again, the country owes a huge debt of gratitude to the courageous women who came forward. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/survivors-...

Platner should step aside. Our movements are a preview of the world we will build. Any world I am willing to build will treat Jenny Racicot with respect and kindness. Voters deserve the chance to vote for a better, fairer world. Platner and the Democratic Party should give voters that chance.

I'm beginning to understand why some people hate liberals #worldcup #fifa I'm going to root for the #USMNT whether balogun plays or not.

This. Blatant homophobia should not be tolerated.

Ok but hear me out... Balo can wear a shirt underneath that says "born in the USA" - and flash it as his goal celebration

Honestly, if #balogun scores tomorrow and doesn't lift up his jersey to reveal the message "born in the USA" then what are we even doing... #worldcup #fifa

There has never been a better metaphor

Trump celebrating Balogun’s eligibility to play for Team USA when his administration would strip Balogun’s citizenship tomorrow if he didn’t play world class soccer is really a chef’s kiss.

I'm sorry but if the Seattle crowd doesn't erupt into spontaneous chants of "birthright citizenship clap-clap-clapclapclap" then what are we even doing

Ahahahahhahahawha Tell me you didn't see the 1999 penalty save to beat china without telling me... Sorry, but we absolutely cheated our way to world cup victory that year.

Dear European friends: If you don’t like the FIFA decision and think Trump/FIFA/USA is corrupt my suggestion is to BOYCOTT AND DIVEST FROM THIS FUCKING COUNTRY like I’ve been freaking begging you to because of our multiple HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS!!

"Countries that relied only on the normal tools (voting, suing, legislating) climbed back to democracy seven percent of the time... But! Countries that added a civil resistance movement on top of that... climbed back fifty-one percent of the time."

June jobs report is a mixed story. There's still zero evidence of an AI-driven productivity boom deanbaker22.substack.com/p/five-takea...

Trump’s most recent financial disclosure reveals more than $1.4 billion in income from his crypto-related ventures alone, and even that’s an incomplete picture.

Hot damn - this is a banger from @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social - your must read for the day

Some of y'all still have the ability to be disappointed by Ezra Klein or the NYT editorial decisions? You watched the movie "Get Out." You saw the "Give me the keys Rose scene." But you didn't understand it. Your slow learning put 350K Haitians and 300K Black women government employees in danger.

Qualified immunity is a Calvinball nonsense doctrine, woven ex nihilo by the US Supreme Court Its sole purpose is to protect government officials from the consequences of their own bad decisions, when they violate the rights of the citizenry It has no basis in any law passed by Congress 1/

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I can’t be the only one who thinks it’s INSANE that we are simultaneously hosting the World Cup and bombing one of the nations playing in said World Cup.

Tens of thousands celebrated Budapest Pride, the first since Viktor Orbán’s ousting.

Ford is not the first and certainly won't be the last, but kudos to them for admitting the mistake in public. Other companies won't be as transparent.

I do agree that Chevalier has said a bunch of things that are bad. Hopefully she won't do that going forward. This piece talks about some of the problems (and other issues) It's quite good. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-dirtbags...

Whenever I read about Brexit, I'm reminded that Douglas Adams really had his finger on the pulse of Britain when he summed up the political culture with his satirical planet Krikkit, the residents of which, upon seeing the vast universe for the first time, declared, "it'll have to go"

oh @moderation.bsky.app you got some 'splainin' to do... why no popehat???

Me too Captain Ames, me too.

Listen to Noah. He's absolutely right about the transactional nature of the trump-putin axis. I would only add that this transactional relationship probably started before his election and he was groomed for some time because of his willingness to launder money for the oligarchs.

In Poch we trust. #usa #usmnt

I wrote about the the war, and how it was inevitable that Trump was going to lose as soon as he launched a war of aggression unprovoked. abandoning any sort of moral high ground is it turns out a strategic disaster. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/trump-lost...

I always felt inadequate using 20lb dumbbells in my HIIT training. I no longer feel that way after watching this video.

the piece matt is talking about is nuts. you can't ban gerrymandering under the current court; they'll strike it down! they'll strike everything down! abortion rights, DC statehood, trans rights, billionaire tax, campaign finance reform, gun control—they will declare it all unconstitutional.

The raw numbers are bad enough, but further down the thread you can see how much of this goes to fund fascism.

Everything Trump touches dies... including the investments that he conned others into making. I can't help but notice the zero sum between "money made by the Trumps" and "money lost by their investors"

Love Molly's direction on this - the sunlight as disinfectant is absolutely needed in this area. it's appalling to me how much tech money is influencing government in the worst ways.

MIT invented the fusion reactor now being built in Virginia. This is a common story. Massachusetts: where great companies are born and never raised. Silicon Valley runs on a pro-worker California law from 1872: the noncompete ban. It's time to bring it here.

🤷🏿‍♂️White nationalism is the enduring unpatched vulnerability with easy exploits that all Western nations are susceptible to. Their societies are constructed such that even if they see it coming, they can't do anything about it. The self-own crash out is inevitable. The only defense, is anti-racism.

Boston must embrace open source AI if it is to become the center of innovation - In the Afterglow of Tech Week, Whither Boston Technology? www.linkedin.com/pulse/afterg...

When you stake your entire brand on being a contrarian provocateur, you become easy prey for fascists. But apparently it makes you a candidate for a full spread in the NY Times Magazine cf. M.I.A.

So... company that makes and sells Claude is spending a *lot* of time and money to tell me how awesome Claude is... 🤔

I'll be moderating a panel tomorrow w four remarkable leaders in open social. Join me (virtually! or in person!) for a discussion on growth and sustainability in this space w @rose.bsky.team @rude1.blacksky.team @sebastian.eurosky.social & Felix Hlatky conference.publicspaces.net/en/session/g...

Tech CFOs trying to control spending on AI tokens after creating leaderboards for tokenmaxxing.

Happy Pride Month to my magnificent LGBTQ friends and my magnificent LGBTQ enemies 💜

I’m gonna tell you fascists You might be surprised People in this world Oh they’re getting organized You bound to lose You fascists bound to lose (www.tiktok.com/t/ZTBhESEt2/)

Literal lol

It's the anniversary of George Floyd's murder, and the US is even more racist than it was before his death.🤦🏿‍♂️ Dem voters in California in 2026, are pushing the governor candidate that fought *against* police accountability.🤦🏿‍♂️ American anti-Blackness is predictable, enduring, and self-preserving.

My latest newsletter: Graduating students keep booing their commencement speakers for hyping AI. They're right to. www.readtpa.com/p/a-seat-on-...

Bluesky is scared to commit to making a universal app that works with any atproto lexicon. I am not. And am pretty committed to our social-app fork being able to work with more and more content types (short video, fintech, blogs, music, etc.) Acorn customers get this for their communities too.

"kitchen table" is yet another euphemism for white folks. How many are there? Help me out here "Diner patrons" "Rural voters" "Working class"

It took me a long time to work up the courage to write this one. This is about James, my brother, and how we persevered and survived our bizarro family Warning: post contains references to sexual abuse weareprolife.net/2026/05/08/j...

This is not an exaggeration. Alex Jones is allegedly bankrupt but has an infinite well of dark money to pay lawyers, sell pills, and harangue judges and the parents of dead kids. This stay must be lifted so we can take over, and I hope journalists look into where he's getting and stowing his money.