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me: changes the light fixtures in my house to energy efficient LED lightbulbs Jeff Bezos:

Sometimes, I look around at the world and think David Foster Wallace was right. And he would hate this.

Just drank some Liquid I.V. Tastes like I ate a pot of lip gloss. 🤮

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Forget #TeamJess vs. #TeamDean (I’m not even entertaining Logan as an option), I wanna know if you’re #TeamPacey or #TeamDawson.

Amazon just announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year. UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year. Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

Am I the only one who constantly thinks about how the internet has taught us how many people were waiting for the right cult leader to come along?

The Trump administration says it will deport the prominent British Muslim journalist and commentator Sami Hamdi after detaining him Sunday. Hamdi, a vocal critic of Israel, was detained after pressure from right-wing influencers who called him part of "a domestic militant Islamic problem"

The president of the United States posted a video of him defecating on the American people. Many in my profession normalized it. This is a big reason why we are where we are.

When I watch Bob’s Burgers I get commercials for the Springsteen movie and Liberty University. It makes me happy to know LU is wasting a ton of money on a completely indifferent audience.

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

Your periodic reminder that the estimated cost to end hunger in the U.S. is $25 billion.

The throughput along Pike Place has skyrocketed since it was pedestrianized...if you're counting group photos per hour instead of vehicles per hour.

I just witnessed a man dragged onto this bus after a judge did not let him explain how deportation could be a death sentence for him. And it's happening here. What I saw today in San Antonio immigration courts was horrifying. Everyone's right to due process is under attack. Congressman Greg Casar

I love this new American custom of deleting Signal and other messaging apps before going through border security, very normal.

94% of teachers have had to dip into their own pockets to buy school supplies. An estimated 1 in 6 have second jobs during the school year to make ends meet. The average Wall Street employee got a record $244,700 bonus last year. Something has gone terribly wrong.

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I'd just like to point out how weird it is that places with hundreds or even thousands of reporters — the NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC, AP, etc. — are all getting pummeled on every major story by the dozen computerboys at Wired. To fumble the bag this consistently is, at some point, cowardice and a choice.

I would really like to be a fly on the wall during #karenread’s court mandated group therapy. No one is going to care about how Joe Schmo the neglectful, alcoholic dad’s story.

If they're so confident that what they're doing is lawful, why are they hiding their faces? If this is all on the up and up, there's no reason to hide. They should be PROUD of what they're doing, willing to put their names and faces on it. Cowards.

No hell hot enough.

I want to pitch a reality show that is just the #karenread jurors from trial 2 watching trial 1 & the between-trial motions. 🤯

We intentionally did not put Rosie in the headline because this is not about Rosie O’Donnell it’s about everyone

Scientists have long insisted that we can and must limit global warming to 1.5 degrees—a grim milestone one activist group calls a “point of no return.” But one problem with points of no return is that they don’t tell you much about what comes afterward.

Globally, roughly a third more power is being generated from the sun this spring than last. If this exponential rate of growth can continue, we will soon live in a very different world, @billmckibben.bsky.social writes.

the American government is effectively ending its space program.

I’ve been loudly warning people about the rise of fascism for over 15 years but even now I still get treated like Randy Quaid in Independence Day even though now they have their own massive masked secret police and concentration camps.

Hey Dem Gov, I willfully and consciously voted to fuck up some shit. Can you please bail me out so the electorate doesn't blame my pathetic ass? Obviously, the governor should protect hospitals, but he should make it PUBLIC AF about why it has to be done and plaster this asshole's name all over it.

In October 2024, multiple top-tier media outlets told me their editors wouldn't approve stories on our Project 2025 modeling because Trump disavowed the plan. And here we are. heated.world/p/this-is-ex...

Dachau in July 1933... reported in the New York Times timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine...

looking forward to some parents suing to demand segregated schools because integration violates their religious beliefs

Tapper writes this without acknowledging that Milk himself served in the US Navy during the Korean War, or that Milk was assassinated while serving honorably in public office

ICE is now changing tactics and arresting people who have been granted asylum hearings.   This is both a violation of US & international law that demands immediate attention from all New York elected officials & underscores the urgent need for legal service providers to be at all of these cases.

The juxtaposition of Easter to the troopers in the #karenread case is shocking. The difference between someone who is driven to do a good job & someone with a cushy job that they phone in is staggering.

NEW: 911 audio and EMS records from ICE detention centers reveal a surge in medical emergencies — including staff sexual assaults, suicide attempts, and head injuries. Records also show calls over severe pregnancy complications. Free to read: www.wired.com/story/ice-de... w/ @dell.bsky.social

People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid

Definitely not trying to kill us.

ICE has imprisoned the wife of a Marine veteran who was still breastfeeding a 3-month-old baby because her *mother* failed to attend a hearing in 2018 apnews.com/article/ice-...

Wow so you’re telling me everyone who cheered on the Iraq war is on board with this now too? And so are the people who opposed the Iran nuclear deal and killed it? You’re kidding.

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.

Honestly, I think about this all the time.

Biggest problem with Brian Albert’s statement: When have you ever known a cop to mind his own f-ing business? Never mind when that business is on his lawn. #karenread

No evidence of a cover-up says Proctor. So, the excuse is incompetence. That’s almost worst. How many cases are touched by that incompetence? #karenread

Bev is W.I.L.D. 🤨 She treats the jurors like children until they actually have questions, at which point, she's like, "Nah, I can't answer this question that was always going to arise, cuz I refuse to admit anything about the way I run my court is confusing and dumb." #karenread

It's pretty obvious that a lot of US mainstream media either doesn't recognise authoritarianism or doesn't want to call it out. Either way, it's an excellent way to destroy trust in your institution.

How many jurors are secretly deleting individual searches from their phone during deliberation to prove Hank wrong? #karenread