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After all the crap about TikTok spying, we all knew Meta was doing this but also JESUS

Everything reminds me of her

Newsom's address is worth a listen if you haven't seen it yet www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFpj...

I will repeat this ad nauseum: violence gains us nothing but the enmity of people who are undecided. If we let them provoke us, we will almost certainly have the police state people fear, the police state Trump wants. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/u...

see, the thing *i’m* genuinely worried about is that RFK will effectively ban vaccines

This is a pretty important point!

I just had a very bad dysphoria day and then as I was walking out of the grocery store parking lot this guy yelled out his car window, “you too fine to be walking by yo self,” and I know a lot of y’all hate cat calls but that was exactly what I needed just now.

Protestors: let’s burn some waymos Me: Wait you guys at least read @chenoweth.bsky.social’s book— Protestors (burning another Waymo): !!!!

Y’all, I’ve been trying to attend my local (Alameda County, CA) Democratic Party meetings for months now. Today I showed up in person and it’s behind a locked gate at the local Teamsters. In the Zoom, they won’t admit you unless you’re a member. How does someone actually join this organization?

Deporting gay people to Russia is inhumane.

That would be awful. Don’t share this.

Talking about economic issues does not have to come at our expense. You don’t have to step on us to fix the Democratic Party; you just need to actually address the economic insecurity people have been feeling while oligarchs took over our country (not a new thing, started three decades ago).

There it is

I actually think the main goal here is to own the libs, but that doesn’t make this any less of an act of violence against the public — NOT the libs, but the public itself.

Can’t believe RFK restricting covid vaccines isn’t even breaking through as trending on Bsky. Y’all did hear about this, didn’t you? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/h...

I truly believe that Bsky is the answer to the autocracy-promoting, oligarchic media ecosystem we have today. www.wired.com/story/big-in...

Hot take: the jet isn’t news, isn’t truly a bribe. It won’t be ready in time to be used as AF1. Trump won’t keep; it’ll go to the Trump Presidential Library. Honestly, it seems more like a trade deal, given Qatar’s purchase of 200 jets. They mean to distract you from budget reconciliation.

My reading list this year so far: Erica Chenoweth on the 3.5% rule and civil resistance, Ezra Klein on abundance, Anne Applebaum (Autocracy, Inc.), and now Masha Gessen on the rise of Putin in Russia. So far everything I’ve read has been A+++.

We can’t trust the White House to appoint people who will keep us informed, safe, and healthy; RFK Jr doesn’t even believe in germ theory. 1/3

There are things every one of us can do in our daily lives to help ensure free and fair elections — and, in doing so, limit Trump’s power. Some actions are small — so small that you might dismiss them as unimportant. Don’t. Every important journey begins with a single step.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...

Biden was the first unitary executive. I don’t agree with this entire piece but there’s a lot to appreciate about it. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/o...

Some quirk of Google Maps means that anytime you search for US Forest Service campgrounds, it finds all of them, but for almost every one of them, the representative photo Maps chooses is of the vault toilet / facilities.

HHS requiring placebo arms for all vaccines is very, very bad. It means off the two trial groups in the study, one entire group will be unprotected. This is highly unethical. 1/

I have once again come home to my roommates trying to do a principle components analysis on food (they’ve so far narrowed it down to all food items being either soup, cake, salad, or dumple; though I think a Nobel will go to the person who classifies banana successfully).

Protect the other dolls

Protect the other dolls

"Part of me wanted to immigrate to Canada, and then I just felt so cowardly. Like, You can’t just run away and leave. You have to fight. If the tracker continues to gain notoriety, I’m gonna probably fall on somebody’s radar. But I believe courage is contagious. "

“Let them eat cake” vibes www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/u...

This is a neat project and I really think if we’re going to get out of our current constitutional crisis we’re going to have to do it by repairing bridges between the left and right. thefulcrum.us/bridging-com...

Lots of people coughing on my flight just now. Must be another COVID spike. Time to get vaccinated again, I guess.

We’ve put an actual sadistic sociopath in charge of DHHS

I think I’m going to write Chuck Schumer a strongly worded letter about the insufficiency of his strongly worded letter— wait, no, let’s just primary him

If members of the press are worried they didn’t give enough coverage to the cognitive decline of a sitting president, they have an amazing opportunity to make up for it right now.

Why isn’t the media talking about Trump falling asleep at the Pope’s funeral, or any of the other dementia behaviors that they crucified Joe Biden over?