Twitch says quiet part out loud: Amazon AI is opt out because "nobody would opt in" aftermath.site/twitch-ai-amaz...

You do not, under any circumstances, have to hand it to Karoline Leavitt and her team. JFC

Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com · 12h ago

One you might find surprising. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt & members of her team have been extremely helpful in responding to questions I raise. Regardless of public facing commentary, privately they are willing to engage and address questions. And I have appreciated that. Thank you

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Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com · 12h ago

One you might find surprising. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt & members of her team have been extremely helpful in responding to questions I raise. Regardless of public facing commentary, privately they are willing to engage and address questions. And I have appreciated that. Thank you

To all of my Jewish sisters and brothers, my commitment to your safety, to everyone’s safety, is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters.

From Ohio, Palestinian American watches as settlers besiege his family in Qusra Through security cams 6K miles away, Ridi sees IDF fraternizing w/ those trapping bro & nephew “Instead of helping, the soldiers hug the settlers,” www.timesofisrael.com/from-ohio-a-...

From Ohio, a Palestinian American watches as settlers besiege his family in Qusra

Through security cameras 6,000 miles away, Loui Ridi sees IDF soldiers fraternizing with those blocking his trapped brother and nephew, instead of rescuing them

timesofisrael.com

We're proud to announce that the workers' first campaign, which started in a garage, just got added to the DCCC's Red to Blue program! It's official: our race is one of the best opportunities in the country to flip a House seat and put working people first in Washington! Let's finish the job!

Posting false information about election candidates is one of the last remaining forms of criminal libel in the UK, fwiw. If your algorithm/AI is bad enough that it isn't immune to this kind of fuck up, it is not ready for deployment! Turn it the fuck off!

Tracey No™️@traceyno.bsky.social · 8h ago

hey @support.bsky.team umm what are you doing? This election is happening now, current tense

Insight: Trump promised a sex-trafficking crackdown. His Justice Department hasn't delivered reut.rs/4qbBnB6

Insight: Trump promised a sex-trafficking crackdown. His Justice Department hasn't delivered

Investigations have stalled and prosecutions declined in the past six months because of staffing shortages, funding cuts, immigration enforcement and growing distrust of the government among victims.

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Horrific account of settler violence in the West Bank www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/w...

Settler Siege of Palestinian Homes Highlights Growing West Bank Chaos

Two families have been trapped by settlers for days, casting a spotlight on the army’s struggle to curtail settler violence and protect Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank.

nytimes.com

Trump just dismantled this so his blatant corruption and his cronies overseas can operate without consequences or detection. Organized crime is now legal and the US is open for exploitation by foreign and domestic criminals. Don’t expect Rubio to say a word.

This is how a culture of silence works. Some things you just don’t talk about, because talking about them brings down hell. So we don’t talk about them.

I’m just trying to bring everything into the light. Don’t you dare tell me it’s all in the light if you are still pretending Evangelical churches or LDS are any different than the Catholic Church.

Cc: Harry Enten, CNN

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Prediction markets are not predictive and should not be covered as news

Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food. Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card. (Published Dec. 2025)

After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death

“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.

propublica.org

Imagine a country where the ruling regime is putting babies in concentration camps and people openly advertise the fight for higher wages and universal healthcare as their greatest foe.

Jared Holt@jaredlholt.bsky.social · 21h ago

The "centrist" think tank Third Way is looking to pay someone between $140,000 and $150,000 to spend their days trying to dig up dirt on DSA members. They're trying to sell this gig as "anti-extremism" work, which I find completely disgusting.

The person demonstrating says all he needs is bare skin. He applies the shock without warning. TJ is instantly felled to the ground. His legs just go out from under him. He clearly has no control of his body for at least a moment. The still shows TJ where he falls. URL: x.com/realTJRobert...

Demo at a press availability of electric shock gloves being used on a politician. (Obvs, this doesn't capture what the real conditions would be like.) The man being demonstrated on is TJ Roberts. Twitter bio says "State Representative, KY HD-66. Republican. Lawyer." URL: x.com/realTJRobert...

trump take greens

Justin Wolfers@justinwolfers.bsky.social · yesterday

Guys, something is going on in the market for lettuce. (HT @tker.co)

In the meantime I hope Kaleb Horton appears to him every night as a sleep paralysis demon and tells him stories about Merle Haggard

"Special Envoy for American Landowners," dogg they are building a new wing in hell for you right now

I did not even realize that selling out this hardcore was possible. Kristofferson's ghost is going to eat this guy's eyes

AL.com@al.com · 17h ago

John Rich, a member of the country music duo Big & Rich, is the “Special Envoy for American Landowners” and has been advocating for Fenn Church as Alabama Power seeks to acquire some of his land for an easement to put down a transmission line.

That said: we sure see a good many Dems choosing sides at the moment, hm?

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 17h ago

Michael LaRosa, the ex-Biden spox who just endorsed Mike Rogers over El-Sayed, has also spent the past few months pandering to Bari Weiss. He says he's “been very outspoken in her defense” because he’s “been waiting for someone like her to enter legacy media...for years.” zeteo.com/p/this-dem-u...

Mm-hm.

Jamison Foser@jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 21h ago

if third way wants to fight with DSA that's fine; that's what rival factions in a movement do. but it says a lot about you if you title a position "Director of Anti-Extremism" and its focus is entirely on the left.

In which Third Way adopts the same definition of “anti-extremism” that ADL operates from: punching to its left, basically. Picking this fight, in this time, amounts to choosing a side — not the side of democracy, alas.

Jared Holt@jaredlholt.bsky.social · 21h ago

The "centrist" think tank Third Way is looking to pay someone between $140,000 and $150,000 to spend their days trying to dig up dirt on DSA members. They're trying to sell this gig as "anti-extremism" work, which I find completely disgusting.

people who say, "well there are Arab parties in Israel so there's no oppression" are the same people who insist that Israel has a right as a Jewish state to prevent Palestinians from returning lest they vote in ways Zionists dislike.

I've been paying attention to politics a long time and I've never seen approval numbers like these. That independent split alone is a recipe for disaster. If it wasn't for GOP super-gerrymanders Democrats would be looking at post-Watergate numbers in the House.

YouGov America@today.yougov.com · 2d ago

NEW Economist/YouGov Aug 7-10 % who approve | disapprove of Donald Trump's job performance U.S. adult citizens: 33% | 62% Democrats: 4% | 95% Independents: 18% | 71% Republicans: 79% | 21% d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...

The DOJ just arrested a prominent enemy of white nationalist group on grounds that, by trying to infiltrate these groups, she was actually supporting them. Roughly equivalent to arresting an undercover CIA agent for being part of ISIS. www.cnn.com/2026/08/12/p...

Exclusive: Former Southern Poverty Law Center CFO arrested on fraud charges | CNN Politics

A former chief financial officer at the Southern Poverty Law Center has been arrested in California and for her alleged role in overseeing secret payments to informants inside of White supremacist gro...

cnn.com

Wrote about how music genres in the US are often based on race, and how rock in particular has long been defined by whiteness. and why that's bad. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/rock-music...

Rock Music Is Defined By Whiteness

Genres have always been determined by race.

everythingishorrible.net

people get really mad at me when i say i don't feel safe going to metal shows alone as a black person, but will also get red in the face enraged when they see bands highlighted for having black members. is it oochie wally or one mic?

Noah Berlatsky@nberlat.bsky.social · yesterday

Wrote about how music genres in the US are often based on race, and how rock in particular has long been defined by whiteness. and why that's bad. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/rock-music...

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