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Jeremy Press @jeremypress.bsky.social · 5h

The greatest trick the FedSoc devils ever pulled was pretending that "considering race while trying to fix structural racism" is itself racist. It's a bad-faith argument, made by "polite" white supremacists.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5h

Topics Mike Johnson thinks are serious:

- Super Bowl halftime entertainer
- getting a Nobel Prize for Trump
- terrifying naked bike riders

Topics he thinks are not serious:

- Epstein Files
- domestic violence
- being able to keep the govt open
- the neutering of Congress

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

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This is not an Overreaction @mudlock.bsky.social · 4h

I haven’t been in a movie theatre since 2019, and so because of all you assholes, my last theater memory is still freaking Rise of Skywalker. I hate you guys.

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This is not an Overreaction @mudlock.bsky.social · 4h

And so, a containable respiratory disease will continue to plague us, because most people “don’t see the point” of masking.

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This is not an Overreaction @mudlock.bsky.social · 4h

Most people still operate on a virtue theory of disease (even those who can recite the germ theory thereof.)

We don’t wash our hands because everyone has internalized the germ theory, but because mass public relations has tied hand washing to virtue.

There is no effort to tie masks to virtue.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 5h

Republicans are also being largely silent during Mooppan's argument. They're bored with this now. They're made their decisions and think they know how to justify it.

Democrats are still trying to point out Roberts' BLATANT HYPOCRISY, but he's gone, folks. Roberts ain't never coming back.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 5h

This entire argument by Louisiana and the conservatives questions are premised on an erasure of Congress’ enforcement power under the 14th & 15th Amendments.

Literally swinging for the fences to wipe out the premise for the legitimacy of Congress’ power to enact civil rights statutes.

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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 6h

Automatic captions make it difficult to watch videos because the viewer is forced to decipher misspelled or mistranslated words that appear in a string of text without any punctuation. These can be distracting and disorienting. Always edit your captions before publishing.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 6h

King George III in early 1776

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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"spooky simchas" daniel s. @self.agency · 7h

everyone on that stage went along with pardons for jan 6 participants

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 6h

Republicans are just pretending the 30-somethings in the racist Young Republicans group chat were in high school and college, marking the first time Republicans have wanted to move on when they think someone is a teen

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This is not an Overreaction @mudlock.bsky.social · 6h

New Republican talking point of “no kings means no paychecks” is them DARING workers to go on a general strike.

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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 6h

such tender concern for the eardrums of a Capitol police officer if the sound is emanating from a liberal; no tender concern for their actual physical safety when the violence comes from Trump's insurrectionists

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 6h

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 6h

GOP’s labor market policy is market protectionism for white men.

Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 7h

"For the first time since the 1960s, the earnings gap between men and women has widened two years in a row...with women earning 80.9 cents for every dollar a man earned in 2024. That compares to women earning 84 cents for every dollar a man earned in 2022."

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Women are taking pay cuts as companies mandate return to office

Researchers are identifying several key factors behind why gender pay gap – which had narrowed steadily over the years – has suddenly widened.

www.washingtonpost.com

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 6h

Meta on Tuesday removed a Facebook group that was used to share information about ICE agents in Chicago after the Department of Justice requested it be taken it down.

Meta Removes Facebook Group That Shared Information on ICE Agents

The Facebook page was taken down for “violating our policies against coordinated harm,” according to Meta.

nyti.ms

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 6h

Kavanaugh looking to find the "end point" when the Court no longer has to worry about the intentional use of race to create black districts.
I'd say "WHEN WHITE FOLKS STOP INTENTIONALLY USING RACE TO DECREASE BLACK VOTING POWER" but he thinks white people doing that is cool.

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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 9h

In Colombia, fertility rates have fallen sharply in recent decades

The graphic presents a slope chart illustrating the fertility rate, defined as the average number of children a woman would bear if she experienced age-specific fertility rates observed in that year.

The chart covers the years from 1950 to 2023 and features four countries: Colombia, France, the United Kingdom, and China.

- In 1950, the fertility rates for these countries were notably higher, with Colombia at 6.4 births, China at 5.8 births, France at 3 births, and the United Kingdom at 2.2 births.
- By 2023, these rates have significantly declined, with Colombia, France, and the United Kingdom each at 1.6 births, and China at 1 birth per woman.

Data comes from the United Nations World Population Prospects for the year 2024. The chart is categorized under Creative Commons by attribution (CC BY).

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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 9h

Colombia’s experience mirrors a wider change across many middle-income countries, including much of Latin America. Education of women, urbanization, declining infant mortality, family planning, and changing norms are all key drivers of this trend.

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This is not an Overreaction @mudlock.bsky.social · 8h

Covid is still killing people at a comparable rate to all cancers.

Do you know someone who died from cancer in the last 4 years? Probably not. And yet, people fear cancer and take steps to avoid it. But every holiday we get another covid spike.

“I haven’t personally seen it” is a bad argument.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1d

California just banned employers from forcing workers to pay a debt, fee, or penalty to leave their job.

Bosses have increasingly been trapping workers with debts incurred in training and other exploitative fees.

Now that's illegal in the nation's biggest state.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

"The richest man in the world and the owner of the most influential social media site in US politics is a nazi who openly supports and amplifies other nazis" would, on its face, seem to be rather newsworthy!

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

Hey news people: I know you like to pretend this doesn't exist, but you need to pay attention to the Nazi drama on Twitter. Basically, it seems as if Elon just restored two major neo-Nazi accounts that were banned by his product head, and might be about to fire the product head for banning them

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Center for Democracy & Technology @cdt.org · 1d

“A recent report from the Center for Democracy and Technology found four main risks that increase as schools adopt AI more widely: cyber attacks, bullying, technology malfunctions and troubling interactions with chatbots.”

CDT: Growing AI Use in Schools Brings Benefits and New Risks

A recent report from the Center for Democracy and Technology found four main risks that increase as schools adopt AI more widely: cyber attacks, bullying, technology malfunctions and troubling interactions with chatbots.

www.govtech.com

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1d

Not that anybody comes to me for Maine politics, but the fact that the Democrats successfully convinced a 77yo Governor to primary the 41yo progressive, is today's example of why the Democrats fucking stay failing.

Susan Collins is 72 and if Schumer gets his way, she'll be the YOUNGER choice!

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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