Texas eliminated 5 Democratic seats with no voter approval. Louisiana suspended election with no voter approval. Tennessee erased last majority-Black district with no voter approval. But VA Supreme Court blocks redistricting map approved by 3 million voters www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

One side is like “can we disenfranchise all the Black voters by this weekend” and the other is like gotta follow the rules that govern the rules that control the rulebook

It's so disheartening to watch this play out. "The end result is that organizations are actually leaking private data through vibe-coding applications" www.wired.com/story/thousa...

you mess with the bull you get the horns. you mess with the goat you get the woodwinds. the horse has the string section and the rabbit is on percussion

Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room: A brief tour I was invited to document an exhibition of the Epstein files, printed and bound. Developed by the Institute for Primary Facts, the Reading Room hopes to push the DOJ to release all the files & to pursue justice for victims.

this is really heartwarming. two men exchanging symbolic tokens of things the other has no interest in (football, peace)

I’m old enough to remember when only rich people had waterbeds and then when only poor people had waterbeds

a nazi tattoo with a tattoo under it that says “i got this before i knew elon musk was like that”

the fact that this photo looks like it could equally have been taken in 1968 kind of proves the point

The National Anthem is speeding up like when you're running out of time in Super Mario.

The extremely rare catcopus.

"No one could stop the US raiding modern shipping, but it doesn't because it knows it benefits far more from unmolested maritime trade than any potential piracy spoils", used to be my go-to example illustrating how international law works. Will need to update with a "fucking idiot" caveat.

it took me too long to realize that this was "horseshit" censored and not new slang i didn't know about yet where "horses" meant bad

I would like to see the Venn diagram of these guys and the guys who think they could beat Serena Williams at tennis

"gerrymandering is a slippery slope! packing the court is a slippery slope!" we literally do not have a democracy now. we are at the bottom of the fascism slope. Trump is committing genocides. he has created concentration camps. he has ended our democracy. not in the future; right now.

As extreme politics have normalized, young people have grown up not knowing any other way. For months, I've spent time getting to know 10 college students who literally do not recall a time in America without Trump. My latest for @thewesternedge.bsky.social www.thewesternedge.media/p/the-age-of...

If you thought elaborately faking being good at videogames to impress a bunch of manchildren was embarrassing, consider elaborately faking that your mother loves you.

The lesser known White Recluse couldn’t be reached for comment, as it was busy furiously typing supportive comments for Rittenhouse in 8 separate Facebook threads at once

As the Julius Nyerere quote goes "The United States is also a one-party state, but with typical American extravagance, they have two of them."

We actually have two strong Republican parties.

the media is now telling people to work from home to save on gasoline, immediately after their years-long crusade to tell us why returning to office is best for everyone. this isn't a gotcha, it's an example of how contradicting demands allow the ruling class to blame us no matter what we do

This has to be the funniest question AND response I've ever seen in a poll. Less than half of Republican men think they could beat Trump in a fight. What a bunch of pathetic losers.

relentless poll chasing + contempt for your political base + a total absence of principle or vision = political disaster www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/o...

Solar plus storage: $54 Coal: $70-85 Gas (methane): $100 The math gets pretty simple.

Generational tweet that might even spawn a school of architecture.

I can‘t figure out why, but I have never seen news stories about how oil rigs hurt whales. Only wind farms do that. And only solar panels have a recycling problem. Gas stations are fine.

Hanlon’s Razor: “Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by ignorance.” Moxon’s Shaving Cream: “Never exonerate malice simply because it is also ignorant.”

so they turned the refugee system into an immigration lottery for boerspawn

Elon Musk accidentally revealing his mom's account is one of his alt's means that he has both impersonated his own infant child and mother online

Always fascinating to me when someone screenshots a post to hold it up to ridicule, and then when I search out the original it has like four likes, no reposts, and one reply. My brother, that's not a take, it's litter. Just keep walking.

You’re about to see so many anti Hasan posts get ready

“Not for rinsing or washing,” they said. (Seen at Union Station.)

A win for free speech, a loss for Matt Taibbi.

Warning! You might see posts in the wild claiming "Hogwarts Legacy is free right now!" but this is malware, if you try and run it, it'll install Hogwarts Legacy on your PC.

I shared this when it was published, but since it just won a Pulitzer, I'll share it again. It's worth a read. Texas Monthly is media I gladly pay for. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

When they say they want to "help people" do something, like quit anti-depressants or have a healthy natural immune system, they mean they want the weak to die.

Holy crap, I just searched something. Not on Xitter, not on other platforms, but here on Bisky. Y'all, this place is OVERRUN with pro-data center bots. A bunch of them apparently got a command earlier today and are now accusing people opposed to data centers of being NIMBYs.

I need everyone to know that spotty hound dogs like this have the sweetest nature. They're real team players, real goofy, and like to help. Very gentle with people/kids. Usually high prey drive that requires training, but this one sounds like he didn't get that gene.

"Never hallucinate or make anything up." yes, you can just demand that the LLM not make errors that's definitely how the technology works

Okay I looked it up. “big titty Alf” is a bigoted slur against Chicano folks.

i am tired of having to listen to dumb assholes just because they have a lot of money

Secret Service shot a kid today

Yeah, I'm no fan of substack. I'm not in a position to leave unfortunately. I do cross post on Patreon, if you'd prefer to read it there. www.patreon.com/posts/polari...

Every splashy New York Times profile of a right wing influencer.

I’m sorry but Web 1.0 had a super-concentrated form of brainrot that would kill anyone under 20 today. In the sense that this was the only content. At all