I agree. And battered electric vehicles are my fave.

I would not mind total planetary eco socialist revolution, but could settle for vaccines, equality, solar panels and BEVs everywhere.

These fuckers are smart to be trying to fiscally fracture the natural alliance of the working & professional/managerial classes against the billionaires. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Study: Pretending Everything's Okay Works https://theonion.com/study-pretending-everythings-okay-works-1819573735/

I am once again urging all my colleagues in pharma/medicine/life sciences to shame and shun the ever-living shit out of Makary, Prasad, et al. They should never be allowed to work in the industry again.

France recognises Palestine and calls for UN force in Gaza

excited to get back to not watching jimmy kimmel by choice instead of by fiat

Once again, @michaelswanwick.bsky.social opens the door on on the ineffable....

I'm so happy that I loaded up on vaccines a couple of months ago. Please get all the shots you can right now before they ban every-goddamn-thing.

“ A California attorney must pay a $10,000 fine for filing a state court appeal full of fake quotations generated by the artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT. […] 21 of 23 quotes from cases cited in the attorney’s opening brief were made up. ” calmatters.org/economy/tech... #GenAILies

Kimmel has a show on the air because people nationwide used the power of their wallet and voice. But we’re not done yet. Today it was Jimmy Kimmel – tomorrow it could be any journalist, comedian, or artist who dares to say something Trump doesn’t like. We refuse to accept that as inevitable.

Trump wants everyone to think that submitting to his will is the only option – but that is a lie. Defiance is not only available, it is the strategic choice.

Checking in with the Texas Education Agency whether it's going to investigate teachers who make fun of the illness and death of liberals and progressives ... or wheter that only applies to their MAGA puppet masters. [J/K obviously TEA is just as fascist as the rest of the villains.]

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Jimmy Kimmel is being brought back for the same reason he was suspended: Corporations only care about money. Which is why boycotts work.

For our October issue I wrote about the Roberts Court for its 20th anniversary, how it helped lead us to the current crisis, and what should be done about it:

Rudy Rucker, Mr. TransReal himself, is running a fundraiser for his new #tansreal novel, accompanied by his new #transreal diary. The first two chapters are there for free. All kinds of perks! Send Rudy some dough! ACT NOW! ENDS MONDAY! www.kickstarter.com/projects/rud...

This is in Kelowna, BC. These encampments are a profound policy failure.

Hey @mayorofseattle.bsky.social the way to be a "leader" in "AI" is to not fall for the bullshit. It's super disappointing to see all of these city documents based on wishful thinking that talk about "AI" without defining it. www.theurbanist.org/2025/09/18/h...

So first of all, good afternoon to all of you who have canceled your Disney affiliated subscriptions, there are millions of you and your hair looks nice today I am wondering, can we keep this going? who is advertising on Sinclair and Nexstar? do they have subscriptions, loyalty points, newsletters?

I've read 3/6 and you absolutely should check both series out!

“In an undercover operation last year, the FBI recorded Tom Homan, now the White House border czar, accepting $50,000 in cash after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

I wrote about this (second item) last week, and I’m cannot believe that — 10 days later — Roberts’s impoundment case “administrative” stay remains in effect. www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-rej...

There's enough of everything that matters to go around, unless we empower the people who refuse to share. We rise together or we die together.

Tom Homan is The $50,000 Man

Uh oh… The right isn’t going to like this. 🚨 NEW: A Justice Department official on the Charlie Kirk case told NBC News, “So far, there is no evidence connecting the suspect to any left-wing groups.”

🧵This is a serious use of force violation. The violent attack of this woman must be prosecuted by Chicago/Illinois for violation of state’s rights. I’m going to break this down. You see her blocking the ICE van. Agents violently push her to the ground. Then you see 1 guy target her & choke her.

Some writers go through life having never written a story about ducks. I have published two. "Your Snow White Moment" appears in Interzone #303 along with some other pretty great stuff. You can read my story and help keep the dream alive. Subscribe: interzone.press

Hulu and Disney plus are now offering 70% off subscriptions, and in response I am offering Hulu and Disney plus 70% off deez nuts.

it's hard to be queer in appalachia, and someone I care a lot about was arrested seemingly for walking home on rural roads while queer after losing his keys. He's trying to raise funds for his court costs. www.gofundme.com/f/5d3hr-help...

Overcrowded cells. Unsanitary conditions. Limited access to food and water. These are the conditions that ICE has created at 26 Federal Plaza, which eleven elected officials sought to expose. Instead, they were arrested. They must be released right now — and inspectors let in.

Several hundred @wgawest.bsky.social writers and allies raised their voices to protest ABC cancelling Kimmel at Disney today.

This is an astonishingly good book, so do try to get hold of a copy somehow

"In his life, Kirk was an unapologetic bigot and promoter of hate and conspiracies. The right is trying to criminalize people who tell the truth about one of their beloved figures, but it will not change the reality of what he stood for." www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

We can’t have a repeat of the last government funding fight where Leader Schumer and nine other Senate Democrats rolled over and voted through a partisan GOP spending bill. Every Democrat must fight for a spending bill that protects healthcare AND puts meaningful checks on Trump.

Texas has long been a dysfunctional one-party state, but it has, in the past few years, increasingly transformed into an authoritarian one; built largely around Greg Abbot, Dan Patrick and (of course) God's favorite never-quite-a-felon, Ken Paxton, and subject to their vagaries and whims

One of the things happening here in Texas, by the way, is that Greg Abbott is personally intervening to ensure that academics and students who are insufficiently deferential to Charlie Kirk -- or are baited into being so by free-roaming snitches -- are fired and expelled from universities

This is clearly a violation of the First Amendment. This is a government official directly demanding the censorship of speech he dislikes. He also does not understand section 230 at all.

Clay Higgins sent a letter to Bluesky and other social media sites threatening investigations if they don't censor speech critical of Charlie Kirk. They don't even know who Jay is because they addressed her as "gentleman." clayhiggins.house.gov/wp-content/u...

according to an immigration attorney representing several arrested workers, ICE agents chose to arrest the Korean workers to fulfill the quota of 3,000 daily immigrant arrests set by Stephen Miller www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

NEW: Judge Kelly further extends temporary restraining order barring summary removal of unaccompanied Guatemalan children. The order is extended for two more days as Kelly mulls whether to grant longer-term relief

"If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein." Justice Robert Jackson, 1943

Justice Sonia Sotomayor appeared to rebuke calls to target “hate speech” in an apparent swipe at Attorney General Pam Bondi. “Every time I listen to a lawyer-trained representative saying we should criminalize free speech in some way, I think to myself, that law school failed,” said Sotomayor.

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

Well, the secret's out. I guess there is no point in denying this. @Scalzi wrote all my books.

They went from Release the Epstein files To What Epstein files To Epstein didn’t do anything to merit a file.

Worth mentioning that in Europe, Japan, and many other countries, firing someone for protected speech outside of work would be absolutely illegal and would expose the employer to all sorts of liabilities.