Link's perma ban is wrong and should be reversed.

MUST WATCH: Tennessee sheriff defends jailing liberal activist for posting Trump meme about school shooting www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

A federal agent told a combat veteran, "You're dead, liberal," and pointed a gun at his head during an ICE encounter, a lawsuit alleges. blockclubchi.co/3LxF3Nb

this has to be coupled with the things that *don’t* count as a scandal: an array of harassment allegations, covering up Covid deaths, staying in a race after losing the primary, etc.

For @forward.com, I wrote about something that has been bothering me: Why does all the talk about Jewish safety in the New York mayoral election not count sexual harassment as a threat to Jewish safety and dignity? forward.com/opinion/7791...

On this issue, at Law Dork: The Kavanaugh stop, 50 days later. "What a sick world." www.lawdork.com/p/the-kavana...

[I’m sure I read or heard some version of this metaphor previously, but …] Democrats should eagerly welcome former Republicans into their home, but those former Republicans don’t get to then say, “Your home should look more like a Republican home,” when that home burned down on their watch.

If they’re doing something you don’t want them to do with weapons you’re providing, you have to stop providing the weapons.

Lia Smith, a transgender athlete who was on Middlebury's swimming and diving team, was just found dead by suicide this week. www.them.us/story/lia-sm...

Alzheimer’s is a form of dementia so I’m going with “all of the above”

He's not sacrificing an entire group of people for political reasons because he feels pressured. He is very securely the governor of the biggest state in the country. We can assume he says and does hateful things because he's hateful.

And guess who we just learned is teaming up with Flock, and will be giving access to ICE? If you guessed Ring, Amazon's network of state surveillance cameras sold to consumers as essential for their personal "security" you got it in one. The panopticon is here. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

Nothing to see here, folks 🤫🤔

And if people weren’t so DEEPLY AVERSE TO NEAR HISTORY we’d understand that this model IS THE SAME FRAMING THEY USED FOR THE LAST SOCIALIST NYC ELECTED DAVID DINKINS

Hey, if you're an AMPAS member and just got the email about the "A.i." conversation they're hosting, please feel free to email them back and express your concerns. I personally get the impression that this meeting is designed to NORMALIZE and PAVE THE WAY for "A.i." use in the industry. That's bad!

ICE detained a DACA recipient at gunpoint for criticizing ICE, US foreign policy and Israel, and is calling such unambiguously constitutionally protected speech “terrorism.”

watching the worlds largest coffee franchise go on a years-long nationwide illegal union busting crusade just to clear out all the queers

Hmm. Was the message of ‘The Patriot’ — a film about a burgeoning nation of immigrants, starring an immigrant and directed by a different immigrant — “send immigrants back”? Trying to remember.

After January 6, 2021, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Comcast publicly pledged to stop donating to politicians who sought to undermine the legitimate results of the 2020 presidential election. In 2025, these companies have stopped worrying about democracy and are buying Trump a ballroom.

Once again, @mcsweeneys.net does not miss. ------------------------------------------------ "In 2004, you saw some college guy using me and thought, 'What a lazy cheater.' Now you’d think, 'At least he’s not asking Gemini.' In a few years, you’ll say, 'Wow, look, a human being who can read.'"

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Tennessee is at the top of medical bankruptcies, and @RepTimBurchett @MarshaBlackburn @AndyOgles are about to let it get much worse. Is this what y’all voted for? 🤔🤷🏼👇🏽

I an at the point where if Daylight Saving was a person I would physically fight it.

The stuff on Grokpedia relating to immigration is terrible. Lots of serious errors, lots of fake facts, lots of citations to a single biased source, lots of nakedly biased writing... it's just as bad as you'd expect.

Films today (Tue)...🍿 • AFTER THE HUNT 1:05pm • BUGONIA (35mm) 1:20pm 4pm 6:40pm 9:15pm • ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER 1:30pm • IF I HAD LEGS, I’D KICK YOU 3:55pm 6:20pm 8:45pm • A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2: FREDDY’S REVENGE 4:45pm 9:30pm* (*intro from @jshawhan.bsky.social) > bit.ly/Belcourt-Films

Melissa basically isn't even a hurricane anymore; it's more like an island-sized tornado. That is a legitimately terrifying concept.

The thing that always gets me is that every single metric ahead of the Civil War showed that the South was going to get wrecked. Even after Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Atlanta…they still kept fighting. Bread riots in 1863: Still fighting. Even in the ruins, they blamed the North, not themselves.

Tuesday, October 28th at the @belcourttheatre.bsky.social at 930PM. Be there...

Sotomayor's dissent was appropriately blunt. Boyd did exactly what SCOTUS has said is needed to prevail on an 8th Amendment challenge to an execution method: he proposed a readily available alternative (firing squad) and conclusively showed it would be far less torturous, as it obviously would be.

Whoa!

Know what's wild? Al Gore is 77 years old. The man lost an election 25 years ago because SCOTUS decided that votes didn't matter, giving the election to Bush, and instead of running again in 2004, or 2008 or 2016, he...didn't. But also fun how Republican SCOTUS 25yrs ago set ~all this~ in motion.

Every mention of SNAP being frozen should include this simple fact: TRUMP is CHOOSING TO CANCEL FOOD ASSISTANCE. There are literally emergency dollars available to keep SNAP funded.

If you've ever faced food insecurity in the past: you know how it stays with you. Things are about to get tough for 40 million people. If you're in a place where you can donate some money (or TIME) to your local food bank, please be really intentional about it in November.

I saw The Blair Witch Project way too young and it made me afraid of projects

"time to log into a website before bedtime and get mad again" - all of us for some reason??

Indeed. And more than that, it's a reaction to it. What rattled elite racists more than anything about BLM in 2020 was the extent to which it resonated with the general public. They saw a major leftward shift in hegemonic cultural values, and they've been desperately trying to reverse it ever since.

“Again and again we were told the only way to beat the Republican Party was to become the Republican Party […] and the choice that we made was to stop listening to those experts and to start listening to you” Mamdani is so good at this

CNN editor-in-chief Mark Thompson, following a While House meeting, sought to soften the news network's coverage of President Trump's demolition of the East Wing, claiming viewers aren't that interested in the story, according to the Status newsletter.

They did too much, and they know it. They can never come back because they're literally on camera saying "yes this is what I voted for" They can't hide anywhere because they put their own faces on social media saying unbelievably fucked up stuff

arstechnica.com/ai/2024/10/h... This is funny: one way to tell that openAI scraped YouTube, is that its Whisper transcription is biased toward transcribing inaudible or garbled text to "drop a comment in the section below" or "please like subscribe and share" and such

🎥 WATCH: The Idaho Medical Freedom Act makes it illegal to require anyone to take a vaccine or receive any “medical intervention.” Those behind the law have stressed that their goals are bodily autonomy. But they do not take that stance when it comes to abortion. ➡️ More: https://propub.li/3JgEGWQ

#Melissa has become a Category 4 Hurricane. Its eye feature is clearly visible with infrared satellite and rain radar. Jamaica: Seek shelter now.

Vought holds one of the most powerful jobs in D.C., and he’s used his position to wage a quiet war to change the shape of the entire U.S. government. Here's what you should know about Trump’s shadow president.

I don't know how many more ways to say "you need to start fucking listening to the people who warned you that exactly this would happen." LLM/GPT-type "AI" recreate patterns in pursuit of matching statistical correlations on which they're trained. They make shit up. Do Not. Put this. In healthcare

People say you have to take MAHA seriously because "they have real concerns just aimed at the wrong targets" but you really don't, but I haven't any of the granola-fash say shit about kids going hungry from SNAP being cut off. Kinda hard to be healthy with no food, but hey.

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“the president got mad at a television commercial so now your maple syrup is more expensive” is no way to run a country

Of course it's possible that the fake plans for the ballroom are because they're pulling another "Build the Wall" scam, collecting money for something they have no intention of building...