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I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

repost if you will never vote for a democrat willing to harm trans kids puberty blockers are medicine hormones are medicine nobody is carving your kids up children know who they feel like

I will never vote for an anti-transgender Democrat like Josh Turek and you should not either. I'll probably be writing my case to abstain from a handful of races like his on Monday. Josh Turek is showing the exact slippery slope I've called out, in real time.

I think probably the main way they'll try to screw with election results is by having a bunch of the dumbest fucks on twitter hitting Polymarket hard in the lead up to make it look like Republicans are favored to win and then complaining that "something's fishy" when they don't

seems like "on the orders of a nazi every major news outlet on the planet hounded an innocent man to death because he's black" should be one of the biggest stories of the year

Nevermind. Here they are: Jack Sims and Andrew Prater Source: blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/fiftypluso...

Anyway, what was that you were saying about Tom Morello leaving his ballot blank in a safe blue state?

A perhaps underexplored effect of vibecoding and gen AI is a lower barrier for racist agitprop.

how come I get banned from websites when I say this about him. is there a reason or is it just that hitler is in charge

My take on this is that sure, maybe its misinformation for any of us to try and spreadit, but tactically it seems like a winner for Zelenskyy to say it, and i wish him the best

Oh wow, you're saying the HOOVER INSTITUTE is saying it's bad to do a wealth tax? I am HEARING THIS for the first time.

Indeed, the pettiness of this really amplifies its odiousness. It wouldve cost them nothing to not do it, and yet they went out of their way.

The BBC is trash for this.

He just like me fr

get their asses nic

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

"bully crumples after being hit at all" is such an interesting story, i wonder if there are any analogous ones that are already popular that would make doing something like this everywhere seem intuitive

Never let them live a normal life again.

Imagine offering up this anecdote as a brag. Jesus Christ, is there anyone who reads this, thinks that it sounds like a good thing, and *doesn't* think "and then what happened?", and therefore immediately think "Biden is a failure"? If he got so mad, why did he do nothing? That is the bigger story!

shit like this is why I’m not a free speech absolutist. people like this, antivaxxers, etc should absolutely not be allowed to have platforms and when they post things like this, social media cos should be legally required to take it down

i would rather remove my eyeballs than witness an AI tingler cover

ICE has notified me that another person has died in their custody. This is the 58th death under ICE’s watch since Trump returned to office. That’s 58 too many. We need to dismantle ICE, eliminate private, for-profit detention centers, and reform our broken immigration system.

lol www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

Facebook really doesn't want you to see the new documentary exposing Elon Musk Neither do TikTok or Google or the eX social media site. Since they won't accept paid advertising, let's do some free advertising. Go see Musk in theaters October 9 www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

Class solidarity.

i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison.

Wu on redistricting if Dems get control: "You do the exact same thing that they did to you until they say mercy" and agree to national, bipartisan reform.

The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.

this bigot is a republican

As AI Doom Mania sweeps the left Allison Keats, @neoromantic.bsky.social, writes for Power Map about, what we should really fear from AI, how we should approach AI fears and how we can use them to organize for comprehensive regulation. powermapmag.substack.com/p/shitty-sky...

Outside the obvious timebomb of selling out trans kids to appeal to ~16 bigots in deep Ohio, an underplayed part of the whole "trans kids in youth sports" stuff is making the most psycho Little League parents the most important political demo in America. They're joy vampires for the kids themselves!

If you're a Dem who thinks you'll gain something by going anti-trans, look at Gallup's "most important problem" and Fox News' "most important issue" polling and see where trans issues rank. Whoever told you going anti-trans is a savvy or necessary move spends too much time on X and should be fired.

"This election is about the threat of trans kids" is the worst possible messaging for Dems yet so many candidates are leaning into it. No voter will flip R->D over it. Low-info voters read this as "you're focused on bullshit that doesn't affect me" while the base reads this as "you're an asshole."

i am fucking losin it

Hey look at that, i collected my first Scratched Liberal

Do NOT vote for anti-transgender Democrats. www.erininthemorning.com/p/the-guide-...

Ironic because if there’s any profession that could immediately be replaced by a chatbot it’s “Democratic consultant”