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They are already messing with my vote. I'm supposed to receive my ballot 45 days before the general election. It didn't arrive, so I'm messaging with the county elections office. They are claiming that my FPCA is only good for one election, the primary, and no longer good for the entire year.

there is no such thing as "age verification." All "age verification" is actually "identity verification." You can coat it in glitter and "privacy-preserving" wrapping paper. But in the end, mandating age verification means mandating surveillance be built into software and hardware. Period.

All of Us Should Be Able To Agree With This…..

I dunno, bro, you drinking "Essentia+" water like it's not just over-priced tap water. Not sure I trust your take on things now. (Essentia+ is one of a dozen or so "alkaline" water brands you can spend your entire paycheck on just to prove you're super special. The water? It does nothing.)

@zoesqwilliams.bsky.social Leaving aside the issue of this being a bad take, this is noticeably shorter and less articulate out than your other recent columns. Did your employer demand you write ragebait? Like I'm genuinely curious here. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I feel like lumping Discord users and Reddit users into the same category is unfair to Discord users, who don't deserve to be equated with the miserable inhabitants of large subreddits. :)

I refuse to be shaken to my core

Off to a fucking strong start

We have American problems which require American solutions. Some will be trivial, some will require us to remember the great undertakings of our past. We can, we have – we will – do great things. It takes but a leader to arouse the patriotic spirit.

Omg I’m dying 😂😂😂…so…So Emily Austin, a right wing 'influencer' who works for Bibi and the GOP, launched 'Hot Girls for Cuomo'. Guess who didn't bother to register the URL when she did that? What do you think Hot Girls for Cuomo dot com leads to now?... 😄 Enjoy. [ HotGirlsforCuomo.com ]

Nvidia is not 16% of the US of economy. This is nonsense. AI capex is powering GDP growth right now but it's still like <1% of the US GDP according to GS. Lots of ways to make the argument that AI poses a risk to growth but this isn't it.

Science 🤝 Democracy. The Trump admin's fight against science harms our 1st Amendment rights. Flipping a complicit Congress is critical in the fight against unpatriotic anti-science, and where the Science Fight Club comes in. Find out how to join the fight here: zurl.co/fa315 #standupforscience

“52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy” V-Dem data

I think when Trump dies, MAGA will splinter. They are a cult and no one will take that mantle. And his successor will have to come to terms with the damage he did because the spell will be broken.

This from the great @sulliview.bsky.social on the media's anemic (or non-) coverage of the massive No Kings movement is such a great point

Note that KTLA Los Angeles is Nexstar owned. Make your voice heard.

Nepal has moved to block 26 social media platforms for failing to comply with its registration requirements.

In outlining his reason for a national program of social insurance, FDR stated: "It is our plain duty to provide for that security upon which welfare depends." We lay out why that goal is as essential today: #ProtectSocialSecurity 1/3 🧵 rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/what-do...

Duty! Toward one's fellows! A Rooseveltian vision the US could stand to reembrace.

Hasan Piker is a couch fucker like JD Vance. Change my mind.

I remember when Bill Clinton held a campaign rally in my hometown when I was a kid, but really can't think of the last time an out of state Dem came to WV.

I want the United States to get in a New Space Race with China to see who can sequester more carbon as a soft-power flex

Shout out to Second Rate Gigs, who is both a joy to collaborate with and puts out amazing quality work, be it #ttrpg or comedy! I cannot recommend them enough!

If there's nothing to hide, don't hide it.

I very much endorse this. I feel a LOT better after attending a rally/protest. And it's not just superficial; you actually ARE helping by getting the word out and showing people that they are not alone in this. Every. Person. Counts.

Good. VERY good! Now if we can enforce it.

Goddammit. Do Not Comply In Advance We still don't know what the Congressional budget proposal will be. Trump's shittastic budget proposal is not the final word!

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence. They are in charge.

Can’t emphasize enough what a disgrace this whole sad episode was

This is the perfect metaphor for the Trump era: he’s turned citizenship into a scam.

Ho-leeeeee cowwwwww NYT.

Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

We've just updated the @wired.com guide to protecting your privacy while attending protests with the latest best practices. @agreenberg.bsky.social and @lhn.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/how-to...

You simply cannot pull off a successful self-coup when you’re already unpopular and every move in that direction causes you to shed more supporters.

The “strongly approve” floor is lower than I thought tbh. And I don’t think we’ve found it yet.

In this moment of anxiety, please enjoy a baby goose falling out of an adult gooses wing. Yes I wrote that sentence. Yes this happened. Yes it's ADORABLE. No I don't think I'll capture a cuter goose moment this year. 🐣 🪶

Get ready everyone. The elite right leaning media in DC/NY's acela corridor are about to launch all out attacks on this man - just like they attacked Elizabeth Warren and before that - Howard Dean. Time to make sure the progressives/left are fully unified behind him.

Donald Trump deployed more than 700 active U.S. Marines — men and women trained in foreign combat, not domestic law enforcement. We honor their service and bravery. But we do not want our streets militarized by our own Armed Forces. Not in L.A. Not in California. Not anywhere.

Newsom’s speech wasn’t aimed at libs like us it was aimed at Joe sicpack who doesn’t know anything and wants The Bad Thing in the teevee to go away He, in my view successfully, shifted the blame for The Bad Thing onto Donald Trump

A U.S. citizen who is nine months pregnant was hospitalized upon her release from immigration custody after she was detained by federal agents in Hawthorne on Sunday. www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/i...