Part of the reason they're going after Rep Omar is because they know a lot of her democratic colleagues hate her for being a) Muslim, b) effective at her job, c)both, and so aren't going to do shit to protect her.

can anyone help out by getting us a gift card for food or so i can top up on some essentials? even a little helps 🥺 i’m sorry to ask but please share too?🙏

mash 🍉 (they/them) 🔞😷@maiar.bsky.social · 6mo ago

this is the link to amazon gift cards where you can add my email and hopefully that will work? amzn.eu/d/0316UkK7 and a link to food gift card amzn.eu/d/0istxLiK my email is mashonmytomatoes@proton.me i’m disabled and mostly homebound. any amount will help us stay fed and get essentials ❤️‍🩹🙏

Corn Named World’s Sexiest Plant

A Trump administration official intervened against an insider trading investigation into suspiciously timed oil sales made just minutes before a critical announcement by President Donald Trump related to the Iran war this March, new reporting finds.

Trump Admin Killed Insider Trading Referral Probing Iran War-Related Oil Sales

The incident raises alarm over officials’ moves to insulate insiders from anti-corruption enforcement.

truthout.org

Being GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity.

Jen Taub@jentaub.bsky.social · 21h ago

Still trying to understand how Napster got shut down, but Anthropic is going public and still hasn’t paid us authors yet after stealing our work.

What if we just didn't make fun of what people looked like (or their size, or ability, or hair or clothes or makeup or plastic surgery even or any of that shit) Because actually what matters is what you say and what you do words and actions and their impact on other people

“Everything is 40% more expensive because of AI” is a great line for an opposition party trying to unseat the AI-supported incumbents, if any Democratic consultants wanted to take a short break from dehumanizing trans kids to actually try winning a contested election.

IGN@ign.com · 4w ago

The Steam Frame starts at $1,059, but it was probably supposed to cost about $750, as the RAM crisis continues to raise prices. https://t.co/Oq9XUHM630

anti-abortion activists are arguing that they have a First Amendment right to advertise "abortion pill reversal" services and I feel like feel like "free speech" should not give you a free pass to do fraud actually ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Lying To Pregnant Patients Is A Constitutional Right, Argue Anti-Abortion Activists

The conservative legal movement’s newest weapon in its war on reproductive autonomy: the First Amendment.

ballsandstrikes.org

"What I think is most important to understand about that time is that the LLM released by OpenAI had essentially nothing to do with what they were building and what they had believed that AI would look like." buttondown.com/apperceptive...

Tracing the rogue ideology of the frontier labs to their product choices

A drawing of Eliezer Yudkowsky as the Paperclip Maximizer that I commissioned back in 2016 and have had an alarming number of chances to use since This is a...

buttondown.com

is that good

Threat of AI share crash puts world financial stability at risk, says IMF

High valuations and debt put sector in danger, while fund also warns on government borrowing and cyber-attacks

theguardian.com

I’m just reposting cause this ad stars my favorite @dropout.tv person Anna Garcia

Greenb3ar@greenb3ar.bsky.social · 2d ago

Okay the best political ad of the year is here from LA-DSA

Walmart, “quietly updated its customer privacy notice in August, broadening the data it can collect and analyze to include everything from retinal imagery and demographic information to income and license plate numbers. The company even asserts the right to follow shoppers aisle by aisle…”

Walmart Says It Prices Products, Not People. Its Patents Suggest Otherwise.

A decade of filings reveals technology that could instantly change prices based on what’s in your cart, your perceived personality, and even the specifics of your car.

levernews.com

Defund and abolish ICE. Melt down their weapons and shift its budget to social services and affordable housing. Ban everyone who led or worked for ICE from any government job. Corporate death penalty for the companies that aided them. Citizenship to all of its victims, should they want it.

Wow! Texts are super rare for the Hittites, basically there’s just one archive and it’s 95% lists of prayer sacrifices to mountain gods, so this is really, really exciting!

Sarah E. Bond@sarahebond.bsky.social · 6d ago

184 new cuneiform tablets ✍️ (total), dating to c.1400 BCE. “Preliminary examination of the texts has revealed references to military activities, epidemics, the death of an infant princess & requests for assistance sent to the king by Hittite military commanders” www.heritagedaily.com/2026/10/184-...

Meanwhile, while our media etc is arguing about definitions so as to not offend, Palestinians are being massacred and starved and the country doing that still has an embassy in this country

Michael@therightarticle.bsky.social · 6d ago

Gaza's healthcare in crisis: Israel continues restricting supplies into the strip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh56qZtpqLE

I made a sky for DOOM using the Gale Crater panorama from Mars that NASA recently released! It felt rather fitting.

We absolutely should be horrified by reports of planned public executions and see them as an overt re-embrace of spectacle lynchings--while also understanding that the story of the "modern" death penalty in this country is inextricable from that history, rooted in racial violence & white supremacy.

Alabama’s Lynching Memorial and the Legacy of Racial Terror in the South

At the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, the historical link between lynching and the death penalty is hard to miss.

theintercept.com

Let us celebrate our new arrangement with the adding of snart to helg.

“Heinrich said Elgin Community College staff began to cover the cameras using black trash bags and zip ties so that they would not be able to capture footage. But workers in an unmarked vehicle, which Heinrich assumed belonged to Flock, repeatedly removed the coverings.”

“Elgin Community College staff notified Flock in October 2025 that they wanted to cancel their contract and have the cameras taken down. Within a day, Heinrich said, Flock rejected the request and refused to uninstall the equipment on the basis that the company had not breached their agreement.”

To protect immigrant students, a Chicago-area college told Flock to remove its cameras. The company refused.

Elgin Community College resorted to covering the surveillance cameras with trash bags and zip ties. Public records show that federal immigration authorities have accessed Flock data at other Illinois ...

wbez.org

Tough to lay people off when they're already laid off

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 6d ago

Applications for unemployment benefits — a proxy for layoffs — have dipped to longtime lows. “While workers searching for their first job ... are having a hard time, those already in work have remarkably good job security,” one economist said.

PLEASE share. I cannot get any donations (haven't got any in 2 weeks) and I cannot hold a normal job due to my disability. My family is constantly abusive to me over my inability to earn my keep. Please help me. I dropped dropped my prices by 60%. You don't have to commission me, just share.

ShinoSarna - comms open@shino-sarna.bsky.social · last wk.

COMMS OPEN 7$ lineart, 17$ full render I will draw any topic or character, no need for ref.

Found this old picture I took that looks like a cat in front of the sunset.

I know everyone’s jaded and exhausted by the continual parade of madness, but this is the president of US openly inciting racist violence against an entire community of immigrants. (w/ alt text)

Arizona and Virginia, both of which are governed by Democrats, are ending Medicaid coverage of care for trans youth, Transitics has learned. The bans, which go into effect on October 13th, mark the most significant Democratic capitulation to Trump's anti-trans demands yet. Cowards.

Democrat-led Arizona, Virginia Quietly End Medicaid Coverage of Care for Trans Youth, Acquiescing to Trump Demands

The policy changes, which go into effect on October 13th, see Arizona and Virginia join Kansas as states where Democrats have needlessly opted to restrict Medicaid coverage of gender-affirming care.

transiticsnews.com

I do not want ICE. I want universally accessible paths to citizenship. I don't want more police. I'd rather reallocate funding to preventing crime from happening by giving people Enough. I don't want the death penalty. Two wrongs still don't make a right. I hate this timeline.

People in California who are facing a terrible ICE surge: remember that if you need whistles, we are still sending them out for free. In fact, we just passed 1.7 million whistles sent out. linktr.ee/3Dwhistles

3D Printed Whistles | Linktree

We ship community protection whistles for free. Need some? Click the email link below & tell us how many you need (between 100 - 3000) & where to send them.

linktr.ee

This would sink a presidency in any other era. I would bet most Americans will never hear it even happened.

Trump bought over $1 million in SpaceX debt days before unveiling space policy

The purchase, revealed in his latest financial disclosure, involved a firm directly affected by his administration’s actions — and led by presidential ally Elon Musk.

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I reserved the room for another week starting tomorrow, and I’m about $70 short of the $420 (ha) to cover all of it, and I’ll still need food and such, sadly(?). If you have giant wads of cash burning a hole in your Venmo, would you please consider making my day a little brighter and less homeless?

Kait Richardson 🥔@thryse.com · 6mo ago

I hate to be a burden, but I’m a severely disabled homeless trans woman struggling to get back on my feet. If anyone could help me out with a gift to so I can eat and stay sheltered I would be grateful. My links are in my bio. 💕💸💸💕 #crowdfunding #disability #homeless #transcrowdfund #mutualaid