Donald Trump's departure from the political scene will come. The most important question is: then what?

Inside Indonesia's slave island. Two hours from the tourist beaches of Bali, slavery is alive and well on the Indonesian island of Sumba. They work from dawn to dusk without pay, are passed on in marriage and are sometimes beaten and raped by their masters u.afp.com/SrNF

The book "Three Bags Full" has a lot more discussion of grazing than I expected. It's all relevant.

The Republican Party is the party of starvation and misery. Never, ever, ever vote for a Republican. A significant number of "centrist" Democrats push the same anti-human policies as Republicans when it comes to poverty, hunger, and the safety net. Vote against them in every primary.

Give to your local food banks and community fridges. Yell at and vote against every professional Republican you encounter. Vote against every do-nothing Democrat in every primary.

Planned obsolescence is a scourge of late stage capitalism. I get it with computers up to a point because of Moore’s law, but even that has hit a ceiling. Fight for the right to repair. Make do, mend and upcycle. No company should be dictating to you what to wear, look, or how to function.

Democratic voters (and the American public writ large) are making themselves heard loud and clear: We must not keep funding Netanyahu’s wars. Props to the 100+ Democrats who voted that way last week. Democratic leadership is going to have to catch up. (1/3)

Attn: @helioscopepdx.bsky.social

"It is acceptable to engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual." Meta removed that language from its internal guidelines after I raised it. AI experts worry financial incentives will blur the line between human relationships and bot engagement. www.reuters.com/investigates...

No no no no you don't get to write "it is acceptable to engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual" and then delete that shit like it never happened. You will *always* have said "it is acceptable to engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual"

Dinner tonight is braised pork, vegetables, and soba noodles in broth.

President Trump just gave a speech about voter fraud. Someone has been committing voter fraud — and his name is Ken Paxton. He was just caught voting from the wrong address 6 elections in a row. If the President wants to investigate voter fraud, he should start with Ken Paxton.

Decent overview of the private equity/leveraged buyout industry and its evils www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

we HAVE to break this monstrously destructive business of private equity leveraged buyouts

I think the thing I resent most about gen AI- and this is a selfish thing to say but it’s true- is that it’s put an asterix on my sense of wonder. What I mean is that now when I see an amazing or beautiful image I can’t have that initial “wow!” reaction. I doubt. I have to verify. I hate it.

BREAKING Iran's Revolutionary Guards say they have hit US military targets in Bahrain and Kuwait and stopped two "non-compliant oil tankers" attempting to transit the Strait of Hormuz, state media reports

4 big wildfires going that ODF's CMITs are one. The smallest is 6000 acres (nearly 10 sq. miles). And today a contractor lost a type 6 engine. It's a bad fire season.

This is a *fantastic* video that explains exactly WTF is going on with Taylor Farms and how tracing works TLDR: - they are responsible - the false positive was only on one of several samples - it’s difficult to test parasites - there may still be other sources - Taylor Farms is being shady AF

Does Trump understand Canada is the USA's top trade partner, and that these tariffs will hurt our economy? Or does he just not care? www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

Last year, President Donald Trump signed confidential deals with dozens of pharmaceutical companies, including Merck, to lower the price of some prescription drugs. But a recent Senate report found that high-cost medications have only become more expensive.

The agency stressed that the July 17 voluntary recall from Taylor Farms still stands. The supplier has been linked to the ongoing cyclospora outbreak. www.wired.com/story/taylor...

Oh, so the suspect was a white guy then.

This is a great read, and it's also a lesson. This is what everyone could be doing, at every level. This is the possibility open to every one of us, while every single cry of "we had no choice" was and is a cowardly lie.

Hey, the court just gave final approval to the settlement in Bartz v. Anthropic. I'm reading through the order right now. www.courtlistener.com/docket/69058...

In response to public pressure, Flock Safety has announced that it will end a pilot for its acoustic gunshot detection devices to identify signs of “human distress.” eff.org/deeplinks/2...

As if America’s diarrhea shitstorm wasn’t bad enough, now it’s also the locus of passive aggressive beef between lettuce guys and the FDA:

This is Bruno and Rocket. Rocket insists on making a grand entrance. Bruno is happy to help with that. 13/10 for both (IG: bruno_da_doxie_doggie)

Gimme my money.

"It's inevitable" etc.

BREAKING: Following the killings of two innocent immigrant fathers, I co-authored a letter with @juliasalazar.bsky.social and @cmshahanahanif.bsky.social and signed by 100+ NYS elected officials calling on Schumer, Jeffries, and all congressional Democrats to demand the abolition of ICE. 🧵 1/6

“The more people play alongside trans athletes, the more they can see their assumptions were wrong.”

> Willingness to say "I don't know" collapsed from 44% to 3% when AI was available. Monetary incentives barely helped "I don't know" is CRITICAL for improving - without it someone can't see need for improvement - and to doing anything competently, it's our clue to slow down or find someone who does

It feels like we're all pretty much waiting for news that Mitch McConnell has been irreversibly incapacitated or dead for weeks and the GOP has been doing their damnedest to keep it covered up.

Incredible article. These women are heroes. When the fascists came, THEY SAID NO. Be like the Ferals, friends.

Look, ma, something I helped giving birth to is in the news 😁 Coming Halloween 2027! @archiecomics.bsky.social @writerras.bsky.social variety.com/2026/tv/news...

Calling on parents as well as librarians and other book-world people who have encountered the new trend of personalized AI slop children's books that insert your kid as the main character. Has your child gotten one of these as a gift? What did they think? DM or hit me at [email protected]

"The other commissioner who approved the Paramount merger, FCC Chair Brendan Carr, and his wife sat in a private skybox with Paramount CEO David Ellison and other executives from Paramount and CBS. Such seats sold for $125,000 a ticket..." www.propublica.org/article/para...

heads up: you might be getting "flocked." here's what you need to know. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuOK...

"Graveyard for living people." youtu.be/FJrRx6rwQtI?...

🇺🇸 The United States has expanded the scope of its strikes on Iran, targeting provinces around the country including a city hosting a nuclear power plant, as the Islamic republic kept up its attacks in the region. ➡️ u.afp.com/SrpP

Matt Yglesias is simply a horrible person.

HOW TO PICK UP SEXY AND INTERESTING PEOPLE AT THE GYM qwantz.com/index.php?co...

The Clarity Act seeks to bring cryptocurrency under a single legal framework on the national level. But critics argue it contains dangerous loopholes and prioritizes studies instead of holding all crypto services to stringent anti-money laundering standards.

🇨🇭 Researchers have copied massive quantities of publicly-available climate and environmental data from NASA onto a Swiss supercomputer to train artificial intelligence models -- and for safekeeping amid US funding cuts. ➡️ u.afp.com/Srpr

The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts says it’s releasing an online toolkit for attorneys to uncover the technologies police use—and conceal—to build criminal cases, from facial recognition to AI-written police reports.

Texas public universities have become walking lawsuits waiting to happen. Here's A&M selectively purging course content about racism & the LGTBQ+ community. If only there were a national panic about free speech crises on campus. www.chronicle.com/article/thes...