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Well, then let's elect someone who CAN anticipate what someone will do when they are obviously lying.

it is the same exact thing as demanding that black candidates for office “disavow farrakhan,” which happened quite a bit in the 90s and 2000s

This election is not really a choice between two parties. Nor will it be a choice between the “left” and the “right.” The real choice is between ever more concentrated wealth and power at the top VS. more wealth and power in what used to be the American working middle class. Some thoughts 👇

Can't wait to see all the right-wing free speech champions scream in protest.

This video is an example why we should never be the 51st State! #Never51st

Drop some BIKES 🚲🖤

#OnMyWalk to VOTE at my local Dropbox! So grateful to have the opportunity to make my voice heard! And to live in a state that tries so hard to make sure my vote is counted! Please make a plan to make your vote count, too!❤️🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸❤️

It’s true…

Them: if you release the entire Epstein File the whole system will burn. Me: youtu.be/lzbRSD_rM1A

Them: If you release the entire Epstein file the whole system will burn. Me:

"it's against the law for you to not love me" is the prevailing attitude among most people with actual power, and thus they beclown themselves at every opportunity

Man, when BMW says "that's too fascist for us"

Things got more insane just about as soon as I posted this last night. DHS is now arguing that we cannot even put the names of ICE officers in our lawsuit against those officers. Their position is that, if a defendant works for DHS, they cannot be named in a lawsuit. Never seen anything like it.

Fun fact you might not know about Hussars

uhh i was digitizing a box of old VHS tapes for my uncle... you guys ever hear of something called "The Mayonnaise Channel"??

Fixed it for Trump.

Russia just bought large quantities of diesel from South Korea because it has run out of the fuel. Could Putin be defrauding a gullible Donald J Trump? Perish the thought!

we built a machine that can automate internet crimes. who should be held accountable? nobody of course

The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️

Samuel Alito: We won't overturn Obergefell because it's engendered reliance interests. Jan Crawford: Well, many people had organized their lives around Roe v. Wade. Alito: No, they didn't. Women merely had an "abstract" interest in "ideas about the kind of society that they were going to live in."

Hard to think of anything less abstract and more materially consequential than being pregnant

The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...

AI is being used to... -Facilitate online scams -Process health insurance claims, leading to wrongful denials -Price gouge customers via surveillance pricing -Set higher car insurance premiums using personal data The dangers of AI aren’t in some far-off future. They're already here.

Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy

Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.

According to NASA: Arctic sea ice area/volume are shrinking by about 4.7%-12.1% per decade, with a total loss of over 50% since satellite records began. The Greenland Ice Sheet is losing roughly 261 to 264bn tons of ice pa. The Antarctic Ice Sheet sheds approximately 130 to 135bn tons of ice pa

🎶🎶🎶🎶 Still mad- punching Hello Kitty Gonna kick her ass from Rome to Carson City Funko — cost twenty fitty Wanna know her fate? Take a listen to my ditty All the merch from neckerchiefs to knee socks Gonna chase her down and stuff her in a catbox…! 🎶🎶🎶

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what's your favorite kids in the hall skit that's not girl drink drunk or the daves i know

🎶🎶 Hot town, punching Hello Kitty So adorable-even bleeds real pretty Head’s big but her body’s itty-bitty Should I punch her more? Gonna ask the committee Staggering ‘round, kitty Walkin half dead Walkin into traffic-squashed like a flatbread… 🎶🎶🎶

An now: A PSA from Captain Edward Jellico, somewhere in the Alpha Quadrant. #StarTrek #JellicoTrek

In response to our reporting, Susan Collins has mustered a defense that is full of incorrect and misleading claims. We’ve reviewed FBI evidence, examined thousands of pages of records and interviewed dozens of people. Here are the receipts.

It's Saturday! 📺 Post a cartoon TV series you love.

This is actually hell, right?

My latest for @climateconnections.bsky.social 🔨

BASH: He's a US citizen MARKWAYNE MULLIN: He wasn't arrested BASH: He was arrested. He was later released, but he was arrested. Do Americans need to carry around proof of citizenship now? MULLIN: If you're a citizen, you have no reason to fear

lmao

I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: pluralistic.net/2026/09/14/c...

Of all the weird recurring motifs of the stories people tell me about the AI labor wars, the *weirdest* is when bosses demand to be reassured that their contractors and workers will *absolutely* use AI to get the job done.

EXCLUSIVE: Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 Media.

I hope everyone realizes that they are listening to a dude reciting the plot to the last two Mission Impossible movies, right?