Because they finally woke up to the fact that Fetterman is not a real Democrat.

NorCalibration Self-produced for the #rpmchallenge 2026

New release Friday #2: My new West Coast banger “NorCalibration”
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#Sacramento #Stockton #TheBay #YayArea #NorCal #HipHop #UndergroundHipHop
#BayAreaHipHop #rpmchallenge

County supervisor used racial slur at public meeting, says it was habit not malice OSKALOOSA — A county supervisor who used a racial slur as part of a phrase that describes makeshift repair or construction said he did so absent-mindedly.

#Iowa "The heating and air conditioning in that building is all chopped up because it used to be a grocery store, so it’s just kind of what I call n------rigged, whatever you want to call it,” Wanders said." 🤮 #racism #racist #whitesupremacy #slur #nword www.oskaloosa.com/news/local%5...

OMG -- the RFK Jr breathing noises during this hearing are absolutely horrifying

This is your periodic reminder that Democrats introduced legislation in 2021 to ban gerrymandering nationwide and every republican voted against it except two who were absent.

A lesson on media consolidation and censorship from a Texas prison How Trump steering CNN and HBO to his allies can drastically alter the public discourse

Incarcerated people stopped believing they deserved soap and toilet paper when the government controlled the news they could watch, writes @joinjeremy.org's Jeremy Busby.

People on the outside may stop believing they deserve democracy.

Trust me, disabled people feel this hostility acutely.

It Was on Your Table Every Morning Growing Up. It’s Dying Before Our Eyes. No One Wants to Face It. The powerhouse of American citrus is suffering a brutal decline. Everyone has a theory about why.

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Look everyone, Gov Reeves is just honoring an old tradition that stretches the whole way back to…1994, 129 years after the Civil War had ended and, just coincidentally, a year when the Gingrich-led GOP cemented its hold on the white voters of states like Mississippi.

There have been multiple examples of fishy, lucrative Polymarket or Kalshi bets that seem to have been made possible by inside information as to Trump's upcoming statements or actions. It would be great to see a future Dem Congress demand the bank info on those bets to identify who did it.

L. Louise Lucas - Wikipedia

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Photo of person wearing t-shirt; on the shirt is printed a map of the state of Virginia, with 10 districts colored blue and 1 district (in the Appalachian region) colored red. The text on the shirt reads "TEN FUCKIN' ONE", with TEN in blue and ONE in red font.

Really love this graphic and hope to see more of this energy from the left 💖 by the team of 82yo state senator Lillie Louise Lucas @senlouiselucas.bluesky.bot #VAredistricting #VA #redistricting #flipthehouse #Virginia #Virginiaredistricting #gerrymandering #gerrymander #resist #inspo #DNC #vote

‘Just noticing birds improves your health’ - High Country News #iamthewest: Giving voice to the people that make up communities in the region.

#iamthewest: Giving voice to the people that make up communities in the region.

At least 34 tankers linked to Iran, including vessels carrying crude oil, have successfully bypassed the U.S. blockade, per FT

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If you're still using Facebook (no shame, people have Reasons), turn off all the automatically enabled AI titles and summaries they just rolled out.

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Virginia voters approve Democrats' redistricting plan, giving the party a midterm election boost NBC News projects Democrats will be able to enact a new proposed map designed to net them up to four seats, as they push for control of the narrowly divided House.

“Virginia voters on Tuesday approved a Democratic redistricting plan that could allow the party to pick up as many as four new seats in the midterm elections”

www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

Texas Republicans started the mid-decade redistricting fight and Virginia Democrats finished it.

The Onion wants to make us submissive slaves to the New world order.

Correct.

"...Mills’ former girlfriend obtained a #restrainingorder against him after she said he threatened to release sexually explicit images of her and ignored multiple requests to leave her alone." #corymills #RO #revengeporn #misogynist #abusive #creep www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

This is bleak. Essentially, lecturers as middle managers between students and chatbot.

#Trumpland #Technofascism

OpenAI faces criminal probe over role of ChatGPT in shooting The firm, co-founded by Sam Altman, said it is "not responsible" for the attack at Florida State University

#OpenAI under criminal investigation over information provided by its product in a mass shooting at Florida State University last year. #AIEthics #ChatGPT www.bbc.com/news/article...

Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media

This strategy—using fake AI profiles to boost political causes—was tested during the 2022 recalls in San Francisco.
We called them the "Wencils" and they disappeared after being mapped and exposed. And now:

Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/b...

The 'adversaries won't wait' statement doesn't reject deliberation outright, it just makes serious deliberation always feel premature. You can debate this or that war, but the underlying question, whether to build the systems at all, is treated as settled, & that's deliberation as performance.

A diagram showing the VDA framework and the Arc of Democracy. At the top, three icons label the essential elements of democracy: Verification (tick), Deliberation (speech bubble), and Accountability (magnifying glass). Arrows descend from each through three horizontal bands representing the arc: Substantial (truth tested, voices included, power constrained), Performative (forms remain but substance is weak, rituals without consequence), and Simulated (appearance maintained but functions inverted: propaganda as verification, polarisation as deliberation, scapegoating as accountability). A vertical arrow on the left marks the arc's direction: improvements, decline, collapse. A column on the right maps counterpublics onto the same three states: functional counterpublics act in a substantial way, hollow counterpublics in a performative way, disordered counterpublics in a simulated way. The bands shift from grey through pink to red as democracy moves toward simulation.

I've set out the framework I'm using here in an earlier thread, on VDA, the Arc of Democracy, and the moral-epistemic stacks idea, what follows applies that framework to the Palantir document directly. skywriter.blue/@eliothiggin...

So what I'm hearing is that Thiel and Karp – and by extension, Palantir – don't think we've gone far enough down the authoritarian dystopia trail.

If you’ve read the thread posted by palantir on X and are shocked, please read this piece that @tlecaque.bsky.social and I wrote 9 months ago. Palantir has not been shy about its fascist agenda, and neither has Karp, who has been rambling about Western Supremacy in text & video form for a while now

Again, a chance to remind everyone of this batshit episode - where Karp recited British fascist Oswald Mosley’s speeches for several minutes verbatim to Mosley’s stunned grandson whom Karp was interviewing for a job at Palantir. Karp then did some tai chi moves, left wordlessly - Mosley got the job.

techcrunch.com/2026/04/19/p... #alexkarp #creepy #racist #karp #manifesto #ice #spying #privacy #racism #whitesupremacy #technofascism #fascism #surveillance #censorship #noai #stopai