN THAT DISTRICT??

let me know when they open it up to any US trans refugees what a sentence to have to type 😬

what's crazy is i was told that republicans couldn't steal an election and here they are clearly stealing one a full ~6 months before midterms

jesse singal is a litmus test for whether a cis person a) cares about transphobia at all b) can detect transphobia when it is dressed professionally & doesn't use slurs, and sometimes also c) is willing to listen to and believe trans people *about* transphobia when they don't see it themselves

A quick reminder why Pete Buttigieg can burn in fucking hell:

Huh, maybe acting like a giant transphobic dick blister to pander to Nazi trash-folk is actually working *against* the supposed Adults In The Room

In 2015, the UK was ranked first in Europe for LGBTI rights. Two years ago, just before the election of Keir Starmer, we were 16th. Today the UK is ranked 22nd.

building a society that lets you starve in the gutter but i'll be goddamned if you make fun of a white man online

I'm going to update this - it clearly is deniable, as many people who seem completely in good faith are denying it. So, here's a more nuanced thread, from someone who runs moderation on a news site, about what I think happened with moderation and the trans community on Bluesky. 🧵

Can confirm

Well well well Game Stop how does it feel to get offered nothing when you try to sell it back?!

‘can i afford the tax? yes. is it going to deter me? no.’ cool well no further questions, thanks for answering the only relevant ones

The Trump White House freaked out so much at the political disaster they created for themselves with Minnesota and other viral images of their roving, trigger happy crackdowns that they were forced to make their secret police force more secretive, but they’re still committing lawless abuses and…

Incredible

ICE agents are walking around with a list of 20 million people to detain in their pockets because of this Palantir database: www.404media.co/ice-agents-h...

The thing that frustrates me the most about Barney Frank's current media tour is that a.) in every single appearance, he takes a shot at trans people, and b.) he fundamentally misunderstands what's been happening on the issue of trans rights, generally.

The Black Panther Party and American Indian Movement were labeled terrorist organization. Not the Klan tho

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TIL a bunch of ex-Gawker folks sold a series based on their stories to Apple and Tim Cook personally quashed it when he heard about it www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

the white house is a full of terrorists

Roberts dropping that “we’re not political actors” quote and doing this 96 hours later is nasty work

People are weird sometimes if you don't have kids, they're like what about having a legacy, and I just point to my box of various wires and power cables

It's a coup against the people of the United States and always has been. Their ultimate goal is to enslave us

once again, just spitballing, what if we just provided for everyone's basic material needs

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BREAKING: Overnight, Judge Reed O’Connor in Texas denied Rhode Island Hospital’s request for a stay of his order enforcing DOJ’s subpoena seeking invasive gender-affirming care information. Order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Background: www.lawdork.com/i/196237187/...

Nearly six months after St. Paul police officers deployed less-lethal munitions and sprayed chemical irritants on a crowd of protesters and journalists, there is still no clarity around when the department’s review of the incident will be made public.

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The administrative time crunch issue is real but not insurmountable, if there was the political will. For one thing, you can update the system with the new map in parallel and then switch or not as needed. It sounds more like a convenient excuse for lacking the political will to nuke the court.