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Let me draw you a line from Facebook, illegal enrichment and the collapse of journalism. The cost of data centers is my wheelhouse, and I also worked in ad tech, the industry that used to pay for online journalism. I know the week that online journalism started to collapse

Let me translate. People of color having a good time is like nails on a chalkboard for racists. Now, please watch.

Bless this man.

It’s just so appalling and enraging how casual and commonplace this has become. I’m out of words.

Quick note on Israel’s election: Polls close Tuesday at 10pm Israel time / 4pm ET, when exit polls give us the first indication. The final tally is expected by Oct. 30. Official results are published Nov. 4.

And yes, this too.

corporate media routinely describes Tim Scott as a moderate and celebrates his "relentless optimism"

He needs his bubble popped more often.

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

BREAKING: Judge Reyes has issued a preliminary injunction over the golf course and begins with this: "Rarely, if ever, has the United States Department of Justice urged a federal court not to believe the sitting President." ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

Was Obama the forst big name to call this out? Because, damn.

I don’t think this is exactly what’s going on, or all that’s going on. It’s not that Republicans are constructing an elaborate psychological defense against evidence that Trump is a rapist. It’s that they like that he’s a rapist, and they like rape: it enacts the power of the strong over the weak.

"Pentagon recorded 41 domestic abuse-related homicides committed by service members." "The Intercept identified nearly twice as many." "[I]ntimate partner violence [...] was at least four times higher than the civilian rate." #USA #Military #Suicide #SexualViolence #DomesticViolence

The HJC Report on Epstein has me genuinely wondering why Trump didn't just fuck or even rape Melania like he did everyone else Epstein and Zampolli dealt him. democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

House Majority PAC, which supports Democratic candidates, argues that the House battlefield is expanding in the final week of the midterms The group says the GOP-authored gerrymandering appears to be backfiring and opening up new opportunities to flip GOP seats

Seriously though, why not? If not press, make her the surgeon general or head of the Department of War or something

The best authors vote.

As I asked this past week, what exactly IS liberal Zionism anyway?

Reuters: US APPEALS COURT DENIES TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S REQUEST TO STOP CALIFORNIA FROM COUNTING MAIL BALLOTS FROM ALLEGED NONCITIZENS

NINETY-ONE PAGES in the US v CA voter purge case? With a per curiam order and each judge on the Ninth Circuit panel writing a separate concurrence/dissent? I mean, I'm glad they came out right. But, tighten up, boys! storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Nothing about this currently on the homepage of the NYT; a brief article appears elsewhere. The Washington Post hasn't run anything at all. bsky.app/profile/mari...

We do not. My career and profession sucks. And if job insecurity over AI wasn't bad enough, non technical program mamagers are asking AI to rewrite my Jira tasks and give me new work. Kill me. Please.

Epic Games CEO slams Steam AI rules share.google/2Vk9SqEHdikI...

NEW: I'm in the Comey docket now. Comey petitioned the court to unseal this case, which Judge McFadden granted today. That's why we're getting this news now 1/

Is Nicki Minaj in debt?

this might rank as one of the most important outcomes of the night if it happens. would give dems the ability to begin to make north carolina a democracy

Sarcasm

I'm not surprised. No one who's been paying attention is surprised.

I believe in government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Mike Rogers believes in government of the billionaires, by the corporations, and for the special interests.

But he will if they give him lots of money.

And absolutely not one single meaningful GOP operative will even bother to shrug this off. At least when he was running to be 45 they claimed to care about their daughters.

Go Annie!!!!!!!!

I tried to avoid this all day but some one just popped a Matty Yglesias on my timeline. So, um, yes, fuck that guy.

Yep I'm not just looking at post count, I'm looking at *engagement rate* Ranking narratives by post count vs. engagement rate looks pretty different for this world

Democracy in action 👇

As someone whose first shipped game as a writer was Mass Effect and is now using Yarn Spinner, knowing that the team was inspired by a game I was a tinny part of is pretty cool. Here's to more stories, wherever they come from.

The headline here is that MAGA on Facebook seem to care a lot more about Islam than they do voter turnout, and it makes it look like they’re setting up to lose the midterms more than they are trying to actually win. www.patreon.com/joohn/posts/...

“They gave me this whole spiel about how ‘there’s before Oct. 7 & there’s after Oct. 7.’ That was my breaking point.” @laubast.bsky.social's award-winning investigation exposed pro-Israel bias at U.S. newsrooms & their incapacitation of Palestinian, Arab, or Muslim journalists reporting the truth.

Can’t afford heating oil? Thank Susan Collins.

Apparently there's an Attorney-Client dispute in SPLC. Reminder that DOJ has violated Jim Comey's Attorney-Client privilege twice, that we know of, and I suspect, a third time. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Based on WSJ sources, Trump administration officials are reportedly floating former Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán for UN secretary-general, potentially backed by the US, Russia and China.

We need an end to gerrymandering, and mandated polling places near communities.

The repost feature is not working for me on Bluesky. Not sure if it's a Chrome problem or a Bluesky problem, but since I don't see any mention of it here, I'm guessing it's a Chrome problem.