As you probably know, there's a lone Democrat on the FCC, Anna Gomez. view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/177... Gomez gets out-voted on everything, so all she can do is observe, warn, translate and behave like a sharp blogger. Here she is talking to ABC News: "The settlement did not buy you peace."

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It's the exact same playbook that segregationists ran against the NAACP in the 1950s. They sued to get membership lists in Arkansas during Little Rock, hoping to single them out for retribution. Meanwhile, Alabama -- this same state below -- just outlawed the organization entirely.

Tommy Tuberville refused to assimilate with 60 years of civil rights progress, so screw him.

I'm going to update this - it clearly is deniable, as many people who seem completely in good faith are denying it. So, here's a more nuanced thread, from someone who runs moderation on a news site, about what I think happened with moderation and the trans community on Bluesky. 🧵

Buttigieg, Kelly, Harris, Booker, Klobuchar, and Slotkin all came up through this establishment. It’s something to keep in mind.

Happy birthday to founder of modern nursing, social reformer, statistician, data visualization innovator and writer Florence Nightingale (1820 – 1910)!⁠ 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬 #histsci Nightingale earned the nickname “The Lady with the Lamp” during the Crimean War, from a phrase used by The Times, describing her as

#ICE awarded a $12M immigrant-tracking contract to a tiny vendor whose “lead computer scientist” was represented by a stock photo also used by therapy and life-coaching sites. AI surveillance run by people made by AI www.levernews.com/the-ice-surv...

So the statue-pfp crowd on The Bad Place are Having a Moment about the depiction of Achilles (image as a representative example). But the first guy to subvert Achilles was...Homer. Achilles isn't intended as some uncomplicated role model; that Alexander treated him as one is kinda a red flag.

This administration needs to be fought in every single fight it picks.

I like Bsky a lot, but it seems undeniable that the ownership/staff hate who their users are, and particularly hate the fact that trans people are such an avid userbase. In addition to being despicable, that's also concerning as someone whose living currently depends on trans Bsky.

To be clear, that's not to say trans people can't behave poorly in ways that deserve a suspension or ban. But the moderators seem to want to break the trans userbase by over-enforcing certain rules against trans people and under-enforcing the same rules when trans people are targeted for harassment.

The way trans youth and their families have just been allowed to be targeted and harassed and harried by Republicans by the American public makes me very angry.

There's no broad sense of these families as deserving privacy or a right to be left alone. There's no consensus that it is outrageous that they've been treated this way. Public outrage could stop this but people just shrug and turn away.

Anyone who cares about reproductive care access should be extremely alarmed. They could easily do the same to abortion providers in blue states. They are testing this out on trans people hoping most people won't care enough about it to stop it.

Forum-shopping anti-trans investigations to Fort Worth so that Reed O’Connor can personally oversee everything and sign off.

Paper loss. This is a conduit for raw bribery.

The U.S. Supreme Court is conducting a coup d'etat. It is at war with the very premise of an electoral democracy. Nothing about that institution or its work is legitimate. Nothing.

i'm beginning to thing Roberts wasn't being truthful...

one day someone's AI prompts are going to be used as evidence in a trial

This is very foolish, especially in current supply-shock conditions: the price will just rise until consumption ends up balanced with supply *anyway.* There is, in fact, no short-term policy solution to a supply shock. You need to restore inputs, replace inputs or destroy demand. 🤷‍♂️

Other than discovering that I’m apparently John Oliver’s son, @lastweektonight.com’s deep dive into the shadow docket is really quite good: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKeq...

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

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Sean Duffy’s reality series is getting slammed for all of the obvious reasons, but don’t look past the fact that his show is being sponsored by companies his department oversees and regulates. In other words, it’s not just a political mess, it’s also an ethical one. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

you should catch Last Week with John Oliver when you can... his long segment is the Court. you which court. that one. the not overtly politically motivated court.

FWIW, because this seems hard to find, this was at the University of Central Florida, and the speaker is Gloria Caulfield, "VP of strategic alliances" at Tavistock Development Company, which the more I google the more it sounds like a villain in a Mission Impossible film. www.ucf.edu/news/ucfs-sp...

The thing very wealthy people need to understand is that paying more in taxes is better than facing a crowd of people with pitchforks

The social safety net doesn’t just protect the poor, it protects the rich. History is full of examples of exactly what happens when a significant number of people in a society have nothing left to lose.

Piers Morgan is still the same person. If social attitudes hadn’t changed he would still be a homophobe. Because they did, he switched to being a transphobe.

This is one of the most corrupt things I've ever seen in the federal court system.

The Three-Fifths Clause (Article 1, Section 2) was rendered void by the 14th Amendment, ratified in 1868. We had come a long way but then Louisiana v. Callais (2026) gave many states a racism boner as they rushed with eager glee to revert to their Reconstruction Era.

It is wrong and criminal for government agents to kidnap someone, send them to die in a concentration camp, and disappear them, regardless of immigration status. But it's still worth noting she has a green card. The government doesn't even pretend this is about deporting undocumented people.

Ghoulish stuff, and deeply counterproductive. The message this sends to immigrant communities is “Do not call the police. If you saw a crime? No you didn’t. If you were a victim of a crime? No you weren’t. If you see a cop? Run.”

you should catch Last Week with John Oliver when you can... his long segment is the Court. you which court. that one. the not overtly politically motivated court.

this is very funny

“I appreciate the marketing. I’m just like, can you just please give us a chance to put some absurd satire out there before you prove that it’s more realistic than we ever intended?” ~ Eric Kripke Homelander deadline.com/2026/05/eric...

Now, the battle is over representation, not just access. While voting is legal, gerrymandering is stripping that vote of its power. By drawing districts that ensure a community's choice can't win, the systemic result is nearly identical to the Jim Crow era of being denied the right to vote entirely.

🧵 These are all things that shouldnt be controversial, but yet here we are.

I don't want a day celebrating mothers. I want to be in the fucking Constitution of the United States as an equal.

I want healthcare. I want to be left the fuck alone by predatory men.

I want girls who's childhood was stolen by Epstein & Company to go to fucking prison and die there.

I want fifty percent representation in the goddamned government.

I want rapists to be sentenced commensurate with the horrible crime it is, not slaps on the wrist and a "Boys will be boys" motto.

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Also evergreen

If someone knew a perfect one secret trick to make money with no risk they would never ever tell you

we need a strict liability regime for AI. that’ll sort this stuff right out.

i think people are too harsh on bsky because it is actually social media itself that is dying, not any particular site