That's fucking crazy, man. This is the exact opposite of what one could, should, and does reasonably expect in these situations.

VGC@videogameschronicle.com · 4d ago

Sony says "reasonable consumers" know they don’t own the digital PlayStation games they buy. It argues that it's "not plausible" to suggest that when they buy a digital game they actually believe they're "obtaining ownership" of it. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/sony-sa...

Reporting last week about the complicated magic of the rural Appalachian church last week, the first person I reached out to — a long shot, I knew — was Wendell Berry. I was surprised and delighted to get to speak with his daughter, Mary. The story that ran Sunday: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/u...

These people are ghouls. Heartless, racist bottom-feeders.

Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 4d ago

Former Rep. Michele Bachmann says the main problem in Gaza today is that refugees are getting too fat: "Their calorie count is over 3,000 calories per person a day from all the food that's coming in and the biggest problem they're dealing with most recently in Gaza is obesity."

From our August poll: Here's what voters really mean when they say the Democrats should "fight" more, in their own words www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-09-01...

What voters really mean when they say the Democrats should "fight" more

81% of Democrats say their party should focus on ending Trump's corruption, while 54% want it to prioritize affordability. In open-text response they write leadership should "put regular people first”

open.substack.com

🤔🤨🧐

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

JD Vance: "When you have people who say 'my ethnic group deserves something, and yours doesn't,' or 'that ethnic group is good and this other ethnic group is bad,' that is how you erode the very foundations of commonality."

This is a picture of two women from the Vernon Cadet Training Centre, which holds summer programming for 12-18 year olds to develop skills on the way to adulthood. Unlike Secretary Hegseth, they do not deserve contempt or ridicule.

It would be nice if a single Democratic leader issued a statement defending their Black women colleagues after Laura Loomer called Angie Nixon, Reps. Ilhan Omar and Ayanna Pressley, former Rep. Cori Bush, and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson "ghetto, entitled, race-obsessed, destructive black BITCHES"

bsky.app/profile/pbum... www.texastribune.org/2026/08/31/t...

Texas hospitals to lose $27 million in Medicaid funding daily

Starting Sept. 1, the Trump administration will withhold about $9.8 billion in extra annual funding that helps hospitals cover the difference between Medicaid payments and the actual cost of services.

texastribune.org

Philip Bump@pbump.com · last yr.

Spoke with someone who works with a public hospital system. His assessment of the effects of the GOP spending bill: “I think this is going to be a very apparent catastrophe, very quickly.”

you see, no one has standing when it comes time to sue the president because he is a very special birthday boy

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 5d ago

Breaking news: The Supreme Court said construction can continue on the White House ballroom. The justices found that the historic preservationists who challenged the project had not suffered the direct personal harm required to bring a lawsuit.

Yes, they were. We were. In the Orwellian way — the courage to see the absolutely obvious. But the most important way they were right was in the insistence on speaking out, on showing up, on organizing. (1/2)

Bill Kristol@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 7d ago

In the midst of an awful lot of ever-so-sophisticated equivocating and oh-so-thoughtful-chin-stroking and too-clever-by-half-over-thinking, I just want to say, simply and unequivocally and for the record: The Resistance Libs Were Right.

Gina Hinojosa releases an ad chronicling choosing to give birth to her daughter despite health problems and her daughter dying two days later. Hinojosa is running for governor of Texas against Greg Abbott. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkOC...

Gina Hinojosa: Her Story

YouTube video by Gina Hinojosa

youtube.com

They were spot on. This was The New York Times Sunday Opinion section on October 27, 2024.

The Lake America thing really drives home that the fundamental divide in this country isn’t left or right, it’s who sees the world and acts like an adult, and who wants to still be a child, throwing tantrums when they don’t get their way. It just happens to map well onto a partisan axis these days.

An NPR investigation found that people in the U.S. are dying from heat much more often than official counts show. We explore the reasons why — and how lives can be saved. n.pr/4hZ8XID

NPR spent 2 years tracking deaths from heat. We found a staggering hidden toll

An NPR investigation found that people in the U.S. are dying from heat much more often than official counts show. We explore the reasons why — and how lives can be saved.

n.pr

golly gee I hope I don't get in trouble for posing this AP/NORC poll that shows that 66% of Americans disapprove of Trump's presidency.

When I say fascism is for losers, I mean that people who turn to fascism are losers in the sense that lol, they are lame, but also that they realize that they've already lost the future. If they play by the rules, then they're residual culture. Fascists fight to control the future & break the rules.

They have already gone too far. The only hope they have to avoid prosecution is to maintain power. They will continue to tighten their grip with threats of force and intimidation (and perhaps actual force). The only way to stop this is to stick together, vote and protest, and laugh at them.

Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 6d ago

The US President calls on the FCC to do something about polls he finds uncomfortable.

I cannot remember a time when there were so many food product recalls, but I’m sure it’s all just a coincidence. www.independent.co.uk/life-style/w...

Check your cabinets: White rice recalled in 13 states

FDA issued an update to the recall

independent.co.uk

"The Trump administration is shuttering research projects key to the federal government’s fight against cyclospora, the foodborne parasite sickening thousands of Americans this summer..."

emptywheel@emptywheel.bsky.social · 6d ago

The direct tie between Brooke Rollins and Republicans in Congress and explosive shit. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

The last time it was this dangerous to eat food there were no refrigerators.

They are normalizing fascist thuggery.

hammancheez@hammancheez.bsky.social · last wk.

It’s amazing how every news story on the Venezuela oil theft at gunpoint is completely using trumps line that he has “made a deal“ Honestly a catastrophic failure of the media

We could give you a thousand and one instances of how this excuse is a “get out of jail free” card for Nazis only.

Unicorn Riot@unicornriot.bsky.social · last wk.

Citing “extensive evidence of communication and logistical coordination between the Minneapolis Police Department and Lang’s security detail,” prosecutors declined to file felony riot charges on far-right provocateur "Jake" Lang for his latest hate rally.

Ghouls

Chris Murphy@chrismurphyct.bsky.social · last wk.

This morning in Danbury, ICE was arresting parents at school bus stops. But it’s more sinister. ICE waited until the kids were on the bus so when they are dropped off at the end of the day, they are alone, scared to death they can’t find their parents. I’m heading to Danbury.

This is bonkers

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · last wk.

The FDA just approved daraxonrasib, a breakthrough drug for advanced pancreatic cancer that doubles survival time. This is huge: pancreatic cancer was once thought untreatable. The researchers received a standing ovation when they presented the trial results, unheard of at scientific conferences.

Playing football has long been linked to the brain disease known as CTE, but how prevalent it is is still unknown. A new study of former NFL players who died recently found that at least 25% had CTE.

At least 25% of former NFL players who died between 2016 and 2021 had CTE, study finds

Playing football has long been linked to the brain disease known as CTE, but how prevalent it is is still unknown. A new study of former NFL players who died recently found that at least 25% had CTE.

n.pr

Reminder: There's a sandlot team called the Nashville Dollys, and you better believe they have merch. A note on their website says 20% of all sales will be donated to the Imagination Library. nashvilledollys.com

Here's the official announcement of Parton's passing from her reps, along with the request that in lieu of flowers, the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at www.imaginationlibrary.com

Alex Zalben@azalben.bsky.social · 2w ago

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

It starts like this…& it builds. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 “If you set out to design from scratch a tool to facilitate authoritarian rule, it would look exactly like AI. You would cherish it for its ability to destabilise our shared reality & its creation of disinformation on a scale unprecedented in human history.”

‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom

Education is at a crossroads, argues the author and academic. Should we embrace new technology in the name of efficiency, or is it time to fight back?

theguardian.com

I'd love to see an approval poll of Trump's war on Canada of voters in states on the northern border, especially the ones with important Senate and governors' races this cycle -- especially Minnesota, Michigan and Maine

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer on a trade war with Canada: "There's no possible way it can really affect US well-being"