🔥SEN. charlane oliver : “Nashville, we have a problem… this isn’t just about a stupid tunnel. It’s about who this city/state works for… Dems are not equipped to fight authoritarianism.”
Elon’s tunnel is the Epstein class exploiting minority communities (again) open.substack.com/pub/charlane...
A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔
A new Super PAC, "Chicago Progressive Partnership," just jumped into #IL09, opposing Kat Abughazaleh. Filings show they’re using the same vendors as AIPAC.
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🛢️: https://www.al.com/news/mobile/2026/02/almost-all-of-conecuh-national-forest-in-alabama-now-open-for-oil-and-gas-drilling.html??utm_campaign=aldotcom_sf&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
Opening the forest to oil and gas leasing was strongly criticized by environmental advocacy groups.
In 2025, Meta paid an effective federal tax rate of 3.5% — its lowest on record.
Meanwhile, Meta is pumping $65 million into elections this year to boost AI friendly candidates.
Trickle-down economics isn't just a hoax, it's corrosive to democracy.
Big Money is the root of our dysfunction.
Me: "The lab computer is in single user mode this morning!"
IT: "OK, click the 'switch user' button in the corner..."
This is why we don’t give up.
Whole Foods AI stores were entirely Indians watching on video feeds and ringing you up. Waymos have live human support partially driving them. And the AI that has “Hollywood shaking in its boots” is…stock footage. With face replacement.
Yeah. We are sooooooo cooked, AI bros. Call me when it works.
A new proposal from the U.S. National Forest Service would open almost all of the Conecuh National Forest to oil and gas leasing, jeopardizing some of the last remaining longleaf pine forest ecosystem in the country, advocates say.
2/ Here are the CBC announcers watching & LISTENING to the Vance booing in real-time: bsky.app/profile/jule...
In my district, a kid was suspended for pointing a finger at another kid and saying "bang," in a joking way, not in a Don Corleone way. Cue pearl-clutching and "Terroristic threat" charge.
A federal judge has paused for now the Trump administration's termination of Temporary Protected Status for more than 350,000 Haitians. The status, known as TPS, allows holders to live and work in the US and was set to expire after Tuesday. https://cnn.it/4qd9Rl0
Call the piece of legislation that ultimately abolishes ICE the Pretti-Good Act
It’s Penguin Awareness Day which seems like a great excuse to post the greatest ever Wikipedia edit.
A Harpers Weekly engraving from 1869 depicting Uncle Sam's Thanksgiving Dinner as described in the main text of this skeet. There are also images of Lincoln, Washington, and Grant on the wall.
How Republicans commemorated Thanksgiving in 1869--with a multi-racial/multi-ethnic gathering of people at a table with a centerpiece celebrating universal suffrage and self-government, and with an engraving of Castle Garden, the pre-Ellis Island point of disembarkation for immigrants.
Alt-text: A moody, painterly scene of a ghostly older man with wild white hair and a thick mustache sitting at a dimly lit bar. His translucent blue form fades into mist around the edges, giving full “between worlds” energy. He’s dressed in an old-fashioned suit with a bow tie, one spectral hand resting on the counter while the other holds a glass of amber liquor. Behind him, rows of dark bottles line the brick wall. Above everything glows a red neon sign reading LIMBO, casting warm light over the otherwise cool, eerie palette—like a cosmic dive bar for souls on layover. Generated with Bluesky AltText, a CustomGPT.
1/ The ghost emerges forth from the etherial neon haze, clutching today’s headlines like they were a stack of overdue bar tabs, and declares: “Well, well. Another day in the Republic of Unfinished Business.”
Is AI inherently bad? Of course not.
The question is: WHO controls it & for what purpose?
Does anyone believe that the richest people on Earth are investing hundreds of billions in AI to improve life for ordinary people, eliminate poverty & solve global warming?
I doubt it.
Alt-text: In a lush, moonlit forest painted with storybook detail, a joyful procession of woodland creatures parades forward. A possum marches upright with three babies clinging to its back, carrying a lantern on a pole. A bat swoops overhead, wings spread wide. A black cat plays a wooden flute while walking on hind legs. A toad in a tiny red party hat perches beside a snail, and another toad dances enthusiastically while clutching a four-leaf clover. Fireflies, butterflies, mushrooms, and thick old trees frame the scene. Bright yellow text reads: “If you are seeing this, the curse is lifted. Have a good day.” The whole image feels like a whimsical folk-tale blessing breaking through the undergrowth. Generated with Bluesky AltText, a CustomGPT.
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Feeling spicy might delete but I used to work with Chuck Schumer's eldest daughter, and when she was getting ready to go to Yale Law she was dissatisfied with her financial aid package so she made them do a three way call (at the office) with her and her dad to push for a better package
Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student
I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections
A parody of the Gadsden flag: bright yellow background with a coiled snake in the shape of an ouroboros, biting its own tail. The snake rests on a patch of green grass. Instead of the usual "DON’T TREAD ON ME," the caption below reads in bold black letters: "OOPS, I TREADED ON MYSELF." Generated with Bluesky AltText, a CustomGPT.
It’s important to see Trump’s occupation of Washington, D.C., as a trial run for a possible military occupation of the United States, including martial law, later in his term. I suspect he’s most interested in learning six things... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-trial-run
I could give a long list of major bungles the US could have avoided if we'd had more people trained in the relevant languages. The Iran hostage crises would a typical example.
KESSLER: “Why I left the Washington Post… like being on the Titanic, drifting aimlessly as it sank with not enough lifeboats…”
An editor asked him: “How do we appeal more to Fox News viewers”? 🤔
The fact-checker’s reply: “We have to tell the truth.” glennkessler.substack.com/p/why-i-left...
"If there’s no investigation, no charges pending, and the family is OK with it, why can’t the body cam footage be made public?"
No, Donald, people are saying “Release the PEDO FILES,” not “Release the PEDOPHILES.”
