Is this the biggest scandal involving the Secretary of Defense *ever*, or just in the forty years since Iran-contra?

articles that write about how "important" immigrant workers are to "the economy" without ever acknowledging that the reason they are important is that they can be treated worse for less pay

A shikishi from ゴーストフードさん( @ghostfood.bsky.social )！　Shiro and Kuro 🥹thank you so much!!

134 years ago this cartoon was drawn, and in 134 years the problem has only gotten worse.

At the height of ICE operations in Minnesota, reporters descended on the Twin Cities. I wanted to know what was happening in the small farming & meatpacking towns in the rest of the state. So we sent @emmarjanssen.bsky.social there, & she produced this stunning report. prospect.org/2026/03/30/a...

As @davidpierce.xyz keeps saying, AI is fundamentally enterprise tech! I am convinced shoving it onto consumers without actually-great products is like forcing everyone to really really consider the consequences of giving SAP first-strike capabilities

As an American I remember Benjamin Netanyahu a few years ago giving a speech before Congress where he said everyone protesting the US/israel genocide of Palestine in America is a foreign terrorist (implication the state should lawfully kill us) to a standing ovation from both parties,

people have covered all the usual stuff of how this just enables censorship and surveillance so i wanna say it's Cool how when mega companies fail and harm people, there's never any "-so we need to investigate them and drastically reduce their wealth and power". instead "welp, they said no"

Breaking🚨: Parents and caregivers just blocked traffic in front of @governor.ny.gov’s office to protest her climate law rollbacks. We won’t stand by while she sacrifices our children for her corporate donors.

whoa

Note that the workers who made Beast Breaker ARE getting rev-share on sales of the game on Steam, even though the studio shut down. Why? Because we had a union, and we negotiated for it.

Watch Director Bhattacharya's performance at CPAC really got to me. I chose to share some of my observations with him. Hold on... 1/11

Really not loving how basically every politician on the planet is jumping on board with these types of age verification laws, tbh!

"he has no point to make" would be harsh from a literary critic but andy weir says it about his own writing

For my whole lifetime, the U.S. has operated on a "How long before those not directly affected can pretend it's not happening?" definition of normalcy.

this was posted when somebody was going 'the left needs to do something about this problem (random sub 1k followers twitter account posting some take about behavior on subways)' but it applies here with dems yelling about podcasts and streamers too bsky.app/profile/spac...

It's like racism or eugenics or "moral hygiene" in that it's a fundamental category error, insisting on innate, inalienable, often heritable traits where none exist.

There is a a particularly fucked up kind of thinking in America wherein your morality, your ideology, your identity, etc, have nothing to do with the things you say and do. So in this case, "sinner" has nothing to do with the action of sinning, but is rather a distinct personality trait.

Elect the dead guy is my recommendation

On Saturday, millions of people around the country took part in more than 3,000 No Kings protests opposing the presidency of Donald Trump, whose approval ratings have plummeted to 36 percent, a record low since his return to the White House.

Bro if you want this just obtain an old copy of one of the Star Trek Armada games in the peace and comfort of your own home. No reason to let us see how dumb you are.

Setting everything else aside, isn't this how most people eat salad when it's in a container?

Something worth considering: it is incredibly radicalizing to hear the media lie about something you personally saw 9 million people are at home right now going "what the fuck, tens of thousands of people marched in my city alone" Some percentage are gonna wonder what else the media is lying about

Fuck yeah!

#NoKings!!!

Initially, the judge said the videos should be taken down as they could cause "reputational harm." Now, she's walked it back. It's a win for the "First Amendment," the plaintiffs say. www.404media.co/judge-allows...

Bless everyone out there marching for NO KINGS DAY!

Inquirer 1, NYT 0

“What I see is one person trying to run science like a king, deciding which research is acceptable based on political ideology rather than scientific merit”. Totally 🔥quotes from @michaeldgreen.phd in this excellent article by @melodyschreiber.com.

i like to call this "electoral college brain," when politicians (or hell just regular people) confuse the fact that the electoral system privileges closely competitive interior states with some deeper, fundamental meaning

“Years of garnering bad will from the public has left social media companies searching for a persuasive argument around why they are not liable for societal harms, and the trial in California at least initially shows they have yet to find it.”

"Pope Leo said on ‌Sunday that God rejects the prayers of leaders who start wars and have "hands full of blood", in unusually forceful remarks as the Iran war entered its second month." The Chicago Pope with blistering comments on the Iran War on Palm Sunday: www.reuters.com/world/pope-l...

Reminder: the Federal Reserve has opened a proposal for public comment on "reputation risk" discrimination in banking. Public comments have been surging, and the new FTC action shows this issue is getting harder to ignore. Keep the pressure on. www.federalreserve.gov/apps/proposa...

This exemplifies the underhanded tactics the nyt, and this particular writer, use all the time. They foist their political biases on unsuspecting readers who count of them to be honest brokers🧵

We are in the midst of an industrial revolution based almost entirely on solar and battery tech. If there's any single reason to have hope for global sustainability it's shit like this. Solar and battery tech is becoming so affordable that it's saving lives at scale by offering affordable cooling.

I like that the sign tells you what to expect in multiple ways

The fact that fascists are banning my subject makes me even more proud to be a sociologist. Any academic discipline that is banned by fascists is very much worth pursuing.

I will keep saying that we all gotta start somewhere and in that regard I will continue to echo what other people are saying. If events like the No Kings protest serve as entry points into more effective activism for even a portion of the attendees then we have to view that as meaningful.

asad doing a lil flex for my buddy hash 😌

I don’t love being in a society where you can sell enough pillows to do meaningful damage to democracy or sell enough children’s books to do a genocide or sell enough chicken sandwiches to abolish gay marriage That all seems like a ridiculous way to do society to me

This is the situation we find ourselves in

funniest part is when "into town" means like oklahoma city

the New York Times comms account is maybe three weeks out from “the failing American Medical Association”

We wake up today to a world at war and economies on the brink, all driven by a deranged US leader who promotes racism, misogyny, corruption and predation. The nyt waged a hate campaign against trans ppl that directly lifted this evil man to power. This is the nyt legacy

Buncha folks have already righteously commented on the substance of the NYT's bullshit defensiveness on their demonstrable fuckery, but I wish also to comment on an adjacent problem, which is mainstream/legacy pubs assuming they are essentially immune to criticism or correction

While MAGA has elevated being a puling pissbaby into an art form, both parties have nursed this infantile strain of public life, where we can have all of the moral crusades and none of the sacrifices a moral universe demands www.welcometohellworld.com/a-nation-tha...

One of the greatest changes in my knowledge pre-grad-school & fieldwork & now & #DissertationWriting… …is how much and how deeply USA social formations are organized by and around racialization & fucking over people racialized as “Other”.

Realistic pup play where you lock my collar to a zip line attachment, leaving me to run in the yard, nude, unsupervised. Eventually I break the chain and disappear into a nearby railyard to be adopted by a crew of friendly rail workers.

Esoteric Ebb has things to say that a *lot* of people need to fucking hear.