We're post-scarcity on glassware (the glass often costs less than the drink in it) and its cool to see exactly why.
brennan@brennan.computer · 7h agothey're doing this to me tomorrow
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Woke Moralist, Democratic Socialist, Noted Chart Pervert, and some sort of weird jewish nerd
brennan@brennan.computer · 7h ago
again stevens losing with $60 million in ad spend suggests to me that she might actually have been a very weak general candidate
#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 14h agoUnfathomable
The govt has fired *all* the immigration attorneys representing detained children and given a $150 million contract to a 26-employee law firm in Texas with ONE immigration attorney. @theyoungcenter.bsky.social's Child Advocates are now the last line of defense for kids in deportation hearings.
Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins@ajcousins.bsky.social · 5h agoWanna help? Become a Waymaker! We're running, walking, cycling 20,000 miles in September to raise money to get immigrant kids out of detention and back with family. Someone who kayaks to work is dedicating his miles to Waymakers! A salsa dance class is counting steps! It all counts! #BeAWaymaker
Despite the usual and continued insistence that KOSA protects kids, the duty of care enforced by a Trump FTC would be a censorship & surveillance nightmare.
The Senate Commerce Committee just passed KOSA out of committee with zero debate & failed to move the SCREEN Act. punchbowl.news/article/tech...
Tech: KOSA heads to Senate floor
The Senate Commerce Committee sent the Kids Online Safety Act to the floor on Wednesday, alongside three other bills designed to protect kids and teens using technology.
punchbowl.news
In other Michigan news, the state looks set to elect it's first transgender lawmaker. Joanna Whaley won her Democratic primary and will compete in November for a state house seat, beating a primary opponent who tried and failed to disqualify her for not running under her deadname
cop unions are basically just lobbies for corruption and lawlessness by public servants
community: *proposes guardrails* police union: HOW DARE YOU SHOW THIS MONUMENTAL DISRESPECT TO THE PEOPLE WHO PUT THEIR LIVES ON THE LINE EVERY DAY TO KEEP YOU SAFE FROM THE MONGRELS AND ANIMALS WHO WOULD DEVOUR YOU IF IT WERE NOT FOR THEIR BRAVERY BY DEMANDING THEY BURDEN THEMSELVES WITH "THE LAW"
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3h agoIt’s not a guardrails problem but rather a fascism problem.
No, the term is not actually a racist reference to indigenous people per all expert sources I’ve seen - creeks rising when you’re dealing with dirt roads was just a very real issue in the 1800s: www.worldwidewords.org/qa-god1.htmllo
God willing and the creek don't rise: Origins
How did 'God willing and the creek don't rise' become folklore about Native Americans, and why do historians reject this popular origin story entirely?
worldwidewords.org
this is truly motivating me to use inshallah even more than I already do after all it’s the faster and more fun way to say “if the good lord’s willing and the creek don’t rise,” speaking as someone with Southern roots.
✨queer commie terrorist✨@britculpsapp.bsky.social · 3h agostarting my compilation/collage of right wing white dipshits losing their shit over the word “inshallah”
Ben Shapiro probably does not know enough history to even know this, but the way he is talking about Muslims as a nation within the nation who can never be integrated is almost verbatim what European nationalists said about Jews in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
can you guys retire "the right wing / chuds don't know what to do with trans men and forget they exist and will be So Confused by them!!!!" already. they are fully aware trans men exist and the thing they do to trans men is violently abuse and murder them
El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"
Abbas went on the record in late 2024 that he would vote for Kamala Harris even though she refused any of the demands and asks of pro-Palestine organizers, including the bare minimum of having a Palestinian speaker at the DNC or accepting the invitation to meet with Arab families in Michigan.
The co-founder of the 2024 National Uncommitted Movement, Abbas Alawieh, decisively won his primary to become a State Senator in Michigan. Abbas was endorsed by both Bernie Sanders and Gretchen Whitmer. Abbas Alawieh also privately met with former VP Kamala Harris last month upon her request.
"Trans people will be barred from using facilities that match their gender, but also, it seems, may be barred from using those that match their sex at birth… The ban is sweeping: it applies to workplaces, hospitals, schools, shops, restaurants, gyms, pubs, clubs, schools… " (from September 2025)
Britain’s Bathroom Ban
The UK has gone from a bathroom ban being unthinkable to a Labour government implementing an extraordinarily authoritarian one—without a vote.
liberalcurrents.com
Today the UK is putting into practice aggressive restrictions on trans people using toilets and changing rooms. This follows a complex legal/political mess over two years. The UK was among the best countries in Europe on LGBTQ rights; now it's among the worst. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-t...
The End of Trans Rights in the UK Is the Start of Democratic Collapse
It's never just one minority.
liberalcurrents.com
one thing that RCV would help with is reducing the levels of intra-partisan conflict on the grounds that when it's FPTP there's no incentive to build bridges among partisans
EA Strom@profmisterlizzie.bsky.social · 5h agoIt's almost always true that the Democratic candidates, both centrists and progressives, are ultimately more gracious and pragmatic than the dead-enders who post about them on social media.
It's funny that Jeanine Pirro brought a box of evidence to WH to persuade Trump. He wants her to consciously *throw out* exculpatory facts and *knowingly* prosecute innocent people. So facts can't persuade him by definition. Me and @barbmcquade.bsky.social on this: newrepublic.com/article/2139...
Let's not lose sight of how abnormal this is. Trump is demanding prosecutions over Reflecting Pool fiasco even though his own DOJ has shown conclusively it isn't supported by facts or law. On the pod, @barbmcquade.bsky.social is brilliant on the bigger stakes here: newrepublic.com/article/2139...
Trump’s Fury at Reflecting Pool Mess Darkens as Damning New Leaks Hit
As Trump’s effort to jail people over his failed renovation starts looking even worse, a former federal prosecutor explains why this corruption of DOJ is so dangerous—and how to fight back.
newrepublic.com
Wrote this in April after the first direct ICE removal flight to Myanmar. CW: descriptions of torture gillianbrockell.com/three-craven...
Three craven ICE flights
An apparent ICE flight to Myanmar, a third-country removal to Uganda, and another African country joins the list of collaborator “hosts.”
gillianbrockell.com
This plane landed in Myanmar about three hours ago. This is the third ICE flight to Myanmar this year. Burmese deportees in 2025 were immediately sent to a torture facility next to the airport, according to Myanmar Now. Weeks later, not all of them had emerged.
Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · yesterdayThis likely ICE flight operated by Journey Aviation has taken off and appears to heading for an Asia removal. In May, this aircraft deported people to Myanmar.
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 · 6h agoJD Vance: "We don't want the next administration, whoever -- god forbid you're gonna have President El-Sayed in three years ... "
the republican party is full of domestic abusers, rapists, and other sickos who use the cover of christian faith to mask their deeply disturbed pathologies
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 8h agoMike Johnson tells Politico that he's standing behind Republican Max Miller — despite the "serious" domestic abuse allegations against him.
He paid off traitors because he wants to create more of them. His plan is to overthrow democracy and enslave us
Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · 7h ago🧵🧵🧵 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🧵