My position remains pretty straightforward: I’m not supporting a blank check for a public subsidy where both the scale and distribution of benefits are largely unknown. And I’m a hard no on PCEF as the source. We have contract protections for a reason, so let’s use them to not get screwed.

donald trump is literally a court proven rapist

China built a 40-story tower that banks wind power by hoisting giant concrete blocks, then dropping them when the grid needs juice. A skyscraper-sized battery with no lithium in it.

I'm so disillusioned, I almost don't even care who gets the FIFA Peace Prize next year

Maybe, but Platner doesn't really tell us anything new. Franken stepped aside. Biden stepped aside. Dems, often belatedly, do the right thing time & again. But nothing has changed with the far right authoritarian party. Again, it's not "polarization" or "both sides": bsky.app/profile/mcop...

let this be a lesson to deal with your feelings of gender anxiety and masculine inadequacy with a hobby or therapy or something and not a high stakes senate election

this dynamic described by jenny racicot is, as i understand it, very common among progressive women in maine. they’ve been put in an impossible position and feel like they’re tanking platner’s campaign when in reality he did that on his own by being a violent and reckless person.

i will not forget the men who downplayed the earlier allegations of abuse against platner and said accepting them was just the price we had to pay to gain control of the senate. i hope they feel like fucking assholes.

Anyway, the video game industry is super fucked and it's that way because, like every other part of the world, a small cadre of ghouls think that anything other than adding another zero to their companies' profits each year is a failure. And they're willing to kill us all to avoid it.

I really appreciate the headline here. I think studies need to be done on the CEO brain, do they think we're all very stupid, or do they have no grasp of reality at all? My bet is on a mix of both.

Man got Chotiner’d without even agreeing to an interview. Astounding

One thing about a bartender: they can spot a Type

I have edited a lot of sexual-assault-accusation articles, and this one easily clears every veracity check: contemporaneous emails with her therapist, a boyfriend who knew, a woman she warned—all before Platner ran for office. Good on Politico for nailing it, and on Jenny Racicot for speaking up.

I hope y'all are ready for me to be the most obnoxious cheerleader ever for this movie, brace yourselves

What’s great about RCV is that you can take the ME-GOV ballots, redistribute the votes from Hannah Pingree, and produce another candidate with a statewide majority from Democratic primary voters if you need to.

A Nazi with drinking problems and a history of being abusive towards women and making rape jokes on forums is a rapist? Well LAWD I never *fans self*

perhaps we get over the 'we must nominate a white guy' brainrot and put forth candidates who have GOOD RECORDS. people will truly be like Slotkin is our best female candidate and also a woman can't win! no, you're nominating shitty female candidates lmao

perhaps we should view nazi tattoos as disqualifying from here on out. i kind of assumed we'd already view them as disqualifying but was unpleasantly surprised so maybe from here we could all agree not to downplay nazi tattoos since they seem pretty indicative of broad disregard for human dignity

and there we go. again, all this could have been avoided by the simple rule of 'don't support a candidate with a Nazi tattoo'. Not a challenge! www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

*cackles in public art*

"venture capitalist is the only irreplaceable job, and can comfortably sit on top of a substrate of mass unemployment," says the venture capitalist, because his mind is so squishy and shallow it does not comprehend the distinction between reality and a video game gizmodo.com/marc-andrees...

What if I told you power is a thing so movements that bank on leveraging pre-existing bigotries don't actually have a lot to teach people who are interested in building diverse coalition-based movements?

A historic Black church in Richmond was destroyed by fire this weekend. The cause is still under investigation, but it happened during a lightning storm and locals reported seeing lightning strikes nearby. A terrible community loss regardless.

A man who publicly was doing something which, when done wrong, can cause graft-vs-host disease, an autoimmune disease which can attack, among other things, your GI tract, now has an autoimmune disease which is attacking his GI tract. What a coincidence.

🌭we're all trying to find the guy who did this

The US strikes against small boats have not stopped any significant drug smuggling. From @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

As a former special education attorney told me, the Department of Education's illegal reorganization is "forcing students with disabilities backward into a medical model under an administration that doesn't think they should be in the community."

This is an actual screenshot from the syllabus for this class. Beyond parody

data visualization is my passion.

Chris Geidner is getting harassed for the sin of having said something nice about Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, because saying anything nice about her apparently is no longer permitted here. And that, in a nutshell, is the Bluesky experience.

Pretty much all of modern reactionary politics depends on convincing ordinary people that the source of their suffering is not concentrated power but socially marginal groups with comparatively no power all. They’re Coming to Get You and take your jobs and change your kids and break your home.

my brother & his partner are telling me an insane story about this local deity called "st. rat" which is apparently a mosaic relief put up by some queers in seattle. the city kept trying to paint over it, but people would repeatedly just use acetone and remove the paint until the city gave up

It’s 43 minutes past midnight. This is downtown Oslo.

The NYT could run "Can fascism appeal in a swing state?" articles right now re: the GOP in literally every state, but it doesn't. Again, the only evidence of actual "socialism" we have in 🇺🇸 today is the Trump admin taking direct state ownership stakes in private companies. But The Narrative™️...

bodily autonomy is so important it's unreal

GG to GDQ

“We should be expecting an all-of-government approach in the coming weeks and months … The panic will lead to more abuses, more corruption, more misuse of resources. And I think it’s something that Americans need to be keeping a close eye on, because this is happening in their name.” trib.al/S6p6uhD

story old as time

As a European that has spent a lot of time in the US, I can barely believe what Americans have accepted in terms of workers rights, holiday, healthcare, unionisation...its just staggering.

It’s a really funny runner how every issue in American history that apologists claim “no one” knew was wrong has a corresponding Quaker going “this is wrong”

Again, any time someone says, "An AI detector thinks I write like AI!" It means that the person writes more like AI *source training material* than like a lazy American college student trying to cheat their way through a college paper. I play a game called "Writer, Professor, or Anti-colonial.🇳🇬🇮🇳🇰🇪"

Just a reminder that the Statue of Liberty is an anti-slavery monument created by a French abolitionist back in 1865 to celebrate emancipation.... Thus the broken chains at her feet. www.nps.gov/stli/learn/h...

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Zohran Mamdani has been getting allergy shots, so that he and his wife, Rama Duwaji, can adopt a cat. Photo is from a cat adoption event alongside Long Island City Feral Feeders From Dec. 2024 #MenWithCats

There's a perverse symbolism in the legacy of White racism sheltering under the bowers of all African Americans have done for this country while patiently waiting for the chance to go back to insisting we are a drain upon their society and that they never needed us at all.

The United States of America, summed up in one picture Source: IG/mirro_hero

they are not afraid of him being a bad mayor, they are afraid of him being a good mayor

Well done, Antifa!

First as tragedy, then as farce, and then again as farce because nobody really took the other 2 very seriously.

I assumed everyone knew this was predicted to occur when they sacked 50% of the NOAA staff and started canceling weather balloons that collect data last year; but if not. 👇