shelly jay shore (she/they)

Insurrectionist Brunch: Trumpists plotted to deploy military on U.S. soil Before the 2024 election, a cadre of MAGA loyalists met over brunch to plot ways for Trump to use the military domestically.

This is just astonishingly great reporting.

All of the crises the White House has claimed over the last 14 months were planned in advance. All of them.

And however much contempt you have for media outlets who reverently relayed Trump's claim to have no relation to Project 2025, it isn't enough.

Banning AI for primary school children is FAR more necessary than banning social media for under-16s.

seriously if you tried to sell a book with these kinds of people as villains you’d get thrown out of the slush pile for being too heavy-handed

the best thing anyone will ever write about sam altman is his obituary

I hate that as a culture we from upon critical thinking and then flatten both cultures and religions to the most basic points the concept of intersectionality is non existent

how is there not like. ONE secret service agent with a sense of moral responsibility

sorry am i the only person not doing the “this is the person who” baby pictures trend because i don’t want to feed my childhood face into facial recognition algorithms? i thought we all knew this was shady? did i miss a memo???

I use Gemini when I'm bored — and it's better than doomscrolling It became my ultimate distraction

WHAT IF YOU JUST READ A FUCKING BOOK

“Why do you want to shit on entire swathes of human endeavor and wreck the planet while you’re doing it? Why are you so determined to be awful and amoral? Everything about your priorities is messed up, and you should all be heartily ashamed, abashed and embarrassed.”

If you’re roughly my age, it’s wild to reflect on the optimism for the future Americans felt when Obama was elected — young Americans spontaneously took to the streets to celebrate! — and contrast with what we face today. The falloff over the past 18 years is hard to process.

Why isn’t Elizabeth Warren the Senate Minority Leader?

A couple of women expressed their opinions on and through video games 10 years ago and male nerds got so upset that we now have to deal with a war in Iran.

oh good i was worried it was white supremacy and capitalism

SO excited for this book. Ami has been an incredible thinker and writer on this topic. And the idea of this book sounds essential for this moment.

You average normie Democrat in 2026 loves AOC, wants to abolish ICE, and thinks Israel shouldn’t get another penny from us.

It’s laughable how out of touch centrist consultants and politicians are.

I know people are very sensitive about the use of the word “genocide” but the attempts to medically eliminate trans children is very clearly meets the standard because they are trying to eliminate a population and also they know some of those kids are going to kill themselves

Every time a woman runs for president I hear that she’s too emotional and unstable to make wartime decisions, unlike the men in charge who make really reasonable decisions like bombing kids to death, starting water wars, and poisoning the entire planet

Renee Good was shot in the head, autopsy commissioned by her family finds Renee Good was shot three times and grazed a fourth time during the Jan. 7 encounter with an ICE officer, according to findings released by her family's attorneys.

1/The failure to investigate Renee Good’s death at all is ongoing scandal. The independent autopsy suggests that Renee Good was still alive after the first shot; it was the third shot that killed her, www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news....

The problem with Mullin isn't that he doesn't have a Bachelor's Degree. Lots of very smart people don't have Bachelor's Degrees. And I'd even say you can be smart enough to run a government department without one.

The problem with Mullin is that he's an evil fascist.

a public utility does not need to turn a profit. this is intentional.

I continue to be gobsmacked at 1) how common this formulation is 2) how antisemitic and generally bigoted it is 3) and how for all the talk of anti-semitism this is never cited as an example even though it’s quite literally the original incarnation.

You won't be able
to fix it all.
You will be able
to love.

- Helms Jarrell

this post deserves to be presented to you by having an index card moved down word by word with photos taken of your face after every new reveal

Myths activate something very deep in our subconscious. If you want to make people behave a certain way, convince them that they are living out one of these archetypal myths. Even if a myth isn't literally true, its consequences can be.

But we have the power to write a different narrative.

Script if you need it:

I’m calling to tell Representative ____ to oppose H.R. 7661. This bill would pressure schools to remove titles that discuss lived experiences that some politicians find controversial. I don’t think trans people are controversial. (contin)

Sex Workers Tried to Warn Us About Age Verification Laws | KQED Requiring internet users to verify their ages before accessing mature content may sound reasonable. Shouldn’t we be doing a better job protecting kids from online vulgarities? But free speech advocate...

"Sex Workers Tried to Warn Us About Age Verification Laws." We did not listen.

Congress Is Considering Abolishing Your Right to Be Anonymous Online The bipartisan push to remove anonymity from the internet is ushering in an era of unprecedented mass surveillance and censorship.

"Stripping anonymity from the internet would constitute one of the most sweeping rollbacks of civil rights in recent history. It would allow for unprecedented levels of mass surveillance and censorship, endangering the most marginalized members of society."

[ben affleck smoking meme intensifies]

[Exit Murderer.]

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