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Once mass spam texts were made legal, younger donors vanished, leaving a grassroots fundraising machine that subsists on squeezing vulnerable seniors, some of whom give hundreds of times a day. It’s a horrific model. Consultants get generationally wealthy, and the party hollows out its future.

ok but this is actually an appropriate way to honor Bacchus and i think the ancients would have agreed

the rapist administration.

The Nazi extermination programs didn’t begin with Jews. It began in September 1939 with the involuntary euthanasia of people with disabilities and the mentally ill under the Aktion T4 program. That’s how they developed their techniques of mass extermination.

Calm

new survey data from KFF. in summary, the damage this regime is doing continues to compound. but just as importantly, we can still prevent or, in time, reverse a lot of it. with that being said, you can't undo dead kids and moms. nor erase the trauma/long term health effects from severe cases.

What a shame. BioWare RPGs were the best of the best when they were at their peak. They'd stumbled so much in recent years that I'm not surprised to see this happen, but it's still a total loss.

The Amy Acton attack ad with her mother is I think the most evil political commercial I have ever seen. Not counting online only Nazi shit, I think it is legitimately the worst.

He stopped Ukrainian interceptor drones in flight, letting Russian missiles and drones through that were aimed at civilians.

We were investigating Wedgewood for faking their data and emailed them for comment this morning, ahead of publishing the findings tomorrow. They are now trying to cover up their fraud with the "we were doing a social experiment" excuse. Full story here: blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/fiftypluso...

UPDATE: I found Wedgewood’s Kalshi account. He goes by Andrew and has been insider trading using the fake polls that he was posting. I reported this to Kalshi, hope they do something about it @gelliottmorris.com

*stares in 2+ years of faculty job searches all seeking rare earth/critical minerals bullshit* The mining industry was literally warning y'all about this shit.

Have you checked your registration yet this week? Here! Let me help with that!

Best laid plans of mice, men and Trumpers.

this was an ad in this month’s wired. big tobacco + big tech + MAHA is one unholy ass alliance

This is a great piece (as per usual) from @adamserwer.bsky.social, on a topic near and dear to my heart. Yes, it's easy to say "Republicans are hypocrites," but this is far, far worse. Texas is the laboratory for the authoritarian Right's attempts ("onerous and clumsy" as they are) to remake high ed

Read every word of this and share it.

COMIC: The Balrog

New Fed estimates of wealth by age are out. Under-35 wealth dropped 23% over these three years www.wsj.com/economy/affl...

America is many things, many of them terrible, and we cannot and should not deny that. But this is also America: the America that loves kids and their neighbors, and who will show up on a dime for what they believe is right.

Ossoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club"

It's kind of incredible how "reads a transcript of what a world leader says and takes it seriously" is a bar that most reporters and analysts just cannot clear these days

Fully cursed yaoi.

Trump says the Iraq war started in "twenty O three" and then tosses in a "Barack Hussein Obama"

this is one of my favorite things i've written for a long time. i don't often get the chance to even lightly report stuff, and i had some of the most fascinating conversations of my whole life while unpacking this piece.

@9021007.xyz hey unfortunately you jumped the gun on labeling my post AI and in addition to me you have added a bunch of people that were only trying to help me out. I know this is a style that AI apes a lot but this was made by a very talented person bsky.app/profile/pfto...

if Eliezer Yudkowsky was born into a somewhat poorer family and missed a couple lucky breaks, he’d have ended up as an archetypal specimen of your friend’s older cousin who keeps boa constrictors and makes you listen to him talk about quantum physics in his parent’s basement in exchange for weed

reading this, it does seem as if “rationalism” is an elaborate intellectual architecture designed primarily to support the idea that if you were born white, male and clever then you are the genetic elite and entitled to rule.

Oligarch solidarity www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

a president planning military operations based entirely on election cycles is actually a giant scandal

1. They caught this in time! It won't keep anyone from voting. 2. This happened bc TX lets you register to vote when you get your driver's license online. The DL office's web portal didn't send people's info to county voter roll registrars properly.

this really has been such a stupid loss of what was once one of the internet's purest pleasures

It appears that many of you liked the video above. Please enjoy its prequel: a day in the life of an enshittificator. By @forbrukerradet.bsky.social

Yep and it's why a lot of "trad" men absolutely do not want to be with trad women. Trad women come with responsibility & delayed gratification. That's an instant non-starter for a lot of these dudes. Just one reason the tradwife craze is so gross.

ok gonna get Sincere(TM) here for a second There's a lot of doomerism about how "We're all cooked" because "The GOP is trying to steal our votes." So here's the true story of how the GOP tried to steal our votes here in NC and FAILED. TWICE. Ballot fraud isn't final. It gets stopped all the time.

Heavily focused on identifying and pursuing their marks: Online gambling companies have collected mass amounts of user data. Former DraftKings employees said they used data science techniques to identify gamblers who were more likely to respond to promotional offers by betting—and losing.

This is a really good way of demonstrating how crosstabs get weighted hard going into top lines. Espeically considering more women vote than men.

JUST NOW: A confused, clearly not-there McConnell votes “AYE” after almost voting NO with Dems but getting *corrected* by handlers around him

there is genuinely no point in debating federal policy since we've spent the last 20 years living in a world where we can no longer make it without 9 guys in robes rewriting it behind us

not a knock on indivisible, which doesn’t control this, but i think dems in congress underestimate just how corrosive it is to morale and trust to force their constituents to have to beg them to just do the right thing themselves for once on corruption issues like these. it’s exhausting

Honestly I’m increasingly reminded of the Jim Crow press, which loved getting people killed before finger wagging the victims & survivors of the violence they themselves had created.

A personalized mRNA cancer vaccine, added to an existing treatment, slowed the return of melanoma and its spread to other parts of the body in a late-stage clinical trial, the drugmakers Merck and Moderna announced Wednesday. www.statnews.com/2026/08/19/m...

If you need a way to remember today that doesn't involve watching actual footage, this is a pretty good choice.