🎉 Pro-tip: Look for the candidates saying things like this today
Clare
@idclare.bsky.social
she/her. super progressive. PNW. older than you think. This account will likely be a lot of fandom conversations, with reposts of politics and the occasional science or tech.
A simple way to think about basic income. Wealth transfer is also a transfer of power.
Medical advances. All of them. I was told in 2006 when I went into a t1 diabetic coma that if I'd showed up to ER in state I was in 20 years before, I'd be dead. We got a COVID vaccine in a YEAR. Spouse has a friend w/a major brain aneurysm who SURVIVED. And no one smokes inside anymore!!!!!!!!!
Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · yesterdayFood, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
It's gotten so much easier to start learning so many more languages, you used to be limited to the 3-5 major languages that a local bookstore or educational institution had decided it was worth making available, and now you can just like, look things up in hundreds of them
Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · yesterdayFood, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
I think we need to brace ourselves for a new and more extreme outbreak of racism and Islamophobic slurs from Trump and the GOP as they head into a Fall election in which their prospects are deservedly grim. Hate is their stock-in-trade and they'll be slinging it big time.
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14h agoRepublicans didn’t take long to get the open bigotry going
the intentional abdication by Congress of nearly all of its constitutional responsibilities is at the core of most of our problems as a nation
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
It’s important to understand that when 1.2 million Americans are dying from a disease, any government action is excessive and tyrannical, but if a dozen trans women want to play soccer no government action can go far enough
There’s “off the charts” and there’s France’s absolutely bonkers June & July 2026 temperatures (see black line below). Bad things are happening. Fast.
If the right is gonna do this over Fauci, then the next Dem admin definitely needs to run RFK Jr - who actually deserves it - through this ordeal
The Republican Party has gone full mask-off Nazi; meanwhile the media narrative being pushed 24/7 is “ahhh! Democrats are being taken over by socialist radicals!!” and their terrifying examples are Miss Rachel, a doctor who wants you to have healthcare, and the friendliest mayor in American history.
hammancheez@hammancheez.bsky.social · 4d agoParty that spent the last decade grooming and funding and encouraging blind nazi ideologues to run for office and government positions : uh oh
A self-respecting Congress would impeach him over this immediately. Doing an end-run around the Senate's Constitutional "advise and consent" authority to illegally take money from taxpayers, and give it to himself and criminals he likes. Alone, one of the most impeachable offenses in US history.
Howard French@hofrench.bsky.social · 4d ago
65,765 people were in ICE detention as of July 11, in ICE's first data since April. Arrests hit a record 1,474 a day, and the largest group in custody has no criminal history at all. Full edition: austinkocher.substack.com/p/this-week-...
Israel is giving Trump's former campaign manager millions of dollars to fill the internet with pro-Israel articles written by AI, not so that anyone will actually read them, but so that *LLMs will train on them* & regurgitate their perspective. This is the future of the information environment.
Israel Is Paying Millions to Train AI Chatbots How to Talk About Gaza. It's Working.
Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale is overseeing an operation posting hundreds of blog posts on behalf of Israel, with the goal of infiltrating artificial intelligence.
dropsitenews.com
Turns out that food companies were only checking their food because the government told them to, which is exactly why we need government regulations.
150,000 marched yesterday in London for trans rights. Opened the Sky News app. Scrolled and scrolled. Nothing. BBC News app. Nothing. Guardian app. Nothing. This is what actual silencing looks like.
Billionaires being unafraid to say things like this publicly is a major indicator of how bad things have gotten
Rachel Gilmore@rachelgilmore.bsky.social · last wk.Very cool that Shopify’s CEO thinks the poor should have far less of a vote than the rich. Still worth that ad read money, folks?
For those of you who are still over there because of "the reach" or "the discourse" or whatever.
Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · last wk.Musk calls for the assassination of a reporter who embarrassed him with basic questions
"[House representative and Democratic Senate candidate Haley] Stevens visited a Michigan ICE jail where an immigrant who was being detained, Nenko Gantchev, died. ... [S]he praised the [fatal] facility for employing women[.]"
Truthout@truthout.org · 2w agoUp until this week, Senate candidate Haley Stevens’s campaign shared a mutual consultant with Palantir, bringing renewed attention to Stevens’s record on ICE as she faces a contentious race against Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan. Stevens’s campaign has also received $30 million in support from AIPAC.
It’s shocking and shameful that in the United States we have allowed for investors to make money off of child imprisonment. Children as young as two-months old. Alongside 110 House Democrats, I am calling for the Dilley Trailer Prison to be shut down.
"F* them kids." - Administration basically
Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 10mo agoAn HHS source says admin also RIFed entire Office of Population Affairs last night. “Not a single staff person to run our nation's family planning program or the evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention program. The Office of Adolescent Health which nested within OPA functionally ceases to exist”
The fact that this is even being entertained as a possibility suggests how absolutely terrible US political culture is.
Forbes@forbes.com · last wk.It is unclear when the Kentucky senator plans to return to Congress.
I think it harms Journalism that the message that the media has sent to us over the last several years is that no matter what a person does it’s impossible to credibly be sure that they are a Nazi.
If you’re considering whether terms like ethnic cleansing or pogrom might be applicable to impending government action, there could be a problem.
Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · last wk.TPS for Haitians officially expires tomorrow. ICE is planning big operations, with Springfield, Ohio among the targets www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-hai...
The Seattle Police Chief has been in his position for 542 days. He spent an estimated 90 days out of Seattle. That works out to about 1 day out of every 6 since taking office that he has not been in Seattle. He was not in Seattle today, and is not expected back until mid-August. $370K = AWOL.
EXTRAORDINARY EVENT 40c IN WINTER WORLD CLIMATIC HISTORY REWRITTEN Insane mind blowing winter heat in SOUTH AFRICA 40C in Namibia,36.1C in South Africa coast at Alexander Baai (MINIMUMS 22/23C !). Records pulverized Temperatures are 10C ABOVE MID SUMMER AVERAGES More summer heat next days.
one of the most important things you need to do when developing a new product, especially in tech, is sit down and think about how it can be misused by bad actors and nowadays it sure seems like the bad actors are less “people to be guarded against” and more “the target customer base”
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last wk.FWIW, Meta was fully aware of how these glasses would primarily be used. The glasses were designed to erase consent, and that is why they exist. Anything that they do that suggests they want to ameliorate this use is an attempt to win the PR battle and manipulate public opinion.
Barnes makes around $370,000 a year. He has repeatedly been out of town, at events in other cities or at his family home in Chicago, during emergencies like today’s mass shootimg.
People often ask how much UBI should pay. Turns out there’s no universal agreement The common features: universal, unconditional, individual, paid regularly in *cash. Many U.S. proposals land near the federal poverty guideline for one adult, about $1,330/month.