Holding out for locusts

Cc @blairrobertson.bsky.social 🙄

If you’re in line to dunk on Spencer Pratt: STAY IN LINE.

BREAKING: DDHQ has called it: Karen Bass and Nithya Raman will advance to the general election for LA Mayor in November. Spencer Pratt is OUT.

he gone bsky.app/profile/vote...

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YOU CANNOT UNSEE BISEXUAL LIGHTING

Some phone calls are better than others. Congratulations to the New Yorkers who won affordable World Cup tickets.

Republicans losing the Mormons in the national divorce would be deeply, deeply hilarious. 21st century Dixiecrats.

Wait, Trump was going for a Watch Party? But now the party is canceled? Is it because no one wanted to go anymore because he was going? (No one wanted to go)

🚨we are 35-90 minutes away from Spencer Pratt being out of our lives.

And this is why we have freedom of religion, and we do not have a national religion.

(Anyone know why he calls his account "based"?) You see, Senator, the thing about Christian nationalism and state establishment is that they unavoidably entangle the state in questions of orthodoxy. Once Hegseth decides the armed forces are Christian crusaders, he's going to decide who's Christian.

I’m still furious that the officer who shot Renee Good has not faced justice

Bearing witness has never mattered more and you don’t have to be a journalist to do it. Contrary to what the people counting on your indifference want you to believe, citizenship is a choice to show up and engage with your neighbors, your community, your country. We will not look away. #Velshi

Did a dumb American exec misunderstand what Tank meant? Nope! Starbucks Korea is owned by a Korean billionaire who supports the old regime. Every new tumbler is 503 ml. Random size, eh? A right wing talking point is that "activists" are exaggerating and "only 503 people" were killed on 5/18.

ok water calm down

Nevermind, he’s a Kiwi 😮‍💨

WHAT

Scott Pelley had apparently never heard of Bari Weiss before her appointment at CBS, and that makes this takedown all the more brutal. No old Twitter grudges, no sides-taking in thediscourse wars. Just his considered observation of her incompetence, carelessness, venality and disrespect.

Man this held up

I love the sentiment but I’m like 80% sure this is on the way to Walnut Creek. Other side of the bridge from SF and a 30ish minute drive past… credit where credit is due- East Bay Represent!

No place trolls better than San Francisco.

🥰🥰 Amazing. Good on her.

When you run for LA mayor but you’ve never voted for LA mayor before.

When Trump shows up at Game 3 of the NBA Finals on Monday and NY Knicks fans boo him or start an “Epstein” chant, will the ABC broadcast reflect that reality or will the network go to a commercial? Will ABC be afraid of another Trump shakedown lawsuit and another $15 million settlement?

look how they massacred my boy 😭

if you’re going to the game, just remember they can require extensive screening but they can’t strip out your vocal cords. so when he’s announced (and he will be), be sure to use them.

Lolz

Why every country didn’t boycott is beyond me. Send a fucking message.

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Thank you, @kim.senate.gov, for staying on this issue.

Former Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra has clinched the top spot on California's ballot for governor. With millions of ballots still to be counted, his November challenger is unknown.

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I’m fucking speechless. This is insane. And nobody fucking checked anything. Insane.

I feel like we really need to zoom back out to being a decent human being, because that seems to be a dwindling resource these days.

Mamdani is gonna enact policies that thrill NYC, and when the sky doesn't fall, literally EVERYONE ELSE is gonna be like "...Why can't *we* have that?" Self-interest is a helluva motivator.

I do not think the United States should be importing apartheidists. Precisely zero of these people are refugees under the law and all of them should be removed on Day 1 of the next Dem administration.

In the "you can't make this up" category of LLM interactions... TL;DR Google Gemini claims that LLMs "often give themselves a 95%+ confidence score even when they are hallucinating" - which was itself a "hallucinated" claim - then later assigns itself 0.95 confidence in that hallucinated claim. 🧵

Many of the Americans who landed on the beaches on D-Day were immigrants and the children of immigrants. The "America First" xenophobes who supported the Nazis hated them.

NEWS: SoFi Stadium cashiers, dishwashers, cooks, bartenders, concessions workers, and food attendants voted 96% to authorize a strike, just a week out from when the stadium is set to host its first World Cup game www.huffpost.com/entry/unite-...

Entering month 6 of Mamdani's NYC & Robberies are down 11%, Retail theft is down 19%, & Murder is down 21%—all without "Adding 5000 new cops." Instead, he's invested in public safety free childcare, food, and better funded schools. Safer cities come from investing in people—not punishments.

AMAZING!!!

How come Biden was "sleepy" but Trump gets to pass out on TV everyday?

all the CEOs gleeful about AI putting people out of work don't seem to realize unemployed people tend not to buy things — including their products

Don't tell me they need to vote this way to win in purple district. WIC polls at 75% amongst Republicans. newrepublic.com/post/211416/...

i'm sorry men being forced to answer for themselves is so painful. you know what's more painful? the level of intimate partner violence in this country. the baseline disrespect and humiliation that women are forced to take in order to survive.

"The study found that resettled refugees contribute $6 billion more to the U.S. economy than they take out. Per year. The Trump administration did exactly what you’d expect: They suppressed the study, and then they lied about it."

🧵Spotted on Market Day in Aotearoa New Zealand: A small human (5?) with the commanding air of a general overseeing her troops is instructing Dad on how to pick out a birthday card for Mum. With hands on hips, expression fierce, she roars: "IT HAS TO MAKE HER FEEL NICE OR IT WON'T WORK!" (1)

TLDR: Work by Sara Bana and co-authors finds that a handful of AI hiring platforms can define the job market trajectory of thousands of candidates because they don't update resume scores. Let those platforms be biased, and guess who bears the brunt? Black and Asian people.