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Per a database of discrimination complaints obtained by @propublica.org , Trump's Department of Education is actively ignoring reports of rape and assault on campuses so they can instead focus on transgender athletes. Their obsession with trans people is actively putting women and girls in danger.

So "wedgewood polls" which released a number of polls, most recently of Mississippi, was fake. And the people behind it are now bragging abt it. If these are really industry vets they shld be identified and blackballed forever. This is like GOP freaks who commit vote fraud to show how easy it is.

That was about as fact-free as any article I've read recently! I mean, I'm not wild about *banning* any plant, but if you intend to argue that *this* should be banned, at least give a reason....

THEY ARE NOT POWERLESS TO STOP HIM! Go back to Washington, stand on the steps of the Capitol and demand Johnson and Thune recall the House and Senate, and impeach him. THIS IS HOW IT IS SUPPOSED TO WORK! THERE IS LITERALLY AN INSTRUCTION MANUAL! (It's called the Constitution.)

Of course. There's nothing that interesting to say about "adults (children) refusing to deal with shitty adults (parents)".

A quick reminder: you need to have a good ad-blocker running everywhere on your tech. Not so easy on phones! Any site that won't let you in if you use one is probably going to try to spy on you, whether you subscribe or not. @doctorow.pluralistic.net explains more: pluralistic.net/2026/10/17/m...

The Andromeda galaxy is 6 times bigger in the sky than the full Moon: it's just too dim to clearly see it with the naked eye. This composite image shows what it would look like at night if it was just brighter. [📸 Tom Buckley-Houston] Original post

Marisa's entire piece is terrific, but this part has really stuck with me. A group of College Republicans decided that El-Sayed wasn't "welcome" in the Senate and set out to stop him.

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.

Pop quiz: who can remove the chief justice of the United States? A) The president B) Nobody, it’s for life C) Congress Most people say B. It’s C. And John Roberts is counting on you never finding out.

BlueSky seems to be the only platform not actively doing stuff like this. Threads throttles news, etc.

X is owned by Musk. TikTok is blocking the Musk movie account. Meta blocked the No Kings account. This is why Democracy Docket is not built on SubStack or any third-party platform that could one day turn against it. It costs more to operate but is worth it. Subscribe now. demdock.com/4w6emld

I think it might sound like "surrender"??

Russia, Russia, Russia was not a hoax. Trump signed an EO tonight exempting Russia from new sanctions legislation that Congress passed last month. The law was designed to squeeze the financial lifelines sustaining Russia's war against Ukraine. Gift link. 👇 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/u...

Yes, and thanks to Eric for keeping me honest on this. Musk appeared to Congress when he was still a regular government contractor. Has not appeared about his work on DOGE despite a Dem requests. bsky.app/profile/eric...

Bet the “flying Tesla” is as close to the production model as the dancing guy in the robot suit was to the eventual Teslabot product.

Been waiting for this @drewmagary.bsky.social review since the second the first Elizabeth Holmes trailer dropped. AND IT DELIVERS. www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...

"adverse consumer reaction in Europe" <-- This chaps my ass something fierce! Of course Elon wasn't concerned about reaction from the USA, that would require the press/ media/ politicians in this country to actually make enough noise for people to hear about it!!!

This discussion is well worth the 20 minutes of time it takes to watch! Velshi's POV on data centers (starting around 4:30) is exceptionally well-stated!

You guys, she didn't even get to her SNL ritual humiliation.

(eeewwww. Yuck. Ick.)

P. T. Barnum would have been astounded...

In early 2025, I assumed the Trump regime would delete the Department of Justice’s press releases and other statements related to more than 1,000 Jan. 6 cases. So I downloaded them. We’ve now made them available to the public with a search tool. They can’t erase history. jan6memoryproject.org

Elon Musk has been vocal against Alex Gibney's documentary "Musk," calling the filmmaker names like "idiot" and "horrible human."

And they can immediately denaturalize and deport Elon Musk, who illegally overstayed his student visa and lied on his citizenship application. There is no statute of limitations for immigration fraud.

“Every day was a battle that by the end of the day you were physically and emotionally battered just by getting John to do any part of his job,” a former staffer said, describing the work as “soul-crushing.” share.inquirer.com/dxaACw

Trump has conned the media into not effectively acting as if that attack and the multiple Trump/Putin quid pro quos within it never really happened, even as they're being paid off in front of our eyes. They're still buying Trump's framing.

Video shows waves surging across cracked North Carolina Highway 12 after ocean water spilled over protective sand dunes in the Outer Banks as a nor'easter starts to batter the Mid-Atlantic coast. Read more: https://cnn.it/3Vd4nx4

Fake. USDA. Seals. Used by an NC meat processing plant on 83.5 TONS of meat. Produced entirely outside the federal inspection system, according to news reports. We are pretty close to The Jungle (second ed.) now, no? www.scrippsnews.com/life/recalls...

The "secret" U2 gig to which 100 journalists got invites.

People are humouring and cheering on the founder of Quibi for a dumb essay about AI and Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta (a $1.9 trillion market cap company) just launched an expensive successor to the tamagotchi with an LLM attached. Everyone's asleep at the wheel and the tech industry is washed.

I love this story. I also learned something new today. And I barked out a surprised laugh at the end.

One of the funniest acts EVER on AGT. Original post

Good news: people in Texas are registering to vote. 🗳 🤠 Bad news: the Republicans are not processing them. An "unidentified problem" created a massive backlog in tens of thousands of registrations. In one county, 45,000 registrations have been backlogged. Hopeful. But suspicious. ☹️

The polls are so bad that a pro-ICE Kansas Republican is now preemptively begging ICE to not shoot one of his constituents now that they're active in his state

Usually when Collins gets upset by media - and that is her standard procedure - media, especially Maine media back down Not ProPublica as you can see below - and they have the receipts to back it up So this has got to be a especially jarring for her and her team

The sheriff of Pierce County, a blue county in Washington home to Tacoma, wants to help ICE and says state restrictions on local cooperation are unconstitutional. He’s one of many sheriffs in the state challenging state regulations.

Offs, almost no one has been proven to have OD'd *from* kratom, even when they have ACTUALLY INGESTED KRATOM! (kratom.org/guides/overd...)

Almost serves them (Politico) right, for using anonymous sourcing! Almost...

For likely the first time in modern history, the Supreme Court decided more cases in fast-tracked, secretive proceedings than in open court. Watch us break down how a once-rare emergency process became the norm.

This is a common lie from DHS press flacks. They claim that people who came through CBP One — who registered for an appointment through a government app, went to a port of entry, and were issued a grant of humanitarian parole by a CBP officer letting them enter — "entered illegally." Total nonsense.

NEW: In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump was reelected and eviscerated the FBI and DOJ teams handling public corruption probes.

NEW: In ‘24, the FBI sought to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump eviscerated the FBI & DOJ public corruption teams. ProPublica unearthed the investigation and you can read it 👇 www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...

Obama: “Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials from the White House press corps. You’re laughing, but this is what’s happening. It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent right now would have tolerated behavior like that from me.” Clip courtesy @meidastouch.com

"For all its advancements, [generative AI] technology remains, fundamentally, “Mansplaining as a Service” — a fluent, confident explanation of anything, on demand, with no particular relationship to whether it’s right...."