Ray Roberts

In February, a federal judge blocked third-country deportations. But @thefloridatrib.bsky.social found the ruling did not stop ICE from attempting to take people to the border without notice while the judicial block was in effect. floridatrib.org/2026/10/23/c...

Writers Guild speaks out about tech platforms squashing the @alexgibneyfilm doc about Elon Musk: “A small handful of billionaires now own virtually every major media company, news outlet, social media platform and are demonstrating how this unchecked concentration threatens democratic discourse.”

I think the biggest takeaway is this: the fact that this company has a $1 billion evaluation means rich people’s only plan for the future is forever war and fascism AND that the military/police industrial complex is a bubble on par with a 2008 Floridia timeshare community.

When a worker wears an Amazon vest, drives an Amazon van and delivers on an Amazon-controlled route, but Amazon denies they work for the company — that's exploitation.

the other thing is that conservatives resolutely do not see the purpose of education as providing social mobility but as reifying and deepening existing inequalities of status. they are as hostile to low income students getting admission to elite institutions as they are black ones.

Concentration camps

I would take more seriously the people promoting the idea of AI consciousness if they first materially grappled with the (much more obvious) consciousness of animals and how that affects our moral obligations to them.

the tech industry is about to invent books

Column: CFO Blaise "The Blatherer" Ingoglia fails to do legally required audits of #Florida Gov. Ron DeSastrous' "emergency" spending on political stunts. www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/09/29/m... via @scottmaxwell.bsky.social

God I love Angie Nixon. I hope she wins

Sir Jim Radcliffe there, a billionaire who *checks notes* supported Brexit + lives in Monaco to avoid UK taxes. He also thinks "immigration and welfare spending are both currently too high" and that the UK has been "colonised by immigrants". He also wants public subsidies to build a football stadium

Robert Kraft, the Zionist owner of the New England Patriots, told Sheeran to kick Macklemore off his tour or else. Kraft ended Colin Kaepernick's career because he "took the knee. Kraft is a friend of Trump and was still friends with Epstein in 2019. Ed Sheeran played at Kraft's wedding in 2022.

ESPN just doing stupid stuff every weekend.

Republicans' commitment to protecting and covering up for pedophiles remains absolute.

Pure sophistry. Supporting Trans rights deserves better than this.

"Live long and prosper" 60 years of Trek

#Florida Gov. Ron DeSastrous' former spokesperson now has a private PR firm & it has landed $700K in govt contracts. www.tampabay28.com/news/local-n...

Household full of Covid here... be careful out there

STOP IT @GOD

Here's the official announcement of Parton's passing from her reps, along with the request that in lieu of flowers, the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at www.imaginationlibrary.com

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

The US is confiscating Venezuela’s gold from the UK bank All of Venezuela's gold reserves, totaling 31 tons, which are held at the Bank of England, will be transferred to the United States, per EL Nacional.

"A CNN journalist witnessed Israeli settlers abduct and blindfold a Palestinian farmer for refusing to leave his land, as IDF soldiers stood guard. He was later shot, while the IDF blocked the road to prevent anyone from coming to his aid, making sure he would die." -- substack.com/@jemby123

Weakened federal heat protection rules leave Florida workers sweating floridatrib.org/2026/08/13/w...

Weakened federal heat protection rules leave Florida workers sweating floridatrib.org/2026/08/13/w...

Last night was baseball's "field of dreams" game, an homage to a movie revolving around men banned for life from baseball for match-fixing on behalf of gambling syndicates, brought to you by *checks notes* the gambling company Fanduel. Why DO people think Americans don't understand irony? :)

Two married professors and their son are being held in ICE detention, despite being legal permanent residents and having no criminal records. All, apparently, because their mom/MIL was a translator for the Iranian hostage takers in 1979, before they were even born. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

What the fuck

'A 2026 Council on Foreign Relations report found tht China supplies roughly 94% of the key raw materials for amoxicillin, the world’s most common antibiotic & nearly half of global antibiotic ingredient exports. Almost 700 medicines approved in the US rely on at least 1 chemical made only in China'

“I’m afraid there is a chance this child may become an academic.”

Happy anniversary @jawabreaker.bsky.social !!

The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.

🧵Alert: The backstory on this story may interest you. Or it may bore you. Either way, here it goes. I first asked the FCC for Chairman Brendan Carr's 2025 financial report on June 24.

Corruption takes two sides. Trump asks for the $ and people give it. The companies writing these checks seeking access and special treatment must also be held accountable. We have laws to do this. Audit the White House. Follow the dirty $ and get it back!! www.thebulwark.com/p/undoing-tr...

I have been waiting all summer for Erik to bring us his annual TOMATO SANDWICHES thread. This is nothing short of pure joy. Read and delight in it.

"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."

What does this mean? It means the Sov AI fund is allocating taxpayer money to AI companies without checking whether they train on copyrighted work without permission. Why does this matter? Two reasons: 6/10

Wrote two lines of Javascript to make news websites actually look like what they *feel* like to me

The case accused Anthropic of using pirated books to train its Claude chatbot and disclosure demonstrated how the tech company circumvented permission and licensing to use unauthorised pirated works. Read our latest news article for more details. buff.ly/NjwvrVj

🔥 Jon Stewart Defends Democratic Socialism: “When you call it SoCiALiSm, I think it’s a misnomer — It’s about strengthening a safety net for a country that has suffered too long overvaluing capital and money, and undervaluing labor and work. That’s it.”

the reason we dont have medicare for all is bc corporations need employer based healthcare to keep you chained to your desk in a job you hate that doesnt pay you what youre worth

Can't get numb to this: The United States is stuck in a war it started, cannot end, and may further escalate to no avail, having dismantled its diplomatic apparatus, depleted its military stockpile, and destroyed its credibility. A historic strategic mistake harming millions in many different ways.