there is a deeply cruel irony here

I Guess We're Just Waiting Around To See If This Demented Psychopath Kills Everyone | Defector There is a particular indignity that comes from living in America, derived from the experience of waking up in the morning to see reports that Donald Trump has said something profoundly evil, and then...

I guess we're just waiting around to see if this demented psychopath kills everyone: defector.com/i-guess-were...

huge W

For what it's worth, my side effects were a bit milder this year, and were totally gone by the second day! I hope yours pass just as quickly!

i really don't have the time or energy to learn Linux but these motherfuckers are going to force me, aren't they?

the Menswear Guy is getting McMansion Hell-ed

I am not a Social Security recipient but even if I was: Why am I getting an email from SSA celebrating this legislation? How is this an appropriate use of that ostensibly massive database?

As I've said before, I don't think you can find it in the data that leftists were *responsible* for Kamala's loss (at least, I don't think we can demonstrate that convincingly)

But if you spent last fall telling me there was no difference, I just don't really want to hear from you

Debunking All the B.S. About Zohran Mamdani Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York, is facing a wave of Islamophobic misinformation attacking his character and politics

• Mamdani is not in the country illegally
• He does not have any connection to 9/11 or jihadist terrorism
• Mamdani hasn’t actually said or done anything antisemitic
• He did not call to ‘globalize the intifada’
• He’s not a communist

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Dachau in July 1933... reported in the New York Times

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Over $80k raised in ONE WEEK for COYOTE. Some people say journalism is dead. Journalists keep proving them wrong.

Indie media projects are raising thousands over and over again. It can be done. You can be the one to do it.

Worth a watch:

Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

When Obergefell was decided a decade ago, the Christian right immediately declared it the new Roe, pledging to eventually overrule it, even if that meant, like with Roe, they would spend decades chipping away at LGBTQ equality in a multitude of ways. They got a chip with Mahmoud v Taylor today

It’s so cool that cities are like “pweeease only turn your AC on if you’re actively dying and don’t go below 79 🥺🤘🏻💗” while the AI nobody asked for is slurping up the power grid to make 1 image of a girl with 5 tits

1. Alert, and please share widely. A lawyer at the ACLU has asked me to inform my transgender readers that they should NOT be applying for passports right now - the state department has not issued guidance to comply with the court order and they are urgently trying to get them to do so.
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How California sent residents’ personal health data to LinkedIn – The Markup The state’s health insurance exchange transmitted pregnancy and domestic abuse data during a marketing campaign. It is reviewing its website practices.

Millions of people in California could have had sensitive health data sent to LinkedIn without their knowledge or consent. What we found: themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2...

the clear message of this administration is that if your city or state didn’t vote for Donald Trump you do not have the right to self-governance and that will be enforced by the United States military

we know what they are

Put this on a billboard.

the whole reason Hegseth is at DoD is to produce propaganda footage. how about we not freak when he does that

Southern Baptists Call to Overturn Supreme Court Ruling on Same-Sex Marriage The nation’s largest Protestant denomination was motivated by conservative Christians’ success in reversing Roe v. Wade.

“Southern Baptists voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to call for the overturning of the Supreme Court ruling that legalized same-sex marriage, with strategists citing the successful effort that overturned the right to legal abortions as a possible blueprint for the new fight.”

Terrible Gallup poll today. Lots of bad anti-trans sentiment, but this one really blew my mind and should be VERY eye opening to our LGB folks:

America is about to cross back over into being gay or lesbian is something that is caused externally (and therefore "fixable" with conversion therapy)

Ryan from The OC, anti-crypto crusader, is one of my favorite running subplots in Hollywood

Trump signing executive order

DEVELOPING: There is chatter coming out of the White House that as early as next week Donald Trump may issue as many as 5 Executive Orders targeting US-based nonprofits and civil society organizations.

Experts fear that this system wouldn't only put the privacy of undocumented immigrants at risk, but the privacy of authorized immigrants and natural-born citizens.

www.wired.com/story/doge-c...

DOGE Is Building a Master Database to Surveil and Track Immigrants DOGE is knitting together data from the Department of Homeland Security, Social Security Administration, and IRS that could create a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope.

New from @makenakelly.bsky.social + me: DOGE is building a database at DHS that could track and surveil immigrants.

They are cross-referencing immigration data with data from SSA, IRS, and voting records from at least Pennsylvania and Florida

@wired.com

www.wired.com/story/doge-c...

Abbot Directs Texas To Consider Investigating Teachers Who Support Trans Kids For Child Abuse Texas lawmakers want educators who allegedly used a child’s name and pronouns to be investigated by law enforcement.

1. Greg Abbott will direct the state of Texas to consider whether teachers who affirm transgender kids are actually engaging in "child abuse."

He's already attempted to go after parents of trans kids with charges of child abuse before.

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Official for Cuomo’s New York Mayoral Campaign Worked for Ferociously Anti-Trans Group “The company you keep says a lot about you.”

1. Andrew Cuomo, a frontrunner for NY Mayor, has tapped an ex-employee of "the Coalition to Protect Kids," an anti-trans org, to serve as his treasurer.

His campaign would not commit to EITM that it would protect gender affirming care.

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