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You are not worried enough about this

Sooner or later, we're ALL going to be Kilmar Abrego Garcia

Windycon attendees, you outdid yourselves! 🎉 Thanks to your generosity, we raised $1,826 in monetary donations from the art auction, bar, gaming, and charity table. But that’s not all—we also collected roughly $1,000 in clothing donations to support Brave Space Alliance’s free store,.

'That’s one hell of an “administrative error.”' Yup.

After months of planning (and way too much caffeine), the moment has arrived. Windycon51's theme: Rise of the Machines
A warning
A challenge
A vision of the future.

#Windycon #RiseOfTheMachines

It might seem crazy that so many left-wing thought leaders—and even entire media brands, such as the Guardian—would walk away from huge followings on X in exchange for a relatively tiny audience of like-minded souls on Bluesky. (The site’s total user base is well under a tenth of X’s global following.) But the move made sense as an expression of the left’s growing hypersensitivity to ideas leftists find offensive. Having emerged from the intersectional hothouses of academia, many progressives today view policy disputes through a therapeutic lens: They see themselves—and the marginalized groups they claim to speak for—as victims of trauma. The solution to that trauma is not rigorous debate. Quite the opposite; they need protection. Exposure to dangerous speech could threaten their mental stability. So progressives now treat opposing ideas not as errors that need to be rebutted with facts, but as dangerous contagions that must be quarantined.

Thought I'd seen the dumbest, most ignorant take on Bluesky last year, but I was wrong. This person is living in a world that only exists in their own mind.

As far as I can tell, the author is not even on Bluesky, so they've just fantasized what must be happening here.

Anyway I just sent a fax to my senator.

faxzero.com/fax_senate.php

👀

SETH MOULTON TELLING SCHUMER TO GET A SPINE. IMAGINE WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO TO MAKE THAT SENTENCE HAPPEN.

WTF, Chuck?!

CALLS ARE WORKING - it has bought us precious time, but we NEED to keep the pressure up.

Tomorrow is the cloture vote.

KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️

Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill.

Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.

Every time Kim Davis loses things, an angel gets its wings.

Opinion | Rep. Al Green set the bar for Democrats. Most of them failed to meet it. As the country has watched Trump and his appointees reshape American government in less than 50 days, the demands that Democrats fight back have grown increasingly louder.

www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not) While political reporters are still doing their view-from-nowhere “Democrats say this, Republicans say that” dance, tech and legal journalists have been watching an unfortunately recogn…

Wrote up something about Techdirt's recent coverage, and why (whether we like it or not) we need to be a "democracy blog" now, rather than just a "tech" blog (not that we've ever been just a tech blog).

This story is *the* story and it impacts everything else.

www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...

Musk Leverages His Unelected Non-Existent Authority And Expertise To Steal $2 Billion FAA Contract From Verizon The first Trump FCC tried to give Musk nearly a billion dollars to deliver expensive Starlink access to some traffic medians and airport parking lots. The Biden FCC clawed back most of th…

www.techdirt.com/2025/02/28/m...

YouTube video by Parkrose Permaculture Hit Them In the Pocketbook

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YouTube video by Resistor Vic light a fire

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YouTube video by Resistor Vic A Contract For America

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The 24-Hour Reality Check: Musk’s Impossible Power Grab And America’s Crisis There are twenty-four hours in a day. This isn’t a matter of political opinion or technological disruption—it’s as immutable as the fact that two plus two equals four. No amount of geni…

If you want a long, but very thorough, read on just how crazy dangerous the situation is with Elon, @brockm.bsky.social has laid it all out in a single article. Please read it.

www.techdirt.com/2025/02/05/t...

I worked indirectly for Hayden at NSA and in other capacities during my service. He was always a stand up guy and I trust what he says.

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I am proud to own a piece!

learned a great phrase that applies, a long time ago.
"Appropriate technology"
Consider what you need based on it's use, not because there's something new.

This really grabbed me artistically. Your skin tone against that mottled background is a wonderful contrast. The composition is great too. Thank you.

have always said Chicagoland. People understand that a lot better than Schaumburg

That Rocks!

Does someone have a "Days without seeing JD Vance anywhere" site somewhere?

GOP FTC Commissioners Abuse “Free Speech” Rhetoric To Push For Government Control Over Online Speech In a disturbing (if unsurprising) trend, Republican FCC and FTC commissioners are deliberately misusing “free speech” rhetoric in an Orwellian attempt to justify government intervention…

Today I wrote about an FTC Commissioner's batshit crazy statements arguing that the FTC can punish any social media company that doesn't follow Elon's lead in how it moderates. Also it can punish advertisers for not advertising on X.

www.techdirt.com/2024/12/06/g...

True. It's caused by the Coriyodel effect.

This image is incredibly compelling. Great work.