Really do think national Ds are negligent to not forcefully state "a bunch of people are going to go to prison for this, and if you get unlawful orders and carry them out you should worry that will include you"

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

this is a prime opportunity for democrats to explicitly tell their voters "they say you're a terrorist, but youre just a patriotic american who is trying to get by in this world."

Whether he jumped or was pushed, this seems like a big deal. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

I feel like Ben Gvir personally being in the room when Greta Thunberg was being tortured should be bigger news

Once you've decided it's fine to rob Peter to pay Paul's troops, there's pretty much no line you aren't willing to cross and are treating the entire federal budget as your plaything.

Ben Gvir personally oversaw the torture of Greta Thunberg, as reported by Aftonbladet. www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

The Republican shutdown strategy is to literally embody the hot dog man meme at all times until we lose our goddamn minds

One way to register your disapproval of the Democratic party's business as usual insider approach is to donate directly to @grahamformaine.bsky.social. If you are pissed like me about this latest move consider donating today to make sure your voice is heard in a way the DNC (sometimes) listens too

This is a complete failure to read the room. It is incompetent. It is political malpractice. The DSCC has clearly learned nothing, and they would rather deploy the same tired, divisive strategies instead of empowering Democratic voters and earning our confidence in their process.

This is not an exaggeration. Everything — *everything* — is downstream of energy. Our technological prowess is downstream of the massive power subsidies we have been getting from fossil fuels.

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Flyers top line strikes again 😤

Accessibility is popular, it's rare I meet anyone who thinks it doesn't matter. Usually it's the systemic failures that make us de-prioritize it, things like perceived tight timelines, low budgets, lack of resources. Regardless, the future world is accessible. There's too many of us that want it

@dennycarter.bsky.social is there a defensive metric that tracks either yards or points given up before garbage time?

RediShell security flaw in Redis: -remotely exploitable -CVSSv3 10/10 -impacts all versions released over the past 13 years -impacts 75% of cloud instances www.wiz.io/blog/wiz-res... redis.io/blog/securit...

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU. Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

I think for me the most compelling answer for "why fund basic research?" (and the one most relevant to the people doing the work) is that humans are curious and finding stuff out makes us happy and fulfilled. Science is a thing humans like. Life would be more dull and sad if we didn't do it. end/🧵

The tech-centric solution to “everybody is always yelling at us” is “let’s make it so they can run their *own* platform”, with the idea that they can then say: If you don’t like it, go run your own service with rules you like better. That’s literally one of the design goals Bluesky was made for.

If Thune/Sen Republicans can't control the Trump regime's complete destruction of the US govt agencies serving Americans - they ought to finding other jobs - and more importantly should be getting booted out next Nov. Republicans OWN this #RepublicanShutdown www.politico.com/live-updates...

Listening to yesterday's @phlyflyers.bsky.social show and @billadelphia.bsky.social talking about how we have such ludicrous expectations of young athletes that we would never expect of anyone else or that we would agree to for ourselves and just shouting along in agreement 👏👏👏

I so appreciate the framing here (in contrast to academic freedom arguments, which feel esoteric): By forcing educators to say there are two genders, the federal government (via university admins, school boards, etc) are requiring educators to lie to students. It’s lies!

Kavanaugh Raid

Donald Trump will win the Nobel Peace Prize by giving adversaries a person to point and laugh at while they hash out their differences.

The perfect encapsulation of Politico. "Of course the White House is lying, but it's a pretty savvy lie, so let's see how it plays?" It's all a fun little game with no stakes to them. It's like they're recapping episodes of Real Housewives.

When you speak to parents of young children about whether their weekend was relaxing and restorative.

As someone who typically tries to not watch Trump's speeches, I'm very surprised by how unwell he sounds.

"F*ck that, that's not a strategy....If your strategy for stopping fascism is to hope that a few Republicans in Congress find a conscience or a spine, then get the hell out of here." Me on the useless Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries. Full discussion: zeteo.com/p/the-suspec...

This might be my new go to example for how these morons might not be able to pull off their fascist desires bc they are so inept.

arresting folks based on “how they look” = #KavanaughStops as coined by @akalhan.bsky.social

there aren’t a lot of purely good things on the internet but “you have to share Tom Holland doing Umbrella” is one of them

“Democratic politicians and analysts have zeroed in on polarization as the central villain of U.S. politics. The way out, the thinking goes, is to reclaim the spirit of the vital center, where moderation, bipartisanship, and compromise prevail.” @pastpunditry.bsky.social on what this gets wrong:

Hegseth is putting all of the American generals and admirals from around the world into a single room. Why might Hegseth do such an extraordinary thing? Here I discuss four possible reasons. snyder.substack.com/p/hegseth-pu...

I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵

Hey my fellow BlueSky Linux nerds, does anyone know of a good desktop client? Preferably available in Flathub

Any White House officials attempting to downplay far-right political violence & point the finger at Democrats following years of right-wing political violence — most notably the insurrection on January 6th — are the “partisan actors denying reality.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Excellent example of how something that's compliant isn't necessarily also usable.

The internet's in a bad place. We're not winning. How can we turn things around? We need money. What parts of the internet 1) are still under democratic control and 2) are in a position to produce significant revenue? It's mostly down to Wikipedia. But there's more… 🧵

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I met Bernie Parent at my very first Flyers game. He was signing autographs on the main level of the Farg just chilling and greeting all of us fans as we came in. I don't even think it was an organized event, it was a random Saturday matinee. I remember how unbelievably patient and gracious he was.

Probably worth remembering Charlie Kirk and all the vile bigotry that he actively championed, but that's not what the GOP had in mind

One of my college political science professors had a clearly rehearsed monologue about how regulations actually allow us to enjoy more freedom not less. In reality they set acceptable guidelines for society that allow us to live with more choices because we can set reasonable limits.

Ben and Jerry's outspoken social commitment is one of the things (along with good I've cream) I have always valued about themand their brand. They have been trying to buy back or get Unilever to divest the company lately. Looking forward to supporting Jerry and Ben's Ice cream if necessary.

Exactly this

Happy Constitution Day

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Yes! It’s rhetoric as a parodic performance of dialectic. It is ostensibly the testing of arguments, but is really a kind of flattery, not of the immediate audience, but of the intended audience watching clips on YouTube (or whatever).

This Day in Labor History: September 16, 2004. the National Hockey League chose to lockout its players in order to force them into a salary structure that was a blatant attempt to guarantee profits for the billionaire owners. Let's talk salary caps and sports unionism!