Lisa Hanson

1/Trump’s Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, seems interested in making women 2nd class citizens. A tweet he posted late last week isn’t getting nearly enough attention. In any other administration, there would have been swift calls for his resignation. Here, mostly crickets.

This is a BIG DEAL. @housedemocrats.bsky.social and @democrats.senate.gov need to come back to D.C. and stand united to denounce this abuse of power. This cannot be business as usual.

Just saw someone call the military occupation of DC a distraction, and that’s it, the it’s a distraction people have lost it. We should wait until the bulldozer is running over your house and all chime in with “isn’t there something else we should be talking about”

Exclusive: Foot traffic down 9% at American Eagle following Sydney Sweeney ad controversy Traffic fell for both weeks since the campaign dropped, per Pass_by

NEW: Foot traffic fell 9% y/o/y at American Eagle stores for the week that began August 3, marking the 2nd week of traffic declines since the retailer launched its controversial campaign featuring actor Sydney Sweeney

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Somebody said the other day — was it @warren.senate.gov? That in our society, the poor get punishments, the rich get incentives.

Don’t let this die. Keep elevating this.

The AI “girlfriend” is the same thing

They won’t go through the trouble of getting to know a human woman so they hatch up the end goal

Something that I have been thinking about with attribution of "PhD level intelligence" or "PhD level expertise" to a machine is that it reflects an increasing trend among these AI bros and their sycophants to want the products of highly skilled training without actually doing any of the work.

The treatment is to GET THE VACCINE. I am going to lose my mind.

Headline: Debating Dickheads doesn’t ‘expose’ them, it empowers them. Thumbnail: Mehdi Hasan debating a fascist on Jubilee, and The Feed posting a video called “Men Debate ‘Body Count’”

Wrote an article for @theshot.net.au about ‘debate content’, how it’s terrible for society and why we need to stop indulging in it.

“Ultimately, if debating dickheads worked, we wouldn’t be in a situation where dickheads are making the world a worse place.”

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As someone else said, some American company is surely working on a way to automatically triple prices in a natural disaster. "Surge pricing," you know.

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

Just spitballing here, but cryptobros throwing sex toys at WNBA players on the court and other cryptobros and male sports commentators calling it funny and telling the women and their coaches to 'lighten up' both explains the 'male loneliness epidemic' and why I don't care about it.

Eight bat researchers mostly from Asia and Africa refused entry into Australia to attend global scientific event Organisers say move will damage nation’s scientific standing as government refuses to comment on why group of scientists were refused entry

The unwarranted denial of travel visas for 8 respected international bat researchers was a shameful and embarrassing start to the International Bat Research Conference in Cairns. Well done to the ABS and Guardian for highlighting it

@ibrc2025.bsky.social

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US to rewrite its past national climate reports US President Donald Trump's administration is revising past editions of the nation's premier climate report -- its latest move to undermine the scientific consensus on human-caused global warming.

The Trump administration has announced that the US will rewrite past climate reports, in a clear attempt to erase scientific history and undermine the consensus on human-caused climate change.

Chicago hospitals are scaling back trans care for youth. A rapid response team is stepping in. The team has a network of practitioners in Illinois who don’t rely on payments from the federal government, which threatens to cut funding to gender-affirming care providers.

While some providers are willing to bow to the Trump administration's threats, some are pushing back. In Illinois, doctors are organizing a rapid response network of providers to help trans people get care. www.wbez.org/gender-ident...

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered…Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”

- 1984, George Orwell

Research bears this out over & over: Interpersonal conversation is the *most effective* form of political communication to persuade and mobilize action.

Guess what vulnerable demographic is most likely to have no immunity to COVID, due to having had no previous exposure to the virus or previous vaccination.

You know that classic Edward Hopper painting evoking isolation and despair? We used AI to make it look terrible for no reason

I too am wondering WHY THE FUCK THE AI ADDED A ROW OF MADE UP PRESIDENTS??

why are there presidents???

A Copilot session with a prompt asking to draw the Mona Lisa as a 19th Century American woman next to a covered wagon. The results include four random pictures of presidents at the bottom.

The full image, in all its glory.

omfg I did it and the results (from Copilot, using GPT5) are a spectacular train wreck.

ok, chatgpt, do the mona lisa but have her dressed as a tradwife and standing next to a covered wagon.

> @fritschner.bsky.social 🤡

Trump about to give Neville Chamberlain a run for his money.

Nobody Cares White Supremacists Are Calling the Shots Now Darren Beattie, a speechwriter for Trump early during his first term, posted the following in October 2024, a month before Trump would win re-election: “Competent white men must be in charge if you wa...

"Whether this or that apparatchik is personally racist is wholly irrelevant: the admin and its allies are actively and intentionally handing over political power to racists so they can enact racist policy. What is shocking is how transparent this all is, and how little anyone seems to care."

U.S. Air Force to deny early retirement benefits to some transgender service members The U.S. Air Force said Thursday it would deny all transgender service members who have served between 15 and 18 years the option to retire early and would instead separate them without retirement ben...

This is so breathtakingly cruel that my soul glitched. I’m never surprised by the depths of depravity, per se, but having to process it still exacts an emotional cost.

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Didn’t want to believe this was true. It’s true.

World War II pro-American propaganda.