“This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced."

Homeland Security raids Ilhan Omar's residence

Trump's fixation on the Minnesota lawmaker has exploded into full-on lawfare weeks before the elections.

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Looking forward to the same scrutiny being impartially applied to Elon Musk and Melania Trump, whose immigration documents are much much worse than anything alleged about Omar's father

Dante Atkins@danteatkins.bsky.social · 4h ago

When Dems talk about the Ilhan Omar situation, they need to stop using language that implies that Omar might have done anything wrong. Trump is not "investigating" Omar. They are trying to denaturalize and deport a sitting Congressmember by scrutinizing decades old paperwork from when she was a kid

I would love, absolutely love, at least one prominent contender for the Dem POTUS nomination in 2028 to start threatening this now. "Trump is right that lying on immigration forms is a serious offense. Here are the people my DOJ will investigate on Day 1: Musk, Melania, etc." Put fear in them NOW.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h ago

Looking forward to the same scrutiny being impartially applied to Elon Musk and Melania Trump, whose immigration documents are much much worse than anything alleged about Omar's father

This is one pissed off judge. He trusted the government. Now 500 irreplaceable trees paid the price. Contempt charges on the horizon. Our DOJ cannot be trusted, period. It has gone rogue under Todd Blanche. We are now a lawless Society. Going to end badly.

Judge Rips Trump DOJ A New One At Court Hearing: 'You Did Your Absolute Worst'

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No one has ever been less of a healthcare professional than this smooth-brained loser

Cuba uses around 5 GW of power. Total. The idea that they can't power the island with solar and storage is nonsense. "it will always need large thermoelectric plants."" Who would make a statement like this?

wait youre telling me we can make the internet livable again by just giving ukraine more money to blow up more of these??

Tinman - Beardo Weirdo Wimp@bcmfietser.bsky.social · yesterday

Oh. www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

Quoted in the Guardian today on the technical hopium that, in my experience, has become widespread among many, usually senior, climate experts. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Scientists who put faith in technology less likely to take climate action

‘Techno-optimism’ may lead to reliance on unproven solutions at expense of societal changes needed

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The long-term rate of CO2 growth is currently at a record 24.35 ppm per decade. Net-zero by 2050? 2070? Ain't gonna' happen. Well, it might. But for another reason.

I posted a joke the other day about how my kid wanted a Mickey song that didn't exist, and a bunch of people were like "just AI to make it." I understand needing to please a toddler, but man--that's just not how I want him to think about music at all. It's not a vending machine.

onion person@junlper.beer · 2d ago

this is the ultimate end point of capitalism, ai will completely atomize everyone and there will be zero shared experiences. there will be no culture, only pure consumption. this must be resisted

Andy Burnham says UK authorities are “clear” there was Russian interference in the Brexit referendum as @catneilan.bsky.social reports in today’s @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

From Russia with interference: Burnham first PM to confir...

The prime minister has revealed UK authorities told him there was ‘clear evidence’ that Moscow meddled in the referendum

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Latest comic: Machine out of control

The targeting of one data center is proving a really useful natural experiment showing which sites and ideologies are an echo chamber of Russian propaganda

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 24h ago

Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?

for as long as i've been alive, republicans have ran the same playbook: a few weeks before voting begins, they roll out completely fabricated smear campaigns. these things are always coordinated, so the talking points take over the news. the party is never electorally punished for their dishonesty.

We're all not really emphasizing how utterly inept this entire administration is. 😂

joepampel.bsky.social@joepampel.bsky.social · yesterday

<coughs in know-it-all> 😂

“Warrantless stops and roving patrols by masked federal agents across California, especially the Central Valley have been terrorizing farm workers for the past 5 days, and the chaos is escalating,” says @ufw.bsky.social: ufw.org/ufw-condemns...

UFW condemns brutal ICE surge in Central Valley; calls on Valadao's comments as 'insulting' to his constituents

“Warrantless stops and roving patrols by masked federal agents across California, especially the Central Valley have been terrorizing farm workers for the past 5 days, and the chaos is escalating. The...

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Can we be honest that so called 'wokeness' meant Black people demanding full social personhood and refusing to be silent about getting murdered/harmed by the state? So yes, that is more threatening to many in this country than is fascism. I think that's been clear.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · yesterday

If you only read the opinion journalism in elite media over the last decade, you would have been convinced that wokeness, not fascism, was the greatest threats to American society. Now some of those authors are retconning by trying to relabel fascism as "the woke right." bsky.app/profile/donm...

As of October 1, New Yorkers can file a complaint against businesses that make it hard to cancel your subscription.💪

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · yesterday

Cancelling a subscription shouldn't be this hard. If you can sign up with a click, you must be able to cancel with one. Head to nyc.gov/click-to-cancel to file a complaint against any business that makes it hard to cancel a subscription.

Still out there peddling his vile "Both Sides" snake oil decades after the sell-by date on that lie expired. Still revered by the ossified media and treated as a sage by clueless, wealthy political shut-ins and cowards.

One of the most famous trees in the American southwest—where tress are often considered sacred—is maliciously destroyed by Markwayne Mullins' goons. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

They sat atop a ‘grandmother’ tree for months. Border agents knocked it down.

Activists occupied a cottonwood tree in Arizona for more than two months in a standoff with U.S. Customs and Border Protection contractors.

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What Marshall did is called theft of services, it's a felony.

Roger Marshall, a Kansas Senator Facing Re-Election, Settles a Bakery Bill 6 Years Later

Senator Roger Marshall, a Kansas Republican in a difficult race, paid an old campaign debt for cookies, muffins and brownies after a baker’s story went viral online.

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The total amount Trump has embezzled from the Treasury to run political ads glorifying himself: $19mn.

It is a bad day to be running a Republican political campaign: Ukraine's drone strikes on Russian data centers are sending millions of suspected Russian social media bot accounts offline. #democracy #elections #RussianBotFarms #Ukraine #SlavaUkraini #NAFO #Fellas #Blues

Ukraine Reportedly Hits Russian Data Centers, Causing Internet Outages

Ukraine struck Yandex data centers in Sasovo, Ryazan region, and the Kaluga region.

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Russian bot traffic has dropped to nearly 0 after Ukraine struck a Yandex data center in Vladimir, Russia

Anonymous@youranoncentral.bsky.social · yesterday

Ukrainian drones struck three Yandex data centres in Russia, shutting down two and crippling the third. The attacks disrupted more than 80 services, including banking, transport and cloud infrastructure, following Russian strikes on Ukrainian data centres.

Another reminder the death penalty is never about healing or justice for the victims. And usually just adds trauma to an already traumatic situation.

Brother of slain Fort Hood soldier urges Trump to stop livestream execution

Kristopher Craig told Newsweek he is writing to Trump to prevent his brother's death becoming "part of another public spectacle."

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Over the last decade, there were two hypotheses: H1: the political right genuinely cared about threats to speech from the left. H2: they were using campus speech wars to impose their values and silence dissent. Today, the answer is clear, but I can't find any of the H1 people admitting their error.

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · yesterday

After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

Consider the insanely bulbous nards of asserting that it's a crime to say Trump and Putin are conspiring to help each other in 2026 AS TRUMP IS TELLING UKRAINE TO ACCEPT ALMOST THE EXACT DEAL MANAFORT WAS OFFERED IN 2016.

When Trump invited Russian hacking live on TV, he said two other things that most people forget. And Putin's had him by the nuts ever since. Get the whole story on How Russia Got Trump and his Cronies...

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🗽LOLGOP🗽@lolgop.bsky.social · yesterday

"Even the Russian spies, in their effort to gin up polarization in the US, didn’t claim Hillary would need to fabricate anything."

data centers love to fire up diesel generators during peak summer loads and belch air pollution. collectively northern virginia data centers have more than 4,000 generators capable of spitting out 11 GW of power, more than all of the state's natural gas plants combined

Your 'doom quote' for today: "There are very severe limits on the extent to which we can predict the future, and that goes also as well for people, who rightly, lean into the likelihood that we're now on a societal collapse trajectory." youtu.be/ocpTV62fUQs?...

The Biggest El Niño in History I Path to Collapse I Climate Crisis & Heatwaves I Difficult Future

YouTube video by Science Talk

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My latest @newscientist.com cartoon