I hate the scorched earth tactics against Becerra by Steyer. I wish some admirable climate activists weren't looking the other way about this situation. That said, if Steyer is the only Dem on the November ballot, I will support him. Will Steyer supporters promise the same for Becerra?

FOMO Borealis

I think it must be rage bait. The original post doesn’t even make sense. “All the left-leaning people who abandoned X made it more right-leaning.” Well, yes. That’s how physics works. I guess the ways people find to blame Democrats for every bad thing get points for creativity.

RFK Jr is a eugenicist. He believes that if you require any kind of medical assistance to survive, you weren’t meant to. He’s been given a position from which he can implement that belief on a broad scale.

Much like MAGA. Extremists gonna extreme.

This is exactly the kind of thing we mourn Twitter over.

It’s the best part of the day.

I am so sorry for the delay. We're trying as hard as we can while Alex Jones invents new avenues to subvert justice with the appeasement of a series of ultimately scared people who should know better. I'm going to keep fighting for the Sandy Hook families, who haven't seen a penny from Alex Jones.

Subscribe if you can. They do many levels of the lord’s work.

From violence, to corruption, to unearned entitlement. America has a mediocre white men problem.

I think so much of our current situation is founded on a lack of empathy. I have personally learned how this works by dealing with people who do not understand that other people have thoughts and motivations. That their brains work just like yours. Literal Theory of Mind stuff.

As usual, Adam is correct. This is also the reason AI chatbots are so attuned to saying you are right and even lying to you if you aren’t. Built by people needing reassurance.

It’s insidious how they replaced boredom with an endless scroll through The Algorithm, causing people’s ability to daydream to atrophy, and then sold AI as a replacement for that capability.

Most people don’t know that the leading cause of death in pregnancy is homicide. Usually, by the male partner. Men are not okay. It needs to be addressed.

"I was ABSOLUTELY told that the Democrats would be bringing knives to the gun fight. What the fuck are they doing bringing guns?" --a whole lot of Republicans looking at the results from Virginia right now

Powerful people saw people without power using the internet to connect across communities and borders as a problem. So they infiltrated the infrastructure. That still didn’t work. Now many of the same entities are degrading the infrastructure. First came infiltration, then came enshittification.

@mollyjongfast.bsky.social Where is the wall to wall coverage of Trump’s mental decline like there was with Biden during Summer of 2024?

The amazing, letter-perfect performance of NASA this week is a ferocious rebuke to the right-wing fools who constantly tell us that for-profit businesses always do a job better than the government.

Also, writing is how you make the thoughts! It’s not just stenography of pre-formed thought

A federal judge ordered the University of Pennsylvania to hand over records about Jewish employees on campus to a federal agency as part of an investigation into antisemitic discrimination but said it did not have to reveal any employee's affiliation with a specific group. https://to.pbs.org/4dmM6EE

Many men are not psychologically equipped for a universe where potential mates are not entirely economically dependent on them. Nor can they handle the burden of freedom from prescribed gender-based expectations. The people least equipped for this are running the country. bsky.app/profile/drja...

It’s very possible our national apathy and ignorance will bring about WWIII. Congratulations, 300,000 voters in 7 American states.

the thing about maga masculinity is just how pathetic and insecure and not masculine in any way it truly is

What will convince us to stop using AI for anything consequential until it is more precise and reliable. Anything? Sandy Hook didn’t convince us to enact better gun control. Maybe we are just beyond help.

here's a little story. Janet Mills won a big settlement against drug companies as part of the opioid crisis and used it to buy Narcan, enough for every fire station and police department in the state. Republican Paul LePage said Narcan just encouraged drug use and people should die,

So all of this is in a thread about a Claude tool someone built to link to NLRB opinions, and it's just such a massive misunderstanding of how law works.

She Got Game weekend. July 16-19. Viva Las Vegas.

This is a conversation that we are having in fits and starts, but needs to gel into something voters can take to their elected officials. It well stated here. Everyday Americans are risking their lives in Minneapolis and elsewhere. Where are the people they elected to speak for them?

‪Doctors say that vaccines protect children from dangerous diseases. A nepo baby who barbecues dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says that vaccines make children vulnerable to 5G radiation. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

In 2016 and 2024, the president was elected by a tiny group of Americans that weren’t paying attention and were fed lies to win their votes. Can it happen in the midterms? Maybe. But every 4 years we will see a huge fight for 1% of voters, and it will continue to involve deceit and manipulation.

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

This anti-science, anti-innovation administration will continue to inflict damage for years, if not generations.

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

The LLM promises that "you'll never have to think alone again." The LLM will think for you. But, if "I think, therefore I am" is true--then isn't the LLM trying to take away the one thing that makes you, you?

The thing about all these men is they could date anybody. They're rich, they're famous. They could bag socialites or models or actresses or whoever. Instead they single out the most vulnerable women and girls they can find. They cannot form relationships with women who are their peers.

Stephen Miller employing brown men to conduct his ethnic cleansing is just the latest dystopian element of the ongoing horror show.

Read the whole thread. This part highlights how the lack of empathy / imagination / theory of mind in extreme right-wingers affects their judgment.

I am wondering if any of the loudest proponents of "learning loss" in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic have spoken up about what ICE is doing to students' ability to learn, safety, etc. I'll wait...I'm sure they're on it. www.chalkbeat.org/2026/01/28/e...

The administration will do whatever it can to calm the situation in the short term, and hope people forget. We tend to be a forgetful people, and we have to change that.

This is what I'm talking about. They don't recognize what they're looking at because fundamentally they reject the concept of social fabric. Morality is keeping yourself safe, your neighbors are not your concern.

rightwingers see people caring about others in their community and instead of finding that inspiring they think it’s some sort of grand conspiracy because they don’t understand what it means to care for others you don’t personally know

This is sadly quite true. The people in charge of our federal government are not like us. Whatever happened to make them antisocial, anti democratic, isolationist and violent, doesn’t matter anymore. They are people who should not be in charge of our (or anyone’s) government.

Our country was founded on resistance to a tyrant.

Read this thread from the beginning.

I too have found it astonishing. It’s eye-popping to see the dumbest, most impotent, bottom-feeders of humanity be welcomed into positions of power in of all places, the United States of America.

Now Trump EPA head, Lee Zeldin, enters the scene with rank dishonesty & theatrical indignation to dispute the NY Times' correct, accurate reporting. But I've read the EPA smoking gun document, I'm a 30+-year clean air lawyer, I understand its meaning better than Zeldin, & I have the receipts. 1/

This has been true for a long time. No better moment than now.

The more we say to young people "everything that needs to be known is already available to you via this convenient chatbot" the more we signal to them that their brains are vestigial...no need to work on your reading, thinking, or writing skills, machines can do that better. Go scroll.

Brilliant

Excellent explanation of why using AI to “learn” anything is dumb, in addition to the fact that AI answers are often just incorrect and unreliable.