Kinda digging this Scot MacFarlane Unchained thing;

"As a result, many Christians, maybe most, are completely unaware of the cruelty inflicted on political dissenters in Jesus’ name." David French is either a deeply cynical apologist for the depravities of the US's politicized Christianity, or a hyper-sheltered naive toddler masquerading as a man.

Virginia Dems asked for permission instead of forgiveness. A mistake, IMHO.

" “I’m not going to get into the politics … all I know is it’s causing some grief,” " Translation: "I voted Trump"

The reason people keep doing crimes for Trump is that you get rewarded for doing them, congratulations to Colorado's Dem governor for making sure we get more people trying to overturn elections on his behalf bsky.app/profile/kyle...

Oh come on www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Fake letters about a fake new law regarding "aimless driving" are impersonating me and other governors. If you see one, please report it to Bluesky to help stop the spread of this fake information.

This This and This ... are not 3 things... they are one thing

Also: it's not even about Homer! You do not, under any circumstances, have to take at face value the rantings of a barely literate apartheid jackass.

Ban stock trading by the President. Ban stock trading by the Vice President. Ban stock trading by members of Congress. End the corruption.

really insightful and horrifying stuff from @thefarce.org

ArXiv is going to ban researchers for a year if they are caught submitting AI slop. ArXiv told us it's a one strike rule: do it once, you're out. www.404media.co/new-arxiv-ru...

Nobody with the equivalent of a billion dollars would have been safe 10,000 years ago. They would have been murdered, their wealth redistributed forcibly. Democracy has allowed billionaires to flourish in the 21st century. But that only holds while democracy is secure. I don't think they get that.

Some potentially good news—I say potentially because the US hasn’t decided whether they will approve/allow it here yet: www.nature.com/articles/d41... #covid19 #airborne #transmission

Your regular reminder that that majority of "pro-life" white US Christians voted pro-eugenics in 2024.

Sad, sharp commentary on our times from Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Nick Anderson.

Look: MY point is that lefties resort to two remedies -- impeachment, and future convictions -- that absolutely Will Not Happen unless the politics changes. The politics is our job.

I give right the fuck up. I want to find some werewolves to hunt these people down:

from www.followthecrypto.org/2024/

Good question from Fox News — with the Millionaires' Tax, we're paying for free school meals, child care, annual checks to 460,000 additional working families, the biggest small business tax cut in state history, and eliminating sales tax on diapers and other essentials.

We don’t talk enough about how the Trump admin has just removed women and people of color from all the front lines of government.

"this piece will melt some eyeballs" It shouldn't tho. "You don’t have to be a student of revolutionary France to understand what happens when every legitimate channel for grievance gets closed off."

I asked Director Patel to pass on my thanks for FBI's work stopping a crook who scammed Medicare out of $205 million. He obliged. Only problem? Trump pardoned that scammer. So which is it? Should the FBI keep uncovering fraud, or should Trump keep pardoning these crooks?

DOJ is suing the DC Court of Appeals for regulating the profession of law, like some kind of Sovereign Citizen crank. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Quite the incisive commentary on the state of America here:

I just spoke with the owner of a Pennsylvania manufacturing company who’s moving some of his manufacturing operation to Mexico as a direct result of Trump’s trade policy. Retaliatory tariffs against the U.S. increased the prices of many products he sells overseas, which make up 45% of his sales.

A breathtaking description of DOJ forum shopping enforcement in the Fifth Circuit. This is light years ahead of the usual procedural maneuvering or even gamesmanship.

Gen-X votes Trump, yes. Also: under-30 dudes swung toward Trump by double digits in 2024. Inter-generational bigotries masquerading as social theory is always shite. At best, it's a very bad habit encouraged by irresponsible clickbait media.

US sells 30-year bonds at 5% yield for first time since 2007 www.ft.com/content/1123...

The Cost of the GOP’s Medicaid Cuts: ER Bills for States and a Spiraling Oral Health Crisis talkingpointsmemo.com/news/the-cos...

lmaoooooooo rolled

Many older adults who died of COVID weren’t close to death before infection, study suggests www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/man... via @cidrap.bsky.social

In a historic moment, I was interviewed by fellow Black woman particle physicist Dr. Katrina Miller. Few people can understand my journey the way she does. We talked about my new book, why poetry matters, and yes, how the *fact* of non-trinary neutrinos challenges anti-trans rhetoric. #GiftLink

The point seems obvious, but it's Adam Serwer, and I always read Adam Serwer. Not disappointed!! Highly recommend:

Personally, if I were filing a lawsuit to stop South Carolina Republicans from breaking up the state's only majority-Black district under the guise of "partisan politics," I would put Rep. Ralph Norman's "this district is WAY too Black for Republicans to win!" quote in the very first paragraph

Agreed. @democrats.org — Field more candidates who say they’ll seize the billions in ill-gotten gains and put the money to use benefiting the American people rather than the billionaires and their sycophants. Thanks.

The epitome of bottom-feeder Trump contractors: ignorant, flagrant, and slobberingly lazy. (With a side of worm-brained anti-DEI bigotry in the photo selection, plus a little IP theft.) Their state AG should take a look.

Another huge advantage to not following the normal process, if they had submitted an actual proposal this would be serious fraud to lie about your prior projects, but if they didn't have to actually submit anything then 🤷‍♀️

In the original Alien Enemies act case, 174 former judges join in asking the entire DC Cir to rehear the appeal "in light of the profound implications" of the decision by a three-judge panel to "peremptorily halt" Judge Boasberg's contempt of court inquiry: www.courtlistener.com/docket/72029...

One of my favorite Tea Party era appropriations of Paine was this apocryphal quote that made the rounds at Tea Party events in 2009-10. This photo is from Beck's DC rally. Anyway, Paine never said this...the quote is from Edward Abbey, a 20th century anarchist environmentalist.

This is simply bonkers. The White House is in active discussions with DOJ about settling Trump's lawsuit against the IRS in his favor, *precisely because* a judge might soon throw it out. WH apparently wants DOJ to agree to "settle" the lawsuit *before* that happens. Utter insanity.

The largest ever settlement or jury award for government violations of constitutional rights to a single person is $100 million, or 1 percent of what Trump demanding for the leak of his tax returns. That case -- a killing by police -- was reduced to $1 million on appeal.

This is actually why he scares the shit out of GOP & establishment Dems. It’s proof taxing the ultra wealthy does good and Democrats can balance a budget.

Reminder: Mother Nature is not human-centric. Like the Childish Empress in the Neverending Story, she loves all her children and doesn’t have a preference between us and the germs: she’s fine if either wins. Dying, after all, is just as natural as living.

Absolute banger from @davekarpf.bsky.social today. Given the fines Musk would have been subject to, it was cheaper for him to buy the government (to the record-breaking tune of $290 million) than face the law. So much corruption. davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/a-story-of...

Hey Bluesky folks. If you’re in education or just follow for my thirst traps, would you please sign this if you can, and share far and wide? c.org/dCKk9vjqxY It’s much appreciated. My university is cancelling all UG humanities degrees. We need support and love right now x

With the Corrupt Supreme Court, It’s Calvinball All the Way Down talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/with-...

Palantir is what happens when you deliberately neglect user data privacy rights for so long that slime-dwelling data molesters proliferate, mutate, and eventually spawn a shit demon.

A general, a historian, and an economist are discussing Iran: General: Overwhelming military force is the only way to break the stalemate! Historian: Iran is extremely unlikely to relinquish the leverage which this threat gives them. Economist: Let us assume that the Strait of Hormuz is open...