There it is. We are finally here. Trump has formally announced his desire to cancel a U.S. election. We said he would do this, and now he has. It doesn't matter that he probably can't. Or that he'll lose in court. The point is that we've crossed a line with respect to American democracy.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 55m ago

Trump: "It has just been determined Democrats illegally searched for, & recruited, a man named Dan Sullivan ... Peltola should suffer the Legal & Political consequences for A FRAUD ON THE PUBLIC, and Dan Sullivan should be allowed to run without either Peltola or FAKE Dan Sullivan on the Ballot"

daily sign tapping

Senator Chris Van Hollen@vanhollen.senate.gov · 1h ago

Michael & Susan Pretti saw their son gunned down by DHS officers & watched this admin smear him as a "domestic terrorist." Now they can't get answers about his death from Trump, Blanche, & Mullin.  Everyone engaged in this cover up must be held accountable. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Good news everyone!!! Wild Faith: How the Christian Right is Taking Over America is now out in a lovely affordable paperback, AND it no longer uses my deadname! With some new material too. If you haven't read the book yet, pick it up!! bookshop.org/p/books/wild...

Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America

The acclaimed author of Culture Warlords investigates the rise of the Christian Right over the last half-century that lays out the grim vision evangelicals are enforcing on our democracy. "An investi...

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On the one hand I sympathize with the "being trans is not a disorder" argument, but on the other hand, as someone who DOES have a disorder, I would kind of rather see the argument lean in the direction of "having a disorder doesn't mean you're not still a full, valid, and valuable person."

Who would have guessed that Russia would abuse a humanitarian truce? How many people are going to disappear in Russian filtration camps?

Kate from Kharkiv@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · yesterday

People from Oleshky who wish to return to Ukrainian-controlled territory will first be taken to Crimea or Russia, according to FT sources‼️ At this point, we can only brace ourselves for a massive Russian propaganda campaign, legitimized on the international stage by Newsmax's presence.

so priceless that prolific ratfucker James O'Keefe, by going undercover to prove how easy it is to commit voter fraud.... ends up proving how hard it is to commit voter fraud, and then catches charges for unlawful voting chef's kiss, stellar work all around www.startribune.com/conservative...

Conservative influencers face identity theft charges over Minnesota primary

Cam Higby and James O’Keefe disguised themselves and used hidden cameras to try and expose voter fraud in Minnesota’s primary.

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As the world moves to fast, efficient, fun electric vehicles, Trump is obstructing the development of this technology at home.

Column | I went to Mexico to test-drive the cars Americans can’t buy

Mexico is a showroom for electric cars, with a growing fleet of sleek new vehicles from Chinese brands unknown to Americans.

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I will spend the next 30 years furious that instead of saying, “yes, build your data centers, but also you have to pay for them to be 150% powered by renewables like solar or nuclear, with the excess going into the grid”, idiots online were like “the 5G farms are causing my engram to vibrate.”

J. C. Cantwell 🌻@segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 4h ago

we need an insane buildout of nuclear power (yes, deal with it) and renewable energy if we want to do this, and if we do not want to or are not able to build nuclear and renewable energy, we simply cannot build compute capex at the rate at which we wish to

harry potter was the last great universal cultural touchstone that everyone shares as a referent because like everyone in their late 30s right now in America read that shit together; of course it was going to be the matrix in which weird signifiers grew like mold

I’m sending a sledgehammer message to shipping companies whose tankers are transporting illegal Russian diesel to our ports. Reverse course while there’s still time.

Legendary labor leader and civil rights activist Dolores Huerta has passed away at age 96. She coined the phrase “Sí, se puede,” and was a founder of the United Farm Workers Union, helping hundreds of thousands of workers achieve better working conditions since the 1960s.

average person commits 3 frauds per year factoid actually just statistical error. average person commits 0 frauds per year. frauds o’keefe, who lives in a houseboat & commits 10,000 frauds each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

Jon Collins@jcollins.bsky.social · 5h ago

The Hennepin County Attorney's Office is charging James O'Keefe and Cam Higby with felonies for unlawful voting and ID theft for filming themselves misrepresenting their identities to election judges during the Minnesota primary as voters who were registered in the precinct.

yes - I wrote about this a few months ago www.wired.com/story/real-r...

The Real Reason Data Center Gas Power Plants Are So Dirty

A massive new gas plant in Texas will be built with much less efficient technology than regular gas plants. It’s far from the only data center power project to rely on dirty turbines.

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Instead of using 6-8 big natural gas peaking units, AI centers use dozens of natural gas generators that were really only designed for short term emergency use.

Not just it, but the entire world. As a note, the gas generators used by AI centers are dirtier than the ones used to power the general grid. The general grid natural gas power plants and peaking units are larger, which makes them more efficient and allows them to have more emission controls.

we need an insane buildout of nuclear power (yes, deal with it) and renewable energy if we want to do this, and if we do not want to or are not able to build nuclear and renewable energy, we simply cannot build compute capex at the rate at which we wish to

molly taft@mollytaft.com · 21h ago

NEW: buried in anthropic's hefty ipo documents released yesterday is an interesting admission: the company's increasing reliance on dirty gas to power its data centers is actually exposing it to financial risk wrote about it for @wired.com www.wired.com/story/anthro...

A new congressional report reveals allegations that Trump "brutally" raped former Miss Switzerland beauty pageant contestant Beatrice Keul, leaving bruises all over her body. Trump allegedly promised to help Keul obtain a visa and admission to NYU if she remained silent.

11/1: Open enrollment starts, and after the Big Ugly Bill, proposed rates are up 30% on average. 11/3: Election Day In a week, we can show Republicans that enough is enough: Make the ACA Tax Credits permanent and health care affordable for everybody.

a principled anti-authoritarian left-liberal internationalism that doesnt apologize for repressive communist/socialist states is very good actually tankies and campists fuck off

Angie Nixon@angieforfl.bsky.social · yesterday

I say it plainly: I do not celebrate Castro. I call Cuba what it is, an authoritarian regime, and I will fight for the Cuban families who fled it. Meanwhile, Ashley Moody backs deporting Cuban families back to the regime they escaped. #AngieforFlorida

Democracy is all about hope. It takes hope to register to vote. It takes hope to cast your ballot. It takes hope to choose people who will make things better. Don't sit this election out.

From enshrining reproductive freedom in state law to strengthening equal pay protections, Illinois has come a long way. None of that progress would’ve been possible without the women in this room tonight. One week until Election Day. Let's go.

Political lies have always been a thing but the MAGA GOP has realized they don't even have to pretend there's a basis for their nonsense. And they keep getting extreme.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 18h ago

Tim Scott on Hannity's show lies that El-Sayed's parents "funded Osama bin Laden"

They have a personal hatred of women, especially powerful women, and come up with ways to package that hatred as rational, fact-based, grounded in specific events, but it's just a container full of a miasma of misogyny. It's psychology in drag as politics.

everyone remember to give Pete credit where credit is due, he's putting in the hours

Pete Buttigieg@petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 17h ago

Mississippi matters.

I know there’s a lot going, but 19 Republican AGs have said—in writing!—that pro-choice speech should be criminalized. Thats a Big Fucking Deal and it blows my mind that more people aren’t talking about it

NEW: 19 Republican AGs Want to Outlaw Sharing Abortion Information

Plus: Idaho’s war on Prop 1 ads, and antis’ obsession with the “demonic”

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Some Lula supporters apparently shouted his name out their window when it was announced he won and a cop pointed his gun at him and they took what is possibly the greatest image of a cop ever taken, like genuinely this would go hard as a cover for a Rage album its so poetic.

“Zeteo can now reveal more on how the ad came together, and who else was involved. Somehow, the depraved, sleazy story of how this happened – a new low in a race that [NYT] has declared likely the “ugliest” in the nation – is even worse than you already think it is.” zeteo.com/p/republican...

Jacqueline Sweet@jsweetli.bsky.social · yesterday

This daughter passed away in 2024, after working as an assistant to kids with special needs.