One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.

LMAOOOOOOOOOO somebody finally asked the transphobes if they know any WNBA players besides and NOPE

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there are moments when “this too shall pass” really is a comfort. we humans let each other down.. it happens. however we may feel wronged, what is less known is how we may have wronged others. disappointment is a part of life. we’re wise enough to feel it, let go and move on.

The idea of AI “hallucinating” is one I wish I’d had!

Wow. From the main entry on the Republican Party. Good for Wikipedia, one of the last vestiges of pure truth seeking and editorial standards on the internet.

Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 2w ago

ICYMI, over the past two weeks, English-language Wikipedia editors have engaged in a successful effort to change the first paragraph of the Republican Party entry to reflect its current status as a "neo-nationalist" political party. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republi...

I’m so naïve I really didn’t think they would let the president sell high-level oval office information to traders for his own enrichment.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3w ago

$DJT

As Bowie would say to Mark Goodman two years later: “.. Having watched MTV over the past few months, .. I’m just floored that by the fact that there’s so few black artists featured on it. Why IS that?”

After my parents were visiting set for the first time, I asked my dad what he thought. He said “I didnt realize, it’s like you’re building a house, and once an hour good looking people run in and put on a play for five minutes. Then they leave and you go back to construction.”

Alvaro M. Bedoya@bedoyausa.bsky.social · 4w ago

People think "Hollywood" is rich and famous. The reality? Film and TV is a national industry. It's a blue collar industry. And it is an industry free fall. My latest for @newrepublic.com on how the Paramount merger would crush blue collar workers who can not afford it newrepublic.com/article/2136...

it’s legitimately fucking offensive to me as a taxpayer that this entire administration is run by people whose only goal in life is to be on television

Brandy Zadrozny@brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 4w ago

Someone posted this in slack and I actually thought it was The Onion. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

See you in court, creep.

MPR News@mprnews.org · 4w ago

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company is suing Minnesota over a first-in-the-nation law banning technology that allows users to create and post deepfake videos or images of people naked without their consent.

i understand the impulse to react to a terrible story by saying that you’re not surprised, but i hope i’ll always be surprised by terrible stories.

Transphobes are uniformly trash and we don't need to pretend otherwise. It isn't complicated.

to hear Trump tell it, American elections were completely corrupted while he was president and he was helpless to stop it, then they were cleaned up by Biden ahead of Trump's victory in 2024, and now that Trump is president again they are once again becoming third world caliber

Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”

this is the kind of shit that needs to break Senate Collegiality you simply cannot be friends and exchange grandkid pictures with people who turn around and go on national television to lie about how you only won because you cheated

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

Tuberville: "We probably have four or five senators that didn't legally win. They shouldn't be up here."

The news is always "This absolute fool was dismantled in hearings today. He is manifestly unqualified for the position and would be an existential danger if confirmed. Disaster. He is set to be confirmed immediately." When you ask why everyone is furious and exhausted all the time, this is why.

it's not an own to point out that all these fucking guys trying to deny trans people their hormones are so into HGH and whatnot. they don't care either way about 'gender affirming care.' they want to be he-men and they want trans people to die. to them the two projects are perfectly coherent

Calling the RFK Jr diarrhea strain “MAHA Blast” since it has now evidently infiltrated Taco Bell

I regret that Amnesty International is clearly being financially bullied. And that JK Rowling is a vile vicious bigot standing next to another awful human being. Trans rights are human rights.

The National@scotnational.bsky.social · last mo.

Amnesty International has expressed its 'regret' over a report naming dozens of gender-critical campaign groups as 'anti-rights' organisations

lotta folks are going to get extremely & very uncreatively homophobic about lindsey graham being dead & i think it’s important to remember you can simply celebrate the fact a warmongering bigot is dead without being shitty. drink some champagne! go for a nice walk! fuck your loved ones about it!

When it inevitably comes out that McConnell hasn’t been conscious since his collapse on June 14, let’s all remember that the Senate Majority Leader and Whip said they’d talked to him the day after he got CPR and that he was “engaged” (both of them used that exact word!) and would be back soon.

Jen Bendery@jbendery.bsky.social · 2mo ago

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

They’re five-year-olds! He’s sharing videos of a bunch of happy five-year-olds in order to harm them! It’s inhuman, we must rid ourselves of these men

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

Trump is now using his platform to attack kindergarteners because they are Muslim

Having my organs removed and preserved in my collection of Dunkin' Canopic Jars.

As a former professional athlete, this is one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard. Your kid has a less than 1% chance of getting an athletic college scholarship. You’re better off putting the money into a 529 plan.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

Gluesenkamp Perez: "At town halls, what I saw was the people who were the most upset had spent the last 12 years driving their girls to sports practice & they view their best shot of their student going to college as an athletic scholarship. So when we rush to moralize we miss some of the nuance."

when he’s right he’s right, let’s vote to make sure they never hold the senate again and can’t confirm any of them

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

Vance says the midterms are big because Republicans are one SCOTUS seat from ending birthright citizenship

The correct statement for Dems to give is this: It is a relief that the Court reaffirmed the foundational principle that anyone born in America is unquestionably American. But the close split on this simple constitutional question reveals a body corrupted beyond repair by authoritarian bullying.

A pox on every single transphobe, especially those with the political and social power to make people’s lives better or worse who decide: hm, let’s go with WORSE. This includes not only rabid rightwingers, but also ostensible allies who cannot wait to sell out our trans brothers and sisters. POX!!

Reporting on the SCOTUS birthright case doesn't reflect how alarming it is that the ruling was so close. It also glosses over the danger of a Roberts Court that attacks voting rights, minority protections, and campaign finance laws — all while making it easier for corporations to poison us. Hello?