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line in the sand: I am a single-issue voter. that issue is human rights. - for trans people - for disabled people - for immigrants - for those alleged or demonstrated to have caused harm - for EVERYONE if you can't support them for any group, you don't get my vote. period.

i had a really shit day and would like to have pizza about it but do not have pizza money can someone buy me a pizza

If we had a real District Attorney interested in protecting the people instead of our local oligarchs then they might actually prosecute OpenAI for this

The fact that the Israeli opposition could chart a course away from the genocidal fascist who has ruined their country’s reputation worldwide - but only if they consent to see Palestinians as equals, with all the changing policies that implies - is a pretty good metaphor for the future of Israel.

Thanks @dmagazine.bsky.social ! Read it here:

An Oshkosh middle school teacher has been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In a statement, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson confirmed that on Oct. 14, ICE arrested Wendy Mendez, a Spanish teacher at the Vel Phillips Middle School in Oshkosh.

A court in Cairo has ordered the closure of the independent Egyptian news site Mada Masr. The court also ordered the site’s editor-in-chief, Lina Attalah, to be detained until she pays a fine of over $50,000. She was convicted on charges of managing an unlicensed website.

What happened to video game funding after the covid-born boom years of 2020 and 2021? Where did all the money go? @futterish.fsquared.biz explains

I emailed Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for standards and trust at NYT, to ask why their story about a House report with new details of rape allegations against the President of the United States included neither those details, nor a single use of the word "rape." archive.is/1s9AM

I DO!! I commissioned them from @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social and got my regular artist to tattoo them on my forearms. Of my (many) tattoos, I get compliments on these ones the most.

Shocking twist, the internet has turned the story of a cheating man into the story of an evil woman.

The Pittsburgh Steelers made a post for the anniversary of the Tree of Life shooting, which was 8 years ago today. The comments are a cesspool of hate. Antisemites aren't satisfied with murdering Jews in cold blood. They desecrate their memories, too.

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. 

Hey just FYI, if you post your Halloween costume and you're in blackface, I will screen shot it and send it to your job and whatever church you attend.

There was a brand new allegation that the president raped a woman in the 1990s yesterday and it appears to not be on the NYT homepage at all right now

I'm heading out of town for a conference tomorrow. So today I'm checking the state- and city-level laws to see how much drama there might be when I use the women's bathrooms. Cis privilege means never having to do this.

Just did an actual physical surprise pikachu face when I discovered that one bad apple did spoil my entire bunch.

But but but i was told that caving on trans rights neutralizes these types of attacks

I quit the car wash after 2 days because it was clear I was not going to meet their sales goals or mesh with their culture I have an interview at 5 guys burgers on Wednesday Please see this thread for ways to help as I search for employment

You can do the same thing, buying a house and borrowing against it—ha ha, just kidding, normal people get taxed annually on their wealth via property taxes, the "you can't tax wealth, the economy will collapse!" rule applies solely to the super-rich.

The Trump administration has reportedly advocated for Viktor Orbán, ex-PM of Hungary, to serve as UN Secretary-General, despite his record of plunging Hungary into fascist authoritarianism and maintaining power and control through corruption, police violence, surveillance, and censorship.

Israel has spent $1 billion to influence US politics and is directly paying for ads promoting MAGA. Why isn’t MSNOW’s “foreign influence” sleuth covering it? By @ahjohnson.bsky.social

The anti-Netanyahu opposition can only form a majority government if they are willing to work with Arab parties. Other than maybe the Democrats, they will probably all be too racist to do this.

hey for the record unsolicited photos of your genitals is assault, not "sexual advances."

Lots of hit dogs hollering in the replies here.

I know we all love to be macho about this but here is your permission not to have to: If you’re cold, you can turn on the heat. My heat is on. It’s fine

I'll never forget how, in the aftermath of the worst antisemitic attack in US history, the Israeli government rushed to absolve Trump of any blame for it - even while they rush to blame Mayor Mamdani for antisemitic violence in NYC, on much more tangential grounds. forward.com/opinion/8409...

Her own staff criticized her for running an anti-trans ad www.thestate.com/news/politic...

SSA sent partisan messages on Trump Accounts to millions of people. Their press release frames the seed funding in the accounts--created by Congress & funded by your tax dollars--as a "$1,000 gift to a Trump account from the U.S. Treasury Department." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

A prisoner saw his conviction vacated after decades on death row, as the testimony of a pair of doctors was discredited as junk science. But his case may not be over, and the upcoming DA race will shape what comes next.

Nothing about President Trump saying protesters at his rallies are being paid by Soros or that Jews who vote for Abdul El-Sayed are bad Jews, but time to complain that Mayor Mamdani accurately described Marc Chagall as an Eastern European artist and not specifically as a Jewish artist. Pathetic.