The General @general.bsky.social

Who knew the 2026 midterms would come down to which side supports child rape? Strange times, indeed.

OHIO GUV: Republican Vivek Ramaswamy is airing a disgusting ad featuring Amy Acton’s estranged mother who stayed with her second husband after he was indicted for sexually abusing young Amy. Trump immediately defended the mother.

Workers across the US are demanding divestment from firms that profit from weapons and surveillance. I’m one of them. buff.ly/0j1ZOcO

WE’RE LIVE From NYC No Kings Early Vote March www.youtube.com/live/PK3PqhN...

New Mexico has the power to regulate air quality and impose noise requirements within the state, but not at a data center being constructed a few hundred yards away in Texas. “This is why we need federal regulation,” a New Mexico lawmaker says. w/ @elpasomatters.bsky.social @texastribune.org

I'm in a bar in Atlanta, and I just heard an anti-Talarico ad on streaming during a Texas football game. Talarico apparently believes in jailing parents who refuse surgical transitioning for their children. I can't understand how stupid Republicans must believe their voter are if that's their pitch.

BREAKING: a court cleared the name of our client Mary Comans Musk & Noem falsely told millions the FEMA CFO blew money on "luxury hotels" The court called this "coordinated" smear "outrageous govt conduct" The Trump regime is destructive, but @democracydefendersfund.org & partners fight back -TN

We were once known as the 'land of opportunity,' and people came looking for the American Dream, but that no longer applies. If we can't stop this madness in November, I'm not sure there will be anything left to save." freopp.org/oppblog/half...

ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) — Cornell bans fraternity parties in wake of gang rape allegation, says state police will investigate campus sex crimes.

Marsha is the anti-Dolly

How can one guy fuck up so many things at once?

Memo to Democrats: you can't win the public's trust if you drink from the same corporate trough as the Republicans. Reject Big AI Money (and all corporate campaign contributions) and regulate AI. https://www.commondreams.org/news/ai-election-spending-toxic

BREAKING: A Trump-appointed judge has ruled DHS violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment when it removed Ahmed Soliman to Equatorial Guinea and must facilitate his return to the US. prospect.org/2026/10/07/f...

It should come as no surprise that a mean, angry man married to an unpleasant kook is not in favor of allowing other people to be in happy marriages. But Christian Nationalists are notorious busybodies.

JD Vance - “If you don’t want a nuclear weapon, then why do you need 60% enriched fuel?" For power generation, you moron.

The MAGA regime recently killed the largest ancient 250 year old “Grandmother” Cottonwood tree in Arizona’s indigenous territory just to expand the orange felon’s fucking wall. I’ll never forgive anyone who chose this evil.

Cost of gas on Trump’s first day: $3.13 Cost of gas today: $4.40 Trump promised cheaper gas. He lied—but we can hold him accountable at the ballot box in November.

We’re living through a time when far too many men — including privileged young men at a frat house in an Ivy League university — feel impunity when it comes to attacking women. I don’t think it unrelated to the impunity felt by the man now occupying the highest office in the land.

“A DUD” — Republicans admit their Hasan Piker attacks aren’t working 🤷🏽‍♂️ — imagine that. “many of the GOP’s movers and shakers don’t think the attacks are working. At all.”

So not only did @GovBillLee’s sadistic clown car mess up another execution, neither Lee or AG Skrmetti had anyone on-call during a scheduled execution?? Insane.

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And every Senator who voted to confirm that clown needs to resign in disgrace. What an absolute joke this country has become.

Disgusting!

Data provided by the federal government itself shows ICE is failing to provide adequate medical care. buff.ly/HsN5a9u

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77 million voters thought the convicted felon, lifelong grifter and complete moron was the best choice in 2024. Trump is TOTALLY FOR SALE. No reasonable offer is refuses. Pardons included

Trump has... -Run blatantly political ads using taxpayer money -Shuttered a longstanding arts & culture institution because he can’t put his name on the building -Hung banners with his face on them from a government building If you saw this happening in another country, what would you call it?

Nailed it ⛽️ 🤷🏻‍♀️

Are we all glad that so many people are smart enough to see that the liar/con pedo protector is thinking he has snowed everyone. Right now, Xi is looking pretty good compared to the trash we are subjected to in the USA. China is thriving while the USA is a garbage dump banana republic.

This shark is obviously on China's payroll

It's always been stupid and fake, but even more so now, that a "caravan" of migrants would be coming here, of all times, given how we are torturing and renditioning and sending them to concentration camps.

New from @markgreenny.bsky.social

On the Money: Like drunk drivers, AI CEOs should be criminally liable

"Any time. Any place. Anywhere." @justinjpearson.bsky.social tells @newschannel5 he's ready to debate Brent Taylor, but Brent is hiding 🐔and using the time Justin stood up for his brother @keshaunpearson (when Troopers arrested him for no reason other than Speaker's orders) as an excuse.

FULL REPORT HERE - youtu.be/BaHFecRVEHI?...

Watch the video and worry. America's 'salad bowl' is the Salinas valley, where massive amounts of vegetables are grown. Moss Landing is on the coast.

Toxic fires, doctored data, zero accountability. Status Coup's @jordanchariton.bsky.social spoke with chemical expert Scott Smith about the massive cover-up unfolding at the Moss Landing lithium battery plant & how corporate investigators are fudging testing data while Gavin Newsom does nothing.

If Democrats retake Congress this November, a top priority should be investigating the Trump family's many shady business deals. Perhaps they can start with Eric and Don Jr.'s ties to defense companies receiving lucrative government contracts?

A rare nor’easter storm system that ripped through the East Coast of the United States this weekend was made up to 50 times more likely to happen by the effects of the climate crisis.

Corporations spend more than $1.5B a year on union-busting. That’s $1.5B they could have spent on higher wages, better benefits, and improving workplace safety. Remember: if they weren’t so scared of worker power, they wouldn’t fight so hard against unions. Kudos to these Autozone workers.

A small group of formerly incarcerated women have won a major lawsuit against the Texas Department of Criminal Justice after a federal judge ruled that the state must air-condition all Texas prisons by the end of 2029.

NGL, a significant factor in my daughters not going to my Alma mater was the Iowa governor.

NEW: @DavidSacks pushed Trump to reject new AI safeguards. At the same time, his venture capital firm was investing in AI startups positioned to benefit from looser rules. Now, that firm is raising a new $1 billion fund.

the cornell case has me thinking about christine blasey ford and how she so bravely testified in 2018 about how future supreme court justice brett kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her. i'm thinking about what i wrote at the time and how nothing has changed:

ICE agents terrorized this suburban neighborhood in Frederick, Maryland, and beat peaceful protestors while local cops just watched. @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social speaks with an eyewitness who saw and filmed everything.