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THIS NIGHTMARE WILL BE IN FULL COLOR

😐 So ICE can get student loan forgiveness...

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller July 30,1945

If you alternate between these two opinions at a rapid enough rate you arrive at our stable majority pseudo-opinion that there should be infinite cops that aren’t expected to do anything at all

If the starvation of civilians in Gaza horrifies you, please call your US senators and demand they vote in favor of Sanders' resolutions to block weapons transfers to the Israeli government. Find your reps here: reps.fyi

Just replace "superintelligence" with "total surveillance" when you read this note and you will understand exactly what these clowns want to do to you.

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller July 29,1955

Please, please, please call your senators and tell them to vote this. Find your reps here: reps.fyi

You are not being snubbed, people find AI usage unethical and harmful.

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller July 30,1947

Twitter is a safety hazard. Delete it if you can. I bet you can! Also, abolish "A.i." as much as you can from every aspect of your life and community/

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller July 30,1946

Fritzi Ritz By Ernie Bushmiller October 14,1938 *Indian Sign: In this context as it is referring to a contest, it is saying that Spider Brown has the advantage over Sluggo , other meanings can be a hex or curse, can be considered offensive

You really didn't have to though. It's an extremely easy thing not to do.

It is interesting how often genAI haters are framed as petulant, flippant, or intellectually conservative; as if our anger comes from some childish, egotistical, uninformed place and not stoked by watching our professions and ideals go up in flames.

I'm muting or possibly blocking anyone who maliciously tries to start or deepen in-fighting between "liberals" and "the left." I'm also blocking anyone who says we should throw trans people (or immigrants, or the unhoused, or or or) under the bus to win elections.

Murderbot: Still cute. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Between this and the news that Vought has stopped the NIH from issuing any more grants this year — (illegally) refusing to spend money that Congress has allocated — we're getting a glimpse of what could be a really ugly future for higher ed and science / technology in the US. And it's coming fast.

please let me be rich instead of whoever built this house, I would be so much better at having money

Four Democratic state reps in NC have sided with Republicans to override vetoes by Gov. Josh Stein on half a dozen bills, including one that rolls back a measure to fight climate change. Their names: • Cecil Brockman • Carla Cunningham • Nasif Majeed • Shelley Willingham

MOD DANCE WEDNESDAY

30 Jul 25 -- Trans troops in required class for mustering out of the military told to scratch out words "pronoun, gender, diversity and inclusion" from the workbooks they had been issued. Yes they're really _this_ petty. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Please call your US reps tomorrow morning and tell them to cut off funding for Israel until it institutes an immediate ceasefire and allows an unhindered, massive flow of food and aid into Gaza. Find your reps here: reps.fyi

i'd love it if people stopped treating trans kids like they can be little Omelas, as a treat

Another Ivy buries itself by capitulating to fascism.

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller July 30,1948

In 2008, when Justice Scalia (joined by Thomas, Alito, Roberts & Kennedy) overturned a century of Second Amendment jurisprudence in Heller, holding that the 2nd Amendment guarantees an “individual right” not a “militia right”, I warned he would have blood on his hands. Yesterday was the latest.

When I hear about UCLA making this settlement today, I keep thinking of UCLA failing to stop this mob attacking pro-Palestinian demonstrators for hours and hours in May 2024. www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/...

🚨 WE'RE HAVING AN EAR SITUATION🚨

oh hey good news for mamdani

lately in my volunteer work I’ve met some very amazing Gen Zers and I love them but if one more of them says, “I wasn’t born then” just in casual conversation y’all are gonna need to post bail money

Really, really bad. And really, really mystifying in its blatant disregard for science, medicine, health, education, etc. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

I imagine a bunch of you have thought at one point or another "this fucking guy won't shut the fuck up about how evil the New York Times is"

Ahhrgarrrrasaahhhgggrrra!

Former Vice President Kamala Harris’ decision not to run has cleared the field for the many prominent Democrats looking to succeed term-limited Gov. Gavin Newsom.

I spoke to the trans woman who was assaulted at Barton Springs in Austin this weekend. Despite everything, she said that the bystander who stepped in and the support she's gotten makes her believe Austin is "a safe space for people like me." www.chron.com/culture/arti...

not the point, but this guy is 44?

Come on. This was TWO MONTHS AGO. "Cuomo flirts with New York radio station host: ‘I want to know if we have a date?’" www.msn.com/en-us/politi...

Ted Cruz out there campaigning for Mamdani instead of worrying about Texas. 🤷🏻‍♀️

pleased to report it’s over for yall

In a truly dystopian move, payment processors decide what media people are and are not allowed to purchase. Brought to you by @alyssaur.bsky.social

I love watching films [scrolling my watchlist for 45 minutes then it’s like fuck it, too late to start now]

Who in marketing thought this was a good idea?

Gritty killed Epstein

this was a loyalty test

Mamdani is so fucking smart. Wow. THIS is the discourse we need on guns, the most pernicious horror we constantly shrug at in this rapidly degrading republic.

"Knowing what we know today, and provided the field remains the same, Zohran Mamdani is the next mayor of New York City," says Amit Singh Bagga, one of the strategists behind the a new poll that sees the democratic socialist winning the mayoral race handily.

Opinion: AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH by me (related this WaPo piece by Zaid Jilani)

everyone in your eugenics group chat is The Democratic Party

The unspoken but obvious aim of establishment media is to foreclose the possibility of anything other than the status quo

Twenty-two states are suing the federal government, alleging the Trump administration is illegally blocking Medicaid funds from going to Planned Parenthood and affiliated health care providers. via @rhodeislandcurrent.com www.newsfromthestates.com/article/nero...

More in this note from @chrisgeidner.bsky.social at Law Dork: substack.com/profile/2269...

Asked whether slain Officer Didarul Islam’s family brought up his “defund the police” tweets from 2020, Zohran Mamdani replied, “none of that came up.” hellgatenyc.com/zohran-mamda...

I've run out of words

If you're in the UK and want to read about a young witch who teaches her mother magic. And about the fight against transphobia and queerphobia, going back CENTURIES. And about families, both birth families and chosen families, and how we save and forgive each other. You have until *tomorrow*.

welcome to the racist, bigoted, fascist surveillance state, fueled by Trump, "A.i.," and your favorite tech billionaires sorry no jetpacks also your home printer still sucks

If you need reasons why this is urgent, please read the last third of Lavin's book WILD FAITH. bookshop.org/p/books/wild...

Justifying denying resources to the less fit and condemning them to a quicker death... Where have I heard that before?

Hey Dem politicians: don't do this You are not just turning off young voters by saying that liberal dreams are impossible to achieve. You are stunting the imagination of your entire electorate

Please stay safe, friends in Hawai'i.

As the highest-profile Black woman in politics, Kamala Harris is not unlike many Black women now weighing if or how they will wield power in our democracy going forward.

We should have a federal anti gerrymandering law that allows no more than a 10% differential between anticipated house seat balance and the last Senate election. Ted Cruz got 53% of the vote, so Republicans should not be able to lock down more than 63% of the house seats via gerrymandering.

“We speak with one voice, guided by our collective conscience, to demand an end to the suffering and a restoration of human dignity for all.”

I'm gonna do it anyway. orbooks.com/authors/o/lu...

Cora has the story on a transphobic attack at Barton Springs in Austin over the weekend:

Look how broad minded a liberal I am haha! Agreeing with a Nazi lol. No it doesn't extend to the far left though no. Not that obviously.

pro-Epstein coverage in the NY Post when Dershowitz was representing him? huh

Overnight, West Point announced Jen Easterly, fmr CISA chair, as distinguished prof in soc sciences. MAGA types balked, b/c she was part of Deep State/Twitter Files/etc. Army Secy has now instructed West Point to rescind the job offer.

An AI-powered Library Search engine that filters controversial topics. Like "genocides" or "Tulsa race riot." aarontay.substack.com/p/the-ai-pow...

I *highly* recommend this podcast to anyone who wants to understand more about women in sports

A 7.7 foot fluctuation in water levels has been recorded as the #tsunami arrives in #Kahului, Hawaii! Note that there will be LOTS of variation over short distance. The bathymetry, or shape of sea floor, influences magnitude. Big danger in inlets, harbors etc! @matthewcappucci.bsky.social

This image of the boy was one of the ones that finally got democrats to start saying uh hold on a second. Of course these genocidal fucks have to lie about it. Can't have a single iota of sympathy breaking though.

Part of why I love watching The Weather Channel is because it means I get to watch ads aimed at 90 year olds who miss landlines

The first areas in #Hawaii that will see the #tsunami will be the northwest coast of Kauai, as that lies in the direction the waves are coming from. They will wrap around and bounce around the islands. It remains to be seen how high they will get though @ccstormwatch.bsky.social

a funny thing about NY Mag is that sometimes they run a press release for some white nonsense but then they put it behind a paywall. it's a weird strategy.

lol the times did the thing

Secretary of State Shenna Bellows has joined her elections counterparts from multiple other states who say they don't plan to comply with the Department of Justice requests for personal data on voters.

"Even from orbit, the signs of anguish and desperation were visible." gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/w...

Dems regularly win 40-45% of the vote in Texas, yet will have just 5 seats in Congress if the newly proposed maps that just came out today are put into place.

"oh snap"

This is a pretty good, nasty little story

"Some were killed in their beds. Others while playing. Many were buried before they learned to walk." Hala was 14 when she was killed. Reem was 3 when she was killed; her brother Tariq was 5. gift link: wapo.st/3IRLZn6

Me: I moved to Iowa in 2005 Gen Zer: Me too because that’s when I was born Me: Zer: 😇

A buddy who's gotten into the AI startup world just sent me a long, well-meaning text about how I *needed* to start using ChatGPT 5 as soon as it came out, because it was so effective at pumping out professional text that it was going to basically destroy the professional writing industry

"at CBS, we fire people who are too popular"

Incredibly important thread. Please read and then call your reps and demand they cut off funding for Israel until it institutes an immediate ceasefire and allows medical aid and food to flow freely. Find your reps here: reps.fyi

I regularly think about top dogs from my profession going on the record about using genAI to assist in reporting, writing, and fact-checking despite the genAI regularly commiting fireable offenses that a human assitant would not get away with. Meanwhile I have brilliant friends who are unemployed.

i love that the two people with cameras are like eeeh yeah don’t really need a picture of this guy

Emil Bove would probably look incredible animated in the Ratatouille art style

when wokeness comes back we're renaming the Austin American Statesman to the Austin American Statesthem

Well I guess bluesky needs an "AI-generated" label just like every other social media network

stop doing the “are you surprised?!?” thing or you too will get blocked

this mfer thought there was a guy named Burn Bag

Clicked on something that led to HuffPost and noticed this and friends, we really had no idea, did we.

I’ve been trying to find the humor in a lot of the bad stuff going on out there, but this is really bleak. The “rule of law” only means something if the people entrusted to enforce and interpret the law actually believe in it and agree to follow it. Actively undermining it should be disqualifying.

Creeps and cheaters.

gift link: wapo.st/3IRLZn6 🧵 Attached to this, WaPo is posting a long thread of names with some details of these children's (many of them babies) deaths; I'll RT those posts individually.

This interview is unreal, in the very specific sense that its subject is wholly detached from observable reality

Former Vice President Kamala Harris is passing on a run for California governor, she announced on Wednesday. “For now, my leadership—and public service—will not be in elected office."