Money out of politics. Money in your pocket. Medicare for All. Michigan... We won. I am so proud to be your Democratic nominee for US Senate. Let's win in November.

This is so embarrassing for Politico, the system is freaking out and I love it

Politico@politico.com · 13h ago

Progressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted

In 2011, the UK government response to antitrans provocations was "Don't be so bloody stupid".

Mallory Moore@sexabolition.blog · 10h ago

web.archive.org/web/20260108... Here's an archive link of the original business guidance in case the original goes missing. In pretty clear terms the original guidance used to say stuff like "obviously, so long as the changing rooms allow privacy, trans women should be permitted to use the womens"

panic! at the disco? no. handjobs! in the library

LETS GO STEPHANIE!!!

Alex Harrison@alexhairysun.bsky.social · 9h ago

New in Evanston: City Clerk Stephanie Mendoza announced this morning that she's running for mayor, becoming the fifth declared candidate in next year's special election. She's the first current elected to announce, and immediately the most prominent name in the field. Full story here:

Pretty sure when you win the election it's a big election night. Pretty sure when your party's leadership all endorses the loser, it means the leadership is out of touch with the electorate.

Politico@politico.com · 13h ago

Progressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted

if establishment candidates want to start winning primaries again all you have to do is say that rich people have too much money and that youll prosecute trump admin staffers and republicans that have broken the law

“Offense”?!

The full brief is remarkable. While the U.S. Attorney attempts to downplay the misconduct, he admits to discussing the incident with Main Justice as early as Sept. 27 and having the Oct. 9 grand jury transcript as early Oct. 14. The brief shows that the office repeatedly misled the Court.

Jon Seidel@jonseidel.bsky.social · 10h ago

New overnight: Chicago U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros’ office says the “Broadview Six” prosecutors have self-reported the events of the tainted prosecution to the DOJ’s Office of Professional Responsibility as it argues against a special counsel. Full filing: cst.brightspotcdn.com/98/58/82c837...

The specific focus in this video on the way these tools get under your skin and train you to depend on them is an aspect I personally find existentially terrifying. youtu.be/TtvICev9sBE?...

The Hank Green Situation is Weird and Sad

YouTube video by Regular Eyepatch Wolf

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In other Michigan news, the state looks set to elect it's first transgender lawmaker. Joanna Whaley won her Democratic primary and will compete in November for a state house seat, beating a primary opponent who tried and failed to disqualify her for not running under her deadname

I wonder how many people do not realize that Abdul El Sayed is a medical doctor, Rhodes Scholar and is author of many articles on public health.

Musical theater is propaganda for being alive

Reposting one of the most egregious examples from a great thread on scams in Google ads and the enshitifcation of the internet.

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 10h ago

When Google's users searched for airlines' toll-free phone numbers, Google directed them to phones that rang in the scammers' boiler room, where they were tricked into giving up their passport info and credit card numbers to boiler-room thieves: www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne... 20/

I don't dunk on people but the dude saying 'If you hate AI, could you get through a working day if it all went away tomorrow?!'is testing my resolve on that so much. I don't use your dogshit thief machine incompetence tech, Sparkie. I fucking work for a living.

i think it's incredibly sad if you "can't get through a work day without it". why did you ruin your brain on purpose?

This is maybe the perfect example of @gregpak.net bit that replacing every instance of “AI” with “cocaine” gets to the deeper truth of the attitude.

Holly Lyn Walrath@hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · 21h ago

There is a lengthy pro-AI screed in the latest HWA newsletter and it is . . . a mood.

Google - a thrice-convicted monopolist - is the gateway to the internet, with more than a 90% search market share that it attained by buying out all its competitors and bribing Apple more than $20b/year not to start a rival search engine: www.democracynow.org/2024/8/6/goo... 3/

Google Is a Monopoly: Judge Rules Against Tech Giant in Landmark Antitrust Case

In the biggest antitrust case in decades, a federal judge ruled Monday that Google illegally maintains a monopoly over the online search industry, using its market dominance to shut out competitors an...

democracynow.org

thanks for serving our country, we deported your mom

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 10h ago

President Donald Trump’s administration has detained more than 50 spouses and parents of U.S. troops as it rolls back immigration protections for military families, an AP investigation has found.

bc of course they did

STAT@statnews.com · 6h ago

Exclusive: Senate inquiry suggests Trump administration softened kratom and tobacco policies in quid pro quo. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is at the center of a new investigation launched by Sen. Ron Wyden. www.statnews.com/2026/08/05/s...

About 100 courses in women's, gender and sexuality studies are slated to be removed from the core curriculum at the University of Houston, as colleges around the state try to appease the right-wing culture war. It will never be enough to stop the next attack.

University of Houston Nixed Its Gender and Sexuality Classes. That Won’t Stop Texas’ Crusade Against Higher Ed

College administrators wrongly hope that anticipatory obedience will satisfy a GOP-run Texas Legislature that is increasingly hostile toward education.

texasobserver.org

Hey comrades. Commissions are open again, finally finished the last round. Thank you all so much for the support ♡♡♡ I could really use some more asap, life funds are lower than usual right now. Here's some of the recent ones. Love y'all, never stop resisting ♡ - LG

never in game changer history has one image created such elation

I would simply not let short form video trends define my experience of the world.

Dr. Abdul El-Sayed: Mike Rogers is a guy who wants to put a data center in your backyard so he can feel a bit more manly by making an AI video. If you want a senator who's gonna lick some boots, go vote for Rogers. But if you want a senator who's going to stand up to Trump, you've got your option.

gf: hey how as work me: Masturbation is legal and it is implied that gay sex successfully operates outside of the mandate. There are multiple anti-mandate signs and events shown throughout the movie.

i'm locked in on this film sorry to anyone else

Hi. On today's episode of Some More News, we look at the lasting impact of Elon Musk's DOGE: all the jobs and programs they slashed, plus USAID and how feeding it "into the woodchipper" resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths. Link: youtu.be/SOJ4A31PKU0

It's demoralizing living in a nonstop Abuse-a-thon: we've had to learn the sordid details of so many men's abhorrent behavior; I mean this summer has been Graham Platner, Andrew Tate, Jared Leto, Max Miller, plus the horrific L.A. rape-murder of the child by the rapper, to name a few lowlights.

nothing better than a tourist town that resents the tourists. thank you for coming to my ten-seat microbrewery and vintage ice cream shoppe. you son of a bitch