it literally could not be easier to run against an opponent who is fixated on a microscopic minority that isn’t actually harming anyone! focusing on imaginary threats posed by trans people instead of the world burning down around us is bad politics! point that out! loudly!

Greg Pak@gregpak.net · yesterday

"My opponent wants to hire creeps to inspect your daughter's genitals if she wants to play soccer. I wouldn't trust him or any hired weirdo from his pedophile-protecting party alone in a room with any kid." Go on the offensive, you cowards! It's not that hard!

Meet ICE agent Steve Rivas, of Chicago, IL. Rivas is one of the agents who brutalized the U.S. citizen in Evanston yesterday. Rivas has been involved in multiple questionable use of force incidents in Illinois and Minnesota. Rivas and his wife have been active in the local Chicago swingers scene.

Matthew Eadie@mattheweadie.bsky.social · 23h ago

BREAKING: Evanston police confirm a U.S. citizen was briefly detained by federal agents Sunday morning near Howard and Dodge before being released The man was taken to the hospital for injuries to his head, neck and teeth after agents drove off

BREAKING: Evanston police confirm a U.S. citizen was briefly detained by federal agents Sunday morning near Howard and Dodge before being released The man was taken to the hospital for injuries to his head, neck and teeth after agents drove off

Federal agents detained U.S. citizen Sunday morning - Evanston Now

Police chief says officers responded to a man with injuries to head, neck and teeth on Howard and made contact with agents involved.

evanstonnow.com

Hmm, right wing chuds pepper spraying people outside a drinking establishment in Portland… Surely no one’s ever done this to disastrous personal financial consequence! www.wweek.com/news/2026/02...

Cider Riot Attackers Must Pay $760,007 in Damages to Tasting Room’s Owner

The four men sowed violence at the left-wing cidery in 2019, knocking one patron unconscious.

wweek.com

Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · yesterday

On the afternoon of September 20, 2026, a group of right-wing agitators sprayed chemical irritants into a crowd of protesters outside of a bar in Northeast Portland, Oregon.

It was always inevitable that the loudest and best-funded (by people in Epstein's emails) anti-trans freaks who spent years trying to brand trans people as sexual predators, would instantly start defending Epstein. It's not hypocrisy, it's them reinforcing their hierarchy.

NOW: Just arrived at the intersection of Research Blvd and Anderson Lane—near where ICE shot & wounded 29-yr-old Wilber Rafael Garces Perez earlier today. Between 300-500 people still holding intersection here. ICE is reportedly not letting Garces Perez’s family access him at the hospital.

according to the article, it took hours after the personal intervention of the mayor for his family to even get basic information about him. that information included that he had been transferred to ICE custody hours after being shot. no amnesty

Philip Bump@pbump.com · 22h ago

ICE shot a DoorDash delivery guy.

ICE shot a DoorDash delivery guy.

Attorney: Austin man shot by ICE agent was making DoorDash delivery

A Venezuelan man shot by an ICE agent in Austin was making a DoorDash delivery, his attorney said. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, was later released from the hospital into ICE custody.

statesman.com

The world’s best and smartest people spent a dodecajillion dollars on magic beans that don’t grow beanstalks and now they are going to destroy the world economy, again, and you - who did nothing wrong, again - are going to pay for it, again.

Exxon is now expecting a 2.5 - 3C rise by 2050 But says f*ck you - we are just going to keep right on sucking up as much gas and oil as we can Because even though we know what's coming, we really don't give a sh*t www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Exxon raises 2050 global emissions forecast, sees slower coal decline

The world is at risk of falling behind in efforts to reduce carbon emissions by 2050, ExxonMobil said in its annual energy outlook published on Thursday, as ​the burning of coal could decline at a slo...

reuters.com

ideally i would love to support minority rights but in this case the minority in question is a minority of the population, so it just isn't worth it, mathematically speaking

It's strange how Democratic Socialists - who are being denounced by both parties - turned major deficits into balanced budgets in both New York and Seattle.

Amy Sundberg@amysundberg.bsky.social · 3d ago

BREAKING: In Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson's new proposed city budget being released Tuesday, there is no projected deficit through 2030. Given the state of the projected deficit over the past many years, this is quite an achievement.

'attack a minority who typically vote for us, piss off our own base, & just hope we attract more voters across the aisle than we lose' is a risky galaxy-brain tactic to try when there's 'record high fuel prices' sitting right there. but they know this, of course. they simply don't want progress

This video was filmed in Palestine. My heart struggles to comprehend such cruelty and the heartbreaking disregard for human life. No human being should have to endure this.

A cancer vaccine succeeded in a clinical trial in preventing the recurrence of melanoma, a result experts say is a breakthrough for mRNA-based treatments. Trials for lung cancer, pancreatic cancer and other diseases' vaccines are also underway.

A melanoma vaccine was hailed as a breakthrough. Which cancers are next?

Trials investigating mRNA vaccines for lung cancer, pancreatic cancer and other diseases are already underway.

washingtonpost.com

eliminate EV subsidies, ban cheap overseas EVs, ban EV component import, deport people bringing battery technology to the US, pay billions to kill clean energy projects, end fuel economy standards, and then do THIS is such an elaborate prank on the American people you almost have to respect it

Micah@rincewind.run · 2d ago

chat is that good

chat is that good

honestly some of the most apocalyptic impacts of "AI" will be shit like this, and most of the doomsday dipshits predicting SkyNet can't be bothered to notice or care

UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges

For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.

arstechnica.com

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3d ago

There have always been humans who thought: 1) The world will end soon 2) It will happen in a cool, exciting way 3) It’ll happen to me personally 4) I’ll be a martyred prophet, or a warlord, or otherwise special 5) People who don’t see this are lesser “Sexy apocalypse” is a great phrase for that

I've spent a lot of years studying a lot of collapses, and the truth of the matter is that they're always mundane: mild climatic shifts that reduce crop yields, a dumbass in power who makes some terrible decisions, neglecting things that obviously matter but the will to fix them can't be summoned.

Dave Willner@dwillner.bsky.social · 5d ago

Certain kinds of smart people tend to have a "sexy apocalypse" problem when it comes to thinking about risk. E.g. skynet turning everyone in paperclips, while bad, is also *kind of cool and fun* at the same time. Where the reality is that most actual disasters are both stupid and disappointing.

Folks, please get vaxxed or check your measles titers, if you aren't sure you got 2 doses or were born b/t 1963-1967 (when a less effective, killed vax was used for a bit). An unvaxxed passenger "rode across the country" on trains & Amtrak buses & is now hospitalized. www.ktvu.com/news/califor...

California health department notifies of measles exposure from unvaccinated Amtrak passenger

The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) is urging residents to get their measles vaccination after notifying the public of an exposure from an Amtrak passenger who traveled on the rail syste...

ktvu.com

Bonus content: Of course the rationalist AI doomer sex/death cult also has a porn-based connection to Jeffrey Epstein

Hagen Blix@hagenblix.bsky.social · last mo.

Honestly, you couldn't make this shit up: Cami Clark, spouse of Anthropic co-founder Dario Amodei, "wanted Jeffrey Epstein to invest in porn business"

It isn't explicit, but we've seen this pattern before. 1) Black Americans are twice as likely to get Alzheimer's 2) Scientists want to study Black communities to figure out why and what insights this has for treatment/cause 3) Trump people cut the program, most likely because they think it's DEI.

Ian Kremer@wolverinebear.bsky.social · 3d ago

Americans may not get results of Alzheimer’s study due to Trump cuts: Shutdown of study is latest for Trump administration, which has canceled, frozen and otherwise disrupted more than 5,700 medical research grants over two years www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... #Project2025 #science #Blues

What's being described in the AI/EA community is not consensual group sex: it's coerced sex ("consensual non-consensual" they call it) with ppl who control your earning & advancement opportunities. It's revealing bc pressure to engage in group sex is ALSO a hallmark of mafia & criminal groups. 1/x

Bree (half of Kit Rocha)@mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 3d ago

Honestly "cult" is probably generously downplaying the horror of an industry that has normalized the idea of boundary eroding sex parties attended by all the people who have control over your professional & financial future. 🤷🏻‍♀️

No wonder these AI companies are worrying about human extinction via AI created biological pathogens: They’re starting their own wet labs.

EXCLUSIVE: Anthropic quietly sets up biology lab as it ramps AI drug program

At a time when fears of AI are gripping the public, the startup has built a wet lab — or ​place for physical experiments — in the San Francisco Bay Area, two people familiar with the matter said.

reuters.com

Q: On the ban, what does that mean in practice? Are you taking away their badges? TRUMP: When you say 'the ban,' which ban? Do you know how many bans I'm involved in? I've got more bans going than anyone! Q: But what does it mean? T: I still don't know -- oh, the ban on the free press, right?

Do you ever notice how the only people who ever seem to want to use nooses and lynching as their metaphors for anything are always the descendents of people who did it, never descendents of people it was done to? When you realize that, that's when the racial component becomes unavoidably obvious.

Devin Nunes' Alt-Mom@nunesalt.bsky.social · 5d ago

*Mike Pence enters chat* www.rawstory.com/susan-collin...

BREAKING NEWS: The United Nations’ top human rights body reported that it found “reasonable grounds” to believe that the U.S. committed war crimes in Iran.

It was confirmed yesterday that the centre left coalition won the election in Sweden As predicted, with the far right performing poorly, coverage has almost entirely vanished from international media

Aurelien Mondon@aurelmondon.com · last wk.

You may be relieved but spare a thought for so many editors in the mainstream media who were hoping to run hyping headlines about the far right winning in Sweden As always when SD is hyped and ends up crashing, I expect Swedish politics will drop off the radar as it's no longer sexy enough

The Heritage Foundation is infamous for organizing Project 2025. As I was investigating Heritage, I found that it promotes a network of Christian nationalist schools to parents. That network was founded by Doug Wilson, who is well-known for his extreme views. Read my investigative report here:

How the Heritage Foundation Promotes Christian Nationalist Schooling — Civil Defense

Tracing Heritage and Kevin Roberts’s ties to a growing network of classical Christian schools—and the policies steering public money their way.

civildefenseinstitute.org

Their first piece of evidence was our President and Secretary of Defense publicly bragging about committing war crimes.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 4d ago

BREAKING NEWS: The United Nations’ top human rights body reported that it found “reasonable grounds” to believe that the U.S. committed war crimes in Iran.