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Under 30 years after @greatdismal.bsky.social's Idoru was published, we are finally here.

submitted 13 days ago • 8 comments

"People are screaming and saying, 'It's kicking people off Medicaid.' It's not kicking people off Medicaid. It's transitioning from Medicaid to employer-provided healthcare." James Lankford (R-OK) OUR tax $$ pay for his healthcare plan, but he doesn't think OUR $$ should pay for our own healthcare.

submitted 13 days ago • 42 comments

“The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.” — Treaty of Tripoli, signed by the United States in 1797.

submitted 26 days ago • 2074 comments

UnitedHealth secretly pressured nurses to change patients' records to include DNRs (Do Not Resuscitate) without their consent, so those patients would die instead of being saved with medical interventions that could cost UnitedHealth money. This is murder. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 29 days ago • 228 comments

So…about AI’s energy use… “…to create a five-second video, a newer AI model uses ‘about 3.4 million joules, more than 700 times the energy required to generate a high-quality image’. That's the equivalent of running a microwave for over an hour.”

submitted 28 days ago • 102 comments

Same here except that I've yet to use those core Medicare $$$ rather than the supplemental coverage ...

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

This x 1000

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Update: The TERRIBLE 10-Year Ban on State AI Regulations advanced House Committee. What does this mean? It means we BLAST the HELL out of their phones! Call your House Members AND Senators today! Called a few days ago? Call again! Tell them NO on 10-year State AI Regulation Ban! (Info in thread)

submitted 35 days ago • 65 comments

maybe too subtle?

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Me, rolling my eyes, "better late" etc. This, while telling drivers to !Put down your device while driving!

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

submitted 46 days ago • 52 comments

Yesterday, a top Trump Administration official made an apparent threat to arrest me. Here’s my message to Wisconsinites. I encourage you to take a few minutes to watch. ⬇️

submitted 48 days ago • 182 comments

"We did our own research" will be one of many statements engraved on America's mausoleum.

submitted 50 days ago • 64 comments

It's fun to remember how Republicans insisted Biden wasn't running his own White House and then hear Trump assert in an interview: "I'm not the one making this decision."

submitted 50 days ago • 91 comments

The NYT has been doing phenomenal reporting on the blatant corruption of the Trump memecoin/crypto policy. Genuinely the most flagrant, bald-faced thing I’ve ever seen short of a politician getting sacks of cash.

submitted 50 days ago • 196 comments

Barry Blitt’s cover for this week’s issue, “The First Hundred Days.” #NewYorkerCovers nyer.cm/ysrCZ47

submitted 52 days ago • 428 comments

A lot of very distinguished people who swore an oath to preserve the Constitution are watching it get cut to pieces.

submitted 56 days ago • 265 comments

this

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

I’m old enough to remember when conservatives got mad because they thought women were having babies to get cash

submitted 58 days ago • 966 comments

Yes but didn't Dorothy Sayers write a Peter Wimsey mystery that relied on the fact that minute doses of arsenic over time creates an immunity to its poisonous effects ... probably not the only writer to reference that fact for mystery plot purposes. Has it been debunked? grist.org/food-and-agr...

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

I see that today's local FLA newspaper front page story is all about the softening home sales market in Charlotte-Sarasota-Lee counties (even as prices tumble) without once referring to the impacts of hurricanes Ian or Helene or Milton and the homeowner budget impacts of property/flood insurance ...

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

How much you wanna bet that soon we’ll find out it’ll cost $100 billion or some such amount to fix everything he broke?

submitted 66 days ago • 789 comments

To put more emphasis on this: Hundreds of thousands of Americans in at least 1400 cities and towns across the country, including in heavily Republican areas that never protest, protested Trump and Musk and their 401Ks being wiped out yesterday, and it’s NOT a main front page story in the Times.

submitted 74 days ago • 102 comments

🚨NEW from me: As _all of this_ indicates, capitalism is now firmly out of its YOLO summer and limping piteously through its FAFO winter. The question is, what'll end it first?

submitted 74 days ago • 5 comments

“What did they expect?” is kind of a misleading question. The people who supported them didn’t expect something very specific. They expected to own the libs. They expected people they resented to suffer. The expected the world to burn. It wasn’t about specifics.

submitted 75 days ago • 232 comments

I think I figured it out ... if you crush the economy, abandon seniors & the disabled to destitution, welcome measles & destroy vaccine research ... why, before long, this place will be hell on earth and no one will WANT to come here. Who needs a wall?

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

The most important thing you must share today. Trump is destroying your life savings and ability to make a living for 1 reason: he wants to make us all beggars who bow to him, his donors and his family. Not sure why @chrismurphyct.bsky.social hasn’t posted this here but can’t be posted enough.

submitted 75 days ago • 37 comments

After nearly a year w/o cardinals in the backyard, just now watching a mating couple flying loop-de-loops thru the palms, the coral bean, the wild coffee and all the rest, like watching your kids go by on an invisible roller coaster, red wings & bellies brilliant in the sunshine.

submitted 75 days ago • 2 comments

Every single paper in the U.S. would be excoriating a Dem President who was golfing while the stock market melted down. We all know this. The editorial boards would be screeching, state tv ie Fox would be playing NONSTOP clips, etc. etc. It's worth remembering.

submitted 76 days ago • 172 comments

Apropos of nothing: Kamala Harris predicted this exact moment happening: “Understand that part of Trump’s plan is to put in place a national sales tax of at least 20% on everyday goods and necessities.” She warned us over & over again & she was so right.

submitted 77 days ago • 168 comments

“Utterly deluded.” Exactly.

submitted 77 days ago • 102 comments

Name yr least favorite House GOPer from an under R-10 district and they voted to make it harder for the House to stop Trump's tariff Heaven's Gate. It was in the CR! Impeachment Mike Lawler. Every member of the NY delegation. All the ones in CA. and under R-10 includes a lot. They all voted for it.

submitted 77 days ago • 28 comments

This is an important message for anyone running or planning to run against a GOP incumbent who can't figure it out themselves. President have no power of tariffs. Trump is only able to do this because Congress gave the President the power. Congress cld take that power back at ...

submitted 77 days ago • 29 comments

Good Morning Everyone Senator Corey Booker I thank you GOOD TROUBLE is still going STRONG on the Senate floor I am so proud of you You are lifting up all of us. You are SPEAKING UP for the VOICELESS GOD SPEED, Senator Booker John Lewis is PROUD OF YOU

submitted 79 days ago • 40 comments

I love that @booker.senate.gov is filibustering to protest pretty much everything — Trump, Musk, disregard for rule of law, disregard for wellbeing of Americans. How long can he talk? Overnight and into tomorrow. More than long enough to get some attention. He's already trending.

submitted 79 days ago • 19 comments

very important and I've been hearing the same

submitted 81 days ago • 59 comments

Professor criticizes various judicial behavior: Gets accused by right-wing judges and commentators of jeopardizing judicial independence and even provoking death threats against specific federal judges. Speaker of the House proposes dismantling federal courts: Crickets.

submitted 82 days ago • 114 comments

Elon Musk has been a walking SEC violation for a decade and no one cared. The entire Trump era could have been avoided if the US took white collar crime anywhere near as seriously as it does low level drug crime.

submitted 81 days ago • 244 comments

It's revealing that Musk is now going on Fox to protest his firing squads are misunderstood. But it's important to focus on the core issue. Musk says they're actually using a scalpel not a hatchet. There's no gratuitous cruelty, just careful concern. They've hardly fired anyone, despite ...

submitted 82 days ago • 33 comments

BREAKING: DOGE is starting to put together a team to migrate the SSA's computer systems entirely off one of its oldest programming languages in a matter of months, potentially putting the integrity of the system—and the benefits on which tens of millions of Americans rely—at risk.

submitted 83 days ago • 845 comments

"The DOGE crowd is breaking a sacred promise to deliver Americans their earned Social Security benefits. And it is time for every member of this committee to step up and commit to rolling back these disastrous actions and bringing sanity back to Social Security." - @wyden.senate.gov

submitted 86 days ago • 22 comments