The humanity is what's being farmed out, and it's to people who couldn't give a fuck if you lived or died as long as you did it while staying in your place.
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Tech oligarchs are saying people who make six figures are the only ones who can vote. The president is trying to restrict anyone from getting an art or education degree. But do continue to farm out your books and shows to AI and robots. I'm sure Orwell's 1984 would have had the same ending.
Attention anti-tax politicians: even in red states voters know the money has to come from somewhere. They even understand the difference between progressive and regressive taxation. I mean REALLY.
Using National Guard soldiers as props in authoritarian theater is pricey. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Trump’s National Guard deployment in D.C. set to cost additional $1.4 billion
The estimate, provided to Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren, covers the period from Oct. 1, 2026, through the end of the president’s term.
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...the irony is that the gatekeepers are denouncing cocaine, yet they are doing it on Facebook, which uses cocaine. They are likely typing their pretentious screeds on their phones, which also use cocaine. They likely sell their books on Amazon, which also uses cocaine. bsky.app/profile/holl...
Holly Lyn Walrath@hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · 16h agoThere is a lengthy pro-AI screed in the latest HWA newsletter and it is . . . a mood.
In WSJ's ticktock of the Pirro flipflop, they reveal Pirro was PAYING AUSAs $25K bonuses. To stick around. 👀 Given pretty clear GJ misconduct laid out in Davey Hearn's response to the MTD, that looks really really suspect.
emptywheel@emptywheel.bsky.social · 2h agoWhat Did Jeanine Pirro Know and When Did She Know It? emptywheel.net/2026/08/05/w...
And the answer, by the way, is not "it's a one party consent state." The legality of secretly taping your wife is not the same thing as the creepiness of secretly taping your wife.
This is just rank Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism, based on the bigoted idea that there is something inherently scary about a president with the last name "El-Sayed." It is incumbent on all of us to call it out.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2h agoJD Vance: "We don't want the next administration, whoever -- god forbid you're gonna have President El-Sayed in three years ... "
🧵🧵🧵 A scandal that hardly anyone knows happened is Trump giving traitor Michael Flynn $1.25 million in your tax money. Flynn, Trump’s 1st national security adviser, pleaded guilty twice to lying to the FBI but was pardoned by Trump. He sued, alleging "weaponization," and DOJ paid him in March. 1/4🧵
Justice Dept. Settles Flynn’s Wrongful Prosecution Suit for $1.25 Million (Gift Article)
The agreement was an extraordinary example of how the Trump administration has offered legal relief to those aligned with the president.
nytimes.com
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Can’t believe someone said yeah that’s a good and normal sentence I just wrote
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3d ago“It is the Eye of Sauron, but it also knows when we enter our daughter’s room in the morning and joy hits her face — and it sends us intelligently edited montages of these moments.”
I had to code and pronounce a time of death on a respiratory therapist colleague. There's a memorial plaque for her outside the emergency department to this day. I wrote and re-wrote my will. I will never forgive these ghouls trying to rewrite history and deny our experience.
Gabriel Bosslet@gbosslet.bsky.social · 3d agoRFK Jr said these words today on national television "There were ICUs that were empty all over the country including in New York at the height (of the pandemic)" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You are a fucking idiot hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha <sobs silently>
I see we're doing "everything is worse" now for Discourse tonight. It's not, but the thing about this argument is that IT DOESN'T MATTER. You cannot pick and choose when you live. You can only live forward. So fix what you can and enjoy what's good instead of pining for when you were a child.
Your life with an ornch (let alone two) will NEVER be dull. Let's see if we can get these sweeties some humans.
derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 21h agoBay Area friends: would you consider opening your home to these two cuddly cats? A friend found them behind a gas station. Their sibling, a black cat, got adopted, but it appears no one likes orange cats. They are being kept in a bathroom for the time being and need a home.
If your winning issue is trans women in sports, and you're struggling to uncover trans women in any league that anybody has ever heard of, then how do you keep trans athletes at the top of people's minds? Answer: You invent them. defector.com/the-right-ha...
The Right Has Created Their Perfect Trans Athlete | Defector
A lot of people in and around the WNBA are talking about trans women. In the aftermath of Indiana Fever role player Sophie Cunningham’s negative comments about trans people playing sports in an ESPN…
defector.com
No real weird ones. Our oldest one has been transformed into the faux-neighborhood model with all-outdoor stores, as well as the practice facility for our NHL & PWHL teams. The ritzy one downtown is empty but became a World Cup viewing party venue during the summer, which was brilliant.
ashley fairbanks@ziibiing.com · 13h agotell me about your town’s weird mall
good reminder that before the counting is over, election results don’t tighten. at no point is anyone trailing. nobody moves closer. they’re just tabulating the polls. it’s a fixed number that just isn’t done yet. to say otherwise is bad journalism but even worse math.
Kansas voters once against came out to support abortion rights on Tuesday night. www.politico.com/live-updates...
Kansas just affirmed that abortion politics still matter
Voters rejected a measure that was yet another ploy to restrict the right to abortion in the state.
politico.com
Seattle voters are currently approving the library levy renewal by nearly 72%.
Ryan Packer@typewriteralley.bsky.social · 14h agoGreetings from the Yes Seattle Libraries election night party at Reuben's downtown, featuring CM Dionne Foster.
All of this. It is trauma triggers every single day for survivors, and we just get up and keep going, because we are not allowed by society to do anything else.
Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 14h agoIt's demoralizing living in a nonstop Abuse-a-thon: we've had to learn the sordid details of so many men's abhorrent behavior; I mean this summer has been Graham Platner, Andrew Tate, Jared Leto, Max Miller, plus the horrific L.A. rape-murder of the child by the rapper, to name a few lowlights.
The Trump administration revoked the visa of Brazil’s ambassador to Washington, the latest flash point in a deepening dispute between the U.S. and Latin America’s biggest and richest country.
Trump administration cancels Brazilian ambassador’s visa in tit-for-tat
A senior State Department official told reporters in a background briefing that it was a “reciprocal” action because Brazil has not approved President Donald Trump’s nominee as ambassador to Brasilia.
washingtonpost.com
“researchers found that USAF vets had a 29% higher rate, frmr USCG members had a 26% higher rate& USN vets had a 15% higher rate. Marines had the lowest rate, at 22% below that of Army vets.Overall, officers had a 64% higher rate than enlisted personnel, while women officers had a 72% higher rate”🛟🧪
Patricia Kime@patriciakime.bsky.social · 21h agoALS is a rare disease, but it occurs in service members at rates higher than the general population and also within the military services, study finds via @militarytimes.bsky.social www.militarytimes.com/veterans/202...
None of this is ever attempted to be understood by anti trans campaigners, or most sport federations btw. The IOC actually did work to understand this but let federations take their own tailor made approach and they just used it to politically harm trans athletes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Sydney Bauer@sydney-bauer.com · 18h agoWhen trans people bristled at policies that required time to be on hormones before being able to join elite competition it was because: -time on HRT was arbitrary -testosterone level achieved was arbitrary -maintaining testosterone levels continually is arbitrary -no one else had these restrictions
The canoes have come ashore in the traditional lands of the Nisqually Indian Tribe, and the Medicine Creek Potlatch Journey continues. You can watch participating tribes' songs and dances during protocol here. #canoejourney www.youtube.com/playlist
2026 Canoe Journey
Join us as we celebrate and share culture with Canoe Families and other indigenous peoples from across the world.
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🤯🤯🤯 “Steven Quay, a pharma executive known for his books making the case Covid came from a Chinese lab, is on the verge of getting Anthony Fauci’s old job” A Big Pharma executive & lab leaker, what could possibly go wrong? www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
A lab-leak proponent is in line for Fauci’s old job
Steven Quay is in final vetting to run the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
politico.com
Big, BIG CW for self-harm/suicide on this, because it is *horrifying*.
Jason Leopold@jasonleopold.bsky.social · 18h agoBOMBSHELL story by Olivia Carville @bloomberg.com Internal Report Shows TikTok Kept Safety Feature From Millions A confidential document says an algorithm adjustment was kept from many users “by design,” as part of an experiment to measure engagement NO PAYWALL www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
If SCREEN were to pass, you'd be required to scan your face and upload an ID to access this site because it allows "harmful" material. This affects you even if you don't care about sex work or porn.
404 Media@404media.co · 22h agoMike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the architects of Project 2025.