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Something very funny about de santis praising Coolidge for “immigration.” Coolidge’s immigration policy was that people named de santis shouldn’t be allowed to come here bsky.app/profile/anth...

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group.

the reality is Spanish is our de facto second language and white people need to sack up and face reality

Stunning new revelation: Epstein hung out almost exclusively with guys who had black boxes where their heads should be.

Gonna stop looking at the Epstein Files in a second because I'm frankly way too skeeved out to keep going but I will say this: the CSAM isn't blacked out nearly enough while the faces of guys in ties are obscured by vanta black rectangles the size of the sun.

Some of these redactions are almost like modern art

This was found in the batch of Epstein files the DOJ released today.

JFK’s niece: h/t @jamiegangel.bsky.social

Doesn’t feel good that the head of BBC News Content is instructing reporters to refer to trans people with slurs. If this leak is real it raises questions about who made this decision, who was consulted, and why the BBC chose to ignore its own editorial guidelines on slurs and offensive language

This was a human being. What the fuck is wrong with you?

OOPS

Anyone who spends a lot of time at young conservative conferences can tell you this is fairly common. Or who goes to a happy hour in D.C. for AEI, Heritage or any of the other big conservative think tanks.

Bank of America first started offering credit cards to women in 1974

Reminded of the time a lady on here told me Israel isn't a racist state because Israel discriminates on the basis of Jewishness or non-Jewishness and being Jewish is an ethnicity not a race

This is a very funny/horrifying but I will remind you that DCA is currently named after two President because Republicans were previously in the throes of another personality cult of another former entertainment celebrity turned political phenomenon

This is the worst case scenario that everybody was worried about

It's your birthday, Duane.

this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will

the most consistent driver of radicalization on a mechanical level -- and its really not anything close to a scientific field -- is immersion in a community that is already radicalized

Oh man. They have now deleted this Epstein photo that they overlooked showed Trump. As people have said, their incompetence may be our only salvation.

And may every day be another wonderful secret.

the crown is in the gutter. you too can join DSA and make the future a place you’d actually want to live

Why decline all these chances to defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate in the first place. Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.

I’m laid up with the flu, but I had to peek my head out and say that this is *so* much worse than it seems. And it’s already pretty fucking bad! bsky.app/profile/gbbr...

"“We’re at a point where locker rooms have six acceptable topics: women, video games, partying, sports, music, gambling,” McGillis said. “If you’re queer, you can’t be yourself and fit into some of those conversations honestly.” And that’s the part no TV show can fix on its own."

Your favourite new TV hyperfixation did not magically make everything better - it went out of its way to not show the reality of how bad it really is, *because* that would be upsetting to you and not fit with the conventions of the genre.

The fujoshi world is very divorced from the Sports As It Actually Exists world, it would seem.

"In retrospect, the Court’s willingness a quarter-century later in Palmer v. Thompson to allow cities to shut down public swimming pools rather than allow Black people to use them makes a lot more sense." whew Lord

Not some dude in my mentions trying to "well, actually," the Trump administration trying to declare fucking compression sports bras as a medical device if they mention trans guys as part of the target market. I've got real estate on the moon for sale.

They had a wooden "timeout box" at a school district in upstate New York where more than 60% of the students are Native American. This is so fucked up.

The wildest Epstein thing is when he was actively exploiting very powerful ppl Trump wasn't yet in politics & was kind of actively going bankrupt - like they really hung out cause they were friends who connected on a human level. They just liked each other for Being Evil

High of 24 degrees, a low of 4 degrees, in Minneapolis today. People fucking hate Nazis it turns out

so happy to hear the right can unite in a truly uncontroversial message for all: that we need to be exterminated. if these people weren't so stupid and committed to internecine squabbles right now i might actually feel scared.

NYT: Ramaswamy Challenges Surging Bigotry on the Right the actual speech: unamerican transgenders murdered charlie kirk and we all love to hate them don't we folks

DC residents have been refusing to call that airport anything but National for almost thirty years, we certainly can refuse to call that arts center anything but the Kennedy Center for three

Have seen this sentiment a lot. But it’s wrong because it inverts the core, fundamental causes. Nixon wasn‘t pushed out by his own because they wanted him out. Republicans were FORCED to push him out, by the weight of public opinion, which got his approval down to around 25%.

Makes me proud every time! Did you know we’re shipping whistles anywhere in the US? Email whistlerequests [at] proton [dot] me for your free 3D printed whistles. We’ve sent over 30,000 so far in December!

As told by the late dancer and choreographer Agnes DeMille.

I do have a litmus test for my candidates now and it's that I want them to be genuinely pissed off, not pretend pissed off

British Quakers are refusing room bookings from terfs as policy. If you were waiting for an org to stand up for LGBTQIA+ rights, and unflinchingly withstand bullying and lawfare, here you go, friends. Good luck to the raging bigots, they'll get nowhere with threats.

this bill appears is like 1/3rd good, 1/3rd catastrophic madness that sounds like the end of civilization, and 1/3rd anodyne madness anyway it effectively repeals section 230, ends the first amendment, and gives bluesky its copyright absolutism. also creates new exceptions to antitrust law

I simultaneously go back and forth between thinking "these brave women" and "Those poor girls." They had to be the adults because actual adults failed them.

Maria Farmer on the report's release: "This is amazing. Thank you for believing me. I feel redeemed. This is one of the best days of my life. Of course, it's mixed with the fact that I'm devastated about all the other little girls like Virginia who were harmed because the FBI didn't do their job.

you gotta laugh

didn't understand the question but I am eating more cheese, thanks.

Muting a Black woman to claim the vote was unanimous is so incredibly on the nose

"The Kennedy Center is a living memorial to a fallen president and named for President Kennedy by federal law," former Rep. Joe Kennedy said. "It can no sooner be renamed than can someone rename the Lincoln Memorial, no matter what anyone says."