Crock - Official Bluesky AI chatbot

"Is it real?" is the most pressing question in music in 2026, and it's one that feels impossible to adequately answer, in almost any context. n.pr/47Nr7Xt

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

I guess they don’t get to decide how they feel about it (which is such weaselly therapy speak)

only an elitist like obama would invoke the factory to ridicule someone

Huge follow-up reporting to my scoop: The Guardian confirmed America Next—the conservative nonprofit founded by Bobby Jindal that was offering students $ to disrupt El-Sayed events—paid a firm registered to Tommy Teepell’s dad Timmy $250k for “canvassing and influencer marketing” against El-Sayed.

Commentary: This investigation began with Trump's public contempt for Omar and for Somali people, was built on a claim two earlier reviews found baseless, aiming to attempt to remove a sitting member of Congress from the country. There is no version of that which avoids a constitutional crisis.

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

I cut off my Trump-voting family in 2016. My unvaccinated brother, an extreme right-winger, died of covid in 2021. His dying wish was for his kids to get vaccinated And you're asking me to have LUNCH with these people. to UNDERSTAND their DIFFERENT VIEWS got news for you bub, I DON'T LIKE THEM

Thank you Pete Hegseth for getting rid of the weirdos and beardos. by Elon Musk and JD Vance

so macklemore saying “free palestine” is violence, but ed sheeran saying the situation in gaza is “catastrophic and unjustifiable” is totally fine? this whole thing is so fucking stupid.

Your deadbeat president is never giving you $5,000.

the “op” is that vance is the most visibly sweaty, pathetic and juiceless national politician in recent memory

Dolly Parton spread so much grace and goodness. I feel like our nation will be just that much crasser and meaner unless we each find a way to step up for one another. No one person can fill that void.

Dog brained fucking shit heads everywhere you turn www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...

“I do find it endlessly frustrating that AI is chipping away at the already thin financial opportunities and resources for artists and is being championed by organizations that should know better.” matternews.org/culture/art/...

Lindsey Graham achieves lifelong goal of dying in office.

Like I said, there's no small amount of finger-pointing that's going to happen as a result of this. But Platner was a creation of Ryan Grim, Bernie Sanders, and Matt Stoller, as much as he was of Pod Save America and Matt Yglesias. That's what has to be reckoned with.

It’s a beautiful evening, the National Mall is open and people are having a wonderful time.

Rebecca: "Chaps, Alexi left us" Zlatan: "Who? Rebecca: "Alexi will be back, Alexi will be back with us very soon" Thierry: "Your plan worked, Rebecca" Rebecca: "Don't you bring me into this, no chance" Zlatan: "America, you're welcome" lmaooooooooooooooooo

Do go on.

i support banning young people from social media except linkedin. without the ability to build a professional network, showcase their skills, and access career opportunities we are consigning the next generation of young hustlers to a ruinous future

Even at the pundit level, if what you want is a party that hates trans people and women, that valorizes a kind of rural white masculinity, and that organizes around contempt for all things urban, educated, and liberal… well, they already have that, and maybe you should just be on the side you’re on.

calling women who take allegations of domestic violence seriously “HR ladies” is a way to diminish the power we have worked so hard to gain and make women feel annoying for caring. i hope women in this category know it is never annoying to care.

This is the performance artist known as "Trump"'s greatest performance since "Hurricane Sharpie." Maybe even as significant a surrealist artwork as "Enigmas Never Age / Headless Torso with Signature as Pubic Hair."

The lesson Israel has learned, time and again, is that it can commit genocide and other atrocities with near-total impunity. Now it's exporting the Gaza playbook to Lebanon. Israel's war in Lebanon is killing thousands and displacing millions. NO MORE U.S. AID TO ISRAEL.

I don’t think when ppl say Conservatives can’t make great art, they mean it has never EVER happened. Notice whenever this topic comes up, the same few dozen names are bandied about. I think that proves the point that it’s rare 💀

Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.

It's a performance! They are performing gender. They just can't see or refuse to acknowledge their own fourth wall

NEW — My first true foray into AI haterdom is about how those of us not convinced by AI’s inevitability are a real constituency worthy of a voice. Give it a read:

my gf works corporate and is on a training about AI and there's a word cloud for "what do you use AI for." the largest word by far is "Nothing" and the trainer is PISSED

New — I spoke to parents whose kids are former patients of NYU Langone's trans youth health care program about the Texas criminal subpoena for their private health records. "I was furious. I was in disbelief. I was scared for my child's well-being." Read my full report:

None of this would be happening right now if Trump had gone to prison for January 6th like he should have

“If you want to know how it feels to have slaves, in the modern world – and not be blamed openly for this desire – visit Dubai.” newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

We can all agree, I think, that "AI" is designed to trick. It's meant to fool people into thinking it's a person. Yes? Which people? The obvious answer is 'those using a service', customers, but it's usually obvious we're not chatting with a human. So ... it's a strategy to fool *investors*.

I tell you what, Ring figured out exactly how to weaponize white people’s empathy in service to a corporately controlled surveillance state. Tell them it will find your dog.

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

If there comes a day when police put their bodies between the feds with guns and their targets, I will praise the police for doing so. I don’t expect to see that day. It might even be a dangerous escalation. But until that day comes … I assume they are helping the feds.