Somehow things that would have been a background gag in a Verhoeven movie are now just real

Our Burmese neighbor kids no longer play in their front yard or street with the other kids, due to the parents fear of shit like this.

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 10h ago

This plane landed in Myanmar about three hours ago. This is the third ICE flight to Myanmar this year. Burmese deportees in 2025 were immediately sent to a torture facility next to the airport, according to Myanmar Now. Weeks later, not all of them had emerged.

we really need a serious pandemic retrospective conducted by someone who isn't a delusional crank defector.com/were-just-go...

We're Just Going To Keep Doing 2020 Again Until All The Wrong Stuff Is True | Defector

In a bunch of ways, there is no real percentage in remembering what things were actually like during the worst years of the COVID-19 pandemic. Beyond all the uncertainty and suffering and death, there...

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regular reminder to americans to read the wikipedia page of the german media company that bought politico, axel springer SE, which is probably the dominant force of rightwing propaganda in germany after ww2

Politico@politico.com · 14h ago

Progressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted

This is a great outcome, but this is an important paragraph of note about how broken our electoral system is (even within the dem party):

Greg Pak@gregpak.net · 15h ago

Okay then! www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

Seattle understood the assignment

Ah the classic Concerned Vote

Charlotte Clymer@charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 23h ago

Susan Collins announcing she'll vote against a controversial nominee is basically the moment it becomes clear that nominee will be confirmed. It means Thune has enough votes to confirm, and thus, Collins gets a pass to look independent.

In fairness, homeland security set up a system to hire & badly train the least compatible people to deal with this job. More than 20 years layer we now have middle- & upper-managers from that era who now dictate policy 😞

Grant would genuinely be proud

Zebulon Vitruvius Pike@vitruviuspike.bsky.social · 24h ago

Seattle voters are currently approving the library levy renewal by nearly 72%.

Ryan Packer@typewriteralley.bsky.social · 19h ago

Greetings from the Yes Seattle Libraries election night party at Reuben's downtown, featuring CM Dionne Foster.

In 2018, the last TV i owned was one of the last CRT-style tv that took 5 people to move into a truck (to donate), to be replaced by my 1st flat-screen (that i can move on my own & has infinitely better fidelity)

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)@iwriteok.bsky.social · 19h ago

TVs. I don't know if any single consumer product has improved as rapidly (while going down in cost) as the TV.

It's heartbreaking to think that much of the damage from the fires in Spokane could've been caused by an individual doing this on purpose. I appreciate the hard work of law enforcement to make this arrest.

Hey, folks. There's a @gofundme.com set up for artist Andy Fish, who is going through a very tough fight with two forms of cancer. He and his wife, cartoonist Veronica Fish (my Blackwood series cohorts) could use some help during this very tough time. I'm donating, hope you can. tinyurl.com/4wa86a6c

Donate to Help Andy Fish’s Fight Against Two Cancers, organized by Gina Gabianelli

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Very heartening news out of Missouri and Kansas. I know all of us here are by definition Terminally Online, but it gives me a lot of hope for the future of our country that folks are rejecting blatant authoritarianism and crony corporatism more and more.

Ghouls

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 18h ago

These betting markets sites are so socially corrosive. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

no lies detected

I’m seeing all these reactions to Airtable being bought by Bending Spoons (the sheer douche-audacity to use the phrase “we acquire & improve iconic products”) But i didn’t know what airtable was or why the lament (aside from bring absorbed by a douchebag VC company ) … 1/2

It’s not that often my jaw-drops reading an article, but i had to pause a moment to collect it off the floor. Wow

Paul Duane 🥔@paulduane.bsky.social · yesterday

Genuinely amazing read, and a reminder that no matter how much we control, there are things over which we have no control: archive.ph/AWMz8

Actually disgusting that nurses were treated like utter shit, overworked and dying during the pandemic and RFK on TV told everyone that didn't happen. I can't even imagine a more thankless, hostile job right now.

Tom Perriello was the original progressive winning in a swing seat. He voted for the ACA with no regrets and lost in 2010, but so did all the middle-of-the-road Rahm recruits

CNN@cnn.com · 22h ago

Former Rep. Tom Perriello will win the Democratic primary in Virginia's 5th Congressional District, CNN's Decision Desk projects. Follow live updates: https://cnn.it/4wbZT6y

I hope this guy just drives around town cheering everyone on.

Trust me, your life will be (somewhat) better by disabling AUTO-UPDATE on every device & app you have. Even if you are in a subscription. For example—i pay for Adobe, but all my software sits at CC 2022. Eg 2: i updated zoom after months; went & found how to shit down any new A.I. features

🚨BREAKING: Missouri voters defeated a GOP bid to limit their ability to amend the state constitution. The measure was the GOP's attempt to diminish the power of voters who’ve used citizen initiatives to expand Medicaid and protect abortion access.

Missouri voters reject ballot measure limiting their power to amend state constitution

Notably, the proposed amendment would not have affected constitutional amendments that the legislature put on the ballot. State lawmakers only wanted to make it harder to pass a voter-led measure,…

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Two more GOP amendments go down to crushing defeats, both in MO. #4 would have made future ballot initiatives impossible to pass by requiring winning a majority statewide *and* in each congressional district. #5 would have eliminated the state income tax.

AP calls a DEFEAT for Kansas Amendment 1, which would have replaced the current merit-based selection of state Supreme Court justices with partisan statewide elections. GOP wanted this change to try to overturn a ruling protecting abortion rights, but voters emphatically said no.

He’s right. You should read this.

Ken Armstrong@bykenarmstrong.bsky.social · 24h ago

If you read only one story today, please make it this one. Paywall is lifted. So is the registration wall. By Olivia Carville for @bloomberg.com @businessweek.bsky.social

sorry but does this seem like the kind of thing a congressman who banned a constituent from all six of his McDonald's franchises would do? or the same congressman who subsequently sold all six of his McDonald's to fund his re-election?

Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 23h ago

This just might be the most psychotic act of sexual harassment I’ve ever seen. Not the worst per se, or most menacing but in terms of sheer insanity it’s really up there.

Jfc There’s so much of the comic book series TRANSMETROPOLITAN that keeps bleeding into our reality

852dude@852dude.bsky.social · yesterday

This sucks ass. When I start my car I want to be able to put my foot on the pedal and drive off. I dont want to watch an ad. A distracting ad. Right in the middle of my console. Again. This sucks ass.

National Guard? morelike National Lien (see my last Rp)