the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

Colbert I do find delightful in a Catholic uncle way, but it IS just a little bit embarassing that we have to go to the mat like this for Jimmy Kimmel, a man I have only ever watched on television against my will

but here we are!!! and it’s what we have to do!!!

Rep. Dan Goldman: "I'm very disappointed in Disney. ... This is an obvious first amendment violation."

Fascism has arrived in America: The seven tactics of an authoritarian. 😳👇

good evening everyone

a woman in a blue dress is hugging another woman and says no . Alt: Miranda, dressed in blue, hugs carrie from sex and the city movie, we only see Carrie's back, charlotte hugs her from the front, points at Mr. Big and yells NO

NEW EPISODE! Honey, you know us, we don't really believe in marriage; now Botox on the other hand, that works every time. In which we unpack our feelings about Sex and the City: The Movie with the marvelous Eve Lindley.

I mean, literally, the answer to this is "I am federally prohibited from telling you anything about my students without a subpoena or judicial warrant; if you have a subpoena or judicial warrant, please submit it to [Legal Officer/Office] to ensure it is in compliance with all relevant federal laws"

Stop fucking saying he blamed “DEI,” which is some abstract, non-tangible idea. He is blaming people of color having jobs he thinks they aren’t qualified for. He’s blaming race. He’s being racist every time he says it. Journalists need to get fucking backbones, my word.

Librarians are punk as fuck

roomie showed me a clip of senator maggie hassan questioning rfk jr and said it was so badass and all i could think was this is literally the worst that the dems will ever be willing to do to any trump nominee.

but yeah. "badass."

for any new yorkers who want to do something about this, you can call the governor's office and ask her to use her executive power to remove him from office: 518-474-8390

Anyway if you live here you maybe want to call the governor and ask her to exercise her power to remove him. 518-474-8390. I’ll repost it in the morning when I’ll be calling.

In pushing for the case to be dropped, Mr. Spiro has observed to department officials that Mr. Trump has criticized it, two of the people with knowledge said. The defense lawyer has also suggested that the mayor would not be inclined to cooperate with the president’s immigration crackdown if he remained under indictment, the people said. Department officials in Washington are expected to meet with Manhattan prosecutors and, separately, with Mr. Adams’s team, as soon as this week.

The New York Times now reports that Mayor Eric Adams' defense attorney is trying to get DOJ to drop the federal corruption case against Adams by suggesting Adams will only go along with Trump's plans for mass deportations if the case is dropped. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/u...

OpenAI says it has proof that Deepseek used its work without permission to create something meant to undermine and destroy its product.

On behalf of all the authors whose novels and stories were taken as training data, oh no that must be so hard for you.

tasty

For the love of god, FLOSS

One thing about Dems being lame and normie is that they may actually be open to constituent pressure so one thing you can do, as useless as it seems, is call their offices.

Bail remains a never-ending problem in Maryland. Is the state searching for a solution? This story was produced in partnership with the Garrison Project, an independent, nonpartisan organization addressing the crisis of mass incarceration and policing. On a foggy day in mid-December, a y...

Pretrial defendants, who are considered legally innocent, make up the vast majority of the local jail population in Maryland today.

Unlike Maryland, Illinois has seen the intended results of bail reform: fewer people sitting in jail before trial.
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bluesky not having emoji reactions to dms has shocked me to my core. is this how it felt to live thru the fall of rome? all known signifiers of civilization falling apart like wet toilet paper?

shaking the cobwebs off this account, how are we feelin party people

Gremlin Alina is my favorite Alina

Oh no

I wish I could say I'd be active here, but it's just a backup in case the bird app goes off the deep end

To see you better, of course!!

Someone told me that this app may seem very empty because of this default setting that requires replies to have 2 likes or more before they show up.

Indeed! I changed it so that all replies show up, and suddenly the place seems much more lively. I highly recommend changing it in your settings.

My commission made the examples page!!! 🥺

Upside down !!!!