I shit a lot on the Phantom Menace, but it did accurately predict how most journalists would react to fascism
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Chicago petter of cats trapped in a deteriorating shell he/him/it/that/they/them/僕
The recent hysteria over bike and ebike regulation is infuriating, dumb, and counter-productive.
media when maga wins an election: we must travel the country and speak to these voters and extend empathy to them and give credence to their bigotry and false beliefs media when the left wins an election: is this the end of the american experiment
a reason that Stevens lost and other AIPAC candidates are losing despite the huge infusions of money is that Dem voters don't want to vote for a candidate who is funded by the same org who will immediately turn around and fund the Republicans
Andrew Solender@andrewsolender.bsky.social · 14h agoAIPAC: "Our members remain determined to ensure that voters reject Dr. El-Sayed and his radical anti-Israel agenda in November."
"Pronouns used to be a funny joke, Hank. Until the government tried to tell me I couldn't use them anymore. So now I'm adamant about making sure trans people are gendered right. Not for their sake. But because I'll be damned if the US government is going to tell me what words I can and can't use."
My theory is Mike Rogers will have $300+ million: $80 million AIPAC and adjacent $100 million crypto and big tech $40 million Elon Musk $80 million pharma/health insurance industry Defense contractors might throw in $20 million to keep the wheels greased. And he'll lose by 7.
Mikhail Gorbaechev@mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 6h agoThey are going to spend $100m in the general and Abdul will win comfortably.
Centrists when a Progressive wins.
Monty Python: Black Knight Draw
ALT: Monty Python: Black Knight Draw
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You laugh at the electric unicycle, but consider this - light cavalry mobile riflemen. Two hands free means two hands for a weapon.
The first thing I'd notice if AI went away would be search engines becoming usable again
people have hated congress & found it corrupt for a long time but the genocide in gaza is actually really bad and the portion of the electorate that reads the news is, right now, sending a pretty unambiguous message about how they feel about democracy being subverted to ensure it continues
"it looks like you're using an adblocker to visit our site." yep! ha ha! it rocks!
Humorous to me how, when a Dem candidate is a centrist, the narrative is about how leftists have to grow up and support them. When the candidate is a leftist, the question is whether they can rally adequate support. So some people are responsible for running a winning campaign, you say? Interesting.
kind of wild that none of the people who othered abdul's supporters as foaming at the mouth DSAers who've never talked to a black person, etc, will ever reevaluate just how large a portion of the primary electorate they were smearing
An Israeli court has temporarily blocked a plan, cooked up by far right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, to construct a moat full of crocodiles around a notoriously abusive prison that holds Palestinians, over concerns that the crocodiles would be harmed or mistreated.
Only Animal Welfare Raised in Israeli Debate on Crocodile Moat for Palestinian Prisoners
A judge temporarily blocked the plan over concerns about “the expected harm to the crocodiles.”…
truthout.org
"And one of the verses is just a lists of a bunch of intersections in Chicago... well, except California and Sacramento run parallel, so really there is no such intersection..."
rebecca sylvester@hattie.meangirls.online · yesterday
Here’s the key takeaway from our report: Epstein couldn’t have carried out his trafficking and criminal activity without the help of the highest ranking employees and executives at the most powerful banks in the world. Wall Street is complicit in Epstein’s crimes from top to bottom.
Nationalize oil firms, then run them into oblivion as we transfer to 100% renewables. www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...
Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis
Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage
theguardian.com
Abdul El Sayed's open-mindedness on the question of how to actually resolve the question of Palestine is one of the best indicators of his overall intelligence and sincerity. Policymakers in DC should adopt a rights-based approach which prioritizes ending the occupation and apartheid systems.
Ron Skolnik@ronskolnik.bsky.social · yesterdayEl-Sayed: "I believe in equal rights to peace, dignity, and self-determination, for Palestinians and Jewish Israelis alike... If that’s 2 states, I’m for it. If it’s 1 state, I’m for that. If it’s this 'land for all' model, ... or whatever they decide." www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...
"In the Canadian capital of Ottawa, 14% of vehicles were speeding on Katimavik Road last fall while the cameras were in use, but a whopping 80% did in May following their removal." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
What Happens When Speed Cameras Get Shut Off
In 2025, Ontario banned automated traffic enforcement. Now the number of drivers exceeding the speed limit has surged, according to traffic data.
bloomberg.com
When you get two cats, how do they decide which one will have a tiny chirp like a pixie’s doorbell and which one will wail like the ghost of a jilted bride?
You can never just move on from this, even after he's gone. Without punishment and ostracism for everyone who has participated in his crime spree over the last 18 months you can forget it- we're all just treading water until the next tyrant
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · yesterday“.. Trump has leveraged his control of the federal government to instead escape the scrutiny that every other modern president, not to mention every other regular taxpayer, has been subject to.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...
in re Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" (which, in the original Martian Chronicles, occurs on today's date), I didn't realize the very first published version of the story, in Collier's magazine, was set in April 1985. (the current edition of Martian Chronicles now sets it in 2057).
it’s genuinely stressful for my brain how bad the search is now it feels a little like gaslighting every time I search for something I know exists and just get completely irrelevant nonsense