The theory of power that says conservatives as a whole, and young right-wing men in particular, are victims repressed by the left-wing forces dominating society is, in a word, insane. It cannot possibly be addressed, because it's not true. It's just rationalization for hatred and hurting others.

Sure but this is also a post-scarcity society where artists don't have to worry about income. And how do you know the holodeck databank isn't based only on properly-licensed works used with permission? I think Picard would have a problem with plagiarism so why not a plagiarism machine?

It's long past time for state and federal authorities alike to put an end to Stephen Miller's jerkoff fantasy of masked thugs kidnapping people of color off the street with impunity. Yes, there are Americans who want this. But they are a woefully small minority. Why are we still letting it happen?

Love this ad. The terrible voice acting somehow makes it more entertaining. youtu.be/weIk2GOKezs?...

BREAKING from PP We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens* The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied: Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado www.propublica.org/article/immi... by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

No, you don't gotta hand it to him for possibly getting the third Biden cease fire eight months late after tolerating a mass starvation campaign and demanding a little ethnic cleansing and enormous bribes as a treat, and only because Netanyahu surprise bombed the chief bribe facilitator.

Is this the "death threats against the devs" we've been hearing so much about? If so this is extremely weak, and barely calls for any moderation action at all much less a permanent ban. I can only conclude the CEO here has Muskian influence over moderation decisions which is extremely concerning

ICE arrested press tonight. They threw a tear gas canister into the press last week. This was not an accident. Release Steve Held.

This is an absolutely terrific piece from @texastribune.org and reinforces my belief that the best coverage of right-wing cancelations occur at the local level, after years of the national media focusing on threats from the left. www.texastribune.org/2025/09/19/t...

THE HYPOCRISY IS THE POINT!!

again, you are *posting on a public forum.* spreading panic and paranoia is antithetical to the solidarity and organization needed at this stage of resistance. And, bluntly, the opinion of *any* American is less useful than talking to South Koreans or Ukrainians and others at this point.

Tapping the sign again

At this point I can only assume people still arguing about "opsec" when going to one of these huge mainstream "nokings" style protests -- wear a mask! Use a burner phone! Don't use your real name! Etc -- haven't actually bothered going to any.

Somehow I've been mixing up Charlie Kirk and Ben Shapiro

Why the fuck is this so much more salient to everybody than when a literal democratic state lawmaker was assassinated 3 months ago?

📽️ Kenneth Santizo captured ICE and FBI officers stopping a family on their way to church in the Boston suburbs. Agents broke the window and slammed Daniel Flores-Martinez to the ground while his wife and children sobbed: https://propub.li/3IbPftA

I'm canceling my monthly donation to @cayimby.bsky.social until they come out with a statement denouncing this travesty of a conference and permanently cutting ties with the "abundance" movement

Saw a raven just out and about!

Bluesky should have a feed that shows you the news before showing you people's reactions to the news so you know what the heck everyone's taking about

A message to people whose cynicism has gotten the best of them: Data from KFF Health News illustrating how successful lawsuits have spared the blue states from a great deal of the blow to public health infrastructure funding. Red states sat back and are now royally screwed.

Does anyone else hum the king of the hill theme when they take out the trash

Exactly which American is he referring to here, the Human Genome Project was pretty famously an international collaboration

Well that was fast

Two things can be true: 1) this administration is causing & will cause incalculable damage & death to vulnerable people, and eventually to everyone except maybe the oligarchs. It is a horror show beyond many of our wildest previous imaginings 2) they are bungling fools and they have already failed

I’m back! I saw your messages on here & elsewhere—thank you all <3. I’m deeply disappointed in @bsky.app moderation; equating pushback against people like JKR with the harm they cause to trans ppl only enables more violence. I’ll talk more soon but even a day away from social media has been healthy.

it appears that @bsky.app have suspended the account of @jessiegender because a trans person saying "I wish ill on JK Rowling" is against the rules, so let me say with my loud cis voice that I too wish ill on all perpetrators of hate speech against trans people reinstate Jessie, this is ridiculous

This should be obvious, but I’m going to say it anyway because the internet has a way of making obvious things less obvious: You cannot substantively care about every worthy cause out there. If your response is “Maybe YOU can’t, but I can!” you are confusing feeling with actually caring.

there’s an election for Cat Mayor currently happening in Somerville, Mass. and every cat deserves to win

My big thing of recent has been perscribing Play. Being playful, doing playful acts is what helps. It encourages self-expression. It desensitizes you of failure and allows you mulligans. Unfortunately, we've forgotten how to play. We're all work. Little love. But mostly, we've been work-centric.

No one is safe from their violence. Her story is absolutely horrific. No one should be traveling to the US.

There is no city, state or federal district where it is legal to terrorize and detain people for being brown and working in agriculture. These raids must stop immediately. 8/

We really need to make this point over & over again. When they say, "we're going to try to be more fair & represent the right's perspective," it *sounds* (especially to them) like trying to do better journalism, but in practice, it is the opposite, because the right is built on lies.

Replying after you've locked comments, classy

This is what we need a lot more of to bring these agencies to account. What they're doing is illegal, full stop. www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...

Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban

Taken: LA immigration raids Masked men pull up quickly and approach Latino men. When someone runs, they’re taken. When they don’t answer a question, they’re taken. When they can’t produce papers, they’re taken.  calmatters.org/investigatio... @wendyfry.bsky.social @addonohue.bsky.social

Today @lapressclub.bsky.social @statuscoupnews.bsky.social sued LAPD for use of force against reporters. "With today’s lawsuit, [LAPC] is fighting for the rights of all of its nearly 1,000 members to report the news without risking their health and safety,” said @adamrose.bsky.social

Booker: He was made to kneel before the authority of the executive… They treated a member of the United States senate violently after he identified himself, dragged him out of a room, threw him upon the ground, and put him in handcuffs

Senior officers of the United States military have an obligation to speak up and be leaders. Where is the Army chief of staff? Will he or others speak truth to the commander in chief and put a stop to the assault on the integrity of his troops? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Pulitzer prize for this Jay L. Clenendin image of LAPD stormtroopers in front of Barbara Kruger's "Untitled (Questions)"

NEWS: We’re asking for a court order to halt the Trump Administration from using the military and the federalized National Guard to patrol our communities. oag.ca.gov/news/press-r...

Strains bounds of propriety? Strains…bounds…of…proprietary? Am I having a stroke? What is happening?

Saw @alfredtwu.com getting a boba tea in Berkeley today! Didn't say hi because of social anxiety!

On today’s solemn anniversary, I join Armenians in California, all around the United States and around the world in remembering the 1.5 million men, women, and children who were systematically targeted in a campaign of mass murder, rape, and brutalization by the Ottoman Empire.

Reflecting on yesterday's hearing, I'm sort of at a loss. The objections to SB 79 and SB 677 from Wahab and others ranged from factually incorrect to borderline incoherent. At root they're simply opposed to *any* new, non-subsidized housing. What do you do with that? calmatters.org/politics/202...

Maybe we should honor the women who were real astronauts. From left to right are Shannon W. Lucid, Margaret Rhea Seddon, Kathryn D. Sullivan, Judith A. Resnik, Anna L. Fisher, and Sally K. Ride. NASA selected all six women as their first female astronaut candidates in January 1978.

ASAN, Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network, the Autistic People of Color Fund, Autism Society of America, Autism Speaks, The Arc, and others stand united: Autistic people deserve respect, support, and science-based policy, not dangerous disinformation. autisticadvocacy.org/2025/04/lead...

As I wrote in the piece, Kennedy continues to use stigmatizing and frankly pretty shocking language to refer to people with autism, implicitly framing them as a burden on society and their families who will, as he said, "never pay taxes" or "write a poem."

HOLY SHIT. You need to read this in its entirety. Way too much to even begin to summarize but it's really, REALLY bad. It's just one agency, NLRB, but it's likely happening at others. We are under attack, seemingly from the inside. What's happening here should put folks in prison

Bad AAPL