To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.

I mostly just wish bluesky had a moderation option to ONLY show posts labeled Sexually Suggestive and/or Rude

The history of moral panics is a history of anecdotal evidence and the personal disgust censors being used to suppress depictions and discussions of sex and sexuality. They succeed because people assume those connections must be true, even the data rarely show it is.

This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.

Mamdani going so hard for trans right and winning is some juicy proof that every dem that abandoned us didn’t do it for politically advantageous reasons. They did it because they’re transphobes and they will lose for it

Dear @safety.bsky.app, just so I can remain in good standing: Am I allowed to exhort Dick Cheney to rest in piss, or are you still committed to enforcing “de mortuis nil nisi bonum” as sitewide policy?

The USDA is the fail safe for SNAP. They have a contingency fund to ensure it’s covered in the event of a shutdown. They’re refusing. Grocery stores stepped up to try and help by offering discounts to any SNAP recipients and the USDA told them they had to stop. Starvation as a policy choice.

In Chicago, a woman was driving to get coffee when a DHS vehicle fleeing an angry crowd crashed into her car. Armed agents jumped out of the vehicle, yanked her door open, pulled her by the legs out of her car at gunpoint, held her incommunicado for hours, then released her with no charges.

New awareness campaign

LAPD on horses charge at and beat guests standing in line to the Short Stop in Echo Park. @shoton35mm.bsky.social

The Heritage Foundation president is openly calling for the arrest, prosecution and conviction of people who work in the adult industry. No actual crime alleged — adult speech is still legal — just vague societal harms that demand detention.

Deplatforming Nazis is so successful that Musk purchased Twitter to replatform them.

ai makes things easier only if you have no idea what “things” are or how to do them or

Wednesday Oct 29th: at $190 of $238

I think a lot about the chance we had at the start of COVID to finally become a more compassionate, collectivist nation, and how profoundly we were failed not only by the sociopathic greed of the ruling class but by each other. It doesn’t mean we won’t get there, but the lost opportunity haunts me.

Faulty is not rude, the bs team is! If this is labeled rude, just click the label bullshit.

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“We should have banned government use of face recognition when we had the chance because it is dangerous, invasive, and an inherent threat to civil liberties,” EFF’s @MGuariglia.bsky.social told @404Media.co. www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp...

This is the end game of the anti homeless democrat mayors & governors who want to sweep the streets of all homeless people meeting the apparatus of mass incarcerating the population under Trump. As more become homeless, instead of housing they get held as slave labor.

In case you're wondering how it's going, I spent today getting lectured by opposing counsel about my "refusal" to "control" the "many trans extremists" who are "out threatening to kill people every day."

If judges can refuse to officiate gay weddings, gay defendants should be able to refuse to be heard by those judges. If they can’t be compelled to perform the most heteronormative of functions, why would anyone believe they are capable of putting their biases aside for something with higher stakes?

Very important not to become accustomed to the fact the US is literally in the "masked men are rounding up your neighbors" phase

This is the hard edge, while the “we must abandon identity” pundits are the soft edge of the same movement.

Thank you all for continuing to share Tess's shop. I've got to raise some funds before the end of the month to keep us housed so every share is extra helpful. If I can hold on here a couple more months I can move us somewhere way more affordable. Thank you for standing by us!

It’s getting louder. Slowly but surely the big institutions are catching up. C19 damage is making it into the medical mainstream. People have published it for a long time, now it’s turning up in teaching materials, public announcements. It’s getting louder.

A significant component of modern iterations of ableism is a capitalist market logic and neoliberal value system defining the economic productivity of individuals as a moral and social good, and foundational to the social and moral “health” of societies.

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Dante has a specific section of Hell for people who commit crimes on behalf of a monarch (the pope) knowing the monarch has promised in advance to pardon them.

Y'all when I tell you that this current paradigm of "AI" being shoved down our throats does real, persistent harm, and that said harm will fall first on the most marginalized and then on everyone else, this is the shit I mean. I mean god DAMN.

Most Americans are deeply ignorant of how national borders and travel and migration worked, historically – but they assume that it was always like now. It wasn’t even like now when I was younger.

I just received a contract on Docusign for review and signing, and it offered to give me an AI-generated summary that I could read instead to save time. That's AN AI-GENERATED SUMMARY ***OF A CONTRACT***, in case you need to let that sink in.

Maybe the demolition will cause Taft's spirit to rise from the ruins of the Taftub and haunt President Fall Risk in the bathroom.

Let’s re-iterate some important things: - Masturbation is healthy and normal. If you have any concerns about it, talk to your health provider. - Porn is not the root of all evil. But religious groups and political figures benefit from you thinking it is. - “porn addiction” is fake

No idea what any of these words mean but just happy there's colors on the screen and everybody's having a good time

HAKEEM JEFFRIES: i refuse to taste coca cola CHRIS HAYES: but thats whats in your hand right now HAKEEM JEFFRIES: [blood pouring from mouth] i cant taste anything at all, chris

SCUSA denied Anthony's request for a stay of execution and writ of certiorari. In one hour and twenty minutes, our country will gas a man to death, intentionally killing another innocent man. The SCUSA dissent is worth reading, below. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

I met Anthony Boyd in 2018, when I was working on a story about Project Hope, the death row anti-death penalty group he now chairs. He told me he'd been involved with drugs in Anniston & had his problems with the cops, but wasn't involved in Gregory Huguley's death. boltsmag.org/anthony-boyd...

This image needs to be in every mainstream news outlet It’s why I spend so much of my advocacy on ICE & the militarization of US cities It’s a disability justice issue They’re literally targeting disabled people because we’re easy marks ICE will disable more people with their vicious attacks.

Mike Johnson not knowing any of the details with Yakety Sax

"The doctor holds a monopoly of medicine over the patient." @jane.theneedlenews.com makes the case for easier access to hormones.

Inside the Hermitage, the winter palace where Tsar Nicholas II and his family lived before they were executed—in a country where Russians were starving.

The Roman historians Tacitus and Suetonius focus overwhelmingly on Nero’s fanciful building projects. Why? Nero’s architectural profligacies — whereby he usurped public property for private luxury — expose the very essence of tyranny: instead of serving the state, this emperor consumed it.

when you want to sleep but you have Work Thoughts

I believe in redemption for everyone. I do. It's a part of my abolitionist makeup. I believe anyone who genuinely wants to do the work can be redeemed. I also believe that redemption is not forgiveness. See, the people I've wronged in my life are under no obligation to forgive me,

This is what it used to look like inside the lobby area.

No, we can’t just agree to disagree on our opinions and live peacefully together when one person’s opinion is that the other can’t live in peace. Everyone already knows this, yet people pretend otherwise when it inconveniences them