USA rebooting old-timey race science, but now for every 1,000 scanned faces, a river is drained and a forest burned down.

Mike Johnson claims Nancy Pelosi is retiring because she's not far-left enough for the Democratic Party. Sure, Mike. It couldn't have anything to do with the fact that she's 85 years old.

My first thought: Well, at least there's a doctor right there. My second thought: Unfortunately, it's Dr. Oz.

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Elon Musk is boosting the British far-right - and this shows how For nine months, Sky News' Data and Forensics team has been investigating whether X's algorithm amplifies right-wing and extreme content. It does.

"I think as a thought experiment, great," said one urban planning expert who works in Saudi Arabia. "But don't build thought experiments."

Read this if, like me, you enjoy seeing the ludicrous plans of morbidly rich & powerful people with outsized hubris crash & burn. May the visible ruins of the unchallenged whims of a tyrant serve as a cautionary tale for thousands of years.

The part of Mamdani's speech that I found most exciting was "you dismantle the conditions that allowed him to gain power. That's how we stop Trump — and the next one." We need popular political figures to point out that Trump is not an anomaly and there are plenty more to take his place.

I just gotta say how amazing the visual representations, color palette & layout of this data-driven story are. Well done Sky News design team & researchers! View this on a larger screen, not a mobile phone, to maximize the storytelling impact.

i'm a part of this!!! if you need to find good quality art for accessible, indie-friendly rates, you should check out 42 fold studio!! (and psst i'm there to not only illustrate but also put together graphic design / DTP for you!)

@tldrnews.bsky.social stop citing Nate Silver polls challenge

Yesterday's election results must not diminish the urgency of grassroots organizing. First, because it is clear that Donald Trump will not leave power voluntarily. But even more importantly, because—as we saw under Biden—the Democrats will not solve any of these problems. Real change is up to us.

Republicans running anti-trans hatefests lost and Zohran Mamdani is a hugely vocal supporter of trans and other LGBTQ rights. That is MASSIVELY important to look at and run on. Roll around in all this & soak it in. This is the good shit, & it should be celebrated. And then it should be Built on.

“As Mamdani’s dramatic upset makes clear, his is the path forward: a robust, big-tent grassroots political organization that incorporates the populism rather than shutting it out and speaks to the needs of voters fed up with a sclerotic party establishment. It’s about damn time.”

"...this policy of "pacification" answers nothing. For the people, it only means that life in our cities is becoming torture, that pensions and salaries are being plundered by rents, and that supermarket prices are becoming exorbitant. We are being expelled from our land by the established class."

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A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants

Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Zohran Mamdani are all going to out-live Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Peter Theil, Bill Ackman, and most of the other oligarchs who have looted our political system for their gain. And so are most of us. Plan big. Organize even bigger.

Mamdani: So hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us.

My god this is for real one of the most incredible speeches I’ve ever seen by an elected US politician: ‘And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is to dismantle the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This not only how we stop Trump, it’s how we stop the next one.’

i hope this election cycle empowers everyone the next time a centrist liberal says to drop pro-trans and pro-immigrant rhetoric to enthusiastically tell them to shut the fuck up

When you recount this election day:

We have friends everywhere

So many times SO MANY TIMES I have said I don't trust any politician who throws trans people and immigrants under the bus. Look at this dude. LOOK AT THIS. He's here for ALL OF US. There is NO EXCUSE for any politician who doesn't step up like this. No excuse.

Democratic party leadership has been on autopilot for ten years, they weren't losing to fascism, fascism isn't popular enough for them to lose to fascism, they were allowing it to fill the void where their leadership should have been. Tonight we're seeing that we have other options. They should too.

This is a landslide. The last NYC mayoral candidate to clear 1 million votes was John Lindsay—over 50 years ago. It will be dismissed by pundits saying it can only happen in New York. That's garbage. Think pledging to freeze rent and offer childcare won't resonate in Nevada? Wisconsin? Texas?

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Mamdani going so hard for trans right and winning is some juicy proof that every dem that abandoned us didn’t do it for politically advantageous reasons. They did it because they’re transphobes and they will lose for it

As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed. The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.

Fuck I forgot to post the moon.

Boas notícias para começar o dia! Parabéns, Mamdani e Nova Iorque!

The techfash want people to surrender all thought, behavior & agency to act to a false AI "god." They will try to deprive those who refuse from accessing the needlessly rationed survival resources they will distribute to the faithful & obedient as a reward. Fight like Hell & care for each other.

One of my favorite events in Stardew Valley is when my cat gives me a chubb.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, your decision today hinges on a very simple question that goes right to the soul of what America is all about: should a man be allowed, out of the goodness of his heart, to give a delicious sandwich to a member of our law enforcement community?

They aren't afraid of Mamdani, they are worried about what he would unleash among VOTERS. That those voters would say: "actually, we're not buying this centrist bullshit you've been shoveling for decades, we want something else." That's what's being litigated in these Dem elites are worried essays.

One last time: Every time I post it he goes up five more points.

"Condé was content to hold Teen Vogue up as a prop for diversity, youth representation and progressive ideals when it benefited it, and then to unceremoniously discard the entire publication with a disingenuous press release when the winds shifted." 😭

"Sussan Ley’s barrel-scraping attempt to score political points problematically undermines the very cause she purports to defend. Indeed, her reactionary and fearmongering tactic reduces the ills of actual antisemitism, and says more about her desperation than anything else."

Where America stands, one year after the election. A fascistic movement controls the government; they are building an authoritarian state; but they have not been able yet to extend authoritarian rule across society. A democracy no more, but not a consolidated autocratic regime yet. New piece:

That being said, there are alot of underemployed video editors on this website and I hope they all get hired! Hopefully someone can fund the animators too.

The good news is that candidates in 2026 are going to invest in up beat positive video. The bad news is that many of them will be running for office for the wrong reasons, funding those videos with corporate cash, and we need to be able to understand the difference and not buy into the bastards.

We will not be held hostage by...political strategies...the right has designed as a trap to catch all leftists... We will not forget trans people, abandon immigrants to their fate, or hide our feminism: on the contrary, we will radicalize even further & make all causes visible without shame or fear.

A total and utter hero

Dick Cheney won't see your mean jokes about his death, but Tony Blair will, hopefully.

hug your war criminals a little tighter today

on the topic of dick cheney, one thing i’ve always said is that you shouldn’t kill a million people

Dick Cheney Was Doing War Crimes in Exactly the Right Way, by Ezra Klein.