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Obama’s Cheesecake Factory decor joke is going to continue to get far more play in the media, days after it happened, than RFK Jr being openly racist. Draw your own conclusions about the press based on that.

They also forbade international forum moderators from localizing important messages in their own language, instead demanding that participants use their own translation software if they wanted to know what they were supposed to know. They also had an issue of minors being groomed by moderators. 

All eyes on the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma, Washington today — its operations contract with GEO Group is set to expire today. No new contract or extension has been awarded yet. ICE has also expressed interest in purchasing the facility.

A serial rapist was elected twice as President, a fact we don't reckon with nearly enough. Now one of two major political parties has been molded in his image, run for and by violent sexual abusers who hate women.

It's really damning. The accusations are numerous and well-supported. But I was really struck by the descriptions of Trump's behavior -- the name dropping, strong-arming, and attempts to buy off silence. His gross rivalry with Epstein. It's all so familiar. It's shit he's been doing his entire life.

its insane how not many people are talking about how republicans with the help of several moderate democrats are building out the largest abusive medical conversion therapy operation in modern american history

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Holy shit. If anyone wants to help volunteer to sort through the AI Free Book Sky feed and help me remove people who have AI of any kind I would appreciate it. There's so god damn much.

“I don’t want any of us to be or feel un-housed in our bodies our towns our movements ever again. This book is my prayer; if you need to use it as shelter, it’s yours.” My memoir HOME OUT THERE is available for preorder now! bookshop.org/p/books/home...

Yesterday, Josh Turek released one of the worst anti-transgender ads to come from a Democrat this election cycle. It called for a federal funding ban on gender affirming care, which would impact countless trans Americans. Here is our article on the ad you have all undoubtedly seen by now.

so glad to hear two conservative men assure voters that, much as they personally may hate the idea of reproductive freedom, abortion rights are settled law and certainly will never go away (so how dare anyone ask about a judicial candidate's anti-choice views) mynorthwest.com/john-curley/...

My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

This is devastating. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

They called the cops on this 3-year-old Black boy because he was kickin the white kids' ass on the soccer field.

GOP 2026: “Protect girls sports from unfair trans competition.” GOP 2028: “Protect white sports from unfair black competition.”

Hi. I, a trans woman, am the Executive Producer of this show. I wrote the question. He called trans girls men. He has now said it in three different places in the past week.

We must expect that Meta's interference is happening in other elections around the world *right now*. This isn't just a one-off. Meta has proved repeatedly they are committed to advancing far-right agendas worldwide, are serial liars, and are flagrantly indifferent to the dismantling of democracies.

The BBC is set to scrap Radio 4 Extra. 📻 Losing this treasure trove of classic comedy, archive drama, and timeless storytelling would be a massive blow for millions of us. Sign the petition to help save Radio 4 Extra 👇 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Try to keep up: Dude conspires to kill his enemy, tries a coup, is judged and arrested for that. His SON, bragging that his father's blood runs in his veins, might be elected president today because his powerful buddies restricted public transportation around the country. I'm not stressed, you are.

Petra Parker meets Peter Parker the complete thread: #spiderman #petraparker Part 1

conservatives in washington state want freedom and small government in the form of state-mandated genital exams for high school students: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Pro-HRT funding ban Democrat Josh Turek is endorsed by a ton of big names, and even a local @indivisible.org chapter (Dubuque County). Pete Buttigieg is not surprising at all turek4iowa.com/endorsements/

Something I wish more people would realize.

What I wrote about Gavin Newsom a year ago is never more applicable to several Democrats today. I foresaw this coming, and I continue to hold this true.

stumbled on a set of incredible 1970s illustrations in some government reports, so had to spend a day collecting them into a website to share with my friends on the computer: nickseaver.net/paperwork

trying to think of a use of preemptive pardons that don't indicate deep failure of a political system. coming up short

If you’re American and don’t care about the Brazilian election, you should learn how much the corrupt powerful people in the US really care about the Brazilian election.

There's a general strike that's been called in November, right around the corner, in Spain, for the first time since the feminist movement and labor movement called a general strike in 2018: kpfa.org/area941/epis...

NEW: Trump is already working to undermine the midterms, most ominously by filing lawsuits likely aimed at laying a foundation to challenge results or contest certification after Election Day. And administration officials say there could be more to come. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

End the siege and ensure immediate humanitarian access. How many more families must lose everything before the world acts? #Hebron #HumanRights #EndCollectivePunishment #StopForcedDisplacement #ActNow

In a little-noticed webpage update, the Environmental Protection Agency has announced a plan to decommission its online web archive at the end of the year, a move that would wipe tens of thousands of publicly available environmental resources from the web.