Voting for Harris was the bare minimum of doing the right thing. Doing so doesn't absolve anyone of having to take responsibility for spreading anti-Democrat bullshit that pushed other voters to vote third party or abstain.

If anyone had any doubt that Kshama Sawant was anything other than a narcissistic attention addict, last night's classless display should have removed that doubt. What an asshole.

Lol, eat shit, Kshama. Let this finally be the end of your useless career in 'public service.' election-results-01.kingcounty.gov/results.pdf

The best summary of Sawant's career I can think of is that she was doing fundraising for her WA-09 Primary run in Brooklyn. bsky.app/profile/danl...

paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner)@danlehner.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I saw that a musician friend of mine originally from Seattle was playing a concert for Kshama Sawant and I was like okay, makes sense, he must be back home, but I found out the event is in *Brooklyn* and I looked into it and like, man…

It gets an actual chuckle out of me seeing people on here say "now the TRUE test is whether the shitlibs can live up to their own words and line up behind El-Sayed!" only for Stevens, Whitmer, every prominent Michigan Dem, the DSCC, etc. to have endorsed El-Sayed before they can finish the sentence.

My answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.

honestly, the fact that we have made it through the atomic age *without* another use of nuclear weapons since 1945 is a miracle we don't fully appreciate

Rebecca R Helm@rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · yesterday

Today is the day the story There Will Come Soft Rain is set. An amazing and heartbreaking work of fiction for our modern age. Read it here:

I swear to God, part of the problem of literacy is that we make kids read SO MANY books like this. Of course they’re going to associate reading with misery! We put them in a Skinner box and shock them when they read, what did people THINK would happen?

Nick Harkaway@nickharkaway.com · yesterday

Having ranted about school curriculum books, I’ve just seen my son’s summer reading list, and all I can say is “I was right”. A more depressing collection would be tricky to assemble. Are we actively trying to convey to kids the idea that reading is dismal and arduous?

Also, I'm so close to auto-blocking anyone who bleats about AIPAC.

Oh, good. Both of Adam Smith's weirdo challengers are getting like 10% of the vote. Personally, I think the seat could use someone with a little more fire, but the people who keep challenging him from the left are just silly.

NEWS: Trump just bragged about gutting endangered species protections so oil drilling, logging, development, and even military training can expand with fewer restrictions.

Trump Announces Rollback of Endangered Species Protections

Trump: ”The United States of America is going to BUILD again.”

meidasnews.com

Another botched job wapo.st/4fYGqQW

It says a LOT that the anti-Democrat left is more focused on unseating "establishment" Democrat electeds than they are on getting Republicans out of power. This is like high-school kids getting mad about who gets to be prom queen while there's a fucking war going on. FOCUS, folks.

As the Michigan primaries unfold, Charlotte Alter, who interviewed Abdul El-Sayed in 2018, provides an unsettling picture of him, saying he can't work with others, doesn't care if Dems lose, thinks Obama's passing the ACA was bad, and sees himself as a stern surgeon inflicting pain on Americans. 1/

How Abdul El-Sayed Thinks

A never-published account of my time with him on his first campaign

charlottealter.substack.com

Rick, you should be utterly ashamed of yourself and retract this immediately if you have any sense of decency. It is spitting in the face of every good man and woman who has ever fought for this country to suggest combat service regularly turns people into Graham Platner.

Rick Perlstein@rickperlstein.bsky.social · 5d ago

A watershed piece. America will have have a very hard time becoming less imperialist as long as combat service is sentimentalized and fetishized, when it actually tends to turn men into broken, hateful people, and helps make things like like Trumpism happen. www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...

In case you’re wondering who’s really “begging for a deal”

And after a moment of consideration, a corollary: anyone in the MAHA movement *right now*, even IF they only theoretically believe in the common ground, however unlikely, has already expressed a clear willingness to cross unacceptable lines (vaccines, protecting trans people, etc.) for those ends!

when kamala harris campains with one of the few republicans that impeached trump its surrendering to republicans but when bernie says trump has a point on immagration or aoc says she works with maha its completely fine (yes everyone has iffy stuff on their record even jon ossof has made mitakes )

Federal prosecutors just dropped charges against 3 MORE defendants who were falsely accused of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool www.cbsnews.com/news/lincoln...

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.

Some AI companies have already lost control of their AI models. With every passing month AI models get smarter, faster and more cunning. This is why we need to pass the simple, bipartisan AI Kill Switch Act. Humans need to be able to turn these machines off when they go rogue.

CBS News Sacramento@cbsnewssacramento.bsky.social · 2d ago

CEO of AI firm Hugging Face calls last month's hack by OpenAI model "very weird and unprecedented"

I’m convinced this has a lot to do with the freakout over trans girl athletes. Guys think anyone who has ever had a penis is a cross between Michael Jordan and the Hulk, because they like believing that.

Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 2d ago

it's interesting how many men get satisfaction out of knowing that other men can beat elite female athletes. like ok, maybe the best high school boys team in the country can beat a WNBA team, but YOU can't

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BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Five months ago, we learned that ICE seized drawings and letters from children in the Dilley ICE concentration camp. I sued under the Freedom of Information Act. Today, I got responsive documents. www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-e...

BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: ICE Seized Drawings from Children in Detention. I Sued, and Today I Got Them.

Five months ago, I filed a Freedom of Information Act Request for papers seized from children at the Dilley ICE Detention Center. Today, I got a heartbreaking response.

muellershewrote.com

That seems like the essential paradox of leftists in America. Either we suck and deserve the worst, so you should sit back and let Trump win. Or, we deserve better than any of the choices, so you should sit back and let Trump win. It’s funny how there’s never an option where you try to stop Trump.

At least these two are being honest about their support for terrorism.

This guy has anti-Semitic brain worms (among many other species of brain worm) and he needs to be treated as radioactive by every Democrat.

He doesn't regret it. He's just angry he was caught.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d ago

Bernie Sanders refuses to say whether he regrets endorsing Platner

There is a lot to worry about in terms of what the last ten+ years have done to governance in this country, but one of my bigger fears is that people - even ones ostensibly on our side - have forgotten that Congress isn’t just a fucking reality show with people being shitheads on Twitter all day