It's like an actual report, on Congressional letterhead and everything, and many, many people in my real life which is full of really informed people are like "whaa, what are you talking about??"

Judiciary Democrats’ Report Details Mounting Evidence Linking Trump to Epstein’s Criminal Activities and DOJ’s Cover-Up; Specific Accounts Involving 11 Women Provide More Evidence of Potential Sex Cri...

Washington, D.C. (October 26, 2026)—Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, released a sweeping new Committee staff report, “‘We Have Certain Things in Common, Jeffr...

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The number of people who do not know that Trump has once again been credibly accused, THIS WEEK, of rape or sexual misconduct by 5 different women while in or near the presence of Jeffrey Epstein... is truly shocking to me. I know the legacy press is trying to bury it, but Christ alive it's working

Come work with me! The Dept. of Math & Stats at the University of Alaska Fairbanks is hiring TWO tenure-track tripartite(teaching/research/service) statisticians! We're a great department! and you will have the opportunity to reshape the stats program. #statsky careers.alaska.edu/jobs/assista...

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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Annalise Keating's Angry Look in HTGAWM

Alt: Annalise Keating side-eyes you before picking up her purse to leave | HTGAWM

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"A.i." fucking sucks.

Eric Brown@sophisteuein.bsky.social · 8h ago

My employer has offered all the students multiple “AI” accounts and is spending so much money that the new asssistant provost doesn’t know what the total is, *while Arts & Sciences are slashing grad programs to cover a deficit created by massive spending by the central fiscal unit*.

Most universities aren't run by professors and educators. They're run by the MBAs, investment firm execs, and billionaires on their boards. So they're embracing "A.i." to enrich the rich and killing their educational mandate. Absolute garbage that will destroy them.

By aggressively embracing "A.i.," the Ivies are hurting students, making themselves irrelevant, and devaluing their diplomas. Trash.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9h ago

Just got an email announcing that Princeton is offering ChatGPT accounts to all undergrads next semester. Looking forward to other helpful innovations lIke giving them unlimited heroin or free handguns

Cool kind of citizen-science on carbon removal here. one detail that stuck out: "Our study shows that if we were to implement regenerative row cropping systems on a national scale, that it represents the best climate solution currently available. And farmers don’t lose money or productivity."

MTH@megt.bsky.social · 9h ago

Researchers reported that advanced regenerative farms stored nearly 40% more carbon in soil compared to the conventional farm controls and if all field crops used these methods, the equivalent of 1.5 years of US greenhouse gas emissions could be stored in soil. 🌎🌱 civileats.com/2026/10/26/s...

Do you think the NYT ever gets tired of being a voice for the worst people you’ve ever heard of in your entire life or

the point is to wear us down until we're apathetic about the horrors. thats why cultivating joy, nurturing wonder, and building soft moments is critical. you need a breather from the awful or else your brain will be permanently exhausted. which is what our enemies want. don't let them win!

It will never not fuck me up that Anthropic is like "hello our product may end humanity" and the market is like "sure, a $1.6 T valuation makes sense, take our money."

Here’s Chief Na’Moks of the Wet’suwet’en Nation: “To Prime Minister Carney and the politicians studying Bill C-39, I have a message for you: our rights are not yours to bargain away.”

Rachel Gilmore@rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 7h ago

I'm not sure most Canadians realize what's happening right now with Indigenous folks and the Carney government. All morning there has been voice after voice from Indigenous leadership, youth, from across the country, telling us they're gearing up for a fight for their rights. This is big!

The NY Times will publish a hit piece on the Democratic Alaska senate candidate six days before an Election but won't mention a new rape allegation against the President of the United States.

The NYT devoting two pieces to the Cheesecake Factory "controversy" and none to the latest rape allegations against POTUS is a good reminder that there is no attack against Obama bad faith enough that the press doesn't amplify it, while with Trump when the charges are horrendous, caution abounds.

one of the most painful parts of following US foreign policy in Africa is how much they know people don't care—and they capitalize on it.

svl@droseph.bsky.social · 8h ago

We've been quietly bombing somalia for years and years, endlessly bombing them and outside of a few media and academics, nobody talks about it.

"Why we're adding AI" - Because you don't remotely value or respect your employees. You care more about revenue than your product or value to the user. You don't appreciate the humans who created the vast library of content in your archives, nor care about devaluing their work by this decision.

My piece on why protest is not just important, but integral to democracy - especially the at best democracy-adjacent gov'ts we have at the moment- and surveying some of the wonderful pieces in last month Protest in Democracy spotlight: globalvoices.org/2026/10/21/p...

Protest as a pillar of democracy

This spotlight is, then, a form of protest in its own right: a way of reasserting that protest is legitimate, important for democracy, and everywhere.

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God, I want to be Nanny Ogg when I grow up.

Micah@rincewind.run · 2d ago

Discworld QOTD, from Maskerade “Nanny Ogg was basically a law-abiding person when she had no reason to break the law, and therefore had that kind of person’s attitude to law-enforcement officers, which was one of deep and permanent distrust.”

just a reminder that weight stigma is not just stressful experiences or being made to feel bad about your body, it also includes systemic medical neglect and/or iatrogenic harm important to remember in an era of We Fixed Fatness with Medicine (After Medically Neglecting Fat People for Generations)

rest in peace to Dolores Huerta. after a lifetime of organizing, in her last year on earth, she chose to be brave enough to change the historical record; in doing so, she set an example for generations of feminists

Dolores Huerta, pioneering labor activist, dies at 96

Dolores Huerta helped lead strikes, boycotts and a movement for change.

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I'd also love it if people stopped pretending that Trump voters were manipulated into being racists, and talked about how Trump gave them cover to express their hatred publicly.

Wagatwe Wanjuki@wagatwe.bsky.social · 5h ago

I'm tired of "I regret voting for Trump" profiles. let's see the "I knew exactly what Trump stood for and I love it" pieces! the people who love ethnic cleansing and think the higher prices and sicker population is worth it.

I'm not responding person, but someone was trying to justify the NYT using AI to scale recipes by saying "what if you have to go from cups to tablespoons..." and I cannot believe our stupid system of measurement is getting people to think it's okay to boil the oceans.

I can imagine a throuple with me, my husband and the ghost of Patrick Swayze.

Johnny Okraseed@lrwrp.bsky.social · 9h ago

Cannot or should not? I could fully envision a scenario where a frontier AI that runs in a datacenter has the necessary connectivity to control a robot in the real world.

One Titan submersible of the worst people who have ever fucking lived, enabling half of one 747 worth of assholes, to sound like they are a whole enormous demographic, a vast roaring crowd.

We've known, for going on a decade, that like 90% of far right content is being funded and churned out by like a dozen guys. One Titan submersible worth of billionaire sex pests goes KATHUNK and there goes the ability of any random bigot to get their Nazi bullshit beamed directly into your face.

Hey just a quick PSA to tell you you can just make a little mushroom riding a snail. There’s even a book to show you how and maybe your library has a copy that you can borrow on a Tuesday night for FREE like it’s nbd 🧶 #crochet bookshop.org/p/books/croc...

This one doesn't just wander into my head. It's lodged there as chapter one of my inner monologue on how to be a parent. Do the thing. Live in the moment. You only get finite chances and they run out quicker than you'd ever imagine.

Mark Truesdale@marktweedale.bsky.social · 3d ago

Name a piece of comic art that occasionally wanders into your head unannounced and makes you smile. #comics

This is what calling Obama an elitist over a joke they're purposely misconstruing is about. Not being allowed to use the n-word, they want to call him names and say this ______ looks down on you. It's what's given us Trump!

🗽LOLGOP🗽@lolgop.bsky.social · 3w ago

And Santorum got the deepest cheers of the day when he said, “Barack Obama wants every kid to go to college. What a snob.” It was the slur and the visceral anger. And also the resentment at the left for saying, we will try to nurture and uplift your child even if you reject them or they reject you.