frame: her father lied on his paperwork negation: no he didn't Kirby: IT'S A RACIST ATTACK. it isn't about paperwork or fraud. they are criminalizing dissent and saying anyone who isn't white is *by definition* illegal

Anjali Dayal@anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 4h ago

Fox News "reported that the raid followed a criminal fraud investigation into the Minnesota lawmaker's paperwork, filled out ⁠by her late father when she was a ⁠child." www.usnews.com/news/world/a...

hello fascism our old enemy

Meg Kinnard@megkinnardap.bsky.social · 4h ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal agents searched Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say.

I (probably obviously) disagree with John's POV here, but let's grant that all of what he says is true, and that X is good in all the ways listed in the post; let's even grant that's true for all demographics (it's not). It'd *still* be a site that pays known CSAM distributors at its owner's behest.

John Gruber@gruber.foo · 18h ago

I'm sure this one won't make anyone angry.

X is a curated far right propaganda project. Nothing more.

Katherine the Sixth@luigithirty.bsky.social · 15h ago

“A MAGA activist claimed” = noted Nazi Nick Sortor posted AI slop and Elon is banning the people who pointed that out while Miller and friends amplify it as much as possible

Watch an ICE agent run down and then run over a man. The man was was then writhing on the ground, saying "You broke my leg! You broke my leg!" Agents didn't help him. And btw, the man wasn't the target of their operation.

Rachel Maddow@maddow.bsky.social · 19h ago

Harris County TX. He's hospitalized: "ICE claimed the man ran in front of the agents' vehicle and was struck. However, the surveillance video appears to show the SUV veering left through empty parking spaces before running the man over..." abc7.com/story/ice-ru...

It is impossible to overstate the extent to which people who consume exclusively right wing media have had the part of their brains that contain Occam's razor sanded down to a tiny little nubbin.

Just spitballing here, but maybe it's not an optimal situation when one of the two major political parties in a democracy turns their political operations over to fame-seeking randos who publicize that their political ideology aligns 88% with Hitler's.

It's strange to document all this and not explicitly pin Trump's violence fetish as being the obvious number one contributing factor. Just because his thirst for violent retribution in politics has blown back on him on occasion doesn't absolve him of blame.

Threats of Political Violence Have America’s Elected Officials Living in Fear (Gift Article)

A Times investigation has found that violent threats have become a new normal among public officials, reshaped private lives, cost millions in security and pushed people out of office.

nytimes.com

Also not mentioned in the piece: Republicans joking about the brutal attack on Paul Pelosi, the blanket pardon of January 6th participants, no matter how violent their crimes. This dark atmosphere didn't just suddenly manifest of bipartisan causes.

God, this all day. I had a guy calling me a pedophile and threatening to kill me *on his public Twitter account, using his government name, under which he is barred in IIRC Indiana* because I wrote a positive review of a movie the QAnon freaks had decided was a secret pedo project

T. Greg Doucette@gregdoucette.bsky.social · yesterday

Look, I'm not trying to be unsympathetic to the politicians in the article. But non-pols get these threats daily. Woman got doxxed and their kids threatened for disclosing they were harassed by a serial predator. I got an artisanal hand-written death threat mailed to my apartment. Deal with it.

People are rightly horrified by this. But it's basically just Trump talking about Russia / Ukraine the exact same way (same political and moral import) that every US politician and media person talks about Israel / Palestine. Support, defend, fund the aggressor; blame, undermine the victim.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Wow — listen to these new comments from Trump. Thanking Putin, trashing Zelenskyy, characterizing Russia as eager for peace and Ukraine as intransigent. The mask is totally off.

So, the reason we mock horrible fascists is not to make fascists change their minds. It is to show they are mockable. It breaks the veneer of respectability and power. It gives others social permission to mock them. Satire is poisonous to power because it makes opposition both fun and collaborative.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d ago

You know, friend, I don't think I'll be following you back.

get the fuck off of x, the nazi site for nazis

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 2d ago

if Elon is spending millions of dollars of his own money to push this message with paid media, what do you think he does to the black box algorithm on his platform that chooses which posts you see and which of your posts are shown to others?

Some enterprising hacker collective could test this: throw some vibecoded OpenAI Astra & Claude Opus bullshit together, train it on stats about student loans & what would happen if they went away, & then instruct it to free up spending power for millions of americans, & just like, see what happens…

Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · 2d ago

If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.

America is not a Christian nation or a Muslim nation. It’s a secular republic where freedom of religion means freedom for everyone, including the freedom to reject religion entirely. No religion gets to claim ownership of our government.

www.britannica.com/science/natu...

Natural selection | Definition & Processes | Britannica

Natural selection, process in which an organism adapts to its environment through selectively reproducing changes in its genotype. It reduces the disorganizing effects of migration, mutation, and gene...

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👻👹 boo-rit 👹👻@britculpsapp.bsky.social · 2d ago

yeah man, no way this will go wrong

Police have killed nearly 1000 people this year so far. That doesn't include deaths in custody.

Donna Stern@dvsmemphis.bsky.social · 2d ago

Mullin: Saying there have been many ICE involved shootings is absolutely false. You guys don't cover all our other arrests, just these ones (There have been at least 25 shootings involving immigration officers in Trump's second term.) Guess he has no problem shooting those he deems to be unworthy.

My man ended USAID, condemning millions to death

onion person@junlper.beer · 3d ago

elon musk has more empathy for lines of code than a majority of humanity

This pinned post has been updated! Banned Books Week annoys me because so much attention comes to this crucial constitutional issue for only 5-7 days. In an era when our freedoms are being attacked and books–and the people they represent–are disappearing, it's necessary to fight every single day.

kelly jensen@heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 2y ago

A massive thread of resources, history, information, and material to help you not only fight and understand book censorship but protect the incredible democratic institutions of public libraries and public education. This is updated regularly!

The administration keeps telling us that ICE is in our cities to make us all feel safe, but if they're goons in plainclothes bum rushing vehicles with guns and pounding on the windows, how exactly does that make anyone feel safe?

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3d ago

The NYPD just released surveillance video of the ICE shooting (which occurred off camera). Two men in civilian clothes run up to a car with guns drawn. One second later, one man begins smashing the butt of his gun into the driver’s side window. The driver appears to panic and hit the gas.

Hundreds of protestors march from the site where an ICE agent shot a father in the Bronx on 10/8 to the hospital where he was being held. Defund and abolish ICE. Chinga la migra. 🧵 of photos...

Greg Pak@gregpak.net · 4d ago

Press conference in the Bronx after the ICE shooting - - @cndelarosa.bsky.social speaking

one of the advantages of having tried to understand marxist theories about capital is that it’s always immediately bleedin obvious that capital will never ever allow economies of automation to result in increased leisure

Gianmarco Soresi@gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 4d ago

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

Do we really need to explain to people that it is really, REALLY important to read to young children? Like, you, personally, need to read to your child - your voice, your face, your hand gestures, your lap, your arms, your closeness. What kind of parent doesn't know this in their bones?

1) Putin doesn't have diesel to spare. 2) Diesel is cover for lifting sanctions. 3) Putin's statement sounds like he's offering an Iran escape hatch, which I've been predicting. 4) Half of the MASSIVE bribes Putin is offering now don't exist. 5) But he does mention security coop -- Kash.

at a HarperCollins AI "brainstorming" session, staff say they raised legal, ethical, and environmental concerns and were told that's “the cost of doing business.” The employee portal was updated to say AI's environmental impact is "a small part of most individuals’ total digital carbon footprint."

Liliana seems to be getting shit for this, but she's not wrong. You don't need to be actively executing people like Arizona's current Dem gov and AG, to enable a system in which executions occur. Oh and Arizona's current Dem governor and AG have executed 3 people and are seeking a 4th warrant.

Liliana Segura@lilianasegura.bsky.social · 3d ago

One more thing about the death penalty before going offline. As disgusted as we should be by Trump's bloodlust, we should NOT lose sight of the CENTRAL role of Democrats in upholding, expanding, and enabling this system that seems to horrify so many people right now. It really cannot be said enough.