Crab Wells

A problem with these "checkmate" questions, is they reveal your laziness. Science isn't a secret. It's very insistent on being reviewable and repeatable. You are welcome to find the answer, and it is learnable somewhere, you just don't want to.

Trump’s presidency is a wealth transfer from the bottom to the top

When will a mediocre straight white guy ever be able to get ahead, asks Conor Friedersdorf?

The NYT story does not even include the word rape. Not once.

The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.

I felt I really needed to write about Rowling's essay, not because it's new, but because it's so poisonous and ugly that it felt like sanitizing her not to acknowledge it on my trans news site.

Just a reminder that there is no good data to support these uses in K12, we are just testing it live all on kids who won’t ever be these ages again and can’t get them back if we fuck it up.

Republicans being even more Islamophobic than they were after 9/11 while the Republican president is literally in business with Saudi Arabia really is the worst of all possible worlds.

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Not that anyone needed more proof the US is losing this war, but there's no way he'd be saying this if Iran was losing.

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

My contribution to Cheesecake Factory discourse: Aryan Brotherhood of Texas gang members assaulted a mixed-race family. I identified one of them because he worked at a Cheesecake Factory and their Instagram page posted pictures of him. He has a back tattoo with SS bolts and phrase "Aryan Soldier"

Interesting approach by Mike Rogers to make his loyalty to Elon Musk & the oligarchy an explicit part of his campaign earlier this year. “When you stand with my Senate campaign today, you are directly shielding Elon Musk,” Rogers wrote. www.metrotimes.com/news/mike-ro...

I really do think you should vote. Your actual vote is secret, but the fact that you voted is not. Being a regular voter means campaigns will try to win you over. The more trans people are regular voters the more likely it is that candidates will worry about needing to win our votes.

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

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good morning... or close enough bath consultant is supposed to be here in about an hour. so far no one has yelled at me today

For those learning that the Vivek ad went public because it was leaked to @rooster.info: know that most Republicans in Ohio hate Vivek's ass. Not for principled reasons, but because he jumped the line and they're already positioning themselves for 2030. As I wrote in my newsletter today:

It's not even f'ing cheaper. It's just as expensive to use AI as it is to make an indie film with real people/artists.

"[NYT]—and all of the media—could have investigated Lindsey Graham’s denials decades ago. It’s clear to me that Washington reporters, like the rest of us, had heard the stories for many years. Yet they thought it was an “invasion of privacy” to go there, even as he was harming the community"

"If Christian nationalists are allowed to define America as a Christian country in which Muslims are viewed as alien outsiders, it won’t be long until Jews, Catholics, atheists, and anyone expressing political dissent will also be labeled as alien outsiders."

Con artists fail because a good con is generally an exact parody of the too-good-to-be-true promise.

‘Tis the season

Fun fact for U.S. folks: there are now events called Social Banks, which are basically introvert-friendly Phone Banks for folks who want to juice the algo for their favorite candidates. I know you can join them on Mobilize and they'll tell you what kind of online engagement to do. Go find one!

And we still have politicians not only allowing this, but even taking our tax dollars away from our communities’ needs and giving it to these billionaire companies in the form of tax cuts. If you’re in Fairbanks, AK come to our data center town hall this Thursday actionnetwork.org/events/nobod...

I would love to live in a world where "President faces new rape allegation" isn't treated like a dog bites man story in the major media.

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quite frankly there's a lot of people who, because they are obscenely online, care more about people saying the right things rather than doing the right things

a weird set of people who only exist online are people who celebrate the defeat of global fascism in every other country and are then horrified and appalled at the idea that they should also be expected to vote for their domestic opponent of global fascism if some of their stances are Problematic

A wrong lesson to take from the Brazilian elections is that voting can defeat fascism. That's not true at all. Democracy is an incredibly frail system and the US almost took over the country through it. ORGANIZED PEOPLE DEFEATED FASCISM

Remember, too, that a number of the DHS goons who've committed crimes -- Pretti's killers and the guy who shot Julio Sosa-Celis in MN, among others -- are Latinos from South Texas.

GOLDMAN: “.. we are starting to see clearer signs that the AI impact is spreading beyond the technology sector. .. the share of US firms that have adopted AI in regular business functions now shows a statistically significant negative correlation with employment growth ..”

Can we stop with the unethical and uncontrolled AI now?

This is a chilling satirical statement and also, I believe, a real risk of allowing the idea that nebulous, unproven biological advantages should result in bans on classes of people in sports to gain purchase.

I live in a rural town and, like, I don't know how to tell you this, but the girls play on the boys team and vice versa all the time because otherwise we don't have enough players for a game and it's literally always fine so stop being weirdos about kids sports and just let trans kids play.

Love this story from Larkin Cleland & Madhumita Dutta about Ohio residents in a rural area who have to decide whether to take a payout & escape the crush of data centers built up around them. The man profiting from the land underneath those data centers is... Les Wexner. prospect.org/2026/10/26/d...

yeah

AK's had more notice but CA is more worrying. Equally insane and delusional as litigation, but CA tells us something: It doesn't have any close races so it's not about flipping a seat or two. There's only one reason to target CA: it has enough House seats to cover the margin of any Dem majority.

Pfff, sounds like a skill issue on the part of the husbands to me.

Valley Times, North Hollywood, California, October 26, 1955. #31DaysofHalloween

Goddammit.

#3496 They tried their hardest but the hedges weren't very tall.

Lee Gatlin @neilaglet.bsky.social

I don't know that there is a definitive line to cross that makes you say, "I live in a police state now" but when masked gunmen can routinely brutalize the public, citizen or immigrant alike, with impunity, you have reached that point.