feels weird to grow up at the apex of american power and realize it will be in decline for the rest of your life, and probably long after
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i’m originally from queens so i swear a lot.
he’s like “now what the fuck am i gonna do with this thing”
Elle@elleisanisland.bsky.social · 3h agoPope Leo XIV has been gifted a massive green orb and honestly not now massive green orb
Squirrels on suicide missions have knocked out power to Castle Rock, Colorado twice this week. Our investigation has revealed a century of squirrel attacks covered up by the pro-squirrel media.
Me, trying to get people to realize we *don’t* worship an old guy in the sky with a beard, and never did: “God is beyond comprehension and all our ideas are inadequate to God” our tech “genius” thought leaders: “god is inevitable evil Computer we create”
Cardinal Cupich: “Relying on ‘the algorithm’ cannot become a moral alibi. Human beings remain accountable for decisions affecting people’s livelihood, freedom, health, environment or life.” www.chicagocatholic.com/cardinal-bla...
Why ‘Magnifica Humanitas’? - Cardinal Blase J. Cupich - Chicago Catholic - AoC Portal
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I would love an AI cliff notes pamphlet laying out who the players are, what the main arguments are on all sides, and what the current proposals on the table are.
it’s going to be very good if ossoff manages to run up the scoreboard on this kind of messaging
Jon Ossoff@ossoff.bsky.social · 10h agoWe will vote to rebuke him so decisively no president will dare such abuses again for centuries.
A new poll finds that 60% of voters believe that Roy Cooper would enact the policies of DSA if elected to the Senate. It also finds him leading his Republican opponent by 15 points. www.carolinajournal.com/polls/septem...
what’s happening with that hair, what’s going on there
Reuters Legal@legal.reuters.com · 5h agoA corporate litigator who clerked for US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas won Senate confirmation to serve as a federal judge in a Texas court that has become a favorite for conservative litigants challenging Democratic policies @nateraymond.bsky.social reut.rs/4xHuda8
The Republican Project for literally my entire life has been to warn us that the Federal Government was Too Powerful and Overreaching and would Strip Our Freedoms and now they have gotten into lockstep behind this loon who's like "I might fuck around and ban muffins"
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6h agoTrump: "I could've banned fishing. The power of this office is crazy. I could've banned fishing. I think I'm gonna do that."
The response in Israel to Naza is beyond unhinged. Mobs have shown up at the house of co-director Rachel Szor's family. All over social media the directors are being branded traitors and "not Jews". There is a frenzy of incitement to violence against them online www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
Netanyahu seeks to strip citizenship from Israelis as threats to NAZA film directors intensify
Israeli prime minister to pursue new laws as directors of Guardian-produced film face threats from far-right officials and activists
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“In Kai Bird's biography of Cohn, he looks at how the lawyer taught Trump how to deny, delay, attack, sue and countersue, never admit defeat, side-step paying bills and avoid a paper trail.” www.npr.org/2026/09/17/n...
'American Scoundrel' traces Roy Cohn's playbook from McCarthyism to Trump
In Kai Bird's biography of Cohn, he looks at how the lawyer taught Trump how to deny, delay, attack, sue and countersue, never admit defeat, side-step paying bills and avoid a paper trail.
npr.org
Screwworm infests US horse before port reopens to Mexican livestock reut.rs/4y5yZ26
Screwworm infests US horse before port reopens to Mexican livestock
The U.S. confirmed a case of New World screwworm in a horse in New Mexico on Thursday, as the federal government prepared to resume imports of Mexican livestock into the state after blocking trade in an attempt to keep out the flesh-eating parasite.
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You’re never going to believe this but human beings are social animals and depriving them of interaction with each other in the name of efficiency turns out to make everybody so cranky that they start thinking about apocalypse all the time.
Shannon Vallor@shannonvallor.bsky.social · 7h agoThe very first line is a lie, and we all know it. *None* of this was ever designed to help us, which is why it hurts us and we hate it. It really is that simple, but the media simply cannot bring themselves to say it.
Police in Port Chester, a heavily immigrant community, appear to have turned over dozens of people to ICE, including some with no criminal charges.
In Westchester Village, Police Helped ICE Arrest Dozens
Police in Port Chester appear to have detained people for ICE far more often than other police departments in New York, our analysis shows.
nysfocus.com
New: Federal officials acknowledge that Trump's planned 250-ft-tall arch will harm nearby historic sites, but say it must proceed. The “adverse effects cannot be fully avoided,” Park Service officials wrote in a document obtained by The Post.
Trump’s arch will harm historic sites but must proceed, federal officials say
National Park Service officials acknowledge that President Donald Trump’s planned arch would harm dozens of historic sites but say it must move forward anyway.
washingtonpost.com
She would do this trip 13 more times and free about 70 people in the process.
Ma$on@masonfromtwitter.bsky.social · 9h ago177 years ago today, Harriet Tubman made her first escape from a plantation in Maryland with her two brothers.
Republicans, in their infinite wisdom, left a big gambling loophole in the Medicaid work requirements. I'm no fan of the gambling industry, but if you are on Medicaid and struggling to deal with the work requirements, taking a $580 bet on both sides of an outcome is one way of getting around them.
lololololol OpenAI is about to get fucking WASHED storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Exhibit Public Redacted Memorandum of Law – #1977, Att. #1 in In Re: OpenAI, Inc. Copyright Infringement Litigation (S.D.N.Y., 1:25-md-03143) – CourtListener.com
LETTER addressed to Judge Sidney H. Stein from Davida Brook dated September 17, 2026 re: Public, Redacted Version of News' Plaintiffs' Memorandum of Law. Document filed by Daily News LP, The Center fo...
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Jumping Jesus Christ on a pogo stick. No reputable study shows “vaccine injury” to be anything but vanishingly small…and accommodated in the public health recommendations for vaccination schedules. He’s a crank, a conspiracist, and without any evidence to support his rejection of…well…science.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 12h agoRFK Jr: "We care about every child who dies from measles. They get headlines. We should care about the children who are dying or suffering or being injured by vaccine injuries."
Maybe the most important political story of our time. People just want the bullshit to stop.
71% of Americans Say They're Completely Exhausted
A CDC report shows that people are not feeling relaxed and restful in the United States.
gizmodo.com
If Josh Allen gets hurt because of the crappy turf then we need to tear down the stadium and rebuild the old one.
katherine fitzgerald@kfitz134.bsky.social · 7h agoPer the Bills, DT Ed Oliver (hip) was injured during warm-ups and is OUT for the game.
holy shit, this is the whole ballgame in a single paragraph gAI systems require mass theft of copyrighted works, for the explicit purpose of replacing the market for the people they stole from, and the people in charge knew what they were doing ahead of time, and did it anyway
Jason Kint@kint.bsky.social · 11h agoEye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
