If Democrats regain control of Congress but fail to dismantle the MAGA machinery within the government, it could spell disaster for the nation. Business as usual helped pave the way for wealthy Christian conservatives to gain power. They must be decisively confronted.

Maybe if we start releasing deepfake videos of Donald Trump talking about how incompetent he is, Republicans will finally start to get on board with AI regulations.

Looks like the way to combat rising gas prices is to have no gas left to sell www.newsweek.com/some-gas-sta...

Some gas stations "out of diesel" as prices surge

Isolated outages of diesel have been reported on social media.

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If there's one good thing coming out of this administration, it is that we're being reminded why regulations are important.

Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS@thanh-neville.bsky.social · 2d ago

SOAP is being recalled for having BACTERIA in it. At first, I thought this was a joke. If this is not dystopia, I don't know what is.

JUST IN: 🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran says Strait of Hormuz will remain closed until President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu are removed from power.

A grassroots live tour by YouTuber Louis Rossmann highlights growing resistance to companies that keep people from controlling their devices. www.wired.com/story/people...

People Are Pissed Off and Ready to Own Their Shit

A grassroots live tour by YouTuber Louis Rossmann highlights growing resistance to companies that keep people from controlling their devices.

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Doing a Columbo bingewatch on Peacock and can't help but wonder what percentage of episodes would be over by the end of the first act if the perpetrators lawyered up from the beginning?

It's interesting that the term "dollars to donuts" has an opposite meaning nowadays

Little known fact: In the USA, Peter Lorre was known as Peter Truck.

Trump’s claim that his $5k payoff isn’t a quid pro quo for voting Republican is undercut by the fact he’s not pushing to do it now, when Republicans already control Congress

Canada will never forget.

Jon Ossoff: "He's trying to put his face on the money. Did you see that? He's building a monument to himself. But see, Atlanta, he's doing these things now, because no one will honor him when he's gone. Because he's a failed president and a national disgrace."

I want to make a site called CatGPT that when you type in a prompt, it responds by meowing and demanding to be fed.

Elon Musk is living proof that money doesn’t make you smart, interesting, loved, creative, nice, kind, happy, funny, or cool.

Where's your sense of adventure?

Jerry Chen@jcsalterego.bsky.social · 2w ago

i just don't think roombas should have knife attachments

Can I use this card at Dick's Sporting Goods?

alexis simpson@amutepiggy.bsky.social · 4w ago

Do not. Use. JC penis credit card.

I really need everybody to stop giving antivaxxers any respect or “benefit of the doubt” because if you say stuff like this you should feel bad and should feel unwelcome in human society

This “game” on the White House website, a version of Snake where you play as a white man in a suit and you run around picking up identifiably black, Asian, and Latino men and putting them in orange jumpsuits, might be the most openly white supremacist thing I’ve ever seen the US government produce

I was today years old when I learned that the first episode of Columbo was directed by Steven Spielberg

"Multiple inmates said they felt uneasy making partisan phone calls. Two indicated that they had been in prison so long that they were not familiar with the names of political candidates. One was unsure what MAGA or a Trump Republican was." www.governing.com/workforce/wh...

When Your Call Center Is Inside a Prison

Oklahoma allowed private companies to employ incarcerated workers for outside calling campaigns, including work that ultimately reached a presidential campaign.

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NEW: A bombshell whistleblower report alleged that the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) brazenly violated multiple court orders to secretly advance President Donald Trump’s attempt to restrict mail voting ahead of the upcoming midterms. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

USPS repeatedly defied courts to advance Trump’s mail voting attack, whistleblower alleges

The whistleblower also said the Postal Service disregarded orders as the DOJ was seeking legal relief from the Supreme Court.

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Wait, hear me out... A Roomba lawnmower

For those of you that haven't read it, Chapter 10 of Project 2025 was literally about creating food insecurity by cutting safety nets and slashing regulations and restrictions on food production. No, we weren't overreacting to Project 2025.

❤️ if you love Canada

A map once meant to tell you what the world is called now tells you something different depending upon which government's version of reality applies to your IP address.

SHOUT-OUT to Political Cartoonist extraordinaire & Member of the Order of Canada Michael de Adder, who routinely does a far better job of holding this administration accountable than the corporate media. Thank you for your attention to his brilliant satirical wit! 🙏 (also: 🤣)