“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.
“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.”
www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...
Hundreds of AI-generated, Trump propaganda accounts are popping up on #TikTok
Up to 64% of users on X are bots
Independent 3rd party fact-checking ended on Meta
All 3 owned by Trump supporting billionaires
The manipulation of truth is the point.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/b...
i think folks might be unfamiliar with "the pharisees", so let's make it clear: he's saying the jews run the press, and that they are conspiring to undermine the military. it's not just antisemitism, it's indistinguishable from nazism.
i would really like people to get over the idea that comedy is particularly dangerous to authoritarians. if it was we wouldn't be here.
It's a nice thought, but the evidence ain't there.
Let's get those B-17's back in service
"70% of Americans say Trump isn’t religious, but don’t let that get in the way of the fact that white evangelicals are responsible for this era. He’s breaking the country with their help & they should be held accountable for it." - @friendlyatheist.com ⬇️
Flock cameras have useful, modular electronic components in them, including:
- Rechargeable lithium iion battery with solar panel
- 5G LTE modem
- 5MP 16mm camera with IR filter
Plus various other components with precious metals that can be harvested for scrap.
the fact that legislators are trying to say that computers are devices that require id verification and tracking to use should put fear into EVERYONE. FIGHT AGAINST THIS.
Today, these Dems likely to hand Trump-Kash Patel FISA Section 702 power to access Americans' emails, texts, calls without a warrant
@meeks.house.gov
@jahimes.bsky.social
@adamsmith.house.gov "undecided"
While Trump admin appears poised to abuse such powers against bogus "antifa" affiliates.
SNAP work requirements don’t boost jobs, but drop participation, research finds. More from Kevin Hardy @alaskabeacon.com alaskabeacon.com/2026/04/14/r...
BREAKING: Maryland is about to become the first state in the nation to ban the use of surveillance data and dynamic pricing at grocery stores.
The Maryland House has just passed the Protection from Predatory Pricing Act.
Governor Wes Moore plans to sign the bill.
That's what I thought. He looks terrified right from the beginning of the interview
BREAKING: Self-Serving Sullivan broke his promise to donate Pebble Mine campaign cash, and he’s STILL quietly taking their checks as they push a mine that would threaten our largest sockeye salmon fishery.
Once again, Sullivan is selling out Alaskans.
alaskafish.news/04/2026/a-de...
ActBlue donors can request refunds if they donated to Swalwell’s campaign.
Pass it on.
Wild that Altman is being sued by his sister for repeated sexual abuse and that doesn’t come up in basically every conversation about him. I get that it’s alleged but if that shit was happening to someone else I feel like that would come up, particularly if that person had a history of lying a lot.
"When my wife's beloved Kindle DX was bricked by obsolescence through no fault of her own, it gave me a frisson of excitement and anticipation to take on Darth Bezos and break open the Kindle so she could once again read her favorite books"
www.zdnet.com/article/your...
A tool called DROP lets California residents fill out a few forms to keep their personal data from being tracked or sold by data brokers.
Yeah, this is the problem. The hollowing-out of EVERYTHING. The shell is still standing. But it can't stand forever.
But it's hard to convey that in a short answer to "how are you?" right now....
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social nails my gut feeling again.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
One identified, one to go. His first name is likely Austin, from the Knoxville area. Please send to your Knox County friends.
“'I’ve never experienced anything like this in my entire life,' the congresswoman said, fighting back tears.
"She described the way people were laying down inside as “like sardines.”
“'It is frightening in there,' she said. 'It is disgusting'..."
azmirror.com/2026/04/10/i...
This is what I try to convey to men & it matters a lot when they believe it, both intellectually *and* emotionally.
It feels alienating that while this threat is universal to us, only a very small percentage of men truly care enough to stand up to other men & put their status on the line for us.
So in Alaska, ads are running accusing the “anti-trawling” side of wanting to crash AK economy and being alarmist liars.
My freezer is empty, they are trashing salmon (and everything else) at sea to catch pollock. Ask anyone on the Yukon where the salmon is. It’s gone.
As of right now, Trump’s occupation of the twin cities and Minnesota never ended. It just changed
As the national media and other mostly moved on, his siege, psychotic economic warfare, and terror campaign against the state and its civilians continue to this day:
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This is an incredibly important time to be cognizant of how you speak about birth control, because they are trying to take birth control options away from us and there is a LOT of intentional anti-birth control propaganda circulating at a fastly increasing rate.
Do NOT contribute to propaganda.
Take a moment to remember how weird it is our president communicates with us through a bottom-tier social media site called Truth Social. It’s like if he governed from the comment section of a porn site.
A bright spot in the news. Firmly believe that right-to-repair suits like these are an irreplaceable part of progressive environmental policy worldwide
"What can Democrats do?"
When the South Korean president attempted to declare martial law, South Korean lawmakers literally fought through tanks and military forces and climbed fences to get into their Parliament building to stop him.
So, you know, that.
They oversaw a very important social media influence operation for the Kremlin, got caught, fled. And now they're not just back, they're guests at Donald & Melania Trump's Easter Egg Roll at the White House.