DAWG WE'RE DOING STATE-RUN GAS PRICES AT PRICE CONTROLLED RATES DESPITE INCREASING SHORTAGES TO PACIFY THE PEOPLE AND THEY'RE SCREAMING ABOUT HOW THEIR OPPONENTS WANT COMMUNISM I AM GOING TO LOSE MY ENTIRE GODDAMN MIND

USA TODAY@usatoday.com · 4w ago

The White House launched 25 Freedom Fuel gas stations, all selling fuel at $3.47 a gallon.

so fucking rich that while he was talking AP reported this: "Writer E. Jean Carroll can collect $5.8 million awarded to her after a jury found that President Donald Trump sexually abused and defamed her, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. Trump’s lawyers immediately appealed to stop the payment."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w ago

JD Vance: "My request you is that you send to people of Washington who are of good character"

Meta Glasses are like, a Cybertruck for your face.

The entire fuckin point of the national mall is loitering

amanda moore 🐢@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · last mo.

“Loitering is not permitted in this area. Please proceed to a designated location. Thank you for your cooperation,” a surveillance machine tells a small cluster of National Guard members as they patrol the fenced off Reflecting Pool in the rain.

“Palantir’s value proposition has always rested on plausible deniability: yes, we build surveillance tools, but we have a civil liberties team, we care about safeguards, we’re the responsible adults in the room. The manifesto torched that framing on purpose” www.techdirt.com/2026/04/30/p...

Palantir Workers Are Finally Noticing The Skulls On Their Caps

There’s a famous Mitchell & Webb sketch where two SS officers, mid-conversation on the Eastern Front, suddenly notice something troubling about their uniforms. “Hans,” one ask…

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When you make ballrooms illegal only illegals will have ballrooms The only way to stop a bad man in a ballroom is a good man with a ballroom

Today in SF: “AI Economy: who wins, who loses, and who decides” Inspiring chat between @chrismurphyct.bsky.social and @catherinebracy.com hosted by @techequity.bsky.social and @nataliefoster.bsky.social @economicsecurityproject.org Nice to hear a politician openly argue for breaking up big tech

if you believe in any form of free enterprise at all, the idea that the Pentagon can not only cut off your contract but designate you a supply chain risk and prevent other companies from buying from you just because you won't build killbots for the government should be terrifying

this is just who they are they do bad things everywhere all the time because they are evil and stupid and constantly indulging their very worst impulses there’s no twelve dimensional plan here

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I am already seeing "it's a distraction!" takes and please fucking kill me

Anthropic responds to Hegseth. www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...

To recap: Anthropic refused to do killbots or mass surveillance. DOD trying to destroy company. Altman: we are now working with DOD, who totally respect safety and oppose mass surveillance! Why would anyone trust a word Altman says after this?

Mike Masnick@masnick.com · 5mo ago

My goodness.

I am going to need every single person who said that misinformation was a moral panic to feel enough shame and regret that they leave public intellectual life.

Relevant to today's conversation about AI's inherent sexism, here's an email from cognitive psychologist and early AI theorist Roger Schank, arguing to Epstein that women can't be truly intelligent, because they care too much about what other people think.

Ok Mapsky anyone have favorites for cartogram algorithms in 2026? I did a quick implementation of House Kocmoud (1998) since that was my gold standard in 2010 but much has happened since then. Just ran the latest Gastner and its a big improvement. Do we want a qgis plugin that supports all these?

American not only becoming a cult of personality but becoming the dumbest cult of personality in the history of the human species is a lot to process

A day ago the EPA officially rejected the science on global warming. Beyond "oh, that happened" I won't read about it. I won't silently evaluate the coverage of it, as I often do. This item is going into the "too stupid, too important to be that stupid, and too painful" bucket. Do you ever do that?

“Democrats can speak with conviction about what they know to be right, wrong, and true.” @gregsargent.bsky.social has me up on the table with this takedown of Leonhardt-style popularism. He’s absolutely right. Be loud. Be convicted. Show the truth. Persuade people. That’s politics.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The extraordinary courage of people who are documenting ICE atrocities in places like Minneapolis, at great personal risk, are also achieving something else: They're changing the public's mind about immigration. We have a rare opportunity here. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2059...

However low your opinion is of those running the country, it's not low enough. Completely unserious, self-absorbed sociopaths. (Read the whole thread)

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The details of the Kristi Noem blanket incident are just fucking perfect

But the progressives and socialist democrats are, so establishment Dems need to step aside and let them lead. They aren’t the revolutionaries. And that’s ok. What’s not ok is refusing to acknowledge that and stepping back to allow others who are built for this moment to take the reins.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 6mo ago

“Republicans are over here being straight-up mercenaries,” @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social told The Atlantic. “Democrats give everybody Fridays off and talk about work-life balance.” She apologized for yelling into the phone. Democrats “are not built for when the fascists come,” she concluded.

As if Ukrainian refugees haven’t endured enough suffering, now they must face this as legal immigrants in the US.

DWhite time to shine

FULL COURT D@c0urtney-danvers.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Replace the dunk contest with a block contest and save All Star Weekend once and for all.

It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.

Again, in actual democracies, ministers resign all the time, under threat of a no confidence vote in the parliament. We have a system where legislative confirmation totally fails ex ante to screen out wildly unqualified people, & ex post accountability depends on a toothless extraordinary measure.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 6mo ago

There must be a dozen fireable offenses listed in this piece: *Noem firing civil servants without cause *Her boyfriend using govt resources to boost her profile, punishing officials who would not give him a gun *Massive waste on ads, planes, delayed contracts, pushing favored firms

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

They've been garbage forever! This is from six years ago! www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

What to Know Before You Buy or Install Your Amazon Ring Camera

So, you own or are thinking of buying a Ring camera. This post outlines a list of privacy and civil liberties concerns we have with Amazon’s Ring system so that you can be a more informed consumer, or...

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kia speaks@kiaspeaks.us · 6mo ago

Yall still need to cancel that service. If they did it once, they will do it again! Give them the Target treatment. Keep going.

“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English” my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist

King George, 1782:

Thor Benson@thorbenson.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Sorry, I'm not watching, but I just checked the score and need to ask if all of the Patriots died

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

Some are saying letting a bunch of total morons with unlimited money buy up the media to promote stories about how cool they were was bad but who can say.

Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 6mo ago

WaPo laying off entire Middle East team

It isn’t healthy to be this angry all the time. But it also isn’t healthy if this doesn’t make you angry.

Rachel Maddow@maddow.bsky.social · 6mo ago

they went to an emergency room seeking help for their 7 year old child. ICE arrested the 7 year old and her parents. the family is here legally. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...