endlessly frustrating that for various reasons "they won't even call a vote to ease your healthcare costs but they have time to pass the cops touching little kids act" never seems to break through to the people who need to hear it

Imagine finding out you're the consolation prize for not landing Elon. I would drink battery acid

I had thoughts on AVATAR³. (Now with fixed link.) www.nashvillescene.com/arts_culture...

Time to jettison @firefox.com

Up for a lifetime judgeship in Tennessee … and never practiced there.

NEW: President Trump is expanding the previous 19-country travel ban to a whopping 39 countries (plus the Palestinian Authority), and appears to expand a block on legal immigration to now include spouses, children, and parents of U.S. citizens, who were previously exempted.

I know many things are awful but here is one genuinely useful and helpful thing you can do. No matter their party, your representative needs to hear that trans people and our families are not alone and this bill is an unjustifiable and extreme threat to criminalize the health care we need to live.

I will NEVER vote for a politician who votes for anti-trans legislation. Never. I don't care who it is, it's a dead issue. Move on. If my vote is so important to the future of democracy they should have thought of that before they voted to exterminate my child.

In 1984 Olympics organizers created a series of celebrity PSAs to help Los Angeles get ready for the games, with messages about hospitality, shuttle services, avoiding creating unnecessary traffic, etc. Then there was Lou Rawls' PSA, which seems to be about getting your international fuck on.

So now, the Discord channel has become some sort of a ghost town, members tell 404 Media. “To me it shines a light on the god-complex that AI C-suite members seem to have, and their willingness to ignore people's consent and opinions as they bulldoze their way of pushing AI." Full story here:

I was familiar with it before but actually sitting down to read Jojo's Bizarre Adventure is like discovering a new primary color. A bunch of Tom of Finland guys named, like, Grand Funk Railroad and Kiss Alive saying shit like "You actually thought decapitating me would slow me down? Foolish child."

Again I say: how fucking interesting that remote work technology is bad and not worth adopting despite all research pointing to productivity gains, but genAI which offers NOTHING is so important to adopt and force on people who have no use for it despite all the horrible things genAI does

House Republicans holding a hearing on the “hate” fomented by the SPLC while Trump is crowing over the murder of a critic is too rich.

Writes senior film critic @jshawhan.bsky.social, James Cameron's 'Avatar: Fire and Ash' — opening wide this week — is enhanced by its willingness to be corny. Read his review here.

Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor. "I can't afford a visual artist" So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them? Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.

Just called Gillibrand’s and Schumer’s office (someone actually picked up for Gillibrand) and unleashed my inner Carol Sturka

It's impressive, in its way, to make cowardice not just part of your political identity, but ALL of it. When the book on Mike Johnson is written...it will molder in unopened cardboard boxes.

Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->

we need to throw Trump’s dismantling of the federal civil service sector in the face of any Democrat who claims that ICE cannot be abolished

Because of their Marty Supreme getup in the big window of AMC Lincoln Square 13, New York finally has the giant head of Abel Ferrara looking down upon it

There's no way this is applied in a uniform way and that's not the point of the policy anyway. It's to suppress specific types of dissent and provide a mechanism by which to hedge against losing the policy fights eliminating tenure altogether. This is a living lab of a state for the right.

Another first with the Meta sponsor just added to the Turning Point USA mega conference

It's an unpopular opinion but I don't think it's good to live in a society where men can grab you off the street and there's literally nothing you can do about it Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

“In court Monday, an officer testified that police have been called to the apartment roughly two dozen times in the last year and a half.” The pattern is staring them in the face.

I haven’t been this excited for a bubble to burst since I was a toddler.

This is fucked in 80 ways but please read the whole thing to have your mind blown apart when you learn how many different STATES they have bounced this woman between in last few wks. www.cnn.com/2025/12/12/u...

god forgive us for allowing this to happen

19th/early 20th century doctors: “We can’t CURE your cough, but we can see to it that you absolutely will not care about it. Or anything else, for that matter.”

WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.

@splicedpersonality.bsky.social @jshawhan.bsky.social @nictate.bsky.social

This asshole refused to vote for impeaching Trump and also voted for the first federal trans segregation law, so his ass needs to fucking go

Printing "MUSK SAYS HE'LL PUT MAN ON MARS NEXT YEAR" as a headline even though he pays people to play videogames for him because he's so bad at everything

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The devastation I feel about this attack on science in particular is hard to cope with. It’s like watching my dad die all over again. I would do anything to spare someone a death via pancreatic cancer.

This person was initially appointed to the National Transportation Safety Board by Trump - think about how bad things have to be for her to react this way publicly

Watching lots of Spongebob has also given me the insight that too many people on Bluesky post like they're Squidward. Before you reply to me ask yourself "would Squidward say this?"

Genuinely begging you to re-up your MMR & get your kids vaccinated if you can. Between this & Kennedy talking about breaking it up into separate vaccines thus providing opportunities for missed inoculations &, thus, increased infections, public health policy is not looking great, for the foreseeable

Who wants to read one of the most racist and antisemitic memos in the history of the FBI?

The Trump administration ignored questions about whether it would order the killings of those on its NSPM-7 list — even while answering our other queries. interc.pt/3XRVGGr

Behind almost every AI is exploited workers pretending to be AI

Nothing made clear to me how soulless the Democratic Party has become than watching California Gov. Gavin Newsom stage a photo op of him tearing down homeless people's tents right before the DNC this summer. youtu.be/ERftQvyQBUA?...

honestly, if i were trying to design a place for the political opposition to take a stand against trump, i couldn't have done better than abrego garcia. by trying to destroy basic constitutional protections, it was *trump* who made this a dispute over due process and the Constitution.

So just openly inviting a rabidly christofascist organization into every public school. What could go wrong.

Really important to get rid of Schumer/Jeffries before midterms. Think of UK where Labour/Starmer didn’t “win” rather Conservatives lost. Then cuz Starmer has fatal case of Schumer/Jeffries consultant brain disease, the nation loathes him. They are tumors, will destroy anything electorate builds

Of course they did

The entire litigation tactic of the DOJ these days is the litigation tactic Trump has always used: delay, attrit, obfuscate, avoid substance at all costs. Makes sense given that the DOJ is pretty much controlled by his former personal lawyers.

Trump putting his billionaire tech donor oligarch friends ahead of the people to make regulating A.I. impossible should alarm everyone. Where are the “states rights” folks on this one?

This is a short, stunningly important piece of media criticism CW: Nuzzi

The people telling you what to do next were telling you six months ago that he was too unsympathetic a figure to rally around and any attempt was doomed, take their advice accordingly

WOW; a DEEPLY corrupt move by the immigration courts; clear collaboration with Trump admin officials to produce a specific result with zero notice to the party and ALSO in a situation where the judge facially lacks jurisdiction; the judge had denied a motion to reopen and the case is on appeal.