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Difficult to overstate how much blood RFK and Trump will have on their hands in the coming years. Difficult to overstate how many innocent kids will die as a result of the people who cast votes for Trump last November.

Very interesting thread

🧵 I often talk about VDA, Verification, Deliberation, Accountability, as the core functions that make democracy possible. But to understand what’s gone wrong, we need to look at how those functions have changed.

We made a comic about fun facts.

Elon saying he’s going to reprogram his chatbot’s view of history is a perfect example of why these kinds of AI products aren’t the neutral “tools” people always defend them as. They’re little political projects reflecting the ideologies of their creators

I need all of #lawsky to see this video from a Colorado appeals court livestream yesterday. I am in actual tears. Sound *incredibly* on, the subtitles will not help.

Brutal.

Trump's "perade" is the only event today where crowds are smaller than expected.

good. this is EXACTLY what we need

“Special thanks to our sponsor: Coinbase”

Trump looking absolutely inconsolable at his fascist-themed 79th birthday party which no one turned up to other than those who had to because he's their boss.

this man is realizing what the reaction is going to be when he dies

Photo is from 2021, and it showcases Lieutenant Daniela Figueroa, who is a part of the Chilean Navy.

If another world leader had threatened, in the middle of a bombing campaign, that a government "must make a deal, before there is nothing left" -- both scholars and the U.S. government would have labeled it a threat of genocide.

Mothers of Toddlers For Unleashed Untrained Rottweilers Say “No, No! Bad Doggie!”

HAWLEY: Let's see the Trump chart. You don't think it's a little bit anomalous that Trump has so many more nationwide injunctions against him? KATE SHAW: A very plausible explanation you have to consider is that he's engaged in much more lawless activity than other presidents

What this reminds me of is the military occupation of DC after Jan 6

AOC: The girls are fighting aren’t they

Let's be fair here. Just because Elon says that Trump is in the Epstein files and just because there are dozens of photos with Trump & Epstein together and just because Trump called Epstein a "terrific guy" who "likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side"...

Elon threatening to just leave people on the ISS is making a pretty good case for why you nationalize your space program!

Here it is. It has happened. We have the perfect social media post.

if the wheels had come off this thing any faster it'd be a Cybertruck

Astronauts on the Space Station flipping back and forth between Musk and Trump accounts to find out if they're going to be able to return to Earth.

So excited to get Lawless by @leahlitman.bsky.social in today’s mail! A great distraction from grading my final exams 😀

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court permanently BLOCKS Trump executive order targeting my former law firm, Perkins Coie. Executive Order 14230, entitled “Addressing Risks from Perkins Coie LLP,” violates the First, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution and is therefore null and void

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The Secretary of the Navy, John Phelan, went to pay his respects to the servicemembers and civilians lost in Pearl Harbor on “June 7th, 1941.” It looks good, except Pearl Harbor happened on December 7th. It seems Mr. Phelan skipped that part of history class. Only the best people, right?

This line is going to stick with me for a very long time. “One of them is a 4-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was deported without medication or the ability to contact their doctors…”

This article and headline is so beyond irresponsible. The clowns who wrote this piece, the editors who reviewed it, the headline writers - the entire @nbcnews.com staff ought to be effing embarrassed with this nonsense. This is a joke of a journalism. Embarrassing sh!t.

Liar liar, hair on fire.

I have been staying away from purely political posts but the attack on Wikipedia is more than I can bear. Wikipedia is the most valuable intellectual resource of the internet era. The MAGA crowd is not just against science, it is against knowledge.

The New York Times confirms that Twitter is nothing more than the rigged playpen of a billionaire who lies daily about loving free speech. I think it possible that Elon Musk is the single most pathetic human being alive.

You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.

Is it wrong that I laughed at this? We are living in a hall of mirrors.

an entire people is being deliberately starved to death

Bluesky works. I happened on a post by @maryrobinettekowal.com about her new book, The Martian Contingency, which sounded great but was 4th in the series. I grabbed the 1st from the library. Now I have 2, 3, and 4 on hold but will probably buy them instead because I don't want to wait! NEXT PLEASE!

#WompWomp “ #Tesla says profits sank 71% in first quarter, with politics and Trump's tariffs as factors Revenue at the electric carmaker fell in the first three months of 2025 from a year earlier, as Tesla faces backlash tied to CEO #Musk 's politics” www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...

I wrote a thing about how decentralization and democracy don't just go hand in hand. They're necessary components of the same system. For there to be true democracy there must be true decentralization. www.techdirt.com/2025/04/17/t...