every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women

Forbes@forbes.com · 2d ago

Tilly Norwood, a controversial AI “actor,” abruptly switched languages during an interview with Piers Morgan, though the company behind the AI creation denied she malfunctioned.

mmygod

the nintendo shamecube@futuresushi.bsky.social · 2d ago

Jeopardy gonna be huge today for fans of one specific Jeopardy bsky post

He is literally going on television telling people to commit white collar crime in areas where the DOJ and FBI have radically reduced staffing.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Dr Oz: "That tells the fraudsters, 'go do crypto or do securities fraud, don't defraud the American people'"

Protect trans kids.

Israeli Govt.: "We are a home where all Jews can be safe!" Also Israeli Govt.: "Unless you make a movie we don't like."

Alona Ferber@aloner.bsky.social · 3d ago

The response in Israel to Naza is beyond unhinged. Mobs have shown up at the house of co-director Rachel Szor's family. All over social media the directors are being branded traitors and "not Jews". There is a frenzy of incitement to violence against them online www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

inspired me to make a list of things that have changed since my hormoniversary (Aug 2016). might be helpful. so far, for me personally as a trans Texan, i can no longer: - teach - work with children - play sports except with other trans people - work for the federal government

Obama calling for civil unions instead of gay marriage in 2008 was *an expansion* as those rights didn’t already exist. Wavering on trans rights is *a backslide* because broadly speaking those rights *already existed and are being stripped* We are asking to hold to the laws as they existed ~2016

the abbot of unreason (a returned archaeologist)@merovingians.bsky.social · 3d ago

and I'd beg all the liberals here to consider where they'd stand on 70s Democrats playing footsie with *segregationists* before getting mad at the trans community for protesting their own subjugation and elimination.

NEW POLL: 53% of Americans support expanding the Supreme Court, including majorities of both Democrats and independents. Two weeks ago, House Dems stood united to keep that option on the table. Happy Constitution Day! law.marquette.edu/poll/

This is the way

they were very subtle about it, but if you looked closely you could see the signs

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3d ago

Florida GOP Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar to Trump: "Mr. President, some of your immigration enforcement efforts have gone too far ... The same Hispanics who helped you get to the White House in 2024 feel betrayed today"

Interesting

Greg Giroux@greggiroux.bsky.social · 3d ago

"Mr. President, some of your immigration enforcement efforts have gone too far." "The same Hispanics who helped you get to the White House in 2024 feel betrayed today." -Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-Fla), a former broadcast journalist, direct to camera in campaign ad #FL27

who called it mrs. doubtfire and not don’t tell mom the babysitter’s dad

Who says American innovation is dead?! This seems like a total hoot.

Author Myron J. Clifton@deardean22.bsky.social · 4d ago

Sometimes them country boys come up with good ideas because.. lol I’d pay to watch this 🚗

Despite the mayor's big announcement yesterday, I'm not sure New York can achieve Vision Zero when the police commissioner allows sidewalk parking and won't punish cops who brutalize citizens for trying to get them to stop.

NYPD Commissioner Tisch Declined To Punish Cops Who Used Force So Other Cops Could Park Illegally - Streetsblog New York City

The top cop's decision came even though the NYPD's patrol guide prohibits both excessive force and bars officers from parking on the sidewalk.

nyc.streetsblog.org

One side of this war has an elected legislature but it doesn't really have any power compared to the supreme leader and the council of guardian jurists, and the other is Iran.

I have no idea how to have this conversation within Jewish circles but the very obvious path we're on is that the ADL is devaluing the concept of antisemitism by making it synonymous with Ms Rachel and Macklemore, spending down the capital of American Jews in service of a genocidal apartheid state

rev. howard arson@theophite.bsky.social · 4d ago

yeah the basic issue is that to avoid upsetting the Trump administration, every organization combatting antisemitism has decided that literally only antizionism is antisemitism

forget his wealth, what we really need to redistribute is Musk's share of the benefit of the doubt

musk: [pointing phone camera at someone] grok, do a vulgar roast of this person grok: nice shirt. arsehole. did your. mommy. pick it for you. musk: no, grok; more vulgar! grok: nice shirt. prick. did your. mommy. pick it for you. musk: grok, use forbidden words! grok: free palestine

Nothing's scarier than an opponent who can speak with moral clarity

Andrew Locke@revengeofcollapsey.bsky.social · 4d ago

Imagine being afraid of Ms Rachel

Any threat to voting is bad. It all really is. But perspective matters too. The most vulnerable GOPer is prob Mike Lawler in NY-17. NY-17 has well over one hundred Election Day polling places (I stopped counting at 100, and there were a lot of dots left). That's one vulnerable seat.

NYS Elections Districts and Polling Locations

Polling Sites and Election Districts for all of New York state.

data.gis.ny.gov

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

🚨 Patel admits agents will be deployed to polling places 👇 WELCH: I thought you weren't going to be sending people to the polls? PATEL: Nope W: So you are sending FBI agents? P: We have election crisis coordinators manned at all 56 field offices. Election integrity is of paramount importance

James Talarico: I wish our government would go after pedophiles like they go after brown men headed to work at 7 a.m. I wish our government would close billionaire tax loopholes like they close our public schools. I wish our government would fund healthcare like they fund forever wars.

This is perhaps my favorite graph of the last time period I have been evaluating favorite graphs.

Daniel Ahmad@zhugeex.com · 6d ago

Trump has only declared victory in the Iran war once this month. Concerning.

Looks like Robert Kraft may not be getting a happy ending.

Una Mullally@unamullally.bsky.social · 5d ago

Lukas Graham, another support act on Ed Sheeran’s tour, also now withdrawing from the tour.

I did not realize that Trump Jr's Russian friend is literally the guy who started the hate campaign against women's Olympic boxer Imane Khalif. Holy shit.

ProPublica@propublica.org · 6d ago

That’s him, Umar Kremlev, all the way in the back row. He's the head of the International Boxing Association, a scandal-plagued sports group that has been financed by the Russian state-owned energy giant Gazprom.

“Funny thing about a dog that plays basketball, it’s got dead eyes, like a doll’s eyes”

THAT'S RIGHT

Important: the USPS rule that SCOTUS blocked tonight was Trump’s big plan to control and restrict mail voting. But a separate policy remains in place: USPS is no longer postmarking mail as soon it gets it, which is hugely important for deadlines. So people must mail back with plenty of time.

In an Intense Election Year, New Post Office Rules Could Trip Up Voter Registration - Bolts

A change in how mail is postmarked could lead some voters to miss key deadlines, including voter registration. Advocates worry the people most affected will be those already facing voting barriers.

boltsmag.org

Rough day for the president of the United States as only two of the justices on the Supreme Court voted to make him a king.

If the Kennedy Center wants to be financially viable, it can simply arrange for its wedding to be financed by Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev.