On the other hand, if you’re suing a billionaire, start demanding their AI logs in discovery

"The author of a nonfiction book about the effects of artificial intelligence on truth acknowledged on Monday that he had included numerous made-up or misattributed quotes concocted by A.I." 🫠🫠🫠

VAN HOLLEN: An individual who was pardoned by Trump went on to molest 2 children, & he tried to buy their silence by saying he would give them funds from your slush fund. Can you commit to not making that person eligible for a payout? BLANCHE: You're obviously lying V: I am reporting what he said

It should be a huge scandal that a close confidante of, and adviser to, President Trump and Secretary Rubio reacted to a deadly terrorist attack at a mosque by calling the mosque "evil" and calling for the deportation of all Muslims from America. But it isn't. *sighs*

They're stealing billions of your money to pay off violent right-wing psychos while doing everything in their power to spike gas up to $5 a gallon, make groceries into a luxury and hand the country over to the oligarchs who want to permanently replace you.

So tired of negligent parents who allow their children access to guns. “About two hours before the attack, the mother of one of the suspects had called police to report that her son had left home with several of her guns and her car.”

"Cato’s brand of libertarianism works great in theory and on a spreadsheet." -In other words, it's grounded in the world's best moral theory, and its empirical conclusions are rigorously tested with data. But we don't like it because we want to blame foreigners for everything.

The Commencement Speech Our Graduates Need Today As you graduate from college today, I want you to turn to the four people sitting around you. Take their numbers, learn their names, collate your skills. Share your info and form a cadre of individuals dedicated to each other. You are all you have.

NEW: Sen Michael Bennet (D) says he will not appoint Gov Jared Polis to the Senate if Bennet is elected Governor. Bennet calls Polis' clemency for Tina Peters "disqualifying"

In 2024 some activists I collaborated with who were voting Green were baffled that some of their materials were paid for by GOP aligned PACs. Why would they support that messaging? Because it didn’t matter. The election outcome mattered, and every Green voter was a vote the GOP didn’t need to beat.

you rarely get as clean an example of 'everything Republicans do is Democrats' fault' in the wild

NPR lost my donations when they started platforming fascists to appease the mad king. Hearing Steve Bannon on my prime time commute in and then a prolonged interview with Kevin Roberts on my commute home the same day, just after their funding was threatened, made clear their lacking integrity.

COMMENTARY: Gov. Jared Polis (D) removed a standard line from Tina Peters' clemency letter which reads: "I believe you will be successful upon your release." If Peters is successful in helping President Trump overthrow American elections, that will be Polis' legacy.

the president loves stealing your money and giving it to pedophiles, folks. it’s like his favorite thing to do

If you're reading this, my cat and I have boarded a one-way flight out of the United States. The Trump administration wrongfully denied my work permit renewal; after months of demanding that they follow the law, we have run out of legal recourse, and I have no choice but to leave the country. (🧵)

The $1.776 billion number is just more of the twelve year-old boy shit these freaks do, like how Elon Musk uses 420 (tee hee!) in everything. Just fucking idiot children.

Another new follower, how exciting. Is there a single account on Bluesky that follows more than 10,000 that isn’t total garbage?

As I told a reporter last week, nearly all convocation brouhahas boil down to a single issue: Students, even normie non-radical students, rightly understand graduation as a day that is for them, and about them, and which belongs to them. You fuck with that at your peril.

It should be said loud and clear that this isn’t just illegal in all the usual ways. It is “illegal and void” by Section 4 of the 14th Amendment. We’re going to take the money back. And any financial institution that touches it should be on notice that will be treated as conscious money laundering.

tech freaks getting booed when they speak at normal schools is an exciting new genre of news story and i hope we get much more

In November I broke this story about Andrew Paul Johnson, a pardoned J6er who molested children and used the promise of reparations to bribe his victims silence.

This is insane. The terms of DOJ's slush fund appear to transfer control of $1.8 billion beyond US government entirely. Unless I'm misreading this, that would circumvent Congress *entirely* and put the money outside of *any* constitutional and/or legal constraints ofany kind. Straight up theft.

this continues to be the dumbest point, because it's basically 'yes, this is genocide, but what about what people who don't know anything about genocide think genocide has to be?'

I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.

this has got to be the worst time in american history to make the totally sensible and correct argument that we should pay people in congress more than we do

Thanks for the shoutout @mjsdc.bsky.social! "They've made Sam Alito very mad" - this should go on our resumes. w/ @greerdonley.bsky.social @rebouche.bsky.social

“If I use Gmail to compose emails, print them and take them to the post office, isn’t it unfair that people who just press ‘send’ don’t have to buy stamps?”

Donald Trump has intertwined his wealth so fully with our government that the only solution is to nationalize his companies and assets, along with those of his entire family. In the interests of fairness, we can provide them a one bedroom apartment in public housing and minimum wage jobs.

Are we also getting baseball in the divorce?

* Dismissive wanking gesture *

i think this should properly be read to understood that they have no idea what to do

fwiw also realizing I won the "trump will go insane and the NYT will use the word gambit to describe his dementia" contest from 2019

The NYT removed the "um"s in Trump's answer on Taiwan, but put "um"s in AOC's answer on Taiwan to make her look dumb Trump said "Um, I would say 'like' is maybe too strong a word...um, no, I'm holding that in abeyance and it depends on China, depends, it's a, it's a.." L: Trump R: AOC Video below

The man who bankrupted a casino has now also managed to produce the first football world cup nobody wants to attend, there has never been anyone else who ever possessed this level of ability at failing

Ross Barkan copied my lede almost word for word. @bobbyallyn.bsky.social found other questionable passages, and @nymag.com is reviewing his work. Now Ross says it's "one of the dumber controversies imaginable" and "you become a target after a while when you do this" Thread: bsky.app/profile/drew...

$1.776 as in 1776. As in celebrating America’s 250th anniversary by robbing the Treasury to reward those who are destroying the country

taking tax dollars to pay insurrectionists. which (by the way) the 14th amendment is supposed to prohibit: "[N]either the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States...."

the president of the united states sued his own government for ten billion dollars and “settled” it by directing that government to use taxpayer money for a nearly two billion dollar slush fund to distribute to his political allies at will typing it out barely feels real

the Democrats should announce that they will prosecute anyone who accepts a single fucking dime Trump stole

And there it is, folks. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...

Democrats should be saying anybody who takes this stolen money will see the government coming after them to claw it back.

The Seattle Times published a full obituary for Juniper Blessing. It's a moving tribute to a life well-lived. May she rest in peace, and may UW honour and carry on her legacy. Scholarships named for her might be a good start.

Everyone involved in posting this should be fired and everyone in the chain of command whose office is subject to impeachment, including the president, should be impeached. Just for this. I am not kidding in the least, and Democrats who let this go by without comment are putting us all in danger.

How bad is the Colorado governor's commutation of Tina Peters' sentence? So bad that even the Republican DA who prosecuted here pushed back, and told Polis to talk to the county officials who have to deal with threats that followed Peters' felonies. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/u...

Your mom and dad love a show called Keebler Ranch and you can’t look it up, there’s no information about it, but 30 million people watch it every week and there’s a line of frozen entrees at Walmart called “Gus Keebler fixins”

noted profile in cowardice wants his old colleagues to stand up to the guy he kowtowed to back when his choices actually mattered www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/u...

In case anyone needs a refresher, the Mueller and Senate Intel probes documented that Trump and his team: - welcomed - received - benefitted from - and lied about Russian campaign campaign assistance, then obstructed the investigation. None of this has been discredited. tinyurl.com/5n8kjymy

Direct sale of vehicles from manufacturers, regulation of the supplement industry, corporate/commercial property tax raises, and outlawing MLMs would break the backbone of the Republican Party Project.

I've been watching The Boys. A major theme is that people sell their souls for Homelander, and do whatever they can to help him, and then Homelander just kills or ruins those people anyway. Totally irrelevant to modern American politics, of course.

Every time Republicans on the SCOTUS lower the threshold of allowing voting rights to be stripped from minorities, Republican states leap into action to do so. The GOP was a deeply racist party long before Trump showed up. Anyone saying otherwise is angling for legacy media approval.