Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.
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Chicagoan by birth, Minnesotan by choice. Fighting against oligarchy. Everyone deserves a roof, food and healthcare.
Uuuuugh the prospect of having to make it policy to demand AI chatbot history for every alleged expert is extremely aggravating
Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 4w agoNew: An "expert witness" in a $61 million lawsuit over an industrial explosion that killed three people and destroyed 200 homes used ChatGPT to write his report for the court. He prompted ChatGPT to "show how 3M is 0% at fault for the explosion at Watson Grinding" www.404media.co/show-how-3m-...
While you were over here trying to figure out how you were going to cover the rent and food—this guy was over there using $5.1 million in taxpayer money YOU paid into the system to cover these statues in 23 karat gold. Yeah, he did that.
The plot to enslave America
Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · 5mo agoChristian Nationalist company towns are popping up across the country. The rich people behind this movement somewhat resemble the Gilded Age moguls who built libraries, but they are even more ambitious in their vision for how the rest of us should live. opb.org/article/2026...
This could be solved pretty easily if we rolled back the tax breaks on the wealthy that the GOP (when they controlled the presidency and both houses of Congress) passed in 2017 and 2025.
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5mo ago(WSJ) - The U.S. national debt now exceeds 100% of gross domestic product, crossing a once-unthinkable threshold, on the way toward breaking the record set in the wake of World War II. @wsj.com www.wsj.com/economy/u-s-...
no matter what's going on in your world today remember that they still haven't found whoever stole that truck full of kit-kats and somebody probably has spent an entire month on an epic sugar binge
I kinda forgot about this guy. Sent 3 bombs to CNN and eight years later CNN anchors were dressing up in tuxes and gowns to go celebrate the president that encouraged the bombings.
Mehdi Hasan@mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 5mo agoCesar Sayoc, a Trump super fan & obsessive Fox viewer, sent pipe bombs in 2018 to Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, & many other top Dems. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison. In the wake of the attacks, Trump said about his rhetoric: "Tone down, no. Could tone up."
This should be the law everywhere.
Bolts@boltsmag.org · 5mo agoVirginia Governor Abigail Spanberger endorsed a constitutional amendment to automatically restore voting rights to people with felony convictions when they leave prison. State lawmakers passed the amendment and it will now appear on the state ballot.
30 years ago today, Principal Skinner purchased fast food to disguise as his own cooking at an unforgettable luncheon with Superintendent Chalmers. #TheSimpsons episode “22 Short Films About Springfield” first aired April 14, 1996.
Keep in mind the terrible irony that NM is the 2nd biggest crude oil producing state in the nation.
Senator Martin Heinrich@heinrich.senate.gov · 5mo agoI'm here in Truth or Consequences, where gas is effectively $4.45 a gallon.
Apart from the profanity and planning to do some war crimes (civilian power plants are not generally valid military targets), if you had told folks that the President would be posting 'Praise be to Allah' on Easter Sunday, they'd assume we'd lost a war. And be right, I guess.
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 5mo agoThis open threat of war crimes is pure sociopathic bloodlust and sadism but it's also another sign that he's failing and that he's in a fury about it.
Can you imagine how apoplectic the right would be if Obama said "praise be to Allah", even if he said it exactly like DJT?
Schooley@schooley.bsky.social · 5mo agoRemember the one time Biden's celebratory F bomb on Obama's hot mic was a big story.
Two chained women are inspected before being loaded onto today's ICE Air flight at MSP. Empty shackles, returning from El Paso, will be brought to Whipple. The number of people loaded here this week, 67, is the highest since Feb 7-13, when Homan announced the end of Metro Surge.
so our president is just a psychopath, got it
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6mo agoKaroline Leavitt: "Some of the previous leaders are now no longer on planet Earth because they lied to the United States and they strung us along in negotiations, and that was unacceptable to the president, which is why many of the previous leaders were killed"
Never heard of a bigger paradox than “growing the workforce through AI”
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6mo agooh, so Friday's jobs numbers are gonna be BAD bad
yes, we have the most powerful navy in the world, but even we havent sent them there cuz we werent prepared, so our allies must be failing us cuz they arent prepared even tho we didnt even tell them we were going to war maybe he aint drinking these days, but he sure sounds like he's mid-binge
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6mo agoHegseth: "The president was clear this morning in his Truth that there are countries around the world who ought to be prepared to step up on this critical waterway as well. Last time I checked there was supposed to be a big bad Royal Navy that could be prepared to do things like that."
Hegseth: "The president was clear this morning in his Truth that there are countries around the world who ought to be prepared to step up on this critical waterway as well. Last time I checked there was supposed to be a big bad Royal Navy that could be prepared to do things like that."
Also, here's a great explainer from the AP that answers the questions from my original post last night and confirms everything I suspected about how poorly conceived and ill-advised seizing Kharg would be.
Seizing Kharg Island would risk US troops' lives and may not end Iran war, experts say
President Donald Trump is threatening to deploy ground troops to seize critical oil infrastructure on Iran’s Kharg Island.
apnews.com
Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker@nomads.bsky.social · 6mo agoI’ve been overwhelmed and thrilled by the response to this! I’ve also gotten a lot of questions asking how I did it. So, this weekend I sat down and wrote a detailed narrative documentation outlining how, exactly, I built Mr. Chatterbox: www.estragon.news/mr-chatterbo...
We are 100% going to send under-supplied troops into the line of fire to try and create a beachhead with half-assed planning. This is tragedy in the making. taskandpurpose.com/news/middle-...
Pentagon looks for vendors to supply pre-made bunkers within 30 days
The Defense Department is trying to find vendors who can supply transportable bunkers that protect troops against blasts and shrapnel.
taskandpurpose.com
This is the legislature fully and voluntarily relinquishing its constitutional power to the executive. You want dictatorships? Because that's how you get dictatorships.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6mo agoMike Johnson: "We are very grateful to have a strong commander in chief in the White House who has taken real leadership. President Trump has already ordered by EO that TSA agents will be paid and that machinery is in process right now."