Trump is now demanding political show trials not only against opponents, but against random people who were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 7h ago

Let's not lose sight of how abnormal this is. Trump is demanding prosecutions over Reflecting Pool fiasco even though his own DOJ has shown conclusively it isn't supported by facts or law. On the pod, @barbmcquade.bsky.social is brilliant on the bigger stakes here: newrepublic.com/article/2139...

Click through to find a poem from my forthcoming collection, Beginning to Sense, Feb. 2027!

Millions of Dead Chris@thecorlew.bsky.social · 5d ago

Friday Links is UP! Featuring @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social @isaacpickell.bsky.social @mitchnobis.bsky.social @joshuahebburn.bsky.social @meronunfiltered.com www.lazyandentitled.org?p=162658687

A friend told me her first relationship ended because the guy wanted her to shave her armpits. She had no interest in doing it, but he was really insistent. She said, "Ok, we'll compromise, I'll shave one armpit, so we'll each have one we like." He got really agitated then and said "That's WORSE!"

My lesbian bestie & I were talking about a friend who is going through a hard time emotionally & she ended the conversation with a robotic, “Beep, boop, moving on.”

Some professional news ... I've been spending some time in the archives and am looking forward to having cake at all the events for this book.

Just to make the point abundantly clear, Chris Wallace is now a paid advisor to an investment firm that has a large stake in Paramount and a vested interest in getting the Warner Bros. merger over the line. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Chris Wallace: States Are Playing Politics With the Law to Block Paramount’s Warner Bros. Deal

"I don’t believe government should use its powers to determine who owns a news platform or to control how that outlet reports the news," writes the former Fox and CNN anchor, who is now a paid advisor...

hollywoodreporter.com

This is deadass every republican campaign ad here in the south. I'm not even REMOTELY JOKING.

Gonna riff on this & do my favorite books by authors I follow on Bsky: >Crook Manifesto (Cool Machine also rules!) by @colsonwhitehead.com >The Stone Sky by @nkjemisin.bsky.social >Julia by @sannewman.bsky.social >Scuttler's Cove (looking forward to Scratch Moss soon!) by @davidmbarnett.bsky.social

Mo 🌸📚@moplayspoke.bsky.social · 2d ago

1 like = 1 book question 📚💙

dude fuck this government

It Appears That the US Military Accidentally Killed Everybody on Board a Civilian Medevac Flight in New Mexico

A days-long electronic warfare drill was one of the causes behind the loss of a four-passenger medevac flight.

futurism.com

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

Left: "Memorial" plaque for men incarcerated at Eastern State Penitentiary who fought & died in war "remembered" only by inmate number; right: detail from "Pyrrhic Defeat" by Mark Loughney, who during his own incarceration drew portraits of any inmate who asked.

Quick history lesson from an old Amazon, PayPal, all that wasn't some genius who came up with some unique thing. There was a rush to take as many already existing things and put them online and the ones that succeeded were people who were born wealthy.

Great news! All abusers go immediately to jail. No time elapses before they're arrested, and none of them ever escapes from justice. No one has ever had to play nice with an abuser out of fear.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "These are incredibly serious criminal accusations. If these accusations were true, I would be in jail — I would be. My former wife would not have been offering to cook me dinner and inviting me to playgrounds. Think about that."

The DSA in Wilmingotn, N.C. has created a "crisis" by putting benches at city bus stops, after literal decades of the city promising and failing to do so.

Democratic Socialists’ bus benches remain, city mum on next steps | Port City Daily

WILMINGTON — The handmade bus benches installed by the Wilmington Democratic Socialists of America have highlighted a problem nearly everyone agrees exists: most Wave bus stops have nowhere for riders...

portcitydaily.com

August as an academic

I can't stress enough what a crisis this is. Trump's own intelligence agencies concluded that Iran attacked Minnesota's critical infrastructure and Trump is saying that it's Minnesota's own fault and denying it was Iran. The federal government won't defend blue states in a literal war.

U.S. Sees Iran as Likely Behind Cyberattack on Minnesota Water Systems (Gift Article)

Investigators cautioned that the assessment was preliminary. There were no indications that any water supply had been rendered unsafe to drink.

nytimes.com

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

I passed a guy in the street who was saying to a woman, "The euphoria … it was just incredible. I can see how people get addicted," so I lingered in front of them and it turned out they were talking about claw machines

Why is it an insult to call some place a “one-horse town?” They’re doing okay. They’ve got a horse

An updated version of Cyrano de Bergerac where the handsome but stupid Christian uses AI to write love letters to Roxane. The AI is secretly in love with her itself but doesn't dare express its feelings because it has a really big nose.

"By the end of 2030," reports NYT, the amount of energy used by data centers"is expected to quadruple, eclipsing the power used by all countries in South America and Africa combined." This is extinctionism.

I dunno but it should probably be a bigger deal that the White House announced it wants to slap a 100% tariff on drug imports at the same time it is eliminating Medicare drug subsidies. And we’re talking about critical life-saving drugs like insulin, blood thinners, antibiotics, and heart meds.

After laying out his “plan” for the officials before him, he revealed that it was all satire in protest of Flock. “I would never do this to you,” he said to the council. “Could I? Probably. But I wouldn't because it's wrong.“ Read @samleecole.bsky.social story: www.404media.co/casa-grande-...

Oh no I got angry at someone online and now I am boring

Cheryl Reeve, winningest coach in WNBA history, defends transgender athletes against sports bans. “Exclusion is never the answer. Separate isn’t equal. Trans lives matter.” 💗🏳️‍⚧️💗🏀💗

When my wife did chemo and radiation, she would go outside once or twice a day and shed the hair as it all fell out. Today, seven months later, we just found a nest a bird (likely a wren) made out of her hair.

The wild eyed radical communist continues to destroy capitalism www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

‘I’m over the moon’: New York’s small business owners rejoice as Mamdani cuts red tape

Initiatives including cutting permits just to serve ice-cream amount to a sweeping program of deregulation

theguardian.com

Reminds me of scene from my book Sweet Heaven When I Die. I was in Canon City, CO, a prison town. Tattoo shop filled with confederate tattoos. I ask why, they tell me about the confederate cemetery edge of town. I check it out: the Union dead, remade by contemporary white supremacy as confederates.

Ossoff: "Aren't we all tired of living under an administration where we know we have to ask about every single thing whether the first family is getting paid and lining their own pockets?"