NEW: As states hollow out their mental health care systems, what's happening is that they're using their jails as mental health providers. Jail is where people with mental illness cycle in and out of, basically as a state's public policy. We just reported on how that's working out in Colorado.

Federal sentencing has started. Zachary Evetts was just sentenced to 50 years by Chief District Judge Reed O'Connor. Maricela Rueda was just sentenced to 840 months / 70 years by Judge Mark Pittman.

This weekend DoorDash tweeted about the World Cup but repeatedly tagged T-Pain, as if they were mixing him up with NZ soccer player Tim Payne. T-Pain got in on it too, acting confused. Turns out it was all a "partnership." No ad disclosure on any of the posts. www.theverge.com/news/954145/...

Also: If you use an Apple TV, do not use your personal Apple account to log in. Create a separate, dedicated Apple account just for the AppleTV and then use Family Sharing to add your purchased media to that account.

Is anyone gonna give @trackaipac.com a smack upside the head for smearing @conniechansf.bsky.social who took a hard vote for the Gaza Cease Fire while minimizing the bloodthirsty Zionism of @scottwiener.bsky.social who went to hang out with Israeli officials and passed laws to censor Palestine Ed.

Good morning, Portland! We’re continuing yesterday’s meeting, focusing on the new budget changes and notes councilors are attempting to make before we have to vote on final passage (the new fiscal year starts next month). Follow along here while I post #LiveFromPDXCouncilBudgetSZN26

This too m.youtube.com/watch?v=vxar...

As seen in Hawthorne the other day and ABSOLUTELY NOT, Portland. City Council needs to stop this before they to do Portland what they did to SF 🧵 @councilorgreen.bsky.social @counciloravalos.bsky.social @councilormorillo.bsky.social

No. There’s limits. We’re not doing Jan 6th for Spencer Pratt. Stop. Get help.

Lets be clear here. @scottwiener.bsky.social is nothing like @bradlander.bsky.social, who has stood by movements for justice in Palestine. Wiener is a war monger whose steadfast support of Israel before and since the commencement of the Gaza genocide helped pave the way for the war in Iran

Seems bad

We brought evictions to historic lows when we had a progressive Board of Supervisors in SF. Now, the current oligarch-aligned board is allowing mass evictions. “In a city of AI riches and skyrocketing rents, housing evictions hit a 10-year high in 2025 — and this year is trending even worse.”

Laurie Wimmer (on behalf of the Northwest Oregon Labor Council) is supporting the amendment to defund the police accountability commission. Wimmer continues to advocate for the interests of the Portland Police Association even though they aren’t members of the labor council.

Closing arguments in the Elon Musk v. Sam Altman trial today and outside the courthouse....I'm sorry what???

there's something hysterically funny in a mental break kind of way about seeing news about the state's planned repression of you and people like you coming through a social media account like fuckin pop base or culture crave. really fucking funny. I hate it here

the tech world has genuinely not grappled with how many people despise them and what they make

You cannot invent a kind of cruelty that the fascists have not done to us or will not do to us

Excuse me did you just call being anti-data centers NIMBYism?

Residents of an Atlanta suburb learned that Flock had been accessing cameras in the town—including in a children's gymnastics room—to demonstrate the company’s surveillance technology to police departments around the country. The city renewed the contract anyway. www.404media.co/city-learns-...

The Feds can try to end Bluesky as a communication and organizing tool for the political opposition, but they're too late. We've already blocked each other so hard no one has any idea what's going on.

California Billionaire Tax Has Signatures Needed for Ballot, Backers Say www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/u...

SF’s Mayor and SF’s Democratic Party are actively opposing a tax on the rich put forward by labor. The SF Democratic Party has fully abandoned the working class

Gavin Newsome has said his son is a fan of Charlie Kirk Andrew Tate and now Clavicular. You should probably stop running for office and spend time with your son

Sweet Jesus. This wave coming at the same time the tech bros are looking for massive sites for data centers is not going to end well.

Imagine if you did a Big Boy Crime and the media said you got radicalized by Malcolm Gladwell

Photo I found from my first LA apartment 20 years ago. Everything was going digital, people were starting to ditch their CD collections. I still loved having music physically represented in my space, but space was tight. So I made CD wallpaper; you could open each case to play albums from the wall.

Spring is still in the air! Fox family in daughter's backyard in London.

I also know a trans woman whose DACA is being delayed and she cannot work rn. There’s a verified GFM if folks can help or share gofund.me/5eab9c1d2

"Getting into bed with Airbnb is a huge conflict of interest for a city with a vacancy/misuse problem, tens of thousands of still-displaced fire victims, and thousands of still-empty Project Homekey units..." And another lovely, boarded up Craftsman burns. www.emptylosangeles.com/p/serious-co...

This and everyone spending 3 years telling me that they weren’t Republican recalls 😮‍💨

RIP Tim Apple, inventor of making everyone download a U2 album and bad keyboard keys and getting rid of the F keys entirely and also bringing back the F keys and acting like it’s a hot new feature

The new Paul McCartney album will feature a duet with Ringo Starr

NO CUTS! NO LAYOFFS! PROTECT PUBLIC SERVICES! With community protesting Mayor Lurie’s cuts to the safety net while trying to give $$$ to cops and big business.

Say what you will about the internet, it remains awesome that I can buy dinner for a friend who's having a shitty-ass day from halfway across the world

BYE BYE BOZO www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The pasta-sauce company has partnered with the nonprofit StoryCorps on a device designed to record family conversations around the table and save them for all time. www.wired.com/story/prego-...

the penne opticon

i think iron man convinced Americans that tech oligarchs are actually secretly cool super heroes rather than cartoonishly evil elites who believe they’re inherently better than you.

nearly all of these MAHA influencers are being compensated by tobacco companies, and very few disclose it. in many cases, they are marketing to children. nicotine pouches harm child brain development.

lots of weird takes on here today so my contributions are: -potatoes are great -women should be able to WFH during periods -sheets should be washed weekly -life coaching and self-help can be useful but systemic discrimination can still be greater than individual effort -medium roast coffee > dark

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How do you disable notifications on Bluesky? I can’t figure it out and I’m going to delete this ap if the notifications don’t stop

We must carry His spirit. It is time

palantir should be viewed as the enemy of modern society

“Never mind the evidence, though: San Francisco, after several decades, is moving to abandon harm reduction as a principle in its substance use policy.” The Dorsey/Wong/Mahmood pro-eviction legislation heads to committee hearing.

So glad @emmaruthless.bsky.social dove deep into this story, and that @coyotemedia.org has a tag for "sketchy." Also, @quonky.bsky.social with the most 🔥 quote: "The revolution will not be presented by your local Community Benefit District." www.coyotemedia.org/how-could-yo...

Fascists hate to be called out as fascists. Too bad. Coming soon: The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War On Democracy. Yes, they are fascists. Yes, they must be crushed. Please pre-order here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X. I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!). So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.