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really feels like housing affordability is one of the most important political issues of our time, affecting nearly every aspect of our lives, and everyday our mainstream political discourse is about whether sour cream is woke or not

One of the most pernicious pieces of bullshit is the concept of "red states" vs. "blue states". Harris got 42% of the vote in Texas. Biden 46. Clinton 43. But those people don't deserve representation, according to the GOP.

So the final tally is at least three reporters injured decently bad, myself and @acatwithnews.bsky.social also mildly injured and illegally detained, another reporter detained, 2 others transported.

Plus likely 20 arrests and god knows how many other injured. Tonight was brutal. Extremely so

Good evening, I’m out here in Los Angeles near MacArthur Park, where protestors have taken to the streets to protest the recent raids across the city, despite a TRO prohibiting them

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.

The "just did logistics" argument is literally the Eichmann defense, btw.

There is no nice, gentle way to say, “okay so a nation is, in effect, a currency, a military, and resource allocation. If you break all of those, you do not…have a country.”

I do not like the insurance emu. Every day I curse his existence. Every day!!

(nods neurodivergently)

Uncle Sam poster refers to Miami V-Ice.

Now I see why Homeland Security dropped its age limits for ICE storm troopers. It’s trying to attract oldsters with a hip reference to a TV show that ran in 1984-89.

The parachutes opened, and Jim got another 55 years.

Wherever these two are now, I hope the stars look very different.

Gonna make this into tshirts and make any student caught using AI on schoolwork wear the tshirt all semester.

The goal here is to eliminate trans people's ability to exist in public.

But note that it will also have the impact of being able to police anyone whose gender presentation does not match what they believe it is, because how do you even know someone is trans?

US Senators Wyden, Warren launch probe into UnitedHealth's nursing home practices U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Elizabeth Warren are launching an investigation into UnitedHealth Group related to allegations that the company secretly paid nursing homes thousands in bonuses to cut hospital transfers of sick residents.

Reports suggest UnitedHealth gave BONUSES to nursing homes for sending fewer people to the hospital, even if they were sick.

Senator Ron Wyden and I are pressing for answers. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

"The entire phylum of viruses" is a phrase that in a just world would get you immediately smited for hubris by Apollo or whoever.

Hackers Went Looking for a Backdoor in High-Security Safes—and Now Can Open Them in Seconds Security researchers found two techniques to crack at least eight brands of electronic safes—used to secure everything from guns to narcotics—that are sold with Securam Prologic locks.

Researchers at Defcon just showed they can crack the Securam ProLogic locks used on high-security safes to protect guns, cash, and narcotics in pharmacies.

When they told Securam last year, it sent them legal threats—and didn't fix the flaws.

www.wired.com/story/secura...

Hackers Went Looking for a Backdoor in High-Security Safes—and Now Can Open Them in Seconds Security researchers found two techniques to crack at least eight brands of electronic safes—used to secure everything from guns to narcotics—that are sold with Securam Prologic locks.

NEW: Security researchers have found a backdoor in a certain kind of electronic lock used by at least 8 safe brands that allows them to open the safe in just seconds, as well as another vulnerability that lets them obtain the unlock code. @agreenberg.bsky.social reports www.wired.com/story/secura...

behold: a woman

Note to Kristi Noem:

It is far better to be mocked in a cartoon for how you look than to be shoved into the back of a U-Haul and kidnapped for how you look.

/grandly, in a voice that sounds like heavy rain falling on a tin roof "It's a little something called Apple Cider Vinegar."

Hooboy. You might know Prager from their earlier controversies over their depiction of slavery (described as a "compromise" to unite the nation) or their steadfast promotion of fossil fuels (in their "science" videos). But there is so much more in their ideological toolbox. A quick tour🧵

He is 43 years old, his formative childhood experiences were literally of fucking Reagan era homophobia.

Matthew Shepard was murdered in 1998, when Buttigieg was 16.

Pete knows exactly how fucking trash he is being, and he thinks it is smart triangulation on public opinion.

Trump administration seeking $1 billion settlement from UCLA | CNN Politics The Trump administration is seeking a $1 billion settlement from the University of California, Los Angeles, CNN has exclusively learned, marking the latest effort by the White House to shape higher ed...

The billion dollars is the least of it. It’s universities’ autonomy, independence, and integrity that Trump is really after. www.cnn.com/2025/08/08/p...

I don’t actually give a shit about polling if the polling says “your friends should die”

“data-driven” is almost TOO on the nose here. there’s a whole species of white liberal Logic Bro with no principles except winning. they think people driven by justice, love, or a deeply held sense of right and wrong are too “emotional” (ie female, gay, soft, et al) to sit at the adults’ table

one thing that's making me feel particularly insane lately is how there is no longer any limit to the amount of wrong you can be

If the DOJ is going after Tish James, what are the odds Fani Willis is next?

Since we can’t rely on the HHS, CDC, or FDA to say it, I will:

MAKE SURE YOU ARE VACCINATED AGAINST MEASLES. GET YOUR MMR.

Measles cases have reached their HIGHEST point since the disease WAS ELIMINATED from the United States in 2000. We ARE at the tipping point for the return of ENDEMIC measles.

Friendly reminder to turn off your IG location (if you want). This new map feature is a huge safety concern. Go to your inbox and click on the map icon.

In addition to our Article I branch abdicating its power to a rising fascist Article II branch, we now have our Article III branch ceding its checks on executive lawlessness.

Democracy dies in coequal branches laying down their checks and balances.