The best way to honor the two who have left us recently, imo, is to keep being as gay as possible
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Dolly Parton with Keith Haring in 1985, incredible woman and supporter of LGBTQ people for decades going back to a time when few others dared.
One in 20 non-exempt workers were underpaid last year, a figure that has nearly doubled since 2004, according to Cleveland Fed researchers.
5.8 Million Workers Were Shortchanged On Wages Last Year As Minimum Wage Theft Hit Record High
One in 20 non-exempt workers were underpaid last year, a figure that has nearly doubled since 2004, according to Cleveland Fed researchers.
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Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 5d agoEXCLUSIVE: The FBI just admitted it has over an hour of Epstein Files redaction training videos, and the FBI ignored my lawyer's directions for what to search for then hid it from us for 8 months. I'll tell you what they said today at NOON PT. Here's a link: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
It was. They killed RSS and other open internet protocols on purpose
Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 5d agoI was reading an author recently talking about how we don't appreciate the way that email isn't siloed. That is, you don't have to be in gmail to talk to someone else in gmail. The norm is so powerful, it'd be unthinkable to change it. All email is interoperable. Social media could've been this way.
I was reading an author recently talking about how we don't appreciate the way that email isn't siloed. That is, you don't have to be in gmail to talk to someone else in gmail. The norm is so powerful, it'd be unthinkable to change it. All email is interoperable. Social media could've been this way.
It’s time to ask: do Democrats need a Zohran Mamdani of the left?
Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 5d agoAmazing
is always good for the newsroom when a business exec at a publication insists on blogging
The Observer@theobserveruk.bsky.social · 5d agoIn defence of AI slop: we should embrace open access to creativity, not condemn it Look past the Donald Trump superhero memes and the new software gives us the chance to democratise creative production. No wonder art’s cultural gatekeepers are worried ✍️ Jack Riley https://bit.ly/3SpzFQ4
There’s an aggressively paid for influence op going on right now to defend AI slop as art and protected speech across platforms. AI execs realize they have a problem and don’t wanna get Marie Antoinette’d. The free ChatGPT trip is the tip of the iceberg. First person to nail it down gets a Pulitzer.
I think they are telling us that because they want it to be true.
Jonathan Bernstein@jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 5d agoWhy is my Sunday NYT telling me today that "Jewish voters have been trending away from the Democratic Party as it has grown more progressive" as if it's a fact? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/u...
A recent survey found that 92% of U.S. adults have delayed or avoided medical care due to high costs. Meanwhile, a new study from Yale estimates that Medicare for All would save over 114,000 lives and $1 trillion a year. If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have universal healthcare.
the other thing is that most of the DSA program would be net money positive up to like the top decile. my federal taxes would probably go up 50% under Medicare for all but zeroing out healthcare costs would more than compensate
the abbot of unreason (a returned archaeologist)@merovingians.bsky.social · 5d agothe average well-off DSA organizer is basically organizing to pay higher taxes the rest of their life and in a society where that level of selflessness is pretty rare I don't think anyone should be giving them shit for it
When you hear the US has a trillion dollar military budget it sounds terrifying and invincible But then you realise all that money is just being embezzled by defence contractors and corrupt politicians And the truth is, the US military is incredibly brittle and its morale is collapsing in realtime
DSA member Angie Nixon was outspent 36:1 and did not receive an AOC or Bernie endorsement, and yet she won the Florida Senate primary by more than 12 points
From pushing for newly gerrymandered maps and national anti-voter bills to attacking mail-in voting, President Trump has shown he will do whatever it takes to make it harder to cast a ballot. The fight to protect our democracy is as important as ever.
Opinion | Trump’s Election Interference Is Eroding American Democracy
The president is prioritizing his own interests over the national interest.
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!["It is perfectly ridiculous," he then admonishes,
"to go about whimpering and drawing long faces because the scientists have added one more chance of painful and premature death to a world which already bristled with such chances and in which death itself was not a
chance at all, but a certainty."
And then comes the paragraph that I had initially recalled in connection with acute AI anxieties:
[The first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things-praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jgmxlsqaj6inwjqx3eowix6i/bafkreihnw6gnkhokaerb5xcvfwx2jkvtc7uhqgyrg6kspclcu3jkqmxzoe)
The writer in question compared abortion to genocide btw.
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 2w ago"The DSA—the official organ—is forking nuts. So nuts that if you told me that the DSA was a false flag operation run by the Heritage Foundation in order to discredit the Democratic party, it would make sense." Today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social:
For years I’ve wondered why businesses don’t generally support single-payer health care, which would save them tons of money in the long run. The only answer I can really come up with is that for them, the leverage employer-funded care gives over the workforce is worth the price.
Jen Taub@jentaub.bsky.social · 2w ago“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
New from 404 Media: we solved which AI company is buying massive shipments of rare books, scanning and destroying them to train AI. We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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NYT editors (and nepo baby owner) put "Claudine Gay" in "top 5 featured on the New York Times homepage Dec 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 22, 25" While they put Trump calling for Constitution's "termination" on page 15 and chief of staff "tyrant" warning on 12 Chris Rufo openly bragged about it:
NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors angry at MeToo@originalist.bsky.social · 12mo agoChris Rufo "a total product of right-wing affirmative action and you literally would never have heard of him if he was a liberal" bsky.app/profile/chri... NYT front page coverage all the time! By powerful, mediocre editors who push "meritocracy" narrative yet hired each other with legacy privilege
Actually, one more - I feel like I should say this directly, so here goes. In the 90s and 00s, the groups I remember pursuing this strategy (hyperpublicize mugshots, Black crime statistics, etc) were Stormfront, the Klan, etc. Now it's the New York Times and the Telegraph. That is the story here.
This is what we see. Mugshots don't come with sociology explainers; spread enough images of Black criminals and white victims and a kind of project is off and running. even lies exploit this architecture: JD Vance makes up something about cats and suddenly Haitians have ankle monitors. 9/
Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/
Wow. Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they doesn’t leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively.
Sophie Hurwitz@hurwitz.bsky.social · 2w agoThis story’s got everything: Spiderman-villain weaponry, Black Hawk Down, vaccine conspiracy theories, weird YouTube videos www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
We can’t begin the Nuremberg-style trials quickly enough.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2w agoWow. Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they doesn’t leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively.
"no one will be normal about AOC if she runs for president" is both true and a bad reason for her not to run. you could run the most milquetoast middle of the road clean cut straight white man alive and the right is still going to act like the deranged freaks they are
I have seen so many dif accounts and like paid commentators make variations on the argument that trans people need to sit down and shut up as if what’s happening to trans people isn’t literally part of the fascism they’re so worried about