Observer of #polycrisis; excursions into history, nature, oddments. Degrees: philosophy, history of science. Former teacher, writer, editor, spokesperson, contract researcher, journalist. Occasional fictioneer. NB. No LLMs/other AI need apply. :-)
Trump could have owed the IRS as much as $100 million in back taxes from an audit that had been ongoing for years. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump Gets To Keep Tax Immunity Under DOJ Deal With Republican SenatorsThe “Anti-Weaponization Fund” might be dead, but President Donald Trump still gets out of paying any back taxes he might have owed.www.huffpost.com
This would be traumatic for all girls who want to play sports. ALL of them. It also opens the opportunity for all sorts of bad actors to, forgive the pun, insert themselves in these girls' lives.
Gillian BranstetterAn initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
The coming lies. I have written about LLM grooming - the process where large language models are intentionally poisoned with lies & disinfo. Here Meta is beginning the process of feeding us RW lies presented as news. Be aware. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy popular.info/p/meta-will-...
Meta will train its AI on far-right media outletThis week, Newsmax — a far-right news organization with a strong allegiance to President Trump and a history of pushing wild conspiracy theories — announced it had struck a deal with Meta.popular.info
See, this is the part where an opposition party would be flooding media with ads that tie pedophile Trump to a Republican ballot initiative that is trying to force genital inspections of teenage girls.
Gillian BranstetterAn initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
Surely these can’t be connected? It’s almost as if letting idiots run your state’s health department, these kinds of things happen. Who would have predicted this? Everyone with a brain. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
We are monitoring a potential ICE Air deportation flight (GXA6253) from Miami to Barcelona, Venezuela, which would be the first flight to Venezuela since the earthquakes in June. Flights previously have taken place to Caracas on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
I plan to dig into this deeper when I have time but here is research report by Carnegie Endowment that details how authoritarian gov't silence dissent and dissidents. We need to learn from the experience of others. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy carnegieendowment.org/research/202...
Regulation or Repression? Government Influence on Political Content Moderation in India and ThailandComparison of the two countries’ social media environments shows how tech companies and policymakers can work to combat autocratic coercion.carnegieendowment.org
And there I was, sitting in upstate NY, unable to get into a hospital like a schmuck. Fuck that guy. bsky.app/profile/gbos...
Gabriel BossletRFK Jr said these words today on national television "There were ICUs that were empty all over the country including in New York at the height (of the pandemic)" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You are a fucking idiot hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha <sobs silently>
The BMA said the Cass Review provided no evidential basis for a puberty blocker ban. But that wasn't the story many newspapers told 👇
Reporting about British Medical Association critique of Cass Review was 'factually wrong'The mainstream media's reporting of vital information about trans healthcare was wrong. Again.www.wearequeeraf.comJust like me – How t4t love is helping trans people heal what the world keeps breaking www.wearequeeraf.com/just-like-me...
Just like me – How t4t love is helping trans people heal what the world keeps breakingWhether t4t's growing visibility reflects preference, politics, or simply the search for relief, it points to something many trans people seek: the beauty of being able to just existwww.wearequeeraf.com
#DYK Global public and private finance flows in 2023 with directly negative impacts on nature amounted to a whopping $7.3 trillion? 👉 Find out more in the IPBES #BizBiodiversity Assessment Report: https://www.ipbes.net/business-impact
Maggie and Swan's explanation for why Trump isn't keeping Stone at bay describes, in part, that Susie Wiles has her own chumminess with him. Remember that Iran hacked Wiles THROUGH Stone. We still don't know how much useful information Iran got.
Friday: Capital One reveals they debanked Trump debanked bc he was laundering money. Sunday: Acting Attorney General solidifies promise Trump's tax crimes won't be punished.
Senate Republicans Rush to Immunize Money Launder-in-Chief's Tax Crimes emptywheel.net/2026/08/03/s...
Senate Republicans Rush to Immunize Money Launder-in-Chief's Tax Crimes - emptywheelJust days after learning that Donald Trump, his companies, and his spawn have, as recently as 2021, been laundering money, the Senate GOP is rushing to sanction DOJ's illegal decision to pardon those ...emptywheel.netStep 1: Fire the competent people bc Whiskey Pete is a dumbass white nationalist. Step 2: Start a war that those competent people would have staved off. Step 3: Ask the remaining incompetent white men for a bailout. edition.cnn.com/2026/08/03/p...
Exclusive: US military asks troops for ‘creative and unconventional’ ideas to punish Iran | CNN PoliticsThe request from a senior officer at the US military command carrying out President Donald Trump’s war with Iran came in an email: We need ideas.edition.cnn.com
because of fucking course he did
MeidasTouchIt appears Trump was willing to throw the Jan. 6 defendants under the bus while preserving his own IRS immunity deal. Read the fine print. 2/2
Wow the adjudicated rapist doesn't think Max Miller should resign. There's a shocker for you.
Aaron RuparTrump on whether he thinks Max Miller should resign: "So far it's accusations" (So, no)
The more important part has always been the tax immunity deal. That must be struck in its entirety. The $1.776B bonanza was always a cover for and distraction from the lifetime tax exemption, which is enormously corrosive. The executive branch cannot be allowed to collude with itself.
Mueller, She WroteBREAKING: Todd Blanche has released what he calls a rescission of the slush fund (left). The last lawsuit he mentions is mine (Gill v DOJ). This doesn't change the fact that the "settlement" setting up the fund is still in effect. On the right, Blanche is LEAVING IN PLACE Trump's tax immunity.