Pathetic, but not at all a surprise. NC and other states playing the same game. Diverting public money to private institutions

There was already a *lot* going on with Bluesky, and now it's under even more pressure. I wrote about how I think about moderation, affordances, expectations, human needs, and powerful trolls for @techpolicypress.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/trump-admini...

Greg Abbott wants to appointed Reichmarshal of Texas in the Fourth Reich.

THIS FACT must be drilled into the heads of every American. Every minute of every day. Week after week. Month after month. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov @housedemocrats.bsky.social @democrats.senate.gov GET ON IT! 👇👇👇👇👇

Steak n Shake…you’re cooked. My fast food dollars will be spent elsewhere.

As much as Republicans claim to hate freeloaders, there seems to be 220 of them sitting at home twiddling their thumbs. All while collecting $3,346 per week ($174,000 annual) plus generous benefits. This is our hard earned tax dollars at work. I think the word is hypocrisy.

HELL YES!

She had a meeting with him where she expressed the importance of sending more aid to Gaza, she kept pushing him for a ceasefire, she kept pushing her stance on a two-state solution, she kept saying that the hostages needed to be released. She reported all that on national tv and humiliated him.

The Democratic Party was the only Party that was standing in his way and you let people tumble that down. But now, you don’t want to own up to that shit and instead, absolve yourselves by blaming it all on Harris and what was out of her hands. We fucking see it, dumbasses.

🚨 A very long thread 🚨 I need you all to actually come to terms with what happened last year. No, Harris did not run a bad campaign. You're just stupid. He ran on dictator shit, she ran on “He’s going to kill us all but I’m won't and here are the policies that will benefit you if you elect me”.

His Ex Orders announce MONTHS ahead what he will do: *Bring military into US cities to control population *UNLEASH 20k agents to ICE *Defy intl. borders with military actions *Declare us all Antifa TERRORISTS NEXT: Ex.O July 24 ****** Confine Homeless to LABOR Camps/Facilities bit.ly/46itn9i

For 30 years now I’ve been trying to get heads wrapped around this. Perfect summary of the REAL obstacles to Truth 👇🎯💯

AHHHHGGGH

"We need Virginia ... Maryland ... our friends in New York and Illinois and Colorado -- we need to see other states meet this moment head-on as well." "… if we do, we will de facto end Donald Trump's presidency as we know it the moment Speaker Jeffries is sworn in as the next Speaker."

Keep up the pace 💙@chrismurphyct.bsky.social

Somewhere near downtown LA, no lies told — blue states keep MAGA country afloat. 🔥 “You just keep on using me until you use me up.”

Damn…

The people have spoken. We float like a butterfly 🦋 & sting like a bee 🐝 . We dress like frogs 🐸 in the face of 🧊. We are our own Kings & Queens, we rise like an eagle defending our freedoms in the name of peace, and shared power through choices on where we spend our money. bigbeautifulboycott.us

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From Lawrence O'Donnell: SCOTUS heard oral arguments on the Tariffs. The Regime lawyer admitted that Tariffs are taxes that WE THE PEOPLE pay and not the counties and that Congress has the authority to regulate Tariffs not the President. There is a good chance for them to rule against the Tariffs.

“I see little reason for the use of force that the federal agents are currently using,” said U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis. Thank you, Judge Ellis, for standing up for accountability and the protection of civil rights. 🙏

Other than being high on morbid narcissism, what drugs does Donnie take to live in his own little world of illusion?!

I am terrified Mamdani is going to do something extreme, like subsidize a few grocery stores, says people who don’t bat an eye at for-profit companies with billion dollar subsidies.

And if that blew your mind, read up on the Family Assistance Plan, the proposal from Milton Friedman (!) that Nixon embraced -- would've been essentially a negative income tax for the poor in which they'd get cash payments.

Quick quiz -- which president made food stamps into a massive national program?

The goddamn nerve of Jeff Bezos' newspaper to talk shit about raising the minimum wage at a moment when workers at Jeff Bezos' online superstore -- who are paid so little half of them in one study were on SNAP benefits -- are going hungry. The fucking arrogance.

Today's version of "remember, thou art mortal" should be a billionaire's personal assistant who keeps reminding them that, in theory, sir, a mob of furious workers might just decide to beat you to death with hammers.

The most corrupt administration in American history.

Hi Team Blue! I’m a Twitter refugee. Sold my Tesla too. The devastating election results have reignited the digital warrior in me. Trump, Elon, and Maga must be defeated. I have no idea how but together, maybe we can find a way. I follow back! 💙

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AOC: "The Supreme Court has given Trump a blank check to continue to commit crimes while in office. So we cannot underestimate the threat and danger of this moment, but we cannot respond to that threat with cowardice."

A clarification

What the majority of white voters who voted, voted FOR.😶 THAT is what “we” are doing. No other majority of any other racial grp of voters voted FOR this.

It got drowned out in all the good news from last night, but Boston Mayor Michelle Wu became the youngest person to be reelected in the city's history. She ran unopposed because her opponent--Patriots owner Bob Kraft's son--withdrew a few months ago after realizing he had no hope of winning.

The great S African lawyer Sir Sydney Kentridge is 103 today. In a Pretoria court in 1977 I watched in awe as he crucified the secret police who had murdered the Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko - arguably the start of apartheid’s downfall. A very happy birthday, dear Sydney!

“..you don’t know history. You know mythology..The myth makes America look brave. The history makes America look guilty..mythology is America’s favorite lie. It takes blood & turns it into honor. It takes theft & calls it destiny. It takes murder & calls it progress.”👇🏽 medium.com/@fazer4541/w...

“If you don’t own a gun, you can’t have an opinion on the Second Amendment.” Cool take! Now do uteruses.

Simple story, but rather profound.

#RightWingSexualPredators 1476 known, and counting.

The damn lefties were right…again

Volunteered to pack some whistles tonight. Planning to distribute a bunch of these to my local mini libraries.

"Pope Leo said Scripture emphasizes the question that will be posed at the end of the world: 'How did you receive the foreigner, did you receive him and welcome him, or not? I think there is a deep reflection that needs to be made about what is happening'..." chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv...

The fact that protests now feature people who don’t normally have to worry about what might happen to them in an adverse encounter with security forces is a HUGE DEAL. It means that the “real” victims don’t have to suffer alone. It means that some people care about something more than themselves