Insane that democrats keep trying to cave on this issue rather than amplifying the fact that it’s being spearheaded by bigots and freaks

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

grimly funny that in The Dark Knight, Batman’s city-wide surveillance is the moral crucible, the point at which he has clearly gone too far, while in Brand New Day it’s just something that Spider-Man does.

I used to tell a joke about Orpheus and Eurydice, but looking back, it was not a great idea... #TwinPeaksTheReturn #Cooper☕️🦉🌲🥧🍩🚥🌄

Gerrymandering lets politicians choose their voters instead of the other way around. Until we end that, it will remain difficult to achieve the things most Americans already agree on.

I worry that most cynical among us, hopped up on 30 years of law and order rhetoric, will say "this is the system working: he didn't do anything wrong and now he's free." As if the terror and wide-scale publicity of an arrest and federal prosecution is not a horrible punishment in and of itself.

CNN@cnn.com · 5d ago

The Justice Department is admitting that a $14 million renovation on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC, was flawed, and is dropping the criminal case against a former Olympian that accused him of damaging the pool, according to a new court filing. https://cnn.it/3RJJnwj

Today's news has given me an idea for the arc of the next phase of the MCU.

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

for crying out loud, Google News

Using this tech is another way of wearing a T-shirt that says "I am stupid and have no judgment"

PBS News@pbsnews.org · 6d ago

The State Department said ​it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.

Reiterating that Musk's literal voter bribery last time was an unambiguous go-directly-to-jail felony, for which people have been successfully prosecuted over vastly smaller amounts. It wasn't just pouring money into a PAC, whatever one thinks of that. It was a black-letter plain-as-day crime.

Yes, Elon Musk’s Vote-Buying Is Against the Law

People have gone to prison for comparable schemes.

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Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 6d ago

Musk got away with his $1 million vote-buying scheme in 2024. Why wouldn't he try something similar this November?

Jimmy Kimmel nailed another one. Enjoy.

"Tennessee Governor Candidate Says He’ll Ban Mosques and Non-Christian Religions If Elected" l.smartnews.com/p-8cBwJomA/S...

Tennessee Governor Candidate Says He’ll Ban Mosques and Non-Christian Religions If Elected (People)

Despite the First Amendment right to freedom of religion, state Rep. Monty Fritts claims Islam is “incongruent with both our U.S. and Tennessee Constitution”

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🧵 Who's profiting from the imprisonment of children at the Dilley ICE Camp? #1 is of course CoreCivic, which expects to generate $180M in revenue annually running the facility. 1/4

Joaquin Castro@joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · last wk.

112 children are imprisoned at Dilley. The youngest child imprisoned at Dilley is 2 months old. None have committed any crime. Private investors make money for each new child taken into Dilley. We need to #ShutDownDilley and end family detention.

This shit is not true. The pharmacy doesn't need ID, just your name and birthdate. The Obama museum doesn't ask for ID. Neither do restaurants or stores that aren't selling something explicitly flagged for age restriction. And BJ's/COSTCO/SAMS are exclusive paid clubs-- and then THEY ISSUE THE ID

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d ago

Rep. John McGuire on need for the SAVE America Act: "You can't go anywhere, you can't get medicine, you can't go to the Obama museum without a photo ID."

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But FIFA delved too greedily and too deep

This is probably the only time I'll jump on the Jimothy Post bandwagon because it's so good. Also, I'm freaked out by that extra eye staring wildly out at me where the animal's ear should be.

Jimothy the Raccoon@jimothythe-raccoon.bsky.social · 6d ago

Seen in downtown Cleveland today #jimothy #seattle #jimothyraccoon

The people who promised they wouldn't even invade also promise they left Kiev cos we are nice and totally not cos of the 60km jam and running out of ammo, fuel & bodies but also kept peace attacking everywhere else while the "voluntarily withdrawing" happened All my trolls are morons.

Seattle has to wait one more week, and then it opens at SIFF Uptown. I can't wait.

Brian Tallerico@briantallerico.bsky.social · 6d ago

One of the year's great movies opens this week in some markets.

Fauci's right. Any reasonable person watching this spectacle would conclude that Rand Paul is a vicious lunatic who is intent on prosecuting Fauci for imaginary crimes even though Biden gave him a preemptive pardon to thwart zealots like Paul.

Rand Paul Threatens ‘Repercussions’ As Anthony Fauci Pleads Fifth At COVID-19 Hearing

The former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director opened his testimony accusing Paul of an “unhinged obsession” with prosecuting him.

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Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

Thomas Dickerson@elfprince13.mumak.app · 6d ago

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

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...

ICE Turned Family Reunification Into A Deportation List

A program created to place migrant children with relatives has become a pipeline for deportation arrests.

open.substack.com

Reminder that on his last day of his first term, Trump awarded a commendation to Dr Fauci "in recognition of his exceptional effort on Operation Warp Speed"

Bennie Moreno is making a scene so the SEOs pick this up instead of the fact he did absolutely nothing against his former son in law that burned his daughter with scalding hot water and likely broke his two year old granddaughters collarbone

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Moreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"

This essay appears (revised) as a chapter in my new book LOST & FOUND IN THE CATHEDRAL OF CINEMA. So, if you enjoy it or find it meaningful, I have good news for you! bookshop.org/p/books/lost...

Lost & Found in the Cathedral of Cinema: A Spiritual Journey

What if watching movies could be a spiritual discipline? For one film critic, great films became guiding lights -- an escape from fear-based religion into richer experiences of imagination, beauty, co...

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Bright Wall/Dark Room@brightwalldarkroom.com · 2w ago

Jeffrey Overstreet (@overstreet.bsky.social) on death-sentence testimonies in Blade Runner, Wings of Desire, and Nomadland

Wild

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Tech news these days is literally the montage in Robocop 2 of all the failed next gen Robocop prototypes crashing & burning

Rav@rvbdrm.com · 2w ago

Quick thinking having a tablecloth handy. I didn’t even notice the twitching from that dead robot.