Whether you find the story credible or not it is so messy and unfair to make victims litigate abuse through the press. State parties and other official bodies should have investigative processes led by independent victim advocates.

i’m all for headline whimsy but wtf is this headline? is this a choose your own adventure article??

What stood out in Platner's interview with @chrislhayes.bsky.social is the way he uses progressive language about community and solidarity and accountability and openness to soften his image. As if to say, 'could a man this aware *really* be capable of doing such horrible things?'

every few weeks I hear more about this guy in Maine and every few weeks he is somehow worse

Lee approaching Gettysburg

BY THE WAY TRANS SISTERS O’ MINE our mammograms are not age-related like they are for cis ladies you need to start after five years of HRT NO MATTER HOW OLD YOU ARE do it. be safe. protect the boobies!

Maine is not populated enough to be this god damn dramatic you guys gotta cut it the fuck out

its even more ridiculous after finding out the still upcoming primary is a 4 CHOICE RCV RACE WITH FOUR CANDIDATES

SOON: ⚰️

"would you live in a jail cell for 37 days to win $835,000" is like your average Mr Beast challenge

Donald really posted a cartoon chastising people that make fun of him for being orange. Satire is officially cooked like a goose on thanksgiving. Hang my account in the rafters. There’s nothing left for me to do here.

@mikiesherrill.bsky.social piss poor job protecting your citizens!

I use it for tattoo and hair inspo only so the algo doesn’t bother me too much when I do use it but as a general social media app it’s absolute trash

This is why it is so important to publicize and make visible the essential work of the “submerged state” or the “government out of sight.” The GOP and the conservative movement have convinced many people that deregulation and trimming the compensatory state are not only efficient but just.

The regulatory state is more important to the smooth operation of society to which we’ve become accustomed than anyone in this administration realizes, and in a lot of ways, we’ve already run off the cliff and are just starting to look down

A few weeks ago I was running my mouth about LLMs and how they’re only like 70% accurate which is an abysmal accuracy rate for anything… …at a work meeting this week they shared a little work tip about how not everything has to be perfect, get it to 70% and tweak it

the AI rollout has easily the worst messaging of any technology I’ve ever seen it’s not even so much the underlying tech - a lot of people like the chatbots - but the continued promises that it’s going to ruin your life and there’s nothing you can do about it well - you can fight data centers

You're not allowed to say this but: Getting people who believe in baseless conspiracy theories to be afraid of and hostile to bad things instead of hostile to good things would be a major boon to the world and seems generally easier than getting those people to stop believing in conspiracies

@daniellecitron.bsky.social quoted, saying true and correct things. In case you didn't believe you could think worse of Elon Musk, he and his representatives continue to find new depths to plumb.

lol what a clown calling @anthonymkreis.bsky.social's scholarship the minority view. Iowa, you are poorly represented before the courts!

This was Trump when he still had the comedic timing of a reality tv star and a less demented brain. He could never pull off a move like this now. The juice is all gone.

"Maybe we need a National Lip Service to Military Appreciation Day, recognizing politicians and their supporters who only seem to care about our military when their service can be cynically exploited as a cudgel against people they hate."

Realizing “seeing people suffer makes me feel uncomfortable, not unsafe” absolutely changed how I viewed housing policies and public safety. But that uncomfortable feeling makes us feel unsafe and man does it account for a lot of well meaning people with dogshit opinions!

There’s a real struggle between making society more tolerable, respectful and sensitive to the needs and lived experiences of its citizens AND ALSO distress is an inevitable part of the human experience and distress tolerance is the key to preventing it from ruining your life

I'll say this for the Supreme Court they're making it easier for me to convince people of the necessity and urgency of court reform

"Everything about this case suggests it was a collusive effort between Trump and the govt he controls. No lawyer for the DOJ ever entered an appearance, and the requests to delay the govt's answer to the complaint were docketed 'jointly,' but signed by Trump’s lawyers alone." — @lizdye.bsky.social

My cat knocked over my grandmother's ashes. The Roomba got to them before I did, and now it beeps at me until I give it a Virginia Slim.

a Very Special Episode of "to keep functioning, a society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities"

YES I have steadfastly refused this grotesque neologism. Like something that squelches out at you. so gross

Scott Pelley is a fucking goddamn Human Being in a time of worms

Cory Doctorow was interviewed by Anna Foster on BBC Radio 4 Today on the topic of AI. I've captured a transcript of the questions here in a short thread (with the help of Google AI voice-to-text. Good AI, thank-you.) 1/5

Review! Jacob’s Transition Goals – Arthur Webber @bernietranders.bsky.social and Ang Hui Qing’s Inspirational and Inclusive Sporting Story is a Beacon of Hope for Trans Kids. #Pride26atBF www.brokenfrontier.com/jacobs-trans...

ARIA can be a bitch

President Trump has no public events on his schedule again today. That means it has now been one week since he has appeared publicly for anything besides a pre-taped interview. His last public event was his cabinet meeting last Wednesday, one day after his trip to Walter Reed.

tapping the sign: please support billionaire free, worker run, and/or reader funded newsrooms as you are able to

this court would authorize all-white primaries if it could find some facially neutral means to do so

Anthropic and OpenAI are dangerous and unsustainable companies that shouldn’t be taken public. The AI bubble is a con and retail investors are the marks. AI doesn’t have ROI, it’s nothing like AWS or Uber, and it’s got no post-bubble recovery story. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbKD...

if any senator had chosen to be the one guy who voted against every single trump nominee, they would be the front runner for 2028 right now

Getting “back to normal” is the stuff of baby talk. Reactionaries have put the wrecking ball to the institutions of the old normal, good and hard. There’s no “back to normal” restoration in the offing. We have to think and build anew.

The song goes out to Scott Pelley, who just got fired by CBS News for telling off his boss Bari Weiss. youtu.be/MfmYCM4CS8o?...

just a random thought but are these GOPs basing maps on 2020 census data? and do they (or anyone at this point really) understand how much movement their was during/after the pandemic? especially in more “affordable” states? interesting all of that…

Here is Tom Steyer personally supporting high school trans athlete AB Hernandez. I don't think I've ever seen a candidate as brave as Tom Steyer in his explicit support for trans folks. It says a lot that it took a self funded billionaire not dependent on donors to do it.

Good morning! If you can, please donate to my campaign so Suozzi loses his job in 3 weeks. votewelch.com

Love the idea that people are fraudulently signing up for like $600/month premiums for shitty healthcare lol

American wellness check

Duckworth to Rubio: "That's an astonishing figure. In just 14 weeks, President Trump will have blown through as much if not more money in Iran than he thinks Congress should spend on US diplomacy for the entirety of the next fiscal year."

1. Democrats should nominate people who seem like authentic members of their communities and not just gormless political strivers 2. I don't need David Frum's no talent son to tell me that, he probably couldn't name a single member of the 2003 New York Giants

You know who isn't getting radicalized? Guys who do ships in a bottle. Embrace model-building and avoid the pitfalls of right-wing extremism

We don’t talk enough about good things that are happening. I’ll start with one. The kākāpō population is having an incredible year.

These people have not been convicted of crimes. They might be anyone. They might be you or me. 90 years ago they *were* my relatives in eastern Europe. God forgive us.