Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

i’m not gonna reply to doomers any more except with this w.e.b. dubois quote

We set out to determine how many images of women and girls Grok created during its nudifying spree. What we found was “industrial-scale abuse,” experts said. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...

The story of Liam Ramos is breaking me. I hope hell is real and I hope every single person involved in inflicting fear and harm on this little boy and his family burns in hell for 1000 years.

i realized watching OBAA is a completely different experience as a Black person (this will be a read only thread... you know who you are... you know why)

Agree with this thread. Their obsession with polls is really an obsession with avoiding backlash. One thing I'll disagree on: Schumer and Jeffries ARE going to be remembered. In infamy. As ineffectual cowards. Like Hindenburg.

I agree wholeheartedly with Will on this. This is the reflexive crouch that democrats have adopted since Reagan. The idea that someone, somewhere might decry their actions to address a wrong as "political" or "partisan" is more of a problem, then action/threat they are trying to address.

Aw hell. Fuck cancer. Let’s help Gene fuck it again.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

It was always about the racism, to the core.

The President of the United States today called an entire ethnic group “very low IQ people.” This occurred as ICE in Minneapolis continues to arrest lawfully present Somalis and other refugees and fly them to Texas detention centers to be interrogated by government officials.

In the least shocking development ever.

If there were any justice in the world, I would be able to marvel at the irony, instead it might be the most perfect allegory.

Democrats could act like a real opposition party, refusing to validate Trump malfeasance with votes, and setting up a shadow cabinet that regularly communicates how Democrats would be different. But nah. It’s not only a majority of Democratic voters that hate this approach. US allies see it too.

This is quite a post www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/reality-is...

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Net US immigration was zero or slightly negative last year, in important new estimates by @stanveuger.bsky.social et al. The loss of labor cut GDP growth by about 0.2 percentage points.

over the course of 1871, congress held seven months of hearings on ku klux klan and other white vigilante violence in the south, they took detailed testimony from hundreds of black men and women attesting to klan terror. (1/?)

Note this: ICE agents are already used to acting with little oversight as their targets are powerless. Now with Trump, Noem, Vance saying Renee Good's killing was okay they'll think they have full impunity. On the pod, @timdickinson.bsky.social explains this so well: newrepublic.com/article/2052...

A decade ago, when Trump one the first time, I and other Black writers tried to make us see that racism — both explicit and deeply seeded — was at the root of Trump’s rise. We were dismissed even as late as last year as people attributed economic anxieties to Trump’s wins. DO YOU BELIEVE US NOW?

TLDR: In November, the Black unemployment rate jumped to 8.2%. In December, it dropped to 7.5%. In one year, Black unemployment has increased by MORE THAN A FULL percentage point. 🚩🚩🚩 #blackjobsday #jobsday #blacksky

2025 is now, officially, the worst year for job creation outside of recession since 2003. @byheatherlong.bsky.social

i made a video about the president's gutter racism against somali-americans and how a scandal became a smear became a call for de facto ethnic cleansing

It follows that Trump leaked the most market-moving economic numbers that exist. I have no idea how illegal this is, or if the law even matters any more. But I do know this: It's unprecedented. No White House has ever before leaked such important market-moving numbers. No serious country does this

I hate to break it to you, but heavily-armed government militias are roaming unchecked through US cities and shooting human rights observers dead in the streets. That's happening in our country.

In my book I wrote about research from NYU’s Eric Knowles and others into the “minority collusion” fear: that White Republicans in particular have a bizarre idea that non-Whites act collectively against Whites.

I was first unsettled, then increasingly furious at the New York Times' coverage of the death of Lia Smith. Here's a thread sharing some trily despicable choices made by @julietmacur.bsky.social in writing about this young woman's suicide.

This is the video.

A rare amount of circumspection on the part of Trump. He absolutely sees a situation where there are finally enough votes in the Senate to remove him from the office.

No one expects truth from Trump, and there are so many lies in this post it's not worth the time to debunk them all. But still, inflection points for NATO countries' defense spending were 2014 and 2022, when Trump wasn't president. Obama or Biden didn't cause it either. Russia attacking Ukraine did.

keep thinking of a vocally anti-woke reporter who insisted that the term "environmental racism" was nonsense

This guy is one of a kind. If you don't have him on your radar you should fix that. Instead of gazing with wonder at the denialism five years later, he's warning the polity. Possibly the most valuable news anchor in the country. Kyle Klark at 9News Denver.

if you tried to do this in the us, you'd have a billion dollar conservative moms group lobbying against it 12 hours later and credulous news articles taking their claims seriously in 24 bsky.app/profile/davi...

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

ICYMI: I sat down with political scientist @samuel-bagg.bsky.social to discuss the crisis in our information environment and its roots in social identity.

yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.

Grok is unique in that it is both the creator and the mass distributor of NCII and CSAM all in one. And there is no point in having regulations or guardrails to protect children if you don’t enforce them.

They kidnapped the head of a Latin American country, replaced him with an insecure white racist who has spent his entire life arguing that Latinos are subhuman, and made clear that their primary aim is to plunder the country for its resources. If it isn't yet clear, yes, we're the fucking baddies.

some thoughts on all of this madness from earlier in the morning youtu.be/-yUi-0vNlDA

A thread of absolutely golden images of Jamelle casually insulting people bsky.app/profile/donm...

The “tornado” inside the tornado?🤔 Check out this inner vortex that twists and churns inside the main circulation! These can be VIOLENT🌪️ @myradar.bsky.social #tornado #weather #science #drone

holy fuck

Never before seen footage‼️ Tornado genesis of the Clear Lake, South Dakota tornado earlier this year. @myradar.bsky.social #tornado #weather

glad to see that my “lyman stone gives off hitler particles” intuition was correct

🚨 A reminder that less than 36 hours from now, up to 24 million Americans are about to see their net health insurance premiums skyrocket. Use the drop-down menu at the top to find your state: acasignups.net/ira-subsidy-...

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Compare and contrast this deeply sick Stephen Miller tweet (left) with the rhetoric that was used on people like his ancestors when they immigrated to the United States (right): newrepublic.com/article/2041...