🚨🚨PA RESIDENTS🚨🚨 These are the PA elected officials that tried to OVERTURN the 2020 election! These freaks are running for re-election this November! Make sure you spread the word & VOTE BLUE! #pavoteblue #patrifecta #Pinks
Republicans wrote the Big Ugly Bill to funnel cash to billionaires — and they used your grandmother's Medicare as the piggy bank. Half a trillion in cuts start January 1. Vote them all out. #RepublicanMedicareCuts
H/t to @hcrichardson.bsky.social for reminding me of this article by @natashabertrand.bsky.social in @theatlantic.com documenting how Trump's purge of the DOJ and FBI in his first term focused on experts in money laundering and organized crime. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Trump’s Top Targets in the Russia Probe Are Experts in Organized Crime
Some of President Trump’s favorite targets in the Russia probe have spent their careers in the Justice Department and the FBI investigating organized crime and money laundering, particularly as they p...
theatlantic.com
“It’s a severe cautionary tale about the hazards of privatisation. The government created these men, especially Elon Musk. And now these welfare kings want to pull up the ladder, want to destroy the very system that made them." www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley
As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them
theguardian.com
Nobody tell them that when Arabic speaking Christian’s praise their god they call him Allah too cause that’s the Arabic word for a god not just the Islamic god
starting my compilation/collage of right wing white dipshits losing their shit over the word “inshallah”
Meta approved and profited from ads containing AI-generated child sexual abuse imagery. After WIRED asked about them, researchers found dozens more that were still live. Insane story scoop by the one and only @mattburgess1.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/meta-r...
Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.
wired.com
Always with you people. If the rightmost candidate in the race wins, no matter the margin, it's a "stunning mandate" and a sign of a "massive cultural shift". If a left candidate wins, no matter the margin, it's a sign that they need to "pivot to center" and "unite the fractured public".
average sikh lorry driver names his truck, decorates it with handmade art, puts all kinds of signs on it to ward off evil eye and usually a message at the back saying "if you're mad at me go fuck yourself" they treat that thing better than half of them treat their kids.
I’m telling you this as a political scientist. The person who is electable is the one who is elected. This can and does change over time. Any and all speculation about “electability” is either puffery or anxiety and is often both.
Julia Azari@juliaazari.bsky.social · 19h agoOne way to be safe is to never write an electability take
Worse, it’s a form of coercion designed to cast doubt on people MOST dedicated to upending the power imbalance in favor of ordinary people.
If electability matters most to you then the best thing to do is organize. Speculating about what other people might think just isn’t useful although it is a major media pastime & when they do it, it can have effects, but those effects are not predictable or definitive 🤷🏾♀️
In other Michigan news, the state looks set to elect it's first transgender lawmaker. Joanna Whaley won her Democratic primary and will compete in November for a state house seat, beating a primary opponent who tried and failed to disqualify her for not running under her deadname
There are no trans women in the WNBA. There are no trans women NCAA basketball players. Hell, who knows if there are even any trans girls playing HS basketball.
Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · yesterdayDid we ever find out if the A is for Asshole?
Anne Frank was arrested on this day in 1944. History rarely returns wearing the same uniform, it returns asking the same thing of ordinary people: Will you sit down and look away? Or will you stand up and fight? #Resist
Well done Mississauga. This is exactly what Toronto should do. “Councillors in Mississauga, Ont., voted Wednesday in favour of a data centre moratorium while the city studies their impact” www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...
Residents seek moratorium on Toronto data centres, as Mississauga approves pause
Some Toronto residents are demanding a one-year moratorium on two proposed data centre projects, as a neighbouring city has voted to block any such new developments for a year.
ctvnews.ca
“Earlier this year, we reported that police in multiple states were being told to be “as vague as permissible” about why they were using Flock because their searches could be obtained using public records requests, and that warning was being shared by the FBI and Department of Justice.“
404 Media@404media.co · yesterdayWhen cops use Flock to arrest someone in Wapello County, Iowa, they don’t want them to know. A usage policy for Flock cameras in the county tells police, in no uncertain terms, to keep them a secret. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports. Story: www.404media.co/do-not-menti...
Thank you for the reminder. May I add www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...
The SAVE Act May Be Stalled in Congress, But State Versions Are Being Advanced All Across the Country
Fourteen states now have SAVE Act-like laws on the books requiring Americans to provide proof of their citizenship, chiefly a passport or birth certificate, to register to vote or stay registered; mor...
americanprogress.org
Sixty-nine million American women changed their name when they married. The SAVE Act was written knowing exactly what that means for their paperwork. actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
Tell Your Senators: Protect our Democracy, Vote NO on the SAVE Act
Contact Congress today!
actionnetwork.org
I don’t care if Mitch McConnell is dead but I do if Mosiac is euthanized #nycacc Fosters save lives! DM me Urgent ‼️ Reposts save lives too! Be a hero
You could grow a spine and do your damn jobs.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
AIPAC gave Hayley Stevens THIRTY MILLION DOLLARS in this race against Abdul El-Sayed. How is it legal that a single lobby group representing a single issue can give that much money to a single candidate in a single primary for a single Senate seat.
I went a bit down the rabbithole of Superpac money paying TikTok influencers to make undisclosed ads for Hayley Stevens and my favourite was the local Michigan influencer whose background showed the famous palm trees of Michigan
Brandy Zadrozny@brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 2w agoGet in, there’s a new secret political influence campaign paying people to post. This time, a network targeting people in Michigan. First paid to post about how hard it is to afford groceries and gas, the accounts have gone hard in recent days, supporting Haley Stevens. www.ms.now/news/haley-s...
The 80-year-old president spiraled over a number of topics in an afternoon meltdown.
Triggered Trump Unravels in Truth Social Posting Frenzy
The 80-year-old president spiraled over a number of topics in an afternoon meltdown.
thedailybeast.com
That said, let us take a moment to thank our Bluesky Trans and Furry Elders for freaking out Jack Dorsey so much he bolted and left us this nice social media playground, taking most of his crypto chuds with him. We thank you for your service.
The suspicious transfer of Ghislaine Maxwell is just the most visible and outrageous example of what could become a quiet attack on the rule of the law:
Todd Blanche’s New Grip on the Federal Prison System
Critics worry a little-noticed policy shift could let the attorney general reward allies, punish enemies, and sideline longstanding Bureau of Prisons processes.
lnk.thebulwark.com
Perez Hilton live-streamed himself engaging in self-harm and clips of it are now circulating on social media.
Rav@rvbdrm.com · 7mo agoMaybe turn off video autoplay today: Settings > Content and media > Autoplay videos and GIFs Toggle off.
An obscure Texas firm secretly connected to Donald Trump Jr. said it received at least $100 million from Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries. At the same time, the Ambani family secured major policy wins from the Trump administration. (Published June)
An Indian Billionaire Was Targeted by Trump. Then He Poured Money Into a Startup Secretly Backed by Donald Trump Jr.
An obscure Texas firm secretly connected to the president’s son said it received at least $100 million from Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries. At the same time, the Ambani family secured major polic...
propublica.org