@cacorb.bsky.social
Reposted
It's very clearly the next target. This from just today, with the US saying that any country which subsidises abortion (i.e. NHS abortion access) will now be deemed to be committing human rights violations by them.
US says countries with DEI policies as infringing human rights
US officials say the rules will stop
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 11:56 AM
It's very clearly the next target. This from just today, with the US saying that any country which subsidises abortion (i.e. NHS abortion access) will now be deemed to be committing human rights violations by them.
Reposted
In the past decade, billionaires have been more empowered than ever before to spend money to influence American elections.
Here are the billionaires who make up the top 20 political spenders:
Here are the billionaires who make up the top 20 political spenders:
The top 20 billionaires influencing American politics
The group has spent nearly $5 billion on elections since 2015.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
In the past decade, billionaires have been more empowered than ever before to spend money to influence American elections.
Here are the billionaires who make up the top 20 political spenders:
Here are the billionaires who make up the top 20 political spenders:
Reposted
There are plans for sweeping nondisclosure agreements and random polygraph testing which quietly began last month, even before the government shutdown. More details are now coming out, and the scope appears broader than originally planned. Stay safe!
November 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM
There are plans for sweeping nondisclosure agreements and random polygraph testing which quietly began last month, even before the government shutdown. More details are now coming out, and the scope appears broader than originally planned. Stay safe!
Reposted
Most of the print media is owned billionaires, who have used their papers to distract people from the real causes of social problems by instead focusing public anger towards immigrants and minorities.
Now the billionaire owners of social media giants are doing a similar thing with their algorithms.
Now the billionaire owners of social media giants are doing a similar thing with their algorithms.
November 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Most of the print media is owned billionaires, who have used their papers to distract people from the real causes of social problems by instead focusing public anger towards immigrants and minorities.
Now the billionaire owners of social media giants are doing a similar thing with their algorithms.
Now the billionaire owners of social media giants are doing a similar thing with their algorithms.
Reposted
Direct File had tremendous potential to make tax filing less expensive, faster, and easier for millions of Americans.
What stands in the way is a tax prep industry that makes billions from being the middleman between you and filing your taxes.
What stands in the way is a tax prep industry that makes billions from being the middleman between you and filing your taxes.
👀 Scoop: IRS Direct File, the free government-backed program that let you file your taxes for free, is dead.
IRS wrote to state tax agencies saying it would not be operational this coming tax season, per records I've obtained.
IRS Direct File: 2023-2025.
(Story from when the pilot launched.)
IRS wrote to state tax agencies saying it would not be operational this coming tax season, per records I've obtained.
IRS Direct File: 2023-2025.
(Story from when the pilot launched.)
IRS tests free e-filing system that could compete with tax-prep giants
The tax agency has quietly built its own prototype system for filing tax returns digitally and free of charge, according to current and former officials.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Direct File had tremendous potential to make tax filing less expensive, faster, and easier for millions of Americans.
What stands in the way is a tax prep industry that makes billions from being the middleman between you and filing your taxes.
What stands in the way is a tax prep industry that makes billions from being the middleman between you and filing your taxes.
Reposted
The NAACP filed a lawsuit alleging state election officials are unlawfully rejecting college students’ voter registration applications and same-day registration provisional ballots based on missing address information – such as dorm name or room number – that students aren’t required to include.
Virginia Is Illegally Rejecting Student Voter Registrations, Lawsuit Alleges
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The NAACP filed a lawsuit alleging state election officials are unlawfully rejecting college students’ voter registration applications and same-day registration provisional ballots based on missing address information – such as dorm name or room number – that students aren’t required to include.
Reposted
Abolish. Fire. Prosecute.
ICE is tear gassing schools
October 25, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Abolish. Fire. Prosecute.
Reposted
Trump’s new Epstein Ballroom will soon be the venue for many sweet 16 parties and quinceñeras.
October 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Trump’s new Epstein Ballroom will soon be the venue for many sweet 16 parties and quinceñeras.
Reposted
Pregnant women detained by ICE report horrifying treatment: shackling, solitary confinement, no prenatal vitamins, inadequate food. ICE's own directives and regulations require the agency to avoid detention of pregnant people in the first place. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Pregnant women describe miscarrying and bleeding out while in ICE custody, advocates say
The ACLU and other groups are pressing for ICE to identify and release all pregnant women in custody and to stop detaining anyone known to be pregnant, postpartum or nursing.
www.nbcnews.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Pregnant women detained by ICE report horrifying treatment: shackling, solitary confinement, no prenatal vitamins, inadequate food. ICE's own directives and regulations require the agency to avoid detention of pregnant people in the first place. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Reposted
For those of us who love PDX an excellent thread.
What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:
I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.
So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.
I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.
So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.
October 13, 2025 at 3:57 PM
For those of us who love PDX an excellent thread.
Reposted
ICE agents blocked an ambulance that was trying to take an injured protester to hospital.
"We are still not being allowed to leave by ICE officers.” an EMT said on radio
When driver tried to get out, an agent yelled, "DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU"
www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...
"We are still not being allowed to leave by ICE officers.” an EMT said on radio
When driver tried to get out, an agent yelled, "DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU"
www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...
Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver
Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.
www.wweek.com
October 13, 2025 at 4:05 PM
ICE agents blocked an ambulance that was trying to take an injured protester to hospital.
"We are still not being allowed to leave by ICE officers.” an EMT said on radio
When driver tried to get out, an agent yelled, "DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU"
www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...
"We are still not being allowed to leave by ICE officers.” an EMT said on radio
When driver tried to get out, an agent yelled, "DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU"
www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...
Reposted
Still love that weird fucking town.
October 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Still love that weird fucking town.
Reposted
Here’s an incomplete list of federal data and statistics that’ve been deleted or tampered with since Trump took office.
A Shortlist of Federal Data the Trump Administration Has Tampered With or Destroyed
The scale and scope of federal data and statistics that have been...
talkingpointsmemo.com
October 8, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Here’s an incomplete list of federal data and statistics that’ve been deleted or tampered with since Trump took office.
Reposted
When you see it all in one place, it is a damning, damning score card.
newrepublic.com/article/1997...
newrepublic.com/article/1997...
The Roberts Court Is Winning Its War on American Democracy
Chief Justice John Roberts has now overseen 20 years of increasingly illiberal rulings by the Supreme Court.
newrepublic.com
September 22, 2025 at 7:38 PM
When you see it all in one place, it is a damning, damning score card.
newrepublic.com/article/1997...
newrepublic.com/article/1997...
Reposted
Mind-blowing post detailing how xAI is not only building a massive new fossil fuelled power station for the second data centre to power X's Grok, it is doing it across state lines to avoid regulation
Remind me again how it's all fine bc a single query is small...
semianalysis.com/2025/09/16/x...
Remind me again how it's all fine bc a single query is small...
semianalysis.com/2025/09/16/x...
September 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Mind-blowing post detailing how xAI is not only building a massive new fossil fuelled power station for the second data centre to power X's Grok, it is doing it across state lines to avoid regulation
Remind me again how it's all fine bc a single query is small...
semianalysis.com/2025/09/16/x...
Remind me again how it's all fine bc a single query is small...
semianalysis.com/2025/09/16/x...
Reposted
GIBRALTAR EXITS BREXIT The British enclave, which voted 96 percent Remain in 2016, establishes a customs union with the EU and visa-free travel in the Schengen area.
“This is actually going to be an improvement over where Gibraltar was pre-Brexit” First Minister Fabian Picardo says
wapo.st/4gjzu0g
“This is actually going to be an improvement over where Gibraltar was pre-Brexit” First Minister Fabian Picardo says
wapo.st/4gjzu0g
The Brits who beat Brexit: Gibraltar celebrates its return to Europe
Nearly a decade after Britain quit the E.U., British residents of Gibraltar on the southern tip of Spain, will regain travel and commercial access under a treaty.
wapo.st
September 13, 2025 at 5:41 PM
GIBRALTAR EXITS BREXIT The British enclave, which voted 96 percent Remain in 2016, establishes a customs union with the EU and visa-free travel in the Schengen area.
“This is actually going to be an improvement over where Gibraltar was pre-Brexit” First Minister Fabian Picardo says
wapo.st/4gjzu0g
“This is actually going to be an improvement over where Gibraltar was pre-Brexit” First Minister Fabian Picardo says
wapo.st/4gjzu0g
Reposted
As noted, five years old but still a foundational text for understanding where we are and how we got here.
if youd like to get a bit more background on how young men get radicalized online but don't want to dive into hell facefirst alone i have a book about it
(it's five years old, but speaks to methods & human motivations that are still current, i think)
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/talia...
(it's five years old, but speaks to methods & human motivations that are still current, i think)
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/talia...
Culture Warlords
One reporter takes an immersive dive into white supremacy's explosive online presence, exploring the undercurrents of propaganda, racism, misogyny, and ...
www.hachettebookgroup.com
September 13, 2025 at 8:49 PM
As noted, five years old but still a foundational text for understanding where we are and how we got here.
Reposted
1) One of the interesting things is that the relationship between modern law enforcement + mainstream journalism and the Extremely Online Right has entered the "Quincy Punk" phase.
September 13, 2025 at 8:58 PM
1) One of the interesting things is that the relationship between modern law enforcement + mainstream journalism and the Extremely Online Right has entered the "Quincy Punk" phase.
Reposted
Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results:
1) Does UBI work? (yes)
2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)
1) Does UBI work? (yes)
2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)
M365 Copilot fails to up productivity in UK government trial
: AI tech shows promise writing emails or summarizing meetings. Don't bother with anything more complex
www.theregister.com
September 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results:
1) Does UBI work? (yes)
2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)
1) Does UBI work? (yes)
2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)
Reposted
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
August 28, 2025 at 1:38 PM
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
Reposted
Democrats stop being terrified of being called a socialist challenge.
They’re going to call you one regardless. When they do say “Yes, that’s right, unlike Republicans I think American society should be defended and nurtured, not demolished by bigots and sold by billionaires and bosses.”
They’re going to call you one regardless. When they do say “Yes, that’s right, unlike Republicans I think American society should be defended and nurtured, not demolished by bigots and sold by billionaires and bosses.”
Every elected Democrat will acknowledge that the GOP has held an overwhelming media advantage since at least Obama. Somehow they fail to make the connection that everyone who's weathered a competitive election was *successfully* painted as trans Stalin gay married to Pelosi, and they won anyway
March 7, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Democrats stop being terrified of being called a socialist challenge.
They’re going to call you one regardless. When they do say “Yes, that’s right, unlike Republicans I think American society should be defended and nurtured, not demolished by bigots and sold by billionaires and bosses.”
They’re going to call you one regardless. When they do say “Yes, that’s right, unlike Republicans I think American society should be defended and nurtured, not demolished by bigots and sold by billionaires and bosses.”
Reposted
By the time we get to Nov. 2026, Trump will have federal agents and the national guard in many, if not most, blue cities.
AG Bondi on mayors and governors in blue states:
“If they don’t comply with us…We’re going to…cut off their federal funding. We are going to send in law enforcement…just like we’re doing here in Washington, D.C.”
“If they don’t comply with us…We’re going to…cut off their federal funding. We are going to send in law enforcement…just like we’re doing here in Washington, D.C.”
August 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM
By the time we get to Nov. 2026, Trump will have federal agents and the national guard in many, if not most, blue cities.
Reposted
It sounds conspiratorial to suggest that Vladimir Putin told Donald Trump behind closed doors to launch an assault on mail-in voting in elections administered by the states, and Trump immediately set about mobilizing federal power to do it… but that is literally Trump’s account of what happened.
August 18, 2025 at 6:51 PM
It sounds conspiratorial to suggest that Vladimir Putin told Donald Trump behind closed doors to launch an assault on mail-in voting in elections administered by the states, and Trump immediately set about mobilizing federal power to do it… but that is literally Trump’s account of what happened.