THIS IS WHY!!!! WE CALL!!! GREAT JOB EVERYONE 🩷 KOSA did pass the house but remember the senate has a conflicting version. Keep calling, it matters!

Free Speech Coalition@fsc.bsky.social · 15h ago

SCREEN Act, which would have required mandatory age-verification for sites (like this) that allow "material harmful to minors" failed to pass out of committee after thousands and thousands of people called their Senators. More work ahead!

If anyone needs a script for calling their senators today, here's what I said #StopKOSA #SaveSpeech #NodigitalID

Cassandra Lowell 🔞 writing erotica@cassie69a.bsky.social · 2d ago

US folks: Today (August 4) is the last day to call your US senator before KOSA and the SCREEN Act go before committee tomorrow! Visit BadInternetBills.com for info and numbers to call. #StopKOSA #SaveSpeech #NodigitalID

NEW poll in 18 toss-up districts (with a sample that voted Trump 48-45) shows independents & moderates are *not* looking for the archetypical Moderate candidate — and are not dissuaded if outsiders are labeled too far left. Strong support for Israel was the *least* appealing quality in a candidate.

EXCLUSIVE: New Poll Shows Swing District Voters Prefer 'Outsiders' to Boring Centrists

Survey shared with Zeteo has a sample skewed towards Trump voters but shows strong support for Israel is the least appealing candidate trait. Plus, is Trump about to pull his controversial AG nominee?

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🚨 Senate Commerce Committee has just announced a markup on KOSA and other kids safety bills next week 🚨 So if you're in the US, now's a very good time to call your Senators! @fightforthefuture.org's Bad Internet Bills page makes it easy ... www.badinternetbills.com

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All of the bad internet bills. One website.

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Blake C. Stacey@blakestacey.myatproto.social · last wk.

Punchbowl reporting that the Senate Commerce Committee will hold a mark-up for #KOSA next week, citing "a person familiar". Nothing on the Committee website itself yet. punchbowl.news/article/tech... #SaveSpeech

if anyone knows of anyone in austin area who needs some yardwork or anything please share (yes i will work if it is 100 degrees out) this is the worst hiring market i have ever faced and i could really use any money right now sites.google.com/view/greenan...

A lot of left people who are still on Twitter have totally lost it but they honestly have nothing on the liberals who keep hanging out there. The centrist guy who made that "firebomb a walmart" tweet just makes sponsored posts for Kalshi now

The anti-data center movement is like "I don't want to pay more money for a thing that will not benefit me at all and will actively make my life measurably worse in a bunch of ways" and the pro-data center movement is like "We want it to be illegal for you to not like us."

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last wk.

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"inflation has hit hardest in the single most visible expenditure category" does I think have a lot to do with why people have reacted so negatively to the state of the economy

John Gramlich@johngramlich.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Buying food to eat at home has gotten 33% more expensive in U.S. cities since the beginning of 2019, according to government figures. In the 7.5 years before that, prices rose 6.4%." (via @apnews.com) apnews.com/article/groc...

The worst part about it imo is like... Elon DID interfere with the election; By BUYING TWITTER which was a major source of information for a shitton of people. that threat still applies now and no dem leadership is willing to acknowledge it. Vote fraud nonsense takes focus off the real threats

Debbie Lefkowitz@foglandia.bsky.social · last wk.

It’s absolutely nuts how many people think Trump lost for sure in 2020 but cheated to win in 2024. These folks should focus on winning in November and protecting voting rights.

You can tell people don't care about Jimothy in a productive manner. You know how? Tumblr's resident raccoon biologist is the only person I've seen actually discuss his QoL and that the deformitys likely due to raccoons being particularly vunerable to pollution: www.tumblr.com/raccoonmilf/...

Kieran@toadally.bsky.social · 2w ago

I get the sentiment, but also most people don’t “care” about Jimothy. They are entertained by him and his popularity is going to get him killed. I would prefer we not compare disabled animals to disabled people because we don’t treat either with dignity or respect.

Hard to find a stronger example of “fascists hate the actually existing glory of the countries they pretend to love” than “Mussolini fucked with pasta.”

Olivia Hill@machineiv.bsky.social · 2w ago

Today is July 25th, often celebrated as the fall of Italian fascism. Mussolini passed draconian controls over pasta production which he considered decadent and overly reliant on foreign grain. Today, we celebrate his fall with a simple, defiant partisan dish: 1) Pasta 2) Creamy butter 3) Parmesan

I would add that the yea votes of these Democratic Senators are a particular slap in the face to all the anti-ICE protestors in Minneapolis, considering that it looks a whole lot like Martin volunteered help the AUSA prosecute protestors there in the wake of the murder of Renee Good.

Fascist Dem Tracker@fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 2w ago

11 members of the Dem caucus vote yea to confirm Trumpist nominee Michael Martin 62-36. Based on his cloture vote from today, those yeas are: Durbin (IL), Fetterman (PA), Hennrich (NM), Hirono (HI), Kaine (VA), King (I-ME), Peters (MI), Rosen (NV), Shaheen (NH), Slotkin (MI), & Whitehouse (RI).

I took a hard look at the financial donors to ICE’s biggest supporters in Congress. These are people who want to significantly expand ICE’s power and have sponsored or co-sponsored legislation to do so. Here are the top 25 consumer brands bankrolling the biggest ICE supporters in Congress:

really thinking about this tweet as i’ve been struggling to breathe through nausea for the last 5 hours

Luke LeBrun@lukelebrun.ca · 3w ago

These images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...

Ah they are finally saying the quiet part loud I've been warning cis women was coming for a few years now. If women have to have invasive exams to be allowed to do sports, it will make less women participate in sports, and they can argue women have no interest in playing and cancel them

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg@theradr.bsky.social · 3w ago

HEY TERFS ARE YOU PLEASED REMEMBER HOW WE SAID THAT EVERYONE'S LIBERATION IS BOUND UP TOGETHER BECAUSE EVERYONE'S SAFETY AND THRIVING IS ONE SINGLE THING AND NONE OF US ARE TRULY SEPARATE AND EVERYONE SHARES THE SAME ENEMY Do you remember that can you see it yet, like

Cool fun fact I learned from my mom researching the distribution: Do you remember awhile back some other lettuce brand had an e coli problem? The guy who was in charge of that brand switched companies to the one implicated in this contamination. Can we stop letting these people fail upwards?

Bianca Kates@biancakates.bsky.social · 3w ago

Taco Bell served unregulated lettuce, huh?

If you are going running without even a gaiter mask when it is literally sepia outside you should probably get some therapy about your pandemic trauma before you fuck your lungs up in a different exciting way

This keeps happening, the conflation of people disapproving of Dems being too weak and unprincipled with disapproving of Dems for being too leftwing. This is part of how a lot of Gen Z distrust for Dems gets recast into Gen Z being rightwing

Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they)@doctorvive.bsky.social · 4w ago

Insofar as US swing voters think the Democrats are "out of step" with them on climate change, the vast majority say that is because Democrats are "not fighting hard enough/need to do more." Yes, really. 5/n

JKR and her new org apparently helped get the new Amnesty International report on how TERF organizations destroy lives taken down from their site. Well, guess what? The Streisand Effect is real. Here's the entire report in a thread. Read it. Share it.

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 4w ago

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

If ICE can simply execute anyone at any time, none of us have any basic rights.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 3w ago

Second time in just about a week when a man not targeted by ICE was killed by them

Reviving dead McConnell to put on life support indefinitely has left the grim reaper lost and looking for Republicans ig

No party campaigned on age verification. Nobody the US voted for this. Nobody the EU voted for this. Nobody the UK voted for this. Nobody in Australia voted for this. Some don't even know it's happening. Meta lobbied for this and got their way within a few years. Let this radicalize you.

This post is important. Federal agencies are blocking local officials from accessing evidence about the fatal ICE shooting in Houston, so the Harris County District Attorney's office is asking the community to send them any evidence so they can work to hold ICE accountable.

Harris County District Attorney@harriscountydao.bsky.social · 4w ago

If you were an eyewitness or have video/ photos relevant to the 6:50 a.m. fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo on Tuesday, July 7, 2026, use the secure link below to upload your info. The Harris County District Attorney's Office will continue pursuing all investigative avenues in this case.

Reddit recommended me a post from the subreddit for natalists It was calling for tying all forms of benefits and social privileges to producing children, so childless people basically couldn't participate in society for "failing to contribute" Only like 2 people argued with it and only because

Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social · 4w ago

Interesting choice by NYT to publish an op-ed bemoaning America’s projected population decline by a guy who’s massively racist against immigrants and compares IVF to “Nazi eugenics.” The “pronatalists” only want more of a very specific kind of person in this country. It gives the game away.

The point of legislated dehumanization is never just the law itself but the creation of a climate in which institutions become more timid and companies more cautious. Erasure of a people under capitalism arrives first as a thousand risk calculations.

Assigned Media@assignedmedia.org · 4w ago

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Jul LGBTQnation GLAAD finds Hollywood continues reducing the number of LGBTQ+ characters; even worse, GLAAD found ZERO trans characters in 225 films last year and ZERO LGBTQ+ ones in animated and family films. www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/07/holl...

Meta made a terrible decision to opt-in everyone to their new AI generation toolset without notice Creators, performers, everyone 👇

SAG-AFTRA@sagaftra.org · 4w ago

Meta now lets anyone use your Instagram photos in AI images without your consent. SAG-AFTRA recommends that #SagAftraMembers (and all Instagram users) opt-OUT of Meta’s new AI image generation tool, Muse Image. Take action to protect your likeness.

I know im goin on about this a lot but please contact your senators about opposing KOSA and the KIDS Act. Please make friends and family aware of how this will effect them and their privacy.

🏳️‍⚧️ Fiona The Eepiest Kobold 🏳️‍⚧️@scalieshutterbug.bsky.social · 4w ago

Okay, so I guess people in Texas can't use this app anymore. How many of my friends are going to disappear now? ☹️ Also, this isn't going to stop with Texas. If the KIDS Act or KOSA isn't stopped, this'll be your future, too:

“Study investigators were trying to disguise a 67% error rate” Why don’t doctors just flip coins at this point?

MPR News@mprnews.org · 4w ago

A former Mayo Clinic official is suing her former employer, alleging she was demoted and then fired after blowing the whistle on how the hospital’s rush to incorporate AI into their operations put patient care and privacy at risk.