I was watching West Wing and started crying watching Martin Sheen portray a President who cared about his country, if anyone is wondering how doomscrolling is affecting me lately 🤷🏻♀️
Nunya
@avalari.bsky.social
She/Her Not a bot, just swear a lot. Geriatric Millennial who spends a lot of time with cars.
My most Boomer take is that kids these days (who are able) should have to pedal their bikes just like the rest of us did.
"We have no alternative but to believe the promises of a man who has brazenly lied to us time and time again. You see, I am but a simple United States senator, bereft of any power and beholden to the whims of the pedophile president's consigliere."
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayCornyn: "As to the idea it could be revived in the future, I think it's highly unlikely that could happen without the cooperation of the DOJ. And I think Mr Blanche gave us the assurances that it was dead and would not be revived and in this case we have no alternative but to take his word" 🙃
this is what’s acceptable to cornyn and tillis. to no one’s surprise, their performative mewling was never serious.
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d agoFLAG: Trump gets to keep tax immunity for himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization under the new 'deal' struck by Todd Blanche. The new order also reaffirms that Trump won't have to pay any taxes he might have owed the IRS.
Probably not the most corrupt thing Trump has done, but very possibly the most brazenly, undisguisedly corrupt thing he’s done.
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d ago
To the extent that the media is treating this as a horse story: Max Miller is not a some random candidate from Ohio. This is a picture of President Trump speaking at the wedding of Max Miller and Emily Moreno.
The increasing selfishness of American individuals can be directly traced to the decreasing instinct to put a hand up to say thanks when someone lets you cut in on the road. In this essay, I will….
Very much worth remembering, as Miller accuses his wife of being crazy and making up lies to paint him as an abuser, that he dated Stephanie Grisham years ago and she accused him of physical abuse back then.
The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
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Google created an AI tool for users to doctor images on Google Earth—the latest instance of the AI industry undercutting its rhetoric about safety by launching products with little or no due diligence, @matteowong.bsky.social writes.
Google Just Torched the Credibility of Its Satellite Images
Google Earth was a boon for researchers—and then came the deepfakes.
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The President of the United States is selling six figure subscriptions to Truth Social that will give users advanced access to his posts so they can profit off insider knowledge. There are so many necessary reforms but aggressive anti-corruption is essential. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Trump offering early access to online posts in move seen as corruption
Truth Social, where Trump’s account is by far the largest, to offer users early access for up to $100,000 per month
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Okay last bit for now: it’s genuinely distressing to me how 18 years ago The Dark Knight postulated that a city-wide surveillance network was was a borderline evil thing that Batman had to destroy after a single use and now Peter Parker casually runs facial recognition on, essentially, Flock.
if you want to see normally sclerotic do-nothing local governments suddenly snap into action, do some quietly beneficial tactical urbanism type thing like this and watch how quickly they race to remove it
wishda@wishda.bsky.social · 5d agoThe DSA in Wilmingotn, N.C. has created a "crisis" by putting benches at city bus stops, after literal decades of the city promising and failing to do so.
He despises Americans who don’t support him more than he despises a foreign country that’s killing Americans.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoTrump: "We heard in Minnesota there was a cyberattack and they blame it on Iran. I don't think so. I blame it on Minnesota because they're grossly incompetent. Iran's got bigger problems than worrying about Minnesota."
I know with my full chest that Jesus would have hated this.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 6d ago“If we steward this technology correctly, it can bring more people to God.” To meet the growing needs of his congregation, a pastor in California created an A.I. duplicate of himself. Every day he sees more people using it.
Of all the things being outsourced to Ai, democracy doesn’t seem like it should be one of them.
ProPublica@propublica.org · 6d ago“Everyone is of the opinion that, whether they find anything or not, they are going to continue” to pursue this, one source said about the political pressure to find fraud in the seized mail-in ballots.
reminder that Bernie Moreno used the F word today in part because he’s trying to fix the SEO around not doing anything about his daughter being allegedly abused by her GOP Rep ex husband.
Solomon@solomonrmissouri.com · last wk.Scalded her with boiling water Put a gun to her head Punched her in her face Broke your grand daughters collarbone And Bennie Moreno ain’t beat his ass yet???? Every time i see you in DC it’s on sight
Imagine devoting your life to public health, responding to two major pandemics, and then having to talk with these dipshits
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Moreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"
I think shopping at a brick and mortar Payless Shoe Store one more time could fix me
You’re telling me TMZ doesn’t have the money to get at least one single solitary person to leak what’s up with Mitch McConnell?
6/ We asked Nick Adams (and his mother) for comment. He did not respond to a detailed list of questions. If you want to see the full story, please click here: www.propublica.org/article/trum...
This MAGA Influencer Runs a Charity to Teach Kids Civics. Much of the Money Goes to Him Instead.
Nick Adams’ Foundation for Liberty and American Greatness has brought in millions in donations and helped him land a State Department appointment, but records show there is almost no indication FLAG w...
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I'm gonna be the main event Like no king was before I'm brushing up on looking down Working on my roar
Possum Every Hour@possumeveryhour.io · last wk.
Orwellian. An ICE agent shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. He had lived peacefully in this country for 35 years. The Trump regime then lied, claiming drugs were in his vehicle at the time he was killed. There were no drugs. They are murdering migrants - and trying to murder the truth.
Billionaires being unafraid to say things like this publicly is a major indicator of how bad things have gotten
Rachel Gilmore@rachelgilmore.bsky.social · last wk.Very cool that Shopify’s CEO thinks the poor should have far less of a vote than the rich. Still worth that ad read money, folks?
Small and niche rant: The First Amendment auditors have clearly getting more antagonistic with the public over the years. It’s antisocial behavior to stick a camera in someone’s face and then act surprised when people are annoyed, even if it’s legal