Roza was recruited from Uzbekistan with promises of a modeling career. Instead, Epstein raped her for years & used her visa to keep her from escaping. He should have been behind bars. Alex Acosta’s sweetheart deal kept him free to continue abusing women and girls like Roza.

Are there times when retaliation that goes against one of our principles might serve a greater purpose? @jacobtlevy.bsky.social returns to discuss this with @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social and @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social www.liberalcurrents.com/to-what-leng...

Stancil Derangement Syndrome is a real disease, affecting nearly 20% of active Bluesky users As of now there’s no cure, but for just 25 cents a day, we can give them hope *cue Sarah McLachlan song*

Since we're all talking about dogpiles now, and I had mentioned my own experience dealing with them a few times in the last couple days, I figured I'd write a longer thread explaining my experiences with them and specifically why they're specifically worse than just "a bunch of people being mean"

This isn’t just truth. It’s civic religion. We are called to be the countervailing force against the old nations, who have failed humanity as a whole.

Good morning.

@lastpositivist.bsky.social Da Boyz are suffering’ after Orange Man Krumped da Promethium. (Prompt: make it a 70’s OPEC political cartoon.)

The minimization and/or denial of this explicitly genocidal act by Russia sure does reveal that most people who claim they care about genocide actually don't, outside of extremely specific instances.

Important article. The mangling of this point has badly distorted our collective cultural understanding, and it's great to see someone make the point clearly in the New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

I do not think that we should let a small group of people who happen to hold marginalized identities effectively shut down discussion about the gap between consumer sentiment and economic indicators because hearing that unemployment is low and wages are up on average makes them mad.

I am person who has never made a single anti-trans public statement in my entire life, I am extremely mystified how I’m ending up on a list of dangerous transphobes with the sitting vice president of the US

This is why bureaucrats have a deservedly bad reputation. 🤷

It’s almost as if a group of people on this site has decided “transphobia” is a useful cudgel to use against people who they dislike for unrelated, mostly affective reasons, and will steamroll past anyone who doesn’t endorse their use of that cudgel. Including, ironically, trans people.

@lastpositivist.bsky.social “A forbidden love that will shake the foundations of an empire.” -The New York Times “Less a ship and more an Exterminatus.” The Stranger “Finally, a use case for AI the whole family can enjoy.” - Mike from BlueSky

Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/terminal #smbc #ai #comics

Liz Cheney burned her career to the ground using what governmental power she had to dynamite Donald Trump. MTG quit at the first opportunity to go on TV.

Sheesh: "Across the country at some daycare centers, workers can open a bag of chips for a toddler but may not be allowed to peel a banana without triggering additional food preparation rules" www.cnn.com/2026/05/10/p...

Happy Mother’s Day

So do I understand correctly that the VA Supreme Court retirement age is set by statute? Sounds like they ought to set it to 60 and push the whole lot out and replace them ASAP

Your occasional gentle reminder that, on Bluesky, hitting Like on posts does not increase the number of people who'll see them. If you want to amplify a post here, you need to repost, not just Like, it. ps please repost this one!

You know what? I think you should be able to buy beer at Home Depot

This 1952 memo from the Pentagon UFO files is superb There is no point preparing for aliens ‘because no one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens. At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic.’ 🤣 www.war.gov/medialink/uf...

The BLS and FOMC data I have been using are both independent government agencies - the person I QT;d above is the former director of the BLS. They are not given directives by the President; your analogy does not hold. (And still, you have been unable to support your arguments)

I will say the custom on this website of labeling people who are fully supportive of trans rights but differ in either affect or preferred tactic as transphobes doesn’t seem particularly productive, though i understand the people doing this are not interested in being productive

Animal cruelty makes MAGA’s dick hard.

From the terrific new book Undue Process by NBC immigration reporter Julia Ainsley: How the Trump administration fired a DHS press person because she refused to call undocumented immigrants "scumbags" in a press release.

@lastpositivist.bsky.social Rare Book Weekend:

I’m just like Jesse Singal in that he published a series of articles that helped kickstart the nationwide backlash to trans rights and I’m someone who said we should all steel ourselves to die on the hill of trans rights together, but not leftistly enough

Fuck it, Zordon Mamdani

I also have morals, and I generally find that "make sure you have a correct world model" is an important component of operationalizing them.

ACAB includes the speed of light.

Here’s the compromise position: individuals are allowed to own large cats if and only if they have a 24/7 live stream. #Roar2

I've been saying for a while that we don't have social media- we have parasocial media. We have media that flattens other humans into caricatures - into "content" to be consumed. We have media that presents us with a facsimile of community, as opposed to the real thing.

Trump's Jones Act waiver - the longest/broadest since 1950 - has given us a trove of great data. My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com column digs into it: "Defenders of the Jones Act Have Lost" (🎁) www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Why does California have 123,974 people sleeping on the street? I hate to break this to you, but it's not because of billionaires, private equity, or venture capital. It's because of your neighbor Frank -- who is big mad at a 5 story apartment for low income senior farmers.

BREAKING: Another appeals court rejected the Trump administration's policy that subjects millions of people to mandatory immigration detention, in violation of immigration laws and due process. This ruling is a critical victory for immigrants' rights.

The Better Government Lab is hiring a post-doc with data science skills and an interest in public management to work on reducing administrative burden in safety net programs. Interest in tech a plus. Start: August 26 or earlier @sebjilke.bsky.social @pamherd.bsky.social apply.interfolio.com/185941

He‘s got a whole host of behaviors that would be cringy but maybe amusing in a 20-year-old frat boy, completely embarrassing in a middle-aged man, never mind one running the FBI.

These are happening more. Don’t let the stupid ones (like Comey’s seashells) distract from the really dangerous stuff being done under the surface.

"When I reached a former longtime senior FBI official to ask whether he’d ever seen personally branded liquor bottles distributed by a previous FBI director, he burst out laughing." www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

On the same day it was announced that the FBI was investigating journalist Sarah Fitzpatrick after her devastating article on Kash Patel and alcohol…Sarah Fitzpatrick publishes yet another article on Kash Patel and alcohol. GIFT ARTICLE to read/share. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

they've just created a million L. Louise Lucases

Biden you could wear down. Just too old. Reagan same problem. Nixon was a flabby drunk by the end. LBJ's heart would give out but not before he finished with you, same with Eisenhower. Kennedy is easy tho because his head just does that. Truman will eat your liver & FDR rips you in half like a chimp