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That “liberals are the new racists” ad is paid for by Bobby Jindal btw Their website (Americanext.org) is currently down lol

It sucks that @nytimes.com has added AI tools to their recipe pages, but adding transphobic bias to their news pages that resulted in NYT reporting becoming a tool to undermine and erase the rights of transgender people was already enough reason to stop using NYT recipe pages

Meta strongly appears to be an enemy of democracy in the US. Proceed accordingly. If you're a politician, activist, or organization on the left, you HAVE to build your presence off of Meta and X - which basically means here and Mastodon. Bring your audience over as much as possible. It's critical.

there are people serving life sentences right now on thinner evidence than we have for "donald trump was jeffrey epstein's partner in serial rape" democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...

At least one more of these has come out since we recorded the episode btw

I feel like I’m living in some weird fucking Beckett play or a dystopian sequel to Being There where the president of the United States is just increasingly obviously a porridge-brained mental patient and everyone nods and smiles like it’s normal.

Vile stuff. Perfectly clear that Robert Kennedy Jr. is a fascist and trying to position himself as Trump’s heir apparent. I just want to take this moment to shout out all the post-left contrarian types who embraced him as some kind of independent voice for truth. Good job, losers.

There can never be another "water under the bridge" administration ever again, and part of that is going to involve shaming everyone on board with this one - voters included - as the disgusting pig racists they are

i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

this is great because when they 'accidentally' ruin your life you can't sue anyone and you'll get no damages because hey, the ai did it

Voter ID laws don't just block eligible voters — they also cost taxpayers millions. 💸 Voter ID is on the ballot in six states this November. If passed, states will spend millions on unnecessary new rules instead of things communities actually need. Learn more: voteriders.org/article/cost...

Watching this thing suggests all over again that AI-generated art's central failing continues to be that the kinds of people who might use AI tools to make something interesting are the kinds of people who hate the supposed shortcut of using AI tools because they enjoy the work of making art.

Yes, yes, the renewed accusations that the president is a serial rapist and was an active participant in Epstein's pedophilia and sex trafficking would seem alarming, but it doesn't involve the Cheesecake Factory so ...

So much to say about Brazil, not least of which is the role that Erika Hilton, a Black trans leader and most voted woman politician in Brazil, played in mobilizing folks for Lula. She was behind the critical, concrete, economic promise of shorter work-week. theprint.in/feature/erik...

Get ready for all your Microsoft products to get even worse. We need to find ways to move off of all billionaire-owned internet services and software. A practical consumer issue as well as a critical political necessity.

again want to emphasize that this child is three

remember this is the woman who paid one billion american dollars for...Tumblr

The fact that we've agreed to call these gambling sites "prediction markets" furthers their bullshit. They predict nothing and it's a disgrace that news orgs have partnered with them and pretend they have news value. THEY'RE JUST A BUNCHA LOSERS GAMBLING.

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

RIGHT?!?

When Democrats do well this fall, we’re going to see a lot of “strategists” trying to take credit for their approach. The trans panic people have been nothing but a drag on Democratic momentum and they need to fuck off into the sun

Congrats to Lula on overcoming Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump to defeat Hospital Pervert Jr., even as his opposition literally blocked off roads and turned off bus service during election day. Fascists are scary but they are always, 100% of the time, ultimately gigantic fucking losers.

Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who spared a thought for my country today, who amplified information about the coup d’état attempt, and worried about Brazil’s democratic future—the world’s democratic future. We won! Women won! The Amazon won! Young people won! Democracy won! Hope won!

Democrats are up nine points on trans issues. NINE Red States have less draconian anti-trans state laws. Even *Third Way* agrees that this kind of rhetoric & moronic, their own research suggests vacuous “safety & fairness statements” poll 10 points better than bigotry. Turek is choosing to be evil

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yes this is exactly what the 'discourse' has sounded like

"The path forward is obvious. We let Sauron retain full power for another two years. Let the people experience a little more darkness while we clean house. Get our own ranks in order. Get rid of all those unity-chasing wackos that are tearing our Fellowship apart." buff.ly/9WluK1y

Everyone who is saying "Dems in red states have to throw trans people under the bus to win" -- no. They don't. When they do that, we just start with no winning options on the table. It gives in to the fascist premise that we get to decide some groups don't get rights. THIS is what I want to see.

Thread - if Bolsonaro wins, very legitimate reason to ask if the widespread voter suppression happening now played a role. bsky.app/profile/rafi...

These seven trusted favs serve everything from soul food to Lebanese kabobs to Peruvian chicken, all at or under $15 a meal — including, in a couple cases, a drink.

In Michigan, Musk paid for calls targeting Muslims that painted Democrats as pro-Israel, and also paid for calls targeting Jews that painted Democrats as pro-Hamas.

I only realized how bad it was when my own kid started looking.

the handful of die-hard anti-trans voters that exist are going to vote GOP no matter what. so this ad will not pick up a single new voter. all it does is further disenfranchise trans ppl – a marginalized group MAGA hates. this is a pro-MAGA ad & Turek is furthering MAGA's cause by airing it

EXCLUSIVE: Trump DOJ’s has repeatedly insisted it will not tell immigration judges how to rule, as required by law. But after a demand from unidentified “higher-ups,” a veteran judge was ordered to reverse four rulings—then yanked from court mid-hearing. wapo.st/4BuABEM

Brazil is voting today in one of the biggest, closest most contentious elections in years, and social media companies, the U.S. and other online forces have had a huge impact, as I explore with @techpolicypress.bsky.social @justinhendrix.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/in-brazils-r...

Jaron Lanier wrote in like 2018 that AI products are not labour-saving, they’re labour-concealing, and I have been shouting that from the rooftops ever since

If you donated to Josh Turek without realizing he was running on a federally funded trans healthcare coverage ban, you can request a refund of your donation here: help.actblue.com/hc/en-us/art...

Every D should ask their R opponent why they're taking money from a creepy sieg-heiling racist transphobe fascist CSAM distributor.

Again, it’s important to understand that the transgender terror did not arise organically from the public. It was imposed from above, by the world’s most hateful and poisonous media class.

That it'll fail because they lack sufficient consolidation and centralized control does not make it trivial that the president of the United States is trying to steal elections and produce an illegitimate sham Congress. It is open rebellion against the Constitution and morally tantamount to treason.

scott galloway and jessica tarlov held an event here in town yesterday where “don’t impeach or waste time on investigations because ‘28” was the consensus position of the panel. so yeah, this is something to anticipate.

i really do think that a successful impeachment and removal of hegseth is a live possibility if dems win the senate. he is a genuine disaster.