ridiculous that i have to think of tech companies as my enemy and view every new update as a possible attempt to inject "A.i." malware into my computer

This is great. Here's @owenjones.bsky.social basically doing the WKUK bit on TV, but about how in the UK you can't legally say you support the group Palestine Action.

While the killers of Renée Good and Alex Pretti walk free, the DOJ is busy bringing bogus charges against protesters. The Administration thinks intimidation will make us back down. They keep learning the same lesson: Minnesotans don't scare easily. We organize for our rights ✊🏽

Oh, you're worth $1.4 trillion on paper? Cool, you now owe the federal government $500 billion in cash, due by end of quarter.

Let's implement a confiscatory wealth tax on his paper fortune and see what happens, just for shits and giggles

You don't have to answer the door for the Feds. Do not voluntarily talk to the Feds. If they have a warrant signed by an actual judge, then they can do precisely what the warrant says. But DO NOT TALK TO THE FEDS. Do not answer the door. If you're arrested, your only words are "I want a lawyer."

The first, but not the last, image like this. We will tear it all down.

The very things that made the 'great years' the GOP daydream upon are also the things to which they are most opposed. Imagine that.

Best thing about Mamdani is that he's one of the only Democrats who understands you can just do things

Elon is an existential threat to democracy around the world. He is set to become a trillionaire this week and can use that money to prop up far right fascist movements across the world. Governments need to treat him as the threat that he is. Sanction and divest him of his property.

There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

Christ, you're the governor of the entire state. Shut the building down. It's not sovereign territory like a foreign embassy. Pull the certificate of occupancy. Cut the power. Back it up with state police. Stop coddling fascists and groveling every time they order you around. Act like an American.

the AI rollout has easily the worst messaging of any technology I’ve ever seen it’s not even so much the underlying tech - a lot of people like the chatbots - but the continued promises that it’s going to ruin your life and there’s nothing you can do about it well - you can fight data centers

In a statement to @benmullin.bsky.social, Scott Pelley disputes what Bari Weiss said in this morning's editorial meeting, claiming he was never offered "a way back" as she claimed. "These executives cannot gain the trust of the staff with lies. This is antithetical to everything we stand for..."

Multiracial democracy has never advanced through appeasement and persuasion. America’s first attempt to extend the democratic promise beyond white people was successful where and when the political coalition behind Reconstruction was willing to impose it against resistance.

The fate of the first Reconstruction is such a crucial reference point. One implication is that democratic progress – any attempt at leveling existing hierarchies of race, gender, religion, and wealth – will inevitably lead to a massive reactionary countermobilization.

If “backlash” and “polarization” are inevitably the price to be paid for equality, we might as well do it right, make a proper push. Piecemeal reforms and half-measures are easily dismantled, they will only leave the people who will suffer most from the countermobilization defenseless.

Too often, a timid class of political leaders makes avoiding such “backlash” their overriding concern. But backlash politics, driven by a logic of defeatist appeasement and pre-emptive abandonment of justice and equality, is guaranteed to stifle egalitarian achievements.

If you go out, go out like a Scott Pelly, not like a John Cornyn. Fight evil, fight corruption, fight vapid anti-anti-Trumpism, fight the trash people ruining the country and the culture. But hey, congrats to Nick Bilton. I assume he’ll now get an invite to speak at that big FIRE conference.

Imagine if any Republican Senator had the courage of Scott Pelley.

Trump really has remade the whole conservative movement in his image. Weiss is just like him, a petulant power mad imbecile who can do literally nothing right and gets incandescent with rage anytime she is questioned, but also too much of a chickenshit to fire people to their face

A really really valuable illustration of how democrats bending over backwards to help republicans never works. Peters was prosecuted by a republican DA and freed by a democratic governor, but immediately it's "the democrats imprisoned me for exposing their cheating"

Gross to imply violence by using the deceptive word "armed" in "armed with helmets, shields, or gas masks" and then say "we remain firmly committed to protecting the right to peaceful protest." By all accounts, this WAS a peaceful protest. You didn't protect anyone's rights; you violated them.

A dem vs dem race serves two purposes - 1. creates a platform to talk about all the important issues that Democrats stand for; 2. suppresses the Republican vote and their enthusiasm

A vote for Steyer is a vote for Dem vs Dem in Nov. A vote for Becerra boosts Hilton's chance to be second.

the minimum wage, something far more important. and why did the dems punt on it? the fucking parliamentarian? or sinema/manchin? well maybe the senate leader of the democrats should have fired the parliamentarian and lit a fire under his own caucus to pass something that important.

Here is Tom Steyer personally supporting high school trans athlete AB Hernandez. I don't think I've ever seen a candidate as brave as Tom Steyer in his explicit support for trans folks. It says a lot that it took a self funded billionaire not dependent on donors to do it.

Something to keep in the back of your mind is that society is full of little annoyances that can be easily resolved by the least amount of planning and self-direction and that a society without those little annoyances is vastly worse for all involved, including those "convenienced".

we may think statements like this aren’t enough and don’t matter, but an extremely normie, super-Christian woman I work with is *obsessed* with Pedro Pascal and completely reworked her priors regarding trans rights solely because of his opinions on the matter

Congress controls the Power of the Purse, and therefore the Court’s funding. If the Court will not adopt a binding code of conduct with real recusal review on their own, I support withholding their funding until they do.

The Supreme Court is the only court in America with no binding code of conduct. That is completely unacceptable, and it has to change NOW.

His son's employment was hidden so thoroughly that his name appears nowhere on the Treasury Department website, he has no public resume, and his bar listings are outdated.    If Alito had recused himself, the secret would have come out. He didn’t recuse himself.

There is no world in which this is okay.     Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito did not recuse himself from cases involving Trump’s Treasury Department while his own son was secretly working there as a political appointee and attorney. 🧵

Moon over bougainvillea. Downtown Santa Ana

If we get a Becerra/Steyer matchup, every single Democrat in a tight congressional race across the state gains a huge advantage they would not have had otherwise. Not to mention the benefit to progressive state/regional ballot propositions like the Bay Area transit measure.

The UC Berkeley IGS poll is out! Becerra 25 Hilton 21 Steyer 19 Californians: it is your patriotic duty to vote for Steyer to give us a Becerra/Steyer matchup so we can depress Republican turnout for every congressional and down ballot race in the state. www.latimes.com/california/s...

NEW: The city of Dayton, Ohio has covered its Flock automated license plate reader cameras with black trash bags in part because police there are unsure whether the cameras are still active and the city also doesn’t seem to know whether it is allowed to take the cameras down.

I don't think about the day I get to stop working and travel or enjoy my projects and garden. I think about the day I can no longer work and lose my health insurance and stable income.

That's part of the broken social contract that I don't think the no-take-only-throw-ass economics overlords don't get. I now see any funds I have as my only defense against indiscriminate predation. I have figured out you will kill me and drain my corpse.

also like, my measure of "wealth" now is how much of things going wrong you can bounce back from and maintain a basic standard of living. It is not about improving said standard of living. I want a house so I can't be priced out of my apartment. I want retirement money so I'm not homeless at 70.

The Economy being good means nothing to me because it's a measure of how confident assholes feel in their line going up, and everything they do to make the line go up hurts me and devastates everyone who's doing worse than me. This isn't fucking rocket surgery.

They will lay me off, they will end my health insurance, they will raise my rent until I can't afford it anymore, they will destroy the tools I use by making them shittier or subscription-based or both; everything I depend on or enjoy will be Disrupted for some boy-king dipshit's funding round

so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.

toyota really stepping out, this new prius has some really cute styling

I’ve followed this story for its absurdity and as an illustration of how police lie and bully the public they are supposed to protect. Only after national media attention do they withdraw a case of accusing a woman of something she can’t possibly have done… cbs12.com/news/local/f...

I'm increasingly convinced that if the Electoral College and the Senate aren't dealt with, this thing stops being one country.

And people can say what they want about how the (2016) election was close anyway, but nobody really knows how anyone would vote if they felt like their votes mattered more and you can bet it hews more closely to presidential approval than our usual 51-49 elections

Two days ago a sitting US Senator was pepper sprayed for protesting ICE and it didn’t even become national news.