Kevin
@kevinllong.bsky.social
Lefty, ally, loves music and dogs. Data and Policy Analyst. Former academic. Union member. Law junkie. Reads a lot. Cooks a lot. Trying not to lose my shit on a daily basis. Mostly succeeding.
The absolute depravity. My god, what the actual fuck?
Jason Leopold@jasonleopold.bsky.social · 20h agoBOMBSHELL story by Olivia Carville @bloomberg.com Internal Report Shows TikTok Kept Safety Feature From Millions A confidential document says an algorithm adjustment was kept from many users “by design,” as part of an experiment to measure engagement NO PAYWALL www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
In a normal time, the Speaker and party membership would have already stepped in and neither one of these assholes would be doing a fucking media tour, especially this close to midterms. This is a weak and dying party. Nothing but individual fiefdoms competing for a largesse from the King.
Clara Jeffery@clarajeffery.bsky.social · 23h agoSenator Bernie Moreno speaks at length to TMZ and other journalists and describes horrific dynamics with Max Miller. This isn't even the worst thing he claims Miller did (that would be releasing naked pictures of the little girl) but HE HELD HER STUFFIE HOSTAGE: x.com/TMZ/status/2...
Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
Your daily reminder that guillotines are the moderate solution.
Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social · 16h agoJudge Wise finds that ICE coerced a 20-year-old Tongan man — admitted legally to the country three years ago — to sign a document accepting deportation, despite no criminal record or immigration proceedings against him. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
This is what our government is doing to people. It doesn’t matter who you are, if you speak out against this regime, they will find a way to retaliate and then lie about it. This road leads to one, obvious conclusion and it does not bode well for the life and safety of anyone.
Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · yesterday"Get away from me right now," King, a retired U.S. Army captain who served in Iraq and earned both a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star, can be heard telling the three male guard members in the video as they approach her on the bench. "You have absolutely no authority to detain me."
“No alternative but to take his word” motherfucker you’re a lame duck who got turfed out of your own party in favor of an actual felon because you were insufficiently groveling to these guys. You’ve got plenty of choice. You’re free. What you’re lacking is courage and dignity.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayCornyn: "As to the idea it could be revived in the future, I think it's highly unlikely that could happen without the cooperation of the DOJ. And I think Mr Blanche gave us the assurances that it was dead and would not be revived and in this case we have no alternative but to take his word" 🙃
That's what taxes are, man. That's the definition of taxes. "You are subsidizing things you might never use" man shut the fuck up. My taxes currently subsidize like oil company exec private jets, you think I'm upset at low-income people eating inexpensive bananas?
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
The President’s former criminal defense attorney shouldn’t serve as Attorney General. What are we even fucking doing here?
In a first of its kind comprehensive review published in the journal Primates,anthropologists at the University of Oxford explored various instances of monkeys and apes carrying,grooming,playing,and sometimes actually adopting other creatures. www.popsci.com/environment/...
Monkeys sometimes have 'pets' like humans
And it may explain why we love ours so much.
popsci.com
This right here is precisely how it plays out. Without fail, every time.
Tom Nichols@radiofreetom.bsky.social · 5d agoI was in my hometown today and I had a discussion with an old friend who is a Trump voter. He was railing about how stupid the war with Iran is. I said “well, you voted for him.” And he said: yeah but what about Mamdani? Do you want socialism? That’s how it works.
The lying and misconduct by the DOJ is endemic. These are not one-offs by rogue or incompetent prosecutors. This is wholesale corruption and misconduct from top to bottom and we do not have to just fucking stand by and take this shit.
Federal law enforcement and the DOJ lied to a grand jury and then dragged this man’s name through the mud for no other reason than to cover up Trump’s incompetence. This keeps happening over and over and over, and I’m goddamn sick and fucking tired of it. Accountability now.
Scott MacFarlane@macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 5d agoFLASH: Justice Dept seeks to dismiss Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn Trump Admin acknowledges: "Damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in June 2026 was the result of flawed installation by the contractor"
Mine was making noises in the kitchen last night and when I yelled her name she came running into the living room with my lunch bag wrapped around her neck.
I 💙 Dogs@dogs100.bsky.social · 5d agoDogs do what dogs do….
A foreign adversary attacked the critical infrastructure of a state and the president is taking the side of the adversary and blaming the state. We are no longer a republic and owe zero allegiance to the federal government.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoQ: Can you rule out that Iran is behind the water attacks? TRUMP: I don't think so. I think that Minnesota is behind it. You know who is behind it? Minnesota. Because they're grossly incompetent. I don't think there was an Iranian cyberattack. I think Minnesota ought to get its act together.
You will not see a better reply on here today 😂😂
Bob Smith@b0bsmith.bsky.social · 5d agoStrange men sitting in theaters distributing chili is no basis for a system of government!
A must read.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago"If your neighbor thinks some kooky things about communists, it might make them kind of an intolerable jerk, but they don’t have the power to do anything. But when the FBI or CIA or other institutions that have power think this way, then it starts to have real implications” — @sethcotlar.bsky.social
Bottomless cruelty being perpetrated in our names.
Adam Kinzinger@adamkinzinger.substack.com · last wk.A mother gave the government her fingerprints, tax records, and DNA to get her 6-year-old daughter back. She did everything officials asked. ICE used that information to find and arrest her. A child welfare system became a deportation tool. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
This is yet another example of how vile these people are. I think we have a right to decide that we no longer want them in our society.
@KeepItBlueDems.bsky.social@keepitbluedems.bsky.social · 6d agoFauci and the administrative state saved us during Covid, not our elected officials. It was public administration working as it should despite the best efforts to thwart them at every turn in the name of maintaining personal power. This is what happened and no amount of revisionism will change it.
Everyone at the bar is wondering why I just burst out laughing 😂
Michael Warburton@michaelwarburton.bsky.social · last wk.BURT KWOUK surprises both PETER SELLERS and Russell Harty during a 1976 TV interview as he blasts onto the set & hilariously attacks Sellers & Harty in the style of ‘Cato’. Fantastic.
Area man hopped up on the cocaine complains bitterly about how he was stopped from making things worse for people.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Peter Navarro: "I had a million doses of hydroxychloroquine in warehouses as the defense policy coordinator that I was trying to distribute to hospitals. And Fauci got the FDA stop me from doing that."
