We sued the Education Dept. for withholding records about discrimination in schools. Got information to share with our team? Contact @jsmithrichards.bsky.social on Signal at jsmithrichards.93 or @jodiscohen.bsky.social at jodireporter.88 👇

Clarence Thomas ruled in favor of Citizens United. Harlan Crow's political contributions then went up 862%. Then we later find out Thomas let Crow take him on lavish trips, buy his mom's house, and help fund his wife's conservative nonprofit. But go on about how "progressivism" is a problem...

"You're spending taxpayer dollars to drink milk shirtless in a hot tub with Kid Rock. Somehow you think that's a better public health message than informing the public about the benefits of vaccines. Really? -- Rep. Linda Sanchez to RFK Jr

A DOJ press release accused Heather Morrow of assaulting an ICE agent. When video showed Morrow hadn't attacked anyone and was tackled by an officer, prosecutors dropped the felony charges but promptly filed a misdemeanor case against her. With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social

"You're just voluntarily complying with this whimsical cosplay" -- holy shit, Tim Kaine is *demolishing* Russ Vought

“This has never happened before,” one government employee tells WIRED. “I have never gotten a message like this from anyone.” www.wired.com/story/govern...

I do like this!

Meanwhile, the typical American will pay a federal income tax rate of 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like. [Via @itep.org]

More than 400,000 Arizonans have lost their SNAP benefits since July — the largest decline in the nation by a wide margin — after the state implemented changes called for in Trump’s so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

Tuberville is the current crop of idiot Senators that the GOP love. Easy to manipulate those that are incapable of critical thinking.

Please be good or at least a fun experience!

primary use cases for AI, an ongoing list: - pornslop - academic fraud - eroding our collective sense of truth - cyberpsychosis - dementia acceleration - fucking a jagged hole through the arts - search engine enshittification - fascist panopticon - anti-intellectualism - war crimes

After working with the U.S. military in Afghanistan, Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal died in the country he spent years of his life helping. The cruelty is endless.

“The commons” doesn’t just refer to resources everybody uses, but to resources that are collectively, not privately, owned and managed. No privately-held social network is or can be a commons.

Take a look a three recent events and one thing becomes very clear: The Trump doctrine is violence. New video analysis from @davidcorn.bsky.social on the recent events 👇

The Senate unanimously approved a measure to display an existing plaque honoring the officers who protected the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021 riot. Congress passed a law in March 2022 mandating the plaque, but it has yet to be installed. Mike Johnson has argued the project is “not implementable.”

Oh my gosh you guys! The House just passed my bill to extend the health care tax credits for three more years!

An ICE agent saying "I don't care" and preventing an innocent woman who's been shot from receiving medical care are not the words or actions of officers lawfully protecting themselves and the community. These are the words of sociopaths happy with murder.

For decades, cops have been trained not to shoot at moving vehicles. But the federal agents enforcing Trump’s mass deportation campaign seem not to be following this rule, and are taking a far more dangerous path.

“The evidence here made clear that Trump was by a large measure the most culpable and most responsible person in this conspiracy. These crimes were committed for his benefit. The attack that happened at the Capitol, part of this case, does not happen without him. www.huffpost.com/entry/congre...

What were the best things to happen in Magic: The Gathering this year? Our review of 2025: youtu.be/pf66Z_9YP74 #Magicthegathering

Holy hell... I'm gifting the article because everyone should be able to read this. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

I keep seeing more articles about how they regret it now that the damage is done & I truly believe that if you have any genuine interest in salvaging what’s left of this country then whether you want to or not, you can never forgive these people. You can never let them live what they did down.

Kick the weekend off ✨right✨ by checking out this pod we played with @jollysaintclick.bsky.social and Tony!! You know it's a barrel of laughs when we get together -- somehow we managed to even play a little magic! youtu.be/uf0rKl0fU9M?...

Good Trouble 🔥

"the anti-trans fervor gripping the United States is the culmination of many disparate hateful groups and movements coming to fruition all at the same time. This is Why Conservatives Are So Obsessed With Trans Kids."

The John Adams Society began quietly excluding women from membership this semester, former and prospective affiliates told The Crimson. It is now effectively functioning as a single-sex organization. @abbysgerstein and @JackBReardon report. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Read @nicolefoy.bsky.social's investigation that prompted the congressional probe. We found that agents had detained >170 Americans this year. More than 20 citizens said they were held for at least a day without being able to contact a lawyer or their loved ones.

1. For weeks, EITM has reported that Republicans would push a trans healthcare ban in their ACA negotiations. Now, the plan is released, and it includes heavy restrictions on ACA plans, a medicaid ban, an EHB ban, and more. Democrats must not capitulate.

Two independent studies found that AI chatbots were better at persuading voters than political ads. The most persuasive bots also lied the most. This is something that humans working in psyops have known for decades. AI is psyops at scale. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/04/1...

Elon Musk is against the European Union being the European Union —he posted this after X (fka Twitter) was fined for violations of the EU’s Digital Services Act.

After attaching new strings to counterterrorism and emergency management money for “sanctuary” states, the Trump administration went further by adding requirements that even Republican-majority areas find hard to meet.

The bottom 90% lost a collective $79 trillion in wages over the past 50 years. Why? Because the top 1% ate up an increasingly larger share of the national income — so that $79 trillion flowed to them instead of the working class. The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.

In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly. In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported. 🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling. 🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states. This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺

"the president has directed the Department of Energy to launch an AI project called the genesis mission" sounds like something out of a technothriller www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics. It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT. It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse. Transgender care saves lives.

Rep. Salazar: "We're gonna be doing a favor to us, to our children, to our economy, to our oil companies to be able to liberate. And to Venezuelans who wants to be free."

Well somebody told me you had a boyfriend Who looked like a girlfriend That I had in February of last year Its not confidential, I’ve got potential

This is a dumb idea and muddies the waters of the classification system. Whats next, Tylenol because some people believe it causes autism?

Inner library:

This is what bias looks like, btw

I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ

1/ Today, ProPublica is running a piece I've been working on for a bit. It's about what happened with a devastating wave of bird flu earlier this year, as egg prices hit record highs. And it's a story that illuminates the ways the U.S. is failing to control what could become the next pandemic. 🧵

“AI” is a virus infecting everything!