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This study was:
-done by immigrant scientists, who are now being turned away from the United States by the Trump regime,
-funded by the U.S. Dept of Energy, which is being defunded and purged by the Trump regime
-hosted at a public university experiencing vast Trump regime funding freezes

Trump constantly calls for judges to be impeached. He singles them out for abuse. And today, his administration arrested two judges—one, Judge Hannah Dugan, a Wisconsinite—in what can only be called an act of political theater, calculated to intimidate.

Two NYT headlines stating the WH wants to promote more childbearing and the EPA is ending testing for chemicals that hurt children.

Two headlines in the New York Times today.

Autism and suicide... the alarming rates no one's talking about #AutismAwarenessMonth

I care less about Signal chats and more about the blacksite offshore concentration camps we're sending random people to without any semblance of a trial, so I'll be interested to see if the national media can rub their bellies and pat their heads at the same time this week. Historically they can't.

The cool part about The Onion in print is people leave them around coffee shops and workplaces. Kids steal them and bring them to school. People love this shit, which makes the staff happy, which makes the paper better, which makes business better. We consult no algorithm. We just make fun of jerks.

“Which means [those autistic people] are not going to get supports and services they need. In the Black community, autism is then seen as a behavioral issue that feeds the school-to-prison pipeline.”

Nearly 300 apply as French university offers US academics ‘scientific asylum’ Aix-Marseille University generates interest amid a US crackdown and calls for a ‘scientific refugee’ status

Nearly 300 apply as French university offers US academics ‘scientific asylum’

From The Onion: Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society

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The devious purpose behind MAGA's incessant lying Creating a fog of confusion is a feature, not a bug.

➡️ Trump and his administration tell a lie.

➡️ Right-wing media reports on the lie as fact.

➡️ Trump administration cites the reporting to substantiate the lie.

➡️ Trump sees the lie on right-wing media and thinks it's actually true.

🔄 Repeat

Been true for at least a year now, but this helpfully makes more clear

The most dangerous thing about AI chat bots is how many men with political power treat them *exactly* and unquestioningly like actual Ancient Greek oracles.

You need to read this @wired.com story by @violetblue.bsky.social

I think about this a lot when it comes to 19th and 20th century figures. Which popular “geniuses” from American history would’ve been completely exposed as lunatics coasting on wealth and privilege if they were given a 24/7 way to communicate unfiltered with the world?

“Some were neighbors”

This is the American Gestapo building the systems of control and thought that lead directly towards mass graves and thought crimes against the regime.

Fortune Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domains 11 hours ago By Chris Morris

😂

No more kings

Become an Anarchist or Forever Hold Your Peace Neither courts nor laws will suffice to halt the descent into autocracy. Massive numbers of people will have to take direct action on their own initiative—in other words, to become anarchists.

It's an error to think the point of protesting is to petition the authorities.

Donald Trump isn't a well-meaning public servant looking to represent constituents. He's a power-hungry sadist who benefits from displays of grief and impotent rage.

Today, politics a question of relations of raw force.

I think this applies even online

bluesky may be a left-wing bubble in a lot of ways but it is genuinely helpful to me to come on here and see a bunch of smart, kind, thoughtful people who are also outraged by what’s going on

it feels good to know we’re not alone

I've been wondering when they will turn the National Mall into a golf course.

"we put a 1 in the middle so we can laugh at you when you point it out"

Ten years ago if you had written a dystopian SF story in which the person in charge of U.S. public health did a press event at a fast food joint to say that fried food is good but measles vaccines cause measles the ghost of Philip K. Dick would have said that you were being too bleak and unrealistic

‘Just caught a baby wombat’: American influencer suffers backlash after viral video The hunting influencer had to privatise her accounts after posting a video where she steals a baby wombat from its distressed mother and runs away with it.

We’re just the dumbest fucking country of absolute dipshits and we deserve every bad thing that happens to us.

I'm gonna spend a boatload of money on the most visually distinct vehicle on the road, and then pretend it's a Toyota.

the conservatives that Sam Seder debated in that Jubilee video were so bad that the online right has convinced themselves that the conservatives were actually the leftists and that Sam was the conservative

lol

saw a dog alone going down geary in a waymo car, that is the most fucked up thing i have seen in a minute. big great pyrenees dog, alone in the back seat of a driverless car zipping down the road

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

If you answer yes, then I think Trump and the MAGA movement is stupid. Matters of geopolitics should not be affected by issues of fashion.

If you answered no, then I think we agree that this is just a pretense. Trump's position on Ukraine is not about clothes. And MAGA follows whatever Trump says.

Vance smiling during the moment when Brian Glenn asked his question.

As a general matter, I also dislike the idea of respectability in dress because the concept is often unevenly applied. It bothered me to see Vance smirking during this moment, as he supposedly champions the forgotten working poor who are most often shamed because of these concepts.