If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.

this is the first wikipedia article about an individual tiktok which felt historic so i brought this guy on stage last week at my chicago show! he rocked so much

A New York bill would ban AI from answering questions related to several licensed professions like medicine, law, dentistry, nursing, psychology, social work, engineering, and more. The companies would be liable if the chatbots give “substantive responses” in these areas.

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

because Eileen O’Neill Burke is a capital B capital Y Big Yikes as many community organizers warned

something I hate about hotels nowadays is why are you always making me plug my phone into the lamp

Despite poop’s toxicity, pee stood by it, texts indicate

i really wish every time i went to a website a little video would start playing in the corner. maybe an advertisement. maybe with the close button really small button almost inscrutable. with music!

Is it good or bad when government lawyers are in federal court telling judges that their jobs suck and begging for a full night's sleep

Republicans love adding seats to state Supreme Courts! They've done it three times in recent years. This latest court-packing plan will shift Utah's high court far to the right and possibly flip rulings on abortion and gerrymandering. Democrats should take note that Rs have deemed this acceptable!

JUST IN: Democrats flip a red seat in the Texas Senate. Taylor Rehmet wins against Leigh Wambsganss, a conservative activist who helped lead right-wing efforts to take over TX school boards. With all early vote, and 95% of precincts, in, Dem up 57/43. Trump won this seat by 17% in Tarrant County.

Leigh Wambsganss raised nearly $2.3 million for the SD9 district, much of it coming from three billionaire-funded PACs. Taylor Rehmet raised $346,000, most of it coming from donations of $100 or less. His biggest donor gave him $12K, and a bunch of local unions also cut him larger checks.

The plan to use AI has alarmed some at DOT, which regulates everything from air travel to pipelines. Why, some staffers wondered, would the government outsource the writing of critical standards to a new technology notorious for making mistakes? By @jessecoburn.bsky.social

I am feeling so mega depressed. It’s very odd to me that my work on lgbtq+ equality in state legislatures continues on (differently, more carefully, but still continues) even though we are in a fascist police state that is murdering ppl for exercising their constitutional rights

back in my day you could see a concert for $30

every time I log in to anything it’s like “I have to text you before I can let you in” and I’m like ok FINE and then it’s like “trust this device in the future?” And I’m like yes and then the next time I log in it’s like “I know you trust this device but I have to text you again”

What makes Gavin Newsom such a skilled politician is that he stands up to Trump’s bullying with piping hot memes AND is able to agree with Trump about policy www.sacbee.com

I miss Twitter. Like 2012-2016 twitter. Hell even up through like 2021 or 2022 twitter

Incredibly, this is an actual photo New York Post used for the guy who attacked Ilhan Omar.

While Mayor Brandon Johnson said it would have been “deeply irresponsible” not to consider buying the meters, his team concluded it would result in a “bad deal” for taxpayers. @wttw.bsky.social

New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.

Nice

Chuckling at the people in the U.S. who consistently shit on people who live in "red" states... Well according to others in the world, the entire US is now a "red" state. Not so easy to overthrow authoritarians, is it?

when my job has pushed me past my breaking point

Perhaps instead of trying to win over Trump voters for the thousandth time the democratic candidate can try winning over democrats and all the disenfranchised and disillusioned people on the left who don’t vote or vote third party

i’m being radicalized by peacock charging $10.99 per month and having A MILLION COMMERCIALS

Has anyone ever figured out why rfk jr is so obsessed with autism

I think the word you’re looking for is “kept”

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

now seems as good a time as any to remind people that chuck schumer has two imaginary friends who are moderates in Massapequa who he consults about all of his decisions newyorker.com/magazine/2007/…

Ugh

Zohran’s impact

Earlier this year, I met a Croatian journalist who was in the US doing a piece on America’s politics and I asked her what surprised her. And she said, “What you all call the far left is just being normal.”

My niece was just trying to tell one of the kids at the door trick or treating to get these gummies we have and the kid goes “I don’t think I need all that food dye”

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook) Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

ICE went after rideshare drivers at O’Hare today, according to statement from Illinois Drivers Alliance

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

it’s like Peter thiel and elon musk and Jeff bezos and Sam Altman and mark zuckerberg watched black mirror and were like fuck yeah that seems so cool let’s make those technologies

all i want is to lose everything to Jennifer Tilly at the poker table

technology should have stopped here

this is what happens when you go to hud.gov just fyi

Put in a fantasy trade and now I’m checking my phone like a teenager waiting for their crush to text back

me trying to offload chase brown for a running back who will actually get me some fantasy points after 3 weeks of pure shit from him

are there any people out there who want to have an opinion on my fantasy lineup bc honestly I could use some input

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

The FBI is preparing to label transgender people as “violent extremists” in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readie...