watching people you love and respect cutting corners to keep creative pace with an idiot machine, starve themselves to keep pace with a new, more impossible ideal, it is overwhelmingly sad some days and no one is truly immune to it

"CORCA allows DHS to circumvent constitutional safeguards by deputizing retailers like Home Depot to do the data collection for them." Federal agents could take over the prevention of shoplifting for giant retail chains. Taxpayers would pay, not retail giants.

ACLU@aclu.org · 24h ago

The Trump admin has been trying to get its hands on everyone's data to help them go after immigrant communities, opponents, and dissenters. Now, the Senate might give them more power to spy on us, under the guise of stopping shoplifters. Congress must block CORCA.

This is HOT.

Yep. Earlier this year I was interviewed by Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media is aiding the Trump administration’s Epstein cover up.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · yesterday

Banks permitted millions in suspicious transactions tied to Epstein—and former 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi had the story months ago. But the report would never air. trib.al/ZShZlIS

Celebrate AOC's beautiful path to the 2028 presidency, as proclaimed by Andrew and Tristan Tate's lawyer. 'McBride saw it as a given that MAGA couldn’t afford to lose his clients, writing on Instagram, “AOC will be the next President without the Manosphere and Andrew Tate.” '

The Economist has really interesting podcasts, which are alas behind a paywall. 😢 I just listened to one on the Chinese manosphere, which I knew nothing about before seeing ine episode title and immediately clicking play. Consider the impact of the one child policy, widespread bride prices, …

I also think about: 1. Folks willfully and deliberately voted for this. 2. There were not enough people motivated to vote against this cartoonish and VERY EVIL cartel, likely because... 3. they're more comfortable with incompetent fascists than a woman, probably any woman, being in the White House.

Will Bunch@willbunch.bsky.social · 2d ago

Did you ever stop to think about how outrageously stupid the whole Reflecting Pool thing was, and how a man's life was turned upside down over a lie? The great @rexhuppke.bsky.social did www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

No corruption too small

It isn't so much that a colorful flower pot (street find) got smashed to smithereens, but the matter of replacing it. This is upsetting because in addition to the daily in your face fascism we have intersecting issues of stuff being ugly as shit and people not understanding/using design language.

The magical mice of Lily Seika Jones

meanwhile the head of HHS is on TV arguing that Lyme disease (which predates agriculture) is a conspiracy

Reuters@reuters.com · 2d ago

Michigan reports two deaths in ongoing cyclosporiasis outbreak reut.rs/4w4bd4E

sherman bible chapel, facade detail, sherman, pennsylvania, 1990

Can't think of a thing that will radicalize a generation faster than "you've gotta let that old man in the corner over there see what's inside those pants before you play Kindergarten volleyball."

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

The way he always manages to land on the wrong side of something is just... magnificent.

Jessy Edwards@jessyedwards.bsky.social · 2d ago

A video taken Saturday shows former NYC Mayor Eric Adams in sales pitch mode in Wisconsin Rapids, as he's heckled by residents opposed to the data center he's trying to sell them on. "My name is Eric Adams," he begins, as the boos begin to rain down. "You belong in prison!" one attendee shouts.

August as an academic

Chiron was known to be well-versed in medicine (having learned it from Apollo) making him the original Centaur for Disease Control

This mural is titled "New York Avenue". It was created by artist Jenna Morello. It’s on the Bywater Building in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Photo credit: Rueben Garcia. #streetart #art #mural #atlanticcity #newjersey #flowers

"What do you do for fun?" I dunno. You know, stuff...

"Yikes, Odysseus -- you looke prettye roughe aftir your journeye." "Well, you Odyssey the othir guye!"

the second before the hot dog blows up in the microwave

Every day I'm happier that I am learning how to draw

Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P@clairezagorski.bsky.social · 3d ago

Good morning, this is what a fetus looks like on MRI. (Those are tooth buds!)

And this is why we should cite Abby’s reporting and not other news outlets aggregating it 🙂

Abby Vesoulis@abbyvesoulis.bsky.social · 3d ago

I first got 1000+ pages of court documents from Miller & Moreno's custody case. Anybody can request these from Cuyahoga County. I reviewed those by myself, one by one—no AI involved!—and the filings pointed to police reports. I then sought those out separately and spent days combing through them.

Abuser 101

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"

lol its so perfect that he's saying this *on fox news* while the chyron is about the pied-a-terre tax

Donie O’Sullivan@donie.bsky.social · 3d ago

"I am not going to be in the same party with Hasan Piker ... if he becomes a force in the Democratic Party, I am out of here," James Carville says on Fox this morning. Reminder: The Left Insurgency airs tonight on CNN at 8p ET.

Called it. bsky.app/profile/jawa...

New York Shitty@newyorkshitty.bsky.social · 7d ago

He's going to go back into that Greenland loop again isn't he?

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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He’s all rape all the time.

Great reporting from @emilybregel.bsky.social about a gay man who’s been in the US since he was four, imprisoned in a “hotel” in Equatorial Guinea since April. He says he’s being denied soap and toilet paper in retaliation for filing a complaint w African Commission. 1/ tucson.com/news/local/b...

Arizona man languishes in African hotel after third-country deportation

A 30-year-old man, Ahmed Soliman, is confined in a decommissioned hotel in Equatorial Guinea after being deported there by ICE without warning. He faces the threat of return to Egypt, where he may fac...

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