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NEW: CISA has frozen all of its election security work; the agency is also reviewing everything it’s done to help state and local officials secure their elections for the past eight years. www.wired.com/story/cisa-e...

submitted 8 days ago • 21 comments

As best you can, ignore him.

submitted 33 days ago • 3560 comments

Glad this case is helping folks recognize online manipulation campaigns. Now apply your new awareness to news and politics. www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...

submitted 52 days ago • 2 comments

Just absorbing the fact that the first order of business in the new QAnon-inflected MAGA Republican era is to demand that Congress bury its report on sex trafficking and drug allegations against a Republican member of Congress who they're trying to promote to higher office.

submitted 98 days ago • 636 comments

Governments and powerful figures threatening journalists and media outlets with costly legal battles and bankruptcy is a common tactic against press freedom in repressive countries. The press freedom fire is at our door step now. www.cjr.org/the_trump_re...

submitted 101 days ago • 73 comments

Russia did exactly this to HRC in 2016, aiming to suppress her vote, and probably did. Musk no doubt did suppress Harris voting as well with these demotivation techniques. This should be illegal. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 100 days ago • 270 comments

I want to talk to you a little bit about how and why Google's Gemini "AI" just told someone that they were a drain on resources and they should die. And, frankly, why I'm a little bit furious with CBS right now. Because it's actually very simple, and we've even talked about it before, a few times:

submitted 100 days ago • 20 comments

Hey BlueSky, I'm back! Will my Portland friends please repost this so I can find y'all!? Thank you! 🙏🏾😊

submitted 101 days ago • 11 comments

thinking about Matt Gaetz saying abortion rights protestors are fat and ugly, and shouldn't worry about needing an abortion. "Nobody wants to impregnate you if you look like a thumb," he said in 2022 www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2...

submitted 102 days ago • 7 comments

“It’s absurd. I can’t get my head around what’s happening,” 68-year-old paediatrician Nadezhda Buyanova tells me in court. Minutes later she’s sent to prison for 5 1/2 years for alleged comments on the war in Ukraine. Our report for BBCNews. Camera: Anton Chicherov Producer: Ben Tavener

submitted 103 days ago • 17 comments

Never a good time in politics when historians - esp historians of the crusades - have to comment on current matters. @tlecaque.bsky.social and I wrote about incoming Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s tattoos - and their violent meaning for @thebulwark.bsky.social: open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

submitted 102 days ago • 23 comments

TIP. Have you had your TDAP shot? That’s tetanus, dipth and whooping cough. Get it every ten years. And maybe get it done this month if you’re due for a booster. Many adults don’t bother. Big mistake. www.masslive.com/politics/202...

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Voters in North Texas have elected Sheriff Bill Waybourn to a third term. Under his leadership, jail deaths have spiked, leading to criticism from advocates and families of the deceased. boltsmag.org/a-scand...

submitted 102 days ago • 8 comments

not saying anything groundbreaking here, but I really think "politics as a form of content to be served up and consumed like all other forms of content" has been an enormous, underrated disaster in terms of giving folks the illusion of being informed while essentially being gamed like a drug addict

submitted 102 days ago • 121 comments

James Ho—a far-right 5th Circuit judge who’s angling for Trump’s Supreme Court shortlist—has a new opinion out bemoaning our society’s allegedly widespread “racism against whites.” s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 102 days ago • 89 comments

"That article is our Project 2025." - my wife If you want to understand the historical context we're in and how to survive this mess, set some time aside to read this ASAP.

submitted 105 days ago • 98 comments

"Authoritarians aim to destroy the social fabric and to isolate individuals. Anything you do to counter that is good work. "

submitted 105 days ago • 18 comments

Also re-upping this whole thread. The cops will only become more emboldened under a Trump regime where he intends to give them absolute immunity. 😔😔

submitted 105 days ago • 3 comments

They are torturing children for the sheer cruelty of it. Crisis calls from LGBTQ+ youth spiked by 700 percent after Election Day 19thnews.org/2024/11/elec... via @19thnews

submitted 106 days ago • 4 comments

Donald Trump and his allies have begun mapping out specific plans for using the federal government to punish critics and opponents should he win a second term, with the former president naming individuals he wants to investigate or prosecute.

submitted 476 days ago • 85 comments