Lisa Needham
@snipy.bsky.social
Words at DailyKos, Public Notice, Balls & Strikes, and Rewire. Deeply and secretly earnest. Your heart is a muscle the size of your fist. she/they. north mpls forever.
BREAKING: Judge Timothy Kelly grants CNN, MS NOW, and Politico’s TRO against the Trump administration, ordering that the reporters affected “immediately” have their White House hard passes reinstated. The TRO is in effect for 14 days. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Periodic reminder that dipshits like this actually exist and want the country to be poorer and think they can magically make everyone not poorer except the bad people:
Also: theconversation.com/life-in-a-de... Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Extremely strange to me that people think media orgs are obliged to provide reporting to them for free, or that people who find said reporting useful are obliged to help other users avoid paying. Just randomly cursing at me about it adds layers to this confusion. Super weird and antisocial!
cɹitical tomɐto@critical-tomato.bsky.social · 2d agomy guy, it's cunting paywalled.
*I've ALREADY written a weird AI story about AIs entirely made out of trees
JauntyWunderKind@jauntywunderkind.bsky.social · yesterdayLooking forward to a new Bruce Sterling story about a future AI rush where the gpus are all made of trees, oh no.
No I am not going to read that fucking filling I am too high and I am going to bed
Been some legalistic misconstruing of my point, I have noticed, and so
Something More Powerful Must Replace The International Criminal Court
Once again, Donald Trump threatens Iran with 'annihilation.' That's supposed to be an actionable offense
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Spencer Ackerman@attackerman.bsky.social · 2d agoArticle 25 (3)(e) of the statute establishing the International Criminal Court criminalizes incitement to genocide. If someone can walk into the United Nations and say this, they’re daring the court to act.
Here's a good test case for our framework, demonstrating how a real incident can be turned into a false "rigged election" rumor or narrative. Here the DOJ highlights a case where a postal worker discarded mail that included ballots, and uses that to suggest voter fraud and untrustworthy elections.
oh my@lliizz.bsky.social · 2d agoHere’s DOJ, today, trying to make a mail carrier’s throwing away away mail = all voting by mail is bad www.sltrib.com/news/politic...
I’m glad she stayed on X because if she was mostly Bluesky it’d be like having an apex predator in a rural village. She’s got all she can eat over there and the victims deserve it.
Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq.@clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 2d agoRIP to Chris Christie’s 2028 campaign, murdered by an octogenarian mere hours after launch
i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's
Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · 2d agoTough competition of course, but the Trump admin deciding that white South Africans are the only group of people on earth currently worthy of refugee status has to be the most overtly racist thing any administration has done in decades
oh hell yes this is extremely my shit
Matthew Perpetua@fluxblog.bsky.social · 2d agoNew playlist THE BEST OF ADULT CONTEMPORARY 1987-1992 Sincere, mature, and dramatic songs about love A nearly extinct style of music, people are too cynical now 💝 Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/5S5... ❤️ Apple: music.apple.com/us/playlist/... ❤️🩹 YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
I'm reasonably sure if you asked Ron Schutz to name, say, three divisions or areas of focus at the MN AG, his reaction would basically look like this tenor.com/bj9b0.gif
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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoMinnesota Republican AG candidate Ron Schutz calls the idea that an AG can help with affordability "preposterous": "Keith Ellison ... he argues that he makes life affordable for Minnesotans, which is just simply preposterous. Who does he think he is? The chairman of the Federal Reserve?"
Help I have lost my political sway because my former cocaine dealer dropped out of a political race just for being a rapist and now the new guy won't listen to my friends or I! Mods! Mods!!
Graham Platner was Blueskys Favorite Guy for awhile there
Lupita Nihongo@otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 2d agoA lot of us have had to take a lot of shit on Bluesky for the crime of being 100% right about guys too early
This is hard and most people fail at it. The fact that Nikole Hannah-Jones failed at it is evidence of how hard it is, not proof that Nikole Hannah-Jones is secretly a bad parent.
River_Tam@rivertam.bsky.social · 2d agoYes, part of being an "engaged parent" is seeking out this information on your own. I don't disagree that schools (even good schools) are bad at communicating this information. Passively receiving information is the opposite of engagement. bsky.app/profile/whst...
you could read stupid stuff about Choosin' Texas, from people on here who should definitely know better, or you could read @natalieweiner.bsky.social, who absolutely nails it, as per usual.
Country Music and Politics: 'Choosin' Texas' Edition
The historic reign of "Choosin' Texas" (as of this week it's officially the longest-running Hot 100 No. 1 song ever, without a clear end in sight) is sparking all kinds of takes — that it's slop (all ...
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I know we're all used to Trump embarassing us on the world stage. But we are truly a rogue nation. A rogue *superpower*, and need to be sanctioned and defeated by the international community.
wait what they are using is evidence of fraud is the fact that they have been paying for a service which they do not use?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoDr Oz says the Trump administration will kick more than a million people off health insurance because some of them have "never filed a claim"
If the awards are all white, it's because white people are better. But if they're not all white, that's racist. bsky.app/profile/mari...
Maris Kreizman@maris.bsky.social · 2d agoLOL, the gotcha part in the second paragraph is truly hilarious. Who will think of the straight white rightwing men in the literary world? WHO? WHO?
Be kind guys meta still hasn’t worked out knees
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoit's JD's first day at standing school (Kent Nishimura/Pool via Getty)
If executive branch creates a system so that people under government control can be located and then just stops listing some people in that system — despite their still being under government control — that should be a five-alarm fire for the other branches, the states, and the public.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3d agoNEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.
A little addendum to my Fall piece from last week, in a way. Including this amazing detail from their last manager, who was also MES's partner at the time: "I have Mark’s actual last recordings – he was working on a cover of Madonna’s Material Girl."
‘Love and respect’ or ‘a cash grab’? The furious battle over the final album by the Fall
Creators of Post Script, made with vocals by the late Mark E Smith, defend it as ‘a great, positive record’, but fiancee describes it as ‘ethically wrong’
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one of the grossest things content creator clout types do on here is take a high-profile news story and then just skeet out their own summary of it across a lengthy thread, not providing any attribution, in a way that makes it look like they were the ones who ran down the big story.
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:The anti-abortion movement spends 60 years working towards overturning Roe v. Wade: “Why won’t Democrats push the restore my rights button? More importantly, why are you yelling at me?”
