this website is gonna be such a hilarious shitshow for the 2028 primary

"I installed the Give Away Your Personally Identifying Info app made by the We Love Stealing Your Personally Identifying Info Corp headed by Mr. Steal Your Personally Identifying Info and it gave away all my personally identifying info"

Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave@wolven.blacksky.app · yesterday

So uhhhhhh… Apparently meta's muse "AI" is just straight up doxxing people to strangers on FB marketplace??? This has the potential to hurt so so many people, and I genuinely wonder how long before they roll out a fix for it.

current state of the fix social media playbook: *nationalize facebook and hold it to rigorous privacy and content moderation standards *break up google and make youtube robustly fund a streaming PBS *turn off x the everything app *keep linkedin the same. that'd be a good bit *begin The Tribunals

New, from me: Once memory-holed, DOGE is now the subject of revisionism. To better understand why DOGE failed, I talked to people in the civic tech movement that DOGE displaced, who continue to offer the alternative model for how to modernize govt. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-vs-ci...

DOGE vs. Civic Tech

As DOGE revisionism picks up, a contrast with the civic tech movement it displaced illuminates its failure

donmoynihan.substack.com

One day I hope to convince conservatives that we should enforce the rule of law, reduce the deficit, and not carelessly tear down the institutions prior generations built, but today is not that day.

While I'm in the mood to relitigate covid, what actually started the national media on the Ron DeSantis vs. Andrew Cuomo thing wasn't anything that Florida had actually done at the time, it was Ron DeSantis complaining that New Yorkers were fleeing lockdown by coming to Florida and not quarantining.

Kathryn Brightbill ✒️@kebrightbill.bsky.social · 2d ago

Of course, nobody wants to get introspective about the part where covid response in the US really went off the rails when the national media decided to turn covid into Andrew Cuomo vs Ron DeSantis, and recognize that it's really fucking bad for public health to politicize it for engagement.

It is, strangely, an anti-patriarchy. No elders would ever choose these men to succeed them. They are a postmodern accident in ill-fitting suits

rev. howard arson@theophite.bsky.social · yesterday

i think RFK Jr.'s colon-destroying steak and sauerkraut diet, tradwife culture, and Silicon Valley CNC parties are the same thing: a desperate attempt among powerful men to convince each other that gluttony, rapaciousness, and raw domination are not just their birthright but their responsibility

rip bozo etc but god i can only think of beth upton. forced to leave the country because every fucking day there were several stories dedicated to demonising her and giving this vile piece of shit airtime just for being a rich transphobe. it doesn't matter if peggie loses. she got what she wanted.

Freda Wallace She/Ra@missfreda.bsky.social · 2d ago

S.Peggie loses on every point apart from the administrative failures of NHS systems. GC lawyers have wasted NHS time and resources for a vanity project with net-zero result for them or Peggie. The aim is never to win legally but use the story to lobby politically through media.

if we stopped growing alfalfa in deserts to feed cows in saudi arabia basically all of the west's water problems would be solved without anything else having to change (And denver is on the wrong side of the continental divide for that discussion)

A New Reconstruction@burleyzack.bsky.social · 2d ago

40m people rely on the Colorado River, which year after year shows less water in it. Denver Water has declared drought conditions and restricts residential use. You’re saying we shouldn’t care about the new water use equal to 16000 people? www.governing.com/finance/denv...

think if there's a surprise flip outside of the Big 6 states in the senate it's gonna be kansas. would like to see more reputable pollsters go there

porn is so deeply misogynistic. i just watched a video with dozens of performers going at it, and they literally hadn’t bothered to hire a single woman.

This is like accusing someone of robbing a bank because they deposited money and never withdrew it

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Assistant AG for Fraud Colin McDonald: "Apparently 35% of people have never even used their Obamacare account for any health services. That is a statistical impossibility and it's because these are not real people seeking real care. These are fraudsters."

ok so to be fair this also happens IRL: see the portion of the Luigi fandom who somehow also insists he's innocent

Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast@irhottakes.bsky.social · 3d ago

Man, I just don't get this sort of thing. People can be fans of a villainous character and then fight to the death for their right to strip their blorbos of all their aura and turn them into smol beans who apparently just ineffectually stood there for three movies.

you know what? I agree with him my moral and ethical story about how we live together in this moment is we throw all of these assholes out of office and then we put them in jail

Weird Alger Hiss 🎉 𓅳@itsjoelokay.bsky.social · 3d ago

uh, let me be clear, *most unclear and wishy-washy drivel conceivable*

genuinely I think we would be in a better place, morally, as a society if all of these fraudsters were in jail and people saw that there were consequences for behaving in such a flagrantly antisocial manner rather than endlessly lucrative rewards

We are coming up on two decades of bastards scamming everyone and committing flagrant fraud, and getting away scot free with their ill gotten gains. Perhaps we should change the trend.

Micah@rincewind.run · 3d ago

genuinely I think we would be in a better place, morally, as a society if all of these fraudsters were in jail and people saw that there were consequences for behaving in such a flagrantly antisocial manner rather than endlessly lucrative rewards

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

I’ve worn a grubby RNLI cap for decades. I sound London, but I was born in Truro and I was a basically feral (Gen X) kid wandering the coast path with a dog until sunset for a lot of my early life. The lifeboats are in the fabric like trawlers and farms and pasties and fish and chips.

one thing that’s interesting to watch is that republicans basically don’t know how to campaign when trump is this unpopular. literally any other president would grant them free reign to run against him if they have to, but he refuses and decides that they need his help

GOLIKEHELLMACHINE@golikehellmachine.com · 3d ago

ken martin looking at the map and trying to decide whether kentucky could be on the board by november

The most important election of your life is always the next one

The Frito Bandito@thefritobanditoo.bsky.social · 5d ago

The good news is that we can all stop saying "this election is the most important of our lifetimes." The most important election in US history already happened. It was 2024, and we failed. There will never be a more consequential US election.

republicans have 19 senate seats up in 2028 compared to dems’ 15, and if they get beaten as badly as it’s starting to look this year, they will have to do *something* different or they’re going to give president ossoff a bulletproof super majority

Bill Kuchman@billkuchman.bsky.social · 3d ago

In a normal administration, a midterms rebuke would be met with some kind of recalibration. The party either needs to set itself up for a reelection or make sure the next nominee has space to run. Short of Dems impeaching and removing Trump, he’s only going to keep digging deeper.

If a tech financial crash doesn’t wipe him out first, Dems should destroy Oracle on Day 1 of the next Dem admin. Single most parasitic rent-seeking company in tech, competing for most parasitic rent-seeking company in the whole country.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 4d ago

“Oracle officers and directors are forbidden from pledging company shares as collateral for personal loans, with one exception, Larry Ellison… The total stock pledged now represents about 36% of Ellison’s total holdings of 1.16 billion shares.”

in the *unlikely* scenario that this happens, the mad dash for pardons immediately after the election is going to be *intense*

GOLIKEHELLMACHINE@golikehellmachine.com · 3d ago

i do think shit starts to get very weird if dems take like 56 or 57 senate seats

this was done *in the house* *by the minority* *on a bill that had to become law*, which is basically playing legislator on legendary mode and house judiciary was far from the only committee doing this, in both chambers

Cersei Trannister 🏳️‍⚧️🏴‍☠️🦋@qadishtujessica.inanna.app · 4d ago

Read this again when someone tells you that the democrats are gearing up to go transphobic or don’t fight for us.

snodd tarnes is right about one thing, though, thune and johnson really did completely squander their majority

GOLIKEHELLMACHINE@golikehellmachine.com · 3d ago

also, pass the trump agenda? there isn’t gonna be any trump agenda, dumbass, it’s late september before a midterm, that ship sailed weeks ago and then got hit by a drone in the strait

also, pass the trump agenda? there isn’t gonna be any trump agenda, dumbass, it’s late september before a midterm, that ship sailed weeks ago and then got hit by a drone in the strait

it’s wild to be doing the “if only the tsar knew” shit while simultaneously complaining that the white house is out of touch, like, who the fuck is in charge of the white house, todd

Shoe@shoe.bsky.social · 3d ago

i think we are going to learn that there are a number of people in and around this admin who committed no shit, capital T treason and there will be strong incentives for the DOJ to prosecute them

Now Available on DVD@nowondvd.bsky.social · 3d ago

Not enough ppl have been given life w/o parole for treason yet but good news is the means of accountability still stand

just a quick reminder that this fuckhead was the proximate trigger for thousands of National Guardsmen being deployed to DC

Oregon 🕎🎲@oregonthedm.bsky.social · 3d ago

That's a headline for you cmarmitage.substack.com/p/big-balls-...

This is one of the dumbest things I have ever seen anyone post under their real name. What kind of head injury has this man sustained to make him think the timing on all of this is *random*?