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going to eat french fries with cheese and possibly with gravy in solidarity

does any thing normal ever happen any more is every thing just fuckin insane i am just asking

NEW—In late Feb, Chris Rufo published leaked chats between queer/trans employees at US intel agencies. Then Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said she’d fire all involved. I spoke to chat members who were fired, are on admin leave, and who kept their jobs about the new lavender scare:

Update on this. Apparently the bill just passed the House... 409-2. So, uh, yeah. A ton of Dems just gave the Trump FTC more power to censor the internet. Great job guys.

Again, they're trying to take away our vaccines. From the head of the FDA, a gross misrepresentation of the annual process of updating a proven vaccine to target new disease strains. His plan would make it impossible to get seasonal flu and Covid shots, and of course he knows this.

Sorry I can’t do my chores I am SUPER busy right now

Newsletter: I am sick and god damn tired of everybody pretending that generative AI is the next big thing. The media is complicit in accepting fantastical nonsense - both in the numbers put out by OpenAI and the silly jobs created by Anthropic - and it has to stop. www.wheresyoured.at/reality-check/

This is what leadership from an athlete looks like

Make no mistake. That Guantanamo memo CBS recently reported on is a blueprint to torture migrants without ever having to directly, explicitly approve torture. Here’s why.

One of the funniest things about the oligarch group chats story is the implication that the story leaked now due to the chats falling apart from Trump tarriffs. Like people are getting disappeared and the president's son is "joking" about no elections in 2028 but it was tarriffs that triggered them

Again "treason" isn't a term meaning "disagreeing with the president."

Fuck yeah, Canada! Thanks for being a good neighbor

The current political system works for our elected officials' job security, but doesn't work for actually improving their voters' lives. We need to be encouraging competitive primaries everywhere so Americans can get the leadership we actually deserve:

"I never thought unitary executive theory would be used against me" chuckles Chief Justice Roberts, as he is led away in handcuffs.

today is Terry Pratchett's birthday, or would be if he hadn't been taken from us far too soon his writing was funny, and profound, and above all a joy to read, and I am a better person for it here's a thread I wrote about Discworld, and why you should read it too GNU Terry Pratchett

congratulations to Donald Trump on losing the Canadian election

Update - the actual text of the EO seems to indicate that the “This mechanism shall include the use of private sector pro-bono assistance for such law enforcement officers” refers to legal representation (aka the private firms he strong armed) and will likely be used to protect bad cops.

starting a group chat for thousandnaires where we're not cringe

even the americans who voted for the guy who promised the benefits of higher tariffs???

NEW: The Second Circuit halts Rümeysa Öztürk's physical transfer from Louisiana to Vermont until a 3-judge panel has the chance to hear arguments on the govt's emergency motion next Tuesday, May 6. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

ever get the feeling andré 3000's flute album came out like ten years ago

why is this in the Master and Commander font

Katsas voting this way is big news... and very unexpected.

incredible, he's actually going down, what a perfect end to the night how much is Poilievre cursing Trump out right now, he's got to be fucking livid

"My bunker is well stocked. It's on you if you didn't plan ahead."

we have reached the third exclamation point

And this is where the Brownshirts become state-sanctioned

My skin crawls whenever I see that he's used the word "cherished" again.

what phase of fascism is arresting reverends and judges

Mark Carney has a unique opportunity to remake Canada in ways his predecessors would’ve struggled to find the political capital to do. I hope he takes advantage to build ambitious, nation-building projects to bring the country together again and get serious about reducing our dependence on the US.

I don’t know what’s more embarrassing, the misaligned top “dogefather” part, the fact “dogefather” looks like a German word for dogfucker, the horribly misaligned bottom 69420 part, or the fact this looks like the same leather my high school wallet was made out of

I lost a close college friend, a cousin, and three whole extended families from my coming out facebook post

i really fundamentally disagree with this. people do really earnestly believe heinous shit! indoctrination often works! they're scarier because they *do* believe so fervently.

Welp, guess now we get to see which way the military falls when it comes to keeping democracy alive

But the real threat to national security is trans employees talking about gender-affirming care.

Can't have cancer if no one's looking for it.

wow. this post is a reaction to a dunk in a basketball game i saw a couple days ago but forgot to post at the time. better late than never

The worst part is the pilot had just put his coffee thermos on the roof of the jet

Congratulations and thank you, Canada! In your honor, the Heritage Minute celebrating the Canadian co-invention of Superman 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦

Or, hear me out, the bill is an unconstitutional censorial mess that Trump himself has promised to abuse to take down content he doesn't like. Multiple experts offered to help you fix the bill and you ignored them all. This makes you a part of the problem.

Take It Down Act is a total censorial mess. And yet, a ton of "progressive" Dems are supporting it, even as it will enable the highly politicized and weaponized FTC to go after websites and demand content be removed from the internet. www.techdirt.com/2025/04/28/c...

well the conservatives ate shit in a Canadian election they should have won by double digits and I got to fireball some kobolds in my D&D game tonight pretty good evening all around

went to see "sinners" and caught a preview for marvel's "thunderbolts," which looks like it was made for a world that ended a decade ago and was sold with a pitch like "hey, do you wanna watch a tv dinner?"

Congrats to Donald Trump for having such a profound influence on the Canadian election.

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We’re not shopping at Target—11 straight weeks of decreasing foot traffic. Meanwhile, our coalition is growing and we’re getting stronger. www.huffpost.com/entry/target...

Also, I compare how The Free Press covered the (misleading-to-false) story of the Biden admin "censoring" social media, to how they handled the (leaked directly to them) very real censorship attack on Wikipedia by Ed Martin. Spoiler: there are some differences. www.techdirt.com/2025/04/28/g...

Acquiescence is a choice. So is being brave.

ok i give up. are canadians voting for a new pope

It is utterly ghoulish how often Homan defaults to mentioning Riley in defense of his fascistic behavior.

my man tariffs with China are at 145% trade is over you can make them 1000% you can make them eleventy billion percent you can ban goods entirely it doesn't matter, nobody's shipping anything either way

Remember when in March of 2020 Trump said he didn't want to test people for COVID because he liked the numbers the way they were? That, but for climate.

its Gamer Monday with "Blue Prince" Live On Stream twitch.tv/piss

apparently woke was keeping planes in the air and out of the ocean, we should bring back the woke planes who know where they belong

the task force www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

If more people decline face scans, TSA might rethink “whether it’s actually effective to roll out programs like these,” EFF’s Saira Hussain told @huffpost.com. Without pushback, they're "just going to keep instituting more and more invasive techniques.”

we really should have stopped clowning on george lucas for wooden dialogue and asked him to put down the lathe of heaven

It’s honestly great to see so many great candidates emerging across the country and even several in the race for Michigan’s open Senate seat alone! We need more awesome people running against each other in competitive primaries. This is how democracy should work.

we're going to need severe consequences for everyone involved if we ever get out of this mess but sending the DOGE assholes to jail for the damage they've done to this country is near the top of the list

“The new charge would be a class B misdemeanor and apply if someone wears a mask or covers their face with the intent of concealing their identity while committing a class A misdemeanor or felony or immediately fleeing the scene” They’re, of course, hanging this on Jews (WHO DO NOT WANT THIS)

everyone's got their own personal slop genre and revenge movies are mine "<insert character here> goes on a murderous rampage against <group who wronged him>" don't even care how you fill in the blanks, I'm there with bells on, let's fucking go

Silly me, thinking I'd fact-check @theonion.com

Traveling this summer? Take safety with you!

From the FTC v. Meta trial.... Judge eviscerates reply guys, generally. "He doesn't care" 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭

this is almost as many mugshots as you'd get if you lined the street opposite with pictures of republican pedophiles

it’s very comforting to know that Americans actually are the stupidest rich-country voters, in a weird way

If you see your Senator’s name on this list, call them at (202) 224-3121 and ask them how voting for Trump appointments is “fighting back” Flood their phones. Let ‘em know.

they have in fact so thoroughly ensconced themselves in their own horrible bubble that they’re convinced normal people with consciences aren’t real people, and anyone who expresses outrage must be on someone’s payroll this is why their optics are so bad, they don’t think the opposition is real

Tried to get a photo of the sliver of a moon out there tonight.

Bro, the US is locking up foreigners for writing op-eds

New from 404 Media: the age of realtime deepfake fraud is here. Scammers in Nigeria are using realtime deepfakes to change their race, facial hair, gender, more to appear as someone else on video calls. Results very realistic now. Also tricking verification systems www.404media.co/the-age-of-r...

to the hague for this alone

If you reduce protests against the ethnic cleansing in Gaza to "anti Semitism" you will get the quickest block from me. Few things have made Jews as unsafe or been more of an insult to our values than knee jerk support for the Netanyahu government.

Just an astonishingly empty paragraph, fully accepting everything that OpenAI wants them to, even as it screams "this isn't going to make them any money for their money-losing company."

After this election, we need to start a campaign to get the Canadian government and public institutions like the CBC off US cloud services like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.

I’ll be honest; I am pleased with this kicker. wapo.st/44ce0i3

Went on Twitter and immediately saw this guy pop up and closed the app

We're in this mess in large part because the media, led by the New York Times, spent two years telling us the most important issues were high prices and the president being old as hell. Glad we solved all that!

NEW: Researchers secretly ran a massive, unauthorized AI persuasion experiment on Reddit users in a large debate subreddit. The bots' answers mined the original posters' identity and post history to generate its answers & created identities such as "rape survivor" www.404media.co/researchers-...

(turning peppermill of cortisol) say when

DOGE now involved in conducting criminal probes “The U.S. Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) assisted in this investigation.” www.justice.gov/usao-ndny/pr...

One challenge Canada's conservatives were unable to overcome is that it is hard to maintain a message of "Canada first" while also being aligned with the guy that wants to eliminate Canada as a country. Opposition to Trump helps liberals claim the mantle of patriotism outside the US.

Now is the time to stand up against the Trump administration as it tries to bully the cybersecurity community by targeting Chris Krebs. Sign on to our open letter: www.eff.org/press/releas...

born too early for 💀, born too late for LOL, forced to 😭

devastated and excited to learn the internet has implemented this

Hey @radleybalko.bsky.social, going to assume you have some thoughts about this executive order: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

It'll be interesting to see which mainstream media outlets treat this obvious bit of garbage as legitimate and scientifically rigorous.

Democrats still not understanding that handing this administration new powers to silence voices they don't like is a bad idea... I really don't get it.

Jose and his coworkers are hard at work in the lettuce fields of Salinas CA. They are weeding the lettuce field removing the grass with a hoe. Jose shares: My legs are tired at the end of the day as these rows are very long and I must walk all day long to do this work. #WeFeedYou

Pobody's Nerfect! We all make mistakes. Live and let live

THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO DONATED!!! We raised enough money to cover our first month of rent!!! (And if you haven't received your Heater, I will get to it later today, I promise!)

Moved to US as a child, cares for a chronically ill son who is a US citizen, had drug offenses from almost 20 years ago when she was an addict. Sister: “She has a criminal past, but she’s not a criminal. She’s a person with a painful past.”

this is the only way we’re referring to chris rufo now

Not loving the ableism around Gerry Connolly and how having cancer should have prevented him getting his job. There are lots of things to criticize about how this went down, but let’s be careful about how we talk about people with chronic illness and their worth to society and ability to contribute

If TX passes SB 2880, the bill would make it illegal to “provide information” on how to obtain an abortion-inducing drug. Texas legislators not only want to make sure no one can start a discussion on abortion pills, they also want to make sure no one can find one.

Canada, we have to talk this whole “liberals are red and conservatives are blue” thing is deeply confusing

1. Can you figure out where I was standing when I took this picture? ChatGPT could. Given the photograph (scrubbed of all header information), the new chain of thought model, ChatGPT o.3, was able to pinpoint the location with a few meters.

I think the best thing one could say about this phase of his life is “is this a bit?”