This is my husband’s first new academic year in a college town. He is losing his mind. “Who are all these people? Are they still coming?? This town can’t hold it all!”
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For context: In 'normal' times, everyone in West Wing / OEOB had to pass these clearances. (Even I got one!)
MS NOW@ms.now · 16h agoEXCLUSIVE: Trump’s closest aide, Natalie Harp, declined multiple times over more than a year to seek a routine security clearance normally obtained by West Wing staffers to work at the White House, sources tell MS NOW.
The NYT ran front page stories speculating that Biden had Parkinson’s on thinner evidence than we have that Trump’s suffering from multiple ailments
Cheryl Rofer@cherylrofer.bsky.social · 21h agoWorth noting that he seems to be wearing some sort of walking aid too. Getting feeble.
someone is going to seriously promote bitcoin as a solution to the national debt and I am going to become the joker
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 13h agoTrump says the U.S. has “ended the war on crypto” and discussed accumulating a “substantial amount” of Bitcoin and other crypto assets. He urged Congress to pass a “fair” Clarity Act, with no finalized purchase plan announced.
I'm sorry. The Denver Republican party is run by a dude named Hugo Chavez and he's in trouble because he won't back a candidate named Marx?
Kyle Clark@kylec.bsky.social · 16h agoNEW: Hugo Chavez-Rey, Vice-Chair of the Denver Republican Party, has resigned rather than face a removal vote tonight after he refused to back GOP gubernatorial candidate Victor Marx.
So, Renee Good’s wife got her car back, but Todd Blanche refused to investigate her death and no-one bothered to ask why, and now he is Attorney General. Congress should launch a criminal investigation.
Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · 18h agoi first scanned this headline i thought okay, thank God her widow is suing for a gazillion dollars for murdering her wife. But then I saw she is or was still trying to get the friggin' car back. unspeakably bleak.
I feel pretty confident that he's going to crush Rogers at this point
Many of the right-wingers white-knighting Harp are doing so because she’s the gatekeeper on Trump retweets, which means she’s one of the most important people in their universe, while the people in Trump’s orbit providing all the Harp leaks to the media don’t care about that.
NEW: Flock has said for years that its cameras "cannot track individuals." We found the code for its new AI tool. It's preloaded w/ prompts like "Find me witness" & "find relatives." One tracks visitors of multiple hotels, another if you visit banks after midnight. www.wired.com/story/flock-...
One thing I wish people would realize is just how central JK Rowling is to the entire anti-trans ecosystem. Looking at a network node analysis of the top 200 anti-trans X accounts, she is the most central figure spanning both sides of the Atlantic from Republicans to Labour.
At an invitation-only gathering in Italy, white supremacists mapped out strategies to target rural America while local press coverage vanishes www.confrontthehate.com/p/white-nati...
they put up a dada center just outside of town and life has been unbearable ever since. thing looks like a fucking fish
Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 24h agoNEW: Teen boys are using smart glasses — mainly Meta's AI Glasses — to film themselves harassing classmates at school, following girls around and "rizzing" them or "ragebaiting" them w/ insults. In several videos we reviewed, girls plead w/ the poster to stop filming. futurism.com/artificial-i...
Billionaires, who ruin everything and have all the power, Love Republicans. The DSA, who control nothing and want the people to have power, are the TRUE threat to America.
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Everyone else is philosophically inconsistent on this but my stance is that it’s cool when athletes have good opinions and bad when they’re brain-dead bigots
Meghan L. Hall@itsmeghanlhall.bsky.social · yesterdayEXCLUSIVE: "People are like, 'You have a platform. Use it,' and then once you use it, it's like, 'Go back to playing basketball.'” "We can be a great example of how to do both." Sophie Cunningham talks the ongoing WNBA discourse around trans athletes:
Reporter: You haven’t heard her name until now. She’s only seventeen years old. But White House intern Crespa Blumbo has been in charge of all nuclear missiles for the last two years and she just ordered the military to enact Project Acheron
not to be an annoying i told you so, but i have been banging on for a couple of days about the real story here being national security
MS NOW@ms.now · 16h agoEXCLUSIVE: Trump’s closest aide, Natalie Harp, declined multiple times over more than a year to seek a routine security clearance normally obtained by West Wing staffers to work at the White House, sources tell MS NOW.
this guy got caught because he's dumber than the average cop and chose a woman who wasn't marginalized enough. imagine what happens when a cop does this to, say, a sex worker or a woman with previous charges who are not likely to be willing to report this kind of thing. what do you think happens
Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 21h ago“When you pulled her over, did you know it was her?” “Yes” “Did you have a legal reason to pull her over?” “No”