This is a snapshot of the failure of MSM and the concomitant ignorance within the American electorate about what is happening in and to their country.

Texas Matters: Sharia law rhetoric, abortion care fallout, and a contested death row case This week on Texas Matters: Why “Sharia law” has become a flashpoint in Texas politics. How the state’s abortion ban is tied to new scrutiny after three doctors were disciplined. And why a Texas death...

The Texas GOP is taking it back to the 2010s, going full hysteria mode over the imposition of Sharia law

As @joshkovensky.bsky.social reported, the party is trying to leverage Islamophobia to boost their midterms chances

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Elon Musk grilled by senator over X Money plans Skepticism is surrounding X Money.

If Elon Musk’s track record operating X is any indication of how he’ll operate X Money, consumers, our national security, and the stability of the financial system may be at risk. I’m pushing for answers.

melsmith3788 1h + The less women use it the more mysogynistic is be comes. It needs more data from women In order to change it's thinking

“Please teach the misogynistic AI to be less misogynistic, women! We, like the parents of many badly behaved men, are outsourcing raising our AI to you!”

The other fabulous part of the AI publicity plan is “teach this junkware everything you know so that I, a rich CEO, can use it to put you out of work”. Wild how that isn’t being received with enthusiasm by the general public.

Remarkable.

the president of the united states is personally looting the treasury to the tune of literally billions of dollars and that he is not being immediately removed from office and tried for high crimes against this country is a devastating indictment of every part of our political system

Here’s Trump bragging about making the U.S. a country that no one wants to come to and many want to leave.

I’m looking for a couple players for my Blades in the Dark game. It will be every other Saturday at 1pm eastern.

Blades is a fiction first role playing game. Play as scoundrel crews in a gothic city full of secrets to be uncovered, where steam punk tech is powered by demon blood.

So, lmk?

By the time a Reese Witherspoon or a Matt Damon jumps on a trend, you know the grift boil is nearly ripe.

To recap:

Trump sued CBS for $10B bc he didn't like the edits of a Harris interview. Paramount settled by paying $16M to the Trump library. Bari Weiss was put in charge of CBS to appease Trump and now...

YAY CELEBRATE FREEDOM at the Institute for Peace that Trump seized as he started war in Iran.

If they settle, I think it's an impeachable offense for both him and the AG.

Live Nation CEO Sentenced To 10 Years In Online Queue

Live Nation CEO Sentenced To 10 Years In Online Queue

Pete Hegseth has issued a memo directing the Pentagon to terminate the union contracts of 300,000 workers in the Department of Defense.

This illegal move will undoubtedly be challenged in court.

well, I guess these two are dead to me now.

NEW: In the middle of the night, the House tried to pass a bill that would have given President Trump and Stephen Miller the power to spy on Americans without a warrant for years to come.

It failed due to pressure from the public — but they plan to vote again in just 2 weeks.

If 30 Senate Dems call a CRA vote, this regulation can go to the floor for a full vote.

Senate Dems are a few votes shy.

Here's who isn't on board yet:

Warnock
Kelly
Gallego
Ossoff
Schatz
Murphy
Bennett
Slotkin
Fetterman
Baldwin
Warner
Hirono
Peters
Smith
Cortez Masto
Heinrich

The Trump Department of Education wrote a dangerous new regulation that would strip Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) from people based on their "political ideology."

It's a completely naked fascist attempt.

But Senate Dems can stop him—it just requires a few more votes.

Vought also promoted this lie during his testimony this week. The whole administration is committed to the idea that everyone who has lost their healthcare is committing fraud or an illegal immigrant. Those are not the facts on the ground.

Can protecting conversion therapy help Texas LGTBQ+ therapy? The U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled conversion therapy is free speech. Some LGBTQ+ advocates say the ruling applies to gender-affirming therapy, too, while others say the courts won’t protect them.

The U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled conversion therapy is free speech.

Some LGBTQ+ advocates say the ruling applies to gender-affirming therapy, too, while others say the courts won’t protect them.

Thank you for the 💜 on this piece. This is part of a project called "Unseen", where I'll be painting misunderstood and hidden chronic conditions.

You can contribute by sharing your stories if you have a condition that you would like to see represented!

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Trump's polling is terrible and getting worse His second term is already an unambiguous failure.

In case you missed it yesterday when Bsky was having fits, my newest piece for @atrupar.com Public Notice about Trump’s bottom-barrel approval numbers is here:

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nonzero chance the FBI is plugging LLMs into wiretap data under the legal theory AI alone can’t implicate 4th amendment concerns (semi-known 702 issue). or the NSA has now hard coded wiretaps across all newly built US data centers due to expanded ECSP scope. or probably both.

Me to 3yo: What do you want for your birthday party theme?

3yo: “Poopoo & peepee theme! We can get apple juice for the pee, so a skeleton pees and you drink the skeleton pee but it’s okay because it’s juice”

Me: ..K I was thinking like “dinosaurs” but let’s put a pin in “piss fountain of the dead”

Montana Supreme Court Rules Its Constitution Entirely Protects Trans Citizens In Landmark Ruling The ruling will have enormous impacts for transgender residents in the state.

1. In a landmark ruling, the Montana Supreme Court has declared that the constitution, one of the most progressive in the nation, entirely protects transgender people.

The ruling is even insulated from SCOTUS decisions, due to how state constitutions work.

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So at the risk of maybe overreading this and making an educated guess, I think I can guess what specifically Wyden is talking about.

I think it's about use of AI (LLMs) by FBI to surveil American communications without a warrant

Trump Sued for Firing Most of the Black Officials in Government President Trump has been purging Black officials in independent agencies at a higher rate than anyone else, a new lawsuit says.

Trump Sued for Firing Most of the Black Officials in Government newrepublic.com/post/209131/...

why. are. men.

SpaceX Was Buying Cybertrucks in Bulk. Tesla Didn’t Tell Anyone. Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) shareholders are about to start asking a pointed question: why did they have to find out from outside reporting that SpaceX was purchasing Cybertrucks in bulk, as Bloomberg is repo...

One more reason not to buy the SpaceX IPO
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