RESULT: Democrat Chasity Martinez wins a special election for a legislative seat in Louisiana, 62% to 38%. This was a district that Trump carried by 13% last year, so a big overperformance by Dems, but the seat was already Dem-held.

This is a fake Trump post, and the account that posted it here has been told repeatedly that it's a fake Trump post but still has it up. That's an easy block.

You're not ready, I promise.

No one should have to thread this needle and it is a horror that one whose lost so much does it best.

can't stop thinking about this local street art i stumbled across today

Hot take, but no one should be using ChatGPT and any AI products in general.

on the balance i think partisan gerrymandering is bad but the only way it ends is if democrats weaponize it against republicans everywhere they can. wiping out republican lawmakers in blue states might bring the GOP to the table to end the practice.

A 1994 Japanese Nintendo catalog included a sample image to illustrate the capabilities of Mario Paint that depicts "KOOPA'S WIFE BIBINBA". While the character is likely not canon, her name is based on a discarded name for Bowser, so it may have been drawn by a Nintendo employee.

A poll came out just yesterday from YouGov that Democrats polled perceive transphobia to be the second biggest issue for the GOP after immigration. Newsom is just a transphobe with a D by his name, he is going to get smoked in the primaries because of his diverse coalition of haters.

Another small basic perspective tutorial. 🎨 Get down with the thickness! 🤭 I hope it helps you out and is easy to understand 🙏

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

You learn something new every day on Letterboxd

this might be the most amazing name in the history of names

ICE kidnappings have been happening every day in LA. Protests and community trainings have been happening every day, too. Love and power to these brave kids who walked out of school and were attacked by police ❤️‍🔥

Not only did they bring a small private army, but among the waste of taxpayer money was BRINGING A FULL PLANE OF FOOD. To *Italy*.

HERE WE GO BABY THEY MAY BE BAD BUT THEIR MONEY SPENDS GOOD WOOOOOOOOO Shit like this is exactly WHY JEFFERY EPSTEIN WAS FUCKING JEFFERY EPSTEIN.

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors. Great work everyone.

By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet

Two ways to support the 100s of talented WaPo journalists that Jeff Bezos fired this week: 1) Support fired WaPo international reporters, who weren’t eligible to join @postguild.bsky.social: www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t... 2) Support the WaPo Guild’s layoff fund: www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

For reference: reservations have a huge rape problem because they can't prosecute people from outside, and local law enforcement won't do shit about it. Sexual predators are drawn to preying on women and children in reservations, with almost zero legal consequence. www.hcn.org/articles/tri...

It is honestly a foundation of the mystery genre that cops are, at best, grossly incompetent and make everything worse.

"The trip actually took place in South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where collecting fossils on reservation land without explicit tribal permission is considered looting." But of course.

I’m 1000% positive this trip involved illegal activity and I’m 10000000% sure it was illegal in ways we simply cannot guess

BREAKING: Trump says he 'didn't make a mistake' with his racist video post. Q:  "A number of Republicans are calling on you to apologize for that post. Is that something you're going to do?" Trump: "No, I didn't make a mistake." He adds later: "I guess it was a take off on the Lion King."

production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA

"RESPECT OUR EXISTENCE OR EXPECT OUR RESISTANCE" Protesting ICE, kids walk out from J. Graham Brown School, a K-12 magnet school, and Manual High School, both in Louisville, Kentucky.

Along these lines, if you want to read a fascinating book about how genocide/war/political repression fucks with foodways, including but not restricted to indigenous americans (Pueblo Nations are specifically featured in it) check out The Last Sweet Bite by Michael Shaikh

Neither the President nor Vice President of the United States can make a public appearance in front of a non-partisan crowd either in America or abroad without being booed.

generative AI has become widely available in the summer of 2022 and entered mainstream in 2023 people are working themselves up in a frenzy, convinced they're utterly helpless without software younger than still-fresh canned tuna. we have been making art for at least 50,000 years, get a grip

On this day in 1992, George H.W. Bush sent a memo to all White House staff about how fat his dog was

Amy Klobuchar running for Governor of Minnesota

religion for most people most of the time is about identity, not doctrine.

this AP headline is written correctly.

In case you thought I was kidding. Ryan Clark posted this and immediately they ask "Grok". So Grok is the arbiter of truth. The CSAM maker is the arbiter of truth. Epstein lives, baby.

A spin thru Paper Chrono Trigger Deconstruction of Time

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

IMPORTANT OLYMPIC NEWS: THE POLISH FIGURE SKATING TEAM HAS A PLUSH PIEROGI

I've mentioned this before: think about food. Food culture permeates across all borders, survives the worst atrocities. It is damn near impossible to kill a recipe. Now think of how many Native American *recipes*, not ingredients, there are That is how thorough the genocide of manifest destiny was

I would recommend Pontypool any time of the year, but sure watch it now, it's great.

I read the “SAVE Act” (the GOP’s new voter suppression bill) so you don’t have to. This is my one page summary. Jesus it’s bad. 1/

You’re not crazy. The anti-trans movement is not organic; it was funded by pedophilic billionaires like Jeffrey Epstein who backed a network of conservatives to accuse the same people they were sexually abusing of being the real danger. @madycast.com exposes the truth in our in-depth report.

Early 1900s baseball players really are the most guys of all time. Every single one is like John "clams" Obringo. Named so because he would eat raw oysters during the game. Died in 1946 from scarlet fever after kissing a dog.

One question I get asked a lot is why I still focus so much on pro bono and sliding scale eviction defense - it's always half my practice - when there's so much else going on. Here's the answer. Donald Trump, before he was anything else, was a slumlord.

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Racism is not a mental health condition or a cognitive issue, it is simply racism. Implying that it is a form of pathology is a great distancing tactic to avoid engaging with your own role in it!

Was driving my kids to school and the first thing on the radio was reporting about Trump's video depicting the Obamas as apes and I think many people still don't fully appreciate what it means to have to raise Black children in a country where the president is so brazenly and consistently racist

bsky tips & tricks for the discerning poster: "hide post for me" will catch quotes as well, if everyone on your TL is dunking on some random dipshit and you'd prefer not to acknowledge that sort of thing

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I am certain that whenever someone posts about “gatekeeping art” or whatever, they’re talking about posting drawings online for clicks. They never mean arranging rocks in the back yard. They never mean whistling to yourself and finding a tune that makes you happy. They never mean napkin doodles.