Chris Wagner
@chriswagner.bsky.social
Four strings and a mic. Kids, dogs, Jayhawks, Chiefs, Royals. Politics/legal post sicko. "KAAAN, SAAAS, CITY!" Punk rock and skateboards save lives. Need bass on your record? Come find me: https://linktr.ee/chriswagner
As always, what @greatdismal.bsky.social wrote about thirty years ago is news today.
Forbes@forbes.com · 2d agoTilly Norwood, a controversial AI “actor,” abruptly switched languages during an interview with Piers Morgan, though the company behind the AI creation denied she malfunctioned.
Not beating the "genital inspecting perverts" allegations
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 2d agoNEWS: The Pentagon has announced mandatory low-testosterone screenings for male troops 30 and older, including screening for symptoms such as “reduced libido, loss of spontaneous morning erections, erectile dysfunction,” and other symptoms.
25% of Mexico would be ~33 million people, which is almost equal to the total number of Mexican-Americans (39 million). This is just open racism saying that no one of Mexican descent belongs here. But tell me more about how Democrats are responsible for everything Hasan Piker says.
About two or three years ago, I joked that this would happen
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3d ago“rumored” 🙃
Shut the fuck up nerd
Courthouse News@courthousenews.bsky.social · 4d agoIllinois Senator Dick Durbin on Wednesday discouraged Democrats from engaging in the same political gamesmanship over Supreme Court nominees as their Republican colleagues if the party wins the majority in November. @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/durbin-pours...
Perhaps needless to say, I'm not on Truth Social or X. Has Trump threatened to fire Kevin Warsh yet? Has Jeanine Pirro issued a subpoena to Warsh? Did Bill Pulte accuse Warsh of mortgage fraud?
Why fuck with half measures? Get out the skull calipers!
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 5d agoExclusive: The Pentagon is asking commanders to nominate troops to attend Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s “State of the Force” address this September, and says the servicemembers must meet waist-to-height requirements and exhibit “impeccable” grooming standards. https://on.wsj.com/3VwFKeF
I DESPERATELY need your help with something, even if it’s just sharing this skeet: I’m working on a piec about the evolution of video games and the KEY to my story is a guy named Oscar Munoz who worked for Sega in the early 1990s I’ve tried everything to find him and social media is my last resort
Wage theft is theft. Tenant harassment is illegal. Those who defraud vulnerable New Yorkers will be held accountable. We are working with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg to share real-time information and crack down on crimes that target workers and consumers.
Workers' rights at the heart of new NYC initiative, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg says
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection commissioner are partnering up to combat wage theft, tenant harassment and fraud targeting immigrants.
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Hey. Something enormous is being built in Kansas City out of public view. The government is building a massive new multi-agency immigration complex: a new Immigration Court, a huge ICE/OPLA office, a new USCIS “Kansas City Mission Center,” and CISA space, all in the same building. I got the plans.🧵
I can only make the "jerkoff" hand motion for so long before I get tendon damage
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agothe RNC plays a hype video featuring Pete Hegseth saying "we will kill you"
Amazon's own balance sheet presents the most compelling evidence that we are stuck in the Enshittocene, the era in which everything is turning into a pile of shit, because the worst ideas of the worst people now make the most money. 1/
Then they sure do have terrible fucking aim
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoMarkwayne Mullin: "We're not targeting children. We target the parents."
Guess what? 1) You can 3D print a crow and squirrel feeder that looks like a Flock camera 2) Crows are extremely good at pattern recognition 3) People are fucking hilarious and creative and I hope every Flock camera gets its own personal murder (of crows) www.printables.com/model/180491...
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Riley Gaines about to place fifth in the women’s sports culture wars.
Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · 4w agoI have to hand it to Sophie Cunningham here, the possibility of a replacement-level professional basketball player attempting a right-wing culture-war pivot MORE embarrassing than Enes Kanter's never occurred to me
The answer is: screwed. Even less revenue for schools, infrastructure, services than the last five times taxpayers were asked for a handout by billionaires. TIF is a scourge.
KCUR (Kansas City's best news source)@kcur.org · 4w agoNow that Kansas City is committed to subsidizing a new $1.9 billion Royals stadium to the tune of $600 million, how will the financing work? Where does the deal leave Kansas City for the next 30 years? @thebeacon.bsky.social
Flock takes their privacy very seriously. But the ethical gray area in surveillance technology works both ways. Under no circumstances should elected officials or public servants enjoy an expectation of privacy when spending tax dollars to attend a surveillance lobbying event.
Imagine wage theft being pursued this vigorously.
Stephanie Kollmann@slkollmann.bsky.social · 4mo agoI keep hearing truly shocking stories about the state prison time Cook County prosecutors are demanding in retail theft cases, including where someone takes one meal's worth of food. Not just a felony (though that is catastrophic). PRISON time.
Every country should have an Electrification Czar except that person should be called the Chargé d’Affaires d’Affaires de Charger.
Felix Hamer • electricfelix@electricfelix.eurosky.social · last mo.Not sure if 2026 will offer a better fast charging photo 😅 #alwaysbecharging lnkd.in/p/eF-HysV2
Who among us hasn't, from time to time, forgotten about the cocaine pills our doctor definitely prescribed for us to walk around with
Solomon@solomonrmissouri.com · last mo.Heritage Foundation government relations director arrested for bringing guns and drugs into senate building share.google/VtyoauQypYAS...
KA and Little, Big changed my brain. If you haven't read them, you should.
Gil Roth & his Virtual Memories Show@vmspod.bsky.social · last mo.RIP #JohnCrowley. Go read LITTLE, BIG, the AEGYPT cycle, KA, ENGINE SUMMER, and more. One of the most amazing, inventive writer I ever recorded with. Our talks: 2013 - chimeraobscura.com/vm/podcast-r... 2017 - chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-2... 2022 - chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-4...
