Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1

If I invited federal officials to an event & they took advantage of my hospitality by telling a bunch of demonstrable lies, this is not the headline I would write.

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You can’t fix autism because autistic people are not broken.

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

ultimately though the problem is it doesn't really matter that much. meritocracy is a myth; if the right controls all the info channels, doesn't matter that much if the left has better speakers.

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

Stands on rooftops: 📣 🗣️ 🗣️THERE IS NO LINK BTW ACETAMINOPHEN & AUTISM. IT HAS BEEN STUDIED FOR MANY YEARS IN MILLIONS OF PEOPLE. 🗣️THE ONLY REASON THEY ARE TALKING ABT THIS IS THAT THEY DO NOT WANT AUTISTIC PEOPLE TO EXIST. 🗣️IT IS EUGENICS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION IN THIS MATTER. -EmilyPhD

also an excellent further way to police and blame pregnant women!

I was listening to an old Casey Kasem American Top 40 (I find this soothing these days) from 1985 where he told the story of Wendy Carlos, who scored The Shining and Tron, and her journey to becoming trans. Casey got all the pronouns right and it was presented as a slice of life, feel good story

Andy Barker, P.I.

No, Charlie Kirk wasn't practicing politics the right way. His assassination deserves full condemnation writes @davidcorn.bsky.social, but his full impact should not be sidestepped. 👇

You cannot understand politics in the United States in 2025 without understanding Gamergate. It is the Rosetta Stone for our current nightmare.

Fox News is just forging ahead tonight as though a card-carrying Democrat gunned down Charlie Kirk. The narrative is impervious to facts.

Meanwhile ProPublica found that three current members of Trump's cabinet actually *did* do the thing it looks like they falsely accused Lisa Cook of doing... www.techdirt.com/2025/09/12/t...

They just shit canned a professor at Texas A&m for discussing how gender is handled in children's books.

I wish some of the YouTube that these guys watched included whooping cough victims because it's fucking horrifying

“Militant, nationalistic, white supremacist violent extremism has increased in the United States. In fact, the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism.” The Trump DOJ scrubbed this study from their website.

this timeline is very clarifying, showing 1) right-wingers immediately promoted the idea the shooter was trans before any evidence, 2) someone within (or claiming to be in) ATF leaked false info to right-wing outlets reinforcing that claim. all of these ppl are evil and the leaker should be fired.

i have every confidence in the 2025 version of the FBI’s ability to apprehend a suspect–so long as that suspect is the child of at least one law enforcement officer that they also confessed to

It’s an absolute shame that DC fired Gretchen Felker- Martin for exercising free speech and then @bsky.app suspended her account. Every writer here should be decrying this because we have to stand up for each other! This is ridiculous.

when did the AP style guide start requiring folks to change “hatemonger” to “conservative activist”?

From me, a list of Trump supporters who killed, or tried to kill, Democrats and opponents of Trump in recent years (since the right are now claiming all the political violence is from the left!) Receipts: zeteo.com/p/charlie-ki...

I'm packing some books for OKLAHOMA! If someone is sure they want a Batman '66 Compendium (it has everything by everybody), let me know tonight so I pack enough please. Same with the Silent Knight collections

Charlie Kirk was a 2020 election denier and conspiracy spreader. But he was a 2020 election denier and conspiracy spreader in the right way. by Ezra Klein

I would watch the hell out of a straight to Netflix ”Kash and Dan investigate” starring, let’s say, Kal Penn and Jesse Plemons portraying the hijinks of two totally unprepared meatheads running an investigation in Utah and getting into zany adventures

The markings that supposedly expressed “transgender ideology” were………..a series of arrows.

Open debate is for economic policy and whether we should charge for public transportation. Open debate is not whether some human beings are lesser than others. Some ideas are so vile, so odious, that they should not be entertained.

Absolutely insane that they published it in the first place. bsky.app/profile/mike...

This is happening now! Come ask a question! (if you like) www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co... (I hope that link is right...I'm not good at Reddit! Or...the internet in general, hahah!)

News org challenge to match the basic understanding of this administration's "honesty" that district court judges, who have norms that point in the opposite direction from the skepticism that news orgs are supposed to have, figured out weeks ago.

i think anyone saying he practiced politics the right way or that we should continue his work should first have to read out loud his last days worth of posts to someone they love who doesnt know who he is

Given the people who run this place are transphobic crypto fascists who kick trans women. Let’s promote Gretchen’s work on here for her. She has a new book out. It looks really cool, you should grab a copy and help her out, and also you’ll get to read a cool book bookshop.org/p/books/blac...

this is soft, dude. this is really, really soft. a few years back, Frank Tieri threatened another critic and myself with violence, directly, at a comic-con over Batman opinions. That dude kept his job. He slid into my DMs with a fake apology. C. Kirk called for extermination. A joke didn't kill him.

Comicsgate ran wild for years, nurtured by people in comics who really should've known better because it kept them relevant or lined their pockets, but this right here is the line to draw? not when your own staff was getting harassed and hassled? c'mon son. c'monnnnnnn.

Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment. Jared Polis has failed Colorado.

This was just last month and we have already memoryholed it. A cop killed by an antivaxxer.

while it is generally good advice from all the people warning you to stay off the FBI's radar, their remaining agents are currently bumbling around Utah arresting random Mormons and letting them go

Made a solo RPG that helps people build playlists and play out being a late-night DJ, and i broadcast and stream the shows people make and send in. I've done about 80 so far. Won an award and got some nominations too. Bannerless.games/voidam

This. Times a thousand. Again and again.

I’d think what you’d want during a highly volatile, politically polarized time marked by violence is a president who can appeal to our common values and humanity and inspire calm and unity, rather than promising revenge. If you cared about the collective well-being of the country, that is

No elected official Democratic party will be as cruel about Kirk's death as Mike Lee was about the death of Melissa Hortman. wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/06/17/s...

You also need to say this shit when people get fired for mentioning their personal gender or get roughed up for looking at ICE the wrong way. Come the fuck on. If you believe this, believe it for everyone.

Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory? Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”

to think, 8 hours ago i was thinking to myself “nobody is going to say anything as heinous as what jerry seinfeld said today” the fool i was!

Information environment has reached its grotesque conclusion in that there is a very real killer out there who has not been identified, apprehended, or investigated, a detail practically inconsequential to nearly every commentator’s purposes.

No MAGA outrage on her murder Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman killed, State Sen. John Hoffman wounded in 'targeted political violence' abcnews.go.com/US/2-minneso...

@bluesky moderation is suspending people for posting Kirk's own words which tells you everything you need to know.

When some maga bigot shoots a bunch of kids, or a synagogue, or a mosque, or a Walmart, or a supermarket, that's a lone wolf with mental problems. When it's one of theirs who get shot, it's a sophisticated leftist plot, and every single liberal is in on it. That's how it works for the magas.