TFW you realize that GenAI is destroying the habitats of the animals it generates videos of.

It's also the least needed thing imaginable. There are so many trail cams, zoo cams, incredible nature photographers both amateur and professional, and millions of pet owners taking and sharing pictures. There have never been more real, freely available high quality pictures and videos of animals.

The rise of AI-generated animal videos and images is such a travesty. Animal content has always been one of the best things about the internet and it’s becoming increasingly difficult to tell what’s real

I don’t know how much it landed outside the city, but one of Zohran’s first big breakout campaign moments was when he jumped into the water in a suit at Coney Island for the Polar Bear Plunge back when he was polling at <2%

Fresh off of endorsing Chris Rufo —by name—and his vision to destroy higher education, Yale is rushing to help the Trump admin resegregate education. An absolute disgrace.

Alexa Nikolas is an activist and actress known for her role in the Nickelodeon series Zoey 101 and her appearance in the documentary series Quiet on Set.

There is no serious argument to be made that the president’s own criminal defense attorney—who is clearly still representing the president’s personal interests—should run the DOJ. Conflict of interest doesn’t even begin to cover it

NEW — The sentencing of the Prairieland demonstrators shows the brutality of Trump's war on dissent, but it's not without precedent, @kimkelly.bsky.social writes. History shows us the government has always punished anti-fascism. But this time we can change the narrative in real time. Read here:

The amount of human suffering, injury, and illness that has been avoided by the advent of hormonal contraception is staggering; the amount of human potential, talent, and innovation that it has unleashed should make you weep with gratitude.

I wrote about the Prairieland defendants and the urgency of opposing the extreme sentences handed down on Tuesday. And they likely will not be the last.

bitch you can't be serious the fragility and pettiness of these people, who aren't content just to strip away people's rights they want to pretend they're Good and Just Doing Law, too, and are deeply offended when people acknowledge otherwise

If you weren’t already souring on capitalism, every single corporation rushing to integrate predatory betting apps into their goods and services should do the trick

At the end of the day, Elon Musk literally wields X as his own personal propaganda machine. We KNOW he prioritizes specific accounts and artificially inflates their reach for his own political/personal gain. Posting on there does unfortunately help him in that mission

Such a good read from @kattenbarge.bsky.social on the club chalamet mess. I also think there's an embarrassment factor -- fans want to distinguish themselves from extreme behaviour "I'm not crazy like her" - while eating up the photos/videos taken by those crowds. spitfirenews.com/p/club-chala...

For a long time, the New York Democratic machine was corrupt, sclerotic, hostile to progress, and completely implacable. That started to change when 13 women came forward, at great personal cost, about the sexual harassment they experienced from Andrew Cuomo.

currently reading a whole bunch of petitions and editorials from black americans of the revolutionary era and it is so striking (and frankly inspiring) to see how the ink wasn't even dry on the declaration before black americans were demanding that the patriots live up to their stated ideals

People said Occupy was a failure and it ushered in 15 years of actual political engagement on economic inequality People like to call BLM, Abolish ICE, etc failures and, no. Spontaneous mass protest moments rarely win immediately. But they change the political environment and lay the groundwork.

I think the thing I like the most about Claire Valdez is that she not only takes bold stands in support of trans people, but that when people on the right try to use those positions to attack her, she's just like, "yes, that is correct."

People also love to say defund the police was a failure because every city in the country did not immediately cut police budgets. Social movement outcomes have a long time horizon and may not always show up in the exact demands the movement made

I see people characterize the student protests against Israel as failures, and I really don’t think that’s true. They may not have toppled the U.S.-Israel alliance or ended the genocide, but they have helped usher in a generational turning point in attitudes toward Israel and Palestine

It’s truly astounding to see leftists who champion diversity and an end to genocide and corruption characterized as “hateful” and bigoted while the most openly hateful and bigoted politicians in decades are running the country

My pithy comment: the difference between the Democratic Socialists winning and the Tea Party winning is that the press gave favourable coverage to the Tea Party

It's easier for media to portray the election as an attack on American Jews than to delve into what NY-10 really was: The second most Jewish Congressional district in the US having a referendum between two Jewish candidates on what it means to do Jewish politics in the age of Trump and Netanyahu.

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

The city where strangers embrace in the street, where people line up to vote to feed and house and educate the most vulnerable in their midst, where more people choose to live than any other place in the country, the place enjoying the safest era in its history — this is the *real* America.

People calling leftist candidates radical are acting like abolishing ICE, taking on corruption, and stopping genocide are a bad thing

Representatives Goldman and Espaillat really should have moderated their extreme views on Israel-Palestine policy, views which are increasingly out of step with their constituents and American voters in general. The price of not getting out of your “ideological bubble”

also not lost on me that as democratic socialists are winning some elections, a new red scare targeting anarchists, antifascists, and their allies is digging in hard, and today handed down 30, 50, and 100 year prison sentences to activists and organizers

I’m honestly fascinated by people who think New Yorkers electing leftist candidates is bad for Democrats elsewhere. That genuinely does not make sense. You’re fighting ghosts.

My younger brother picked the perfect time to visit NYC for the first time. Right after the Knicks won and right as DSA candidates are winning all over the city. He’s a huge Zohran fan all the way from Indianapolis and said his only letdown is not getting to meet him

GOD BLESS MAMDANISTAN!

RESULT: Darializa Avila Chevalier, a challenger backed by New York's left, has ousted Rep. Adriano Espaillat. An earthquake result, which means all 3 congressional candidates backed by Mamdani have won: Chevalier, Brad Lander, and Claire Valdez.

The American "justice system" is not broken. The system is a perfectly functioning meat grinder, a rolling border wall, a plantation ledger, a movable death warrant. High tech robotic policing of necropolitical death worlds, deciding who gets to breathe and whose bones feed the machine.

I will always post about how evil Elon Musk is, both because it’s true and because it contributes ever so slightly to the vast psychic damage that is currently the only kind of accountability he can seemingly face. So yeah he’s entered the hall of fame of most evil people to ever live

I don’t want to hear another word from establishment Dems about cooperating with Republicans. Don’t want to see another stupid bipartisan photo about “seersucker suit day” on the Hill. Nine people who protested ICE at a detention camp were just sentenced to 50-100 years in prison. WAKE TF UP.

definitely not. and I think at least half of it is down to Elon buying Twitter

I’m curious if pushing AI in schools has to do with artificially closing the gender performance gap between girls and boys. It would track with the tech bro hatred of women outperforming them academically, their hatred of teachers (specifically women), and how AI is a tool for gender-based violence

NEW: buried within the trove of hacked documents from Madison Square Garden, the folks @404media.co found the company was keeping files on activists that criticized their use of facial recognition. Including me. Here's @fightforthefuture.org's statement: www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-06...

This is the only thing anyone should ever say about Elon Musk. He deserves to be talked about in the same category as Mao and Stalin as one of history's worst mass murderers.

Begging news outlets to stop illustrating deadly heat waves with happy beach fun 🏖️😎 and life-saving vaccines with terrifying needle assaults 💉😭. Especially on social media (where many/most people get their news) the photo is the most prominent part of the story; these choices undermine it completely

I’ve had straight men essentially say I’m overreacting for talking about rising internet censorship under the guise of protecting children, which is how I know it’s probably going to be an even bigger problem than I thought

Every year now there’s at least one book about how no one is heterosexual anymore. It’s amazing how much mileage you can get out of a ludicrously false premise. The issue is not that heterosexuality is uncool, the “issue” is that women finally have choices

One of the people arrested for "vandalizing" the Reflecting Pool was a 3-time Olympian and another was a 17-year-old kid. It's a perfect microcosm for this administration. Idiotically destroy parts of American culture and then blame it on actually impressive Americans and innocent children

The DARVO politics of the Trump admin are unmatched, down to arresting people and blaming them for the paint peeling off the bottom of the Reflecting Pool. It's basically federal policy to blame everything you screw up on someone unrelated

Occurs to me that we’re at the end of an ultimately very anomalous century-long evidentiary golden age during which it was extremely easy to produce an accurate visual/auditory record of reality, and relatively difficult to produce a false one.

if I could convince people of one thing I sometimes think it would be that bigotry is a real thing and motivates people powerfully. it's not just a distraction or a way to manipulate people or a cover for economics. people actually hate and will do stuff based on that. 1

The 250th anniversary of America is exactly what I thought it would be: with America losing wars constantly and the president arresting you for disrespecting his pool

Currently at the Reds v Yankees game as a Cincinnati native. We’re winning but the kids behind me are chanting “stupid Cincinnati.” So in a way we’re losing hard