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Democrats should be at the microphone right now noting that this is a Hatch Act violation that they'll be pursuing in January. I don't care that the nation's become numb to this shit. It's still illegal and if Democrats should run against it and then act to crush it.

At least 75 career federal officials who’d played important roles in elections have left, been fired or been reassigned. In their place are roughly two dozen people Trump installed in positions that could affect elections. Ten of them actively worked to reverse the 2020 vote. (Published April)

It's finally happened: the improved quality of machine transcription and the greater ability to extract value from unlabelled data means "your tech is eavesdropping on you for marketing purposes" has crossed from "false conspiracy theory" to "true and concerning" www.theverge.com/tech/991190/...

"Perhaps more concerningly, the TVs were capable of recording microphone audio when in standby; this continued even after the TV was disconnected from the internet, with audio files stored offline and uploaded once a connection was restored."

I think more people in US should be paying attention to this... www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/o...

Ho-LEE fuck democrats-appropriations.house.gov/news/press-r...

🚨 TEXAS: THEY’RE TRYING TO CLOSE 92 ELECTION DAY POLLING PLACES Tarrant County officials are set to vote TODAY on cutting Election Day voting locations from 316 to 224, nearly 1 in 3 polling places gone. Civil rights groups warn the cuts could disproportionately burden Black, Latino & Asian voters

“Potentially millions of American voters may not receive their mail-in ballot this election cycle in a timely manner, or at all,” the whistleblower warned.

Yesterday Mayor Mamdani endorsed a bill to force Amazon to employ its own delivery drivers, rather than outsource the work to subcontractors. The Prospect can report that Amazon's lead lobbyist on that bill is Chuck Schumer's daughter Jessica. prospect.org/2026/08/11/m...

A letter from the mother of Alex Pretti, six months after he was murdered by ICE.

This is the hardest I’ve laughed in a long time.

#BreakingNews Private prison company sells two of California’s immigrant detention centers to the feds calmatters.org/justice/2026...

ICE just spent $1.5 BILLION to purchase two massive prisons in California it was already using for detention, in an effort to avoid oversight from the state, which has been pressuring the private prison company that owned them. CoreCivic will continue operating the facilities.

Incredible chart from @propublica.org. If you don’t follow enviro stuff closely, your instinct might be that the hold-your-nose solution (carbon capture from fossil fuels) would be the “pragmatic” one versus covering Earth in solar panels, which seems utopian. In fact it’s the opposite

NBC is ready for Trump to die, for Vance to blame everything unpopular now on Trump, and for the white supremacist patriarchal Christian nationalist Theil era of control to just sweep in and do what they will. NBC is owned by Comcast. The Comcast PAC helped fund Jan 6th & the East Wing demolition.

Why isn’t the follow-up a recitation of Trump’s initial demands: unconditional surrender (didn’t happen), regime change (didn’t happen), destruction of their military (mixed results), elimination of enriched uranium (not in the “deal”), end support for proxies (not in deal). Challenge these guys!

This article details how Peter Thiel, the man behind Palantir, takes journalists to an "AI court" to silence them. It explains why he's threatening to take the Met Police and @london.gov.uk to court for backing out of a contract. It seems he bullies people into submitting to his will

Michigan Governor caught on hot mic with Oracle CEO Clay Magouyrk, discussing citizen opposition to AI data centers, bragging how she ignores their concerns: “We’re used to people saying 'f*ck no,' & doing it anyway.”🇺🇸

The Fred Rogers Production has started uploading every episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood for free. www.youtube.com/@misterroger...

the kicker in the nyt’s best 100 restaurants list is pretty special

President Trump's $1.776 billion settlement with the IRS is one of the single most corrupt acts in American history. They moved fast to avoid the scrutiny of the judicial process, and very likely violated the Constitution. This is an outrage.

The Internet is disappearing before our very eyes and it’s why we should all support that absolutely critical work of @archive.org

Congrats @kumail.bsky.social !!! Good job task-mastering!

Releasing a new tool today: Blendo Localizer For managing localization text assets. Loads CSV or JSON files. This is a cleaned-up version of what we used during Skin Deep's development. Free Download: blendogames.itch.io/blendo-local... Source code: github.com/blendogames/...

Gavin Newsome has said his son is a fan of Charlie Kirk Andrew Tate and now Clavicular. You should probably stop running for office and spend time with your son

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The nonprofit that runs the successful, Pulitzer-winning Baltimore Banner is going to take over the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Of all the possible outcomes here, this is likely the best we could have hoped for. apnews.com/article/pitt...

That is one hell of a change in NYT headline

And change in the abstract to match. Sanewashing will continue until morale improves bsky.app/profile/nytd...

My one-hour special “Rick Steves Iran: Yesterday and Today,” which helps humanize 90 million Iranian people, is streaming free and ad-free at www.ricksteves.com/watch-iran.

This is a marvelous project and we need thousands more all over the country. www.sfgate.com/la/article/c...

Time to impeach, you mean. The avenue you, personally, can actually do something about. Not the avenue that depends on his own weirdos to do what you refuse. You don't get points for recognizing a problem if you also refuse to fix it. Get a clue, or get primaried.

Here is something that needs to happen: If the White House insists on giving illegal orders, then Democrats need to publicly tell senior leaders and service members, once again, that they'll have their backs should they refuse to carry them out. Otherwise, they're just going to carry them out.

if you like Wet Hot or They Came Together or Stella, please go see Napa Boys I can confidently say it’s the greatest Sideways/American Pie direct-to-video sequels parody ever made

Amidst everything else, the Trump regime has quietly killed off the U.S. Forest Service 🌲 “One hundred and ninety-three million acres of your national forests… just handed, on a silver platter, to the people who’ve spent their entire careers trying to destroy it.” www.hatchmag.com/articles/tru...

It seems we just bombed some residential buildings in an attempt to kill a former diplomat who was trying to facilitate negotiations. A civilian trying to *end* hostilities, surrounded by other civilians in their homes. We are completely lost.

🚨 Active supply chain attack on axios@1.14.1. The latest version pulls in plain-crypto-js@4.2.1 -- a brand-new package that didn't exist before today. We're still investigating. If you use axios, pin your version and audit your lockfile. socket.dev/blog/axios-n...

Rafael Concepcion built an app to help immigrants avoid ICE raids. Then came death threats. Hacks. An app store ban. He even lost his job. Read @brendankoerner.bsky.social on one man's obsessive mission to resist ICE -- and the incredible personal toll it's taken.

This story is insane. Married an American, arrested at her greencard interview, flown out of state, nearly killed multiple times when her diabetes was ignored and then mistreated. When she finally got out? Found out her credit card had been used illegally. www.daylightsandiego.org/san-diego-wo...