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Well that's a stupid fucking design choice. If I went to a website, no I don't want you to call me. Having a modal overlay I need to dismiss under the assumption that the average website visitor wants a phone call is nuts. 'X' to close the overlay is physically separate so closing it's nonobvious.

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The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered. Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again. Their inaction is deadly.

submitted 16 hours ago • 564 comments

For those wondering about the identity of the shooter in this report—and specifically whether "peacekeeping team" means the police—I've confirmed with the SLCPD that the answer is no: "The peacekeepers referenced were non-sworn community members we believed associated to the demonstration."

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It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.

submitted 1 day ago • 115 comments

When Republicans insist that stuff like OSHA is just too darned burdensome and we need to cut all safety regulation enforcement because nothing bad would actually happen, it's interesting to look at preserved old educational films as a point of reference.

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Hi everyone I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing

submitted 3 days ago • 223 comments

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCP3...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Truly wild photos coming in from Los Angeles right now.

submitted 2 days ago • 114 comments

A Democratic Mayor arrested. A Democratic Congresswoman indicted. A Democratic Senator tackled and detained. A Democratic State Representative killed. A Democratic State Representative in critical condition. We can all see where this is going.

submitted 2 days ago • 683 comments

“A deranged maniac impersonated a police officer and killed lawmakers but if you’re an immigrant be sure you immediately comply with plain clothes people who won’t identify themselves telling you to get in a van”, what a fuckin country

submitted 2 days ago • 385 comments

We are blowing past red flags and burning through red lines at such a high velocity that they look blue shifted.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

New Yorkers scream out each officer’s lawsuits against them for excessive force and more upon their city, right to their faces while protesting.

submitted 3 days ago • 886 comments

You know who didn't identify themselves? The thugs who assaulted Senator Padilla.

submitted 4 days ago • 181 comments

Watching an old episode of Battlestar Galactica and this quote seemed apropos, "The thing is, the harder it is to recognize someone's right to draw breath, the more crucial it is." It's a god damned shame how relevant old sci fi stays to our current real world.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

A shocking headline for "White House lies about thing we definitely saw happen." Traditional news media is absolutely failing this moment. Just a disaster of credibility.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Republican leadership sees public opinion polls, and does whatever it takes to change those polls. Democratic leadership sees public opinion polls, and then the public has to do whatever it takes to change that leadership.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I honestly think it’s time for some Dems to start dropping f-bombs. On national television. Let’s start acting like the crisis this is

submitted 4 days ago • 959 comments

So I can’t go to bed before I tell Bluesky that one of the ICE agents seen here grabbing Senator Padilla used to be on a cop softball team called The Proud Pigs. For real.

submitted 4 days ago • 35 comments

It's so fucking upsetting that such stupid people are currently winning.

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I am as big a sucker as anyone for the fine-grained legal analysis, but I do sometimes worry it distracts us a little from the big, dumb, obvious points. This is appalling & precisely what the Framers were terrified of. Whether it’s technically legal if you squint right doesn’t change that.

submitted 4 days ago • 27 comments

We drill into military officers that Members of Congress have Constitutional oversight rights, Members outrank four-stars in protocol, and even Congressional staffers are treated like generals/admirals. To see sworn federal officers manhandle and handcuff a U.S. Senator... I'm still shook up.

submitted 4 days ago • 55 comments

Important for US activists to understand that laws cannot protect you. Armed soldiers are on the steets. They are violently arresting judges and mayors and US Senators. They are kidnapping people from churches, elementary schools, and hospitals. Your only protection today is anonymity, opsec,

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

So ICE is now more powerful than a sitting US senator? I hope every democrat congressperson stands up for their colleague and demands accountability for what happened to Alex Padilla. They won’t but I wish they would.

submitted 4 days ago • 67 comments

Normalcy bias is going to doom us all.

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The fucking world cup?! Why is she so determined to be bad at this? Is she in some sort of civic Brewster's Millions scenario where she has to lose as much support as possible on a time limit? You know what will get Trump to stop doing fascism? Soccer. That's the ticket.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

i've been trying to see what the right wing platforms (even outside of X) are showing people regarding the protests in LA and i am not sure it can be overstated just how much the AI slop is being used to reinforce the idea that downtown is a post-apocalyptic war zone

submitted 5 days ago • 248 comments

I sort of understand how we can reform policing and public corruption and such if democracy survives 2028. I have no idea how journalism can be fixed at this point. NYT, CNN, WaPo, ABC, etc., all just seem to be boot gobbling garbage fires. I don't think actual state media would be great.

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Bet the Marines and National Guard would disperse faster if we asked them to read our spec scripts.

submitted 6 days ago • 13 comments

A terrifying escalation:

submitted 5 days ago • 104 comments

“In this article, I argue that we are totally fucked. In so doing, I fill a scholarly gap in the discourse around how fucked we are. My novel insight is that the fuckedness is largely behind comprehension.”

submitted 5 days ago • 13 comments