"The ICE agents kind of sit up in first class and hold the paperwork and don't really do that much. The really bad guys are the GEO Group guards that are on every plane. They're the tip of the spear of this ethnic cleansing campaign." www.liberalcurrents.com/cattle-cars-...

They haven’t quite worked out which one is lap dog sized 😂

"…as of July 2025, the CDC made tracking cyclospora optional, as part of scaling back its Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network. At the time, food safety experts worried that it could make it harder to identify and respond to outbreaks."

It was a fuck up with enormous, national consequences. Not only did the Democratic Party declare itself Nazi-agnostic, but it may *actually* end up losing us the Senate, the very thing supporters insisted any criticism of Platner would do. This is a major league fuck up, and was 100% avoidable.

I just saw a headline that foreclosures have hit a 7 year high BUT that this is good news for buyers. My God.

Republicans enacted the largest cut to food stamps in the program's history and millions of people have since lost access. The people I spoke to say it's not because they no longer need help; they desperately need it but can't get through new red tape. www.thenation.com/article/econ...

The fanfiction community is at war with AI — and itself www.theverge.com/tech/960854/...

Speaking as just one guy who sues the government a lot: This basically does not happen. It is a transparent effort to shut down further inquiry by conceding relief. What they are seeking to cover up must be unspeakably bad.

This would be better if there weren't a carve out for a lower rate for tipped employees. You don't actually HAVE to pay them less, and doing so upholds a system that was adopted out of racism and upholds discriminatory outcomes. Some states have ended this division: www.dol.gov/agencies/whd...

What worries me most about the situation of trans healthcare as a trans person is different from what worries me most about the sitution of trans healthcare as a science journalist.

I hope something good happens to you today.

🚨BREAKING🚨 More than 600 workers at Hachette Book Group just voted overwhelmingly to unionize, creating the largest union in trade publishing history! newsguild.org/hachette-boo...

I think it’s a mistake to talk about the US having “allies” anymore. Under Trump, there’s adversaries and targets.

People kept saying Platner had apologized and taken accountability for his past mistakes, but he absolutely did not! Every apology was filled with excuses—always followed with a “but” that *diminished* his responsibility for his actions. It was painfully obvious if you actually listened to him.

Finally, anyone who says things like "oh why do WE have to get rid of the rapists and abusers in our party when they get TRUMP" just wants us to lose.

I don't want anyone to flagellate themselves or whatever. Just like...go do the reading on Graham Platner red flags, and internalize them enough that next time, you do see it coming and we don't do...this...again.

If someone realizes from this that they do indeed need to learn, that's great. Sitting down and doing that learning is positive, and I hope a LOT of people learn from this what they should look for and why they should not let it slide.

Even if you waltzed by the Nazi tattoo and the suspiciously alt-right adjacent cover-up. Even if you ignored the Blackwater merc thing and the years of posts and the increasingly loud chatter of people--both him on Reddit and other people, about him--saying that he didn't seem to understand consent.

If you didn’t see this coming, then you need to work on both your vision and your hearing. MANY MANY people have been telling y’all this was coming, even if you didn’t see the pattern yourself. You made a choice to ignore us.

The very things he said in his defense told you who he was. The "can't people change" crowd never really addressed why he wasn't acting like someone who was ashamed of his actions, and instead was trying to imply that everyone else needed to be ashamed for asking the question.

Get Loud: Public Library and School Internet Access Is Under Threat The FCC wants to change the e-Rate program, which could eliminate discounts libraries and schools get to provide internet to their community. bookriot.com/proposed-fcc...

All of Us is forever tainted by this association Palantir simply cannot be trusted I weep at how the field of genomics as a whole will suffer from this black mark on our record. We could help public health so much, but not without proper data privacy and governance

It's fascinating to live in a time where the majority of global consumers are just fed up and hate everything new on the market. Hate removal of physical media Hate forced AI Hate video surveillance in cars and homes Hate micro transactions Hate digital subscriptions What a time to be alive!

Use this moment to unionise and push back against fascist AI. Why wait till after the bubble? bsky.app/profile/oliv... 5/

While I don't disagree obviously that we need to learn from this, the fact we've done it before within AI & related fields & generally with tobacco / petroleum means we have to start planning how we will shift the material conditions to make learning possible now. We must start excavation now. 1/

The more you know, the more you can "well ackshually" the bros / compradors inside our communities. AI stooges are often fragile people (that's why they accept being compromised to begin with) & not the same as people who are just innocent & confused. Be kind to those. 9/ bsky.app/profile/oliv...

If the whole planet went to complete solar & wind energy we could stop global warming in 5 years. 5 years,folks. The oil & gas industry would be relegated to machinery only.

I don’t think people need to be “crucified” for thinking Platner changed or whatever but I do think they should engage in serious self-reflection and humility, such as not referring to themselves as being “crucified”

As you might guess, the retracted article claimed ChatGPT had a positive effect on student learning.

I guarantee you WFP only made this statement because they’ve been yelled at relentlessly about this. Their doubling down of endorsing him in the first place both publicly and in member DMs after many expressed disdain and disgust ruined their credibility and I will never be rejoining WFP.

Shared this earlier but coming back to note that academic freedom and freedom of speech for educators is actually quite murky form a constitutional perspective (where boundaries are, how it gets operationalized, etc.). This is absolutely a critical ruling.

Good news is that Maine has a progressive candidate ready to go!

The additional context is 🤌 (I just checked his feed and he seems to have deleted the 2nd post.)

And sorry, you have all these great artists and can’t figure out how to have them make stuff that you can make money off? So you’re just going to let that talent go? Sounds like you aren’t creative enough to be an executive. No vision. No ownership. Fire them.

Like sorry, if you have to lay off 10,000 people because those roles aren’t needed, I guess you let your company hire way too many people and that seems like the sort of poor judgment that indicates you are bad at being an executive and should probably be fired.

If a company has to lay off 10,000 people, the executive team should be fired, because they clearly weren’t businessing very well.

I (finally) listened to this and now I need to get my hands on a button that says “no one wants an AI librarian”

the ongoing defense of Platner tells me that plenty of men on the left hate women more than they love their supposed principles

also gross, controlling abuser behavior

If you haven't actually at least skimmed every single one of the sources you cite, then you're not a real scholar. You're just not. And you don't deserve to be treated like anything more credible than a random youtube podcaster.

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White male privilege. Spoiled rich kid privilege.

This post just told me I’m old 🤣 Back in my day, a first class stamp only cost 25 cents, same as a call from a pay phone!

Live shot of GOP leaders speaking to McConnell.

This is another way of saying what I tell y'all every election: it's all about turnout. Swing voters aren't real. Chasing them hurts your own turnout, and then you lose.🤡 (And Enten should make it much clearer when he switches from real poll results to prediction market results. He knows better.)

Genuinely, I don't even really see it as crowing or gloating. We're not fucking happy! It's BECAUSE the stakes matter that we want those fuckers to learn this lesson NOW.

anyway

I feel like at some point, someone should probably have asked the Senate candidate with a self-admitted history of getting blackout drunk on the regular, “so, did you ever seek help for that?“

This one is specifically driving me up a wall because SHE DID, in this case. She was the anonymous source from earlier articles; she just didn't want to have to out herself as a survivor and thought that would be enough. Genuinely heartbreaking. Just deeply, deeply vile.

The Nazi tattoo should have made this irrelevant. She never should have had to come forward.