Susan Collins announcing she'll vote against a controversial nominee is basically the moment it becomes clear that nominee will be confirmed. It means Thune has enough votes to confirm, and thus, Collins gets a pass to look independent.
I am honored to announce that in cooperation with the Toth family, I will be working on the official Alex Toth typeface in the coming months. The plan is for this to be a commercially available font via the official Toth estate. Stay tuned for updates.
The New Mexico Department of Justice has sued Acting AG Todd Blanche and the DOJ, requesting the court for access to unredacted Epstein-related investigative files that the DOJ has been withholding. www.wral.com/news/ap/8861...
State of New Mexico sues Justice Department and Todd Blanche, saying they blocked its Epstein probe
The state of New Mexico has sued the Department of Justice and Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, saying the federal government has blocked it from carrying out its own investigation into Jeffrey E...
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I asked chatgpt and it said it isn't, but then I told it that it is and it said sorry yes it is.
Greg Pak@gregpak.net · yesterday"A.i." is bullshit and literally everyone knows it.
Whether someone realizes it or not, accepting the "liberal bubble" framing at all is a way of granting the utterly absurd notion that the globally reviled and increasingly unpopular views of the reactionary right are the norm
Ian Boudreau@ianboudreau.com · 2d ago"Liberal bubble" has only ever meant anywhere where right wing perspectives aren't artificially elevated and forced into everyone's feeds.
I did not remember this Sesame Street sketch in which Frank Oz is a cop searching for "a Puerto Rican woman named Maria" with her photo in hand. they play it straight until the twist and Sonia Manzano's body language when he finds her clearly shows she knew something about police harassment.
0581 Officer Krupky Looks for Maria
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I don't think using the same jacked up bro imagery as MAGA incels is the future of Democratic Party messaging.
Rachel Bitecofer@rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 2d agoI don’t call myself a blue dog Dem, a yellow dog Dem, a DSA Dem, a centrist Dem, or a progressive Dem: I call myself a Big Dawg Dem, where our only platform is kicking MAGA’s ass in elections. Anyone else?
woohoo, it's finally my turn for Platform Decay by Martha Wells at the library.
it's a new season of the insane Aussie home building show The Block. we'll see who hates whom in three months.
Bluesky oldheads will remember that brief period of time when the conservative trolls tried to storm the place and were flummoxed by the idea they would have to organically grow an audience and that someone who didn't want to talk to them could nuke every interaction they ever had from orbit
Maddow asked #JamesTalarico about attacks on #trans people and those who think that to win, Dems must "moderate" on trans rights. Talarico answered, "I don't believe we win by selling people out." #Texas
Nice AI-image-generating tool, but it will never be as great an artist as Onfim, a child who lived in the Novgorod Republic in the mid-1200s and who scribbled these drawings and schoolwork writings on birch bark at the age of 6 or 7.
"the Old Mill burned down" seems like an Oregon Trail twist but this factory fire happened yesterday, photo courtesy of the Portland FD.
Ah, this warms the cockles of my cold, dead heart. Wait til you see the price a TERF had to pay for lying about a trans woman. "...also be required to publish a court-approved apology that must remain pinned on their social media channels for three months" www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/07/an-a...
An anti-trans activist lied about a trans athlete injuring cis women. Now she has to pay the price. - LGBTQ Nation
Kirralie Smith admitted in court she didn't have any evidence to back up her claim about a trans woman injuring two cis women.
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Just got a juror summons for next week and at first I was sad but then I realized it means free air conditioning all day
It's absolutely insane we've somehow let the Covid recriminations debate become like "why didn't we reopen in person schools before there was a vaccine" and not "why did none of the trump guys go to jail for stealing PPE from New York hospitals in March 2020"
I wonder if students today would be less likely to lean on AI for writing assignments if schools had made sure they could touch-type (at least 60wpm) before having them submit all their assignments online. 1/🧵
So, ultimately: I'd love to see some kind of study looking at the relationship between how fast students can type on a standard keyboard and how likely they are to jump to AI when asked to type a lengthy (and grammatically correct) answer to a prompt. 11/
airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027
Toad sipped his tea. “Frog,” he asked, “are you making this up?” “Maybe yes and maybe no,” said Frog.
The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
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We’re close to a circumference of a deal, and will be moving on to area soon.
keep getting "Meet a new way to experience CNN!" commercials and it just involves a computer and a subscription.
AIPAC spent $46 million backing Rep. Haley Stevens in Michigan’s Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate, where she is running against Abdul El-Sayed. @ryanlcooper.com explains why the pro-Israel lobbying group spent millions & how it can negatively impact Jewish diaspora: zeteo.com/p/in-michiga...