JD Vance finds decency and human dignity hideous. He prefers life to be difficult and miserable for the majority.

The word “pragmatism” taking another deadly blow.

It's really hard to convey just how massive the scale of legislation has been to target trans people. From a few dozen pieces of legislation in 2015 to over a thousand in 2025. It started with sports bans in 2020 and now we're here. it was never about sports.

People are still arguing daily that ceding tiny bits of territory at a time to fascists is somehow going to get us rid of them meanwhile after decades of that every country is teetering on dictatorship & every corporation is Hitler Inc.

So, in Alberta, you have to show a confirmation of female sex in order to register your daughter for youth sports. Nothing required for boys. It has been associated with a decrease in registration for girls participating in sports. No change in boys. edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

I thought this would be embarrassing because the premise of "favorable references to communist leaders" is who cares but the actual examples they found are insane?

The Public Utility Commission of Texas asked data center operators to provide information on water and electricity consumption, cooling systems, and water sources. Less than 1/3 of surveyed operators responded.

Vought has strong psychopath vibes.

climate change? never heard of it 🛢️📈🔥

Serenity now...

The feckless centrists have logged on

Chuck thinks a 5-4 win on something this fundamental to our pluralistic democracy is an affirmation. Those in Dem leadership, and the incumbents who support them, are not up to the task of defeating fascism. They are asleep at the wheel. They will not do what it requires: massive court reform.

people got mad at me yesterday when i said the dems were not ready to take court reform seriously. 5-4 for non-racial citizenship is not a win, it's a reprieve bsky.app/profile/schu...

This birthright ruling is why I just refuse to tolerate all the Democrat garment rending over NY voters choosing progressive candidates. They are incapable of governing in this moment. The politics of appeasement and centrism gets us to a 5-4 decision on the constitutional question.

See, people always want to make this just about "sports," but the real upshot here is that, 6-3, trans women can't make a claim under the Equal Protection Clause. And if they can't do that, it's hard to see how they have constitutional rights.

Capitalists decided pluralism is a threat to raw capitalism.

It's going to end up being a surveillance state that requires severe privacy risks for girls to participate in sports going forward including invasive genetic testing and physical examinations.

Write a critical AI book, and you become everyone's confessor for their AI sins. People in my life keep telling me about their guilty AI pleasures, in search of an explanation, absolution or condemnation: us.macmillan.com/books/978037... 1/

TIL malls throughout the country are increasingly restricting minors. Some even require mandatory ID checks for anyone who looks young. So teens can't go to the mall, they can't be online...where exactly do we expect them to go? www.youthrights.org/issues/age-d...

"Elon Musk is being a disgusting Nazi bitch, so instead of punishing him, we're going to punish YOU instead and take away YOUR freedom. Because we would never play hardball with a billionaire."

It looks like the only thing to do when you get there is use a porta potty.

It’s freedom when the surveillance company spies on you with their cameras, but it’s terrorism when an org maps where the cameras are located in your city. youtube.com/watch?v=l-kZ...

Today in Democratic resistance we have a 7-0 Dem court rejecting redistricting, a Dem governor sending national guard troops to Trump‘s vanity party, and “project 2029” announcing their first priority is banning teens from social media. Starting to think they aren’t up for the job.

Corporations and banks ending the constitution for everyone but themselves.

OK found some actual reporting on the Dem tech thing-- notably linked at the bottom-- "Nearly 100 groups focused on digital or kids safety are calling on House leaders to reject the latest version of a kids onine safety package saying it “lets Big Tech off the hook.”

even if it was good policy, this shit is completely ancillary to the goal of actually limiting the power of big tech. Elon Musk has a trillion dollars and is trying to start a global race war, your response to that can’t be “kids should be on their phones less”

First things first. Do NOT name anything after Project 2025! That is a fascist document and you should not be normalizing it. You would not title a book Mein Kampf 2.

Unitary Executive thread: SCOTUS decided Slaughter & Cook. 6-3 for Trump, overturning Humphrey's. 5-4 for Cook & Fed independence. All 6 conservatives confirmed they do not understand or care about historical evidence or originalist methods. 1/ www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

ICE releases a Texas nun intercepted walking to church dressed in her habit

Thank you, Brad Lander. Jews against ICE means Jews against fascism. I stand with @bradlander.bsky.social and @bendthearc.bsky.social

Tomorrow at SCOTUS is gonna be like: a. Trans athletes get screwed b. Another campaign finance law is gutted c. Birthright citizenship is upheld ... and we're all supposed to focus on (c) and forget about all the atrocious decisions that preceded it. Let's not, please!

I understand this & think it’s true if the person in question never did anything to undermine protests against literal genocide. He undermined them at a time when Israeli experts on genocide were calling it genocide. Extend him grace as a person for changing. He’s still disqualified as a leader.

The movie ends with Armie Hammer literally murdering an entire Syrian immigrant family, including the murderer AND his sister, mother and father who apparently were all fine with his criminal actions and are such guilty and worthy of execution.

Is this the trajectory of every failed manager who fired employees for being smarter than him, or is it the trajectory of an authoritarian who removes possible dissenters in the ranks? It’s both and pretty much the same thing but at scale.

I'll tell you one thing, any Democratic 2028 presidential candidate who says they're going to "restore balance" and not fire every last Trump appointee on every commission on their first day in office doesn't deserve a single primary vote

For the Bicentennial in 1976, we decorated our bikes in red, white, and blue and joined a little neighborhood parade in Dallas. For the 250th in 2026, we're gonna be protesting the attempted destruction of the 14th Amendment and birthright citizenship.

Centrists serve the corporations funding the fascism, so how’s that gonna work? I’ll tell you. Ossoff will allow corporate corruption to continue in exchange for their support in the election.

Mel Brooks has been around for 40% of the US's existence.

As global leaders look to tech advances to solve climate change, one leading idea involves capturing carbon pollution from the air and burying it underground forever. But while this concept may sound practical, there is no conceivable way it can work. Here's why 👇 w/ @drilledmedia.bsky.social

This is another book based entirely on personally monetizing the info & access they received only because of their salaried day jobs, which perhaps I mistakenly understand to be “reporters for the New York Times daily newspaper.” I guess I misunderstood the professional & ethical lines in journalism

reminder to get yourself, your organizations, and your businesses off of the fascist site for fascists

Podcasters thankfully do not determine the limits of what's politically desired and possible.

Randy keeps pushing half baked work and backing the anti-birthright citizenship argument that he started in a NYT op-ed. So, I want to know. Why has he never published a single academic piece about this if he’s an expert on the common law history and there’s so much work to be done? Seems odd.

All decent people feel terrible for the Iranian men's national team and how they have been treated.

Simply put, these centrist Democrats are loyal to no party. They serve corporate power. The same corporate power that funds the fascism gutting our democracy. They prefer fascism to reasonable taxes and regulations on corporations.

I don't want to hear another word about how much white European visitors are enjoying ranch dressing while team officials, Africa's top referee, and now one of the world's most celebrated fans are turned away from the World Cup. The USA is an utterly unfit host — it's as simple as that

Here’s a better question… Can workers at the restaurants grocery stores and shops Afford to live in the places they serve?

Another one: In January, a guy wrote an angry (but non-threatening) letter to former ICE chief Todd Lyons after the Good, Pretti killings. Last week, ICE agents tracked him down at the NYC hotel where he and his daughter were staying after returning from a vacation in Finland.

I had a wooden 1776 flag hanging in my bedroom in 1976. My parents do not hang flags for the 4th. There was a decor market for it. It was a big thing.

Gentrification without displacement is called minority investment…