Setting aside the fact that most of these people did not, in fact, break the law, what does this suggest about how the next administration should handle the members of this one, nearly all of whom have broken many laws?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3h agoMarkwayne Mullin on conditions at ICE facilities: "We're not providing Holiday Inns. These people broke the law."
Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.
Alaska Public Media@alaskapublic.org · 18h agoMeet Backpack, your 2026 Fat Bear Week champion. Backpack is 20 years old, weighs about 1,000 pounds and got his nickname because, as a cub, he loved riding on his mom's back across the Brooks River.
it is difficult to explain how much more jew-ish @helldude.bsky.social is as a muslim who grew up in new york city than plenty of jewish people who grew up in the sticks, secular, as the only one in their neighborhood are. it's not halacha or anything it's just kind of true.
taber@kvetch.gay · 18h agoyes, correct, there are many, many professions you can go into and put yourself at great distance from Am Yisrael by accident or intention, but Mayor of Jew York City is NOT one of them
look we're all making a big bet on AI! and if it pays off as big as we hope, well, it's going to make a handful of people super rich and you're going to lose your job but get to watch mickey mouse fuck geralt from the witcher. if it doesn't pay off well then you get to pay for the bailouts
i just assume the reason why the conversation about "Obamacare fraud" is so muddled because the reactionaries want to paint fraud as something individual poor and/or black people do as opposed to the mundane rentseeking swindles engaged in by brokers and insurance carriers
the received wisdom of the dnc superfan is not nearly as unshakeable as they would have you believe. as a rule most don't believe in anything other than mirroring the establishment. move the establishment and they will play ball immediately
On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
The settlement trade ban initiative has already proven to be more effective at shaping Israeli action than virtually anything else done by the West since 1956
Israel's AG postpones West Bank E1 construction tender until after election
The attorney general's office said the deadline for bids on more than 2,100 housing units should be postponed by a month to prevent the internationally condemned project from being used for election c...
haaretz.com
Every college in this country decided that expelling and/or sending the police to beat the shit out of their own students for the crime of being opposed to genocide was their top priority. That and giving Trump complete control of what they teach. Contrast that with how they treat rapists.
Luke O'Neil@lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 2d agoRemember when the president of Cornell got so mad at some anti-Israeli-genocide protestors on campus he tried to hit some of his own students with his car?
For me, I approach it from a more Marxist perspective. We are witnessing the desire of capital class to create a permanently, ontologically enslaved "virtual" labor class to free itself from the "real" labor class. And finally they'll be able to keep ALL surplus value
New: FBI in internal memo says it believes ShinyHunters may have stolen private data on all employees. Fears of longterm consequences of breach magnify as hackers threaten to leak everything online by end of Tuesday. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
Embarrassing Breach at F.B.I. Fuels Fears of Harm to Its Employees (Gift Article)
In an internal memo, the F.B.I. said it believed the hackers may have stolen sensitive information on all of its employees.
nytimes.com
exactly this. if we can no longer broadly agree, as a social unit of social creatures, that human endeavor and human dignity have worth and are in fact likely the point, why bother? what is this world we are constructing. why is anyone even walking around and going anywhere
John!@teleogougar.bsky.social · 2d agoI work at a bookstore. The whole thing is seeing the ideas other people put out into the world and exposing yourself to that. Everything about this future is like, antithetical to the very few things I like about it and I don’t know what they expect to happen with this other than mass immiseration
I work at a bookstore. The whole thing is seeing the ideas other people put out into the world and exposing yourself to that. Everything about this future is like, antithetical to the very few things I like about it and I don’t know what they expect to happen with this other than mass immiseration
It's kind of maddening to see almost no one with power and a major platform publicly wrestling with this. We're gonna have to talk about something other than gas and grocery prices at some point
It's good that we invented things like "government" and "the economy" but we can't meaningfully participate in them if the people in charge are constantly rubbing in our faces that these things are fake, and in fact you are a naive doofus if you think otherwise. That's a society on life support
Going to work now feels like doing homework after the teacher quit and told the class that education is fake. Everyone just coasting on inertia and hoping there's still a point to all this
I’ve said before that they are hoping this is the final, ultimate win of Capital over Labor. Their rhetoric is so apocalyptic because they so badly hope this is The End.
as a guy who decided to go inside the system because being outside it struck me as rather personally perilous, it appears i did not factor in exactly how incompetent everyone making decisions inside the system would turn out to be
i can't wait until every branch of the government is turning a profit like the post office and the army guys
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump: "Because of tariffs, we are taking in hundreds of billions of dollars of profits. It's one of the reasons I can offer, if Republicans win the House and Senate, $5,000 to every adult. We can do it and the Democrats can't, because the Democrats don't have any income."
i did that 9 games thing but it was just vampire the masquerade bloodlines 9 times
as a product of the reagan 80s excited to see if we can see interest rates in the mid teens again. retvrn
When I say we desperately need a Democratic doctor in the US Senate I mean it.
FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 5d agoAt least 6 babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles.
NYC’s congestion pricing program cut ambulance travel times by over a minute
ladies and gentlemen of every gender, allow me to present to you: stripey
The @helldude.bsky.social has excellent taste in icy moons. www.fu-berlin.de/en/presse/in...
Great News from Saturn’s Moon Enceladus in the Search for Life in Space
Planetary scientists from Freie Universität Berlin have published two new studies with promising discoveries about the potential for life on Enceladus.
fu-berlin.de
