If you’re an American citizen living abroad, you’re still entitled to make your voice heard. Get yourself a ballot and vote!

DemCast USA@demcast.com · last wk.

Getting registered to vote is just the 1st step in getting #VoteReady! Make a plan, know what’s on the ballot, or provide time off for your employees! Ensure everyone has their voice heard at the ballot box. https://nationalvoterregistrationday.org/get-voteready/

It's indeed possible to beat bad things backed by big money

Almost Half of US Data Centers That Were Supposed to Open This Year Slated to Be Canceled or Delayed

The vast majority of data centers scheduled for completion over the next few years have yet to even break ground.

futurism.com

"We were praying! Loudly! Did everyone hear our performative prayer? Be sure you write down that you heard us praying! It was very sincere. Be sure to write that too.:"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6mo ago

Leavitt begins the press briefing: "Could you hear our 'amen' in there? We just had a little loud prayer as a team. In this holy week, President Trump and the First Lady are joining in prayer with Christians celebrating the resurrection of our lord and savior, Jesus Christ."

Amid the dueling ceasefire proposals, at least 1,000 troops from the 82nd Airborne Division will be sent to the Mideast in the coming days, three people with knowledge of the plans told The Associated Press. They spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive military plans.

Iran Dismisses US Ceasefire Plan, Issues Counterproposal as Strikes Land Across Mideast

Iran on Wednesday rejected an American ceasefire proposal and issued one of its own as it continued strikes on Israel and Gulf Arab countries.

buff.ly

“Protest politely” -dumb guys

The combination of Interstate (and state) highway construction and transit disinvestment, more importantly, also allows the state to surgically create cordon sanitaires by sealing off chokepoints. This makes spontaneous mass demonstrations impossible without the threat of large-scale kettling

For >90% of Americans, college is the only point in the lifetimes where they will live in dense, walkable, racially diverse places. That's also why the Interstate Highway System, in the hands of white supremacist urban segregationists, was a social engineering project as much as a jobs project

Instagram and TikTok were clearly key and innovative forces behind Zohran Mamdani's rise. From everything I read and heard this was led by women. Yet, somehow, it ended up being a white dude taking a huge victory lap in the NYT. www.zutrau.nyc m.economictimes.com/news/interna...

Inside the Instagram Machine That Got Zohran Mamdani Elected - Manychat Blog

Discover how Zohran Mamdani's team leveraged Instagram automation to mobilize voters and win his mayoral election.

manychat.com

Reminder: No government ever builds concentration camps it does not intend to fill.

he's stealing billions of dollars of taxpayer money for his personal slush fund the most corrupt, criminal administration in history and despite how high a bar that is it isn't particularly close

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7mo ago

Trump: "I want to let you know that United States is going to make a contribution of $10 billion to the Board of Peace." (Congress has not appropriated this money!)

once again: ICE is operating as if they have a general warrant, the specific type of warrant the founders were most concerned about when drafting the 4th Amendment

Mark Lemley@marklemley.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Not remotely legal. Minnesota needs to arrest these thugs breaking down doors right now, before they start grabbing even more power

What if we kissed at the local salamander crossing @brightsides.bsky.social

Wheeler Wildlife Refuge, today. Sell all my cameras, buy 600mm lenses and just shoot birds. Don't tempt me, I'll do it. Ft. @brightsides.bsky.social

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

independent.co.uk

Pleasant day out in my neighborhood in Chicago. There was a farmer’s market and people are out strolling, chatting, and sitting out on porches. Just like every weekend. Except now most of us are wearing whistles to alert neighbors if unidentified guys in tactical gear show up to kidnap people.

Good catch.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 12mo ago

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/AoXcgAq “Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

www.theguardian.com/technology/2... "A prominent anti-DEI campaigner appointed by Meta in August as an adviser on AI bias has spent the weeks since his appointment spreading disinformation about shootings, transgender people, vaccines, crime, and protests."

Meta AI adviser spreads disinformation about shootings, vaccines and trans people

Critics condemn Robby Starbuck, appointed in lawsuit settlement, for ‘peddling lies and pushing extremism’

theguardian.com

It’s always exactly who you think it is. Every time.

Mike Stabile@mikestabile.bsky.social · 12mo ago

JFC. Ron DeHaas, founder of the Christian antiporn app Covenant Eyes, has stepped down from NCOSE after his 38-year old son was charged with sexual abuse of a child. Covenant Eyes is the app used by House Speaker Mike Johnson and his son to monitor each other's internet behavior.

Read. And support mfp.

Ashton Pittman@ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 12mo ago

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi. David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison. Here's their story.

At the beginning of the pandemic, a guy tried to crash a hijacked train into a boat because he thought all of the Pizzagate babies were in there. One of dozens of things from that year that went basically uncovered outside of my beat.

(Person who destroyed homeless peoples belongings with a smile on their face) political violence is bad

Fyi one of the Kirk videos is incredibly graphic. If you're looking at media of the event (especially on Twitter) make sure your sensitivity settings are where you'd want them to be.

Bessemer, Alabama. @brightsides.bsky.social hollering at me to pull over, there's a car on the roof. Kentmere 200, Zeiss Nettar that I somehow took apart and reassembled and it still works. I'm as shocked as you are.

Not sure what to do about the fact that this country’s latest illegal war is being waged by a presidential administration that consists, top to bottom, of people who lie about everything, all the time

Anna Bower@annabower.bsky.social · last yr.

On Hannity tonight, Fox News’ National Security Correspondent Jennifer Griffin reports that it’s not clear whether the U.S. was able to destroy Iran’s nuclear site at Isfahan—despite Trump’s claim that all three sites have been “completely and totally obliterated.”

Being a millennial is just: Watch a bunch of people die on live television in middle school homeroom See America get excited about killing Middle Eastern people - literally forever apparently Being in debt Everyone asking you why your whole generation is so depressed and anxious all the time

“This is not constitutional!” I cry as the temu-bought katana enters my belly

They're bringing back dump shit from the y2k like war with Iran when we could bring back cool shit like Less than Jake